reptile swing
by jebni on January 23, 2004
Was looking for photos of the Divinyls, and found this: …which of course reminds me of the story behind this: …in which Vaughan Oliver (4AD’s sleeve designer) got naked, tied a belt made of half-frozen eels around his waist, and (…)
auwrrr!
by jebni on January 23, 2004
Lost in Mike Chapman-style pop-rock. Specifically, the Divinyls’ version of “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore”. This song has a special place in my heart because it underpinned the training montage in the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer (…)
asians: we fuck better
by jebni on January 19, 2004
A weekend of raised fists. Went to see Def Poetry Jam, which was more radical and inspiring than I expected. The mixture of spoken word and “progressive politics” can build a facialising mode of expression that fails to be actually (…)
bandwidth hell
by jebni on January 17, 2004
Okay, you people coming here to see the animated Daleks, go easy — my webserver has slowed to a crawl.
purity is expensive
by jebni on January 17, 2004
Just returned from a nearby, self-described “organic fruit and vegetable market”, which was actually a health food store with a smattering of vegetables that were three times as expensive as the stuff we usually buy. Tell me: how does this (…)
lost in translation = self involved, narcissistic twaddle, and the unbearable whiteness of being
by jebni on January 13, 2004
(Just to dissent against yet another apparent consensus.) But yeah, it’s really well done, and I guess I enjoyed it a lot.
unworking
by jebni on January 12, 2004
MEMO FROM: Jean-Luc Nancy TO: Social software designers Community necessarily takes place in what Blanchot has called “unworking”, referring to that which, before or beyond the work, withdraws from the work, and which, no longer having to do with either (…)
magneto was… out, partying
by jebni on January 12, 2004
My brother saw Ian McKellen at a club on New Years’ Eve, wearing a rainbow t-shirt! (He’s doing an August Strindberg play in Sydney this month.)
for everyone, everything
by jebni on January 12, 2004
A lovely, low-key lunch with Kirsten and Danny, before they head back to the States. Danny, who does stuff around indigenous media production in the Northern Territory, is now working on a project to get some young Aboriginal film-makers to (…)
automistake
by jebni on January 10, 2004
My concerns of late are best represented in a discussion I’ve been having with Jean: I [...] want to correct the impression that I think manipulation by “consumers” is simply utopian. That’s why I’ve got this beef about the “digital (…)