The Geecologist | half geek, half ecologist, half wit

It was a food day (sorry Ice Cube)

All Ice Cube puns aside, October 15th and 16th 2011 will certainly go down as the days the voices of the people were amplified. As I work in development, I’ve been really engaged with World Food Day this year. Even …
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16. October 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies | Tags: activism, BAD11, Occupy, OccupyLSX, OccupyWallStreet, OWS, protest, World Food Day | 2 comments

The Sleepy Trees

Where the hell did The Sleepy Trees come from? It’s like they emerged fully-formed like some bastard son of Pavement & Uncle Tupelo, rocking up twenties years later to remind Stephen Malkmus of a drunken night and an indiscretion with a Fender amp.
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15. October 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2011, Sound & Vision, Toons | Tags: alt country, johnston, my idea of fun, pavement, pennsylvania, plateau grass plateau, stephen malkmus, the sleepy trees | 1 comment

Beautiful Snow

O the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below! Over the house-tops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet, Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along. Beautiful snow! it can do nothing wrong. Flying to …
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19. September 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from John Whitaker Watson written in 1869
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies | Tags: beautiful snow, carol, crystal, freak, freezing, gay sledges, heavens, john whitaker watson, poetry, shivering, snowflake | Leave a comment

JPod

The next day the big drama was that John cast a spell on Evil Mark after Evil Mark ate a packet of Handi-Snacks John had left on his desk. Like anything weird in life, it began small and escalated. “Evil …
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13. September 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Douglas Coupland written in 2006
Categories: Geekery, Lies, Truth & Lies | Tags: cartoon perception, casting a spell, cheese, corporations, cubicle rage, douglas coupland, evil mark, handi-snack, invisible gnome dandruff, jpod, ritual, stapler | 1 comment

The Pale King

‘My shit story. Hide-and-seek, gang of neighbourhood kids, twilight. I’m running for home base and trip over decorative logs somebody bordered his driveway with and went flying and put my hands out to like shield the impact and what do …
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29. August 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from David Foster Wallace written in 2011
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies | Tags: childhood, david foster wallace, doorbell, hide-and-seek, horror, knocker, memories, monster, radio, shit, skin, the pale king | Leave a comment

The Silicon Savanna: Broadband in Africa

Silicon Savanna: Increasing web & mobile access in Africa

From Time magazine: Tim Parsonson, CEO of African data-center operator Teraco, says that in the past four years Africa’s Internet capacity soared from 340 gigabits to 34,000 gigabits per second while the cost of the Internet to its service providers …
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29. August 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies | Tags: africa, google, internet, mobile, world bank | Leave a comment

Record labels affected by the London riots

You’re likely to have seen that the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield was burnt down, with great losses to the independent labels that use Sony’s distribution channels. There is already a LabelLove campaign (including Twitter hashtag) that allows fans to …
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10. August 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Sound & Vision, Toons, Truth, Truth & Lies | Tags: adam green, aerial m, animal collective, aphex twin, arcade fire, autechre, battles, beat happening, belle and sebastian, big dada, bill callahan, black dice, blk jks, blood red shoes, bonnie prince billy, boredoms, brian eno, british sea power, broadcast, brokeback, calexico, califone, calvin johnson, clouddead, coldcut, crystal antlers, david pajo, derek bailey, destroyer, diplo, dirty three, domino, don caballero, drag city, east africa, elliot smith, extra golden, fat cat records, faun fables, fennesz, flying lotus, flying saucer attack, fourtet, gastr del sol, ghost, giant sand, glenn jones, half japanese, independent labels, j spaceman, jack rose, jagjaguwar, jason molina, jeffrey lewis, jens lekman, jim o'rourke, john fahey, london riots, loose fur, magik markers, magnolia electric co, man or astro-man?, maps & atlases, mi ami, mice parade, mogwai, mouse on mars, neil hagerty, ninja tune, nobukazu takemura, oneida, oval, owen pallett, papa m, pavement, plaid, polvo, prefuse 73, pullman, quasi, real estate, red stars theory, rodan, roots manuva, rough trade, scout niblett, seam, sebadoh, secretly canadian, set fire to flames, shellac, shipping news, sic alps, sigur ros, silver jews, sir richard bishop, slint, smog, songs: ohia, sons and daughters, sony, spiral stairs, squarepusher, stephen malkmus, sufjan stevens, sun city girls, television, terror twilight, the black heart procession, the dylan group, the fall, the fiery furnaces, the fucking champs, the jicks, the kills, the moldy peaches, the pastels, the red krayola, the sea and cake, thrill jockey, tom verlaine, tortoise, touch and go records, trans am, tricky, tunng, tv on the radio, vincent gallo, wall of sound, wooden shjips, yeasayer | 2 comments

London riots

It is sunset, the sound of sirens is less frequent outside now in Hackney (E8), and it seems like the right time to reflect for a minute on the ‘London riots’. To set some context for this, I (slightly begrudgingly) …
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09. August 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Truth, Truth & Lies | Tags: al jazeera, anti-riot, b3ta, bojo, cup of tea, darcus howe, dave cameron, egypt, facebook, hackney, kettle, london riots, penny red, riotcleanup, riotwombles, social europe, the atlantic, the telegraph, theresa may, turkish, voices of youth, we are all khaled said, zygmunt bauman | 3 comments

City Of Glass

I say what they say because I know nothing. There was this. Dark. Very dark. As dark as very dark. They say: that was the room. Not even a window. Poor Peter Stillman. And the boom, boom, boom, the caca …
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30. July 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Paul Auster written in 2004
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies | Tags: caca, city of glass, dark, david mazzucchelli, drink, excuse me, paul auster, paul karasik, pipilake | Leave a comment