Why I take PCH.

A neighbor expressing his disgust for the notorious I-405. 

Aadam the Taper

Electrical Audio :: View topic - Tape Nerd: Adam:

A long thread about Aadam Jacobs, the infamous skirt wearing taper. Steve Albini throws in his two cents and reveals himself to be a total asshole.

The opening post...

Location: Chicago
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:32 pm    Post subject: Tape Nerd: Adam
I have not seen him in a long time, but he used to be at every show I went to. My question is, did Adam ask the bands he recorded if it was okay with them before he did it?

I always found him to be a distraction from the experience, and never really liked the way he would shh people who were actually there in the moment.

Maybe his 'documentation of the scene' is important, but to me it seems like premature nostalgia, and pretty damn bloodless besides. Then again, I never did anything worth taping."

David Byrne asks, "What if there is no self?"

David Byrne Journal: 1.25.06: Selfless:

"What if there is no self? No such thing as being the unique personalities we think we are? What if, and this is very convoluted, there are even parts of our brains that have evolved to convince us that each of us is unique — as a cover up or mask for the awful truth? The truth that parts of our brains deceive other parts of our brains. And that this trickery evolved because it’s useful.


It’s not as farfetched as it sounds. If you accept the idea that the propensity for religion might have evolved in our brains and you also accept that it is possible that the self-deception of religion and believing in unlikelihoods might give some kind of evolutionary advantage, then you can transfer this over to our concept of our personalities and ourselves. (This assumes that you view literal interpretations of religious orthodoxy as a form of self-delusion and fantasy."

...and then there was the Word!

The very first "aarchitect" post. Actually, not the first since I also tried doing this on Bloglines and then again on Livejournal. I have no clue as to the real differences between these blog services, so I suppose I'm testing them all out. The blog waters are particularly frigid so I'm only dipping a toe for now. I'll check back later.