last days of radio (anger is a gift)
quoth fauxcommunists rage against the machine.
you wouldn’t like me when i’m angry said dr bruce banner. yeah? well here’s the rub brucey baby:
i do like you when you’re angry. in fact goddamit i prefer you when you’re angry and smashing bloody fuck out of somethingorother. these songs, these songs are the moment, the moment when banners, when banners pupils dilate.
these songs, these songs are the scream, that primal scream when the pain and anger, oh all that delicious wet anger comes spewing out.
these songs are the wrath of khan.
these songs are the fist of fury.
they’re the brooding resentment of forced housewifery, the navel gazing of therapy, the raw fucking hatred of a cheated lover. they’re every politician that’s screwed you over, every bald faced lie you’ve ever been told, every empty howl of despair at the shittiness of humanity.
imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. translated into guitardrumbassvocals.
23 October 2007 at 11:24 pm
Modest Mouse’s Cowboy Dan got my vote.
And I counted ten, please, not seven
24 October 2007 at 10:36 pm
well modest mouse is the only one you could at least dance to angry.
ten? seven? okay.
in nineteen ninety, american mathematicians persi diaconis and david bayer suggested that seven shuffles are sufficient to achieve an acceptable degree of randomness in a deck of fiftytwo cards. with six or fewer shuffles, the original order of the cards is still strongly in evidence and beyond seven, nothing is gained in terms of increased randomness. they based their research on that stalwart of bridge and poker, the riffle shuffle, where a deck of cards is roughly cut in half and then interleaved unevenly from left hand to right. they created a mathematical model of the riffle shuffle and postulated how many such manoeuvres would result in a fair dispersal of the cards. the assumption was that more shuffles would increase the randomness but interestingly, diaconis and bayer’s work highlighted something inherent in a variety of mixing processes. abrupt transitions from order to randomness can occur when two parts are mixed. diaconis uses the analogy of mixing a bowl of black and white beads. for a while there are still big streaks of black and white but all of a sudden it gets grey and stays grey. this suggests that mathematically there is a critical point where order shifts into chaos and in the case of a pack of cards and the riffle shuffle that is lucky number seven.
the number seven was considered sacred not only by all the cultured nations of antiquity and the east, but was held in the greatest reverence even by the later nations of the west. the astronomical origin of this number is established beyond any doubt. man, feeling himself time out of mind dependent upon the heavenly powers, ever and everywhere made earth subject to heaven. the largest and brightest of the luminaries thus became in his sight the most important and highest of powers; such were the planets which the whole antiquity numbered as seven. in course of time these were transformed into seven deities. the egyptians had seven original and higher gods; the phoenicians seven kabiris; the persians, seven sacred horses of mithra; the parsees, seven angels opposed by seven demons, and seven celestial abodes paralleled by seven lower regions. to represent the more clearly this idea in its concrete form, the seven gods were often represented as one seven-headed deity. the whole heaven was subjected to the seven planets; hence, in nearly all the religious systems we find seven heavens.
26 October 2007 at 7:03 pm
harmonie22, can you please tell me what the fuck the cow is talking about?
Is he just ruminating?
Or does he have mad cow disease?
Give him the horsewhip!
26 October 2007 at 8:13 pm
Lol! But according to what you’re saying marxsbeard, then there really should be ten of everything not seven, that there are really ten heavens not seven. Man, I knew the religions got it all wrong.
On another side note, did you know that some religions consider cows as not just food?
Antisocialist, too funny
29 October 2007 at 12:46 pm
as belinda carlisle sang ooh heaven is a place on earth.
all cows are food. this cow is a cow who wants to be eaten. this cow is not sacred but definitely profane. this cow is irreligiously unlike jesus. this cow is the absence of an antichrist. this cow is the living embodiment of not yahweh. this cow has no place in his quadrapled stomach for jeebus, mohammed or buddha, wacky superstitions, holy ghost stories, fantasy literature or otherwise.
can i get an amen?