Alex Jonestown Massacre

[matthew]

This is in an underpass three streets over from my house in little suburban Pointe-Claire:

[Jesse]

Morning, everybody!

Still in NYC - spent another night in Heather's hotel room (I brought a change of clothes this time).

A highlight from yesterday:

My Mom and I took my 3-year-old niece Ella to the Whitney to check out the art. She really liked the Claes Oldenburg exhibit (who doesn't enjoy a vinyl toilet or ten-foot-tall ice bag) and she loved the Dan Graham exhibit (here little mind was blown by some of the cool optical effects Graham gets with mirrors and glass), but she was absolutely fascinated by a little video presentation on the 5th floor of two Carolee Schneemann films. "Body Collage" (from 1968 I think) features Schneemann, completely naked, covering her body in paste and rolling around in scraps of paper. That was benign. Then came Schneemann's, "Meat Joy" (1964), which was a tad more difficult to explain. My Mom and I tried to get Ella to leave as the film started, but she would have none of it. She just stared at the screen and giggled. I'll let me sister deal with the aftershocks...

An excerpt:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHAe03gu6k[/youtube]

[Bizarro]

A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site.

That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.

[Tripp]

why don't they build a mother-fucking car that can do that..?

[Bizarro]

That robot looks to be go-kart sized. A car-sized version of that dead-body-eating apparatus would have to be huge... and awesome.

[full blown possession]

Good morning!! beautiful blue skies in Indy, last day in the 90's for a week or so, high of 70 tommorow, looks like memphis is getting buckets of rain and your airport is on delay...can ya tell ive been watching the news this morning?

[Bizarro]

After the break, Kim tells us which household product can kill your entire family.

[Tripp]

yeah, last night I awoke to constant lightning and thunder..  and it's been raining non-stop..  I like it..

[Tripp]

it was like strobe lightning.

[Bizarro]

The Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial footage where his hair catches fire has finally been unearthed:

[Bizarro]

I disabled the "lock topic" feature so there shouldn't be any more accidents. We never use it anyway.

[Just Some Girl]

Morning, everybody!

Still in NYC - spent another night in Heather's hotel room (I brought a change of clothes this time).

A highlight from yesterday:

My Mom and I took my 3-year-old niece Ella to the Whitney to check out the art. She really liked the Claes Oldenburg exhibit (who doesn't enjoy a vinyl toilet or ten-foot-tall ice bag) and she loved the Dan Graham exhibit (here little mind was blown by some of the cool optical effects Graham gets with mirrors and glass), but she was absolutely fascinated by a little video presentation on the 5th floor of two Carolee Schneemann films. "Body Collage" (from 1968 I think) features Schneemann, completely naked, covering her body in paste and rolling around in scraps of paper. That was benign. Then came Schneemann's, "Meat Joy" (1964), which was a tad more difficult to explain. My Mom and I tried to get Ella to leave as the film started, but she would have none of it. She just stared at the screen and giggled. I'll let me sister deal with the aftershocks...

An excerpt:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHAe03gu6k[/youtube]

Awk-ward. Could you imagine that (either of those) performed live? Ah, 1960s/70s...theatre. (Or theater.)

There's a nice one where she pulls a long scroll out of her vag, too. (From "Interior Scroll.")

[Just Some Girl]

Are you going to the new MOMA, Jesse?

Also: Hi everybody!!!!!!!!!!


(excited nerd waves)

[Just Some Girl]

yeah, last night I awoke to constant lightning and thunder..  and it's been raining non-stop..  I like it..

We were supposed to get a decent rain last night but it just sprinkled here. Now I have to fucking water my garden. Pfft.

Mother Nature is such a bitch.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site.

That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.