Images of orgasms past seem cartoonish, having played again and again, copies of copies of copies... the original long gone, lost between pixels in a smattering of ink overflowing from neuron A to neuron B blending them into an informationless mass. Spread lips and lollipops and kung fu care bears and all of it, I mean all of it, in pink and purple and gold.

I forgot how to fuck!

Maybe there will come a day when the hope and joy I feel when I look into her sweet brown eyes won’t be tempered by the fear that I won’t see them ever again. Not see them ever again in this state of mind. The state of mind in which I can see the them for what they are, in all their magnificance. Gateways to the soul of my lover and companion. And maybe I won’t fear that she’ll leave me, or worse, stay with me out of pity, when I can’t get out of bed because the world is black and without hope. When light turns to darnkess, when sweet turns to bitter... they always leave. They have to, and I don’t blame them. I only judge them on how they go about it. With dignity, or without.

I Gave up Coke for Her OR A Note from the Pole

A personal journal, with short stories to come. A bit over focused on masturbation owing to the author's current state of unwanted celibacy, but humorous nonetheless. I particularly enjoyed the entry, "Bloody Orgasmak."

The Peyompian Online Journal

] Artists get a full 50% of the purchase price. And unlike most record labels,
] our artists keep the rights to their music.
]
] Founded by musicians, for musicians.
]
] No major label connections.
]
] We are not evil.

Turns out I like Renaissance Guitar Music. $8 for the album, $4 goes to the artist. This site rules.

Magnatune: try before you buy MP3 music.

Most cool family tree of electronic music. Includes sound clips representative of each genre.

This is most cool.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

More recommendations from friends in Atlanta. The best explanation that I can offer for this is that its "light" industrial music, if you can imagine such a thing. Like Front 242, but more human. Two thumbs up.

Fischerspooner

] Artist representatives say a singles-oriented model means
] a significant hit to the bottom line. Instead of divvying
] the spoils of a $12-$18 CD sale, labels, artists and
] songwriters are vying for nickels and dimes from 99 cent
] downloads. For artists who write their own material, the
] impact is even more substantial: Rather than collecting
] songwriting royalties on as many as 14 tracks, plus an
] artist royalty on the album sale, payment is being parsed
] on a per-track basis.

Wait a fucking minute... I thought that most artists got more like $1.20 to $1.80 per CD, and not $12-$18.

BILLBOARD: Artists opposed to online music stores

] "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell
] you. Meat made the machines."
]
] "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're
] asking me to believe in sentient meat."
]
] "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are
] the only sentient race in that sector and they're made
] out of meat."
]
] "Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based
] intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
]
] "Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied
] them for several of their life spans, which didn't take
] long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?"

Before The Matrix, There was Only Meat

A View from the other side.

] And on the Fifth Day, the Picture Was Reversed in Favor of the Iraqi Resistance

] What does it say about American culture if Venice
] filmmaker Tim Sullivan can't get financing for a remake
] of the 1964 splatter classic "2000 Maniacs"?
]
] What it said to Sullivan is that raising funds for
] low-budget independent movies -- never easy -- has gotten
] tougher since Wall Street laid an egg.
]
] At 38, Sullivan is a 20-year horror veteran. His first
] break came in his hometown of Metuchen, N.J., on 1983's
] forgotten "Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn."
] Sullivan's job, wielding a Black & Decker hand pump
] behind the scenes, was to make sure the blood gushed on
] cue and on budget.

Tim is also my cousin, so meme/blog this around and get my kin some attention..

] The plot: Confederate zombies take revenge on
] present-day Yankee tourists.

Whole bunch of folks in the southeast on MemeStreams.. If this dosen't get you going, what will?

] A couple of characters will be dropped and some action
] sequences trimmed. However, there are some compromises
] he won't make. The script said eight murders, and eight
] murders there will be.
]
] "If I have to choose between a decapitation and a
] motorcycle chase," Sullivan said, "I'm going with the
] decapitation."

Right on..

Movie Industry Screwed! Economy Screwed! Rattle's cousin screwed out of financing for '2000 Maniacs' remake!