Arc v' April 23, 2002

Joy is Stereolab's sound-dust album. And reading other Amazon reviews and finding many reviewers having a similar reaction - that this is, indeed, the groops finest release in years. It leaves the experimentation (which I always liked) behind in favour of some incredible orchestration (lush and beautiful) and good songwriting, and leaves me and apparently many other listeners happy and humming.

And in my case, going "wow" every time I hear it. For the first time, Stereolab's making music I want to hear NOW, instead of music that I'd want to hear if our past visions of the future had come to pass.

Anti-joy is being robbed of our deserved space age.

Joy is finding remnants of how people used to dream about the future.

my souls been all non stop around the world with a ghost, shimmering in high speed super eight film shots of joy upon joy upon joy.

I'm still in search of a good (cheap) folder synchronizer for Mac OS X, to sync my OmniOutliner documents between my iBook and Workstation. Softobe's FolderSynchronizer X looks like it would be good if I were living in a world of pure Carbon, but it really doesn't take into account OmniOutliner documents that have no type/creator information.

It's times like this that I really want an object file system, where I could have a folder on my G4 that was really just a query that found all my outliner documents so that I could sync/backup files easily.

As it stands right now, they're hard to even search for in Sherlock, since I tend to mark the "hide extension" box to get hide the tailing .ooutline, which makes a "search for filenames ending in ..." query much less practical than you think it would be.

+sigh;

I remember watching coverage of a "women in support of guns" rally on CSPAN a year or two ago. One of the women told a story of how her husband was beating her, and she ran to the gun cabinet (with her husband chasing her), got the gun, and turned it on him and was able to hold him off until the Police came. She seemed so grateful for the gun.

Would she have felt the same of her husband had gotten to the gun first and turned it on her? Or would she instead be marching in a "women against guns in the home" rally? Or, if this guy was mean enough to beat her, do you think he'd be more prone to shoot her if he got to the gun first?

Working through exhaustion, being kept alive by a hypr-bouncy playlist full of Pizzicato 5, and four versions of Tout, Tout Pour Ma Cherie.

Much of my recent writing has been going on in my instant outline. I'll try to publish the compound document stuff here soon.

Without fail... Up, every night, until at least 2AM. No real reason to be either. It just seems to take four hours to make it up the stairs. And my sunglasses have annoyed me by disappearing.

Three good reasons to be alive right now, in order of goodness:

1. Mulholland Drive.
2. The Royal Tenenbaums.
3. Amelie.