artificialsoundandlight

2008

December
November
October 23
August 57
July 83
June 112
May 64
April 47
March 19
February
January
“What does hearing REALLY mean anyway??”
— Semira Ahdiyyih (better out of...
Aug 31st

Tower of Babble

Babies go through a one-word phase, a two-word phase, then a crazy-cool unlimited verbal builder...
Aug 31st

Et al...

“Knowledge is twenty and seven letters. All that the Prophets have revealed are two letters thereof....
Aug 31st

27/9

It may have a date.
Aug 30th
“Good point, you may proceed with the negotiations.”
— Lauren Rutstein (Lauren: Why...
Aug 28th
“You went from $1,000 to a free lunch. Rafaan if you hold out...”
— Jared Rutstein (fairly...
Aug 28th
“Let me know when you wanna be famous.”
— Nazanin Forghani (as a result...
Aug 28th
Today is a special day. I just don’t know why yet.
Aug 28th
Aug 27th

Coin Sides

Can coincidence be defined as two or more events, that, relating to each other in either...
Aug 27th

Dis-belief.

What stifles organizations and groups based on creeds, over time, is an inability to suspend and...
Aug 27th

Personal Best

A song a month starting in September.
Aug 26th

Elders, Saints, From Age to Age

I’ve started to read God Passes By at lunch. I think Táhirih, the Pure One, might very...
Aug 24th

Poem Came To Me At Three

I make one of them fast And one of them slow A love for France Somewhere in them sown For shiny...
Aug 23rd

From Slaughterhouse V

“American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in...
Aug 22nd
“Hardship is great because it makes you think. And what...”
— Vahid Yamartino (this is not a...
Aug 21st
“Do you think you created your ideas, with your ideas?”
— Vahid Yamartino
Aug 19th

How long will you live?

Ideas are meant to be stolen. Everything we are, everything we eat, the places we sleep, are a...
Aug 19th

Recommended Highly

So my new schedule includes putting my lunch in a Tupperware container and actually doing stuff...
Aug 19th

threeam

I found out this morning that my friend and I both woke up at around 3 am last night. His dream may...
Aug 19th
Italians, and Jared (credit Sholeh)
Aug 18th

September/October

Oh no. It has a date. Late September, early October (during presidential debates). And it has a...
Aug 17th

Body of Work

You have to have admiration for people who turn their bodies into pieces of art in the application...
Aug 16th
“Maybe it’s because there’s a concert in my...”
— Semira Ahdiyyih (on why the...
Aug 14th

Four Letters

I’ve always wondered if derogatory words would ever leave language. What would it be like? There...
Aug 14th
Priceless…
Aug 12th

Watch it!

Try this for a day, or however long you can. Try watching your life happen instead of thinking that...
Aug 12th
Warch Watch
My Dad’s drive to work. 1 Sec = 1 Min
Aug 11th

Happening.

If you think you need something to be happy, then, you do.
Aug 11th

Have Turned

I’ve come into a small fortune. Not money no. A modus operandi (oddly enough, not the name of an...
Aug 10th
Yesterday - Food
Aug 9th
Yesterday - Olympics
Aug 9th
“Yeeeaaahh Raaayyyy…I have tooooonnns more.”
— Kenneth Chadwick (after I...
Aug 8th
“You know what they say: Sarcasm is a dish, best, served.”
— Vahid Yamartino [quotable]
Aug 8th
“I’m the spice detector.”
— Semira “Spice...
Aug 8th
“I assure you the chances reside in a fraction of a percent,...”
— Vahid Yamartino (to a friend)...
Aug 7th

Hype!

An excited friend can make you excited about something you otherwise wouldn’t get excited...
Aug 7th
Yeah, I don’t like wearing sunglasses because…it feels like…you...
Aug 6th

Automatic Stop

Committing a complex piece of music to your motor memory is one of the most satisfying things...
Aug 5th
Take a close look…
Aug 5th
Take a close look…
Aug 5th
Take a close look…
Aug 5th
Take a close look…
Aug 5th

Wild Horses

What is something highly meritorious you’ve done, and how do you know it was? I think meritorious...
Aug 5th

Does Not Compute

The most frustratingly nonsensical error message you will ever see contains a precious little phrase...
Aug 4th

My Fellow Americans

The next time someone with a British (Australian, New Zealand) accent pronounces their Rs in front...
Aug 4th
“PS are we gonna die?”
— Nazanin Forghani (in response...
Aug 4th
“Holy Inbox Batman!”
— Howard Hinterthuer (no doubt...
Aug 4th
“They’ve purloined our occupations…”
— Vahid Yamartino (THEY...
Aug 4th
“Blasphemy? Blasphemy is that way…”
— Ramin Hossaini (referring to...
Aug 3rd

Favorites Post

Whenever someone asks you what your favorite X is, you always hesitate because you’re not sure...
Aug 3rd

If a tree falls on sound logic...

Nothing makes sound. No really. The only place that sound exists is in your head. Everything else...
Aug 2nd
Vafattack
Aug 2nd
My People
Aug 2nd
Seal
Aug 2nd
Csqare
Aug 2nd

Ignore This Post...

You know when you have a realization? It’s odd because it is preceded by a lull of certainty without...
Aug 1st