i started using tagbar in vim and found this blog post about getting it to work with scala. the provided regular expressions worked ok for me, though they unfortunately missed a lot of things too. i updated them to add some of the more common scala modifiers, but i’m assuming i missed some as well. i just did this off the top of my head and it seems to capture almost everything int he source files that i tried it on, though if somebody wants to update it with a more exhaustive list, i’d appreciate it…
this song and the main street records (especially ‘new day’) were the reason i started making dubby techno thanks to matt hellige putting them on a mixtape that he made and played when we carpooled to our job in chicago…
basstronic!
this is an excellent article from the awl (no relation) on the shifting politics of energy policy in north dakota, in light of the vast oil reserves that, thanks to high oil prices and “advances in technology” like fracking and horizontal drilling, are now once again economically feasible to drill. it’s crazy talking to my relatives in north dakota, especially minot (where i was born and raised), because every time i have a conversation with them, they have some new stories about a gas station attendant who just got a check from an oil company for $500,000 for land he didn’t know he owned, or about some couple who is renting out their two-bedroom house in williston and receiving more money per-month than they paid outright for the place. on the flipside of this, of course, are the countless people being driven from their homes by exorbitant rents, skyrocketing prices at stores, escalating crime, etc.
it’s truly amazing how short-term everybody’s memory must be, because north dakota went through all of this less than a generation ago. some of the most depressing memories of my childhood are of driving around williston, tioga, etc. with my dad and various other men of my family on hunting trips and seeing the ghost town-like remnants of a post-oil boom bust. i remember seeing so many boarded-up houses, abandoned trailer parks, decrepit grocery stores and movie theaters and basically just an area that practically looked like a war zone or the fallout area of a nuclear containment breach. it doesn’t help that this area of north dakota already has some of the most uninviting climate and terrain of anywhere in the lower 48, but couple that with the scene of an ultra-depressing morning after hangover when everybody woke up from being drunk on oil for years on end and it really was so depressing that you almost expected sad symphony music to start playing out of nowhere and you had to fight back the one tear like the indian in that commercial.
amazingly enough, though, it seems north dakota is ready to go through all of that again and they’re willing to auction off their government to big oil companies in the process. it’d be hilarious if it weren’t so depressing at just how blatant it is when, for example, the director of the department of mineral resources is a former executive of hess oil and he is spending most of his time drumming up fear and uncertainty among north dakotans about the epa, leading the state to insert an amendment into a flood relief and highway safety bill that allocated a million dollars for a potential state lawsuit against the epa over fracking regulations.
meanwhile, thanks to the “halliburton loophole,” companies can claim their fracking solutions as proprietary trade secrets and they don’t even have to declare what they’re pumping into the ground by the millions of gallons, in spite of it inevitably ending up in the soil and the water supply for everybody in the vicinity.
at least it’ll be a neat magic trick when i can go home for christmas and light the tap water from the kitchen sink on fire.
jesus christ, can things get any more upside-down? a cop shoots an innocent, unarmed man in the back and gets two years for it. a citizen tapes cops illegally harassing him and faces 75 years!? even better, nsa wiretaps are apparently legal, but citizens of this country are felons if they record public servants performing actions in public. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
ok, this is just really, really weird. it’s a video called “houston guy’s complete guide to sledding.” the video itself is totally ridiculous and hilarious, with the guy taking sledding super seriously and talking about how he’s going to “major in sledding.” the most ridic part, though, is that the soundtrack for the latter half (starts around 2:25) of it is apparently a track i wrote called “communist plot.” the funny thing is that i didn’t even remember ever writing this song until hearing it and seeing the credits. i must’ve written that song in around 1998 or 1999 when i was attempting to do uk hardcore revival type stuff or something like that. from what i can surmise, it was probably a track that i wrote and uploaded to my mp3.com account (remember that site???) where dude probably grabbed it forever ago. the funny thing is that i don’t have copies of like almost any of the music i wrote around then, except for a few cassette copies- i used to sell cassettes at shows- that my mom fortuitously decided to save. it’s super hilarious for me to remember that they used to play my tracks on college radio in fargo when i was in high school and i also sold the tapes at some of the local punk shows that my friends and i threw back then too. i distinctly remember selling out of all the copies of my tape that i brought to sell at “rock n roll christmas 2” or whatever those shows we did at the bowler back then were called. i should probably try to digitize all the tapes that my mom has at her house at some point too. if anybody has any copies of any of my old tracks, especially anything before my first record came out in 99 or 2000 (can’t remember exactly… gonna have to hit up discogs), i’d be super appreciative. i lost most of that stuff when my laptop got stolen in chicago around 2000. and if anybody has any of my tapes (steph schardin??), please please please let me know, because i definitely would at least like digital copies of all my releases!
