Journal Archive - December, 2006

regardless of the circumstances, it always makes me sad when i read about people celebrating the death of another human being.
saddam hussein was a bad man, and a tyrant, and a despot.
but i don't know that 'celebrating' his death speaks so highly of the celebrants.
i'm anti-death penalty, primarily because it represents an atavistic lack of development and compassion on our part.
my personal hope for our us is that somehow, at some point, we'll learn to not take comfort in reprisals and vindictiveness.
our culture of punishing death with death and punishing violence with violence seems beneath us, and it seems to speak to who we were, but not who we have the potential to be.
i know, a lot of you probably think i'm just being a typical bleeding-heart liberal, but it does genuinely make me sad when i hear of people celebrating the death of another human being, regardless of what that human being might have done.
if we really are a culture of life it would seem that elective, violent death would trouble us in all cases.
i find it especially odd when christians are pro-death and when christians celebrate an execution.
jesus did kind of say: 'love your enemies', and 'i desire mercy, and not sacrifice'.
executing the guilty might satisfy some violent blood-lust within us, but as everyone learns in the 1st grade, two wrongs don't make a right.
-moby

it seems pretty clear, at least to me, what the film is about.
all you need to do is watch 'blue velvet' and 'twin peaks' and some of david lynch's other films to get a sense, narratively, of what the film is about.
i don't want to give it away, but from a narrative perspective(as loose and unconventional as the narrative might be)it seems clear and relatively consistent with many of his other films.
it even has a very clear, from a narrative perspective, resolution at the end.
sorry if i'm giving too much away.
moby

last night i went to see 'inland empire' and i loved it.
i haven't loved every david lynch movie('wild at heart' probably being my least favorite), but 'inland empire' is remarkable, probably my favorite movie of the last 5 years.
it has a few flaws, but overall it's absolutely amazing.
one caveat, if you go to see 'inland empire' please be aware of the fact that:
a-it's long
and
b-it doesn't have a conventional narrative

even though it's 3 hours long i might go see it again today.
moby

this a word nerd journal entry, so feel free to disregard it if you're not, er, uh, a word nerd.
before i start, to balance things out a bit:
hookers hookers strippers coke tequila st. barth's p-diddy cannes gulfstream.
ok, now i can indulge.
there's an old challenge wherein the challenger says something like: 'name 3 words that end with 'gry' and i'll give you a pony.'
then the challenge-ee says: 'angry. hungry. and....and...'
and then spends the rest of their life trying to think of another word that ends with 'gry'.
before i ruin this age-old word game i'll also mention that there's a puzzle about this challenge.

here's a paraphrased version of the puzzle:

'angry' and 'hungry' are 2 words that end with 'gry'.
what is the third word, do you know?

the answer is at the bottom of the page.
so, being a nerd, i went out and found a bunch of words that end with 'gry'.
these are all old and arcane words, but words nonetheless:

aggry: Coloured and variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry beads.
braggry: A variant form of braggery. Obsolete.
conyngry: An obsolete dialectal variant of conyger, itself an obsolete term meaning “rabbit warren”.
gry: The smallest unit in Locke’s proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (“philosophical”) foot. Also the grunt of a pig, an insignificant trifle, or a verb meaning to roar. Obsolete.
iggry: Egyptian colloquial Arabic pronunciation of ijri: “Hurry up!”, brought back after the First World War by members of British and Australian forces who had fought in Egypt.
meagry: Having a meagre appearance. Obsolete.
nangry: A variant form of angry. Obsolete.
podagry: Dodder, or the condition of a plant infested with it.
puggry: A variant form of puggree, a light turban or head-covering worn by inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.

in other word nerd news: merriam-webster recently published their 'word of the year' list.
the winners:

1. truthiness
2. google
3. decider
4. war
5. insurgent
6. terrorism
7. vendetta
8. sectarian
9. quagmire
10. corruption

what's interesting about this list is that 9 of the top 10 words have to do, directly or indirectly, with the war in iraq. personally i think that 'google' the verb should've been the word of the year.
-moby

p.s-oh, the answer to the puzzle is 'what'.

i hope you're not annoyed, but i changed the songs on my myspace page.
the 4 that were up there had been there for a while, so i took them down and put up 4 weird, little instrumentals that i like.
i hope that by doing this i haven't screwed up your pages, i just like to keep things fairly new and random on my myspace page.
-moby

does the 26th have a color-name-day?
like 'green tuesday'?
ironic, sort of, that green connotes(or denotes? i don't actually know the difference between connote and denote. i'm dumb. and i don't know how to spell 'connote'.
double dumb points for me today)both money and environmentalism.
in other news:
i was talking with a friend today about how most of the worlds religions are all pretty similar as long as they're talking about how to comport yourself while you're alive.
they go their seperate ways, however, when it comes to life after death and divinity. simply(very simply)- christians believe that life after death is a choice between heaven and hell, and those who are saved go to heaven and those who are not go to hell.
buddhists believe that unless we become buddha's(enlightened beings)we are stuck in the wheel and doomed to live in samsarra.
muslims believe that martyrs are met in a date-palm filled heaven and waited on by doe eyed virgins.
and so on.
but as different as their after-life scenarios are they all kind of agree on how we should live while we're alive.
to generalize: they all state that we should be humble and decent and kind and treat our fellow people as we would like to be treated.
so why not start a new religion that states as its credo: 'while you're alive you should be humble and decent and kind and treat people as you'd like to be treated, ok? and after you die?
well, who knows? we sure don't. the universe is vast and nuanced and complicted beyond our imaginings so it seems like the height of absurdity to make specific claims about what might/might not happen after we die. also, lots of enlightened beings who might or might not have been divine have walked(or sat)around on earth. there might be one true god and one true path, or there might not. so how about we focus on the good things upon which we agree and leave the rest to later?'
i know that sounds blasphemous to some, but wouldn't that be a good place to start?
cos right now all of the religions kind of smugly think that they've discovered the one-true-path to salvation/enlightenment/etc. maybe, as the universe is complicated, they're all right?
maybe, but doubtful.
can you imagine a world without any post-life guarantees?
no more suicide bombers?
no more celibate priests?
seems like it might be worth considering, no?
maybe a religion that has a big question-mark on the last page of it's holy text, preceded by the question: 'what happens after we die?'
i'm going to have a long winded p.s in case anyone wants to read it.
-moby

long winded p.s-
see, here's what bugs me. humans have over time proven that they love systems. humans have also over time proven that they love to be on the winning team. 250,000 years ago this made sense. if you had a system to find food in times of hardship you increased your chances of survival. and if you were on the winning team you lived(often at the expense of the losers)to perpetuate your genetic line. but these two things: systems and, for lack of a better word, tribalism, don't really seem to make much sense when applied to religions.
most religions are based around some good ideas. but rather than have the entire credo of a religion be: 'be nice, be humble, treat others as you'd like to be treated, and we have no idea what happens after we die', every religion eventually builds up layers and layers of beaurocracy and minutiae and hierarchy.
so when a religion purports to have the winning system it makes me ask the simple questions:
1-don't all religions purport to have the winning system?
2-aren't humans innately pre-disposed towards system creation?
3-aren't humans tribal and innately pre-disposed to see their group as right and all other groups as wrong?
so i then want to ask the devout practitioners of different religions: doesn't your system say more about human nature/inclination than it does about the validity of your system?
no true believers ever want to answer that question, be they muslims, christians, buddhists, alcoholics anonymous members, punk rockers, etc.
people love systems because sytems are clear and orderly and exclusive.
but life is not clear and orderly, and trying to establish the primacy of one system over another is not just impossible, but also incredibly dangerous in that it leads to wars and discrimination and prejudice and suppression of thought/inquiry.
ok, my p.s is long-winded enough, i'll say goodnight now.

i was up in connecticut earlier today and it was warm and sunny.
nice, right?
but it's december 23rd.
are we correct in assuming that a warm sunny day on december 23rd somehow indicates that the world's weather is broken?
or is it just a nice, warm, sunny day in the middle of the winter?
i also just read a report on bears wherein it was revealed that a lot of bears aren't hibernating during the winter due to warmer weather.
so...is the weather broken?
what next?
will the gulf stream shut down?
rising sea levels?
disappearing archipelago's?
bald guys who don't know how to spell 'archipelago's'?
weather is big(i really am the master of self-evident statements), and it seems that any changes to the weather as a global system will be fairly unpredictable(the basis of chaos theory, that a system comprised of trillions of variables is unpredictable), right?
it's hard to not feel an overwhelming sense of dread and curiosity when it comes to the potential repercussions of global climate change(self-evident statement #2).
an aside: i wonder if climate change has any effect on the tectonics of the earth?
oh, one thing that bugged me about 'an inconvenient truth'...al gore was talking about the myriad ways in which humans are breaking the weather, but he didn't mention animal production.
animal production is the #1 cause of rainforest deforestation, and the billions and billions of farm animals on the planet are a huge source of green-house gases(cos they poo and fart a lot. really).
i liked 'an inconvenient truth', but i was left wondering why al gore left out the data about animal production as a primary contributor to greenhouse gas production.

-moby

a right wing republican(surprise), virgil goode, is publicly stating that he believes that no united states political official should be a muslim.
he's stating that u.s political officials should swear on the bible, and only the bible.
i mean, come on...aren't you republicans embarassed by this sort of perpetual back-woods reich-wing nonsense?
to my republican readers: see, there's this inconvenient(if you're a right wing republican) document called the bill of rights.
it's the preamble to the constitution upon which the united states was founded.
just fyi.
a central tenet of the bill of rights is freedom of religious expression.
allow me to clarify.
it doesn't say 'freedom of sanctioned religious expression'.
it doesn't even say 'freedom of monotheistic or judeo-christian expression'.
it says, to paraphrase, freedom of religious expression.
the bill of rights(aka-the document upon which our nice country is founded) also establishes freedom of expression.
again, not just freedom of conventionally accepted/sanctioned expression.
but freedom of expression, regardless of the expression(the focus being on the freedom part).
so if a new member of the house of representatives chooses to be a: sufi/christian/satanist/jew/muslim/taoist/pagan/etc, well, that's their CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT.
and any dimwitted, atavistic right-wing republican who takes offense at this is taking offense at the bill of rights and the constitution, and thus taking the most egregiously un-patriotic stance that an american or an elected official is capable of taking.
virgil goode is, in essence, a treasonous anti-american, in that he is trying to restrict/stigmatize a fellow americans right to express himself freely and practice the religion of his choosing.
why cant democrats step up and say that to restrict someones constitutionally guaranteed freedoms is the ultimate act of unpatriotic treason??
to my republican readers: love america and it's constitution, or move to some other country that respects your desire and willingness to restrict peoples rights to live and worship and express themselves as they see fit.
-moby

i don't want to burst anyone's(or everyone's)bubble, but i'm a weird sort of christian myself.
i don't go to church.
i find dogmatic and judgemental christians to be just as offensive as dogmatic and judgemental muslims, jazz fans, pure-bred dog owners, etc(for the record:
nothing wrong with islam, jazz, or pure-bred dog owners. my criticism is reserved for dogma and judgementalism).
i won't ever argue with anyone about religion or claim that i'm right and they're wrong.
but in my own weird and subjective way i'm a weird little christian.
i believe that there's something somehow divine about the teachings of christ, and the fact that christ's teachings compel us to be selfless and forgiving and humble and loving and non-judgemental.
this is one of the reasons that i get so annoyed with contemporary christianity and it's seemingly comprehensive disconnect from the actual teachings of christ.
but, nonetheless, i find it odd when people come to moby.com or myspace to say 'moby, we christians do this/that/etc'.
i kind of want to say, 'uh, dudes(notice the contemporary colloquialism, that's me trying to fit in)i'm one of you, ok?'
christ compels us to be better than we usually are.
christ compels us to forgive those who've wronged us.
christ compels us to love our enemies.
christ compels us to be humble and non-judgemental.
christ compels us to care for the neediest.
christ compels us to be non-violent.
christ compels us to recognize that the material world and all of our posessions will ultimately turn into dust, so we shouldn't get too attached to our bodies, our lives, and our stuff.
and, most importantly(in many ways), christ compels us to love one another and look after one another, and to see all people as our own family.
so when i call myself a christian it's because i find christ's character and teachings to be incredibly compelling and, well, divine(cos they're too weird/impractical/perfect to have ever been invented by a human being).
all of the other stuff: virgin birth, apocryphal gospels, did christ have a wife/brother/twin/dog/etc?,
i find to be interesting window dressing.
if someone came to me and said: 'i have proof that there was no virgin birth and that christ had a brother and a wife and a boston terrier!' i'd say: 'ok. but his teachings are still pretty remarkable, regardless of the circumstances of his life, right?'
i also have great respect for other religions, especially those that stress the virtues of love and compassion and forgiveness and humility.
and i'll never, not for a second, say 'what i believe is right, and what you believe is wrong.' what i believe is what i believe. it's subjective and it makes sense to me and it changes as i change and as my experience in the world changes.
constancy is not, in my opinion, defined through rigidity, but rather through love and adherence even through changing circumstances.
and as for christmas, i hope that everyone has a wonderful christmas, regardless of how you choose to celebrate it(or not celebrate it).
i always hope that somehow we can see past the fun and awesome pagan trappings of christmas(trees, mistletoe, december 25th, candy canes, etc) to remember that on christmas we celebrate the birthday(even if jesus wasn't actually born anywhere near december 25th)of a man who wanted us all to be more forgiving, more compassionate, less judgemental, less violent, and less materialistic.
ultimately christmas is about celebrating the birthday of a man who wanted us to love one another and to look after one another regardless of our religious or political or ethnic or gender differences.
thanks, and merry christmas.
moby

here, in america, we are in the middle of THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS.
oi vey.
right wing christians are up in arms because certain retail outlets will say 'seasons greetings' or 'happy holidays' instead of 'merry christmas'.
and they're upset that nativity scenes and christmas trees are sometimes taken off of public property.
i mean, really?
let's just look at some facts:
a-christmas trees have nothing to do with christ. they're a pagan, scandinavian tradition, widely adopted in the rest of the world.

b-jesus wasn't born on december 25th. when was he born? no one knows. but december 25th? almost impossible. shepherds were tending their flocks by night, right? well, not in the middle of winter, even in israel, cos it's cold. so unless they were developmentally disabled shepherds they certainly weren't tending their flocks by night on december 25th. we celebrate christmas on december 25th because 2,000 years ago
december 25th was the shortest day of the year. now the shortest day of the year is december 21st, soon it'll be december 20th, eventually it'll be july 4th, due to having an irregular calendar, even with leap-year. when the pagans were being converted they made a bargain: 'let us keep our mid-winter pagan holiday and we'll become christians.' 'ok, but how about we call the mid-winter pagan holiday "christmas"?'. 'ok'.

c-jesus once got angry and drove the money-changers from the temple. why? because they were commercializing religion. so...what would upset jesus more, someone at wal-mart saying 'happy holidays', or billions of dollars being spent to commercialize jesus' birthday party?

the religious right need to sit down and look at what they're doing.
christians in the 21st century should be humbly tending to the poor and needy, not opposing stem-cell research, banning harry potter books, getting upset about homosexuality, and defending christmas from the pagan infidels(well, if a few people from the aclu count as pagan infidels).

and, pray tell, why are the religious right so opposed to the aclu?
the aclu has one mandate: defend the bill of rights, which is the cornerstone of the constitution.
you might remember the constitution, it's the evolving document that is the foundation of democracy in the united states.
so the aclu are bad for defending it?
again, the right-wing in america need to get their collective heads examined.

-moby

ahmet was the founder of atlantic records.
he signed led zeppelin, aretha franklin, ray charles, the rolling stones, otis redding, solomon burke, and too many more remarkable artists to name here.
i got to know ahmet over the last decade, and i always found him to be gracious, funny, and, even in his 80's, remarkably enthusiastic about music.
a few years ago we were having lunch and he told me how he had started atlantic records out of a suitcase in a hotel room in times square almost 60 years ago.
he didn't start atlantic records because he wanted to make billions of dollars(which he did, eventually), he started atlantic records because he was deeply and profoundly in love with music.
the word 'legend' is thrown around far too easily in the music business, but ahmet ertegun was, in every possible sense of the word, a legend.
-moby

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR200612...

for too long the war in iraq has been (mis)managed by people without any accountability.
tens of billions of dollars have been wasted by defense contractors in iraq.
u.s soldiers and allies have been put needlessly in harms way by inept republican hacks.
and so on and so on.
and now the incoming democrats plan on launching investigations to figure out
what went wrong, why, and who benefited financially from cronyism.
good for them.
people in government should never be above accountability, whether they're republican or democrat.
the republicans have operated in a vacuum of inaccountability for too long, and the country and the world have suffered as a result.
these investigations might piss off the republicans who are guilty of mismanagement, deceit, and corruption, but that's good, as people who are guilty of mismanagement, deceit, and corruption deserve to be held accountable for their actions.
moby

simple question, whatever happened to mazzy starr?
i miss them.
that's all.
moby

a-i'm in spain now. or so i believe. i haven't seen anything yet. but it feels like spain(and i guess i should know as i was here a few weeks ago).

b-the contest at beatport is still up and running, but not for much longer.

c-when you check into a hotel and the internet doesn't work it can make you panic. well, if by 'you' you mean 'me'. or if by 'you' i mean 'me'. that's what i meant. i tried giving up the internet. it didn't work out so well. maybe i'll try again at some point.

d-coffered ceilings: pro or con. debate.

e-the weather's broken. a blizzard in the northwest with 110 mph winds? yup, broken weather.

f-i really do like lists.

g-i did star academy tonight. it was interesting. playing 'lift me up' live is fun. i sound like rain man.

h-i just ate some greasy vegan food. now i feel greasy.

i-ok, time to go.

moby

in case you missed this:

BBC-High IQ link to being vegetarian

Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life, a study says.

A Southampton University team found those who were vegetarian by 30 had recorded five IQ points more on average at the age of 10.

Researchers said it could explain why people with higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet was linked to lower heart disease and obesity rates.

The study of 8,179 was reported in the British Medical Journal.

Twenty years after the IQ tests were carried out in 1970, 366 of the participants said they were vegetarian.

Men who were vegetarian had an average IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians.

Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher occupational social class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for these factors.

Vegetarians were more likely to be female, to be of higher occupational social class and to have higher academic or vocational qualifications than non-vegetarians.

Lead researcher Catharine Gale said: "The finding that children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarian as adults, together with the evidence on the potential benefits of a vegetarian diet on heart health, may help to explain why higher IQ in childhood or adolescence is linked with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease in adult life."

recently(aka-recently)margaret spellings was beaten by michael mckean on celebrity jeapordy.
what, pray tell, is the relevance of this/that?
because margaret spellings is gw bush's secretary of education and michael mckean played 'lenny' on 'laverne and shirley'*.
-moby

*to be fair, michael mckean has done about 100 fantastic things since laverne and shirley, like playing david st. hubbins(the patron saint of quality footwear)in spinal tap, for example. but he still beat gw bush's secretary of education on celebrity jeapordy.

truly the glamorous side of touring, spending almost more time on airplanes than on the ground.
luckily i like being on/in airplanes(being 'on' an airplane might be uncomfortable, as the wind would be 600 miles per hour and it would be roughly 40 degrees below zero. that would be chilly and mildly unpleasant).
some good things about airplanes:
a-you can read crappy books and not feel guilty.
b-you can watch crappy movies and not feel guilty.
c-you can look outside and occasionally see interesting things like mountains.
d-endless supplies of orange juice.
e-interesting people you can avoid talking to.

and so on.
i'll leave nyc thursday, be in france on friday, spain on saturday, then back to nyc on sunday.
and i'll be flying pan am, if you want to stalk me.
or eastern.
or branniff.
i'm not actually sure yet, as they all offer pretty compelling travel packages.
oh, that's right, i'll be flying twa.
poor twa.
what're they going to do with the eero saarinen twa terminal at jfk?
it's the coolest terminal in the world.
i hope they don't screw it up, even if i don't know who 'they' might be.
it's sad that the cool airlines who sort of made air-travel seem glamorous in the 50's and 60's have all gone belly up. twa and eastern and pan am all seemed so cool and they all featured so prominently in bad movies from the 60's and the 70's.
and now they are all gone.
too bad american airlines is still around. american airlines is kind of like the new york city bus-line of the skies.
shouldn't someone at american airlines make an effort to make it nice?
or nicer?
the other domestic airlines are all relatively ok, what happened to american airlines that it always feels gross?
ok, enough travel whining.
i have to go eat pancakes.
see, i'm quite dull when i don't write about politics.
oh, i saw the movie 'queen' or 'the queen' last night.
it was pleasant, but i kind of forgot about it within 5 minutes of leaving the theater.
are tony blair and the queen really such good pals?
moby

according to the most recent zogby poll only 30% of americans have a favorable impression of george bush and the job that he's doing as president.
the republican congress received only an 18% approval rating.
only 24% of americans believe that gw bush has done a good job handling the war in iraq.
and so on.
it really is amazing how quickly political fortunes can do a 180.
after the invasion of iraq bush and the republicans' approval ratings were in the 70's and, sometimes, 80's.
i can only imagine that the republicans are counting the days until the bush presidency ends, as he and his coterie have become a huge, dead weight around the neck of the republican party.
it'll be interesting to see how the republicans re-invent themselves.
if they continue down the anti-stem cell research/anti-evolution/pro-war/pro-tax cuts for the rich/anti-gay/anti-environment path they will become more and more marginalized, especially as the democrats are starting to get their shit together on a national level(or, well, so i hope).
for too long the republicans have governed with impunity and pandered to their base(pro-war, intolerant, religious zealots). the republicans have regarded the rest of america(aka the sane part who believe in stem-cell research, evolution, tolerance, international diplomacy, etc)with contempt, and now the rest of america are seeing the republicans as contemptible, as evidenced by these most recent polls and the huge upset in the mid-term elections.
it's not inconceivable that the republicans could be looking at a decade or two of permanent minority status in every level of government.

-moby

i went rock climbing yesterday.
i had hitherto been a rock climbing virgin, but now i know the joys of belaying and 5.10 climbs and i've discovered my inner gollum(remember the scene where he's scampering up the mountain where the spider((sheol??)) lives?).
and, after spending 90 minutes rock climbing yesterday, i've discovered
that there are certain muscles in my body that had, most likely, never been
used before.
like the tippy tops of my forearms. and some of my finger muscles.
i came home from rock climbing and tried to open a bottle of teany and i felt like a kitten on muscle relaxants.
my fingers just didn't want to grip anything, as if they were saying to me: 'we were keeping you alive by gripping rocks, so now we're taking a break, hopefully you'll get along fine without us for a little while.'
wait, am i turning into a...a...jock?
i played tennis last week, rock climbing yesterday...should i be concerned?
can i still be a card-carrying nerd and climb rocks and play tennis once every 2 years?
this would be my nerd quiz:

a-what is an imzadi?
b-the hive queen and the ______?
c-comic book guys last words?
d-david byrne went to which new england art school?
e-thomas pynchon's favorite band?
f-fortran5 is ______?
g-'spellbound' is the name of 2 movies, which have you seen more recently?
h-schrodinger's dog/cat/turtle/mouse?
i-name 5 of brian eno's musical projects.
j-pronounce 'hegemony'(hint, this is sort of the answer to one of the other questions...it's also a trick question).

ok, nerd cred in check.
phew.
i was concerned.
moby

working with the nice people at beatport.com i'm happy to announce the following offer/contest:

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it seems like a really fun contest, i hope that you enter and win.
-moby

http://contest.moby.com