still need some time

hello

hey what's up. here's another cool photo of that volvo ocean race. i cant tell you how cool it was to see that in person, to see these huge boats with 9 story masts actually racing

well i havent been writing hardly anything. at least ive still been posting stuff and still maintaining a blog (ahem roy murray and jeff. what are you, twittering? (: )

so i knew i finally had to write something. here it is.

this weekend was lovely. Rena and Jed's wedding was fantastic. I saw a bunch of people that i hadnt seen in years, made some connections, had a blast. i danced and got people to dance. i shouted and lauged and got people to shout and laugh (or at least it felt that way (: ). now i'm back in boston, it's raining, i'm tired, but everything's ok

i've been super busy the last three months, but i also feel like i've grown up a lot. i feel like i'm making better decisions, and being more intelligent about stuff and not saying stupid stuff. maybe. but i think im onto something.

it only took me 26 years to grow up. is that a long time? i feel just like a child, and i am a child, but i feel like ive matured and am doing things better. i know these all sound like generalizations, but i just wanted to share that i feel like ive changed, for the better

there's so much i want to link to and write about now. i'm going to collect it all and get it together in one post. but here it is, finally jump starting some writing.

theres a lot going on, all the time, and its hard to keep up. actually, i know what ill leave you with. here's a nytimes article/blog post. i'll give you the link and my fav part. i wonder, what is happiness to you? is it lying in a boat with your eyes closed, floating and not worrying about anything? is it lying on a beach, listening to the waves, totally relaxed? is it something else? lemme know.

i think happiness for me could be many things. one of them is certainly lying down with eyes closed in the sun (matt hamilton taught me the virtues of sleep in the sun)

Happy Like God

first, from Rousseau:

"If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being there, with no need to remember the past or reach into the future, where time is nothing to it, where the present runs on indefinitely but this duration goes unnoticed, with no sign of the passing of time, and no other feeling of deprivation or enjoyment, pleasure or pain, desire or fear than the simple feeling of existence, a feeling that fills our soul entirely, as long as this state lasts, we can call ourselves happy, not with a poor, incomplete and relative happiness such as we find in the pleasures of life, but with a sufficient, complete and perfect happiness which leaves no emptiness to be filled in the soul."

next, from Critchley:

"Rousseau is describing the experience of floating in a little rowing boat on the Lake of Bienne close to Neuchâtel in his native Switzerland...On the way to the island, he would pull in the oars and just let the boat drift where it wished, for hours at a time. Rousseau would lie down in the boat and plunge into a deep reverie...Look at what Rousseau writes above: floating in a boat in fine weather, lying down with one’s eyes open to the clouds and birds or closed in reverie, one feels neither the pull of the past nor does one reach into the future. Time is nothing, or rather time is nothing but the experience of the present through which one passes without hurry, but without regret."

in vermont for the weekend

Rena's getting married! yayyy!! congrats to Rena and Jed. i'm at dartmouth and will be back in on sunday. cheers yall

Spike Drops a Genius Bomb

From Homecoming

"I never was satisfied with my social life in America. However, I had a wonderful social life in India, with plenty of friends and plenty of invitations to go out, usually more than I had time for...

...When you travel, you have to accept the unique limitations of each place and enjoy the unique pleasures of each place. Social life in India is rich, fulfilling, and easy; but materially, India is poor--there's too many people crammed into too little space, so not everyone can consume like Americans do. The activities of daily life are more difficult: eating, transportation, staying clean and healthy, etc. So, in India the senses often scream for satisfaction. If Indians are materially deprived, Americans are equally deprived (and equally unaware of it), though in a different way--they're socially deprived. It's useful to have nice, big houses, but there is a downside to them, because walls keep people apart. American toys like Blackberries, iphones, and ipods are also nice, but they bring people away from the social life around them."

what im feelin right now

hey, you gotta check out this artist, Hudson Mohawke. especially her song with Nadsroic from the Room Mist EP. sounds really good on speakers or headphones

just scroll down on this page and click the play button next to Nadsroic - "Room Mist" - (produced by Hudson Mohawk)

LuckyMe presents NADSROIC & HUDSON MOHAWKE - "Room Mist" EP

that song rules (as do the other ones, and hudson mohawke is really good)

k later

make this your desktop background

trust me

celtics lost, but a great season. click on this photo and save the full image and make it your desktop and you'll be able to get through the offseason

i saw this and it was awesome

ill tell you more about it later, but i saw these boats race out of boston harbor, it was incredible, and there was an enormous oil tanker right in the middle of it all

Fog and flub mar start of yacht race

and here's the photo gallery which you should def check out. these boats have like 12 people on them or something and they're on the ocean for days and weeks at a time and there's like no space

Volvo Ocean Race

hrm

hey, i'm taking a little time off, i'll be back atcha soon

oh yeah and i saw the limits of control and it was very disappointing.

on the other hand, the celtics are playing great, and the weather's nice.

k cya

hey, a couple things

first of all, ladies and gentleman, i present to you, The Hunt for Gollum (2009)

Watch it on TheHuntForGollum.com

pretty terrific! let me know if you like it, it's worth watching, 40 minute independent movie, that looks a lot like lord of the rings, except for the bad audio mixing (all the human characters whisper and are hard to hear). besides that, it looks scarily like the real lord of the rings. good times!

kentucky derby and celtics game yesterday were awesome

weather on saturday was nice, i went out to the basketball court and some guy who just wanted to shoot jump shots with me went and got his shoes and threw down a dunk from way above the rim. pretty sick, i didnt see it coming, hopefully see him out again there soon



oh yeah, and WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

cool live headhunter video

not that i watch a lot of internet video, but i like this one

Headhunter LIVE AV Dubstep / Techno Performance @ Stuk, Belgium from VectorMeldrew.

Edited version of the first ever Headhunter live dubstep/techno audio visual set that took place at the Stuk arts centre in Belgium on the 14th February 2009. This set was part of the artefact festival.



Visuals performeced live by Alex Donne (http://www.vectormeldrew.com)

night vision

hey, i'm gonna try blogging again. lemme right the ship...

this is a cool rusko album cover.

yeah, it's been a good week. last sunday we grilled! fantastic. serious charcoal grilling. grilled up a ton of food. i grilled chicken and cheeseburgers. wonderful. looking forward to more of it this summer. (summer? could it be?)

yeah it's nice outside. but of course tmrw im getting my car serviced, so ill be stuck inside reading a book for an hour or two (actually not such a bad thing, reading time is a precious commodity these days)

i've found a couple books that i wanna get on interlibrary loan (buying books is not sustainable, but im not sure how easy these are gonna be to get from natick or wherever they are)

The Inner History of Devices, by Sherry Turkle

America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat, by Harvey Blatt

i dont think theres much point in linking to books that i just THINK are cool but havent actually read yet. doesnt show much initiative on my part

yup. last two celtics games have been awesome. actually, the second game was one of the most exciting games ive ever seen. (then donny marshall reminded me that ray allen and ben gordon were guarding each other, so they might have just been LETTING each other hit all those ridiculous shots)

oh yeah i briefly posted about the limits of control a while ago. this is the new jarmusch movie, i think its getting a limited (! hah) release on may 1st, and I hope this includes boston. i cant wait to see it.

its the boston independent film festival this week. i blew it and didnt get tickets for Children of Invention, but i'm gonna rally and go see Breaking Upwards on sunday night with kate and chris and rob, so thatll be good. then its just a gametime decision on whether or not i go see a movie tmrw. unclear at this point

hmmmm, what else is going on.

warm weather

indie film festival

celtics

i need a haircut, bad.

i wanna go bike riding in the fells tmrw but not sure im gonna pull it off.

k ill tty tmrw

a good day (in some ways)

a good day (except the celtics lost, we're not gonna talk about it)

i got to go to the red sox game. Sam took me and it was fun. there were really drunk ppl in front of us (surprise). before we left i realized i had unconsciously been kicking the person in front of me. oh well.

the sox beat the orioles, 6-4. i've got a couple photos i could upload from my phone. good times tho, not cold or rainy. except the seats were so small, like, about as wide as my laptop. so i had to stand up after every half inning. i made it tho, and the T was crowded but bearable.

the Dartmouth freshmen heavyweight crew beat bu and rutgers. this is the first time that any Dartmouth crew has beat BU in a while. definitely a long time since the freshman did. we did my freshman year, so hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.


row2k link of this image

The Big Ticket Stub

The mood had lightened enough Friday for second-year forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis to joke about his role as the replacement for “The Big Ticket,” Garnett’s nickname, in Saturday’s series opener.

“I’m not the Big Ticket. I’m the Ticket Stub,” Davis said with a grin. “So don’t count the Ticket Stub out. You might need the ticket to get into the game, but you leave with the ticket stub because you’ll never forget this game. You need it as a souvenir.”

the funniest photo i've ever seen

BY FAR

ok maybe twitter can be kinda funny and not a poor substitute for blogging

here's a tweet that made me think that maybe, just maybe, twitter could contribute something positive to this world

# retweet myself from oct 13th: 'goal for the day: be a good person in a non-ironic fashion.' today: same goal, but stated ironically.6:59 AM Apr 10th from twitterrific

i like to watch movies with subtitles on

is this weird? do you do this? like, even if a movie's in english, if there are subtitles i'd rather watch it with them on. i feel that i catch all the dialogue and it's easier remembering peoples names and stuff. i don't do this when i watch movies with other ppl tho, just if im starting it by myself

Navy SEALS snipers?!?!

Q+A: How the U.S. Navy ended Somali pirate drama



oh yeah and the captain was from Winchester too, believe it or not. Massachusetts. i hope you read about the anti-piracy classes taught at the maritime academy that the crew had taken. incredible. i followed this story from the first day it broke. thank god it ended well, just not for the pirates

more than a dozen ships are still being held by pirates, with more than 200 crewmen. some of the ships have been held since last fall while ransoms are being negotiated

in the frozen fish aisle

can you get it outta your head? didn't think so. that "heartless" beat and autotune is just too good

JFX Bits #3

another free release, now this is what i'm talking about

here's a direct link to a comp with hip hop and dubstep and other music and bassnectar and ghislain poirier and such things, hope you like it

Jarring Effects - JFX Bits #3 compilation

and here's the release page Jarring Effects

it's good i don't look at this blog every day

which blog?

fail blog

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DO NOT MAKE OUT WITH THE FISH