movie night was ok, we played Burma VJ as expected and a part of the video art by Vysehrad, a portuguese electronic music artist

what's fucking annoying is how nobody gives a shit. I play documentaries or general thoughtful videos and movies that everyone should be exposed to. just check out Burma VJ, a powerful statement on helplessness and fragility, but also of courage and relentlessness. everybody should know about it. but what consistently happens at the house is the depressing exodus of everyone from the backyard, only to replace a cultural experience with some lighthearted full-of-shit moment of tourist obliviousness.

yesterday we were about 10 people. at the end of the documentary, we were two. but the two HAD ALREADY BEEN EXPOSED TO THIS ISSUE! therefore, the usefulness of such an event is nullified. I mean: of the 10 people, the two that actually saw the whole thing, were the two that didn't need to see the whole thing! for fuck's sake! what the fuck is wrong with you people!

on a lighter note, here's how to have Edge editions read out loud for you (buggy but works). I might do a whole app based on this. the {x} is the edition number (there are up until today 298 editions, quite remarkable). the url can change, but edge is a good choice. my old robot podcaster might be turned on again

curl http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge{x}.html | html2text -nobs | tr -d '_|=[]' | festival --tts

you can use any other tts tool, but festival has a nice voice. also, I don't remove the urls and should. definitely needs some more filtering than that wimpy tr.

godspeed starmuck