American Style Inspiration, or Take What You Got and Run 2

The time to stop being lazy is now.

Also known as 'forced productivity:' This is what happens when someone should be blogging on their own but refuses to for reasons scapegoated by laziness. We all know it's 'cause you're too cool for school, Ashi. You probably had a blog when blogs first began and then deleted it when it became part of the mainstream (I'm recalling a specific moment; rebel with a cause).

So, here is your blog were it to exist. Your header is freakin cooler than mine. P.S. The Evident Utensil video made my editing glands salivate and now the catchy song has grown on me.

I've been nerding-out on music videos on youtube, and I have these songs stuck in my head (they alternate). Thought I would share them with you (or torture you with them). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPb--BzlEc0 (Note: Fred Frith is NOT performing in this, thank goodness) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LG39Wp7OzQ (I also like the "How to Datamosh Part 1") You may have seen these already and hate/love or are indifferent to them. I would start blogging, but I'd probably stop after the first day cuz I'm lazy. Love, Ashika

Time sucks for job-search evasion

From time to time it becomes necessary (for the express purpose of preserving one's sanity) to take a break from the bleak scanning of jobs posted, of editing cover-letters, and the empty feeling produced by the sound of having no email responses from places you'd sent your resume to when you check your inbox. It's times like this when you go searching for ways to stay in touch with the world and at least convince yourself of your continued cultural validity by finding things like clips on youtube that make you feel that creativity is still valued in this 21st century world and thus maybe, just maybe there's still a fighting chance for triumph.

Here are some that reminded me of these things recently:

Miming isn't dead:


Wonder isn't lost:


There are still people who can find humor in the face of honor and esteem: