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Diary Poem 7-10-11

July 10, 2011

first I can ahead I’m at all my humid lately pay off debts or either get on one put in sold the soy and my bike milk is curdled in my cold press spinach and I would love to sweat before august and been hot seat is soaked from the shop storm being stuck in […]

Diary Poem 6-15-11

June 15, 2011

I rode on, my arts majors stashed it in storage and fell asleep lyndale was a really bumpy ride or a ride but she didn’t so meaning to bike I just randomly listened to Queen and my room is clean because into it some other podcast went to the bowling alley and ran thinking functioning […]

Diary Poem 6-14-11

June 14, 2011

butter today, watching staring and the backburner growing. few days ago. I’ve the more often now and I don’t get everything start library linux install watching myself more work to do screen but I spent way too much time grocery summer installing and reinstalling getting more sleep and start taking it into space, etc notes […]

Going Open Source: Switching to Linux

June 10, 2011

About a month ago, my computer got infected with the insanely messy Windows Vista Recovery virus.  This is partly my fault for being really lazy about virus protection and updates.  I hate anti-virus programs.  They slow the computer down.  Windows alone loads up your computer with all kinds of Microsoft crap and just on startup […]

Frying Pan Ashtray

May 12, 2011

What do you do when your new roommates are using an old frying pan as an ashtray on the porch? You reclaim the Ikea Bargain Bin speaker stand you dumped there a long time ago, and make a standing ashtray out of it. Figure 1. A dirty old frying pan from some long-gone renter’s trash. […]

Follow Apart

June 28, 2010

I haven’t posted song lyrics in a long time. Music has been coming to me at a glacial pace, leading out of the little solo project I’ve been running for way too long now. Fourtrack sketches stay on the brain, getting transfered via USB so many times I get crazy, until I write lyrics with […]

Ben Allen in Tape Op

May 23, 2010

I get inspired by a space that is limiting. The way records are made right now is that the number of options is so great that people have gotten into this lack of commitment, of security, of confidence…  Twenty years ago it was, “We have one day to mix at this studio.”  You had one […]

Second Nature

May 20, 2010

Thoreau, and his many heirs among contemporary naturalists and radical environmentalists, assume that human culture is the problem, not the solution.  So they urge us to shed our anthropocentrism and learn to live among other species as equals.  This sounds like a fine, ecological idea, until you realize that the Earth would be even worse […]