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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
10:35 am	Lynch, Herzog, Jodorowsky Рано или поздно это должно было случиться, и вот: The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film co-written by Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder will be produced by David Lynch and his Absurda production company. My Son, My Son is based on the true story of a man who, based upon a play by Sophocles, kills his mother with a sword. Lynchian enough already, the film will tell the story in a flashback structure. Also following Lynch's style, it will be shot in DV rather than film. ... As odd a collaboration as Herzog and Lynch may be (and trust us, it's odd), even more unlikely comes the announcement that Lynch and Absurda will be working on a film with Alejandro Jodorowsky. Best known for his series of surreal, mind-bending Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky hasn't made a film since 1990. Jodorowsky certainly shares a lot more common ground with Lynch, but hearing of any new project by the Chilean 79-year-old is a bit incredible. Jodorowsky's film will be the metaphysical gangster movie King Shot. Already guaranteed to be NC-17 (no surprise given his earlier works), the film features Marilyn Manson as a 300-year old pope and will star Nick Nolte. (via Coilhouse) Current Mood: excited Current Music: Hellsongs: Paranoid (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
5:12 pm	ютюб дня: психоделический фарш Эстонский рекламный ролик 80х (!) годов: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWL2Ii7rxo Current Mood: working Current Music: Super Furry Animals: HEY VENUS! (Comment on this)
Monday, June 30th, 2008
8:26 am	жизнь замечательных людей Thomas Simpson (August 20, 1710 – May 14, 1761) was a British mathematician, inventor and eponym of Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. However, this rule was also found 200 years earlier from Johannes Kepler, in the so-called de:Keplersche Fassregel. Simpson was born in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. The son of a weaver, Simpson taught himself mathematics, then turned to astrology after seeing an solar eclipse. He also dabbled in divination and caused fits in a girl after 'raising a devil' from her. After this incident, he and his wife had to flee to Derby. They later moved to London. From 1743, he taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Apparently, the method that became known as Simpson's rule was well known and used earlier by Bonaventura Cavalieri (a student of Galileo) in 1639, later rediscovered by James Gregory, and was only attributed to Simpson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Simpson Details of Simpson's personal life are not plentiful. Simpson's successor as professor of mathematics at the Woolwich Academy, Charles Hutton, offered an interesting, if apologetic, hint: "It has been said that Mr. Simpson frequented low company, with whom he used to guzzle porter and gin: but it must be observed that the misconduct of his family put it out of his power to keep the company of gentlemen, as well as to procure better liquor." (From Stephen Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900) Current Mood: awake Current Music: Super Furry Animals: HEY VENUS! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
2:37 pm	RIP D&D Пока вы тут дискутируете обо всякой фигне, Гари Гигакс умер. А ведь мог бы быть властелином мира. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Smog: Cold Blooded Old Times (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, December 31st, 2007
8:58 pm	С наступающим новым, дорогие друзья! Celebrate responsibly! P.S. Нет плану Путина! Current Mood: festive (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
6:20 pm	ктулховик ФХТАГН! Current Mood: festive (Comment on this)
Friday, December 14th, 2007
4:20 pm	текущее Будем в Чикаго с 15-го декабря по 4-е января. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Револьвер: Я робот (Comment on this)
4:17 pm	просто так Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Аквариум: Аделаида (Comment on this)
Friday, December 7th, 2007
1:51 pm	срезал "Boscovich professes to use Geometry alone: but the Geometry consists chiefly in denoting the length of every straight line by two capital letters instead of a single small letter: this strange notion of Geometry has survived to our own times in the University of Cambridge." (from I. Todhunter, A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth, 1873, vol. 1; cited by S. Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900) Current Mood: working Current Music: Amesoeurs: Ruines Humaines (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
2:10 pm	тезисно, обо всем Meh. Current Mood: meh Current Music: The Unicorns: Jellybones (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
8:54 pm	кошмарный сценарий Все, я так полагаю, видели эпизод South Park, где народ из будущего валит толпами в наше время на заработки, потому что в будущем тотальная безработица, и согласен работать за сущие гроши. В результате, многие люди из настоящего оказываются без работы. Подумалось: какой ужас был бы, если бы это произошло в науке! Допустим, в далеком будущем вдруг закрываются все университеты и научные институты (ну, скажем, Землю захватывают какие-нибудь Evil Putinoids From Outer Space и упраздняют все научные учреждения за нерентабельностью), и толпы ученых, оставшихся без работы, отправляются в прошлое. Сегодняшним научным работникам конкуренции с ними, конечно же, не выдержать: чуваки ведь из будущего, и знают то, о чем мы даже не догадываемся. Благодаря этому, они с легкостью смогут получать гранты под работу, которую уже давно проделали, а в свободное время примутся плести против нас всяческие хитроумные интриги. Бррр... Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Tunng (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 26th, 2007
10:22 am	academic politics in the Renaissance "[Girolamo Cardano's] troubles began to arrive in battalion strength, moreover, just when his career reached its peak. He moved to the ancient university of Bologna in 1562, hoping to find a haven from his colleagues' plots and attacks. But in Bologna too, his colleagues criticized him in public and undermined him in private. His enemies advised his students to study with others, assigned his favorite lecture times to rival teachers, and then complained about his courses' low enrollments." (from Anthony Grafton's preface to The Book of My Life by Cardano, NYRB, 2002) И ведь ничего с тех пор не изменилось. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Nick Drake: FIVE LEAVES LEFT (Comment on this)
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
6:00 pm	маленькое недоразумение Из новостей: Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein. По-моему, гениальный заголовок. Вполне на уровне вот этого: Economics professor set to pay for manure A Harvard economics professor accused of stealing horse manure from a 98-year-old Rockport farmer received a market lesson yesterday as charges against him were dismissed but restitution was set at an amount he once deemed ''artificially inflated." Эсхатон потихоньку имманентизируется, а как же. Current Mood: amused Current Music: The Normal: Warm Leatherette (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
12:21 pm	ссылка дня "квантовая механика - лженаука. квантовые компьютеры - marketing buzzword." Читать целиком, до полной Атрофии Моска! Current Mood: blah Current Music: Gae Bolg & The Church of Fand: LA BALLADE DE L'ANKOU (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
9:29 pm	muzak Важнейшим из искусств для нас сегодня является все, что выходит на фирме Kranky. Эфирный эмбиент/нойз/дрон/все вообще Тима Хеккера, эсид-фолк Boduf Songs, аналоговая шаманская электроника Ричарда Янгса, лунная шизофрения Charalambides. Имейте в виду. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Chris Herbert: MEZZOTINT (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
11:18 pm	Юм наше всё! Вот хорошая цитата из книги Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought, Мише Вербицкому должна понравиться: The Natural History [of Religion] shocked readers by depicting Christianity as merely one religious alternative among others. Hume had compared the moral effects of monotheism and polytheism and concluded that the latter was healthier. It promoted tolerance rather than fanaticism, gallant virtues like courage and activity rather than monkish virtues like humility and passivity. Hume argued that the very similarity of pagan gods to humans is itself an advantage. Where the gods are viewed as only somewhat superior to frail mortals, they can function as role models. Imitatio Dei is easier when the object is closer to hand. Even the sins ascribed to pagan gods are worthier of imitation than those with which monotheism must cope. What are lust and adultery next to the cruelty and vengeance ascrbied to the Christian god of love? Да, Юм высок. Current Mood: peaceful Current Music: Ornette Coleman: FREE JAZZ (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 5th, 2007
10:07 pm	фраза дня характерная иннсмутская внешность (для тех, кто понимает, ага). Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: John Zorn and Masada: TET (Comment on this)
6:17 pm	высокий кемп Сижу вот и слушаю альбом Blood Mountain группы Mastodon. Это ж высокий кемп! Представьте себе Фрэмптона, играющего дэт-метал. А гитара пропущена через вокодер, разумеется. Вот дорогой ded_mitya как-то интересовался, почему эстетствующая публика так носится с этим Мастодоном. Вот поэтому и носится! Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Mastodon: BLOOD MOUNTAIN (2 Comments |Comment on this)
2:44 pm	отрезать половину жопы Я последний раз читал "Кандида" лет десять тому назад, а тут взялся перечитывать, и до меня дошло, что известное про "отрезать половину жопы" это как раз оттуда: "I would be glad to know which is worst, to be ravished a hundred times by Negro pirates, to have one buttock cut off, to run the gauntlet among the Bulgarians, to be whipped and hanged at an auto-da-fe, to be dissected, to be chained to an oar in a galley; and, in short, to experience all the miseries through which every one of us hath passed, or to remain here doing nothing?" "This," said Candide, "is a grand question." То же по-русски: -- Хотела бы я знать, что хуже: быть похищенной и сто раз изнасилованной неграми-пиратами, лишиться половины зада, пройти сквозь строй у болгар, быть высеченным и повешенным во время аутодафе, быть разрезанным, грести на галерах -- словом, испытать те несчастья, через которые все мы прошли, или прозябать здесь, ничего не делая? -- Это большой вопрос, -- сказал Кандид. Посему утвеждение "человек, хотя бы лишь раз услышавший в детстве призыв "отрезать половину жопы", уже никогда не станет европейцем" следует считать опровергнутым. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Аквариум: Дикий мед (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 27th, 2006
3:02 pm	избранные места из апокалиптической антологии 1621: John Donne, "An Anatomie of the World" And now the Springs and Sommers which we see, Like sonnes of women after fifty bee. And new Philosophy cals all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sunne is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it. And freely men confesse that this world's spent, When in the Planets, and the Firmament They seeke so many new; they see that this Is crumbled out againe to his Atomis. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All iust supply, and all Relation: Prince, Subiect, Father, Sonne, are things forgot, [F]or euery man alone thinkes he hath got To be a Phoenix, and that then can be None of that kinde, of which he is, but he. 1919: William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. 1962: Mose Allison, "Stop This World" Stop this world Let me off There's just too many pigs in the same trough There's too many buzzards sitting on the fence Stop this world It's not making sense Stop this show Hold the phone Better days this girl has known Better days so long ago Hold the phone Won't you stop the show . . . Won't you stop this game Deal me out I know too well what it's all about I know too well that it had to be Stop this game well it's ruining me Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Mose Allison: THE BEST OF MOSE ALLISON (4 Comments |Comment on this)