| | I'm moving to Toronto in about a month. Life in Victoria is too comfortable and sedentary. I've noticed for myself that being in a panic is a good way to nurture creativity, and summed up by a Captain Beefheart quote: "a little paranoia is a good propeller." Victoria is nice for digging in and getting stationary, looking at the same stuff every day, but that's all instant death for me. Nothing happens. Blah, I can't wait to leave. BLAAH | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| "With the collaboration of composer Dave Soldier, Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted Painting project was extended into the realm of music. A poll, written by Dave Soldier, was conducted on Dia's web site in Spring 1996. Approximately 500 visitor's took the survey. Dave Solder and Nina Mankin used the survey results to write music and lyrics for the Most Wanted and Most Unwanted songs."
The Most Unwanted Song is pretty hilarious. The Most Wanted song is actually almost just as bad.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm kind of irked that someone else with my name is already an established author. Read:
"The Seven Towers: Book One
by Nicholas Godfrey, Feb 3, 2008
Imagine you held the world's fate in your hands.Keep imagining that only add that you're in the middle of a war and people are trying to kill you. That is what is happening to 13 year old Will Laiman. Can Will win this fight, or will all be handed over to the Dark Lord?"
The suggestion to start imagining the things he is in the process of describing with words is really an invitation to abstract thinking, something I'm not familiar with. As someone who simply runs his eyes along meaningless symbols which I later find out are members of 'the latin alphabet', his suggestion is daunting. I also never dream and when I close my eyes all I see are the backs of my eyelids. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| Two cool things:
1st) Check it out, (under that other handle) I got a front page interview at this site:
http://isgreaterthan.net/
or more specifically:
http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/02/06/origins-of-our-communication-mr-quickly-amazon-epicurean/
2nd) I'm putting music online now, just acoustic demo things. I've been doing a lot of songwriting/recording since October, and finally I'm going to start debuting songs. I thought about using a pseudonym but I'll just go by my normal name. The first song I've uploaded is a cover I felt like doing today because I like the chorus, this obscure song from an obscure psych-comp. I used to listen to it a lot when I lived in Vancouver, so why not. I de-60s-Eastern-kitschified it, pulled out all the period tabla/sitar stuff. I've looked the song up on Google the past 4 or 5 years but have learned nothing about who wrote it or where it came from. I think it might be something Curt Boettcher of Millenium did pre-Millenium. BUT I will be putting up original stuff within the next few days and weeks. I'm too nervous to inaugurate my online music with an original song, and this song let me workout my growing harmony-muscles. So Myspace me.
http://www.myspace.com/nicholasgodfrey1 | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| My friend Chris's aunt got him this nice mug. I thought it was very thoughtful, and that she is clearly attuned to his interests which include salmon and reproduction. Occasionally both at the same time which this mug tastefully depicts.
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|  - "Baron, I can find no greater substance than this new 'toilet paper' the scientists are celebrating."
 - "I am afraid I am still of the old methods, Marquis."
- "I respect your staunch conservatism, Baron. Upstanding men like you are invaluable reservoirs of our oldest, most venerated customs. Perhaps you are correct in your refusal."
- "Yes, a fresh handful of oysters and then a quick spritz of lye from a perfume bottle shaped like a duck, this has always admirably served my purposes."
- " Baron I --- I am of the impression that the method you describe has never been used by anyone."
- "It's my method, and it's old."
- "Your nimble way with an argument has impressed me once more. Would you like a ducat?"
- "I already have one."
- "Yet, if I give you another, you will have two."
- "What a marvelous law of nature! Praise France!" | | comments: 11 comments or Leave a comment |
| Not that I believe it's a great contribution, I'm just suprised that Wikipedians haven't yet altered Thursday night's contribution. Usually they alter these things immediately and I get messages sent to my anonymous I.P address scolding me. This time I seem to have stumbled upon a topic without zealots. You can corroborate my contributions with this image to see how long my edit lasts for, and once things return to normal you may realise the extent to which I edited it, aside from the obvious portions.
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nicholas_g's journal
- "You understand that with defeat upon us, the Russians advancing --- in short, I do not want to be captured alive." 
- "I fully understand, mein Herr. I have the cyanide capsules at hand."
- "What's your superpower?"
- "I'm being interviewed tomorrow. I need an adage, an aphorism, a witty pithy phrase that will be associated with my name long after I die, something that will be kept in anthologies of famous quotes. And I want both of you to come up with one for me."
- "Ok."
- "Sure."
- "What holds up the debut of your theatre troupe?"
- "A suitable name, your grace."
