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photos by ed arnaud:



black flag, 1983.



circle jerks, 1984.

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"now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism. there must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe america must move toward a democratic socialism."

- martin luther king jr.

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more or less got the computer back up and running again. it's dual-booting linux and windows very nicely.

partitioned as follows:

windows (ntfs) - 111 GB
linux (ext2) - 74 GB
files (fat32) - 93 GB

windows (no, it's not a mac):



linux:



apparently i had so much time on my hands that i also organized my entire mp3 collection:



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from wikipedia:

switzerland features a system of government not seen at the national level on any other place on earth: direct democracy, sometimes called half-direct democracy. any citizen may challenge a law that has been passed by parliament. if they are able to gather 50,000 signatures against the law within 100 days, a national vote has to be scheduled where voters decide by a simple majority whether to accept or reject the law. also, any citizen may seek a decision on an amendment they want to make to the constitution. for such an amendment initiative to be organized, the signatures of 100,000 voters must be collected within 18 months. such a popular initiative may be formulated as a general proposal or—much more often—be put forward as a precise new text whose wording can no longer be changed by parliament and the government.

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elvis costello... and, uh, the honolulu symphony orchestra?

from honolulu weekly:

elvis costello is a daring man. from his punkish roots to his forays into folk to his partnership with burt bacharach, there is no doubt costello follows an adventurous muse—or at least one with a.d.d. proving himself the daredevil once again, costello partners with an unlikely—or is that likely—partner: the honolulu symphony orchestra.

march 31/april 1 at the blaisdell concert hall.

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"it's very difficult for me to talk about this, but what i can say is that the world has lost an exemplary woman. that the world, that mexico, has lost one of those fighters that it needs, and a piece of our heart has been ripped out."

- subcomandante marcos

hundreds of zapatistas converged on this poor, mountain village yesterday for the funeral of comandante ramona, one of the most important women's rights advocates in the rebel movement. with dense cloud cover fueling the bitter cold, mourners arrived throughout the day, some aboard small cars packed with passengers, others in rickety trucks and buses and a few on foot. a group of ski-masked zapatistas guarding the entrance to oventic said the ceremony was closed to all but members of the rebel group and its supporters. the men, women and children arrived with their faces uncovered, but many put ski masks on shortly after entering the community, about 40 miles northwest of the highlands city of san cristobal de las casas in chiapas, mexico's southernmost state. ramona died friday, after a decade-long struggle with a kidney disease. rebel leader subcomandante marcos announced her death in an emotional statement at a stop in chiapas during his six-month, nationwide tour to build a new leftist movement. the ski-masked, pipe-smoking rebel leader said the group was suspending its journey for two days in order to honor ramona and that he planned to attend funeral services in oventic. "mexico has lost one of the combative women it needs and we, we have lost a piece of our heart," marcos said. the group was expected to hold candlelight vigils in ramona's honor yesterday and a burial ceremony a day later. like most zapatista leaders, ramona, believed to have been born in 1959, did not reveal her real name and usually wore a ski mask in public. few details are known about her life, other than that she was a tzotzil indian who joined the rebel movement sometime before its january 1994 armed uprising and rose to prominence in its ranks. in 1996, ramona became the first rebel leader to travel to mexico city, for a kidney transplant. while the exact nature of her illness has not been confirmed, it had long been rumored to have been cancer. often visibly frail, ramona became an advocate within the zapatista movement for women's rights and a promoter of traditional handicrafts.

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새해 복 많이 받으세요!

my sole new year resolution: get the hell out of this island. i have never been so determined about this.