March 2010
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every time i remove someone from my facebook feed for only posting farmville/mafia wars/school of wizardry crap, i feel like i should be adding them to a list and making some kind of poignant oscar death-montage slideshow at the end of the year.
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new mixtape: potpourri for $800, alex
download (separate tracks) (69:00, 112mb zip) download (single mp3 mix) (69:00, 94mb zip)
ok, folks, your guess is as good as mine on this one. there’s no particular theme here, and the genres range from europop to indie to off-the-beaten-path hip hop to new funk to whatever it is that blends lo-fi and dance. call it a grab bag…a smorgasbord…a what-have-you: it’s...
December 2009
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december 10 is a thursday kkthxbye
“Subject: This Wednesday December 10”
“Message: …you should all be there this Saturday December 10…”
it takes a special kind of disregard for reality to be able to send out an email like that.
August 2009
3 posts
“We know nothing of each other. We are each trapped in our own mental world where...”
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and...”
– Charles Mackay
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mixtape: blue singularity: a cyberpunk movie...
download (separate tracks) (72:01, 93mb zip) download (single mp3 mix) (71:37, 98mb zip) front cover (large) back cover (large)
i haven’t read a cyberpunk novel in ages, but one night i got to thinking about how i’d really like to see a new cyberpunk movie on the big screen and how it’d be so kickass if it actually kicked ass as a big summer blockbuster. this got my wheels...
July 2009
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“It is surprising what people can do when they have to, and how little most...”
– Walter Linn
June 2009
8 posts
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in which there is some lamentation, but also some...
as i come closer to the so-called middle age, turning 33 in a little under a month, there are certain aspects of my personality that i’ve come to accept as having very little chance of changing. among them, i am by nature shy and an introvert. from my earliest memories to everything older family members have told me, it seems like it’s always just been this way. at family gatherings as...
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summer '09 mixtape: long days, pleasant nights
summer ‘09 mixtape: long days, pleasant nights (47:36, 65mb zip)
with summer pretty much in full swing now, this short mixtape was put together to accompany a weekend poolside bbq that ended up getting cancelled. rather than waste a short little mix of indie rock and dance flavored with a little hip hop and a just a dash of 70s and 90s, i thought i’d share it with you. enjoy. keep...
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single serving review: the escapist
presented as a straightforward prison break movie, the british film the escapist is a gritty portrayal of cramped prison life executed with high-intensity cuts and a very fast-paced story. well, two stories actually: the lead up to the prison break is told in flashback while simultaneously showing the tense break in progress.
veteran actor brian cox’s frank perry is the grizzled lifer who...
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Watchlove this.
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in which i henceforth wear only tuxes to work.
fashion scale: here’s a classic 3 button single-breasted striped suit accented with a striped bow tie, and here’s ed hardy. any questions?
lately i’ve been doing a metric butt-ton of research on men’s fashion on account of needing to buy a suit for the semi-formal wedding of one of my oldest friends. in truth, up until this very weekend i didn’t even have one at...
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
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single serving review: the curious case of...
twee - noun - something that is sweet, almost to the point of being sickeningly so.
i like brad pitt (fight club, se7en, 12 monkeys). i like cate blanchett (i’m not there, heaven, the life aquatic with steve zissou). i like david fincher (se7en, fight club, panic room, zodiac). so it should be a given that i like the curious case of benjamin button.
except that i didn’t.
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May 2009
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art-type thing: 3d pixel box - 1up
inspired by a nintendo-soaked childhood and an extreme zoom while in photoshop, i wondered what a 2d pixel-based character might look like rendered in the real world. after much cutting, much more sanding, and a little bit of painting i now know!
each 3/4” x 3/4” “pixel” was cut to a random height and hand sanded, then painted, glued to a backing board, and finally put...
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“No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your...”
– Jascha Heifetz
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single serving review: star trek
pew pew pew! that’s the sound of phasers hitting my heart. part of what made me the geek i am today is gathering in front of a childhood best friend’s tiny family television and watching old star trek vhs movies on sleepovers; but that’s about the extent of my trekkie-ness (or trekker-ness, if you prefer). as far as this year’s movie goes though, the good news is you...
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“Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is...”
– Max Brand
April 2009
15 posts
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top 4 ways to avoid the swine flu
“yea, and verily did the pig god say unto his pen that the lovers of the bacon and the rind will be struck down for their unnatural appetite, and so the hairless monkeys were smoted.”
1. avoid items of heavy traffic limit your chances of exposure by reducing your contact with items that flu-infected humans have already touched: phones, keyboards, doorknobs. in fact, it’s...
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single serving review: the wrestler
close your eyes for a second and try to think of the sorest your muscles have ever been. an epic bike ride, a long run, a tough workout, whatever. you were pretty sore, right? now multiply that times a crapload and i imagine that’s what every day feels like for the movie’s titular character, randy “the ram” robinson (played magnificently by mickey o’rourke), an...
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“All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in...”
– Fran Lebowitz
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Kenny Rogers - Love Will Turn You Around
ever...
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single serving review: miracle at st. anna
having learned film review from nothing but an episode of “ebert & roeper” and a handful of movie blogs on the internet, i’m going to assume that at some point in every director’s career he (or she - but let’s be honest, the ladies don’t really get into playing soldier) decides that they need a world war II story in their filmography. this is spike...
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top 5 benefits of having attention-deficit...
You are never bored.
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
– John Dryden
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked on Classics...
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tettix - Dragon Punch
From the latest album...
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“All my favorite forms of artistic expression are things that no one takes...”
– Matt Harding
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beating myself up over twitter.
i don’t know what it is, but for whatever reason it seems like lately any blogger or podcaster i send a complimentary/congratulatory tweet to completely lets it go without a response. granted, i’m sure they’re all very busy people and tend to attract fans/readers/listeners that think they have a close connection to them due to the nature of the medium, and may get many similar...
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About deekaygee
Interests
art, music, design, internet/technology, philosophy, photography, camping, hiking, backpacking, good food and drink.
Music
can’t live without it. i love all music really, except contemporary country. really into mashups lately. guilty of having guilty pleasures: i’ve been known to enjoy catchy pop. into classical: bach, beethoven, mozart, schubert, vivaldi, wagner; you...