<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from chiasm.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 chiasm.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-09-22T16:55:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2008-01-02:links.412073477</id><title>new year</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/new_year_5.htm"><![CDATA[new blog.&nbsp; I&#39;m taking this opportunity to move my blogging to a new venue, &quot;the green lodge.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; please update your links and rss feeds accordingly!&nbsp; it&#39;s been a fun 3+ years, blog-city, but it&#39;s time for a fr]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/new_year_5.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2008-01-02T00:39:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-02T00:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-30:links.412073029</id><title>plz excuse</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/plz_excuse.htm"><![CDATA[appearances, trying to navigate a forced site &#39;upgrade&#39; by the blog-city folks.&nbsp; Not doing as well at it as Nate!&nbsp; I can&#39;t even get a link to work, I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s firefox compatibility issues or what but this seems]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/plz_excuse.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-30T22:08:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-30T22:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-27:links.412069992</id><title>BEST OF 200007</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/200007.htm"><![CDATA[College poli-sci profs love to say 'where you stand [on an issue] depends on where you sit [like in parliament or in the world etc]' and man is taste is the exact fucking same - isn't that kind of what Bordieu says or whatever?  Anyw]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/200007.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-27T16:49:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-27T16:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-24:links.412071846</id><title>WHEN THIS KIND OF FIRE STARTS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/when_this_kind_of_fire_starts.htm"><![CDATA[This  is totally owning my mindspace right now - 'happy' holidays -]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/when_this_kind_of_fire_starts.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-24T22:20:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-24T22:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-21:links.412071265</id><title>THE POWER OF CHRISTMAS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/christmas_power.htm"><![CDATA[Man if you are like me and have been way too busy listening to David Lynch movie/TV soundtracks for the past month to get into the Christmas music spirit, Chris and Ben have made a typically thorough, masterfully sequenced power hour mix of the best]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/christmas_power.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-21T23:34:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-21T23:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-21:links.412071255</id><title>BRAIN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/brain.htm"><![CDATA[BTW, in case that last post made anybody nostalgic for when I used to post about energy news etc - back in the day when I was just giving that shit away - feel free to keep a bead on my del.icio.us page, which I started a couple weeks ago to help me]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/brain.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-21T22:14:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-21T22:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-20:links.412070951</id><title>BIOFUELS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/biofuels.htm"><![CDATA[Lots of people talkin at me about biofuels recently in a variety of personal and professional contexts, and lots of chatter about esp in the wake of the passing of the energy bill yesterday.&nbsp; In lieu of posting any of my own thoughts etc allow m]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/biofuels.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-20T21:13:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-20T21:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-13:links.412068987</id><title>27</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/27.htm"><![CDATA[GHOSTFACE - SLOW DOWN ...Feeling the uncertain monologue at the end in particular - &quot;I think about it you know what I mean?&nbsp; Responsibilities... I gotta focus more...&nbsp; You might be right though - maybe things will start comin to me nat]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/27.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-13T23:31:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-13T23:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-11:links.412068169</id><title>HOW&apos;S ANNIE?  HOW&apos;S ANNIE?  HOW&apos;S ANNIE?  HOW&apos;S ANNIE?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/hows_annie__hows_annie__hows_annie__hows_annie.htm"><![CDATA[Vibing ever more deeply and intensely on "Under the Sycamore Trees," watched the entire Black Lodge sequence a few more times (start with this link  to youtube it, almost unwatchably dark for the first bit but then kind of beautifully grain]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/hows_annie__hows_annie__hows_annie__hows_annie.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-11T07:53:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-11T07:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-10:links.412068033</id><title>AND I&apos;LL SEE YOU AND YOU&apos;LL SEE ME AND I&apos;LL SEE YOU IN THE BRANCHES THAT BLOW IN THE BREEZE IN THE SYCAMORE TREES</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/and_ill_see_you_and_youll_see_me_and_ill_see_you_in_the_bran.htm"><![CDATA[WHY is Twin Peaks so fucking mind-blowingly awesome?&nbsp; And why is it over??&nbsp; Finally finished it at 5 am this morning, I have been obsessively listening to/thinking about/Youtubing/vibing out on this intense, incredible musical number from t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/and_ill_see_you_and_youll_see_me_and_ill_see_you_in_the_bran.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-10T21:36:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-10T21:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-10:links.412067817</id><title>SPORTS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/sports.htm"><![CDATA[OK, moving on at least temporarily from mourning Pimp C - to getting a little salty over another Great Man, who fortunately is still among us - maybe I was hung over or something yesterday (I mean I was definitely a little hung over yesterday, I&#39;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/sports.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-10T05:22:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-10T05:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-06:links.412066922</id><title>DAMN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/damn.htm"><![CDATA["His genius was unparalleled. His passion was undeniable and his love was unmatched. To say that I lost a friend or brother would never do justice to the relationship we shared. I will never be the same again." (wish I could fi]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/damn.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-06T19:02:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-06T19:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-05:links.412066368</id><title>I REMEMBER WHEN A RAPPER WAS A GO GETTER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/i_remember_when_a_rapper_was_a_go_getter.htm"><![CDATA[FUCK, I forgot how awe-inspiring 'Swishas and Doshas' is starting off Underground Kingz, the DJ Screw sample, the wailing guitars, Pimp's classic Houston slow, loud and bangin production, Pimp C hard-as-fuck and seething, I'm seriousl]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/i_remember_when_a_rapper_was_a_go_getter.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-05T21:44:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-05T21:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-04:links.412066295</id><title>UGK FOR LIFE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/ugk_for_life.htm"><![CDATA[Don&#39;t even know what to say about this  other than it&#39;s a huge fuckin bummer, from guest raps to Underground Kingz dude was spittin pure fire ever since he got out of jail and now it&#39;s over?&nbsp; You can only imagine what news like this]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/ugk_for_life.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-04T20:17:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-04T20:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-12-03:links.412065815</id><title>SURPRISE, SNITCHES</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/surprise_bitches.htm"><![CDATA[Such a nice Monday surprise  to see a sad, sweaty look on Hugo's freakishly cartoonish face, such a pleasant reminder that history is unpredictably made, not dictated (well sometimes) -]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/surprise_bitches.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-12-03T12:32:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-03T12:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-30:links.412065199</id><title>WHY DON&apos;T YOU COME OVER TO MY HOUSE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/why_dont_you_come_over_to_my_house.htm"><![CDATA[PLEASE excuse this interruption in blog-silence to bring you another, far more critical Twin Peaks-related post - Kid Robot kid Grace graciously lent me Julee Cruise's album "Floating into Night" the other day and it is ALL that]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/why_dont_you_come_over_to_my_house.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-30T22:45:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-30T22:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-20:links.412062285</id><title>PEAK SEASON</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/peak_season.htm"><![CDATA[Speaking of not being disappointed at all by highly anticipated cultural experiences, I am seriously loving my first of what will doubtlessly be many trips through TWIN PEAKS - since the only other TV shows I&#39;ve ever really followed devoutly have]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/peak_season.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-20T17:34:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-20T17:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-20:links.412061763</id><title>HUCKLES</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/huckles.htm"><![CDATA[[disclaimers re: not endorsing Mike Huckabee's socially conservative views on abortion, gay marriage, et al]  Man I saw Mike Huckabee vibing out with some students on C-SPAN talking about how important music and arts education is in a really]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/huckles.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-20T17:10:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-20T17:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-16:links.412061184</id><title>MANDATORY</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/mandatory.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;Ahhhhh how awesome is it to be totally not disappointed in any way with two albums I was soooo psyched for??&nbsp; Will maybe post some tracks or further thoughts later or something but rest assured these are both really fucking awesome and I a]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/mandatory.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-16T21:43:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-16T21:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-16:links.412061160</id><title>HOWARD ZSTERN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/howard_zstern.htm"><![CDATA[FYI, the mind-blowing Howard Stern vs. ZS saga extended at least two days into this week - see this post with audio clips courtesy of the New Yorker&#39;s Alex Ross, feat Howard &amp; co dumping all over ZS, the Knitting Factory, and the avant-garde]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/howard_zstern.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-16T20:14:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-16T20:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-16:links.412061105</id><title>GOLD MAN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/gold_man.htm"><![CDATA[More deetz  on the 'mutual friends' that re-opened Yankees/A-Rod talks, yeah it's pretty much a done deal how fucking crazy is this? Boras wasn't a part of the negotiations, in which Goldman Sachs managing directors John Mallory and G]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/gold_man.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-16T18:15:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-16T18:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-15:links.412060740</id><title>OH MAN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/oh_man.htm"><![CDATA[Ahhhh fuck I guess we have to take him back?  I guess I should be psyched?  Do I have to say I'm sorry for talking shit about him over the past couple of weeks?   Check it out the announcement on his official MLB page (nice ph]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/oh_man.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-15T17:50:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-15T17:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-07:links.412058271</id><title>OMG ZS WTF LOL</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/omg_zs_wtf_lol.htm"><![CDATA[Wowowowow stop the internets, this is maybe the most incredible, mind-blowingly surreal MP3 I have ever heard!&nbsp; One of the geniuses from &#39;brutal chamber prog&#39; etc quartet ZS sent in the band&#39;s awesome new CD &quot;Arms&quot; to the H]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/omg_zs_wtf_lol.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-07T20:09:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-07T20:09:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-07:links.412058074</id><title>IF YOU ARE ONLY GOING TO READ ONE BLOG POST ABOUT RAP TODAY OR MAYBE EVEN ALL WEEK</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/if_you_are_only_going_to_read_one_blog_post_about_rap_today_.htm"><![CDATA[MAKE IT THIS ONE , Brandon Soderberg has links to four must-hears from 8 Ball, Cam, Young Buck, and Weezy, and really nails their mostly shared, seasonally-appropriate melancholy - esp "Glitter", serious comedown rap!  Of all of em tho]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/if_you_are_only_going_to_read_one_blog_post_about_rap_today_.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-07T05:12:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-07T05:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:chiasm.blog-city.com,2007-11-05:links.412057542</id><title>strong vibes all over</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/strong_vibes_all_over.htm"><![CDATA[Ah there are like eight things I meant to blog this weekend but they are all getting totally pwned by this beautiful, infinitely listenable jam from Eritrean singing superstar Helen Meles, a former fighter in Eritrea's war of independence from Et]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://chiasm.blog-city.com/strong_vibes_all_over.htm"/><dc:creator>John Atkinson</dc:creator><author><name>John Atkinson</name></author><updated>2007-11-05T19:11:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-05T19:11:00Z</published></entry></feed>