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YAP

Change the Past

About Me

"My fortune or misfortune doesn't matter. I am the poet." -Jorge Luis Borges
Audiversity . Get schooled.

My Interests

MotoGP and its relationship to WSBK, World Rally Championship

I'd like to meet:

The carelessly and ruthlessly self-involved.

Music:

The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, U2, LCD Soundsystem, At the Drive-In, Pixies, Million Dead, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, TV on the Radio, My Bloody Valentine, Irish folk songs, These Arms Are Snakes

Movies:

The Sting, Goldfinger, Casino, American Beauty, Magnolia, The Set-Up, Fight Club, Pi, Amadeus, City of God, Road to Perdition, Quiz Show, Dr. Zhivago, Airplane!, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Television:

Broken News, Spy Groove, Charlie Rose, The Office, Wings of the Red Star, Stephen Cooley Real Estate Show, Spoons, The Colbert Report, Connections, The Joy of Painting

Books:

The Great Gatsby, Darkness at Noon, Dubliners, Less Than Zero, Animal Farm, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, The Autumn of the Patriarch

Heroes:

James Joyce, Terje Haakonsen, Mel Lastman, Jonathan Keats, Steve McQueen, Kasimir Malevich, James Murphy, Corey Worthington, Tom Anderson

My Blog

Unpublished Blog for The Syndicate

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16562037.htmIn response:It was recently featured here on The Syndicate's blog that the University of South Carolina offended the RIAA more than anyone else last ye...
Posted by YAP on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:12:00 PST

Unedited Garnet & Black Music Column

When Garnet & Black first asked me to write a music column, I had a bit of a laugh. Writing about "anything involving music" sounds a lot easier than it is. I could follow Blake Arambula and write...
Posted by YAP on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:10:00 PST

Unedited CMJ Interview

I'm not sure what they're going to run, but here's how I wrote it up for them. 1. Tell me a bit about your station. All I know is that you got a transmitter awhile back.Blake Arambula: The new digital...
Posted by YAP on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:52:00 PST

World Cup Final

Just to keep things neat and tidy,Lars Bika: So I come home and ruin the outcome for myself.Lars Bika: Doesn't even make me want to watch the game anymore.Lars Bika: Apparently there was head-butting....
Posted by YAP on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:18:00 PST

One Review, Extended

1. TV on the Radio. "Return to Cookie Mountain" Less patient fans have been at the mercy of file sharing merchants since February in pursuit of the proper sequencing for TV on the Radio's elusive sec...
Posted by YAP on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:17:00 PST

World Cup Blog: Day 11-25

Lars Bika: Did you see Argentina V Germany?jordanboring: yeah dude, it was totally off.Lars Bika: The Germans looked strong on home ground, that's for sure.jordanboring: it was stupid for argentina to...
Posted by YAP on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:00 PST

Continuing Commoditization of Online Friendships

A brief intermission: I just noticed you can now have a Top 24. I guess if you're that popular and so embedded in the MySpace culture that your friends' list is a giant pissing contest where people ge...
Posted by YAP on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:25:00 PST

World Cup Blog: Day 3-10

Lars Bika: So we've got a lot to catch up on, eh?jordanboring: i guess so yeah.Lars Bika: Thoughts on Italy V US first, obviously:jordanboring: i was passed the fuck out when you called last night.jor...
Posted by YAP on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:40:00 PST

World Cup Blog: Day 1, 2

Since I don't feel like clogging up any other journals with even more conversational excerpts, I thought I'd give this a bit of a go and, inspired by an offhanded comment Jordan made, we thought we'd ...
Posted by YAP on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:38:00 PST

Quickly Dreamt in Cursive

Not much to read, this week or any other. The oscillation is over. It's been too long.
Posted by YAP on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:17:00 PST