Chris Wetherell Since October 5, 2000
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2005

44 posts

January

  1. Catastrophic

    Nagapattinam, India January 3, 2005 Reuters It seems, sometimes, that ultimately all problems are entropic problems. We can improve this... then this... then this... then-? Brick…

  2. The Art of Losing a Fight

    via zanphura (Alternatively titled, So You're Not Strictly Speaking, Um, The Winner.) You've tried . You've thrown your back into it. You tasted victory if only for the briefest of…

  3. It's a Nice Place to Visit

    I must have a brain tumor of sorts. When I hear some songs, or more specifically, perform some songs the broadcast of sensory information stops for me and I am simply not there . I…

February

  1. Bits of Swell or Dubious Advice from Hollywood Which Most Mirrors My Life

    (From The American President ) Advising prudence - "We gotta do one thing at a time." The near-zen response - "We don't have time to do one thing at a time."

  2. Maps released.

    Google's just released a beta of Google Maps . Dear Maps Team: You iz all of dat! I've been bookmarking a number of searches such as the following: Thai restaurants in my…

  3. Behind Ashlee Simpson

    People I know have remarked that they heard a track from Citizens Here and Abroad (I'm their drummer) playing in the background of the Ashlee Simpson show. So it just remains for…

  4. Six Apart redesigns. I love it.

    The new Six Apart design is gorgeous, useful, and degrades very, very well. (I just tested it on Moz, Firefox, Safari, IE6, IE5.5, IE 5.01, NS 4.77, NS 4.08, NS 3.04 Gold, Opera…

  5. Corporate blogs, written well.

    I've grown to enjoy the official Yahoo! Search Blog and the Ask Jeeves Blog . They update frequently, have substantive, well-written posts and each blog has a unique style and is…

  6. Google Maps is available for Safari and Opera.

    Just a quick note...the Maps team has fu! (It wasn't me, I swear! Much thanks especially goes to Steffen Meschkat.) They wrestled their Javascript to the ground with a well-timed…

  7. Dance

    Chow Nasty At the rock show last night, I saw a perfectly realized human. I wish I had a picture of him. While Chow Nasty pounded out a fun, electronic slapshot, this guy danced…

  8. The car was tossed in the sky like a toy.

    We began filming a video this weekend for our song "You Drive and We'll Listen to Music". It was great fun. And like most bands, we found it necessary to entirely spray paint a…

March

  1. No lights ... but wipers on? Not quite illegal.

    via voltos' photos The neighborhood café very helpfully hung a framed placard (like Employee of the Month) that informed me that there's a new California law making it illegal to…

  2. Oldboy is playing at the Asian American Film Festival this week. So. Many. Movies...

    Oldboy Perfections and The Hairs My German Boyfriend and Mindy Yasmin all photos via SFIAAFF If you're going to be near San Francisco or San Jose this week, check 'em out . I'm…

  3. Yahoogle

    Yahoo! and Google employees at SXSW via jay allen's photos Being at SXSW (a Texan festival that showcases talents in music, film, and -er- dorkery) and seeing competitors sharing a…

  4. Flickhoo!

    Congratulations to Ludicorp ! Good people going to a good company with a good product and, lookit!, the current direction for Yahoo is pretty bright-looking as they expose open…

April

  1. One morning's conversation.

    1 : You didn't get enough sleep. 2: No. 1: We'll have to give you a suppository. 2: [stares] Anally ... is not the only way to administer medicine. 1: It is in the state you're in…

  2. Posters for Citizens

    Posters and flyers are being made ... I guess we really are going to Europe in May!

  3. Enabling the Javascript Console in Safari 1.3

    A reminder for some: Safari 1.3's been released ( Hyatt has a good write-up about the new stuff in it ) and to enable the Javascript Console, open up Terminal and run: defaults…

  4. Off on tour.

    Off to London! Citizens Here and Abroad , literally. Will be updating as I go. First trip after we settle and sleep will be London to Saxmundham . Yes, it is a real place.

May

  1. The Tour So Far, Saxmundham and Brixton

    I am either sleeping or working. (Occasionally I'm hitting a drum. Mostly, I'm awake at these times.) I've had exactly two embarrassing moments to date. The first was in…

  2. From Liberty to Royalty and Back Again, Citizens take a Bath.

    Bath at dusk. Escaping politics on election day? Not bloody likely. (Accent theirs.) Nearly every person we've talked to for an extended time asks about the American presidency. It…

  3. A London Calling.

    Chris' dinner. Wot's all this then? Where you gits from? San Francisco, you loverly people. Land of mariners, ruffians, the bowery, and fortune-seekers. The first of which isn't…

  4. Notes from "Abroad"

    The past week of tour has been an excellent adventure. For my own poor memory (and to keep in touch w/ family) here's the rundown. (And for purely absurd reasons, each quote is…

  5. Tea themes.

    I had this errant, melodramatic thought when I woke up. The heart is a stupid, rude beast charging into people's china-like lives. Weird. I know why. I'm drinking too much tea…

  6. Sidestep

    Touring is always an adventure. But this week was more of an adventure than we had planned! Our tour booker couldn't complete some of the bookings due to his having a family…

  7. Less Abroad, More Citizens.

    We're back . And, apparently, we're playing a sold out show at the Hemlock tonight. Neat. (Uh-oh...*closes laptop, rushes to soundcheck*)

  8. The Filth and the Fury

    Jon Hicks' Flickr set of an old Sex Pistols comic-styled biography is completely mint ! Go see right now .

June

  1. Ten thousand bottles washed up on the shore.

    After some cleanup of my inbox in Gmail after the Citizens tour I have (exactly) 9999 unread emails. Nice! Some of my replies may be brief.

  2. Press it !

    Best concert shoutout ever. "I just want you all to know that making this new album was a biiitch . But what got me through it was the thought that I'd get to come back here and…

  3. Proud of Pita

    My dad, at the birth of his granddaughter. On my own makeup: the bad bits are my own...the good bits are my father's. I remain humbled and inspired by the strength and love of my…

  4. My niece's eyes follow you everywhere.

    Hey, dude. My field of vision is totally increasing . Betta watch yourself.

July

  1. That Would Be Telling

    We're (in this case, Citizens Here and Abroad ) traveling to Seattle today to play a show. Normal enough, though tonight's show has us in a speculative mood since a Seattle record…

  2. Inverting the Mac screen with a keystroke

    I know only a thimbleful of OS hacks for any platform and I'm often the last on the block to learn that some arcane combination of keypresses and mouse clicks will change my laptop…

  3. Risky business

    On the nicer bits of television (i.e. early seasons of the West Wing) the fake authority or arbiter takes additional risks time and again because sometimes they figure that better…

  4. Movies, upcoming, a wishlist

    Cinema today gets a lot of well-earned flack about quality but it's pretty easy to overlook the wheat with all the churning chaff. Whenever I browse through IMDB, however, I keep…

August

  1. Mars Downloads!

    Sure I spend all of my time at work. But there are upsides, as evidenced by my need for a compilation of quotes from teammates at Google. A sort of weird-but-true anthology. My…

  2. Mid-air

    What a nice time I get to have sometimes. I don't often get to be involved in videos that destroy a car for music's sake or intimately dramatic gay film shorts whose soundtrack I…

October

  1. Looks good on paper.

    Was trawling IMDB again recently and was struck by a thought: Hollywood likes a good plan. The following must have felt like bathtub surprises...as obvious and stunning as water…

  2. Close the laptop to beat the drum

    I have to stop coding...just for a few hours. We're playing at the SF Virgin Megastore in a hour or so. Spoon performed at the NYC store earlier this year so that makes it…

  3. Leave the office to beat the drum

    So in a couple of hours I gotta drive up the 101 and leave our nice Oktoberfest Zeigeist thing to make some noise at Mezzanine tonight in downtown San Francisco. It's a free show…

  4. Monstermass

    I think Halloween is one of America's finest traditions. It's a tacky, camp pastiche Day of the Dead, an superego-is-barred romp that I'd enjoy in more frequent visits…

November

  1. Favored engineering interview questions.

    So did you know...? All engineers at Google interview candidates as often as possible and like many of my co-workers I've pared down what was a previously substantial body of…

  2. Cool 8-bit video for Dealership's "Forest"

    This is wonderful. Aaron Novak ( see his site ) took a Dealership song which we intended as a paean to Nintendo's game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and has crafted a video…

December

  1. The Metreon has shows?

    Who knew? We're playing there this afternoon. I'm looking to take advantage of the free WiFi. Not while onstage however. I reserve that for whenever I'm in Colchester, UK. My…