If you don’t know what the senate just did that’s bad you’re probably dead, but did you know that they also did something good?  I’m just saying.  (Maybe I should rename my blog “I’m Just Saying.”)

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I guess I can be bothered after all.

You’re stuck with ‘em for now, I can’t be bothered.

It’s Sea Monster Week at Tetrapod Zoology.

Caenorhabditis elegans lacks eyes, yet sees, per The Other 95%.

A Neatorama trifecta, as they bring us the giant rubber energy-crisis-solving snake, the Nietzsche Family Circus, and I Met the Walrus.

Olivier Messiaen’s (wikipedia)(see also) Complete Bird Music for Piano Solo, performed by Carl-Axel Dominique.  Probably best if I don’t start, I love Messiaen so much.  I’ll just point out that Malcom Ball’s website has a page whereon you can compare the actual birdsongs to OM’s transcriptions, and another page containing midi examples to accompany his manifesto, Technique de mon Langage Musical (see the see also above).

Magick by John Zorn.  Since I’m a drooling bass clarinet fetishist I had to have this for “Sortilege,” a bass clarinet duo by which I was not disappointed.   The accompanying string quartet is also great.  The thing about Zorn is, since he wears his technical limitations as a sax guy on his sleeve, and since he helms alot of high risk endeavors that frequently flop, it’s easy to underestimate both the clarity and potency of his vision, as well as his skill as a composer.  Buy a disc from Tzadik, mp3’s from Amazon.

413 A by Zakarya. I’m enjoying this more than anything new that I’ve gotten since I got Asmodeus (and Ribot’s on this too). Buy a disc from Tzadik, mp3’s from Amazon.

Limbic Rage by the Amoebic Ensemble. How did I miss these guys? Roughly triangulatable between Clubfoot Orchestra’s Ralph stuff (less polished), Degenerate Arts Ensemble (less rock), and klezmer/gypsy/roma accordionny whatever. Posted as wma’s at Mutant Sounds, here are some mp3’s in case you don’t happen to own the Windows Media patent. You can a couple of tunes from this and a couple from their other record at their MySpace page. The main dude now puts out his stuff on Cuneiform. Some of his projects are also sampled at this WFMU Beware of the Blog post about the Providence RI scene, about halfway down.

Hooray!

Link with links to buy mp3’s, buy cd at Amazon, buy mp3’s from Amazon, BBC review.

Ivo’s website, Ivo according to Wikipedia.

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…and I saw Deep Water, the amazing and heartbreaking story of Donald Crowhurst.  Sort of like Grizzly Man but with the bears replaced by the tag-team of the ocean and the protagonist’s own brain.  Here’s NPR on the topic.

I also watched Scoop.  You can skip it unless you’re like me and you need to see everything Woody Allen does at least once.

This is funny.  Uses the C-word.

Direct YT link, this version has the C-word beeped over.

Thanks, Eric.

But first print out this Atlantic article about what the internet is doing to our brains and go read it outside under a tree or something.  Then talk about it with someone- in meatspace, using your vocal chords.

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Din’s bloggy.

Alot of the traffic that I get here is from folks googling the Codex Seraphinianus, about which I posted a little more than a year ago.  The post was to a flickr set that has since gone dark.  However, you can download the codex as a cbz via torrent here.  You’ll need ComicBookLover or Comical or some goddamn thing to read it.