joon is a dilettante

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:12:51 -0700

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

- Schopenhauer (via commondense)

foundmonton: Thanks capital city clean up “This Wall Used To...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:23:11 -0700

foundmonton:

Thanks capital city clean up “This Wall Used To Have Art On It Now Its Covered In Dicks”. Found on the south side highlevel unfree wall.

Slactivism & ACTA: This is how we will eventually lose

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:34:28 -0700

The question below is currently on Reddits front page with one of the top comments as a reply. I felt it was important enough to re-post to my followers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oxgio/why_are_we_not_seeing_nearly_as_much_protest/

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Q: Why are we not seeing nearly as much protest against ACTA like we did with SOPA/PIPA? -Shedang

A: Don’t downvote this man, he’s right. We’ve all circlejerked relentlessly around the SOPA/PIPA blackouts, typing away on our nice keyboards.

Now, another law comes around and we’re all like “man, I just protested yesterday!”. And what did we do? We watched other people turn off their sites. Maybe we installed the one-line Javascript on our own site, **to show our heartfelt** support.

Today, a new law comes around the corner. Tomorrow again, another. And are you surprised? Slacktivism never helped, and it’s showing. Now, it’s time to realize that.
-Sie-Boasts-A-Lot

Four Floors of Whores

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:44:22 -0700

Over the past three years that One Hundred Owls has been a means for expression, I’ve released three eps and worked with several projects and artists, none of which has been in the full-blown capacity that I desired at the time.

However now, settled back in Calgary, Ab and finally with a studio again, I can humour every aspect of this project that shows itself. More importantly are the people I have around me, great talents willing to share in this projects ideology, the removal of ego and collaborating their genius in ways they may not have considered prior. Such is my hope with all of this.

Something a bandmate once said to me years ago still resonates with me today, he said, ‘you have to trust the people you play with’, you can’t expect them to do what you want. Too many chefs in the kitchen ruined some of my projects but taught me a lot. Now I express myself in any way and lead by instrument rather than mouth.

After no releases in 2011 due to being on the road - and I admit foolishly that I thought I would find the time to do so - I’ve accumulated several tracks that will be deemed the next album, titled Four Floors of Whores.

I’m excited by this release, no dates set, none of that garbage. It’ll come when it comes but it’s safe to say that half the album is complete.

Art, collab names etc.. will all be released as they come, shit changes so no promises need to be made save for the album will be released this year and a full live performance is in the works. It’s time to play this madness live!

See you then.

"Sopa supporters in metaphorical nutshells: #sopa “I’ve heard that a car thief used J..."

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:07:35 -0700

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Sopa supporters in metaphorical nutshells: #sopa

“I’ve heard that a car thief used J Street to effect his getaway. Tomorrow, we’ll be sending in the bulldozers to remove J Street.”

-Patt

“Owners of I street, having been bypassed by the new J street, have spent billions of dollars convincing me that only thieves use J street, and removing J street will only have positive effects on everything everywhere. Having followed their advice, I will also not allow myself to hear any arguments from anyone who uses J street, because they are, as mentioned previously, only thieves.”

”

- SuperConductiveRabbi —via Le Reddit

SOPA hearing via Reddit (how it's done)

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:16:38 -0700

“The gentleman has not yet been recognized.”

“The gentlelady has been recognized.”

“Will the gentleman yield to the gentlelady.”

“Ummm”

“The gentlelady will yield to the yielding gentleman”

“The chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado”

“Uhhh”

“I yield back the balance of my time”

“The gentleman yields back the balance of his time”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding”

“I your welcome the gentleman for recognizing my yielding”

“I have an amendment at the desk.”

“The gentleman will recognize his desk”

“I’ve never seen this desk before in my life”

“I yield the remainder of my time to the desk”

(Long silence)

“Reclaiming my time from the gentledesk”

“I move to strike the last word”

“I yield 5 seconds to the gentleman from California”

“I thank”

“5”

“the gentleman”

“4”

“for the”

“3”

“5 seconds”

“2”

“yielded to me.”

“1”

“I yield the gentleman who yielded me 5 seconds”

“I move to strike the last word…. ‘seconds’”

“Mr. Chairman, I move that the amendment be abandoned and the gentledesk be granted emergency powers”

“ALL HAIL GENTLEDESK!”

"‎If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together there is something you must always..."

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:25:07 -0700

“‎If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. i’ll always be with you.”

- Christopher Robin

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way..."

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:02:08 -0700

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to”

- Alan Keightley

Photo

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:12:52 -0700

"Before I breathe the entirety of a misdirected prose, let me preface this paragraph with the..."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:18:43 -0700

“Before I breathe the entirety of a misdirected prose, let me preface this paragraph with the following: …”

"There is something to be said for those who choose to be survivors of abuse and bad circumstances,..."

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:18:17 -0600

“There is something to be said for those who choose to be survivors of abuse and bad circumstances, instead of victims of it.”

- HappyNoodleGirl

"If you’re going to wear your convictions on your sleeve then I should hold you to them"

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:44:03 -0600

“If you’re going to wear your convictions on your sleeve then I should hold you to them”

- ??

Misto..

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:32:40 -0600

Misto..

"And I am starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures..."

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:13:39 -0600

“And I am starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life’s sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it’s my own choices that’ll lock me in, it seems unavoidable -if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.”

- David Foster Wallace

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how..."

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:52:29 -0600

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race?”

- Frédéric Bastiat

"I am 33 years old, and it feel like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster everyday...."

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:21:43 -0600

“I am 33 years old, and it feel like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster everyday. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose”

- David Foster Wallace - a Supposedly fun thing I’ll Never Do Again

“Books have the same enemies as people..”

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:49:24 -0600

“Books have the same enemies as people..”

"There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no..."

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:45:22 -0600

“There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other’s cooking and say it was good.”

- Brian Andreas

"Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?"

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:10:26 -0600

“Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?”

- Entrance exam question to All Souls College, University of Oxford

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere."

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:41:11 -0600

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

- - Frank A. Clark