god save the dead kennedys (1977 vs 1980)

There is no future
So I can watch them die chokin' shakin' in convulsions, go crazy, crazy
We mean it, man
Chemical warfare, warfare, warfare
Chemical warfare, warfare, warfare
She ain't no human being
Panic in the air, see the headless chickens runnin'
Climb on a tree on a branch and drop it
Chemical warfare, chemical warfare
Blowin' down down down the fairway, sensitive to the touch
When there's no future, how can there be sin?
We love our Queen
Scratch the grass, mister, you can't breathe
No future for you
We're the future, your future
And England's dreaming
God saves
Golf carts head-on crashin' crackin' heads wide open
There's no future, no future
God save the Queen
Chemical warfare, chemical warfare
Chemical warfare, warfare, warfare
God save history
God save your mad parade
Chemical warfare, chemical warfare
And roll and writhe in a sandtrap, starting to heave
Don't be told about what you need
We mean it, man
I cut through the fence, run right in and grab it, go crazy, crazy
Yellow air
God saves
Oh shit, what is going on in here?!
No future, no future
Chemical warfare, warfare, warfare

hotel california über alles (Eagles 1977 vs Dead Kennedys 1979)

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light...

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!

California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!

So I called up the Captain,
"Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine"
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.

DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "

where is my sweater (pixies 1988 vs weezer 1994)

[Karl:] All right.
[Karl:] All right.
[Karl:] Not much.
[Karl:] Yeah.
[Karl:] Yeah.
[Karl:] Yeah.
[Karl:] Yeah.
[Matt:] Aw man, it's gonna be the best, I'm so stoked! Take it easy bra'.
[Matt:] Aw man, this is the best. I'm so glad we're all back together and stuff.
[Matt:] Aw man, you want a beer?
[Matt:] Hey bra, how we doin' man?
[Matt:] Hey, did you know about the party after the show?
[Matt:] It's been a while man, life's so rad!
[Mykel:] Did you hear about the party?
[Mykel:] Hey, what's up?
[Mykel:] Um, I think I'm gonna go but, um, my friends don't really
wanna go. Could I get a ride?
And I die
And you'll ask yourself
And you'll ask yourself
Animals were hiding behind the rock
But there's nothing in it
But they told me, he swears
Bye-bye
Except the little fish
Goddamn
Hear me
Hold this thread as I walk away
Hold this thread as I walk away
Hold this thread as I walk away (as I walk away)
I am
I can
I don't want to destroy your tank-top
I sink
I think
I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
I'm me
I've come undone
I've come undone
I've come undone
If there's nothing in it
If you want to destroy my sweater
If you want to destroy my sweater
If you want to destroy my sweater
It go
It gone
It's good to see you lying there in your Superman skivvies
Know me
Let's be friends and just walk away
Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)
Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)
Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)
Me be
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh no
See it swimmin'
See it swimmin'
See it swimmin'
Sing and
This band's my favorite man, don't ya love 'em?
This is great, man.
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Tryin' to talk to me, to me, to me.
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked
Way out in the water
Way out in the water
Way out in the water
Where is my mind? [3x]
Where is my mind? [3x]
Where is my mind? [3x]
Who I
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Your head will collapse
Your head will collapse

POSTFACE

The chauffeur, whose seat the Professor shared, spoke to him without taking his eyes from the road. "Vous etes geologue?"
"A geologist? Ah, no! I'm a linguist."
"There are no languages here. Only dialects."

Paul Bowles, 1945 

letters of note (David Foster Wallace Literary Trust)

Dear Mr Kohner:

I would like to bring to your attention a subject that may be of
concern in connection with your work for the David Foster Wallace
Literary Trust. I'm an emotionally invested but otherwise unconcerned
third party.

I noticed that someone is using the file sharing site Github to host
the full text of David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". The text of
the novel has been marked up with some HTML-like tags that facilitate
analysis. It is available for direct download online.

I am assuming that the person who has put together this repository
does not have your permission to make the content available in this
form, because they make no statement to that effect. (Curiously, the
uploader has the family name Wallace, so the possibility that they are
a rights holder in the work did occur to me, but, again, no statement
about rights is mentioned.)

You can find the repository I'm speaking of here:
https://github.com/bwallace/computationaljest

The text of the novel as a whole (with the extra annotations that I
mentioned) is available for direct download via this link:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bwallace/computationaljest/master/infinite_jest_annotated.txt

Individual sections of the book are available in plain text format in
a ZIP file that can be downloaded together with the rest of the
repository.

It does not appear that the main aim of the uploader is "piracy", but
rather, this is an (in my opinion rather misguided) attempt to do "open
science".

The text tagging contributed to a textual analysis that is described
in the following published paper:

Byron C. Wallace. Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling
Infinite Jest. In Proc. of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
(NAACL-HLT), 2012. (http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N12-1001.pdf)

I'd guess that the analysis itself falls at least somewhat within the
broad wishes of the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust -- "open to
working with artists, writers, directors and performers who are
interested in using Wallace's work." If I may be so bold, making the
text of an ambitious contemporary novel like "Infinite Jest" available
under an open source license would be a pretty darn interesting thing
to do. However, I don't get the remotest sense that that's what's
going on in the present case.

I have not written to Byron Wallace about this issue: again, it's not
really my business to do so. I did however contact Github support
(see appended message). In short, they told me they will only take
content offline in response to a copyright violation if they receive
communications from the rights holder, following the protocol outlined
here:

https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/

Please note the following piece of text in that policy:

"GitHub will not automatically disable forks when disabling a parent
repository. This is because forks belong to different users, may have
been altered in significant ways, and may be licensed or used in a
different way that is protected by the fair-use doctrine."

In the current case, there are 4 forks in total
(https://github.com/bwallace/computationaljest/network/members) which
would presumably mean you'd need to submit 4 notice and takedown
requests.

That's about all I have to say on the subject, but if I can usefully
answer any questions please feel to write.

Regards,

Joseph Corneli, PhD

what makes Infinite Jest so great

«Again nodding blandly, Poutrincourt: 'This academic Founder, M. Schtitt tells that this Founder was a student of types of sight.’ [...] Poutrincourt was looking at Steeply almost too carelessly, it almost seemed. 'The studying was not so much how one sees a thing, but this relation between oneself and what one sees. He translated this numerously across different fields, M. Schtitt tells.’»

ambitions (2009)

1. Read Deleuze and Guattari

2. Exercise directorial role by doing things like making "roadmaps".
Recognize that this relates to "people manufacturing or maintaining
their own stress".

3. Actually study some math.

4. Make a new version of the Free Encyclopedia of Mathematics.

5. Finish up my work for Pitman.

6. Get "serious" about my book.

7. Redo my 3wk, 3mo, 3yr plans approximately according to schedule.

8. Design and experiment with a 'healthy routine' or some healthy parameters
and approaches.

9. Explore 'interpersonal relationship health'.

10. Finish reading "Middlemarch".

11. Read "Infinite Jest".

12. Apply for some jobs and/or graduate programs.

13. Write postcards to my Aunt Miriam about "crisis situations".

14. Identify and convene groups for group problem solving (and
potential 'coaching'
by my aunt).

15. Practice drawing.

16. Share my deepest emotions.

17. Watch "Stand by Me".

18. Read screenplays.

19. Take vitamins or eat vegetables.

20. Settle someplace?

21. Make a few new friends.

22. Be attentive.

23. Practice banjo and learn about tonal harmony.

24. Get a blood test.

25. Watch "Benny and Joon".

drift space (unedited transcript)

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can see although each other's memories and all the each other's
secrets and information in each others brains AV memory
good that events and see
become one compile extended stay in neural bridge
when you are drifting you going to silence
you don't think you try to Nantes
latch onto a memory
you see exactly who they are you know that you can't hide at all
its draft you have to know that the other pilot is gonna know
everything about good for Mac you have to
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