The Boom
The thing I miss the most about the Clinton administration was that he presided over the absolute greatest era in the short history of techno music. Soon after entry into office, Underworld's dubnobasswithmyheadman was released, doing its part to incite an unprecedented techno gold rush from startups such as the Prodigy, Fluke, Bjork, Orbital, and, eventually even industry outsiders like Madonna and David Bowie became investors.

Something clever about the burst of the bubble and the Bush administration's mismanagement of electronic music goes here. The point that I'm meandering toward (from quite a distance) is that it's easy to forget the reasons that we like certain things. It's presumptuous and pretentious to claim these reasons for anybody else, but for me music and mathematics and programming have always been about the search for cleverness and elegance that comes from working in a limited system. It's not the music, but the representation of a universe behind music, something that transcends any kinds of senses. In that way, it's almost religious, it frames the way you look at things and people around you, the way you walk to work, the reason behind choosing, say, spicy kimchi noodle soup over fishcake in shallow steamy water. Yech.

And so ends my hippie tirade.
Hello, back in real life I've been suckered into writing a livejournal. theoretic.org is down for the moment until the new dopesquad server comes up. Last month, I was burglarized, outbid, and along with tki.net, kicked out of my favorite art ghetto apartment. This month, I think I'm buying a place in a toy factory, woe is my debt. So down, up. Packing and off to the west village with jlx for a couple months.