mmm, tumblr.

"I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live."

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:43:51 -0400

“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.”

- Oscar Wilde (via -fuckthepeople)

bobbieroundstheworld: MR BOX 22 is a radio doc I made here in...

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:13:00 -0400

MR BOX 22 is a radio doc I made here in New Guinea.

It’s about a guy who was born in the bush, raised throwing stones and drinking blood. But then, later shipped off to University, and thrust into the modern world. Now in his forties he’s a politician, standing for a seat in Parliament….in one of the world’s most notoriously corrupt and ineffective governments.

The piece is airing this week on ABC/Radio Australia.

whoa. remember that time i used to interview famous people? -...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:49:23 -0400

whoa. remember that time i used to interview famous people? - these sweet little babies were my fave. “um, hi. we have a new show. it’s called GLEE. should we sing?”

dianakimball: On the bridge between last night and this...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:08:17 -0400

dianakimball:

On the bridge between last night and this morning, I watched the first episode of Adam Curtis’s Century of the Self. Yancey introduced me to Curtis’s work: documentary as collage, assembled out of archival footage and bold type. This first episode, Happiness Machines, touched on so many of my interests that it’s hard to know where to start.

The first thing to know about Curtis’s documentaries is that they’re dreamlike; every minute of film holds so many disparate-yet-connected clips that your mind will feel like it’s roaming and skipping beats, building wordless understanding in the gaps. (Seconds will feel like hours, yet they pass quickly.) The second is that almost all of them are available online in one form or another; you can watch Century of the Self here in full.

Episode 1, Happiness Machines, is about Sigmund Freud’s impact on society by way of his nephew, Edward Bernays. He coined the term “public relations” as a more palatable alternative to “propaganda,” and effectively popularized his uncle’s work in the United States as a roundabout way of increasing his own cachet. He engineered the 1929 stunt that dissolved the taboo against women smoking in public, and plotted the vision for the 1939 New York World’s Fair that would paint a picture of a utopian future achieved through consumer technologies. (My fascination with world’s fairs in general, and that world’s fair in particular, is well-documented.) Corporations called on him to manufacture desire, and he was incredibly effective at doing so; the dreams he sold still hold power, almost a century later. But his attitude toward human rationality unnerved me: according to the film, he believed most people were stupid, and all could be made docile through fantasy. By the end, I understood Bernays as a sinister figure—but one I’m drawn to. I’m now overwhelmed by a desire to seek out a dissertation, a book, an archive…anything to understand him better.

And I’m returning to the mantra I repeated a hundred times in college, when people would ask me what I would study, and I would say “History!” and they would say—”What kind of history?” And I would say, “20th-century U.S. history, especially the history of consumerism—and some Soviet history, too.” All true, all connected, but especially all connected to this: a film I watched on a slim silver device on the sixth story of a building in a city without satisfaction.

THE TRAP / WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAMS OF FREEDOM is pretty righteous as well….curtis - good dude.

happy father’s day to the best one out there! big ups for...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:43:16 -0400

happy father’s day to the best one out there! big ups for never making me pose for pictures with loaded guns like your old man did. love you heaps, poppy!

Mama's Up the Tree OR A Massively Overdue Update From the Last Great Frontier

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:56:14 -0400

bobbieroundstheworld:

Friends, Foes, Countrymen,

Firstly, apologies per usual for the scant updates. It’s a constant battle to remember the importance of internet updates in a world where blogs and such digital datum have no such value. My sincerest apologies, I’ve been neglectful.

So, whoa - Where to begin? This place is crazy. Like the stuff of dreams, and then so much more. At the moment I’m snugged in here inside the boat as an early evening thunderstorm is passing by outside….which, given that it’s a Saturday evening here, is, like, the greatest gift ever. Because rain means that the ol drunkards won’t fight the elements to congregate at the “resort”/shitty watering-hole next door to beat the living daylights out of each other. It means there will be no punches thrown, no retreats behind my slumbering boat, no exchange of large boulders that will or will not knock dear friends of mine out cold. It means there will be no homemade bombs hurled over the fence, no burning of homes in retaliation, no sunrise wakeups to find buggy-eyed boys milling around with axes and other such homemade murdering tools. So, yes, rain - it’s a good thing.

What else to tell you? Well, I’ve been here for a few months now. As you may remember, upon arrival I’d organized some repairs that required the hauling of the boat

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most beautiful life in the world, methinks

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 05:51:20 -0400

most beautiful life in the world, methinks

happy 27 vibes

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:26:20 -0400

happy 27 vibes

HEADS UP LOS ANGELES! Shakey @ Hotel Cafe

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:25:41 -0400

shakeygraves:

Howdy Yall!

So my trip to the Los Angeles area kicks off next weekend.
My good buddy Anthony Erickson helped me book a last minute show at THE HOTEL CAFE on Thursday at 7:00pm sharp.

This will be my only show in LOS ANGELES proper.

Remember, on the 28th Ill be at Pitzer College playing the 39th annual KAHOUTEK MUSIC FESTIVAL which is just outside of the city. Its all ages and free to the public.

So come, stomp, dance, whistle, be merry…and Ill see you motherfuckers in sunny California.

THE WAR AGAINST YOUTH

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:58:49 -0400

THE WAR AGAINST YOUTH:

The recession didn’t gut the prospects of American young people. The Baby Boomers took care of that.

bobbieroundstheworld: hey dudes - got some extra tanks from...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:45:31 -0400

bobbieroundstheworld:

hey dudes - got some extra tanks from the kickstarter run as well as some new pullovers available on the support page. check ‘em if you’d like!

adventure-babes of the 50’s really had it goin’...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:25:00 -0400

adventure-babes of the 50’s really had it goin’ on…

"don’t hurt or be hurt and don’t live in a way that makes you feel dead"

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:08:10 -0400

“don’t hurt or be hurt and don’t live in a way that makes you feel dead”

- zadie smith, ON BEAUTY

happy birthday to the best pal i’ve ever known!

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:33:21 -0400

happy birthday to the best pal i’ve ever known!

bobbieroundstheworld: the little scraps of paper that make us...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:03:40 -0500

bobbieroundstheworld:

the little scraps of paper that make us who we are…

i’m gonna love it like i wanna…

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:20:00 -0500

i’m gonna love it like i wanna…

bobbieroundstheworld: playing SGT. PEPPER’S (and explaining LSD...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:02:18 -0500

bobbieroundstheworld:

playing SGT. PEPPER’S (and explaining LSD trips) for kids who’ve never heard of The Beatles.

bobbieroundstheworld: hello friends! just a brief note for...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:59:11 -0500

bobbieroundstheworld:

hello friends! just a brief note for those of you in NYC or with buddies there. my dear friend, matthew, who was so instrumental in prepping BOBBIE for her grand adventure has his own little baby coming to life this weekend: THE WOODS, his first feature film, is being released in theaters! It opens tomorrow for a one-week run - key cast and crew will be on hand for a chill sesh and Q+A, the tickets are cheap, the vibes are good. if you can make it, please do!

pretty much some tight jams, man fear of men / phantom limb

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:32:00 -0500

pretty much some tight jams, man

fear of men / phantom limb

this dude was so crazy/amazing. rip, brother. an excerpt from...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:42 -0500

this dude was so crazy/amazing. rip, brother.

an excerpt from his obituary:

At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.

At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.