I Don't Have A Soul, I Have Software

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"Concrete Island" - J.G. Ballard

2008-11-14T11:46:00.002-05:00

This is the first in a series of short love-letters to SF and the specific works/stories that made me a fan of the genre in the first place. All works will receive one of three ratings: Recommended, Necessary, or Mandatory.

A few years back, before work on the incomplete second arc of his comic book series "Desolation Jones" began, Warren Ellis once posted on his blog that he and Alan Moore once had a conversation/argument regarding their views on who was the one SF author who beat summed up the sentiment 20th Century. Ellis argued that Philip K. Dick was the "voice" of the 20th Century, while Moore felt that the unease of the 20th Century was best summed up by H.P. Lovecraft (someone please correct me if I'm remebering this wrong). While I feel personally indebted to the works of both Dick and Lovecraft, I would personally like to cast my vote for J.G. Ballard.

Having lived through only the last 20 years of the 20th Century, my view on what that era was and was not may be skewed, as it is steeped in the concepts of post-modernism. That being said, nobody sums up the alienation, the paranoia, and the wonder of post-modern society as effectively, poetically, or as cleverly as Ballard. His fiction is almost always dark and morbid, but darkened with confusion and ignorance of his protagonist's conditioning. It is more of a psychological darkness, than a purely aesthetic darkness (as it is in most post-modern fiction). His accusations and criticisms of modern society are always direct and candid, but it was always his voice and his prose that brought it alive for me.

"Concrete Island" is a modern-day reinvention of the Robinson Crusoe story, with Ballard's protagonist being a rich and pampered surgeon who's luxury automobile has crashed onto a highway island, leaving the doctor stranded. The time-span of the novel is only two or three days, but Ballard is able to cover immense thematic ground by exposing the psychological machinations of the protagonist in minute detail. While tha analogies between this novel and the original Crusoe story and the symbolism can be pretty thick and heavy-handed at times, it never comes off as gratuitous in any way. Ballard's writing style, for me, is the very definition of economically ornate.

While the subject of the story has absolutely no relation to common sci-fi tropes, aliens and spaceships have never been what made Ballard one of the great SF writers. While his stories are almost alway set in the present day (or maybe it's the very very near future?), he uses modern society to in depthly explore much of the same cultural and socio-psychology of many of his contemporaries. You want to talk hard SF science? Read the chapter devoted to the socio-psychology of luxury automobiles. You want speculation? Ballard's predictions of what western culture would be like has more accuracy than any of Arthur C. Clarke's! It sets him apart, but at the same time brings to mind comparisons to some of the great SF writing sociologists, like Ursula K. Le Guine or James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon or even Asimov.

Growing up, SF always provided an escape from the mundanity of my own existence, but it also allowed me to confront aspects of said existence in a round-about, but often times, more honest fashion. To me, this dichotomy is what makes SF so rich and powerful. Sometimes there is more accuracy in talking about things in analogy and metsphor than directly, with the inherent limitations of language. To this degree, Ballard is one of the greats. His metaphors and analogies never needed to be extravagent because the direction that contemporary culture was heading (and has been heading at this point) was already so extravagant and sensational already. He was one of the great mirrors for me, exposing all the absurdity and all of the suffering inherent in so many of the everyday things that we take for granted... Like highways.

FINAL ASSESMENT: Mandatory.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Tense (past/future)

2008-11-06T16:58:00.001-05:00

Oof... It's been quite a while. Needless to say things have been fairly crazy. 'How crazy,' you ask? This crazy:

1. I haven't bought comics since June!
2. I don't have an internet connection!
3. I got fired!
4. I started like a million new bands, a new CD-R label, none of which has manifested into anything concrete just yet!
5. I moved in with my girlfriend!
6. And we are living with four animals total!

What's with the exclimations? Well, in spite of the constant tumult of life and environment, I'm totally psyched on my life. To be honest, i've grown sick of complaining and feeling bad for myself constantly. There's still plenty of that going on, but I'm making an effort to decentralize that aspect of myself, and trying to be less melodramatic in general (that includes blowing the more joyous aspects of my life into some 'keep it posi' bullshit motivation). I've discovered that what Robert Anton Wilson refers to as "maybe-logic" or "general agnosticism" - a semantic game of what DT Suzuki called "eternal negation" - leaves you with no other choice but to be constantly hopeful. And that's turned out pretty well for me.

Anyway, I will be trying to rejuvinate this tiny piece of Tonio-oriented Web Space with a bit more original content, and fewer hyperlink-puns. I want to go back to where it all started in my head: being a fan.

Being a fan has been such a large part of who I am, and having no real outlet/forum for that sort of energy has a tendency to drive you a bit mad, so I'll be dishing it out here most likely. But there's enough blogs and sites out there about 'The New' that i'd rather steal a page from Siskoid's book (of geekery) and concentrate on some of the stuff that made us fans in the first place. I'll be devoting more time to 'The Classic'.

At some point I'll get around to sharing my thoughts on last season of Doctor Who, but let's just leave it at 'a bit disappointed'. That being said, I'm so fucking excited for 2010. Steven Moffat has a tendency to make me squeal like a girl... Or a pig... Or a pig in lipstick.

T.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

2008-04-04T15:47:00.001-05:00

So, I think April may be my favorite month of this year, so far.

I recently moved back to NJ - closer to my girlfriend & all my longtime buddies, The NBA is gearing up for the playoffs, LOST will be making it's return, and finishing up possibly the most intense season of television mindfuckery, and....

THAT'S RIGHT, SNITCHES.

WE'RE BACK.

YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT...

ALL OF US ARE BACK.

2008-02-14T10:17:00.001-05:00

THE FUTURE [DOCTOR WHO]

2008-02-13T15:43:00.001-05:00

box brown is inside my head

"Accept despair and anguish and

2008-02-08T18:02:00.001-05:00

"Accept despair and anguish and frustration and see it through." - Henry Miller

2008-02-08T10:57:00.001-05:00

Yoko didn't break up the Beatles; You did.

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2008-02-06T11:55:00.001-05:00

"I hated McCain. I will hate that racist bastard as long as I live."

2008-01-25T10:55:00.001-05:00

J/K

J/K

J/K

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2008-01-18T19:09:00.001-05:00

Fell #9

Fell is not dead. It's just been traveling the world, and promoting vampire movies. Or maybe it's been sitting in England...NOT WRITING. Regardless, delays in books like Fell don't really matter because it's always worth the wait. This issue was like a kick to the chest.

GO READ IT.

2008-01-18T09:29:00.001-05:00

March of Dimes

A Wizard...

...A True Star

SWAYZE

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Can you tell I don't feel like working today?

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Winter Solstice 2007 ++

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BITCHES.

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From Diana

2007-12-18T09:26:00.001-05:00

When the boy was about five months old, a city hall clerk brought the odd name to the attention of a tribunal, which informed the couple of an administrative norm which bars parents from giving "ridiculous or shameful" first names to children.

The tribunal said it was protecting the child from being the butt of jokes and added that it believed the name would hinder him from developing "serene interpersonal relationships".

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2007-12-17T13:06:00.001-05:00

This one is for Lala

This one is for me

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There once was a boy who said, Damn
For it certainly seems that I am
A creature that moves
In determinate grooves
I'm not even a bus,
I'm a tram.

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Some sleepless night,
if you should find yourself alone,
Let me be the one you run to,
Let me be the one you come to
when you need someone to turn to,
Let me be the one.

To set things right
when this old world’s turned upside down,
Let me be the one you run to,
Let me be the one you come to
when you need someone to turn to,
Let me be the one.

For love and understanding,
to find a quiet place;
For silent understanding,
a loving touch.
Come to me when things go wrong
and there’s no love to light the way.

Let me be the one you run to,
Let me be the one you come to
when you need someone to turn to,
Let me be the one.

2007-11-28T10:23:00.001-05:00

My Cat Got Blogged.

2007-11-27T18:56:00.001-05:00

Living in New York has taught me how to think about Geography.

Pakistan?
Seriously?

MISSED CONNECTION

2007-11-27T13:16:00.001-05:00

http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/mis/490802209.html
http://cnj.craigslist.org/mis/488410486.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mis/489270231.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mis/488340303.html

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2007-11-12T23:55:00.001-05:00

Heh.

2007-11-07T14:44:00.001-05:00

He totally makes up for it though:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio...

2007-11-07T11:10:00.001-05:00

If you're still confused at all as to why high paid entertainment industry workers are even bothering to strike:

In related news, Deadline Hollywood reports that assistants at Fox are upset at the strikers for costing them overtime pay and regular hourly pay in increments as much ass 15 minutes. They obviously don't start their day by reading the United Hollywood Blog. In fact, studio execs are so desperate to win back the writers, they're even resorting to Craigs List posts in the "Missed Connections" section:

Hi! You were the neurotic, quiet and nerdy writer picketing outside the studio this morning! Did you write that sign yourself? That was so clever. I was the Big, Bad Studio Monster that paid you exorbitant amounts of money up front, then denied you a piece of the back end. Then I ignored all your requests to negotiate and tried to bully you into a deal! Can we kiss and make up? Please? I think we can work some magic together if we both just put our egos aside. Who cares about the Below the Line people? We're above it for a REASON!!!

Also from Deadline Hollywood:

#1 Favorite Picket Line Chant was at Fox: "How much you earnin', Peter Chernin?"

My #2 favorite picket chant of the day: "We write the story-a / for Eva Longoria".

More Reports Here:

Deadline Hollywood Day 2

Deadline Hollywood Day 1

Huffington Post

The Reeler

New Poky Commercials

2007-11-07T10:37:00.001-05:00

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Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

2007-11-05T11:41:00.001-05:00

Shia LeBeouf was arrested for "criminal trespassing" at a Walgreens in Chicago.
Edgar Wright hates being raped by Americans.
The WGA strike is fucking on, man!
Glen Hauman (ComicMix) likes it when British people sing and blow stuff up.
Stallone wants to remake 'Death Wish'.
Who needs MySpace when you have Kylie?
New Linda Barry cartoon! (via Drawn & Quarterly)

Awake & Asleep

2007-11-04T23:48:00.001-05:00

via nivbot

Gore

2007-10-12T09:33:00.001-05:00

Just found out that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I would just like to remind everyone that the reason there is even a Peace Prize given out by the Nobel Foundation is because Alexander Nobel's secretary (essentially) made him feel guilt over the thousands of deaths he was indirectly responsible for.

Yeah, the dude invented dynamite.

Oh and Tipper Gore hates rap music.

Mysticism Links for This Week

2007-09-21T08:41:00.001-05:00

This video has been floating around here for quite some time, but I thought I'd finally share it. Seriously, I watch this video maybe once a week as inspiration.

Similarly, Alejandro Jodorowski is interviewed in the new issue of Fortean times. He talks about Psychomagick a bit, and how his creative works are a direct extension of that practice.

In other news, Lupa over at Key 64 has a decent breakdown of the psychological journey in Neon Genesis Evangelion, and how it directly relates to the shamanic journey. One of these days I'll get my shit right and write something extensive about the series use of Christian Mystic/Gnostic/Occult imagery. Maybe after I go back to school...

2007-09-16T11:39:00.001-05:00

Part of me thinks that if I ever bothered to get out of this chair and live my life, I'd probably have far more interesting things to blog about.

Opinions?

David Lynch's Wacky Cigarette Ad

2007-09-13T23:47:00.001-05:00

Cory Doctorow at Worldcon 2007

2007-09-13T08:11:00.001-05:00

Doctorow at the "Defending the Public Domain from Corporate Copyright Maximalism" panel from the 2007 World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama, Japan.

Lauren Bacall Whistle

2007-09-13T08:06:00.001-05:00

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

2007-09-13T06:39:00.001-05:00

Susumu Hirasawa ~ Sekai Turbine

2007-09-12T21:15:00.001-05:00

Berserk: The Abridged Series Episode 14

2007-08-25T17:52:00.001-05:00

Ah. I remember the days when it was required that my over-sized bodyguard taught me to roll my joints. Youth.

Humans Disguised as Robots in Disguise

2007-08-25T11:28:00.001-05:00

The Darjeeling Limited (Trailer No. 1)

2007-08-24T13:55:00.001-05:00

Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrian Brody, and Owen Wilson. That is an intense ensemble of desirable and talented young men. In a completely, non-sexual, hetero sort of way, of course. Or not.

It certainly looks like more 70s and Nouvelle Vauge inspired romantic, hipster bullshit, but obviously presented in the most charming manner as possible. The thing I love about Anderson's films is that they are always a testament to the power of the human spirit. His last two films, while splendid, were certainly far weaker than his debut film Rocket Bottle, and his lauded follow-up Rushmore. The Darjeeling Limited looks like a story on a smaller scale than that of The Life Aquatic, and a story much more grounded than the Trouffout love-letter The Royal Tannenbaums.

Moviefone has more videos

In Other News...

2007-08-24T12:01:00.001-05:00

The RIAA continues its business tactic of legally approved extortion:

The more recently filed “John Doe” lawsuits are against the students who did not agree to pay the settlement fee. The suits have enabled members of the RIAA to subpoena from Cornell the identification information of the student whose corresponding Internet Protocol address has been linked to stealing music. With such information, RIAA members can proceed to contact the specified individuals to negotiate a settlement, which would most likely be greater than the settlement initially proposed in the pre-litigation settlement letters.

Maybe this is how the RIAA intends on saving the music industry.

Kubrick Boxsets

2007-08-22T10:51:00.001-05:00

Cinematical reports that Warner is going all out with DVD reissues of classic Kubrick films, with a massive multi-disc boxset. The films to be included will be The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Eyes Wide Shut. Each individual film is getting the 2-disc treatment, one with the film, and the other packed to the brim with extras. However, the total price for Kubrick-maniacs will be around $80.

DVDActive has the full list of extras for each movie.

Now if only someone could take a crack at pulling together Kubrick's version of Spartacus.

Zhang Ziyi In 'My Wife Is A Gangster 2'

2007-08-12T15:09:00.001-05:00

...and scene.

marry me st vincent annie clark

2007-08-03T11:32:00.001-05:00

I've been jamming on this St. Vincent album a bit lately. It's not the kind of pop album I just sit and listen to all the way through every time, but each track is a digestible little piece of lush pop music. This idiom is becoming increasingly interesting to me as I revisit a lot of the old 60s pop singles I loved as a kid.

Prediction

2007-08-03T11:24:00.001-05:00

Van Dyke Parks will continue to be the guru of pop music in the early 21st Century, as songwriters place more and more importance on exploring the possibilities of arrangement.

Whoziwhatnow?

2007-08-01T15:15:00.001-05:00

Seriously, the next person who claims that it was illegal downloading that "killed" the music industry....

Argh.

You know what? You're entitled to your opinion. If your opinion is that the Music Industry as we knew it could have survived, had the onslaught of P2P sharing networks, such as Gnutella and Slsk not become ubiquitous, then so be it. I've made very clear in the past my advocacy of downloading media (illegally or otherwise), and how I honestly believe that it makes people more responsible and conscientious consumers. It allows us to make informed decisions about what we pay for.

Maybe I should have mentioned something though...

I'm a musician. My father's a musician. My roommate's a musician. Most of the people I was around, growing up as a kid, were musicians, both professional and otherwise. Some of these people work for small record companies as their day jobs. Now that they all have iPods, they all download music. Before the internet, they used to tape music, either off the radio, or from records borrowed from friends or the local library. We're musicians and we steal. Fuck you.

I mean, even if one were to blame Napster for the death of the music industry (looking at you Lars Ulrich), did we really want the music industry as we knew it to survive? Be completely honest with yourselves now.

Illegal downloads f**ked the music industry seriously, and while I'm all for sticking it to the "man," it all does end up negatively impacting the artists and their art -- ESPECIALLY SMALLER "NICHE" MUSICIANS!

I would say that music industry executives, and the framework of the industry is what really f**ked musicians and artists, long long long before the internet was around. Don't believe me? I know some dudes in Plainfield that worked as studio musicians on some historically important records and never saw a lick of the album profits. That's not because they were screwed over by anyone with any specific malice towards them. That's because working studio musicians only get paid a one-time fee. Even if you provide an improvised excerpt in a song (i.e. solo), which many musicians like to refer to as "spontaneous composition", you get a one time fee. No publishing rights, nothing. Why? Because that is the going contract for studio musicians. That is the way in which the Music Industry was designed at its very inception.

I mean, you want to talk artists' royalties, the situation is not much better. We're talking a couple cents per unit, and that's after the label has recovered expenses (i.e. shipping, packaging, production, any sort of advance, touring costs, etc.). A couple cents per unit. The average CD costs less than a dollar to manufacture. The cost of an individual album, including shipping, production, artwork, packaging, is somewhere between $3 - $4. It might be even less at this point. Meanwhile, music consumers are being charged anywhere between $11 - $18 on average. That's about $10 more than the CD cost to make. That's a $10 profit per unit, and the artist is getting paid a couple cents per unit. This was the case well before Napster, and last time I walked into a record store, it was the case several years after Napster.

The music industry does not respect you. The music industry does not respect it's "talent". All the music industry has done, since its inception, is convince you, the consumer, that there was a need for a middle-man.

Before The Music Dies is a fairly decent documentary which investigates this issue further, by interviewing music fans, studio technicians, professional songwriters, musicians, and former A&R reps. The nicest thing about this documentary is that they are selling both DVDs and DRM-free, downloadable digital copies of the movie (both at compressed and DVD quality) via their website. No middle-man. If your curious about this issue, and how it relates to music fans and musicians, check out the site.

Now, in relation to the BoingBoing.net post, I don't really think that the issue is whether or not illegal downloading is right or wrong. The real issue is that the RIAA does not want you downloading music, period, and that this is another piece of propaganda to add to the pile. It just so happens to feature a comic book character. That has always been BoingBoing's stance. Sure, pay the artists for their work, but don't let the record company tell you how to use your music (i.e. Digital Rights Management). Intellectual property is a very slippery slope of an issue, but property formal is less so. If you pay for a record, whether it be the physical record or a digital copy, the record company should not be able to prevent you from sharing it with your friends, burning multiple copies for whatever reason, or play these files on another machine.

Let's put this in terms of another media industry. Let's say you bought the Civil War tradepaperback. Your buddy comes over, sees you have the book. He's interested in buying the X-men tie-in trade, because he's a big X-men fan who happens to be one of those wait-for-the-trade guys, but he hadn't read the main story yet. He's a bit of a tightwad when it comes to his cash. So you offer to lend it to him. Now imagine that the minute the book exchanges hands, Joe Quesada pops up out of nowhere, snatches up the book and says to your buddy, "You didn't pay for this! You don't get to read it!" That's DRM in a nut-shell.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but most comics pros are currently advocating that you lend out your comics. They're telling you that word of mouth is the most powerful marketing tool. It's the one thing that could get non-comic book readers to read comics again, and hopefully save the industry. I don't think that BoingBoing is anti-artist by any means. I don't even think they're anti-paying for your art. I'm pretty sure what they are against is rich white men telling you how, and under what circumstances you are allowed to enjoy the art which you have already over-paid for.

Again, there are lots of resources out there on this issue, and how it pertains to any number of mediums. Go read some of this stuff and decide for yourself. As for me, I've made very clear that I download illegally in order to be a more concientious and responsible consumer. I'm downloading in order to make an informed vote with my money. This way, I am doing my personal best to ensure that the material I want to see on the shelves every week will be there next month, and that the crap I have no interest in is not. I'm trying to personally ensure that the comics industry is putting out what I personally think are good, intelligently made comics, in a language that they actually listen to. Money.

Except when it comes to the music industry. I am clearly out to fuck them. Hard. Because every day they are trying to fuck my friends and family even harder, and that doesn't sit right with me.

UPDATE Wow. Just read those opening paragraphs. I'm a dick, aren't I?

In the comments section of Occasional Superheroine Ms. Superheroine talks about the comics industry adopting a download platform for authorized digital comics (e.g. iTunes store for comics). I agree, wholeheartedly. My only issue is that DC & Marvel will probably be strong advocates of using DRM to ensure that these comics are not shareable, and I've mentioned above my feelings on DRM, and how I think that that would contradict previous statements made by professionals. The only reason this concerns me, is because there's only a small handful of books coming out from those publishers that I want to pay money for, but they have enough clout to set the standard for all the other publishers.

Ms. Superheroine makes an excellent point (again in the comments section) when she points out what really killed the music industry was not so much the emergence of downloading technology, but rather going up against the downloading technology. She believes that working with emerging technologies might help keep the mainstream comics industry afloat. I think that the heads at the big 2, as well as publishers like Image and Dark Horse are pretty well aware of this, and are at least trying to work with the future instead of fighting it. Hell, Avatar is putting out that web-exclusive Warren Ellis project.

Does anyone but me remember Marvel's short-lived, Flash heavy Dot-Comics? They used to feature a lot of classic books (I can't tell you how many times I've read Amazing Fantasy #15 at this point in my life) as well as the two main Ultimate titles. It was pretty sweet, and it's sort of how I got back into super hero comics when I was in college. I thought that that was a format that worked well, because you had to actually read the comic on Marvel's website, but you could share the link with you pals or whatever. Sure it's not portable, and the initial load time could be slow, but it was well worth it for me. And I suspect it was worth it for Marvel, because I've been reading and buying Ultimate Spiderman as a direct result.

Gaki no Tsukai

2007-07-30T08:37:00.001-05:00

I appreciate that these people feel the need to still skulk around in Ninja outfits, even though the guy is obviously aware of them, but forced to not react.

For some reason this reminds me of this movie I watched the other night which featured Takeshi Miike acting in it. I think that might just be the racist in me.

Movie Pun

2007-07-28T00:49:00.001-05:00

The Last Life in the Universe
The Guys from Paradiase
Lost in Translation

Things We Would Do If You Came to NY

2007-07-23T14:10:00.001-05:00

This is part 1 of a neverending series. Seriously. NEVER. ENDING.

07/23/2007 - Today, if you were in NY, we would brave the icky rain and crowded trains to deliver flowers to a grave. Who's grave you ask? Why Montgomery Clift's of course! Today is the 41st Anniversary of his death, and he is currently buried in the Quaker Cemetery in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Love,
Tonio

Filipino Inmates Do

2007-07-23T12:20:00.001-05:00

This is why my Third World Home Country rules, and yours is not as cool.

Go Mouthbreathe Over There, Away From Me...

2007-07-17T15:03:00.001-05:00

I don't care how excited you are that the Sci-Fi Network is bringing back Farescape back.

Muppets in space are still fucking lame.