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just sayin

babiejenks — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:21:17 GMT

http://xkcd.com/137/

haiku +2

babiejenks — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:21:00 GMT

neither side of the mirror really reflects you. one's shiny; one's not. you pick.

compass

babiejenks — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:33:45 GMT

the perfect distance between two points is measured in the times between thoughts and revelations memories and sensations impossibility and imagination

shutter speed

babiejenks — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:33:40 GMT

why is it you always want something for you each time you say it's for the common good? i took your present to the common good will and got a tax deduction and a broken camera that took pictures of nothing as long as the eye could see. one morning i woke up to discover i wasn't blind and took it back to the thrift store so someone else could complete a secondhand life with negatives.

electric Z

babiejenks — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:43:45 GMT

i've seen the madness that you see a neverending electric sea that swallows belief and heresy and once you've seen it there's no rest and every new tide is a test to see if you can best futility our curse is knowing what we know and there's no way to let it go there's no faith that can overthrow this certainty sometimes the words are a distant shore sometimes the brig. sometimes the oars. someimes you can't even use them anymore cuz each one feels contradictory i see the madness that you see we're all drowing in the all-seeing sea and the life-raft of knowledge and truth won't be the difference between defeat or victory.

how you say... vakashun?

babiejenks — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:18:13 GMT

i've heard of this thing that people do, it's called "vacation" ..... i really rarely ever do any "vacation"... but i figure a little might be ok, right? just to... you know... celebrate... cuz it's a special occasion and all..... it's not like.... a habitual thing... or anything... i've been working like 90 hour weeks for the past four months on this litte music festival out in the forest....so now that that's over.... i'm definitely down for something to..uh...take the edge off. unfortunately, there's no vacation in l.a. city's dry. only work 'round here. that's why i think i have to leave. here's what i'm looking for: a hut. on a beach. in hawaii. sorta close to a cafe or something where there's wifi, but otherwise, as far removed from lots of people as possible. if anyone has any advice on where one might get a hookup for such a hut on the beach let this workaholic know. she needs it. bad. (and thanks!!)

run al, run

babiejenks — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:20:33 GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/22/wgore22.xml

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 !!!

babiejenks — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:38:53 GMT

BLOOM! (picture by aaron)

the defintion of cool

babiejenks — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:44:35 GMT

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/061306.html (click Play)

LIB + Worldchanging = <3

babiejenks — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:43:21 GMT

for anyone who's not yet familiar with worldchanging.com, it's an online hub that aims to connect innovative, forward-thinking peolpe who are doing things now to create profound, positive change for a better future. we've thought they were great all along, and it turns out they dig us too! worldchanging just published a great peice about LIB here: http://www.worldchanging.com/local/losangeles/archives/006430.html Check it out, and if you feel like leaving a comment on the article on the worldchanging site that'd be awesome.

tick

babiejenks — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:15:50 GMT

i sweat and bleed for each tick tock each tick that talks of patterns saying, say what you gotta say because saying it has a sway on what happens there's no such thing as seeing the pattern wrong there's only misinfirmation and all this while that the train has been moving along it's been closing on a destination it's all or nothing that's the next stop on this ride and you either stay on or get off but either way you go the ending is no more a choice than the inevitable tick tock of the clock

"Freakshow"

babiejenks — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:17:39 GMT

life in the circus ain't easy but the folks on the outside don't know the tent goes up and the tent comes down and all that they see is the show and the ladies on the horses look so pretty and the lions are lookin real mad and some of the clowns are happy and some of the clowns are sad but underneath there's another expression that the makeup isn't making life under the big top it's about freedom it's about faking there's an art to the laughter there's a science and there's a lot of love and compliance welcoem to the freakshow here we go... we live to hear the slack-jawed gasping we live under a halo of held breath and when the children raise up a giant shield of laughter, it's like they're fending off death and we can make somethig bigger then anyone of us alone and then the clowns will take off their makeup and the people will go home but life on the outside ain't easy no sequins, no elephants, no parading around yeah, the tent goes up and the tent comes down and they're stuck in this fucking town you need a lot of love and compliance welcome to the freakshow here we go - by ani difranco (thanks naomi for sending me this)

you know who are you are....

babiejenks — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:56:29 GMT

just got back home to l.a. last night, and i keep having some ani difranco lyric playing in my thoughts: strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. but, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. ....i missed you guys.

dj c

babiejenks — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:36:10 GMT

i never do shit like this but one of my old friends from boston is such a phenomenal dj/producer, i think everyone's day would be far better for having listened to his shit..... http://myspace.com/djc (the last traick --billy jungle-- is my favorite) enjoy!

this is no one

babiejenks — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:35:23 GMT

you'll know her when you see her: she's got "this is not me" tatooed on her skin but you won't find her where you're looking. where no one recognizes their own reflection how do you tell yourself apart from everyone else? resemblance is only skin deep so dip your skin in the ink to remind yourself: "this is not you" but don't stop looking-- melt all the chameleons into wax and set the wicks on fire to learn the secrets of their smoke, break all the prisms to peices to unlock the colors they're hiding between the colors, stare in the hawks' eyes gaze in the sun's rays squint as the needle hums --and you will never learn: "this is no one."

contra diction

babiejenks — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:01:32 GMT

pride in one hand, a grudge in the other roars like the sea with applause. but compassion is silent as light and you can't hear it if you close your eyes, asking.... if karma extracts a price for the wrongs you commit agaisnt yourself then how could forgiveness for disrespect not be self destruction? even the failings of foes will make you tired of failure to find an answer.

one way

babiejenks — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:07:51 GMT

so what's the point of it all, you say? to see it coming and get out the way? or is the point to stand in its way even if you see it coming from a mile away let it run you over where you stay if it's all an experience, anyway then this is the price the addicts pay for the experience of another day one way you pat yourself on the back: you just outwitted fate's attack! one way biology beats you to the punch. ain't no such thing as a free lunch it's playing a big ol joke on you, it's having its cake and eating it too. while you think you're not subject to its rule it's counting on you to play the fool. so what's the point of it all, you say... just shell out what you pay to play let the cards fall where they may let the peices stay where they lay don't touch a thing, just nod okay or....get off the train and walk away. freedom enslaves you either way. there's no point, as far as i can say.

only in boston

babiejenks — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:56:37 GMT

the part where the massart graduate suspects refuse to answer any question that are not about 70's hairstyles, is what makes this the kind of story that would only happen in boston. :) http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/index.html

that's my whitney!!

babiejenks — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:46:32 GMT

singing delilah... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RTqAKoq_ko&eurl= (new year's eve 2 new yearses ago)

best holiday card ever....

babiejenks — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:36:27 GMT

a coupla fools i know up in s.f. made these INSANE spoofs of r. kelly's "trapped in the closet" zach slow and jelly donut present....... "trapped in the clauset" Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-W7g8n7aAc Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48FCFfHqN0c Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vhHJh375cI sooo f00kin brilliant....watch all three!

no wonder our perception of beauty is distorted

babiejenks — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:35:09 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U

"and don’t tell me not to reference my songs within my songs "

babiejenks — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:20:18 GMT

this one time, when my east and west coasts collided: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewqkF_lzqRQ

what's good?

babiejenks — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:05:38 GMT

this weekend i went to the launch party for GOOD magzine. http://www.goodmagazine.com/ GOOD aims to speak to / for a young, socially conscious, progressive generation about the things that actually matter. giving a damn about the the world is GOOD. hence the name. in the first issue's introduction, founder ben goldhirsh explains: "We see a growing number of people tied together not by age, career, background, or circumstance, but by a shared interest. This revolves around a passion for potential mixed with fierce pragmatism and creative engagement. We sum all this up as the sensibility of giving a damn. But to shorten it, let's call it GOOD. We're here to push this movement and cover its realization." the premiere issue features articles on Los Angeles' own Lovecraft Biofuels, the biodiesel engine conversion station in silvelake, Dave Eggers's pirate supply store / teen writing tutoring center in San Francisco, a guide to knowing your senators, D.I.Y venture capitalists, a profile on Wickipedia's creator, and a peice called "Family 2.0" to just give a brief sampling of what's inside. goldhirsh says, "While so much of today's media is taking up our space, dumbing us down, and impeding our productivity, GOOD exists to add value." it's quite a lofty goal for a new magazine, but from the looks of it, one tangibly pursued. i'm very curious to hear what other people think of this publication check it out at: http://www.goodmagazine.com/ and let me know your take on what's GOOD. ** the magazine's cover doubled as a "do it yourself personal manifesto," letting you fill in the blank with a verb of your choosing. the picture included here is the verb i chose. **

talent hunting in the counter culture

babiejenks — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:34:06 GMT

Talent hunting in the counterculture Pyromaniacs on the payroll? Sure. Counterculture events like this week's Burning Man attract exactly the kind of creative people you want working for you. Business 2.0 Magazine By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor August 31 2006: 4:48 PM EDT (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- If you want to make an appointment to see Larry Page and Sergey Brin this week, you'll have a harder time than usual doing so. The Google founders are making their annual pilgrimage to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the Burning Man festival. Google's known for its exacting hiring requirements, which include a degree from a top-notch university and a stratospheric GPA. But Page and Brin also have a preference for hiring Burning Man attendees - a practice that other talent-seekers would be wise to imitate. Page and Brin are just two of the approximately 30,000 Burning Man devotees - burners, as they're known - who gather every year to help build and enjoy the art-filled collective on an ancient, dried-out lake bed known as Black Rock City (which, for the week it exists, is the third most populous burg in the state). So many tech types attend the event, it's a running joke in Silicon Valley that you can't get any software code written or raise venture capital funding the week before Labor Day. The Google guys have been going for almost as many years as they've been running Google. When this correspondent hung out with them in the desert in 2000, they were body-painted blue and green, respectively. After the pair hired Eric Schmidt as CEO in 2001, Brin explained their choice thus: "He was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man." Fire in the belly To the untrained eye, Black Rock City may look like it's filled with a bunch of dusty, pyromaniac proto-hippies partying in the desert. And it is, sort of. But it's also a fountain of the most incredible out-of-the-box thinking and engineering. Participants spend thousands of dollars of their own cash to build their temporary community, and it encompasses both the sublime and the ridiculous. According to the Burning Man organization, this year's 240 constructs include "flaming blocks of ice, a steam-engine powered insect carousel, a deconstructed cathedral, a robotic spider, a field of sunflower robots, a mobile 3-story Victorian house, a homicidal hammock, a rubber chicken-launching trebuchet, a gigantic burning bra, and much, much more!" Of course, none of this art would be very useful to your business. But the brains that create it are worth their weight in platinum. If you're in an industry that demands constant innovation, if you despair of the inside-the-box thinking displayed by your buttoned-down employees, then you could do a lot worse than follow Page and Brin's rule: Look for signs of a counterculture before you hire. Counting on the counterculture If you rolled your eyes at that suggestion, you would do well to read up on recent business history. After all, the PC and Internet gold rushes did not spring from staid old East Coast technology behemoths like IBM. As Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand wrote in his essay "We Owe It All to the Hippies," "The counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal-computer revolution." More dispassionate observers concur. The New York Times' John Markoff, one of the most respected technology journalists in the world, wrote a seminal tome last year called What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. The hothouse of the San Francisco Peninsula, which gave us the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead, also gave us the integrated circuit and the Internet router. The two groups of achievements are more connected than most of us care to remember. Consider, for example, that we would not have the iPod or the Macintosh without a certain acid-dropping, long-haired college dropout named Steve Jobs. So should you go to Black Rock City with an eye to hiring the Steve Jobs of tomorrow? Of course not; burners consider talking shop to be terribly gauche. Go instead to marvel at what creative people can do with the tabula rasa of an ancient lake bed. Go to discover how successfully community is fostered in a harsh environment that is trying its best to kill you. Go to participate (a key Burning Man tenet is "no spectators"). And if you happen to find yourself sailing across the desert in a vast pirate ship on wheels, sipping margaritas with a venture capitalist, an engineer, and two suspiciously familiar-looking guys painted blue and green - well, consider yourself lucky you didn't have to make an appointment. http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/31/technology/BurningManTalent_futureboy.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2006083116

never never land

babiejenks — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:01:42 GMT

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