human traffic

classic

updates

- coffee is good

- the dodos are good

- i have a tumblr…this is the last thing with a missing vowel i’ll get i promise

- it’s been sunny and happy lately

- neural development is a pretty neat class

- finally appreciating sleep

- the superbowl was actually pretty great despite my best efforts to not be interested in it

- started reading that short story book again…you’ll get some more reviews if you’re lucky

- <3 yall

sweet

2k9

2009

RESOLUTIONS,

guys

more cooking.more sleep.taking care of vessel.less _ugs more _ugs just enough _ugs

learn some electrical.engineering.omg data.read more papers outside my field.read more.write more.more self-confidence.m

ore humility.less pretention.less fear.less overanalysis.less rationalization.write more songs.nobel prize.pet hedgehog.start a cult.patience

come with me!

hey guyyyys….look look

Sea of Dreams NYE 2009 …with Thievery Corporation, live!

anonEvents transforms the Concourse Center into a multi-stage, multi-environment undersea fantasyland, complete with 3 huge sound-systems, cabaret performers, circus performers, aerialists, contortionists, balloon drops, confetti cannons and over 50 massive pieces of inflatable art. Other live musical performances will include 20-piece indie-techno-circus the Mutaytor, Bay Area trip-hop heroes BLVD, brasilian groovers Boca do Rio femme-hop group Goddess Alchemy Project. DJ sets will be performed by NYC’s “Basement Bhangra” superstar DJ Rekha, plus Bay Area mainstays like Motion Potion (Funkonnection-SFO), Smoove (2008 SFBG “Best DJ”) Mancub (space cowboys) Little John (Raindance-Santa Cruz), Jef Stot (6 Degrees Records) Malarkey (Juke Joint-Sebastopol), and Maneesh the Twister (Surya Dub-SFO).

Audiences will be overwhelmed by an all-consuming assault of dance, cabaret and visual artists. The Do LaB, the set designers who have made the Coachella, Rothbury and their own Lightning in a Bottle Festival canvases for art installations will be on the scene to construct a “speaker garden” environment in the DJ lobby area. Reknowned performance troupe Fou Fou Ha!, physical theatre company the Carpetbag Brigade and Bad Unkl Sista and superstar hooper Shredder are among the performance artists that push this event over the top.

Seriously, COME WITH ME. If you have any interest at all at seeing Kelly in her element and would like to spend New Year’s Eve in an environment of unbridled joy, love, self-expression, and sensory overload, hit me up. (I’m already ordering peacock feathers in bulk, motherlickers.)

must not get too personal

must not get too personal

must not get too personal

must not get too personal

the world is watching

but goddamn if life isn’t gettin’ better all the time…what with all this new fun sublime and joyous stuff and shattered misconceptions and loss of inhibitions…oh and bye bye year! i heard that nobody likes you when you’re 23…what the hell is add?

to counteract that, here is my first real picture of gfp-stained neurons:

and that’s only one slice!

been wanting to make one of these pictures forever…the aesthetics of neuroscience, dude, i’m telling you.

oh also they outlawed sparx

STOCK UP AND OPEN UP A SPEAKEASY WITH ME

i didn’t even really like it that much, it’s just the idea of getting in on prohibition really. might want to stock up on salvia as well.

some music links

omg elephant 6 collective is back and up to marvelous things!

shimmering new song leaked from the upcoming animal collective album, merriweather post pavilion: my girls

kickass indepth interview with john darnielle of the mountain goats

i like this band passion pit

ok <3 yall

oops i gave my computer drugs

i <3 grad school

year-end album list

in no particular order:

vampire weekend - s/t
the mountain goats - heretic pride
wolf parade - at mt. zoomer
islands - arm’s way
spiritualized - songs in a&e
of montreal - skeletal lamping (this is a new development, i was really unsure at first but it just clicked)
dr. dog - fate
fleet foxes - ragged wood

this was a hard year to stay on top of things musically…i had a lot going on, yo.

something else i’m way obsessed with now:

VERMOUTH!

see also 80 page forum thread

AAAAAND

don’t it make you feel sad

MUSIC POST

Grampall Jookabox - The Girl Ain’t Preggers