{"id":402,"date":"2007-04-16T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T17:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/psipunk-and-gnarl-videos-melkweg-dutchska\/"},"modified":"2013-09-28T18:01:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T02:01:23","slug":"psipunk-and-gnarl-videos-melkweg-dutchska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/psipunk-and-gnarl-videos-melkweg-dutchska\/","title":{"rendered":"Psipunk and Gnarl Videos. Melkweg Dutchska."},"content":{"rendered":"

The weary wayfarer is back in his California heaven. Immortal in cyberspace. Rather than making new posts, this week I keep revising this particular post.<\/p>\n

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Hooray! Today (Wednesday, April 18, 2997) Menso Heus of the Dutch ISP XS4ALL managed to post a nice version of my twenty minute Amsterdam Psipunk <\/strong>lecture onto Google video. Click the little arrow to play it or, to see a larger version, click this link: Google Psipunk Video<\/strong><\/a>. I have the full written text of the Psipunk talk <\/a> online as well. The sound quality is very good, although the synch to video is just a bit off.<\/p>\n

Thanks to XS4ALL<\/a>, the Cyberspace Salvations<\/a> group, and the Waag Society<\/a> for organizing the talk. By the way I’ll be giving a similar talk at Dorkbot<\/a> in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 2–in about two weeks.<\/p>\n

Culture hero R. U. Sirius<\/a> was on the stage with me that night; we should have video of his talk and our shared Q&A up soon.<\/p>\n

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My new Dutch impresario friend Luc Sala<\/a> posted a ten-minute video of the first half of my talk on Youtube <\/a>as well. The sound quality isn’t as good, but the synch and image a little better. Good work, Luc! Guerilla journalism. Luc has made a zillion interview and talk videos, you can find them tagged by mindlift on Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s also a high-quality, but somewhat hard to access (because of 500 Meg size) version of the video at the Waag site <\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My Rochester interview about Mathematicians in Love<\/em> with Bob Smith will air as broadcast and online from AM 1370 <\/a>in Rochester, Tuesday, May 1, 2007, Noon-1 EDT. It’s supposed to be available soon from WXXI as an MP3 <\/a>file as well.<\/p>\n

More Rochester documentation: My lecture at RIT on \u201cGnarly Computation,\u201d\u009d is up as a Flash video<\/a>. The freshest part—that is, the part I never said before—is last five minutes when I’m giving my history of how I got involved with cyberpunk—scroll ahead to around minute 65 of the 70 minute talk. If you figure out a way to clip out this bit, Youtube it and send me the link.<\/p>\n

And the very enjoyable four-person colloquium on my work <\/a>is up as in video form as well. <\/p>\n

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My very last night in Amsterdam was fun. I had dinner outside a trattoria on cobblestones by a pair of intersecting canals with Ken Goffman [a.ka. R. U. Sirius]. Just the two of us, no Q & A, no psychodrama, it was relaxing. All the water and cobblestones and the crenellated stair-step gables. So perfectly European, like a theme park almost, but with some actual dirt and with relaxed locals puttering by in little boats drinking wine and beer. We had dessert before dinner: pancakes in the cool pleasant courtyard of the Amsterdam Historical Museum, another of Amsterdam\u2019s intensely perfected urban spaces. I think the government has a lot of money to really buff things up.. After dinner we walked along the canals, ending up at De Melkweg (the Milky Way), a night club I\u2019ve always wanted to check out.<\/p>\n

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Last time I was in Amsterdam, in 1994, I bought pot at the \u201cR. Crumb Coffeeshop,\u201d\u009d and their business card bore, on one side, Crumb\u2019s classic \u201cStoned Agin\u201d\u009d drawing of a man with a melting face, and on the other side, a little map of how to get back and forth between the Melkweg and the R. Crumb Coffeeshop. And parts of the great live Rolling Stones album Stripped <\/em> was recorded at the Melkweg, as was Michel Gondry\u2019s \u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d\u009d video for it. So I think of the Melkweg as being a very cool place.<\/p>\n

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R. U. and I came upon the Melkweg in the dusk; and it\u2019s not such a big building at all. It holds a cinema, a theater space and small rock club, nothing like the cavernous Fillmore hall I\u2019d expected. Maybe they use the big theater for big rock shows, but last night they had ballet in there. We went into the small room and saw a couple of ska bands; it was Ska Night, a mini-festival called Dutchska<\/a>. We stayed about an hour. In a way, ska is perfect for Europeans. It gives them an excuse to sing \u201cYa, ya, ya,\u201d\u009d to a band featuring an accordion\u2014which is what they like to do in the first place. The band Mala Vita had guitars, and they rocked, one song\u2019s chorus was good: \u201cNobody knows, nobody knows.\u201d\u009d R. U. and I could relate to that, we were shouting along. Dancing to the music felt good. My hips and back get sore after a few days of walking around cities, also I was sore from the stress surrounding our show. When I dance, I let my backbone slip and work it on out. Yubba.<\/p>\n

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Between bands, Ken and I sat on the ground outside. We weren\u2019t getting high, and neither were most of the kids there for the concert, which seemed incongruous. In the U. S., pot is illegal, and everyone is smoking it at concerts. In Holland it\u2019s effectively legal, and they don\u2019t bother to smoke it. Ken and I don’t need it anymore, we’re mutants for good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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