Hello my dear
can I borrow your axe?
thank you, much obliged,
there is some broken machinery
I need to fix.
but with an axe?
well yes, you see,
the clockwork?
it's right inside my chest.
and when I say "fix"
I suppose you've been mislead
because what I actually meant
was to discard
to eradicate
to ditch.
Don't worry, it's just dead weight.
it had a compass, too
but now the needle's just spinning
and when it points, it's wrong
the courses it set
have only done me harm.
So what I need to do now
is to pry open
this sorry vessel
(can you hear it cracking)
and throw away
this here broken chip.
It won't matter,
it's not like I need it -
I've been dead for so long
one more missing piece
won't matter a bit.

Tags: rock bottom

The final list of GAMT 4.0 participants are listed below the cut. All in all, there are 81 participants. The mixers and mixees pairing chart will be posted tomorrow so be on the look-out.

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Tags: community activities, gamt 4.0
Current Music: The Dismemberment Plan - Ellen and Ben | Powered by Last.fm

So, the story goes that back in the seventies, Freddie Mercury issued a challenge to see what different variations people could come up with for Queen songs. Or it was something like that.

( My Make-Up May Be Flaking )

that album sounds just so much better on vinyl.
it's much... warmer, more atmospheric.

Tags: nine inch nails the slip vinyl yay

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Mexa-Vit C
o, how I love thee!

Hallo, folks!

Apologies for not being present last Thursday, but I had a killer headache and could only drag myself out of a dark room long enough to email our friendly mod and down some asprin. But I'm fine now, and back in form (I hope)!

Today's WotT (Word of the Thursday!) is one of my favourites:

Haecceity [haec-ce-ity; pron hak-see'i-tee]
noun

The description is a bit hard to explain, but it's the aspect of existence on which individuality depends; the hereness and nowness of reality, pertaining to a person or a thing.

First coined by the philosopher Duns Scotus, haecceity is that sense one gets of being in the present tense, the pure experience of a single moment in time or the very core of what a person or object is.

Etymology:
Latin, from haec, meaning this.

Usage:
Tom's printer's nature was pretty much like that of all others, except that printing Rs upside down was a part of its haecceity.

Tags: h, latin, noun
Current Mood: hungry

( Another concert announced )

Tags: myspace
Current Mood: busy

( Some well known and not so well known pieces behind the cut... )

EDIT: 4:50PM Scrapbook (aka pics.livejournal.com) is back up! Thank you.

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Sorry guys for the late notice! We've had to bring down the ScrapBook databases for some emergency maintenance. This means pics in your LiveJournal gallery are going to be unavailable. They should be back up within the next hour. I'll update this post when they're back online and we've checked them out.

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