Drioux

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Drioux has a disposition like a hail of gunfire. 06.20.09:00:29:35

These vile, useless "Speidi" Pratt people need to be exterminated. They are everything that is embarrassing about being American.
06.15.09:12:20:01

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” (T.E. Lawrence)
06.14.09:17:15:35

Obedience is not my virtue.
06.03.09:22:41:18

This video pretty much blew my mind. Grace Jones is a living legend.
01.17.09:20:45:00

We are not pleased with Israel.

Meanwhile, I finally put a cap in 'Zero My Hero' and 'Exit Wounds'. Two down, three to go. This EP is happening. If it's the last thing I do.

Have a merry New Year, wherever you are, however you live, whoever you love, whatever you dream.
12.28.08:20:33:00

Drioux spent hour after delighted hour playing with his new home defibrillator. Now, he thought, if only I could get my hands on some epinephrine. When asked to comment about his day, he replied, "what can I say? I spent the day in shock."

We are very sad about Eartha Kitt.

12.26.08:10:48:00

Obama sort of shit the bed with this whole Rick Warren thing, huh? It's always nice to know your vote went to somebody who allows a hatemonger, whom actively endeavors to obstruct your rights, to speak on his behalf and then calls it a "representation of diversity". Whatever. Politics as usual. We are niether surprised or amused.

Meanwhile, I'm hoping to have The Nihilist EP finished before New Years. Yes, you've heard it before - but it's largely in the can. What remains are touch-ups, and then mixing & mastering. Hopefully I'll have an update for you in the next week or so about this. You've waited long enough. So have I.
12.18.08:21:49:00

Drioux may induce motion sickness.
12.18.08:14:57:00

We're the only city in the country that shit itself and shut down a big-ass chunk of its infrastructure over an ad campaign. A campaign that's been in place for 2-3 weeks, mind you. This was trumpeted as a "major success" for the city's campaign of civilian vigilance in the 'war on terror'. Except, if the devices in question had actually been bombs, we'd all have been blown to bits weeks ago. If that's success, I think I'll stick to failure.

In more important developments, Molly Ivins died tonight. We are sad.
01.31.07:22:16:00

Bravo, Veronica. Good for you.
01.31.07:10:17:00

Watched Pan's Labyrinth last night. Breathtaking and beautiful; perhaps so much so that it may have displaced one of my previous Top 10 films. I'll have to see it on DVD a few times before I can declare that without a doubt. But I was very moved by it.

And a little taken aback by the way it parallels a lot of the ideas behind The Nihilist. Not that any of these are particularly new or earth-shattering; I simply wasn't expecting to see it depicted in a modern fairytale.
01.31.07:08:43:00

Miguel Luciano. I'd link you to information about him (at the CUE Art Foundation) but the braintrusts that designed that site made it nigh impossible to deep-link directly to his exhibition page; you'll just have to google.
01.30.07:10:35:00

Getting up at 5:30 in the morning to go to the gym feels utterly perverse. Unnatural! I'm much more inclined to... recline. And watch the wheels roll by without me. At least, I am at 5:30 in the morning. Saints perserve us.

To say nothing of the fact that it's "16º, feels like 1º" outside.
01.30.07:06:30:00

Food poisoning is not fun.
01.29.07:10:07:00

Mr. Shota tells me he has '101' as his mobile ringtone. I'm a ringtone! I have arrived.
01.22.07:10:07:00

Naturally I discovered only too late that there was a local screening tonight of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5.

Meanwhile, some interesting reading about the idea of 'transhumanism'- the concept of eliminating human imperfection through genetic engineering. I heart Wikipedia, imperfect though she may be. Live in fear.

Recently watched "Volver" and "Notes on A Scandal"- both highly recommended. Next on my list, "Pan's Labyrinth", "Babel" and the Jonestown documentary. "Primeval" is apparently about a prolifically lethal crocodile; We Are Not Amused. Dodged that bullet at least.

A new 'Salon' (see link above) has been established; this one hopefully without the peril of hacking. Unfortunately we'll all have to register again, and none of the old databases are available to it. Ah well, a clean slate never hurt anybody did it?
01.21.07:22:52:00

January 20, 2005 - "What is essential is invisible to the eye."

To some modern western astrologers, Pluto is the ruling planet of Scorpio. Called "the great renewer", Pluto is considered to represent the part of a person that destroys in order to renew. A commonly used keyword for Pluto is "transformation." Many (traditional and modern) astrologers do not use Pluto as a ruling planet but do use the planet for chart interpretation and predictive work. Pluto is also associated with extreme power and corruption and the discovery of Pluto in 1930 coincided with the rise of Fascism in Europe and the major proliferation of organized crime in the USA. It is also associated with nuclear armament which had its genesis in the research of that decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_%28conspiracy%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclecticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

December 14, 2005

The three golden rules for living among the human species:

1. Always be polite and courteous
2. Always take confident ownership of your ideas, opinions and emotions
3. Always have a back-up plan for killing anyone you meet

December 3, 2005

Assassin, n. [French, from Medieval Latin assassinus, from Arabic ---, pl. of ---, hashish user, from ---, hashish. See hashish.] A member of a secret order of Muslims who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders and others.

Word History: At first glance, one would be hard-pressed to find a link between pleasure and the acts of assassins. Such was not the case, however, with those who gave us the word assassin. They were members of a secret Islamic order originating in the 11th century who believed it was a religious duty to harass and murder their enemies. The most important members of the order were those who actually did the killing. Having been promised paradise in return for dying in action, the killers, it is said, were made to yearn for paradise by being given a life of pleasure that included the use of hashish. From this came the name for the secret order as a whole, an, “hashish users.” After passing through French or Italian, the word came into English and is recorded in 1603 with reference to the Muslim Assassins.

Intifada, n. [Arabic intifada, shudder, awakening, uprising, from ---, to be shaken, wake up, derived stem of ---, to shake. See -- in Semitic Roots.]

December 18, 2008
News on The Nihilist and The Beginning of The End forthcoming. Stay tuned.

October 20 , 2008
Drioux performs on the debut LP from The Milling Gowns. On the track "Drug Company", Drioux sat in on bass guitar. The CD Diving Bell Shallows is now available from CD Baby.