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Box o' the Moment

• Athlon 64 3000+ (400 MHz front side bus)
• Gigabyte 7VT600 1394 MB
• 2 Gb DDR 400 MHz PC-3200
• MSI nVidia FX-5600XT AGP 8X
• 300 Gb ATA-133 disk, 120 Gb Serial ATA disk, 160 Gb ATA-100 disk
• Lite-On 8x DVD Burner
• Toshiba 16X DVD ROM
• Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 Sound
• Mozilla Firefox browser, 1.0.3

F*E*T*I*S*H

• 17" LCD Display
• Decent digital camera
• iPod
• DVD Burner
• nVidia FX based video card

Heavy Rotation

• Put On The Bright Light, Interpol
• American Idiot, Green Day
• Hail To The Thief, Radiohead
• Automatic For The People, REM
• Shake Hands With Shorty, North Mississippi All-Stars
• Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis
• London Calling, The Clash
• It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy

Shrine of the Martyrs

• "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
• "I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work." - Gregory Hines (1945-2003)
• "Enjoy every sandwich" - Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
• "There is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell" - Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
• "I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun" - George Plimpton (1927-2003)
• "It's very hard for me, not to tell everybody everything" - Spalding Gray (1941-2004)

Words and Mood - updated 2004.05.10

Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
...
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

- from September 1, 1939, by W.H. Auden