The quick up

sure i am leaving out some stuf, for fill in later, but heres a bit. no down time. lots of play time, lots of new stuff in class with guests from all over talking all kinds of stuff. reps from the olimpic committee, groups taking on the fcc and clear channel. really cool stuff.

made it to brighton, hung with the mods and the rockers, met wilco zeff on a the castle mound, crackers goat cheeze, wine, hummus, crackers and some dope madrass. chillen by the river. good stuff all around. saw tim burtons new pupets and and chilled with big al's kids in london town. even caught the man with the golden teeth. but gerard was a tad bit funkier.

all in all good good stuff. ht on her way in today. so off to heathrow. more later.

word, yeah?

Sorry my bad (the redux)

hey sorry i have not been posting. heres the quick detail to follow. sweden, dope, denmark dope. going back to both!!!

missing person report, but all is well.

week of work and beyond rediculousness with kids that think buying the bottles is a good idea.

next off to london town. brit mus, discussions of morals, ethics, art collections and imperialism wit the curators and lawyers at da joint! wikkid but tedious. bit defensive for my taste. next off to see the sphinx and the rosseta!!! yeah, key to cross lang understanding wikkid!!!

then off to cnn. nice bloke runnin could not have been more than 34. my bad what have i been resting on my laurals for. novelty man. waste. also realized merican kid and brit slang = funny combo. next met head council for cnn int, talked pvr or as americans say dvr and in streeam revs, interactive ads, etc.

off to last min follow of nice girls who took good care to make sure i safely went to liverrpool without plans, saw the cavern, with covers of the stones, rod, and the beatles. oh yeah and sabath. no joke it rocked. next the most comfortable hostile on earth.

next morn off to see paul and johns houses. wierd. i mean really so. like modern music culture built in four walls. best part was johns porch hearing the reverb. few words don't do justice, so if curios ask!!! it was truely unbelievable!!!

next ran to manchester, to meet some friends and well, see mecca!!! missed friends, but saw mecca!!! drybar, g-mex, and hacienda in 3 hrs. time too leave sincer cant find girls, oh wait theres a train leaving now? wikkkid! story of the trip. next back to cam to hang.

everything on the money, all worked out, literallly magic within secs. spot on!

oh yeah big ups to collin for kicking the dope shirt, kim and kristen for the care, and too all thoes that i saw in mecca, thanks! especially to the old bloke talking cod shit about the latest paul weller, saying give it up for the jam!!!

i love the north!!!

my bad for taking a decade plus to make it!!! i wish you were all here with it! and for thoes who did not catch it and especial for my man sanjay who did, oh yeah me and bez grooven down at turnmills in 2 weeks!!!! i'm sorry is this my life?

oh one other on the 31 and other good days. big up to all who gave up, and big up to all else, you were thought of and remembered fondly, including dog! i wish you were here for the party which included irish bombs, absyth and old hen, and crazy connections to daven the mad, and shamous, wreck, markman, jenn, dev, tree, william, travis, and all the other kids, seems its become a 6 degress of mark deal.

anyway love and all from the cold and dreary gb.

talk soon!!! wikkid!!!

call the fukin' cops, yeah my life rocks!!!

oi! from 4 countries in 24 hours!!!

heads up posted on monday, but the quick, gb, gmbh, sweden and denmark in 24! nice one brother!!!

the next stop london

headed out to london. checked the new dave mammet, with stiles and eckart. quite good writing and i thought very good acting, but it seams reasonable minds differ. but i'm right and they are not. next wikkid noodle shop! incredible rammen, crazy ginger tomato peper sause. fish and chips. my first time. malt vinigar and everything. warm pint from the caste on the side. saw the memorial to diana, it was off. strange. saw hyde park, palament and ben again. buckingham, and a weird statue of abe lincoln. not sure how that got in there. walked about all day. so much walking. its increadible! then headed out side town to a more suburban neighborhood. it was cool to see where the people live. went to a pub there andf met just the nicest people. they kept feeding us and playing us beautiful baleric beats. first time i think i have really heard them proper and not in the context of a set dedicated mostely to something eles. next most of our crew was getting tired, so we shed some kids and the hard core headed to turnmills. we caught groove armada! oh shit did they rock it too!!! crowd was insane, whisles, yelling hands in the air, soul clap, the whole fucking lot!!! highlights of the night: random blond grabbing me to make out on the dance floor, pints of red stripe free flowing, wheres your head at baging up the place, super styling making the floor bounce, cece peniston, and born slippy literally making about a thousand kids sing in harmony and making your truely cry! it was absolutely phenominal. met some kids with zef in line, nice enough to give us the heads up on some doggy fuckers about. next it was back to the hotel, but on arival we realized, oh shit its moring and time to head back. problem was tubes not running yet, so wanding the street we meat a few nice british girls also stranded from a lat night partying at covent gardens. so we wandered the city together for the next three hours, culminating it the most amazing mcmuffing i have ever tasted. trip back listening to some heavenly and valentines on the train looking out at country houses and fields of flowers. remeinded me of the art work on the some friendly singles and stuff.

next crashed out listening to eno. after a bit of a rest 4th of j party at the row house of the program dirrector. he and his wife are the shit. very cool, very brilliant. nice party, lots of wine, and headed to kings college the oldest of all to listen to their 500 year old choir sing lennon covers while floating on punt baots. wikkid!!! sandwiched between the river and gothic cathedral listing to the choirs leenon reditions. wow!!! next off to a pub from the 1500's drank something called desil. pretty cool. jsut kickin with some cool kids getting loaded, dancing and talking cod shit about law till 2 in the am.

i like it here!!!

oh in case i didn't mention before the dopest hotest curry i have ever had, phall its called. blinding wikkid, between that and the kababs i could be very very happy!!!

i'm off for a pint!!!

KLF

KLF,art terrorist BILL DRUMMOND is to make a rare live appearance in LONDON.

The star will be appearing at this year’s Clerkenwell Literary Festivalon July 14, where he will be launching his new website youwhores.com and asking ‘How much are you worth?’.

Also appearing on the same bill are Adam Buxton (of 'Adam And Joe' fame), Giro Playboy and MC Jock Scot.

The Clerkenwell Literary Festival runs from July 9-14.

Ms. Donelly

TANYA DONELLY releases a new album next month. !!!

Donelly was a major player in the 1990s US indie dynasty which revolved around the 4AD label, currently back in the headlines following the Pixies reunion.

A founding member of the seminal Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristen Hersh, Donelly went on to form The Breeders with Pixies bassist Kim Deal before leaving after one album to enjoy mainstream success with Belly.

'Whiskey Tango Ghosts' is her third solo album, and is released by 4AD on July 26.

She plays two UK shows at London's Bush Hall on July 27-28. For ticket availability, click here or call the NME Ticketline on 0870 1 663 663.

Guilfest

Guilfest, blondie, simple minds, ocean collor scene!!!

Razor light show on the 15th

RAZORLIGHT, have lined up a tiny showcase gig in LONDON later this month.

The band, currently expecting a top ten entry for their debut album 'Up All Night' this Sunday, headline the latest in the series of Carling Live Sessions at the Camden Barfly on July 15.

Also playing are Yorkshire punks The Cribs and blues rock three-piece The Archie Bronson Outfit.

Tickets are available through the Carling website carlinglive.com.!!!

chapter 2

stuff here is just absolutely wikkid. saw a decendant of newtons apple tree, hung at a pub where the raf, usaf, aus aaf and can af hung durring ww2. they had their names on the joint. good proper writers.

been meeting tons of cool kids including a bunch of philosophers and mathmaticians here for a conference. sat up drinking pints under a tree till 4 am with em. 4 countries represented discussing bether methodologies for natural language prossesing, the finer points of lsd, k, glastonbury, the concept of oneness and the cognative construction of numbers.

watching euro 2004, drinking spekled hen, reading some interesting cases for the 4th and 5th time, beeing quoted in class from arguments made in previous semesters that seem to have had some impact (hey maybe i'm on to something). haven't been writing like i should be, but there has been so little time. have however been thinking a great deal, and reading tons.

strange walking around this city, some much history, saw a building from the dark ages yesterday. tomorrow off to london for new david mammet with julia styles and arron ekart. hear its bad, but i like mammet.

anyway, lots of reading, talking, walking, drinking! and thinking! i like it hear makes sence why some much great shits been discovered here. its kindof scary. think i'll be comming back.

out

the update, first days at cambridge

ok kids here the update:

got in the other night and chilled in london. stayed at my very first hostel. interesting experience. the place was called the generator and it was near camden. it was like something out of some terry gilliam sifi. it was strait brazil. hung there met some nice kids, and austrailian girl who was visiting friends in brighten. and some kid from san diego who lives off the 163. very odd that last one. had a few pints, some absinth!!! and some dope curry. just kind of walked about, saw the theater district, the themes, the millenium wheele, big ben, parliment, downing street, westminster abby and the savoy all accidently and within about 30 minutes of wandering amelessly. pretty cool!!!

next day was off to cambridge, about an hour by train. nice town, super cool especially when you think about all the shit that went down here. i mean, dna discovered, the atom split, electrons uncovered, hawking, newton, gravity, blackholes, etc... all thought up on the local ale!!! which btw is prety dope, speckled hen, my new fave. hand pumped, room temp, the whole lot!

class is cool,the college is beautiful. kids are nice, first night went out drinking with a few. met some dudes on the wilco trip, several actullay. then met a girl who is dating laird's step brother, another who was telling me about a dope vivian westwood exhibit she just went to, a third who loves pavement and emo and another austrian girl who worked in the music biz in la and has gone back to school to be a lawyer. we talked tunes and geek toys for a few hours. even met some aspiring screenwriters. big big fun!

yeah i like it here. might have to stay a while.

Where is Mark?

ok, so heres the deal. i am off tomorrow for my little european adventure. as of now i will have no phone and the best way to contact me will be via email. i will have net access but it will not be as frequent as usual. however i will check in as frequently as i can. and check here for updates on the adventure. updates to my blog about the trip will appear below this post. so here is some info on my travel and that of thoes who are visiting.

classes:
fitzwilliam college, cambridge, england
6-28-04 - 7-2-04 / mon. - fri.
7-5-04 - 7-22-04 / mon. - thurs.
7-26-04 - 7-28-04 / mon. - wed.
sports: 11:10am - 12:30pm
media: 1:15pm - 3:05pm

finals:
7-29-04 & 7-31-04

field trips:
7-16-04 cnn
7-23-04 three mills studios

mark:
to london: lax - > lhr
depart: sat. 6-26-04 @ 8:50pm on virgin flight # 24
arrive: sat. 6-27-04 @ 3:30pm

to sweden: stn - > mmx
depart: thurs. 7-8-04 @ 6:55pm on ryan air flight # fr258
arrive: thurs. 7-8-04 @ 9:40pm

to cambridge: mmx - > stn
depart: sun. 7-11-04 @ 10:05pm on ryan air flight # fr259
arrive: sun. 7-11-04 @ 10:55pm

to la: hlr - > lax
depart: sat. 8-8-04 @ 12:00pm on virgin flight # 7
arrive: sun. 8-8-04 @ 3:10pm

heather:
lax - > lhr
depart: fri. 7-23-04 @ 8:45pm on american flight # 134
arrive: sat. 7-24-04 @ 3:00pm

hlr - > lax
depart: sat. 7-31-04 @ 12:55pm on american flight # 135
arrive: sat. 7-31-04 @ 3:55pm

The Humanoid Race

The Humanoid Race: "Machines are getting more and more like the rest of us. A piece-by-piece guide to the globe's most advanced bots."

Jane's Addiction to split for good?

Jane's Addiction to split for good?: "A statement has been published online said to be from all the band members, apart from singer Perry Farrell saying that their 'volatile combination' means they will be no more."

if this really ends up being the end, then it is a very sad day. but i find some solice in the fact that this band gave me two of the greatest shows i have ever seen. let the fires begin!!!

iTMS Europe Sells 800,000 Songs in First Week

iTMS Europe Sells 800,000 Songs in First Week: "'After selling over 800,000 songs during its first week, iTunes is Europe’s top online music store,' said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. 'In the UK alone, iTunes sold more than 450,000 songs in the last week—16 times as many as OD2, its closest competitor.'"

Fresh Air for summer!

Fresh Air for summer!: "AIR have confirmed details of their new single 'ALPHA BETA GAGA'. The song, taken from the French duo’s current album ‘Talkie Walkie’, will be released on August 9 on Source/Virgin. It has also appeared on an advert for the mobile company Orange. To coincide with the release, Air play:
London Royal Festival Hall (August 3)
London Somerset House (4)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (10)
St. Austell Eden Project (13)
Leicester Summer Sundae Festival (15)
For ticket availability, click here or call the NME Ticketline on 0870 1 663 663."

Massive summer festival cancelled

Massive summer festival cancelled: "LOLLAPALOOZA has been cancelled, just three weeks before it was due to kick off."

U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right

U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right: "'Today the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that anybody can be compelled at any time to identify themselves, if a police officer asks. People who refuse to identify themselves, even if they are not suspected of a crime, will be arrested. Sound Orwellian? The Supreme Court also said people who are suspected of another crime might not be subject to arrest for not revealing their name. On this latter point, someone will have to bring a separate case. And the SCOTUS is at liberty not to hear any case it doesn't like. The case is Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada [pdf]. Previous Slashdot story here.'"

looks like the country is headed further out the window. i think its tome for my altman-esque self imposed exile. off to europe i go!!!

Private Space Shot a Success

Private Space Shot a Success: "The man at the controls called it 'a mind-blowing experience -- awesome.' But everyone who saw test pilot Mike Melvill become the world's first people's astronaut Monday was calling it history. Melvill flew SpaceShipOne, a rocket plane designed by iconoclastic aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan, to an unofficial altitude of 100 kilometers. The suborbital mission marked the first time a civilian pilot at the controls of a privately financed aircraft had crossed the threshold of space."

now thats whats suposed to happen!!!

Torrentocracy = RSS Bit Torrent Your TV

Torrentocracy = RSS Bit Torrent Your TV: "'I've started a project called Torrentocracy which is the combination of RSS, Bit Torrent and your Television. It's written as a plugin for MythTV (the homebrew Linux PVR project). This means you can not only easily find out about new torrents from various enclosure enabled blogs, but you can also start the torrent download process with the click of your TV remote control. Are RSS aggregators which support torrent downloads the next greatest thing since web browsers? What is the significance of hooking this directly to your TV? Here's a screenshot.'"

for mike!!!