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["Onwu Ama Dike"Krewe of Eris, from The Feasts of the Appetites of Eris,Domino Sound, 026, 2010]

No idea where this goes.... so it'll go here. Hope this hasn't been posted before.

"Onwu Ama Dike"
Krewe of Eris, from The Feasts of the Appetites of Eris,
Domino Sound, 026, 2010
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Ben Berman, in his Offbeat review of this album, describes the basics of the Krewe of Eris like this, "an annual Mardi Gras marching parade, a swarm of costumed miscreants who meet in the Bywater and meander through the Upper Ninth Ward and the French Quarter." According to Berman, on this particular run, recorded on the streets by Matt Knowles, the aggregation included over 60 people playing various horns, drums and other percussion instruments, all at varying levels of expertise, but equal in their fervent enthusiasm. And with sounds and rhythms like this, spontaneous outbreaks of dancing, if not outright acts of fornication, are bound to follow in their wake.

Matt is the proprietor of Domino Sound Record Shack, a friendly, uncompromisingly retro vinyl shop worthy of your undying support when you come to New Orleans. He released the album of selected KoE tracks on his own in-house label. When I called to ask for his permission to post "Onwu Ama Dike", he informed me that it was the only cover tune on the LP, and, as its sound and title suggest has an African origin, originally appearing on an early 1970s record by the Nigerian outfit, St. Augustine & His Rovers Dance Band. The cultural feedback loops in the Crescent City never cease to amaze me.

Thanks to Matt for the opportunity to share this recent rarity with you. Drop by the store, pick up a copy and browse da bins. There's no website (did I mention retro?); but I do think he compromised a tad and added an air conditioner for when it gets real sticky. . . .

From here: http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html

You guys post too much. S L O W   D O W N   P L Z

So my wife and hellspawn (he says in the most loving way) are off to her parents house for a week for the holidays....

...and I have the house to myself...


Anybody have any ideas? I'm already bored.

FUCK MY WORK, FUCK THEM WITH A 20" STONE DILDO.

I work overnights in a techsupport call center enviroment. It's really awesome, I enjoy it.

But the supervisors ...

I'm so mad and frustraed right now I don't even want to type it out...

So fuck you too.

What is this I don't even...

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

Best youtube comment...

Meth is a hell of a drug...

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Cautionary-Tale-of-a/125452/

That fall day in 2007 seemed an auspicious start for a college with only five professors and 10 students. But as the year wore on, the students, professors, and staff members became convinced that it was a sign of something else entirely: an elaborate facade.

Founders College, in rural South Boston, Va., was pitched as a sort of Great Books college for devotees of Ayn Rand. And while the for-profit college was never accredited, it operated with authorization from Virginia to issue degrees.

lol, take note of the last sentence.

Erisian prayer - 1280x1024

The Federal Reserve released documents Wednesday showing that its efforts to help stabilize the markets at the height of the financial crisis reached far beyond Wall Street and deep into the economy.

The disclosures reveal the extent to which corporations were forced to rely on the Fed for the money to pay suppliers and make weekly payroll. The crisis in the commercial paper market, the documents show, was more extensive and lasted longer than was previously known.

During the worst moments of the financial crisis, in the fall of 2008, even bedrock corporations like Caterpillar, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, McDonald's, Verizon and Toyota had to turn to the Fed after the market for short-term commercial notes had dried up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/business/economy/02fed.html?_r=2&hp

[Wed 03 Jan 2007 : Witnessing]

http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/

Julian Assange's old blog.

Wed 03 Jan 2007 : Witnessing

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice.

If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find.

If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whos hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.

The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

... or get trolled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY39fkmqKBM

http://www.youtube.com/user/CopperCab

[VERY NSFW]

I am just going to leave this here.

VERY NSFW

http://naughty.lindachan.net/

Seems to me that Fight Club is a good example of Discordian principles, I mean, without the religious accouterments.

I'd be willing to bet this has been already discussed heavily, but the movie came out in 99, so might it be good to revisit?

[the]

Ok so I'm new to Discordia, but I'd like a few grizzled vet's views on something I have not been able to reconcile.

Where does Discordia fit in today's internet/world?

Let me finish first before you go off in a rant...

I can understand where it fit in when the internet was fresh and usenet was basically the bulletin board application.

But today, there are many many places that exist really only to create chaos and dischord. I can name 20 (nearly) off the top of my head. Some being the biggest sites with userbases in the hundreds of thousands. SomethingAwful, Reddit, 4chan (and 100 other chans), Encyclopedia Dramatica, Fark, Digg, and those are just the english-based massive ones (2ch being an example of a massive non english one) .

It feels to me that any online discord that Goddess needs she can get, and within minutes. I understand that they all have their own frame of reference for what they are supposed to be, but what sets Discordia as a whole apart from those sites/movements above? If nothing, have we won?

I don't mean to bring up subjects that maybe have been hashed out before several times, I mean there is a lot of material to read, so I know I probably missed it if it has.   

I'm not saying that way is better (arguable in the case of reddit as it's discordian but not "fuck the world"), nor am I trying to say discordians are doing it w5ong currently. I'm just asking a newbie question..

inb4trollingtehnoob alsoinb4banhammer

I'm guessing this is on purpose.



If it's been that way on purpose for reasons unknown to me, sorry I'm just getting used to/into Discordian society.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&q=Sriracha_sauce&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1252&bih=659

Anybody tempted to put it on everything you eat?