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uncertainty
"Why did Ellsberg believe that the publication of the Pentagon Papers would help end the war? People often put this question to Ellsberg when he was shopping the Pentagon Papers around the Senate office buildings. "Isn't it after all only history?" Senator Fulbright asked. For Ellsberg, though, it wasn't only history; it was a case study in the hazards of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. And that is a subject Daniel Ellsberg has thought about a lot."
sigh cull
my absentmindedness and the heartlessness of others have once again comingled to produce a distainful brew. i was guilty of the sin of forgetting my bike on the street for eight hours, so i was punished by having someone steal my back wheel which is the most expensive part. itll probably cost me $200+ to replace it, on top of which i had just spent $100 to replace the back rim. serves me right, after all, i was asking for it. it makes me angry when i think about it, that and all this other moving bullshit. pisses me the fuck off, did i mention that? that would be my second back tire stolen along with three bikes in the last eight years. people fucking suck.
loop-a-maniacs
open loop at chama
barrett's quotations
"Syd Barrett was the prodigiously talented founder of Pink Floyd, but after just two years at the centre of the 60s psychedelic scene, he suffered a massive breakdown and has lived as a recluse ever since. In this extract from his candid new book, Tim Willis tracks him down and pieces together the story of rock's lost icon."
sanguine affair
the blood group
phairground
"It'd be easy to pin down some songs on Heaven, Hell or Houston as alt-country, and other songs as folk or moody girl-pop. That seems like a grave disservice, though, in the face of Anna Padgett's sheer bloody-minded, willful disregard of anything outside her own weird, beautiful vision of The Naysayer as a wry, traveling storyteller, "searching for the perfect gentleman or lady". Her voice, a twangy contralto, is still sweet enough to sound like a more butch Laura Cantrell, and her songs achieve heights of lap- and pedal-steel-assisted old-fashioned country-and-western sadness that no one seems to aspire to anymore. At the same time, she has a distinct pop sensibility, with a folky moodiness, aided by cellos and flute, that evokes long grey mornings; it sounds like Padgett, as well as collaborators Cynthia Nelson and Tara Jane O'Neil of Retsin, has been listening to the same Nick Drake albums as labelmate Archer Prewitt."
glandular problem
rock athens
longform
longwave -- strokes lite
all fall down
"If you've managed to make it this far in life without discovering The Fall, put off whatever purchases you were planning next and buy, instead, three records: This Nation's Saving Grace, Hex Enduction Hour, and this newly released two-disc set, Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology. The music contained here is nothing short of absolutely essential, epochal rock and roll that sounds like nothing else, including the racks upon racks of albums it eventually inspired."
war saw
