Platform 327

Last update from the old place. Moving tomorrow, and packing the ‘puter tonight.

I also got a bike. Read about it here.

Think I’ll go join the community.

Scooped this from a link in ’s journal. It’s so absolutely senseless, it’s inspiring.

Work of Anti-Art in the Age of Generative Reproduction

The mind creates, the corporation profligates. In the material artifice, art objects are deprecations of the musings of the mind — a mind that uses the corporation as a zeitgeist to represent ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the rationalization of the electronic environment, the mind is conceiving a point where it will be free from the corporation to share immersions into the parameters of the delphic artifice. Work of Anti-Art in the Age of Generative Reproduction contains 10 minimal dhtml engines (also refered to as “shopbots”) that enable the user to make contemplative audio/visual compositions.

measuring chains, constructing realities
putting into place forms
a matrix of illusion and disillusion
a strange attracting force
so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it

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David Widmann’s work investigates the nuances of surveilance cameras through the use of jumpcut motion and close-ups which emphasize the Generative nature of digital media. Widmann explores abstract and oligopolistic scenery as motifs to describe the idea of hyper-real artifice. Using recycled loops, non-linear narratives, and allegorical images as patterns, Widmann creates meditative environments which suggest the expansion of culture…

You suck for taking this
Have you ever done cocaine Stevie Nicks style?	I’m not familiar with her style, but I’ve done it.
How many pet rodents have you accidentally killed?	2. The third wasn’t an accident.
Is your desktop of pornographic nature? if yes, how so? if no, why not?	Yes. Blue-eyed brunette wearing a smile and nothing else. Nice, perky tits.
Tequila- a name for a tall, pretty girl, or a tasty beverage?	Why can’t it be both?
Cyclops- a name for a short, dorky girl or a one-eyed murdering beast?	See “Tequila.”
Without looking it up, what is the capital of Moldova?	Moldova City.
You looked up the capital of Moldova online or skipped that question, didn’t you?	No, because I neither give a shit about the capital of Moldova, nor looking stupid.
Do you think taking quizzes are totally NEXT?	Next to what?
if yes, do you put like 50 quiz results on your livejournal all the time?	Nope. I’m usually not this bored and sober at the same time.
Sum up your opinions of Darth Vader in 7 words. No more no less.	Fashion pioneer and traitor to the faith.
Why do you do different quizzes with the same questions over and over?	‘Cuz I’m bored and sober.
Do you think anyone really cares what kid of Daffodil you are?	Yes.
Why?	‘Cuz anyone reading my quiz results is as bored while sober as I am.
Have you ever stolen a cancer patient’s painkillers to use recreationally?	No, but the thought had occurred to me.
If yes, you’re an asshole. And also what was it? If no. plz write “slice”	No.
Did this quiz fullfil the emptiness that is your soul?	I sold my soul in 1994 for bus fare and a box of KD, so I guess “N/A.”
Goodnight.	Whatever.
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Just giving a bit of an update to my LJ page, since I don’t update this nearly enough.

I found a place, and will be moving within the next couple of weeks. I found a sweet basement one-bedroom for only $400 a month. Ok, maybe “sweet” is a bit of an overstatement, but with the price and the amount of space, it was a pretty good score. Who’s gonna help me move?

This means the next issue of Second Life may be a little late. However, I am working on it. I’ve been checking out the community for a while, and I’m thinking of searching for a zine distributor for it. Oh yeah, and I got the latest Broken Pencil print edition. There it is, April Zine of the Month, clear as day. Go me!

That’s it for now. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I usually update my blog more often than this thing. Go there, if you want to read all the crap that goes on in my head as it happens. You’ll be sorry.

Well, I did it. I didn’t do it well, but I did it. I read a few haikus that’ll be in the next book. I also brought two other pieces to read, and decided on which of the two I was going to read before going up. Once I got up there, I completely blanked on which piece I was going to read and why. By the third haiku I could feel my throat closing and my jaw locking up. I bailed after being onstage for probably less than a minute and a half.

I have some serious problems dealing with anxiety.

Ah well. Next time I’ll shoot for two full minutes.

I also brought my MD recorder so I could hear myself, but I guess I didn’t slide the record-switch over far enough before going up. I got nothing.

On a brighter note, Cynthia brought my book. Man, but Cafepress does a good job on books.

Tonight is my spoken-word dealie at IV Lounge, and I still haven’t figured out what I’m going to read. I also have an interview with a band later this afternoon. I’m also really sick from one of the worst hangovers ever.

What a day.

The Spill Magazine updated its site and put the stories I submitted up.

You may notice I’m not linking to said stories. No, no, it’s not a clerical error. The omission was deliberate. Both were butchered, and one even has the WRONG FUCKING BAND NAME on it!

I gotta take my name off this thing…

Still have to submit my Illuminati article… and I suppose there’s still a chance that the guy from Maximum RNR could actually call me back. After that, who knows? Do I really want to continue my association with something like this? I wonder if there are any other music rags in town looking for a burnt-out hack.

I was panicking, looking for a disk with something I’ve been working on on it. I ended up finding it (thank goodness) as well as a disk with a bunch of old articles I published. I put a few of them online. The rest will follow.

http://www.geocities.com/david_j_widmann/clip13.html
http://www.geocities.com/david_j_widmann/clip12.html
http://www.geocities.com/david_j_widmann/clip14.html

Hey… just found out that Fresh Meat put my article about them on their site. More google fodder for me.

http://www.thisisfreshmeat.com/freshmeat/review.html

It’s currently the second one down. Don’t know where it’ll be by the time you read this.

Yeah, so I was supposed to go to Fresh Meat on Monday. Apparently I was expected. But this whole broke thing is kicking my ass, especially when I have to move in 24 days or so, and I still don’t have first/last. Plus my crappy new job keeps my busy (and sober, dammit) at night.

I didn’t go to Fresh Meat, so there’s not review of the show here. But it probably rocked. Go to or or or or any one of probably a thousand other places to find out how cool it was.