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| Friday, January 28th, 2011 | 11:49 pm
[fading_girrl]
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Can't think outside the box.
Television messes with your head. This is particularly the case now we're wandering parched through the death valley non-ratings period, when watching TV is akin to having dust blown in your eyes by the networks. If you're a couch potato like me, it's a good bet you're resorting to DVD sets of hit shows you got for Christmas, which also means you can watch five hours of True Blood, The Wire or Entourageback to back and that's when things can get weird. Watch enough Dexter (which, if you don't know, is about a serial killer) you start to daydream about dismembering people who tick you off in real life. Advertisement: Story continues below "I just have to plan it carefully like Dexter does, cover the room in plastic, then use my uncle's boat to drop the body pieces off the continental shelf," you think, before walking into human resources for your performance review. Do a weekend retrospective of HBO's excellent western seriesDeadwood and you might find yourself swearing artfully like the characters do incessantly on that show – which can actually be pretty handy when dealing with HR. Too much Mad Men makes you think chain-smoking and cheating on your wife are kind of glamorous and if Gyton Grantley can get away with dealing methamphetamine on Underbelly, surely I could earn myself a deposit for an investment property doing the same? By episode 20 of Packed to the Rafters, you might think every family's issues can be resolved in 44 minutes, and if you can sit through the execrable Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, you might actually believe misogyny is a handy way to shag endless hot women. Intellectually, we know we're watching a TV show but, as shown by the mania generated by programs such as Sex and the Cityor Gossip Girl it's all too easy to be drawn into these wonder worlds, to subconsciously believe the characters and their adventures really exist. In 1978, Jerry Mander wrote an interesting book titled Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, one of which was that TV actually affects our ability to differentiate between what is real and what's not. He asks readers to imagine scenarios like the American old west or an Eskimo village, which most people have never experienced in real life. "Obviously the images were either from your own imagination or else they were from media. Can you identify which was which?" Mander writes. It gets really interesting if you try to picture something as prosaic as a wedding or a mother cooking dinner. Despite all of us having experienced these events in reality, there's a good chance when you summon these scenarios you'll see images you've watched on TV or in a movie, often because they're more visually pleasing. Mander's argument was that technology has moved faster than our brains, to the point many people's entire library of internal images now come exclusively from media. Social commentator Chuck Klosterman takes up the point in his book Eating the Dinosaur, writing that since 1903, with the advent of moving pictures, our "reality" has changed forever. "Humans have existed for 130,000 years," he writes. "The Great Train Robbery was made in 1903. For roughly 129,900 years, any moving image a human saw was actually real. It was there, right in front of you. If a man in 1850 saw a train chugging toward his face, it was actually a train. For 129,900 years, we were conditioned to understand that seeing something in motion had a specific meaning." Klosterman argues that intellectually, we understand the difference between someone being shot dead or raped, or winning the lottery on a TV screen and it happening in real life – but "is there any possible way that 129,900 years of psychological evolution can be altered within the span of a single century? Is it also possible that the wonder worlds we've created for our entertainment in fact control us so profoundly, inform our motivations and desires so fundamentally, that we've ceded our intellectual freedom to moving pictures and their creators? Me? I know I sometimes catch myself pondering what the characters from Lost or Band of Brothers or Love My Way are doing with themselves now, so I can't help puzzling what else I've absorbed from these strangers as I became part of their lives. It's certainly enough to make me pick up a book this summer. | | Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | 12:53 pm
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| | Sunday, May 9th, 2004 | 2:41 pm
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xpost
I've been wanting to start a zine distro for a while, and i've finally got around to doing it. I'd appreciate it if you all would check it out, give me some feedback on how it looks and maybe submit some zines to be distro'ed! http://www.nottodayzinedistro.tk | | Wednesday, January 28th, 2004 | 4:46 pm
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Eclectic Starsparks Zine Distro
I'll make this quick, cross posts can be annoying ;) I've created a brand new Australian-based distro, Eclectic Starsparks, send your zine in for consideration as I'm looking for ALL types of zines from all over the world. This distro has been created with the intent of helping to promote what "free speech" really is, as a forum for people to have their say on the world around them. Personal zines, zines with a political/activist edge to them, poetry, fiction, prose, memoirs... I'm interested in looking at anything. Mass media is controlled by those who have money; our media will be controlled by those who have WORDS. Lets take back the power and tell it like it really is, not what the corporate enterprises want us to hear. That's what Eclectic Starsparks is all about, so send in your work and be heard. For more information, go to eclectic-starsparks.org or email me, jade, at distro@eclectic-starsparks.org. ( &flyer? ) | | Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 | 8:09 pm
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would anyone have any objections to me turning this into a different community? its not used very much so i didnt think anyone would. | | Saturday, September 13th, 2003 | 11:20 am
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=New Music!=
Hello! My name is Rocco and I promoting my music to livejournal to see if I can get some feedback on my work, meet some new peeps, or get some advice on the subject. I live in upstate NY and work as a solo artist with poetry mixed in with beats and trip-hop [See these great bands also comparing:Portishead, Massive Attack or any sort of trip-hop...take my songs a listen to...] Here is my Artists Biography: ( Anthony Rock Biography )Go to url: http://www.mp3.com/anthony_rockto listen to my stuff!!!! Let me know what you like or can gimme any feedback because that will be great. Hope to Hear From you all soon. [Roc] xx. | | Friday, September 12th, 2003 | 2:04 pm
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| | Thursday, August 14th, 2003 | 2:33 pm
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doing it now because i havent been at a computer in a long time
FINALLY i post about the infoshop. okay, so just all you peoples know. 1914 E. Michigan Ave Lansing MI 48912 is the address of the Brigther Days Infoshop. We are open from 12pm to 8pm Tuesdays through Saturdays. We have Books, Movies, Zines, T-shirts, Patches, Buttons, posters, and thats just the first floor! So yeah, lots of stuff for free (mainly zines and newspapers and coffee). The majority of all our stuff is for our lending library, ask about becoming a member while your there. i've been practically living there since we opened last friday, running errands and loosing sleep over cataloging the books and organizing the zines, its friggin tedious! Eventually yes we will have shows, we'll be starting with spoken word and accoustical (ie: quite) stuff first, just to test the water and kinda ease into the situation not to mention our own store (for shows i mean)! Aside from being bad ass, its one of the few places in lansing that you dont have to pay to hang out at. | | Saturday, August 2nd, 2003 | 8:54 pm
[alk13]
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i own |ash k booking|, we are a booking + promotion + desgin company. we are based in chicago,il. however we do have clientel in other states. if you need any of the following contact me: press kits [w/ cd or casstte], flyers, postards, stationary, logo designs, business cards, buttons, band booking, promotions. we are also branching out into distrobutions. so if you have a zine or another type of publication we may be able to help you. [our website is pending.] email me at: akolodziej@ameritech.net | 3:32 pm
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| | Sunday, July 20th, 2003 | 6:38 pm
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next issue of the D
Deellllllingquent, issue 5 and 7. yes, five AND seven, i started work on issue five a long while ago then must've put it aside and just started working and put out 6...just recently i found what i had for 5 and the only good thing about it was the cover...so im kinda glad i didnt put that out. So this is a combination issue. I'll be doing some artwork and such throughout 7 then typing around it, and 5 will mainly be comprised of some really good stuff i got emailed. I know that may make it sound lame, but its better than it sounds, seriously. I got a few articles from other writers. and i mean few, i'm not even talking about a handful here, maybe a handful for a midget or something, but not enough for a zine that has a free admission policy. Its been a while since i put a issue #6 but i've been working on a book, go figure. i'll explain other reasons in the zine. I'm mainly going to push to finish issue 5 and 7 before the midwest zine fest. I'm also writing this to not be reduntanly boring as i open the zine. So i hope i didnt bore anyone TOO much with this info, oh well, atleast its off my chest/out of my mind so it wont go into the zine. | | Tuesday, July 15th, 2003 | 1:57 am
[misstyzek]
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fuck you i won't do what you tell me
Marc Emery imprisoned in Regina http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3024.htmlby Dana Larsen (13 Jul, 2003) Pot activist jailed for second time during his cross-country "Summer of Legalization" tour. Cannabis Culture publisher Marc Emery's "Summer of Legalization" tour is turning into a "Summer of Busts," as Emery was imprisoned for the second time on Saturday, July 12, in Regina, Saskatchewan, for possession of marijuana. Emery's cross-country tour was inspired by recent court decisions which have legalized possession of marijuana in Ontario. Judges in the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia have upheld the Ontario ruling as applying equally across all of Canada. In early July, Emery announced that he would be travelling across Canada, stopping at 16 cities to openly smoke pot at rallies in front of their main police stations. His "Summer of Legalization" tour was aimed at promoting pot's new legal status by forcing the issue and standing down the police. Emery had already held a rally in front of the Toronto police headquarters, and the police simply ignored the event and refused to even give comment to the media. Yet the nationwide tour did not have such an auspicious start. At his first stop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on July 9, Emery was arrested and held overnight for possession of the half-gram he had in his treasured "Canucks Bong." ( Read more... )Marc Emery's "Summer of Legalization" tour WINNIPEG - JULY 9 DAUPHIN - JULY 10 REGINA - JULY 12 HALIFAX - JULY 19 MONCTON - JULY 21 CHARLOTTETOWN - JULY 23 ST. JOHN'S NFLD - JULY 26 CALGARY - AUG 9 EDMONTON - AUG 10 SASKATOON - AUG 11 PRINCE GEORGE, BC - AUG 12 KINGSTON - AUG 25 LONDON - AUG 26 HAMILTON - AUG 27 SUDBURY - AUG 28 | | Thursday, July 10th, 2003 | 9:56 am
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http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3021.htmlhttp://www.pot-tv.netMarc Emery arrested in Winnipeg by Dana Larsen (09 Jul, 2003) Cops bust 'Prince of Pot' for possession during smoke-in at police HQ. Marc will spend the night in Remand Cannabis Culture publisher Marc Emery was arrested today, July 9, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, at about 4:20pm, during the first stop of what was planned to be a 16 city cross-country freedom tour. Before leaving for Winnipeg, Emery declared his belief that recent court decisions in Ontario, which have legalized possession of marijuana in the province, apply equally across all of Canada. "Cannabis possession is not an offense known to law anywhere in Canada," said Emery, announcing that he would begin his cross-country "Summer of Legalization Tour" with Winnipeg, Manitoba, and then go to Dauphin, Regina, and then on to other cities. Although he was surrounded by the small crowd which had gathered, Emery was immediately arrested by police as he tried to light up his "Canucks Bong," which has the Canucks logo emblazoned into the glass. Police found no marijuana on Emery's person, other than that allegedly stuffed into the bowl, about to be lit. Emery is being held overnight at the Winnipeg Remand Centre. He will be representing himself before a magistrate at 10am, July 10. To reach the Winnipeg Police Department for media inquiries, or just to tell them your opinion, call 204-986-6037. To leave messages for Marc Emery, call the BC Marijuana Party office, at 604-684-7076. | | Saturday, June 14th, 2003 | 11:56 am
[alk13]
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calling all crafty chicago kids!
okay so chicago kids need only apply [unless you are in the not too far away area]. please email craftynoise@yahoo.com if you would like to join an independant craft guild. it is called crafty noise. i am excited about it cause i needed a project and low and behold there it is. ask to be added to the list. its hot! xoxo miss ash | | Wednesday, June 4th, 2003 | 12:57 am
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http://www.kucinich.us/does anyone know where i can research the stuff on this site? i just want to check things out, read some newspaper articles, you know. thanks. | | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003 | 5:13 am
[joeshamo]
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starting work on Delingquent # Lucky Sevens
I'm starting to take art, articles (rants, paragraphs, etc) for Delingquent # 7 (lucky sevens) or looking for material to review for the mass media hysteria section and im also looking for advertisers in an adept to make the zine more self substantial. I'm looking for revolutionary and perticularlly anarchist writers or anarchist bands/books/movies/zines i can review if at all possible. some articles i'm working on: -the intro to the book im working on 'prelude of a saboteur' -thoughts in a city police state -10 reasons to abolish government (full version) -lucky superstisions for average person -the speed of society -silly summer sports, ie: full contact thumb wresteling -advertising/anticapation of the Michigan zine fest (happening august 15-17!) -something fun and anarchist related -joining the sweet anthem press distro and other publishing comments -(art) history of america in 12 frames or less -media reviews im also working on getting advertisers Current Mood:  artistic | | Monday, June 2nd, 2003 | 3:38 pm
[joeshamo]
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too fast, cant keep up, falling behind
we've be force fed a culture, a society based on speed. Get it up, clean it up, grip it, fold it, save it, save time, buy time, speed up, wash down, dress down. We're a nation on speed. Super highways, biways, side streets, speed signs, locomotives and automobiles, planes streaming overhead before, jet lag, bus lag, hours forward, hours backward. Our society is moving forward in technology and pieces of needless shit said to be time savers, cutting corners, to your door delievery, multi-task, over tasked. Evolution and the natural human mind havent been able to keep up leaving us in a state of confusion. A-D-D, 500 channels, A-D-H-D, video games, and movies living a whole life for us and completely without us. where were these symptoms, or these causes, 50 years ago? 100 years ago? Its at our workspaces, 9 to 5, rush hour, Priority mail, email, conference calls, call forwarding and faxing. It is even in our homes, the instantly built houses of the suburbs, instantly cooked microwave meals, instant messaging, alarm clocks, daily planners, calanders, the temporary solutions to every little fucked up thing, they're all pills or liquids found in the medicine cabniet. I have to wonder if anyone is steping to see that its all a system of control. We're made to think that if we dont have control of our time, we dont have control of our lives. Therefore a sense of powerlessness, or a sense of preoccupation, is instilled in a vast majority of the public. What i'm also prone to wonder is how we can move back to a non-time consuming society. is it even possible? i dont know if i have time to answer such a question, i have to get on the highway to drive to work where i drive all day. Hours pass by like minutes, and minutes turn to seconds. My work has the opposite time scale of prision. But i'm still trapped into wage slavery. Current Mood: on speed | | Friday, May 30th, 2003 | 9:23 am
[joeshamo]
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alternet headlines
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