September 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
3 posts
Justinfinity: Daily eBook: Carl Jung - Liber Novus... →
ledgergermane:
Oh yes indeedy my friends. I bring to you this gem I recently found. I had actually come across another scan copy of this about a week ago, but it had separate versions for the German and English translation, and all color pictures were separate jpeg files… that was no fun. This is one PDF, with with the first half the full color scanned German original w/ pics, and the second...
I have arrived. →
So it’s like this: now I have a Posterous site as well as my main blog and music site, Facebook page, Google Plus site, SoundCloud page, ReverbNation page, BandCamp…
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I have arrived.
So it’s like this: now I have a Posterous site as well as my main blog and music site, Facebook page, Google Plus site, SoundCloud page, ReverbNation page, BandCamp site, and MySpace page. Not quite sure yet how I’ll work this site in with my usual distribution network, but who cares? I’m one step closer to having an account on every damn social media site imaginable! I shall...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
“All the Tumblr blogs I follow are either nothing but cartoons or pictures of...”
– Derek C. F. Pegritz
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The Hammer Speaks
“Why so hard?” the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. “After all, are we not close kin?”
Why so soft? O my brothers, thus I ask you: are you not after all my brothers?
Why so soft, so pliant and yielding? Why is there so much denial, self-denial, in your hearts? So little destiny in your eyes?
And if you do not want to be destinies and inexorable ones, how can you...
March 2011
8 posts
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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“It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,” said the Scarecrow...”
– L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Chapter 5, to be exact).
“Be the broken or the breaker
Be the giver or the undertaker
Unlock and open...”
– Dimmu Borgir, “Gateways”.
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“You may say, it is impossible for a man to become like the Machine. And I would...”
– Attributed to Fabricator General Kane. (Quotes of the Adeptus Mechanicus.)
Roxette, Charm School →
The new Roxette album, Charm School, starts off a little blase on the first track but rapidly finds its feet and delivers some excellent electropop. “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” and “Black Cadillac” are sterling jams. If you liked Roxette back in the day, you’ll love this!
April 2010
1 post
September 2009
1 post
Reich or Republican #1 →
There’s a new game we like to play, you see—a game with added reality! Let’s play REICH OR REPUBLICAN!
May 2009
1 post
The Zen of Assholery: Cat-Piss Genji at the Filthy... →
PEGRITZ(.com)! is proud to present—for the first time in English—the adventures, koans, and meditations of legendary Japanese Zen master Cat-Piss Genji! Read on to enjoy the tale of “Cat-Piss Genji…
March 2009
2 posts
Pegritz's Art (and soon, maybe some stories) at... →
For most of my life, I was a pretty accomplished artist. My father was an artist in his spare time, and I took after him. I began doodling when I was six months old—couldn’t even walk yet, but I could scribble the shit out of a giant crayon! All through my school years, my fellow students and friends used to love to see whatever monsters or giant robots or cartoons I would draw. In...
“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what’s incomplete...”
– Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides
January 2009
2 posts
A More Perfect Union →
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, here’s the video and complete text of Barack Obama’s historic speech on race in America, given at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Windows 7 Beta: Microsoft’s Back in the Saddle... →
So, the Windows 7 beta is out. And it’s clear Microsoft has finally gotten its head on straight again.
December 2008
5 posts
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“LOOK AT THE PICTURE!!! See the skull, the part of bone removed, the...”
– Francis E. Dec, Esquire.
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“Humans are evil bastards to claim that a god is all-powerful when it is...”
– TimeCube.
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Sadman’s “Cold in the State of...
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Mr. Bungle’s “The Girls of Porn”...
Review: Tim Powers, The Stress of Her Regard →
I have several books by fantasy/horror author Tim Powers—On Stranger Tides, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, and, of course, The Stress of Her Regard—but the only one I’ve ever been able to finish is The…
November 2008
5 posts
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“…a considerable new message…the blissful counterstroke…”
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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An Android-Skull Sword Cane?! →
It’s just what it says it is!
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“Not that the incredulous person doesn’t believe in anything. It’s...”
– Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum (1989).
music.pegritz.com: Free Music to Soil Your... →
Music.pegritz.com is now live…meaning you can download all my “solo” electronic works directly from The Man Himself for—get this—no money at all. That’s right: everything’s free! So have at…
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“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
– Douglas Adams.
October 2008
10 posts
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Hmmm….I totally forgot about this song,...
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The CyberDen Internet Radio Show! →
DJ Bat, the electrowizard behind one of my all-time favorite industrial/ambient acts, Xorcist, now has an exceptional podcast going. The first volume, “Blueprint of Life (1965-1985),” is a wonderful retrospective documenting how electronic music (and music in general) influenced Herr Fledermaus during his formative years. It’s a wonderfully intimate, and extremely musically...
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“Ode to Morphine” is another new track...
A New Song: “Fuck You, Melissa” →
The easiest way to blow off steam when people really piss you off is to channel that pressure into something creative—like this vicious little jam that is guaranteed to make your speakers cry.
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Yesterday, the girl I’d been dating for the...
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The Truth About the Apple Tax →
Gizmodo provides an honest breakdown of the old saw, “Apples cost twice as much as PCs.” Guess what? In most cases, they do. If you buy an Apple, you’re getting screwed. Period. If you want to know exactly how much you’re getting screwed, check out the link.
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Quarantine is the most horrifying movie I've ever... →
No, seriously. This is a truly terrifying movie. The kind of film whose sense of panic and utter hopelessness and pants-shitting terror is so palpable it left my hands shaking. Now let me tell you…I live on a steady diet of horror movies. At best, the greatest in the genre creep me out, or sometimes just make me shudder with their august brutality. But Quarantine is absolutely diseased (pun...
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Neal Stephenson's Anathem →
Just buy the damn book. It’s like an education in quantum physics, the scientific method, and epistemology all wrapped up in an exciting alternate-history/alternate-earth adventure story!
Revisionista →
Hey, guess what? I’m rebuilding PEGRITZ(.com)! Don’t get too excited. It’ll probably take me seven years to finish it….
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Flight of the Conchords bustin’ it out...
September 2008
12 posts
Goth: You Just Can't Kill It →
Ahhh, the Goth Scene. The first social scene I ever felt truly comfortable in. At heart, I’m still an oldskool Goth—and probably always will be—but I find the recently influx of emo- and punk-related imagery and sounds into the Goth aesthetic (both visual and musical) to be completely offputting. I’m perfectly happy being an indie-rocker/revivified New Waver these days,...
Inching back towards Kadath…. →
First of all, I want to thank all the folks who have wished me well after the last post. Y’all are awesome! And to the rest of you who didn’t, well…I’m watching you and I know where you live. No,…
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Here’s a new track I just finished for my...
“Gunfire in the street
Where we used to meet
Echoes at a beat
And the bass...”
– Nine Inch Nails, “The Good Soldier,” in honor of my friend Josh, currently serving Somewhere in Iraq.
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world... →
Current status: Nope.