Yearly Archives: 2004

Chase

September 30, 2004songsMike

Have you ever been running? Running scared? Through the streets? Through the neighborhood? Through Ireland? Get ready to run in all new way to the demo for “Chase”, which will appear on our upcoming album. In my mind, this song will finally put to rest all the naysayers who said we never had it in us. Fuck you pricks, cause this song is the proof, the proof in the pudding POP, that we will write POP that will get on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack.

POP.

Do you hear me?

Now listen and shiver as the COT roars.

Chase

It annoyed me all morning

September 30, 2004UncategorizedwritingMike

It annoyed me all morning,
and for the life of me
I didn't know what it was - 
until she walked into the room
          for 
           the
            second
              time,
and I thought:
"Is it me, 
or is she dressed like
Paddington Bear?"

A Philosophy of the Mail

September 29, 2004UncategorizedwritingMike

There is no philosophy of the mail 
in this prison house 
fucking jail,
another body unseen, 
white outlined.

But here,
nothing is what in
folding seems.

For when mail is shot,
there are no detectives
to pick the scene -
or autopsies
performed by docs -
Why?
Just dock workers here,
masquerading in a package clear,
with floor
         too
         neat,
to which you might think, "a mailman's dream",
no it is a mailman's worst fear,
and that is the trick, or rather, all there is,
for no philosophy of the mail,
has ever been
posted.

COT Current

September 29, 2004the mindlabMike

Right now we’ve got a couple projects in the works. We are currently working on an EP that is slated at 5 to 7 songs and then a full length album of about 8 to 10 songs. There are a couple demos for the album recorded, and one completed song, while the EP similarly has one song recorded for it and a couple demos. Needless to say there is a long way yet to go on these projects. Periodically I would imagine over the next couple weeks we’ll be posting some of these songs in the MP3 area of the site for those who are interested.

Parkour – Xtreme Walking

September 28, 2004the mindlabdick

The actual English translation is Freerunning but Extreme Walking sounds cooler.

Parkour is the freestyle sport that’s like skateboarding, only without the board. I got linked to flash of this and was more inspired rather than simply impressed. These are just simple moves that almost anyone can do. I’ve done martial art rolls a plenty, even from heights; but never done or seen them done from 20 feet up onto a building across the street like David Belle, frenchman and father of Parkour, does.

Belle has a philosophy of “natural” sporting or play, in which someone just uses their surroundings to get a workout. This I can relate to since after 5 years of formal sword training I still feel like I’m the kid in the back yard playing with sticks. This is admitted as the real strength of the sport: that nothing is formal, nothing is to be judged ala X Games and thus it’s pure underground. So underground that children running around like this in rural/urban areas later find out that someone in 1988 went ahead and gave this activity a name. After all, there’s no expensive gear to even market other than shoes.

From here there is alot of juvenile involvement, including gangs/clans putting vids of their tricks to Eminem backbeats. Will you find me doing any of that? Not likely. Will you find me doing stupid shit like jumping off (small) buildings? Maybe. Will you find me finally getting down that aerial that I almost perfected years ago and then forgot about? I’m already working on it.

Full vid of the flash here

Into the Pipes

September 26, 2004songsMike

Here is the first MP3 to go up on Protozoic, “Into the Pipes”. This song is in progress or potentially done forever. Who can say. Only Father Time perhaps.

IDL Language Module for BBEdit

September 22, 2004the mindlabcomputingTim

So I did up a quick codeless language module for IDL. It’s pretty rough. It really only recognizes comments, strings, and a bunch of built in procedures. I don’t know how to add coloring for your own procedures, which is a shame because IDL is really suited for extending the built in functionality with your own procedures. Oh well, it’s better than nothing.

IDL Language Module for BBEdit

Halloween Masks

September 21, 2004the mindlabTim

Apparently, the Presidential candidate with the most popular Halloween masks wins the election. The split at Buycostumes.com is 57-43, with Bush in the lead.

Electoral Vote

September 21, 2004the mindlabTim

My heart skipped a beat the other day when I checked out Electoral-vote.com. The report from Sept. 20th was looking quite grim, but today seems a bit better…

Blockbuster…

September 20, 2004the mindlabTim

My girlfriend and I have gotten in the habit of going to Blockbuster to see if any of the “guaranteed to be in” movies aren’t in. Then we get to watch a free movie. We don’t even care what it is. The only part that sucks is asking the person at the counter.

Me: “Umm, hi, do you guys have any copies of Man on Fire?

Them: “No, we’re all out.”

Me: “… … …”

Them: “…”

Me: “Can I get a rain check on it?”

Them: “I guess so.”

They are just so unwilling to volunteer that free rental. Everyone involved knows why I am asking for that movie, but the employee invariably never wants to bring it up.

Speaking of Blockbuster, I just noticed they are running a deal like Netflix. I wonder how that will play out… According to Mark Pilgrim, the forecast says that Blockbuster will triumph.