www.bluestonejones.org In the midst of vast culture-level arguments over digital rights and intellectual property, my friend Matt Jones does something incredibly cool: he releases a bi-weekly podcast of his original electronic music compositions, Blue Stone... More »
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Posted on Mar 31st, 2008
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Michael
A moment of speculation, rooted in a study of universal trends: Human history can be defined as development along any of numerous axes, but my preferred story-for-our-species is of an advance in mind control technologies. ... More »
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Posted on Mar 29th, 2008
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Michael
Compared to Life (if the familiar dyad even makes sense), Death is famously dispassionate. Death doesn't care when, or why, or how, or who. Death can not care, because caring is the job of the... More »
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Posted on Mar 28th, 2008
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Michael
Painting @ Trilogy Lounge, 2008 03 06 Sometimes I feel like grabbing someone and pleading with them to please remind me what I'm doing, pretending to be a painter. It's a term I can only... More »
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Posted on Mar 25th, 2008
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Michael
Live painting was a curiosity to me, bizarre and insignificant, until last summer, when I finally got to see it actually happen. I had just moved to Boulder from Lawrence, Kansas, where I had been... More »
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Posted on Mar 24th, 2008
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Michael
As I've said before, the soundtrack to your funeral is as personal a playlist as you'll ever make. Assuming you have the luxury of deciding what to play to your mourning crowd (and assuming that... More »
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Posted on Mar 15th, 2008
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Michael
[For a better look at my paintings, visit my portfolio at myspace or photobucket .] Every Wednesday night around 9 pm, I drive out to the Trilogy Wine Bar here in Boulder, Colorado, where my... More »
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Add one to the list of Things We Somehow Never Realized We Were Missing: Everyone in my generation, and most of the people in the generation before it, grew up in a spacetime remix. When... More »
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Normally I don't do this. Normally I don't dip into the bedlam of internet discussion forums. They're engaging, but only until you realize that pearl diving in a flame storm is usually fruitless. Bless the... More »
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Posted on Feb 21st, 2008
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Michael
Zaadz Visionary Music 's first benefit compilation, The Dream Is Valid , has finally made a small but significant difference in the world. Our first payout allowed us to offer a $225 microloan to Ramona... More »
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