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"i thank Allah that i, the humble tree before you, have not been drawn with such intent. and not because i fear that if i'd been thus depicted all the dogs in Istanbul would assume i was a real tree and thus piss on me: i don't want to be a tree, i want to be its meaning"
orhan pamuk

 

leaving berlin...
playing in a castle
best reverb ever
alessandra's broken heart tempered by nan golden
talking the concierge out of making me pay my hotel phone bill
meeting matylda f. in person, thank you for the book!
11 hour train to graz
vibraphone with a pick up and a built in incense holder
first show in finland
hei
"no, no, no i thought the audience was really nice. thank you. we just played every song we knew that's all."
"you were dying inside i could tell."
"no i had a good show."
"no i could tell you were dying."
first show in sweden
silver stretch pants and super flabby cops having gross flabby super cop sex in the squad car
scary globe hair maintained despite the mud and rain
sitting on a rock writing in your journal with your strawberry umbrella speared in the ground
chess club girl's full on self possessed fashion fuck ya'll i'm not from the east village
listening to you tell your sister not to have a 4 way with 3 dudes in your tent
lou barlow says hi back
blueberry soup
swatting mosquitoes while trying to play
blowing up 2 amps, breaking 1 guitar string and 3 drum heads and having the sound guys bro down with rock destruction
coming back to berlin...

 

http://arcadeheroes.com/2007/07/20/americas-army-coming-to-arcades/

 

i made THIS BARR "music video" a really long time ago. I just got the link. Look at it.

 

 

Did you watch the youtube/cnn democrat presidential question video thingy???

the Republican one is next.

You know what would be so funny????

Xiu Xiu fans should make videos wearing Xiu Xiu shirts asking the Republican candidates a question. If you make it on TV you win a special prize. If you don't make it on tv and if they are good, maybe i'll post them on the blog. The deadline is Sept. 16.

What would you ask a republican candidate while wearing a xiu xiu shirt?

 

i sleep with my bed. or does my bed sleep with me? or do we sleep together?

BORING

on the polaroid project, for the polaroid book, Greg from Deerhoof:

In some way these pics were the XX we knew and loved - fearless, creative, depressed, funny, self-deprecating, overly honest. But looking them over each time some more cropped up on the internet, they really didn't help me feel like I knew the band better, I think I'm more confused now than before actually. The more pics I saw, the less I understood about XX. It's not like a tour diary or a "reality" video, since they don't add up to anything, no story, no payoff. Also it's impossible to tell which are posed and which are "real". Of course that's the whole jist of contemporary self-promotion. But some of these pics were so mundane or repellant that I had to wonder if they were really promotion at all. More like a way of twisting the mainstream back on itself, turning the crass and ugly into art, like XX's lyrics, an attempt at grappling with the dark side, "owning your own shadow".

-Greg

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is their racism rooted in scientific motives? or is it political/economical? do they do what they do b/c are just bored and pathetic and don't have anything better to do? it can't be that they actually believe that they are better, so they are just fooling themselves on archaic idealogies, and just do it for the hell of doing it? that's so post-modern, the whole basis is just empty and nihil, but it's still there. but the same argument can be used against being a hippie too. but racists are shit-faces, and hippies are just gross and disgusting.

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Articles of Impeachment

of

President George W. Bush

and

Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.

 

He knaben! wo ist mein Keks?

 

look at this

what's worse?

white person not wanting asian supermarket.
white japanophile pretentious art student with stupid hair sitting next to you in udon shop

?

 

'We Want the Cathedral Here, not Minarets'

 

Los Angeles Times
Sara Lin
April 12, 2007

An hour before Sunday services at a Lutheran church in Chino Hills, the Rev. Andy Wu joined his congregants in front of plates piled high with boiled Napa cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, stir fried tofu and rice.

Since Wu became an associate pastor in 2002, attendance at lunch and his worship services in Mandarin Chinese have doubled. So has Chino Hills' Asian population, which now makes up about 40% of city residents.

"Five years ago, if I walked into a Vons market and saw an Asian face, I would get very excited," Wu said. "Now, every day we see Asian faces."

But the demographic shift has proved unsettling for some in this upscale San Bernardino County town, and that tension surfaced when a major Asian grocery chain, 99 Ranch Market, announced plans for a Chino Hills store.

The Chino Hills City Council heard an outcry from a small group of residents, including one who wrote that he didn't want to see "little Chinatowns all over the Hills" filled with Asian signs he can't read.

The skirmish mirrors clashes in the San Gabriel Valley in the 1980s when Asian immigrants moved into the traditionally white and Latino suburbs. When a wave of Asian businesses followed, city officials in Monterey Park tried unsuccessfully to pass English- only ordinances, arguing that Chinese-language business signs would confuse firefighters and emergency workers.

Larry Blugrind of Chino Hills told the City Council in a letter that the store would "result in a run-down center that is the equivalent of a Chinese Pic 'N' Save less than a mile from the kind of high-quality shops our city has been trying to attract to this area."

Reached by telephone, Blugrind explained that he enjoyed having a diverse community -- his daughter-in-law is Japanese.

"My worry is that 99 Ranch could be a steppingstone for it to become all Asian," he said. "I don't want another Hacienda Heights."

In Chino Hills, the City Council has no say in whether Tawa Supermarkets Inc. can open a 99 Ranch Market. The store is moving into a space formerly occupied by a Ralphs supermarket. It's a simple case of one grocery store taking over for another, said Mayor Gwenn Norton-Perry.

"It's an approved use, and we as a city have no purview over this. That's the bottom line," Norton-Perry said.

But that hasn't stopped angry residents from sounding off to the City Council.

The market's owners downplayed the controversy.

"We don't want to focus on that part," said Jennifer Tsao, a spokeswoman for Tawa, which operates 22 stores throughout California. Inside the store, Tsao said customers could expect clean aisles, signs in English and Chinese, as well as bilingual employees.

The 99 Ranch Market in Chino Hills may have struck a chord with residents because it "makes the Asian American community very visible and displaces businesses that people were comfortable with, in this case a Ralphs," said Linda Vo, an Asian American studies professor at UC Irvine.

From 2000 to 2005, the city of 81,000 saw its Asian population jump from 22% to 39%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent survey. Of those, 10,316 were Filipino and 7,752 were Chinese. Asian Indians, Koreans, Vietnamese and Japanese constitute most of the remaining Asian Americans.

The Asian influx has already had an effect on some public services: The Chino Hills library stocks books written in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Similarly, in Orange County, nearly one-third of Irvine residents are Asian Americans. But Irvine's transition was a slower one, with many immigrants moving into newly built neighborhoods, Vo said. There was some mild resentment from the community about the changing demographics but nothing overt, she said.

At the Mediterranean-style plaza in Chino Hills where workers are readying the 99 Ranch Market for a summer opening, a handful of the plaza's 20 shops already seem to reflect the city's changing face.

There's a karate studio, a Chinese buffet and Thai restaurants.

Every Tuesday, restaurant owner Chad Chantaracharat invites Thai monks wearing saffron robes to lunch at his Thai Original BBQ Restaurant. The monks live at a Buddhist temple a few miles away.

Chantaracharat said he had mixed feelings about the new market. The store could attract more business to his restaurant, but he wasn't sure if the market planned to have a small cafe inside serving cheaper meals.

He sympathized with some residents' concerns, saying he has noticed that 99 Ranch Markets in some areas are not that well kept, but said that once people saw the spread of Asian vegetables and fresh seafood -- often still swimming in tanks until a customer orders it killed -- they'd like the market.

"I think people are going to dig it," he said. "It's something new, and everyone here likes to be trendy."

At Loving Savior of the Hills Lutheran Church, Chinese congregants mostly welcomed the market, saying its unconventional wares would be a boon to the community. The market could also become a much-needed hub for older Asians to meet friends, chat and sip tea.

"I think the market is absolutely a good thing. We've been waiting a long time for this," said Cindy Fu, 40, who recently moved from Chino Hills to Chino. "Every culture has businesses; some are super clean, and some are not. But you can't use just one to judge an entire culture. I think this could be a good opportunity for us to earn a good reputation."

Still, others were afraid that the market could give well-heeled residents of this semirural community at the westernmost edge of San Bernardino County the wrong impression about Asians.

"We've tried very hard to build up ourselves and build up our image to Caucasian people here. I hope 99 Ranch will hold up to that high standard," said Wu.

The new grocery store wasn't the first controversy to arise from the changing faces in Chino Hills neighborhoods.

Three years ago, Hindu leaders proposed a grand temple on former farmland, in part to serve the 500 Indian families there.

But the plans drew protests from some residents who contended the project would turn Chino Hills into a "Third World city" and a haven for terrorists.

After a heated public hearing, the temple's supporters won approval to build, but it ultimately did not win permission to construct the temple's spires that exceeded the city's 43-foot height limit.

City leaders say the community isn't in danger of losing its rural feel: The Sheriff's Department station is surrounded by white post fencing and horse pastures. Forty percent of Chino Hills' 46 square miles is dedicated to open space, Norton-Perry said.

The 99 Ranch Market, as any other grocer, will undergo regular inspections by the county Health Department.

As for the sign, "We can tell them we prefer signs to be in English only, but we can't require it," Norton-Perry said.

Still, some say the spat is much ado about nothing.

"Last I remember, the words '99 Ranch' were in English," said Don Nakanishi, director of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center. "You have El Pollo Loco," he said, referring to the popular Mexican restaurant chain. "Nobody's telling them to translate that."

 

today i went to meet ches at mr. pizza to go to that mike mills blond redhead video thing at family on fairfax. none of the videos worked. or, the videos worked, but there was no sound in any of the headphones (miranda july does fancy moves). but no one cared b/c no one cares about art at art reception/events/openings/ etc... they just care about mingling socializing and sex. ches and i compared and contrasted the art-market w/ the music-market. in music, your market is made up of mass culture as a whole. it is appreciated and consumed by everybody. in the art-market, it is a selected few rich people, but it is still geared towards mass appreciation. imagine if kill rock stars job was to sell an edition of 10 xiu xiu cd's to some rich dudes for ten grand a piece. on the way there i was driving down melrose and i saw zack de la rocha eating mexican food on the outside tables of some restaraunt. i should have asked him to autograph a copy of das kapital that i 'borrowed' from borders.

 

I some how stumbled upon someone's flickr account that is all military portraits of soldiers who died in Iraq (funnily, I found this trying to look for photographs taken the other week where I did projections in Brooklyn by searching for: "high places mary" - this is a whole other blog topic - unexpected findings in online searches). Someone had commented: "May your country never forget your brave service and heroic sacrifice. With deepest sympathy and gratitude." I clicked on the next photo and saw that the same person made the same comment. I clicked on the next and saw the same thing. How much meaning is actually in something that you copy and paste hundreds of times? Does it still mean what you wrote, or is it just a mundane aching repitition of finger movements?

Maybe the only thing that doesn't lose its meaning after you copy and paste it 1,000 times is: "i'm bored"

conceptual art project #1: copy and past "i'm bored" forever. wait, did john baldessari do something like this already?

 

i dont really look at any xiu xiu message boards or myspace or anything like that, maybe only for a second every couple of months but
my God you are so nice to us
thank you
it makes me feel so proud to know that feeling and intense people like you take a minute to say hi in such openhearted ways
you are THE best of the best

 

will you be there? we will

Jul 25 2007
Sotto Le Festival Ferrara , italy
Jul 26 2007
Postgarage graz , austria
Jul 27 2007
Tavastia helsinki , finland
Jul 28 2007
Emmaboda Festival emmaboda , sweden (duh)

 

thank you so much to everyone who donated to the aids walk
since its inception is has raised 330 million dollars
best parts
-when the dude from phantom of the opera sang in simpson's like stentorian tones
leather skinned homeless people who live in the park started pointing and laughing
-the woman from nip tuck who plays "kimber henry" told the mayor at least 3 times that he was hot and then she giggles after he kissed her
-almost getting ejected from the walk for throwing my glasses case at a crazy right wing nut "Christian" fundamentalist who was telling people they were going to hell. the dude said Jesus would "arrest me for assault." but wait, then He would forgive me and i wouldn't do any time.
-half a mile later another Christian dude had a huge sign that said "Jesus Loves You" and was cheering people on
-my ass muscles hurt
-an enormous barn swallow flew right in front of me as i crossed the finish line
-the gent who cuts my hair at "louis's" on the castro and says "what are we going to do today little man?" was there reminding me of why gay queenly men over 55 rule

 

I documented my entire projection performance in three youtube videos. check them out HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.................

 

check out the
asian paradise flycatcher (juvenile plumage)
you will really like it i hope

 

a. has the sex gotten any better?

b.i dunno. it's like--- out of the blue, he will tackle me, pin me down and just give it to me. but i happens very fast and its over real quick. and he won't go down or do anything else.

a. well that sounds better than before.

b. last night, i think he broke my rib. it hurts to move my arm.

a. jesus, the glass is always half empty with you lynn.

(i would say half full but that is just what i like)

 

"everything there is chock full of tastelessness, but in the greatest dimensions. the swindle of berlin (oakland?los angeles?) distinguishes itself from all other swindles through its breathtaking shamelessness.
people shove, envy, hate, slander and grind each other down."
brecht described by arnolt bronnen
"his mouth was extremely delicate and seemed to be dreaming the dreams that eyes dream."

 

i saw a haiku on the deerhunter blog.
i saw deerhunter last night.
back-stage at the bowery it was a mess.
back-stage at the bowery at the xiu xiu shows it is clean in a meditation state. eva hovers in the middle of the room buddha style. jamie sits with his eyes closed and does not talk for 2.4 hours. marisa talks quietly with caralee paying keen attention to levitating eva and sleeping jamie. slim sits contently and wonders why mary is back there. i poke my head in, grab an apple from the pristine fruit bowl and rush back to the merch table where i push an XL on someone who really fits into a S. I can make any sale. soon i'll be pushing fake art for millions in south america. fake warhol. fake you out. it's not about not being real, it's about the sale. i can make the sale. i can sell you something that does not exist. money, capitalism, it's all based on faith and the invisible. what is paper? what is paper worth? work-time? unfullfillment? gold? post-gold? close your eyes baby and step on the train called desire. i'm writing like a marxist but its unintentional. marxism is old. it wants the worker to take control. i don't even believe in work, so i can't be that. i believe in the right to boredom (just so you can negate it and blow up an old form of existing order and power).

ches sits staring at a can of sparks before he smashes it on his head and then goes and sees miya and denise.

will i get in trouble if i write something untrue? if i write ches smashed a can of sparks on his head, because he didn't do that? if i write capitalism is believing in something invisible? what if that's not true either?

 

LOVE
BACKWARDS
BUNNY
SILHOUETTE

 

 

you're girl-friend made-her new-zine

 

AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO BROTHERS AND SISTERS 2007
xiu xiu is doing the (see above turtle dove)
on july 15 this sunday
please would like to help! yes yes yes ye syesysye syes!
please send donations to

http://www.aidswalk.net/sanfran/ to donate online
-or
AIDS Walk San FranciscoP.O. Box 193920San Francisco, CA 94119-3920
or-
to the KORK AGENCY
attn ryan craven
re: aids walk sf/xiu xiu
1501 powell suite H
emeryville, ca 94608

checks out to AIDS WALK San Francisco

please make checks out to AIDS WALK SAN FRANCISCO
AND THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i found this on the internet:

 

TAIWAN R.O.C. LA LA LA

THANK YOU TO SANDY, TOBY, AND ARTHUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1)the right perfume on the right person
2)night markets
3)drinking tea at the tea house during a rain storm in the subtropical mountains
4)hello kitty de todos
5)swimming in the china sea
6)endless fake meat buffet
7)ches pissing onto a pile of post show sweaty tee shirts then wringing out the piss and sweat onto his head and into his mouth
8)walking around taipei at 3am with hyunhye to find instant ramen, cheap beer and uncooked boba balls to take home

 

At the 77 Boadrums show (the Boredoms show with 77 drummers in a spiral) under the Manhattan Bridge, which was sponsored by Vice and Nike, there was a booth for Viva, the American Apparel internet radio site. They had a poster-ad hung up in their booth of a b/w white image and their logo. The photo, which they said they found online, happened to be a photo of Rob in High Places, who was at the show. We told them, and they got surprised and freaked out. How much do you think they will settle out of court for using this photo without permission? $10,000? $100,000? Free underwear for a lifetime and photos of all the AA models naked? What's more fucked? Using the photo w/ out permission for your corporate advertising? Using someone's "personality" without permission for your corporate advertising? Using a photo of someone who is in a band to advertise a radio station that is affiliated with a...? etc...

 

I met Ches at St. Marks. We drank sparks and then did break dance tag team with Mary during Car Clutch. I wanted Ethan to get crazy and start playing the London Dungeon opening riff. I would have slammed my head into the table and said, "i don't want to be here, in your british hell." we biked away and saw ches on the side walk. no sleep for-ever and sparks and a bike ride makes me vomit into a toilet. when you are biking you don't have to pay for gas. but who cares, why don't you just steal the gas from gas stations? is that like stealing the gas from some country that you just blew up? is, it? is, it? i don't know. i wish i knew how to steal gas. i wish i knew how to steal a space ship. judith or judas? i don't read the bible.

When does Devin Hoff get a blog? I can't wait. There's no more radicalism in rock bands (is xiu xiu a rock band?). i can't wait. I read in some book that during the Paris commune they used paintings from the Louvre in the barricades. Has there been any moment since then when art has had such a practical revolutionary use??????????????????????????????????????????????

that is my question.

 

“The Kiss”, 2006 by Dan Colen.

 

i told the dead science last year i would shoot a horror film music video for them. a month later i was working on rob zombie's halloween and there was no more dead science horror film.

i told freddy ruppert of this song is a mess but so am i that i would shoot a video for him where he does a voodoo ritual later. the video never happened, and a week later i worked on a film that was based around hatian voodoo (it was filmed in a guatamalan shaman shop in LA).

do you believe in fortune telling?

 

recent good conquering evil

next 5 days- being in taiwan
records "in pink" by (r), "we are him" by angels of light
radio cuts "umberella" by riana, "young folks" by peter, bjorn and john (not tired of it)
movies "paprika" reprint of "mala noche"
further than ever yesterday- running
pedals- the fuzz probe
genres -goth micro house
quotes "i expect you to be flexible."
"what do you mean?"
"heh heh heh heh."
newly discovered actually pretty good dance nights at - el rio and oasis
people going to places- AIDS orphanage in Kenya GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! HYUNHYE!!!!!

haiku of the day by jamie the admonished circa 2007
kittens and house cats
peanut butter and jelly
future eyes to love