deftone.com - chasing the tail of dogma

Monday, September 17, 2001 æ

Jerry Falwell blames the world trade center attacks on those "who have tried to secularize America", such as abortionists, feminists, homosexuals, the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way.

What a fucking asshole. Just another desperate plea for attention.

I've been listening to lots of Bill Hicks again. Here's his take on conservative right lunatics, originally about Jesse Helms, but Jerry Falwell fits nicely as well:

Anyone that far to the right is hiding a very deep and dark secret. I'm an armchair pyschologist, but you know when Jerry Falwell finally dies, he's gonna commit suicide first of all in a washtub out back underneath a pecan tree. He's gonna slash his wrists and write in blood "I've been a bad boy". But you know they're gonna find the skins of young children drying in his attic. Swarms of horseflies going in and out of the eves and on CNN, over and over, his wife going, "I always wondered about Jerry's collection of little shoes."
Anyone that far to the right is hiding a very deep dark secret.

Friday, September 14, 2001 æ

even though i'm reading as much as i can, i don't feel like linking and commenting on news stories here.

i've been experiencing the same range of emotions i'm sure all of you have. horror, dismay, dread, anger, guilt, numbness, pride. but for some reason, i have not experienced fear, yet. i have not been afraid. i don't know what that means.

but i do know you will persevere.

Thursday, September 13, 2001 æ

i've written many words here, then erased them. i still feel silent.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001 æ

holy fuck!

Monday, September 10, 2001 æ

i was thinking one day about what i'd do for work if the job involved no computers at all. so far i've got:

park ranger - i'd make sure yogi-bear couldn't steal my picky-nic basket
poet warrior
naomi campbell's personal assistant
walk the earth, like caine in kung fu
rock roadie - "mic check, check, 1, 2, syballance, syballance"
someone who creates ligature with old typography machines.
this thing

Thursday, September 06, 2001 æ


julia stiles	leelee sobieski

i'd love to see a movie where julia stiles and leelee sobieski do a lesbian scene. just work plot points around them kissing everywhere, i'd watch that. oh, and sheryl crow, gina gershon and angelina jolie would have a 3-way too. come on you hollywood assholes, make this movie!

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new, pretty, and colourful - yay more hexagons! thanks wendy and julia. you should draw one too. i'll post more of my own soon, and i'll be redesigning and programming that section too. a web developer shouldn't be editing html!

Tuesday, September 04, 2001 æ

warning: here comes one of those posts, in which i say a lot in a few lines, but don't provide a context and leave you to decipher and make assumptions:

i discovered it is possible to find relief in rejection. complete, absolute relief.

Monday, September 03, 2001 æ

That was a lot of fun :)

Friday, August 31, 2001 æ

we've got you in this fuckin' movie
to exterminate all the lunatics all at once
with a filtering system of god.
we're the psycho-semantic police,
you can't even see us.
how in the fuck can you do anything about it?
we're pure intellegence,
you're not.
you're a biological product of a cosmological universe.
you're molecular matter,
i constructed you,
fuck you.
i made you up, you didn't make me up,
you got it backwards.
you know who you are?
you're fuckin' semantic blockage,
that's what made you up.
you're a fuckin' programer named christine gontara.
you fucked up.
she sucked my cock.

- Raleigh Theodore Sakers

Thursday, August 30, 2001 æ

An excerpt from a conversation with a friend:

Me: i want to see some jewish porn dammit
Nate: just say "shmoivel" 8 times fast and look at regular porn. it's almost the same.

Tuesday, August 28, 2001 æ

Some polygon goodness: Doctor May Have Beauty's Number. Check out the cool picture of the chic with the polygon mask thing. You can apply it to your own face as well. Looks freaky. [link via original zülander, who should also set up his own site already]

And hark! a new word was created today: concluscious

Monday, August 27, 2001 æ

No, no, the Canadian government has apologized for Alan Thicke on numerous occasions.

Installing the Clean Read and Zap bookmarklets from smokinggun has certainly made reading text online easier.

The greatest pro-Napster quote ever comes from Afroman:

"Because they already done burned my CD at home, I think people are going to buy my album and make sure I get some money, so I can eat a sandwich."

[link via mr. capri pants, who should setup his own site already]

Sunday, August 26, 2001 æ

I mentioned yesterday I watched Pi.

"1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature."
- Maximillian Cohen in Pi

I had a dream last night. I dreamt I was an author. I had a wife and 2 kids. I would sleep for 3 hours a day, and write for the rest. Each day I would finish 13 pages for my book, of which 5, I'd throw away.

That's all I remember, sounds pretty simple, but let's analyze, shall we?

me = 1

wife = 1

kids = 2

hours of sleep = 3

discarded pages = 5

used pages = 8

total number of written pages = 13

hours spent writing = 21

Notice the pattern? It's the Fibonacci sequence in my dream! The Fibonacci sequence is a recursive sequence where if you start with 1 and 1, to calculate the next term, simply sum the previous two terms. Thus 1 and 1 is 2, 1 and 2 is 3, 2 and 3 is 5, etc... For you math nerds, here's the formula:

F(1) = 1
F(2) = 1
F(n) = F(n – 1) + F(n – 2)

So the actual sequence is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, ...

And here's a diagram of it if each square's length corresponds to a number in the sequence.

Notice the spiral? I could go on and on because I liked university calculus.

But how does this relate to the movie Pi? Well the Fibonacci sequence is mentioned in the movie. The above diagram was in it too. In my dream I was living the pattern. There are patterns everywhere in nature. I'm sure if there was more to the dream, it would somehow involve the numbers 34 and 55 and so on.

You may think I'm a math dork, but I think this is pretty damn cool.

Saturday, August 25, 2001 æ

yay, more hexagons are in! danica incorporates street posters and d|s spirals out.

If you have some time, go watch all five chapters of Ninjai: The Little Ninja. Great flash action/adventure series with excellent attention to detail. [link via lgf]

So you want to be a pixel artist? Then you might want to read this tutorial on how to make Nintendo style or Streetfighter style graphics. [link via original zoolander]

Shaq is still a retard.

I've been reading trigonometry books, watching pi, and listening to math rock.

22:12.....press return.
23:38.....press return.