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RAD8

Life can be reduced to two points: what happens and what you do about it. The highest teaching of th

About Me

NOAM CHOMSKY ON HUMAN DESTINYModern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain.I would just accept it as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits in the classic formulation. Now it’s long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. It can only persist – with whatever suffering and injustice it entails – as long as it’s possible to pretend (i) that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, (ii) that the world is an infinite resource and (iii) that the world is an infinite garbage can.At this stage of history, either one of two things is possible. Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity, and sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively, there will be no destiny for anyone to control.As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set policy in the special interests that it serves. But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole – and by now that means the global community.The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication, and should use this power as they tell us they must: namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority, and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided.In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.hint: try Mozilla Firefoxok: take me here
DemocracyNow! CraigsList L.A. N.G. Wallpapers Wikipedia Stylesheet Zen
Digidesign Focusrite Avalon Anderson G.O.T.W.
HTML 4.0 Spec. CSS 2.1 Spec.
Coming Soonish

My Interests

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Locals interested in recording or playing, my gear:
Digidesign Digi 002 / Pro Tools 7.0 LE
BLUE Baby Bottle condenser mic
Sure SM58 dynamic vocal mic
Digidesign MBox 2
Tom Anderson strat copy, swamp ash body, maple neck
Mesa Boogie Nomad 55 combo amp (3 ch. switchable w/footswitch)
Vox Pedal uh ... uh ... Tonelab SE
Marshall practice amp
M-Audio Oxygen 8 (old) and a hack of Reason 3.0
[of course this is assuming I can get the crap to work right lol]
Logic Express 7 (not the full Logic Pro, unfortunately)
Yari Alvarez Jumbo acoustic, spruce top, coral rosewood body
A Washburn f-hole jazz guitar, could use flatwound strings I don't have atm
Breedlove acoustic guitar (main recording guitar, sweet)
I'd like to get an Avalon tube preamp/eq
I'd like to get a Triton Extreme 88
I wouldn't mind having a Roland electronic drum kit (white drums)
I could go for a Mackie 8-buss, but only if I had the space
Yes I have expensive taste in equipment, but then it's all relative right?
I need to get someplace I can insulate for sound (double sheetrock works best, separated with those resilient hanger things)
Here's an in-development image list of equipment described. I spent 9 months at SAE-LA, Hollywood.

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Television:

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My Blog

Autumn

This is something I wrote tonight in response to a post by another member of a Buddhist message board I contribute to. "this fall felt special, like it was the last one, or maybe the first" What a f...
Posted by RAD8 on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:07:00 PST

Poetic whisper

Tiger ChrysanthemumTo say that even a ChrysanthemumCan never match your beautyIs to deny that such could actually existIn this world of emptinessBut you are right in front of meYour movements are blis...
Posted by RAD8 on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:03:00 PST

Inspiration

This is one of the more inspiring things I have heard recently.  The show is Democracy Now! and this segment was today's Friday 10/13/2006 closing interview with Desmond Tutu.  It is better ...
Posted by RAD8 on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:38:00 PST

Further Reflections

After writing "A Letter" I think I experienced what is to be expected by anyone playing around with creative exploration in the context of big business: Oh hell, how f*ing naive did that sound?  ...
Posted by RAD8 on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:56:00 PST

A Letter

I wrote this as a leter to a newly-formed acquaintance, and thought I might be worth sharing with some of my other friends. So here it is.paradigm shiftMusic business cronies probably struggle with t...
Posted by RAD8 on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:30:00 PST

Latest Project

Hey,A friend was asking me about how Cascading Style Sheets work.So ... being the obsessive compulsive freak I am ... uh ... 2 days later ...What the hell can I say, if you enjoy that sort of thing ch...
Posted by RAD8 on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:18:00 PST

Global Warming

The Horrifying Facts!
Posted by RAD8 on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:39:00 PST