"Being, suffused with immemorial spatial memory, transcends Becoming. It founds all those nostalgic memories of a lost childhood world. Is this the foundation for collective memory, for all those manifestations of place-bound nostalgias that infect our images of the country and the city, of region, milieu, and locality, of neighbourhood and community? And if it is true that time is always memorialized not as flow, but as memories of experienced places and spaces, then history must indeed give way to poetry, time to space, as the fundamental material of social expression. The spatial image (particularly the evidence of the photograph) then asserts an important power over history."
-David Harvey, _The Condition of Postmodernity_

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RULES:
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. With the answers, give your own comments on how it relates to the questions.

How are you feeling?
"This Is Stupid" - The Bloodhound Gang (Actually, I like my reading assignment for tonight.)

Will you get far in life?
"Warning Sign" - Coldplay (That's kind of a depressing role to play.)

How do your friends see you?
"By Starlight" - Smashing Pumpkins (Well, that is when I usually come out.)

Will you get married?
"Hammer and Nails" - Gov't Mule (I'll take that for a "yes.")

What is your best friend's theme tune?
"Selfless, Cold, and Composed" - Ben Folds Five (Why can I never figure out which friend this is?)

What is the story of your life?
"If I Wasn't Shy" - They Might Be Giants (SO TRUE.)

What is graduate school like?
"Funky Days Are Back Again" - Cornershop (Exactly!)

How can you get ahead in life?
"Singing In My Sleep" - Semisonic (That doesn't seem like very useful advice.)

What is the best thing about your friends?
"Catastrophe and the Cure" - Explosions in the Sky (Yup, drama.)

What is in store for this weekend?
"I'm Feeling Horny" - Shirley Manson (No comment.)

Describe your grandparents?
"It Came Out of the Sky" - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Doesn't jibe with the sanctioned version of the family history, but I guess I have to trust the iPod.)

How is your life going?
"Jump Start" - Jethro Tull (Yes please. The caffeine's stopped working.)

What song will they play at your funeral?
"The Thing That Should Not Be" - Primus (Well, by then, the problem will have been resolved.)

Will you have a happy life?
"Come Here Boy" - Imogen Heap (Apparently so!)

What do your friends really think of you?
"Starfuckers, Inc." - Nine Inch Nails (I'm flattered!)

Do people secretly lust after you?
"First Orgasm" - The Dresden Dolls (It's been alleged ...)

How can I make myself happy?
"Appels + Oranges" - Smashing Pumpkins (I *am* trying to eat more fruit, in fact.)

What should you do with your life?
"Parting of the Sensory" - Modest Mouse (William Blake knew what happens when the doors of perception are finally cleansed. So did Aldous Huxley.)

Will you ever have children?
"Throw It All Away" - Toad the Wet Sprocket (Apparently so.)



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"According to another European observer of America, Jean Baudrillard, part of the pleasure of travel is ‘to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate. Even their local happiness seems tuned to a secret resignation.’"
-Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment





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Well well. Still not much new work here. Sorry about that. No Internet connection at home right now, and my time is more likely to be spent on other projects than on photo postprocessing right now. I'm gnawing away at a novel I've been working at off and on for the last few years, for one thing, and trying to put the final wraps on the "photos from Europe" project, which is darn near done.

Speaking of which, I'm looking for a replacement for the Picasa client. I'm happy with the Picasa web service, but the desktop client seems to think it knows better than I do which pictures should be in the albums, and it's overruled my decisions on several occasions. It's also constantly losing track of albums, and I've had to rebuild them from scratch several times. Can anyone recommend a replacement client for Picasa web albums (preferably Linux, but Windows is OK too), or a comparable web/client pair that provides similar storage and display capabilities? I'd be grateful.

There WILL eventually be new work, too.



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Sorry there's been so little new work lately. I'm only on the Internet at irregular intervals, and I've been working on other projects. Most notably, the mammoth "pictures from Europe" project is finally winding up ... all 50 rolls that were taken on the three trips in 2001, 2002, and 2004 have been developed, electronified, enhanced, cleaned up, organized, tagged, and collated with journal notes. (Because, you know, prints and negatives deteriorate, but data is forever if properly backed up.) Be-albuming can wait until I get a breather ... the pictures that were mounted years ago should be redone anyway, and that's going to be a whole other headache. But when it's done, it'll be done, FINALLY.

The last of the Europe photos will be on my Picasa photo shoebox sometime in the next week or two, and (of course) the better ones (disappointingly few, alas) will gradually transition over here. Alas, I took a cheap camera to Europe ... and my composition skills have improved greatly since then, it seems.

I'm really looking forward to my trip to the Philippines at the end of August. New sights! New people! New culture! New weird things going on! New situations! New inspiration!

I can't wait ...




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