This Side of Mind

Re: Groundhog Day

2011-09-19T08:51:00.000-07:00

(You know, like the movie?)I've been running a race against myself and against time.Apparently the goal of this race is to die first.It's easy to live the same day over and over,until it's revealed that the doppler effect is affecting me too.If you don't hear the waves (colour) changing, (burst!) you're out of tune.Repetition is good in moderation, moderation, in kind (also).

2011-09-10T14:06:00.000-07:00

There's a gap between inspiration and loneliness, it is short.
There's a gap between inspiration and production.
It is longer and longer
(it seems)
there's a gap between Inspiration.

There's no

2011-09-10T13:58:00.001-07:00

Proof.

canonus : canon, member of a cathedral chapter or canonry, Augustinian.

2011-08-11T11:45:00.000-07:00

Vision and ideas
materialize sometimes years
after an inception.

Look far into the distance
as much as you can

to see
though oft blurry
what could

have been.

Now squint for clarity
turn around,
walk backwards

Detail all the actions taken

Run fast back to now
Turn around.

Step.

Slow.

Steady.

See.

Act.

Be.

Poetaster.

2011-05-10T05:41:00.001-07:00

Read above.

My sites on Facebook, like them all and get involved!

2011-05-05T13:47:00.000-07:00

My company:

Aside of Mind

Creativity Galore. Yours. Mine. Ours. Write. Play. Record. Film. Make Art.
"Creating the Condition Under Which Your Talents Flourish"
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My charity:

Aside of Heart

Give back in creative ways.

"Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."
~Jill E. Barad~

They fulfill their purpose under seemingly impossible odds. Powerful stuff that!
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My music:

Aside of Mind Music

I make sounds. Sometimes with instruments. Sometimes with other people. Sometimes more.
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My radio station:

Spindangerously

Currently just links to music. Expect guests to play music they're interested in and talks in time. Until then, "like" it and "hide" it, then visit now and again when you're looking for new music.
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Thank you for your interest in what I'm doing. I hope you can be a part of it all with the unique talents only you have.

Effloresce!
-Nathaniel

Fragilis incarnate: Evolution.

2011-04-30T21:30:00.000-07:00

Some photos of my latest art.

propero: to hasten, speed, move rapidly, come quickly.

2011-03-27T11:43:00.000-07:00

Thank you Chris for the words! I also got to read up on your allpoetry, great stuff!

Here I am enticing velocity
pleading for entrance into the haste-fate world of the writers loom.
Here I will reside and with exposure, press against the exponentiality.
Where thoughts become ideas
ideas become words
words become sentences, stanzas and phrases
phrases become ideas
ideas become reality;
with adherence to the action.

Recognize what story you want to tell
begin in any way possible
cast aside all doubt
turn your mind to 360
open your skin
and moment upon moment
embrace the pulsating
sound.

adjungo: to join connect.

2011-03-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

This plea is not of necessity but wonder
with no misgivings about the influence.

Woulds't thou be willing to share
your very own musings with care?

A delightful spectrum from deepest depths
to the most light and whimsical ephemeral.

Air.

Word fiends! I want your help!

2011-03-24T11:19:00.000-07:00

So today, I am less than word-struck.

I implore that if you enjoy my writings, please send me a word or words that you would be interested in reading as an object writing. I will do the translation if you aren't into that part. I am so thankful and happy to know that you are reading my musings and I want to say thank you and invite you to participate in the process in this "new" way. I say new because if you knew me many years ago, I would come up to you in the hallway at school or some other place, ask for a word and subsequently write a poem with your word as the title or "object" as I've come to understand it and then return to you in some other random meeting and share it. This brought me great pleasure.

Please email me or post in comments here or on Facebook your wanted words.

Thank you!

-Nathaniel

aeger: eger: sick

2011-03-22T12:38:00.000-07:00

I can't rest
no sleeping today.
So it's Hitchcock
classics on the boobtube and this pig's in blankets
Heavy dose of Water, Cayenne, Garlic, Oregano, Cranberry, Zinc, C and Vitamin Kitties.
So it's like Schwartzkopf in and out.

Old Hitchcock films led me to EPs doppleganger.

2011-03-22T07:42:00.001-07:00

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pluvialis: pertaining to rain, of rain.

2011-03-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

The wonder of a child
comes rushing back to me
as the drops of heaven fall
I'm literally under the weather
and feel the joy of it all

It's not that I remember what it was like to see things anew
but that I can see them anew now
in the state I'm in.

A desert state of monkery
with eyes that burn for perspective
a sense of desire to learn and grow
and
give this idea a life of it's own.

I've the fortitude to see it through.

The dilapidated body
doesn't need to affect the mind.

The turn-around could come at any time-

if you embrace it.

Your fear of the unknown and fear of failure.

Just as things fall apart,
they also come together.

jugis: continual, ceaseless, perennial, constant.

2011-03-20T12:22:00.000-07:00

Give me a word in this unrecorded night
in wait of the super moon
Reeling from smoke

Give me a moment to take flight
In wait of the super moon
By the fire we stoke

Give me a sight to hold in light
In wait of the super moon
Behind waves of clouds it poke

Give me a song with bite
In view of the super moon
A rusty wheel breaks it's spoke

In the light of the super moon.

fimbria: fringe, back-formation from Latin fimbriae, threads, fringe.]

2011-03-19T12:06:00.000-07:00

Thinly sliced
I've been here before
But just in case
I'm doing my best this time around

Satiate the satyr
Soothe me with song
Salivate with wonder
And walk with me along the edge
Until our stars collide
Making our own time.

monumentum: memorial or token of remembrance, remembrance.

2011-03-18T11:28:00.001-07:00

I want to know what we mean(t) to pass as we passed.
Cut from our history, a bloody mess now.

Where was the sense of unity?
All these years?

Don't call upon me now.
your remembrance was a sham.
This I won't forget:

Your scam.

Anyone care to translate this into English?

2011-03-18T09:43:00.001-07:00

I would love to know what it says!

Anyone care to translate this into English?

2011-03-18T09:43:00.000-07:00

I would love to know what it says!

crur, cruris: leg, shank, shin, also foot.

2011-03-17T12:53:00.001-07:00

You(')r(e) shapely(.)
scissors Your ball
joints You rotate in
air To knock me
down ala Chun
Li.Create a whirl-
wind To draw
me close to your
vortex. A djini
in vapor Your
animation
in motion
triggers
a primal
response
In effort
to capture
your
essence-
An effort to
consume
beauty. I
will
devour you
But you'll
come back To
captivate my desire again.

Break

2011-03-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Time.

ianus: arcade, covered passage

2011-03-15T12:02:00.000-07:00

a'measure a day

in

skin,

stone,

bone,

wood,

glass,

steel,

and sound.

Found.

Todays writing is on the Japanese word for humanity; Jin.

2011-03-14T12:13:00.000-07:00

Japanese Symbols: 仁
Kana: [じん]
Romaji (english pronunciation): jin
Meanings: benevolence, consideration, compassion, humanity, charity, human, kernel, nucleolus

So
far from me
you seem
though
a
stones throw
on this pale blue
dot
might hit.
I can't
hear your cries
from my desert home.
So I
contemplate our home
as one

In crisis,

we

share.

diligentia: diligence, industry, perseverance, persistence.

2011-03-13T17:23:00.000-07:00

Gather up the bytes and compile
title and cut

listen for hours and contemplate the plot
configure the starts and stops

rearrange the shot
augment this later alternate

sync up and fill in.

process and filter.

Recuperate a potential loss
fumble to the start

listen for hours and contemplate not
find the cursor and drag the dots

gather up the bytes and trials
title end cut.

Enter Don Vance

2011-03-12T17:37:00.000-08:00

And a skull-head nickel in an academic and magnificent aesthetic continuous conversation.

Welcome back, Don.

SLowdown,

2011-03-11T14:24:00.001-08:00

Rocker.

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Conclave < con=cum, Latin ‘with’ + clavis ‘key.’

2011-03-11T10:49:00.000-08:00

Mugician I am.
Stealth searches reveal
secrets untold
In this musical home

Like gathering sub atomic particles
Like grasping at the sea
Like ancestry
Put them in your pocket
And feel the dust between your fingers

Take a walk
without words
Open ears
And when you return
Shake out your pockets
Onto the coffee table.

First final drum track complete!

2011-03-10T18:18:00.001-08:00

Really!

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caementum -i n. [rough stone from the quarry].

2011-03-10T12:54:00.000-08:00

We're harvesting rock.

A gem here and there
Digging deeper only after the soil is wet down.

Conduct your scraping and scratching
Move aside or smash together the rubble
Form and shape it
Track and tape it

Earth is heavy but floats
Carry it in your mind.
The weight and levity
Become your own
feet on the floor and eyes to everything.

Dump the weight once engrained and fire away.

Fich Dich

2011-03-09T16:29:00.001-08:00

Ever wonder what people are thinking?
Just sitting there in their own skulls,
dreams passions and aches?
Commentary on your dress?
Some thought unable to be conveyed into words, an abstract painting?
When they speak, what's the prompt?
The rhythm of the cling-clang of glass?
The thought they just shook?
the thought of a left hook?
Like traveling, no one need say a thing,
we all understand.
We're all in this together, but not.
but not
but not but not but not but not.
Full disclosure, I'm sick of it already.

carmen: song, poem /prediction, incantation/religious formula.

2011-03-09T14:01:00.000-08:00

Prognosticate your own fate
contemplate, consider and consecrate the noise around you.
Shut up and listen.

Still...

2011-03-09T06:44:00.001-08:00

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Soaking in the sunrise.

2011-03-09T05:23:00.001-08:00

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upcoming object:

2011-03-08T14:37:00.001-08:00

carmen: song, poem /prediction, incantation/religious formula.

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Carta

2011-03-08T13:48:00.000-08:00

Has the code been cracked?
Should we really should'a done this way back?
What's the underlying formula to this formula?
Buy in.
It's the bottom floor.
Get in now
Or get out the door.
Proving this State of Allusion wrong, today.
Tomorrow,
On the record.
Namaste.

Drum tracking with Troy. Dangerous!

2011-03-08T12:04:00.001-08:00

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barrus : elephant.

2011-03-07T09:50:00.000-08:00

Everything is difficult with my elephant
But she is patient
In fact will stay tethered for me
Tethered to me
A through-line to my heart.

I dream of her
Juggling her
Cosseting her
Going broke feeding her
And eating her.

I s'pose a monkey might be easier
He'd stay tethered to me too
I bet
Right on my back
So I
Remember

I dream of him
Comic relief
Dancing in streets
Naked and waking
Up
Dead.

explorer

2011-03-06T13:09:00.001-08:00

New Aside of Mind "Songwork" streaming from last.fm available!

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Hiatus

2011-03-06T12:56:00.000-08:00

Just so you fiends know...

I took a couple days off from the object writing excercise because I am now self employed and wanted a little time to reflect and prepare for new and exciting endeavours. Thanks for all your support, my job at Starbucks afforded me great opportunities and one of them is my home.

I am building my knowledge and equipment to have a decent home recording studio and expect someday it will be a venue for art and artists alike, an oasis in this desert!

For now, I hope you are enjoying the writing and better yet, taking time to do some for yourself! I'm fairly certain that you have something to share with me, or the world, so let's get sharing!

Send me your art you fiends!

beatus: blessed, fortunate, sometimes "saint".

2011-03-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

So blessed be
So blessed are we
So blessed am I
So blessings unto you

What brings it to you today?
Find it
Hold it
Bring it close to your heart

Resist the human urge to crush it hard
Fight that feeling and hold it like a butterfly
Narrowly escaping a cats watchful eye
And devastating paw.

asperitas: roughness, severity/ harshness, fierceness

2011-03-05T10:01:00.000-08:00

Move ahead
Pick up the axe
Let it out
Lay it down
Scratch the itch
Etch a sketch
I drink of the city today
And I've never felt better
You can hear me shout
My joy through half mast lids
And drooling mouth
Here it comes again!

excito: call forth, bring about, wake, raise up.

2011-02-26T11:45:00.000-08:00

Season of action
Season of laughter

who can care about what comes after?

life is a treadmill;
a rollercoaster.

just get on.
get off if you're lucky.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

extra: (prep. + acc.) beyond, outside.

2011-02-23T11:35:00.000-08:00

Dab dab how fast?
close eyes
Flip lid
Dip tip
And
Tip toe
drink up
open eyes
And on And off blink!

Aberratio Ictus

2011-02-22T07:35:00.000-08:00

Get your aim straight.
I'm not your Huckleberry.
Exculpate me or separate me.

Abrogo
Abruptio

Fin.

Marginalia, the great literary conversation

2011-02-21T04:39:00.000-08:00

So, who wants to read a book?

candelabrum: lamp-stand.

2011-02-21T04:26:00.000-08:00

Neuroscanner chandelier

In the middle of the dining room

Where we all sleep

So unlike television

People bored with their own minds!

Oh, I remember that feature
Never can recall how to get there
So many options...

We're still bitchin' to make it better though

Not a quiet device
My first myspace is revealed from memory
On the big screen
Dreams, pangs and longs.

Counting the ways

2011-02-21T04:04:00.001-08:00

I've already been up for an hour and I'm not even halfway ready.

Something will suffer.

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pensio: a weighing out / paying, payment, rent / day of payment.

2011-02-20T07:25:00.001-08:00

Check deep your pockets and dig
peel away cushions,
wake the dead with shouts of
"Are you kidding!?"
and
"I don't remember that!"

It's passed time now to due it
it's gone too long
time now to let go your earnings
and see what's left for the rest.

We don't discuss it
we don't trouble ourselves.

We don't understand it
we let it rule instead

at the end of the weary session, look to the pot of gold
yonder on the Hill, it's Napoleon.

Efferus: savage, wild, untamed, undomesticated.

2011-02-19T10:47:00.000-08:00

The story of the Stratford cannibals.

Visit brother
Sexual sister
Empty place

Townhall's a'buzz
Long pigs like k9's
With cops and loaded with guns

Families here dining together
A market to share your at home fair

I said nothing with meat
And it went on from there.

ambitus: border, edge, extent /going around, circuit. (AKA: Border Town)

2011-02-19T10:46:00.001-08:00

Immigration is never fair
And especially in a border town
I wake paralyzed to sound of the commissioners voice loudspeakered in from my open window
Cracking my eyes I can see shadows of troopers in shadows
Indistinct but armed and looking for reasons to discharge

We are in a police state
The voice is close and my curtains are held open by wind
Seamlessly suspended in motion

I am awake now, but examining these moments between consiousness and the ability to move

There's a morningstar in my gut
A prickly pit of something in my stomach

The is on the table as the anonymous move more feverishly and perilous,
I am stunned and sense an urgency I cannot attend to

I lose the memory of you leaving my side
Only a flash forward of you in your robe by the open window
Gazing out without fear or curiosity

Turning back to look at me with gleaming cat eyes
I am surprised to not be surprised.

My telephone tinggs and buzzes

Alerting me of my impending, self imposed routine
My plans
My layout
My architecture
As I roll around a bit the world turns with my stomach

Cracking my eyes I am met with the reality of my room
A silver, mirror coated window that peeks in on me
Tinggs and buzzes from the phone continue and irritate, but remind

cat lies beside me in full dream

Twitching and moaning softly
With eyes barely slits of lens

Is it time to wake up?

Am I late

What have I missed?

My watch beeps

Tingg, buzz

My temperature drops

Tingg buzz

I grab my slate

Tingg buzz

It's midnight

Tingg buzz

I just fell asleep

Tingg

Two hours ago

Buzz

Who sees me struggling in sleep

As I did Bo ?

Attempting to soothe the poor animal from his own minds incarnations.Without

Without words to communicate

Who's watchful eye under do I lie?

What motivation have they to provide my continued, priveledged existence?

Tingg, buzz, light, write, get back to dream, it's half past midnight

Tempus fugit when I write,

Again, good night!

What is a CAFO... ? Bestia agri: animal farm.

2011-02-19T10:40:00.000-08:00

Chick Chickasaw chick
Clicky clickity click
I jack and smack the keyboard writing this new

What do you feel when the pigs squeal?

I love you More than bacon.

I love you more than ham but maybe not as much as being one.

On rye, I die
With every stroke of the word.

Every spoke of the laugh
Every soak in the bath

Bring us some more water
They say we're thirsty

I need a thesaurus to understand you firsty

Utterance of confusion
Utterance of sigh
Who the he'll are you now
Just before you die?

Basium: a kiss.

2011-02-19T10:37:00.000-08:00

Kissing me

Kissing you is
Kissing me and kissing you and kissing...

This thing we do when the guard is let down
This linguists dream
Is creativity

Like seeing sound
Seeing colour with eyes closed
Your energy is synethesia

I feel you
Becoming

I feel us
Together

You feel me coming
You feel us
Together

We swap our saliva and dreams
We swap our ideas and become free

What a fantastic planet
Where you can be

Able to create such a scene!

Oculus: eye.

2011-02-19T10:34:00.000-08:00

Eyes is strong
Eyes can see
But exercise caution about what you perceive

There is so little that plain
And be's

Think of the wings of a honey bee

The Buzzing and fritinancy

Makes me mad to understand

The wings of a hummingbird
The wheels on a train
The synapses of my own brain

Sonitus: noise, sound.

2011-02-19T10:32:00.000-08:00

Sound

Have you heard the sound coming?
Have you seen the rays?
There are infinite ways.

To perceive this slice of reality.

Open your eyes and see the rain
Recognize the patterns and offbeat pangs

You consider in the rain
Consider the rain.

Consider the pain
Consider the same
Life in a new way
Like waking to the dawn of this morning

Can you believe it true?
That the everything is conspiring to elevate you?

Everything trying to reach you
Everything calling to greet you

Salutations and good morning
The daybreak brings fear and mourning

And your countenance brings it's manifestation.

Have you ears to hear?
Eyes to see?
Skin to feel?
Lungs to breathe?
And mouth to taste?

Duodecim: twelve.

2011-02-19T10:30:00.000-08:00

12 in the can.

I want twelve in the can
So I can pick eight.

I want uncle Sam
To let me pay late.

Or not at all it don't bother me
Cause zeitgeist told me taxes are slavery.

Get your own debt;
The American dream.

Get your own set
And kill your own scene.

Theres little to hope for but simple privacy
But facebook and this hook
Just won't let me be

Angry birds,
Im an angry man
I'm sick with the words
That I speak.

So here's to the many
Playing so many games

There's beauty in transparency.

Elementum: elemental.

2011-02-19T10:17:00.000-08:00

After I wake from dreams I want good.
Better
all right things
Better still
All things right
For body, mind, soul
Better even
for the world, for the win
Oh! If only I could be forever just rising
What a force to reckon with!

Earth air fire water space time, elemental
I Pluck these strings in sleep to create vision, harmony
Good will to all and happy holidays

Vibrating here
You
Hold me
From atop another rubble of negativity
Snap this feeling in your mind's eye
Embrace gravity
And let her rip away the dirt
Embrace brevity and count your blessings
Embrace levity and twirl your skirt
And fly away in a hot air balloon
Until your shirt is the sky

Funiculus: a thin rope, cord, string.

2011-02-19T10:08:00.000-08:00

These moments of overwhelming discomfort for my current station
Are becoming more and more frequent.
The feeling of loss, yet something gaining momentum
pulling
Stretching
wrapping itself around my soul
The universe is playing a song on my hearts strings.
Open your ears accept this melody, listen to the hum, as it is constant like the beat of your heart, don't wait for it to end
Find the meaning of your song. Listen as it picks up

urbs urbis: city. aestus maris: tides.

2011-02-19T09:31:00.000-08:00

You toy with your microcosm and say
"They're all just shapes and colors."
You want me to do the same.

I look closely and see the creatures who so closely don't belong
begin to tear at flesh and devour one another, without regard.

The joyful smile on your face is as a child's with lincoln logs
I ask us to rise and walk the cul-de-sac and your attention is deferred
for a time

we walk and argue and spit
the finest hairs between love and hate are split.

Approaching us, though we don't move an inch-
the ocean and hotels overreaching it's view.

I see youthful dancers and students leaping out into the tumultuous water
unbothered by the changing color of the tide.

the scenes distort and bring to head memory of near death drowning and flails
the unreal movement of waves creeps in and recedes unimaginably fast.

some jumpers are spewed back and land on rocky shores
as the others are nonchalantly jamming feet from the gore
all above is below and the sun shimmers from the depths
entreating us to death.

venio: to get into a certain state, to fall into. venio: to come /happen, come about, come to pass /arise.

2011-02-18T08:43:00.000-08:00

You fall and rise like the sun
Bouncing in slow motion
Time goes as time goes but my perception is altered
Like the state you find yourself approaching
Blood rushing to your many extremities
Circulating oxygenating
Now oscillating
Profoundly intoxicated by your juices
What marvelous creature you are
What magnificence

dominus domno: master, lord.

2011-02-17T10:02:00.000-08:00

Everybody's got to serve somebody
everyone is compelled to do something.
this in turn becomes your master
like the objects you claim to own
like the cat peering at you in the corner
they in fact own you.

but choices and decisions,
you own them, now, don't you?

your path, your contemplations
reside deep within you.

Choose more wisely padawan,
choose to intently listen to and replay the thoughts that post actions of sincerity and truth.

You lose control when you give it away
we all do it in long or short moments each day

be as certain as you can that when you do
it's in deference to something that reciprocates

Your philosophy, values and intent.
Truth.

cotidie: daily, every day.

2011-02-16T10:20:00.000-08:00

There's a buzz inside of me
Outside-
Myriad voices,
Tones and smacks and slams just go,
on and drone.

Politicos and shakers
Fast talking money makers

I do this for them
Create this stage

Now its time to cut in
This happy dance,
this dog and pony show

I'm not gonna join in
I'm gonna cut right through

The buzz now's a'tingling
Dotting my dermis

I arm myself with technology
Ideas and creativity
Music and words

Consideration and the ability to change course
C'mon and get on
I'm the horse.

You can also knock out an Object Writing in Nihongo!

2011-02-15T09:44:00.000-08:00

If anyone can provide a link to a Latin Word of the Day widget like this one, send me the link please!

cras: adverb meaning "tomorrow" in Latin. http://bit.ly/fYYQ0m 6:23 AM Jan 25th via twitterfeed

2011-02-15T09:00:00.000-08:00

I may find more joy in hunting and pecking to find the words

It's said
"Nothing worth doing is ever easy"
So I take another standpoint.
Some things worth doing are not easy at first.
Some are not easy to maintain and others more difficult to adjust.

Dropping seeds and taking steps
Whistling a tune
planning a day
Easy starts to worthy foray.

Suiting up and setting out
Armed to the teeth, backed by your brain.
Setting up systems to make your self worth the work.

Tomorrow is just another day
Filled with consequence and choice
How do we determine the manifestation of our thoughts in to voice and
Action?

Happiness is through determination.
We're all waiting for Assate.

Quam ut jussi bibere

2011-02-15T08:24:00.000-08:00

This is a song I'm working on in five languages. The phrases are simple enough to not make it irritating but rather to inspire the listener to consider how much they already know and perhaps just hadn't considered in awhile or at all. It's a heavily rhythmic, a cappella sing, singy, dancey-dance kinda let's clap our hands and drink while I twirl you around type of number.

On a potentially related note, I'm no longer interested in Margaritas. Ever.

Finding a feed for Latin words of the day (WOTD) is giving me a headache. I'm primarily on Mac puters now. Yes, Justin, it's because I like shiny things... But the shiny awesomeness has robbed me of flash. And I like flash.

Flash will allow my gadget from Google to get a Latin WOTD feed and embed it on my blog so you lumplings can participate in the object writing and we can compare our findings and continue what I have come to call - with some cred to Samuel Sample, "The Great Conversation" and that would be beautiful.

Someone fix this nonsense and let's use the interwebz like tru proes, k?

Or if you know of a good, accurate and timely LWOTD, that is not flash and I can embed on my blog, or if you want to make one just for me, let me know!

auditor : hearer, listener.

2011-02-14T08:54:00.000-08:00

Feathered beings encroach my senses
Peaceful and irritating in the same sentence
So many problems disappear
So many solutions come clear
When the pace of your thoughts are trained to the sounds all around.

Saturday is Caturday.

2011-02-12T14:09:00.001-08:00

I have five cats. Today we're hanging, getting through Angry Birds Seasons and getting back to MoBlogging. Delight in knowing there's much more content coming soon, fiends.

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1.14.09

2009-01-14T01:55:00.000-08:00

I'm scratching at sores you made
Reading reports that I made
Listening to Pandora

I keep expecting you to come from the bedroom and save me.

Reading Chess for Dummies and feeling lame.

Drinking scotch,
Drinking water, wonder, "How's my father?"

Blake comes back on
I'm, smoking Shermans.

Pissing in your toilet.

This hell is mine.

I can't get the videos to upload
or get my fingers to type.

I write reviews to save my life.

Professionally.

Worth saving?

My boss called me Frank but that's not my name

I understand moderation should be in kind and excess the same

I guess it's it's all the same to me,

I got a mind to make a movie,
or a podcast,
to show:
the world, that it's special in the hills

But I don't know

I'm sils for sure
sils for reals

I miss my friends(?)

I want the music

(I) Need a home to destroy.

The music is a chain that keeps me close

Judgment comes for me at every step
I can write!

Edit.

Where I feel.

Regina says you can't...

My phone reminds me daily of the time (*SOUND*)

I's typically time to wake but I'm already.

I want to sit in the jacuzzi and melt...

But it's too cold.

Been a Long Time Since I Rock n' Wrote

2008-12-22T03:29:00.000-08:00

Changes abound. I find myself looking for a place to live again! My drum set doesn't go just anywhere...

Who Was Shakespeare's English Teacher?

2008-11-12T23:08:00.000-08:00

2008-11-08T05:27:00.001-08:00

Insanabile Cacoethes Scribendi - Juvenal

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2008-11-02T20:29:00.000-08:00

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.”

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

ARTICLE 1... All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

ARTICLE 2... Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

ARTICLE 3... Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

ARTICLE 4... No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

ARTICLE 5... No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

ARTICLE 6... Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

ARTICLE 7... All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

ARTICLE 8... Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

ARTICLE 9... No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

ARTICLE 10... Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

ARTICLE 11... (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

ARTICLE 12... No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

ARTICLE 13... (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

ARTICLE 14... (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

ARTICLE 15... (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

ARTICLE 16... (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

ARTICLE 17... (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

ARTICLE 18... Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

ARTICLE 19... Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

ARTICLE 20... (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

ARTICLE 21... (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

ARTICLE 22... Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

ARTICLE 23... (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

ARTICLE 24... Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

ARTICLE 25... (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

ARTICLE 26... (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

ARTICLE 27... (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

ARTICLE 28... Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

ARTICLE 29... (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

ARTICLE 30... Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Scrubs And They Might Be Giants

2008-11-02T12:07:00.000-08:00

Two great things that are actually more than two things but yes the point was that they go great together.

2008-10-31T21:33:00.000-07:00

My life is Jazz, dizzying and loud enough to make you deaf. The lights are bright enough to show the way and quickly they flash and dissipate frequently enough to cause a seizure.

I Dig Coffee

2008-10-16T00:36:00.000-07:00

Ahh Yeah...

Poverty

2008-10-15T17:49:00.000-07:00

Poverty Sucks.

Jurassic Park

2008-10-15T09:58:00.000-07:00

I love this box, but should I?

I'm Liking What I'm Eating!!!

2008-10-02T18:46:00.000-07:00

Go ahead, eat the skin and the seeds!

this is a Hawaiian Papaya.

Num!

Nod to Eat This!

I'm Liking What I'm Hearing!!!

2008-10-01T00:44:00.000-07:00

Lagwagon played:

Angry Days,

Mr. Coffee,

and

Heartbreaking Music,

among many other favorites of mine.

Good times.

MxPx Only Crime and TAT were there too.

Eating Carrots

2008-09-30T12:01:00.000-07:00

I'm just taking it easy after a very long day yesterday. Improving my vision.

Doing a bit of surfing and Yahoo! gives me this
news. Oi.

Gaming and Geekness.

2008-09-26T20:45:00.000-07:00

A kindred spirit's journal of stimulating social-in-person gaming in a World of Warcraft.

It's not that I have never played or enjoyed some Warcraft. Because I have, and it was awesome. It's been a blessing and a curse to have gone without the PC requirements to support such gaming habits, and along the way I have discovered the joy in playing Chess and Texas Hold 'em Face to Face against my opponents. These experiences have been so enriching that I have decided to start a website entitled Chess Philosophy.com. It's a battle of wills and there can be only one winner.

That, to me, is motivation and elation.

WTH!?

2008-09-26T13:04:00.000-07:00

Speaks for herself, finally.

Employees Should Have A Say In CEO Pay

2008-09-26T12:55:00.000-07:00

With a range decided by the board of directors.

TRANSPARENCY REQUIRED.

Dreaming of Geekland

2008-09-26T12:39:00.001-07:00

I have spent hours on

and am officially suggesting this site!

I have also decided that I still need a laptop.

Aside of Mind. Jamming at Frank's. Video 21.

2008-09-25T21:19:00.000-07:00

Youser Vs. Youtube.

Youser 1, Youtube 0.

Don't they?

2008-09-25T19:59:00.000-07:00

So badly.

Brain, brain don't go away,

2008-09-22T23:16:00.000-07:00

won't you stay another day? This is keeping me very busy lately.

Tune: "How Does the Brain Wave"
Baby Elephant with David Byrne.

Veggies

2008-09-22T22:34:00.001-07:00

The Vegan Ronin is now in Japan and Hezbollah Tofu has a Love/Hate relationship with Anthony Bourdain.

I have a Love/Hate relationship with technology. And the human race. And clothing.

Overwhelmed

2008-09-22T22:31:00.002-07:00

R.I.P.

2008-09-19T14:16:00.000-07:00

Pluto, we salute you. (February 18, 1930 - August 24, 2006)

Not Really A Gamer

2008-09-19T09:15:00.000-07:00

I am not a gamer.

I do like to play from time to time. My approach is not at all practical though.

I will play a video game, thoroughly enjoy myself for 14 hours and then sleep.

If I have not completed the game to my own high standards of completion (e.g. 100% game completion versus 100% story completion), then I will stir and immediately take up the controller until I have achieved my goal.

I beat Onimusha: Warlords in one day and Gun, in three, over two weeks. Besides some games at Justin's place, I haven't played anything else all year.

My home gaming was prompted because my roommate brought a PS2 into the living room.

I think I'm done for another year...

Bulk Burrito Night

2008-09-18T19:24:00.000-07:00

So I was considering some culinary advancement as I searched for chocolate covered peppers, because I will make them myself if I have to. It looks like I have to. I did find some people dipping sweet or 'mild' peppers in chocolate but that's not what I'm looking for! I did find another person who does something pretty interesting with herself though... Check out The Chocolate Covered Vegan.

Shall We Webcast?

2008-09-18T04:46:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I am considering all things. All things considered (good show), Why not a "This Side Of Mind" Podcast? When and how would you listen? I'm seriously considering putting my next move up for the highest bidder or the most interesting/intelligent idea. I am excited to see the ever-expanding readership of my blog(s) and I want to hear your voices!

A Chess Philosophy webcast or a Corporate Slave State podcast would be fun, and we can change the world! Do you have experience in this arena? I'm having the time of your life, doing all this reading and typing.

Wow, staying up all night long makes me feel like a Vampire. Sucking life out of the screen and licking my lips with every tactile keystroke.

I'm on your screen!

Have we discussed yet how chatting via computer is like, telepathy???

I'd say it's time to sleep, but I'd be untrue.

I'll be back when I have another thought that simply must be shared, until then, good morning you wonderful human being!!!

Famished

2008-09-17T22:49:00.000-07:00

This guy Kevin Gianni talks about some interesting foods. I like that. Do you have a type of food that only you love? Know some secret health benefits of eating some Chilean root vegetable!? I'm still checking these links.

I'm Liking What I'm Hearing!!!

2008-09-17T15:10:00.000-07:00

If you're looking for an ambient, loose, heady, "found sound", then you must check out The Books. I am extremely inclined to turn up my volume when I hear their distinctive sound.

http://www.thebooksmusic.com/

More "Found Sound"...

I'm Liking What I'm Hearing!!!

2008-09-16T13:08:00.000-07:00

Check these guys out if you're feeling some seriously lo-fi dark metal, like going to your friends garage band rehearsal but much better orchestration, these Norwegians show how black metal should be, I'm feeling some Misfits in there too...Darkthrone

So many of us have put our lips to hers

2008-09-16T11:25:00.000-07:00

but we don't call her on the telephone, we don't buy her flowers and few of us know her real name. She's been given a chance to live on in a way none of us could imagine for ourselves, her life ended abruptly, centuries ago. Have you learned how to perform CPR? If you've taken a class, chances are you've made contact with Resusci Anne, although you may already know her as l’Inconnue de la Seine which isn't even her real name. The short of it: A suicide/untimely death has lead to the extension of many, many lives.

Durian

2008-09-15T20:37:00.000-07:00

I want to eat it.

You want to eat it.

Frog said he had tried it, but I can't recall his impressions...
If you're out there Frog, chime in bro.

I'm Liking What I'm Hearing!!!

2008-09-15T14:45:00.000-07:00

Band I'm hearing right now is The Sincerity Guild from Nashville, TN. Instrumental rock delight!

Blog Linkage

2008-09-14T15:33:00.000-07:00

I surf and find gems like this one: Little Sketch of my Life. I am still surprised that when I search for something that I think is interesting, someones blog pops up and I can get wrapped up in what they have. I am happy to share them with you!

Anyone care to guess which keyword brought me to this blog?

BBC Memory Test

2008-09-14T14:09:00.000-07:00

In the words of men much wiser than myself:

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

So

"To thine own self be true."

And do some online quizzes!

Neuroscience is fascinating to me.

Here's the BBC's memory test. What do you know about Neuroscience? Any links or quizzes?

Faith in People, Futile?

2008-09-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

Please Vote:

Laziness? -or- Fear?