still need some time

hello

hey what's up. here's another cool photo of that volvo ocean race. i cant tell you how cool it was to see that in person, to see these huge boats with 9 story masts actually racing

well i havent been writing hardly anything. at least ive still been posting stuff and still maintaining a blog (ahem roy murray and jeff. what are you, twittering? (: )

so i knew i finally had to write something. here it is.

this weekend was lovely. Rena and Jed's wedding was fantastic. I saw a bunch of people that i hadnt seen in years, made some connections, had a blast. i danced and got people to dance. i shouted and lauged and got people to shout and laugh (or at least it felt that way (: ). now i'm back in boston, it's raining, i'm tired, but everything's ok

i've been super busy the last three months, but i also feel like i've grown up a lot. i feel like i'm making better decisions, and being more intelligent about stuff and not saying stupid stuff. maybe. but i think im onto something.

it only took me 26 years to grow up. is that a long time? i feel just like a child, and i am a child, but i feel like ive matured and am doing things better. i know these all sound like generalizations, but i just wanted to share that i feel like ive changed, for the better

there's so much i want to link to and write about now. i'm going to collect it all and get it together in one post. but here it is, finally jump starting some writing.

theres a lot going on, all the time, and its hard to keep up. actually, i know what ill leave you with. here's a nytimes article/blog post. i'll give you the link and my fav part. i wonder, what is happiness to you? is it lying in a boat with your eyes closed, floating and not worrying about anything? is it lying on a beach, listening to the waves, totally relaxed? is it something else? lemme know.

i think happiness for me could be many things. one of them is certainly lying down with eyes closed in the sun (matt hamilton taught me the virtues of sleep in the sun)

Happy Like God

first, from Rousseau:

"If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being there, with no need to remember the past or reach into the future, where time is nothing to it, where the present runs on indefinitely but this duration goes unnoticed, with no sign of the passing of time, and no other feeling of deprivation or enjoyment, pleasure or pain, desire or fear than the simple feeling of existence, a feeling that fills our soul entirely, as long as this state lasts, we can call ourselves happy, not with a poor, incomplete and relative happiness such as we find in the pleasures of life, but with a sufficient, complete and perfect happiness which leaves no emptiness to be filled in the soul."

next, from Critchley:

"Rousseau is describing the experience of floating in a little rowing boat on the Lake of Bienne close to Neuchâtel in his native Switzerland...On the way to the island, he would pull in the oars and just let the boat drift where it wished, for hours at a time. Rousseau would lie down in the boat and plunge into a deep reverie...Look at what Rousseau writes above: floating in a boat in fine weather, lying down with one’s eyes open to the clouds and birds or closed in reverie, one feels neither the pull of the past nor does one reach into the future. Time is nothing, or rather time is nothing but the experience of the present through which one passes without hurry, but without regret."

in vermont for the weekend

Rena's getting married! yayyy!! congrats to Rena and Jed. i'm at dartmouth and will be back in on sunday. cheers yall

Spike Drops a Genius Bomb

From Homecoming

"I never was satisfied with my social life in America. However, I had a wonderful social life in India, with plenty of friends and plenty of invitations to go out, usually more than I had time for...

...When you travel, you have to accept the unique limitations of each place and enjoy the unique pleasures of each place. Social life in India is rich, fulfilling, and easy; but materially, India is poor--there's too many people crammed into too little space, so not everyone can consume like Americans do. The activities of daily life are more difficult: eating, transportation, staying clean and healthy, etc. So, in India the senses often scream for satisfaction. If Indians are materially deprived, Americans are equally deprived (and equally unaware of it), though in a different way--they're socially deprived. It's useful to have nice, big houses, but there is a downside to them, because walls keep people apart. American toys like Blackberries, iphones, and ipods are also nice, but they bring people away from the social life around them."

what im feelin right now

hey, you gotta check out this artist, Hudson Mohawke. especially her song with Nadsroic from the Room Mist EP. sounds really good on speakers or headphones

just scroll down on this page and click the play button next to Nadsroic - "Room Mist" - (produced by Hudson Mohawk)

LuckyMe presents NADSROIC & HUDSON MOHAWKE - "Room Mist" EP

that song rules (as do the other ones, and hudson mohawke is really good)

k later

make this your desktop background

trust me

celtics lost, but a great season. click on this photo and save the full image and make it your desktop and you'll be able to get through the offseason

i saw this and it was awesome

ill tell you more about it later, but i saw these boats race out of boston harbor, it was incredible, and there was an enormous oil tanker right in the middle of it all

Fog and flub mar start of yacht race

and here's the photo gallery which you should def check out. these boats have like 12 people on them or something and they're on the ocean for days and weeks at a time and there's like no space

Volvo Ocean Race

hrm

hey, i'm taking a little time off, i'll be back atcha soon

oh yeah and i saw the limits of control and it was very disappointing.

on the other hand, the celtics are playing great, and the weather's nice.

k cya

hey, a couple things

first of all, ladies and gentleman, i present to you, The Hunt for Gollum (2009)

Watch it on TheHuntForGollum.com

pretty terrific! let me know if you like it, it's worth watching, 40 minute independent movie, that looks a lot like lord of the rings, except for the bad audio mixing (all the human characters whisper and are hard to hear). besides that, it looks scarily like the real lord of the rings. good times!

kentucky derby and celtics game yesterday were awesome

weather on saturday was nice, i went out to the basketball court and some guy who just wanted to shoot jump shots with me went and got his shoes and threw down a dunk from way above the rim. pretty sick, i didnt see it coming, hopefully see him out again there soon



oh yeah, and WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

cool live headhunter video

not that i watch a lot of internet video, but i like this one

Headhunter LIVE AV Dubstep / Techno Performance @ Stuk, Belgium from VectorMeldrew.

Edited version of the first ever Headhunter live dubstep/techno audio visual set that took place at the Stuk arts centre in Belgium on the 14th February 2009. This set was part of the artefact festival.



Visuals performeced live by Alex Donne (http://www.vectormeldrew.com)