<a href="http://www.jordivpou.com/#">Jordi V Pou , Black and White Photographer</a> 82228754daniel millerSaturday, September 28, 2002publish<a href="http://www.centralbooking.com/inconversationwith_current.shtml?interview=35">Central Booking - Read like crazy...</a> In conversation with Chuck P 82228549daniel millerpublishplease forgive me just had a most interesting night. first of all, i'm reading requiem by curtis white for the installation, which is a very disturbing yet thought-provoking book. also (and not at all related to reading requiem), i was having <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/flight_chap3.html">suicidal thoughts</a> this afternoon and early evening. that's not the thing i would normally share. but that's just by way of context. <img src="http://www.burnttoastvinyl.com/new/releases/images/btv050.jpg" align="left">tonight i went to the <a href="http://www.denisonwitmer.com/">denison witmer</a> show at common grounds. beautiful was the only word that came to mind to describe it. definately shoe-gazing music. not exactly uplifting. but beautiful. inspired me to write more beatiful songs about trips to swimming holes, friends, and ...well, feelings. it was a great vibe at CG. i was really torn, because also tonight was <a href="http://www.chuckprophet.com">chuck prophet</a> at another club within walking distance of our apartment, IOTA. two awesome shows within walking distance! i know of chuck through ryan adams; i have some ryan adams mp3's with chuck on them. i chose denison because i wasn't up for a bar scene, and i don't regret it. but in the end i didn't have to settle so much. <img src="http://www.citybeat.com/2001-03-22/music3-1.jpg" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="10">on my way back from CG, walking right by IOTA, i stepped inside to see if he was still playing (this is around midnight). he was. only thing was i had exactly $0.00 cash. the denison cover had cleaned me out. but the doorman let me in w/o paying the cover!! how cul was that? i caught about an hour of what i would without hesitation rate as one of the top 5 shows i've ever been to. he is an amazing performer. listen to me: if you ever get the chance to see this guy live, do it! i'm hoping he comes back through town soon. amazing. and the cul thing was, by the end of this old skinny dirty white guy's loud raunchy set, i was happy again. i was clear again. i wasn't going to kill myself. now i just wished i'd held off last night on buying <a href="http://www.pastemusic.com/product/354">those</a> <a href="http://www.pastemusic.com/product/394">two</a> mallonee disks because <a href="http://www.pastemusic.com">pastemusic.com</a> also has denison and chuck for sale on their site. oh well...just a little more shipping is all i guess... survivin'. dm. 82228300daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/09/27/imf.protests/index.html">CNN.com - IMF protesters arrested in DC - Sep. 27, 2002</a> 82204545daniel millerFriday, September 27, 2002publish<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/">pastemagazine.com</a> Catching Up With Over the Rhine 82194883daniel millerpublishBought two Bill Mallonee CD's from <a href="http://www.pastemusic.com/">pastemusic.com</a> last night after posting that bit. Guess what? Iain Archer plays on the <a href="http://www.pastemusic.com/product/394">UK import record</a>!! 82194185daniel millerpublish<a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/2002_09_22_theyblinked_archive.html#82164750">TheyBlinked</a> the week-to-week urgency of a series of programs and events that make up the church as we know it today is a ridiculous institutional idolatry. this pace and posture of "spiritual life" have made faith gatherings non-events in the strictest baudrillardian sense. they have become little more than the crassest of ideology sales events 82193989daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.oslobodjenje.com.ba/">OSLOBODJENJE Sarajevo, Internet izdanje</a> Sarajevo paper 82193874daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3489-2002Sep25.html">Bill to Limit Music, Dancing in D.C. Restaurants Goes Nowhere (washingtonpost.com)</a> 82193284daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/demonstrations/imf/">washingtonpost.com: World Bank/IMF Protests</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9810-2002Sep27.html">Demonstration Skirmishes Continue in the District (washingtonpost.com)</a> 82192989daniel millerpublish<img src="images/bil1_sm.jpg" alt="bill mallonee" align="left"> A little bit of everything currently streaming: <a href="http://www.billmallonee.net/">Bill Mallonee</a> <a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/433/bill_mallonee_and_vigilant.html">mp3's</a>. Amazing. 1:1 In-ay e-thay eginning-bay Od-gay eated-cray e-thay eaven-hay and-ay e-thay earth-ay. Just got back from <a href="http://www.rotoscope.com/">Rotoscope</a>'s gig. Enjoyed the great tunes, of course everyone's fav <a href="http://www.rotoscope.com/files/mp3/fss_watershed.mp3">Watershed</a>, and the amazing community in which I have found myself lavishing. How is it these same people manage to get out, to be together, to enjoy the fruits of our nation's abandon and yet always hope for something better, something beyond, something somehow still defined in stories beauty and meaning? I was driving home, it was misting out, the roads were wet and empty and full of potential�and I crashed the Honda�no, just kidding, just thought I'd break up the poetic moment a little�ha ha�I had Tracy Chapman in the CD player and felt like I could've driven back to SoFla, flown back over to the UK, and been back by dawn. Bill just sang "<a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2568/2568104.html">back in the UK</a>." 1:2 And-ay e-thay earth-ay as-way ithout-way orm-fay, and-ay oid-vay; and-ay arkness-day as-way upon-ay e-thay ace-fay of-ay e-thay eep-day. And-ay e-thay Irit-spay of-ay Od-gay oved-may upon-ay e-thay ace-fay of-ay e-thay aters-way. <img src="images/bil2_sm.jpg" alt="mill ballonee"> The guy on the left, I think his name is Ian...that sounds like a good Irish name, doesn't it? Well, the night of the day I took this picture I stayed up 'til 4am talking to him. He's a good man. <img src="images/bil3_sm.jpg" alt=""> images from GB02 <img src="images/bil4_sm.jpg" alt=""> <img src="images/bil5_sm.jpg" alt=""> 82178405daniel millerpublishtonight: open mic at dremo's (i go on first) and then off to see <a href="http://www.rotoscope.com/">Rotoscope</a> play their premiere gig. 82165849daniel millerThursday, September 26, 2002publish<a href="http://www.jonnybaker.btinternet.co.uk/joel/pics/robot.jpg"><img src="http://www.jonnybaker.btinternet.co.uk/joel/pics/robotbutton.jpg" border="1"></a>from <a href="http://www.jonnybaker.btinternet.co.uk/joel/pics/picindex.html">here</a> 82165738daniel millerpublishLanguage training You might have noticed I've been posting prior to 2 pm this week. That's because I dropped my 5 hour Bosnian class and traded it in for a 1 hour morning sit-in with Miriam. She's now taking her admin training from 9-4. The thing was, I had 5 hours a day to work on Bosnian, but that was all the time I had for it. And to get it one really needs to study an additional 3-4 hours on top of that. And even if I had the time, after 5 hours my brain was fried and all I was good for was staring blankly at one of my many projects. You might have <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_09_01_archive.xml&id_pass=81694548">seen</a> <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_09_01_archive.xml&id_pass=81840449">this</a> <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_09_01_archive.xml&id_pass=81745767">coming�.</a> <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/index.php?archive=2002_09_01_archive.xml&id_pass=81729997">etc.</a> There are many factors, a new teacher last week who seemed to hate me, a book which is complete shite but cannot be changed because it was dictated by the head of the department, and a language that is so f-ing complicated! Every sentence involves about 10 calculations. I eat old cheese and drink cold beer. <s>accusative verb / masculine inanimate object / accusative / neuter object Ja jedem stari sir i pijem hdladne pivo. I think. Most likely tho, I'm wrong.</s> Update: Miriam came home and helped me out: first person singular personal pronoun / first person singular verb / accusative case masculine singular adjective / accusative masculine inanimate singular object / accusative neuter singular adjective / accusative neuter singular inanimate object Ja jedem stari sir i pijem hladno pivo. I only misspelled "cold" is all. :) When we learn languages growing up, first of all, we have years and years to learn it. Then we learn to speak it long before we learn to write it or get our endings right. Why as adults do we do it backwards? We start out in Jr. High grammar class and work our way back down to a pre-K speaker's functionality years later? Surely there is a better way. I just don't know what it is�. Which brings me to another thought: the real shame is that I hadn't already started to learn Slovak 5 years ago. What does that say about me, that I can't speak my wife's native language? (A: I'm a shit.) (Part of the deal with Bosnian is that it is close to Slovak and will help me when I attempt to learn Slovak for real in a year or so.) More so, what does that say about Miriam that her native language is so complex? (A: she's the shit.) And what of our language, of which there has been so much debate lately in certain circles? There's someone I'm following who is teaching English in Japan: check this little story out: "i have a very pragmatic sensibility; i like to be prepared. my head is very sensitive to the sun, so today, quite sensibly, i brought along my hat. my friend thinks a hat isn't necessary, but, to me, it makes sense." ooosh, that's tough stuff --<a href="http://consumptive.org/weblog/archive/2002_09_01_archive.html#82070423">consumptive</a> 82153378daniel millerpublish<a href="http://reason.com/brickbats/bb-april.shtml">Reason</a> Daily Brickbat: Absurd news bites, served fresh every day. 82151429daniel millerpublishGB02 imagine <img src="images/digital_air.jpg"> "self titled" .. enroute thursday The obvious remark made by <a href="http://freespace.virgin.net/adam.baxter/">Adam</a> upon the sight of this was, "As opposed to analog air..." <img src="images/OtRii.jpg"> <a href="http://www.overtherhine.com/">over the rhine</a>, friday night I couldn't get close enough to get a decent image with the light available. This one is actually from a shot zoomed out the most (28mm on my camera). In the print, Karen, Linford, and Jack are tiny, but the scanner makes up for it a bit and I was able to crop a lot and keep them big. I have shots zoomed in closer, but the shutter had to stay open for so long that they're quite blurry (although I do have a cul one of Linford moving up to the mike {*maybe* I'll put that one up}). Anyway, I realized after a few color shots and a couple black and white (which hopefully exposed more quickly and there4 will be better shots--I'll find out this afternoon) that I was going to see OtR in Virginia at a *much* smaller venue (Oct. 17 Jammin Java), where I could get much better shots. (Keep an eye out for some great {i hope} b/w <a href="http://www.billmallonee.net/">Bill Mallonee</a> shots from GB, tho! He was in a much smaller venue and I pretty much got right up to him.) 82146728daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.ceciliatheband.com/free/free.html">Cecilia * News</a> Cecilia is very thrilled to announce that after about 18 months of realizing the inevitable, we have finally and very willingly been dropped by Atlantic Records. We were presented with ultimatums that would have devalued the fundamental essence of Cecilia so we gladly chose this opportunity to get off of this twisted ride. Please take a moment to read about some of the reasons and details. First, we were signed by the top tomato in the room; the big boss with the hot sauce, the chief, the guy with a very big pen. He heard us for the very first time on Drew�s birthday, January 23, 2001. After playing a one hour set, Papa Smurf himself stood up, made a few hand motions, and to everyone�s surprise said... 82124374daniel millerWednesday, September 25, 2002publishGB2002 ... images ...*finally!* ...i'm going to spread these out (especially considering i still don't have the b/w's done! :) <img src="images/teatent1.jpg"> tea tent, friday 82108186daniel millerpublish<img src="http://www.rebeccadangelo.com/dangelo/other/images/thumb/fam030.jpg" align="left"><a href="http://www.rebeccadangelo.com/dangelo/main.htm">Rebecca D'Angelo Photography</a> -- I met Rebecca today at the <a href="http://www.javashack.com/homepage.html">Java Shack</a>. Some great images. This is the one that most quickly caught my eye. There's also a pic of our *favorite spiritual superhero* Bono on her site. 82070771daniel millerTuesday, September 24, 2002publish<a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/4069054.htm">Dave Barry -- The Miami Herald | 09/15/2002 | In War On Tobacco, money goes up in smoke</a> 82044250daniel millerpublishYou haven't heard me talk about the weather much lately (you're thinking, thank God!) because, well, it's been perfect. Today I actually wore a LONG SLEEVE shirt! Wow! I've got the screen door open and a nice cool breeze is coming in. Perfect coffee weather. Yeah. I might put these weather.com reports on the site so we can all see what it's like in BiH. But they're too wide for my sidebar. Hrumph. Text, people. TEXT SYNDICATION. 82043866daniel millerpublish<a href="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/redirect_magnet?loc_id=BKXX0004&par=internal&site=magnet&code=632537&promo=english"> <img border=1 width=270 height=140 src="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet2?loc_id=BKXX0004&code=632537"></a> 82043758daniel millerpublish<a href="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/redirect_magnet?loc_id=USFL0512&par=internal&site=magnet&code=632537&promo=english"> <img border=1 width=270 height=140 SRC="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet?loc_id=USFL0512&code=632537"></a> 82043720daniel millerpublish<a href="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/redirect_magnet?loc_id=USVA0023&par=internal&site=magnet&code=632537&promo=english"> <img border=1 width=270 height=140 SRC="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet?loc_id=USVA0023&code=632537"></a> 82043623daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.rotoscope.com/">.: { rotoscope dot com } :.</a> John's band's website up and cul 82042941daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/">The World Time Server - correct, current, local</a> <a href="http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm">International Dialing Codes</a> 82042924daniel millerpublishBeen thinking a lot about art lately. Perhaps it's because of <a href="http://integration.danielsjourney.com">integration research</a>, but who really knows. <img src="http://www.vonnegut.com/images/art/joepetro.jpg" align="left">I keep discovering artists as of late, again I don't know why. I honestly didn't know who <a href="http://www.vonnegut.com/">Vonnegut</a> was two weeks ago, and now I've seen his name pop up everywhere, it seems. Same with <a href="http://www.centralbooking.com/author_about.shtml?author=55">Tom Robbins</a>, whose book now graces my bookshelf, and there are more coming in the mail. Another thing that has intriqued me is the multi-valenced --and I must aside here, because I stole that from Ryan, who flattered me by describing my work that way after my performance on Friday...Miriam <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/miriam/2002_09_01_archives.html#81918631">mentioned his email to us</a> which was also very encouraging-- nature of these artists. I mentioned one of my favorite artists <a href="http://www.michaelknott.com/">Michael Knott</a> last week (and covered one of his songs Friday). He has been doing music, painting, and now sculpture. 1giantleap (see link from prior post) is a couple of musicians with digital video cameras and and eye for "traveling right" (as I would say). The main thread I can see in all of these human beings is that they are living what I would call an artistic life. Perhaps this is what I am after with my tagline seeking :: stories :: beauty :: meaning (recently appended with "whatever the fuck that means" at live performances). To wit (not sure what that means exactly but I like it): Yesterday I penned this to a friend in the UK: i have a theory that god raises all the really great musicians for himself and kills them early so he can have them to himself (at the time i was talking about jeff buckley). i am facinated by artists such as pollock, who had such genius, yet such insecurity and such destructive tendencies. sometimes i wonder if they were just too close to god's creativity to cope down here on earth. then i wonder if that's just a great excuse for my own insecure masicism. still, it's a shame most great artists are broke and hated during all or most of their lives, and only after they're gone do we really begin to appreciate what they did and said. this i do know for sure: it's because they are the prophets, and the better they are, the further off the realization of that prophecy is. many times it is realized after their death. so if follows no one is interested. to be a real lover of art you have to either have a prophetic eye yourself or just blind faith in the prophet. it's sad, really, that in a fear of the prophets the modern church has forced itself into irrelevancy. ... The end of the story with the <a href="http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/art/j2k2-21.jpg">image</a> below (from two posts ago) is that it offended a lot of people and someone put white paint on it. Destroyed a prophetic work. Someone send me the bible verse that says you'll go to hell for that, because it was no doubt a christian who did it. ... And in a final bit of noise, speaking of Buckley, about a week ago I finally got the Jeff Buckley DVD. Buckley has been one of those artists for me that has taken a long time to warm up to. But those are always the best. They don't wear out quickly. Considering it has taken years for me to get into him, I don't think he'll ever wear. This DVD is amazing. I'm going to try and get some of the audio from the EPK (Electronic Press Kit for you non-music-industry-types) onto some highly-compressed mp3 for you all so, if you haven't already, you can hear this amazing prophet softly speak the Truth to you. Stay tuned for that. Also, I didn't know Scott was there! You bastard! Why didn't you <a href="images/cap008.jpg">tell us</a>! :) (admittedly, that also looks like Barry Manilow) 81997073daniel millerMonday, September 23, 2002publish<a href="http://www.1giantleap.tv/frameset.php">1giantleap.tv</a> 81994740daniel millerpublish<img src="http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/art/j2k2-21.jpg" alt=""> 81994151daniel millerpublish<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2270648.stm">BBC NEWS | Technology | Learn for free online</a> 81973464daniel millerSunday, September 22, 2002publish<img src="http://www.wbur.org/photogallery/arts_rockwell/images/head_plate150.jpg" width="150" border="0" ALT="Diarama by Jarvis Rockwell" align="left"><a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&sid=6&id=333919">Jarvis Rockwell's "Maya"</a> "It's all of it," says Jarvis Rockwell. "Like real love of humanity, it's less critical." ... 81954300daniel millerpublish<img src="images/peoplefont_frayday6.jpg"> <a href="http://otherside.org/misc/frayday6/pics/index_2.html">2002_09_14_fray_day_6</a> -- pics. I know u r lazy so I've linked straight to the second page, which has a pic of me (and Ryan just before me). But do go check out page 1 of the pics. The image above is from the people font installation done that night. The entire font will be online soon for anyone to use. Very cul idea and very cul installation! 81950152daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/smallfire/">Small Fire</a> -- major updates, incl. GB and latest Grace and Vaux services 81938679daniel millerpublish