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Wednesday, Jul 09, 2003
robotniks
"Eyebeam will host ROBOT, a four-day festival featuring a robotic talent show, exhibition, workshops, presentations, party and massage parlor. ROBOT will take place from July 12 – 15, 12-6pm daily at Eyebeam's Chelsea facility located at 540 West 21st Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. The four-day event will examine current applications of robotic technologies on creative practices, activism, consumerism and physical intimacy. Eyebeam will conclude the event July 15 with a party from 6-10pm featuring music by DJ-I ROBOT, the first random-access, fully analog robotic DJ."
Saturday, Jul 05, 2003
lounge fax
mercury lounge
* Radar Bros, 7/20
* Starlight Mints/April March, 7/24
* Pernice Brothers/The Tyde, 7/25
* Fruit Bats, 8/11
Friday, Jul 04, 2003
river phoenix
Live music at the Hudson River Park. Thursday, July 10: Pretty Girls Make
Graves, Broken Social Scene, the Natural History. Hudson River Park, Pier
54, just south of 15th Street and West Side Highway, Manhattan. 6p; $free.
Thursday, Jul 03, 2003
ringing in my years
Siren Music Festival, 7/19, Coney Island, free
straight down the line
other upcoming events i will find a way to miss --
River to River
*Patti Smith @ World Financial Center, tuesday 7/8, 7pm, free
*Guy Clark & Ramblin' Jack Elliott @ Rockefeller Park, wednesday 7/9, 7pm, free
*Calla, The Boggs @ South Street Seaport, 7/10, 6pm, free
*Cat Power @ Castle Clinton, 7/17, 7pm, free
*Spoon @ Castle Clinton, 7/24, 7pm, free
*Essex Green @ Castle Clinton, 7/25, 6pm, free
Prospect Park
*Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, 7/18, 730pm, $3
Central Park Summerstage
*Tindersticks w/strings, 7/31, 7pm, free
*Sonny Rollins, 8/9, 7pm, $10
*Jimmy Cliff, 8/10, 3pm, free
*Polyphonic Spree, 8/16, 3pm, free
Bowery Ballroom
*Neko Case, 7/26, 9pm, $15
*Rilo Kiley, 7/28, 9pm, $13
*New Pornographers, 8/25, 10pm, $15
*The Shins, 9/4, 11pm, $15
New York Mag Summer Freebie Calendar
(more to come)
mark my words
to-do list
*Orchestra Baobab @ Central Park Summerstage, Sunday 3pm, free
* The Fall @ The Knitting Factory on Sunday
*La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)1939 @ Moma Grammercy Theatre, Monday 6pm
wedge would
"'Cunt' refers literally to the female genital organs (the vagina and vulva), though it is also a highly offensive insult. Such is the word's vehemence that even in its literal sense it is very rarely used. Its Middle English variants 'cunte', 'count', and 'counte' are clearly close relatives of the modern spelling, though a definitive earlier provenance remains elusive. Etymologists have suggested that its origin is the Latin term 'cuneus', meaning 'wedge', from which 'cunnus' ('vulva') is derived. 'Wedge' and 'cunt', however, seem, initially, to be unlikely associates, as Jane Mills explains: "I know what a cunt looks like, and the word 'wedge' doesn't sort of spring to mind!" [Richardson, 1994]. She suggests the Greek Macedonian term 'guda' as an alternative source for 'cunt', and other possibilities are the Anglo-Saxon 'cynd' and, returning to Latin, 'cutis' ('skin')."via caterina
Wednesday, Jul 02, 2003
hey, little dudelers
"Little did I know that I was witnessing a phenomenon that was, in fact, a hot topic among lexicographers and linguists, according to my friend Jesse Sheidlower, the astute North American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary: the sexual transmigration of "dude." Where once "dude" had applied mainly—only—to men, "there’s a lot of discussion now," Jesse said, among his colleagues in the word-study business, over this issue: whether "dude" (in a descriptive rather than prescriptive sense) could now generally be said to apply to both men and women. (The way "babe" has crossed over from the other direction, you might say.)"
resist errs
"In an audio tape sent to the Pakistan daily The News, which is accepted as authentic, the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, urges Muslims to step up their jihad against the US and other coalition occupation forces in Afghanistan. Omar issued the tape from his hiding place in Afghanistan, the daily reported, quoting Taliban spokesman Mohammad Mukhtar Mujahid. Omar has named a 10-member leadership council to organize the resistance against the US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan."
quotable notables
a little light in the blogging loafers of late. i blame my lack of a desk. a reclining chair and a 36 inch counter do not compliment each other well. but heres a couple of noteworthy blogs you can read whatever your seating habits.donkey rising
christopher lydon