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Shadowboxing Carlos Castandeda* [Apr. 7th, 2008|07:46 pm]
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Listening to Coast to Coast open lines is like 98% GUH and 2% HOLY JESUS DID THAT GUY SERIOUSLY SAY THAT JUST THEN. Unfortunately George Noory is too dumb to pick up on the real gold (he had reported earlier in the evening that Rupert Sheldrake was stabbed to death when he was actually only wounded, which I guess is part of his charm? Whatever).

Friday night (April 4, 2008 episode, hour 4 at about 16:30) had the following discussion. The caller was one of those acid guys. There's a certain kind of verbal cadence a dude has after he has dropped approximately 1000 hits of acid, and this guy had that. I am typing this in part to practice typing actual sentences better.


Caller: Hi My name is Paul from Salt Lake City. I called because I'm being haunted by the ghost of Carlos Castandeda.

George: Oh my God, why?

Paul: Well I called him one night, him and his witches are haunting me. Carlos Castandeda promised us that he would be a God in the other world when he departed. One night I called his spirit and he came! And he's been tormenting me ever since. At first he was really nice, but then he began projecting all kind of horrid images onto my senses. He tried to convince me that people were food products and that I had to, I don't know, catch them for him or hunt people... he gives me strange ghostly sounds in the world, every time I pass a graveyard he whistles real loud and I turn and there's no one there...

George: Now I trust you have not done anything he's asked you to do?

Paul: No, never.

George: What are you doing to stay strong?

Paul: I don't know, I just try to fight it off I guess, I tried to shadow-box an image I got off of Youtube of him, I got the image there and on Google Image Search and I got an image of him and I stand in the middle of the room and I shadowbox the hell out of it to try to break the constitution...

George: Well you keep that up and we'll be back in a moment.


I don't know how to rip just a piece out of an mp3 or I would do that, also there's some kind of fun in typing it out. Kind of like how actually writing a journal entry that you have to think about is more satisfying than constantly spurting twittergasms.

*It's like Wrestling Ernest Hemingway but with Horrid Images projected on your Senses
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[User Picture]From: [info]icanwritewords
2008-04-08 12:42 am (UTC)

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There's a piece of freeware called Audacity that you could use. Open the mp3 with it, find the piece you want, copy and paste it into a new file and save it. Very useful.
[User Picture]From: [info]andrewwyld
2008-04-08 01:23 am (UTC)

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I was about to say the exact same thing.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

No home should be without it.
[User Picture]From: [info]lunarworks
2008-04-08 02:43 am (UTC)

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Well, I can't think of a better way to deal with a ghost. Wish I'd known that at my old house...
[User Picture]From: [info]myth
2008-04-08 03:01 am (UTC)

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Y'know, real tasteful, with like some dried flowers and stuff in there.
From: [info]sellos
2008-04-08 03:33 am (UTC)

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Or even better: mp3 direct cut ( http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html#dwn )
[User Picture]From: [info]foxmccloud
2008-04-08 04:03 am (UTC)

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is there a podcast version of C2C available? I would actually love to start listening to it, outside of staying up mad late...
[User Picture]From: [info]wigu
2008-04-08 04:18 am (UTC)

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Yeah but it's like seven bucks a months, I'd hook you up if I wasn't already leechin' off somebody else's streamlink...
[User Picture]From: [info]foxmccloud
2008-04-10 05:15 am (UTC)

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hmmm... i'll have to check it out then. once I finish paying for my wedding. which is pretty much taking all my monies at the moment. thanks for the thought though, dude.
[User Picture]From: [info]_twilight_
2008-04-08 07:56 am (UTC)

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"every time I pass a graveyard he whistles real loud and I turn and there's no one there..."

Are these wolf whistles? Could be dead construction workers. ;)
From: (Anonymous)
2008-04-08 01:28 pm (UTC)

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Hey Jeff! Do you have a day job, or do you make a living from TopatoCo goods and services? If not, you should. I am trying to imagine the kind of day job that would be satissying for you and coming up blank.
[User Picture]From: [info]bogmad
2008-04-08 06:03 pm (UTC)

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But what kind of day job should I have Oh, Anonymous? For you, I imagine that imagining satisfying day jobs for people might be satisfying, but then I don't know how satisfying it might be for me so I can't say whether or not it would be the ultimate satisfying job for you, because, well perhaps I'm not as well suited for it as you are and therefore unfit to make those kind of decisions. Also it might be more difficult a day job to pull off than selling goods and services. Also, you seem an ethereal kind of guy to pin down.
From: (Anonymous)
2008-04-08 08:13 pm (UTC)

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Oh, dear. I'm concerned that I may have come across like a d-bag. I asked because I really hope that you make a living doing topatoco things. As a nerd artist myself, the dream has always been to become self-sufficient only on my art. You know how it is. So I asked only because I love what you do, and I worry that a day job would make you less awesome, and I don't want you to be any less awesome. Love, Anonymous.
[User Picture]From: [info]bogmad
2008-04-08 09:15 pm (UTC)

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Clearly, I'm the d-bag.
Love you too, and hope some day I can make it up to you.
-w
[User Picture]From: [info]wigu
2008-04-10 07:48 pm (UTC)

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Yes TopatoCo is my 11-16 hour a day job!
[User Picture]From: [info]0x0_kate_0x0
2008-04-08 03:55 pm (UTC)

Today I learned who Carlos Castandeda is

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you just keep up that shadow boxing, buddy!

[User Picture]From: [info]file_id_diz
2008-04-09 03:30 pm (UTC)

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man fuck twitter
[User Picture]From: [info]wigu
2008-04-10 07:47 pm (UTC)

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God thank you

I was beginning to think I was the only one
[User Picture]From: [info]file_id_diz
2008-04-11 02:16 pm (UTC)

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Twitter is designed to reduce thought to anonymous, stilted, fragmentary exposition, directed at nobody in particular. Its userbase is so geek-chic that they're all talking about the same things (Apple, Guitar Hero, bad indie rock), all presented in the same self-satisfied "wry, droll wit" that's become the hallmark of Web 2.0 enthusiasts. Not to mention the blatant narcissism of maintaining a running narrative of the most mundane details of your life: the same juvenile thrill of watching yourself on a closed-circuit television, or of indiscriminately taping everything after the purchase of a new camcorder. It's nauseating.
[User Picture]From: [info]wigu
2008-04-16 05:15 pm (UTC)

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Well done. Very well said.