GlitchSlapTko

Thursday, March 31, 2005

I take it back, these are my new desktops.

robbyandlacie

lonnieandamanda

ryananderin

anthonyandcasey

madandcasra

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Is all lost?

Yes, all is lost.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Newscasters

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

羹にこりて膾を吹く

The other day I posted this, and today I finally got a superlative reply to my (apparently) rather esoteric question.
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Dear Robert,

I found your notice on your blog the other day! I thought it was quite appealing partly because I never would have thought about which ‘Yoji-jukugo’ contains the highest stroke count, and partly because your writing in Japanese is so natural that no one would be aware of the fact that it was written by a non-native Japanese speaker...except for your odd question itself!

Anyway, I checked some dictionaries and websites to find more complex ‘Yoji-Jukugo’ than ‘魑魅魍魎’.
First, I checked the stroke count of each Kanji individually.

魑魅魍魎ちみもうりょう (21+15+18+18=72)

‘魑魅’ means monsters living in the mountains. ‘魍魎’ means monsters living in the rivers. So ‘魑魅魍魎’ means a horde of Monsters. Yes, this set of Chinese characters has a very high stroke count, but I was lucky enough to find an even higher one.

糶糴斂散ちょうてきれんさん (25+22+17+12=76)

‘糶’and ‘糶’ are very similar to each other. Of course ‘出’ is output ‘入’ is input and ‘米’ is rice. So ‘糶糴’means to buy and sell rice. According to my dictionary, ‘斂’is collect(gather), and ‘散’ is to scatter, throwing something to spread it all over an area. ‘糶糴斂散’ means that the Government buys rice in a good harvest, and sells it cheap in a bad harvest to help the citizens.

Lo and behold, I fond an even higher four character compound!

蓴羹鱸膾じゅんこうろかい (14+19+27+17=77)

‘蓴’ is an egg bonnet (an edible plant) and ‘羹’ is ‘Atsumono’, a kind of thin soup so ‘蓴羹’ is a vegetable soup. ‘鱸’is a sea bass, ‘膾’ is a dish made from chopped fish with vinegar. Basically, ‘蓴羹鱸膾’ means delicious foods, a kind of local specialty. It is a historical fact that some public servants arrived in their new post far from their hometowns. They were impatient to eat their hometown dishes, and finally they returned home without permission. This is ’蓴羹鱸膾’.

By the way, although ‘蓴羹鱸膾’ is too difficult for native Japanese speakers, most Japanese people know the following proverb. 「羹にこりて膾を吹く」

This means that people who get their tongue scalded by hot soup(羹) try to blow even on cold dishes(膾) to cool them down. I found this in my Japanese-English dictionary and it says: ‘Once bitten, twice shy.’ or ‘A burnt child dreads the fire.’

I hope you enjoy this information. Happy hunting!

Regards,
H. Nagayama

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 4:33:00 PM

The Two Towers

What I learned about architecture from Norman O. Brown today: Vaulted/dome-like structures instill a feeling of democracy in the viewer, whereas towers instill a feeling of domination. Hence, the oxymoron of the day, the "Freedom Tower" that is being built on the spot of the World Trade Center.

Is this the first Architectural Freudian slip of 21st century America?

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Spring is here, time for a new look!

Download my new desktop here.

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Monday, March 28, 2005

If Freud had a laptop -OR- Tell me about your motherboard.

Internet psychology in action. 'Blogging schizophrenia' happens when a blogger neatly posts different aspects of their psyche in different places on the internet. This action is based on the subconscious fear that if the two distinct acpects of one's self were placed together on the same page, some kind of paradox (real or imagined) would be observed by one's readership, and that the overall credibility of the writer might be in danger of being damaged. A case study ("Patchman") involving these two forums (1 and 2) is currently in progress, with research results to be released in the International Lacanian Laptop Journal.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 8:19:00 PM

A tale of two city mice?

My cousin is in town with his s.o. and we all had quite a time together last night on the town!

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Saturday, March 26, 2005

I know it's only rock 'n' roll, but I like it! Yes I do.

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Welcome, Tim!

Just added intergalactim to the People section.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 9:14:00 AM

Osaka Apples meet Kansai Laptoppers

On March 25, 2005
Sunao Inami
and
PsysEx
will be playing an event at
the Apple store
in Osaka's Shinsaibashi.
The event is FREE and open to the public.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Live After Death!

An oblique Iron Maiden reference? Well, yes...but that's not all! I'm happy to report that after a long hiatus, I'm back in the blogging saddle over on the TSiG - Tokyo Style in Gothenburg blog (thanks Jesper!). Oh, here's my profile page. Happy blogging to all, and to all a good night!

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Longshot was always my favorite...

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The trooper

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Where eagles dare...

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THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS ARE ALMOST HERE!

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RAMEN

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How many words was a picture worth, anyway?

One of the most vivid Tokyo photoblogs I've come across in a long, long time.

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(More or less) a year ago on GST

365ish days ago (more or less), I posted a little something about Nao Suzuki for the first time on this here blog. All in all, it was a pleasure, melted chocolate and everything!

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Take the A train

I get like, two or three emails every week with people asking me something like, where, if you could live anywhere in the big TKO, would you live? Looking back at my answers up until now, I see that something not too far from a top 10 might be extrapolated. Here is it:

01. Yanaka
02. Minowa
03. Kita-Senjyu
04. Iriya
05. Shibamata
06. Sugamo
07. Nezu
08. Iriya
09. Nippori
10. Fukagawa

Yes, if you are a less-than-dull blade, then you'll find a single thread running thru all of these towns. If not, don't send me an email.

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Monday, March 21, 2005

What's in a name? - Lexical serendipity & Will

Oh what a difference one letter can make!
http://www.yahooo.co.jp/

By the way, if you have a little free time and someone you'd like to tell off in a 'special' way, why not try the Shakespearean Insults Generator.

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Ranma-rama (YO!!YO!!YO!!FESTIVAL CHAMP)

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A page from my notebook 05/03/21

01. Web translation still has a long way to go, but at this stage in its progress, things have become a little tedious. A few short years ago, the spastic results of a web translation from Japanese to English were downright poetic, and therefore charming as linguisting curios...even usable as lyrics in songs. Now they are good enough to be semi-coherent, which means they aren't really vague or 'broken' enough to be used for anything artistic, but they are bad enough to give you a really bad headache if you tried to make total sense of the whole thing. In other words, perfectly useless. Are the older versions of these translation engines out there somewhere? If they were, I'd love to have one downloaded and on hand, just so that I could enjoy being lost in translation once again.

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Sunday, March 20, 2005

豆知識ハンター

ただ、タモリさんの「トリビアの泉」に影響されすぎるかもしれませんが、最近「四字熟語の中、一番画数の多いのはどれ？」という疑問を擁きました。怠け者で専用の辞書でまだちゃんと調べていませんが、僕の持論では「魑魅魍魎」が正解ではないでしょうか。もしどなたか知識不足の僕のために、この謎を解いて下さったらとても有り難いです。

Trivia hunter
However, it came to have the doubt "Which is it that a lot of strokes were in four character idiom?" recently though it might be influenced too much by Tamori's "Fountain of trivia". Isn't "Evil spirits of the mountains and rivers" correct answers in my opinion though not examined still neatly in a lazy, special dictionary? When this mystery is solved for me of limited knowledge, someone is very welcome.

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A page from my notebook today 05/03/20

01. hoc est corpus meum
02. autophagy
03. eschatology is eating
04. L'Apocalypse, c'est-a-dire la dissolution de la seriedans le groupe en fusion
05. To be aflame at every point. To be alive is to be burning.
06. Tiamat
07. man ist was man isst
08. The great sorrow in human life is that seeing and eating are two different operations.
09. What is happening in Chicago these days?
10. Nick's theories about Japan are valid insofar as there remain mostly Japanese in Japan; David's theories about Japan are valid insofar as Nick remains outside of Japan; My theories, no matter who stays or leaves, remain invalid.

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河童-rama

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Saturday, March 19, 2005

NSMAS Member Invitation

Dear Single Malt Lovers of Tokyo,

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce a little something that we've come up with called the "Nakameguro Single Malt Appreciation Society". In case the name doesn't say it all, our admittedly fledgling group's purpose it to enjoy the 'liquid duende' that is single malt scotch whisky (for us 'BLEND' is a four-letter-word) together in a spirit of tipsy fraternity/sorority --yes, we actually have male AND female members-- and to share conversation and tasting criticisms together.

Some of us (like me, the founder of this little fiasco) are aspiring to become officially licensed single malt sommeliers, by passing one of the several qualification exams that are out there, while others just like to ruminate over a short-stemmed tulip-glass with new friends. Naturally, since our motto is Jyuunintoiro (a phrase taken from the Japanese which menas "Ten people, ten colors"), we welcome folks from all walks of life.

At this point we are meeting once a month at my place on the outskirts of Nakameguro with everyone chipping in to purchace a fine bottle or two of single malt (each month from various regions of Scotland), and then nosing and sipping into the late hours, making sure not to miss that last train.

By the way, tonight we were indulging in a bottle of LAPHROAIG 15 YEAR OLD. It was a peaty pleasure!

Of course, this IS Tokyo, so the number of members is limited to do space limitations, but if you are interesting in joining us, just send me an email [glitchslaptko at yahoo dot co dot jp] and I'll let you know when the next meeting will take place. Looking forward to hearing from you. Until then, happy drinking!

Best,
Robert (NSMAS founder)

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 10:20:00 PM

Flashback - Freedom RaWk!!!

(More or less) a year ago on GST.

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A page from my notebook today

01. The alternative to dualism is dialectics; that is to say, love --
02. Heraclitus
03. bestandige Schopfung
04. To end war, we must first abolish the self
05. Argus-eyed
06. scotomize
07. 暗所嗜好
08. luciferous
09. Japan is 33 in terms of tourist arrivals in the world; 8th in all of Asia -- What is Japan doing right?
10. That's just NASTY!
11. Making a computer sound like a computer takes guts or lack of brains.
12. A Super Flat character has to look super-flat. Does a hip-hop guy have to 'look' hip-hop?
13. Miki Sawada
14. みなまた病
15. 花魁道中
16. 広島の鐘
17. a natural logic, a logic of the earth, an umbral logic
18. postcibal
19. 平行駐車
20. Sex, said Talleyrand is "La theatre des pauvres"
21. Every erection is an insurrection of the flesh.
22. seminal fluid 'on tap' in the genitals

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 4:12:00 PM

Where's the beef?

Can you believe that Bush, after not having much luck making Koizumi budge on the U.S. beef import ban (he even called Koizumi DIRECTLY just to discuss the beef 'problem'), sent his lackey Rice over here to Japan just to lobby for the re-importation of what is mostly likely BSE tainted beef? Don't the Americans realize that one of the things that Japanese prize most highly is fresh, safe food? Here is a link to the Japanese news articles. By the way, Rice is apparently dangling the 'We will back your joining the UN Security Council' carrot over Koizumi's head. We'll see if he'll take the bait or not. Irony of the day: It is probably a lot better for Japan and the world to eat the rice that thay have than the beef that Rice is offering, natch! Who knows? In a few decades or so, the rest of the world (U.S. included), might be paying Japan to export its rice-growing technology and training...

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

The sound of silence?

If John Cage were alive today, he would probably re-write his 4'33" as 3'33" just to increase rotation on college radio. Digiki would probably do the remix.

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Cyclomancy

Another file to get off my chest. I made this one last year. The only person that has heard this on earth in full is Roddy Schrock, and I played it for him at my studio last time he was there. If I remember correctly, he said it was cool. It is supposed to be a dink-dinky, 3min. parody of someone that I saw play at the Batofar one Saturday night a few years ago in Paris. I think his name was something like Ryoji...

http://s2.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3FYYG63XMC8741WTPC0RKYD2ZV

I hope you crank it and live long enough to send me some feedback.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 4:55:00 AM

Usotsuki!

My Japanese friends sometimes ask me who my favorite Japanse actress is. My answer changes from time to time, but these days I find myself always answering Ogawa Tamaki. The next question from them is usually: Why? Again, when it comes to Ogawa Tamaki, my answer is always the same. Because she's got that 'saisyokukenbi' think going on. I can see her once a week on 'Toribia No Izumi' along with Tamori and the gang...

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 3:27:00 AM

"Hot shit" be "crackin'"

One again, hot shit be crackin' over here. Call your significant other and log on! (We'll be needing his/her sworn testimony at some point.)

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 2:27:00 AM

Wanna-B-Boys

David says: To even begin exploration in hip hop, they must abandon the idea of "keepin' it real." For this one (possible imaginary) hip hop fan, only those with links to the mother tongue can be "real B-boys"; are the Japanese-only types "fake"?

Nick says: As for the "real b-boy" comment, it's one of the key elements of faking things that we fake authenticity rather than faking fakeness (whatever that might mean). So becoming a "real" b-boy by adding one more element is not inconsistent with still being a fake b-boy, and being quite aware of that fact, and perfectly happy with it. In fact, since b-boy is an 80s term, it would be possible to argue that even a black in the Bronx couldn't be a "real" b-boy today. Authenticity is slippery and relative, a receding horizon, and sometimes the only "guarantors" of authenticity are things completely external to the question of realness itself: my threat to beat you up if you doubt my authenticity, or your habit of thinking of me as "real", or an unthinking concensus about the "realness" of the thing concerned.

David says: I know that you don't believe in authenticity, but there are some Philistines out there who still believe it's a real functioning thing and use it to guard against the barbarians. Whether the B-boys in the Bronx are "real" or not, what if some Japanese still believe they are "real"?

Nick says: Personally, I think the whole point of the idea of superflatness is that it's very, very literal. A superflat social system must be horizontal. Superflat art must recognize no distinctions between high and low. A superflat character must look, well, flat.

And I say: So something that is Superflat must be super-flat. Something that is hip-hop (according to this logic) is required to be super-BLACK and/or kick your ass? That doesn't sound too hard...

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Train accident

Look the tragedy that happened today.

http://news.google.co.jp/news?hl=ja&ned=jp&q=%93%A5%90%D8&btnG=%83j%83%85%81%5B%83X%8C%9F%8D%F5

And now I recall the social parody that I wrote below...

http://glitchslaptko.blogspot.com/2004/11/blind-gaijin-monk-parable.html

...and see that it has now taken on a much less metaphorical, much more grim meaning. My prayers are with the persons killed.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 8:28:00 AM

Race is the place

Arudou Debito

is the Rosa Parks of Japan.

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Insert coins for more health!

All this talk of videogames and superflatness has got me feeling downright twitterpated, what with the recent influx of new visitors here at glitchslaptko thanks to a judicious link by MemeDiddy Momus and all!

So I thought I'd take this opportunity to post up another little quasi-anachronistic sound file here. This one is from the "POP!!! snap, crackle..." Japan tour I did with Roddy Schrock, HYPO, sawako, Brad Breeck, and VJ Maile Colbert (among others) way back in 2002. It is replete with retro videogame sounds.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 3:17:00 AM

Pax Nippon - Made possible in part by a donation from American English

In case you were wondering, masterclasses on Japanese culture are now being held over on Marxy's blog. Who are the senseis? We three...

Marxy: You only bring up The Conspiracy when it agrees with your agenda.

Momus: Don't you see, Marxy, they're humiliating the entire racial-linguistic block by exhibiting a clown once a day as its representative?

Robert: The practical 'gains' of "linguistic slumming" your way down to some of the lower rungs on the ladder of language hierarchy are legion.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

If I could bring just one band from America to Japan...

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Monday, March 14, 2005

Above the clouds

Some shit-hot debate on Japan is going on right here, right now. Join the fray, and catch Nick if you can!

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Sunday, March 13, 2005

み空行く雲にもがもな

只今美空ひばりとキッドのリミックス曲を製作中。完成させたら、ここにアップする予定。是非ともチェックして下さい。夜露死苦！ロバート

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We SHALL overcome...one day

A stimulating japan-based activism website may be found at http://www.ppjaponesia.org/

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 6:09:00 AM

Wu-tang porn ain't nothin' ta fuck wid!!!

www.oberlin.edu/student/tjones/RealNinjaPorn.mpg
(swiped from CO)

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Friday, March 11, 2005

Word of the Day

SuperIlliteracy

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 6:47:00 PM

A year ago today on GST

Click here to find out what I was probably the first person on my block to blog about a year ago today.

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"you are right about japan and me"

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Logique du Sens

If I had to pick ONE book with which to start reading Deleuze, it would have to be his The Logic of Sense. It has proved invaluable to me.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 5:20:00 AM

Me & Brad and a little track for you...while it lasts.

Oh, just in case you are wondering, while I'm not blogging, I sometimes DO make music.
Click here to download a remix/collab thing I did with

Brad Breeck (from the LA-based band Mae-Shi) last summer. It was a pleasure working together Brad!
This download will be good as long as some loser (don't YOU be that loser!) doesn't click to remove the file from the free server I'm using.
Higher than the highest of fives,
Robert

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 4:56:00 AM

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Q: Why is the painting below important? (Answer below.)

Going to see MIRRORICAL RETURNS: Duchamp and 20th CenturyArt at the Yokohama Museum tomorrow.

Oh, right, I almost forgot...

Q: Why is the painting below (now the painting above) important?
A: Because it predicts 'bullet-time' in the visual realm by about 90 years (i.e. before computers).

BONUS QUESTION: Can you think of a current example of MUSICAL bullet-time? Can you name a work that was a precedent?

Class dismissed.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 10:51:00 PM

Home is where the heart is

Since my freshman year in college back in Athens, GA, the homeless have always held a special place in my heart. Since last year, I've been frequenting the campus of Tokyo U. of Art near Ueno Park, an area with one of the highest concentrations of homeless 'shanty-towns' in all of Japan. So, today I'd like to mention homelessness as one of Tokyo's looming social issues. Here is a link to a very well-written article on the issue appearing in Japan Today this week. Also, here is a link to THE BIG ISSUE, a magazine that started in the U.K. that tries to help the homeless over here.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 10:34:00 PM

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

B-san

"Probably more people lost their lives by fire in Tokyo in a six-hour period than at any time in the history of man." - US Strategic Bombing Survey comments on the March 10, 1945 Tokyo Air Raid in which over 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.

A Japanese soldier, probably a provost army soldier, puts a note on the power pole. It reads, "The enemy is right before us! Rise up immediately and make revenge of this!"

In a related story, an LDP panel decided this month that Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan should be amended to at lest acknowledge the existence of the Self-Defense Forces.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 6:27:00 PM

Brown bunny - arma virumque cano

There is only one political problem in our world today: the unification of mankind. The Internationale shall be the human race. That they may be one--ut unum sint. This is Christ's last prayer before the crucifixion, which was also the last prayer of the late Pope John; it must be set beside Freud's prayer in Civilization and Its Discontents. For indeed they will not be one until Freud and Pope John are found to speak in unison; or Freud and Marx and Pope John: the thing is to bring them together...

- Norman O. Brown, Love's Body 1966 (section on Unity)

It is the erotic sense of reality that discovers the inadequacy of fraternity, or brotherhood. It is not adequate as a form for the reunification of the human race; we must be either far more deeply unified, or not at all. The true form of unification--which can be found either in psychoanalysis or in Christianity, in Freud or Pope John, or Karl Marx--is: "we are all members of one body." The true form of the unification of the human race is not the brothers, Cain and Abel...

- - Norman O. Brown, Love's Body 1966 (section on Unity)

The kind never dies (Kantorowicz). "The temple of the Baganda kings, with their hereditary courts, keeping the past alive by perpetual reenactment." "For purposes of Roman Testamentary Jurisprudence each individual citizen was a Corporation sole," like the English king. Everything turns on the continuity of succession. The immortal corporation, the universitas juris of universal succession never dies: universitas non moritur. The legal fictions of the West correspond to the metaphysical fictions of the East. The immortal corporatin corresponds to the immortal soul which carries the succession to the Grand Lama of Tibet. In both cases there is the man's posthumous existence in the person of his heir, the elimination of the fact of death. The Western legal fiction, with its fetishism (personification) of the property, its reification of person, eliminates the facts more completely, by eliminating the moment of truth, the interregnum, the search for the new incarnation. Modern (Western) legalistic rationalism does not get away from magic: on the contrary, it makes the magical effects so permanent and so pervasive that we do not notice them at all. But only God can make an heir.

- - Norman O. Brown, Love's Body 1966 (section on Person)

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Sunday, March 6, 2005

"man, I love single malt. this taste of mud...hummm" - dj kick

The single malt of the week here on GlitchSlapTko is Highland Park 12 Year Old - Made from the best barley malted over peat fires; merged with the unique spring waters of the island; and aged in casks for a minimum of twelve years that shape its rare and very distinctive character.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 5:00:00 PM

エラー

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 4:28:00 PM

豚もおだてりゃ木に登る

Requests have been pouring in lately, so without further ado, here it is, one of my favorite 死語 webpages.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 3:37:00 PM

Best Middle Earth cypher I've seen recently...

"Whether you read the book or just watch the movie, you only see the start of the battle in the mines of moria--you never see just how Gandalf beats the Balrog. Given Tolkien's legendary love of chronic and bitches, We figure it went something like this." (From TDR)

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 1:44:00 PM

Lyrics war - This one goes out to all my niggas at CCMIX!

This town I’m in can’t take no more
Decadance is silly
You were my woman
Why’d you have to be so hard and cold
(chorus 1)
Paris is burning
Want to see it from afar
Paris is burning
Want to get to where you are
My life’s in ruin
The girl I love
She’s far away
The distant fire
Brings memories of the love
That I once knew
Where are you now
Been looking all around
And I can’t stay
Help me nowI can’t stay
Much more before I fade away
(chorus 2)
Paris is burning
Want to see it from afar
Paris is burning
Get back where you are
(solo)
I can’t believe
You’d throw it all away
You know you played me for a fool
I’m leavin’ now
This time you know
That I’ll be gone for good, yeah
(chorus 2)
Paris is burning, paris
Paris is burning
Paris is burning
Want to see it from afar
Paris is burningParis
(fade out)

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 1:34:00 PM

Saturday, March 5, 2005

Lyrics war - Put them in the iron maiden!

Now I am cold but a ghost lives in my veins,
Silent the terror that reigned-marbled in stone
Shell of a man God preserved-a thousand ages
But open the gates of my hell-I will strike from the grave.

Tell me why I had to be a powerslave
I don’t wanna die, I’m a god, why can’t I live on?
When the life giver dies, all around is laid to waste.
And in my last hour, I’m a slave to the power of death.

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 11:46:00 AM

Thursday, March 3, 2005

Update

I'm currently in the middle of translating a six-page academic artitle titled 「音楽生成行為のモデルとしての自動作曲」, so pardon me if I seem hard to get in touch with. When my head is above water again (sometime this weekend) I be back among the living, promise!

In the meantime, I'll leave you with my album pick of the week.

I'm dead serious. How can I NOT be with a band that writes lyrics like this...

All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It’s really just a question
Of your honesty
One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity

# posted by glitchslaptko @ 9:52:00 PM