Swanksalot's Solipsism

GOP Clown Car

2012-02-01T11:57:00.001-06:00

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Satans coffee at Target

2011-11-15T13:52:00.000-06:00

Satan's coffee at Target. My brother sent me this photo from Target in Austin.

Tony Auth on Penn State

2011-11-10T10:48:00.001-06:00

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Signe Wilkinson - Penn State Inc 111109.gif

Rick Perry, Birther

2011-10-27T13:52:00.001-05:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Flash: Off
Film: Big Up

Uncut November 2011- Still Smiling

2011-10-26T19:04:00.000-05:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Flash: Off
Film: Big Up

Giant Walking Eye

2011-08-31T16:33:00.001-05:00

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Ragnarokr logo

2011-08-31T16:32:00.001-05:00

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Work Made for Hire as a Sound Recording

2011-08-31T16:28:00.000-05:00

Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians - Full Dimensional Stereo

Speaking of slimy music corporations, remember when this happened?

"As a sound recording."
Margaret Cone read that innocuous-sounding legislative language and her heart skipped a beat. The time was last November, during the closing days of last year's congressional session. Cone was a veteran Washington lobbyist.
She'd been tipped off that an amendment to a pending bill -- quietly inserted without debate -- would reclassify under the nation's copyright laws all sound recordings, like cassettes and CDs, as "work made for hire."
If true, that slight change would mean musicians would never again be able to own their recordings. Instead, record companies would become the sole legal owners of a record over its legally copyrightable life, currently 95 years.
Talking to a friend on the phone as she sifted through pending legislative bills, Cone recalls having "a sinking feeling that something wasn't on the level." She checked one bill that dealt with copyright; no mention of work for hire. She sifted through another, Title I of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act, and found nothing.
Then, "on a fluke," she went to the buried "definitions" section of that second bill and there she found this:
"(e) WORK MADE FOR HIRE-Section 101 of title 17, United State Code is amended in the definition relating to work for hire in paragraph (2) by inserting "as a sound recording."
"My knees literally gave way," says Cone, who often represents artists on Capitol Hill and instantly understood the ramifications of the proposed copyright change. "I told my friend on the phone, 'I gotta go! I gotta go!'"
She dashed to the offices of the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee to try to get some answers. "I wanted to find out how bad it was," she recalls.
That was Nov 16. Two days later, despite Cone's frantic back-room protests and pleas, the work-for-hire amendment, attached to a massive 1,740-page omnibus spending bill, passed the House and Senate. President Clinton signed it into law Nov. 29.
Early this August ((2000)), after months of public and often hostile debate, the record companies, lead by the Recording Industry Association of America, finally agreed to ask Congress to essentially repeal the work-for-hire amendment Cone discovered that day.
The battle represented a rare victory for musicians on both Capitol Hill and in the business arena.

(click here to continue reading Four little words - Eric Boehlert - Salon.com.)

Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe

Too Hot For Me

2011-07-20T13:50:00.001-05:00

Mojo 6-2011: Communion

2011-06-29T17:59:00.001-05:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Ina's 1969

Facebook Syndication Error

2011-06-15T12:38:00.001-05:00

Luckily, there is a way to re-subscribe to RSS feeds at Facebook, they just moved them…
http://plasticlimey.blogspot.com/2011/06/facebook-breaks-their-rss-feeds.html

Facebook Security Check in Chinese?

2011-06-15T12:32:00.001-05:00

Facebook Security check (for linking to an external site), asking me for what looks like Hanzi (Chinese). It's been too long since I've written Chinese, can't remember what this character is. I just type Li, and the the other work, and my link posted.

Evernote Button vs Tweet Button are too close probably.

2011-06-14T21:54:00.001-05:00

Oops…blame this really good martini…

Uncut July 2011 - Here Come The Nice.

2011-06-04T13:21:00.001-05:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Tejas
Flash: Off
Film: Big Up

Bob Dylan 70

2011-05-17T22:54:00.002-05:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Flash: Off
Film: Big Up

Complete playlist here:
http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2011/05/17/bob-dylans-70th-dream-playlist-per-rolling-stone/

Rolling Stone Magazine has published a list of their top 70 Bob Dylan songs (and a few variant versions, mostly live versions, or bootleg versions with The Band in their Woodstock hoedown days) in the print edition called The 70 Greatest Dylan Songs - online has different lists, and their top ten Dylan songs. Of course I had to make an iTunes playlist for these songs, and am listening to it now.

A few Chicago Craft Beer locations

2011-05-10T18:24:00.002-05:00

6 years of gas prices (2005-2011)

2011-04-25T15:45:00.002-05:00

click to embiggen.

Red is Chicago, Blue is National average, and green is Austin, TX.

via Gasbuddy.com, which unfortunately doesn’t have averages longer than 6 years. I was curious about what gas was in 1999, for instance.

1-2-3-4 : Roots of the Ramones - Mojo May 2011

2011-04-18T08:27:00.001-05:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Helga Viking
Flash: Off
Film: Ina's 1935

Cat Food Commission

2011-04-12T09:17:00.001-05:00

Nobody Is Standing There

2011-04-04T11:06:00.001-05:00

Nobody Is Standing There, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Lake Street.

black and white treatment of the Lake Street CTA tracks

Nuclear Plants in Illinois - a map.

2011-03-18T12:22:00.001-05:00

Via http://www.neis.org/Content/Nuclear_Illinois.shtml

2000 volts behind the Green Door

2011-03-16T09:09:00.001-05:00

2000 volts behind the Green Door, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Garfield Park Conservatory

from a visit in 2005

Green Lake

2011-03-14T22:15:00.001-05:00

Green Lake, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lake_(Seattle)

Uncut 4-2011: Homeward Bound - 21st Century Troubadors

2011-03-08T21:14:00.001-06:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Lucifer VI
Flash: Off
Film: Pistil

Mojo 4-2011: Panic - 15 Tracks of Riotous 80s Indie Insurrection

2011-03-08T21:09:00.002-06:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Lucifer VI
Flash: Off
Film: Pistil

Facebook Failure March 2, 2011.

2011-03-02T12:15:00.002-06:00

I want to change my contact information - to something made up, to tell the truth - since Facebook cannot be trusted to hold onto this information. But am unable to. This is the error message I've gotten all day today.

often found at http://www.b12partners.net/wp/
or
http://www.twitter.com/swanksalot

Random Robot SwankoPrint!

2011-02-25T18:14:00.001-06:00

Developed in SwankoLab for iPhone using Jerry's Developer, Vinny's CO34, and Zero

Mojo 3-2011: Roots of Nirvana.

2011-02-23T22:17:00.001-06:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Chunky
Flash: Off
Film: Cano Cafenol

Uncut Best of 2010.

2011-02-23T22:05:00.000-06:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Chunky
Flash: Off
Film: Cano Cafenol

Batteries Redacted

2011-02-13T18:50:00.001-06:00

Batteries Redacted, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

for the Guess Where Chicago group, I redacted the address (and will reload unredacted as soon as the location is guessed).

Photo taken March 16, 1995, location now replaced by a Starbucks or a bank (or something equally generic).

Scanned from a crappy copy (negatives theoretically in Austin) of a Seattle Filmworks print. Remember them? I don't know what they do now, but Seattle Filmworks used to have a program where they would take unused pieces of cinematic film, roll and package for 35mm cameras, and send it to you via the mail. You'd return the film in the enclosed envelope, and they would process and send back. Sort of an early incarnation of Netflix. Or something.

decluttr

Let the Good Times Roll

2011-02-11T17:48:00.001-06:00

16 tracks of the wildest New Orleans Soul and R&B.

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Chunky
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot XGrizzled

Saxamaphone in the park

2011-02-08T19:35:00.001-06:00

Saxamaphone in the park, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Jackson Park, I think

Perched

2011-02-04T08:37:00.001-06:00

Perched, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Actual artist / title unknown.

Hanging in a gallery window, River North somewhere.

Mojo 2-2011 cover.

2011-01-19T17:43:00.000-06:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot XGrizzled

Uncut 2-2011 cover.

2011-01-19T17:42:00.000-06:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot XGrizzled

Did you want something?

2011-01-13T18:18:00.001-06:00

Just Say No Drugs

2011-01-13T18:07:00.001-06:00

Just Say No Drugs, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Belmont, Chicago

from 2009, presumedly still there.

Glenn Gould complete Goldberg Variations.

2011-01-13T17:14:00.002-06:00

My latest creation with "100 Cameras in 1".

Uhh, this didn’t work. Not sure I’ll try again, this app is a bit half-baked still.

Sent from my iPhone (forgive any typos)

Margaritas at Chuys

2011-01-07T09:22:00.001-06:00

Margaritas at Chuys, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

original location, and yes, I did have one. Yumm.

I could go for one today, but kind of a long trip

Don't Mix Em

2011-01-02T00:49:00.001-06:00

Why I'm Glad We Moved Away from East Texas

2010-12-31T09:14:00.001-06:00

Why I'm Glad We Moved Away from East Texas, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

as a kid, you have no control over such matters, but the racism was so palpable in East Texas as to make you sick. I am so glad my family lived there only slightly over 2 years before moving to Austin. There were (and are) good people there, as in all places, but the ratio of sane to insane was entirely too low.

Fela Kuti & Africa 70 with Ginger Baker- Why Black Man Dey Suffer

2010-12-29T19:51:00.001-06:00