Some definite upcoming dates:
Phillippe Kirsch International Criminal Court President
@ Vancouver Law Courts, Sept. 4 7-8pm (free).Mogwai
@ the Commodor, Sept. 26.The Kills
@ Richards on Richards, Sept. 27.Goldfrapp
@ the Commodor, Sept. 30.
giantkicks.com . . no cents publishing.
August 29, 2003
Oligopoly Watch.- it’s very informative, angry through information rather than expression, and focused. -that ugly sentence unedited just for fun. -Caterina is a fan.
August 28, 2003
going to subject myself to kid606 at the Brickyard tomorrow night. Should entirely fuck me up.
August 27, 2003
August 14, 2003
“Feature Attack of the Smartasses, Friendster.com creator Jonathan Abrams wants to purge his uber-hip dating site of phony profiles. But online “fakesters” are fighting back. Hilariously.”
-update via The Register, Friendster gets mocked by “STD-ster”, the online sexual transmitted disease community.
At dutchbint I was steered to the what decade is your personality living in? test. And the result is actually not so inaccurate. Though someone else, having just turned 39 on the 5th, might think it weird:
what decade does your personality live in?
quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd
CRIA, the Canadian music industry association is getting into the game with p2p file sharers. They’re about to start sending messages to Canadian’s warning them about the illegality of file sharing copyrighted music. Cool. I just downgraded to kazaalite version 4.10 which doesn’t have ip blocking, and configured it to share my music directory. Am expecting a message similar to this:
“Warning“It appears that you are offering copyrighted music to others from your computer. While we appreciate your love of music, please be aware that sharing copyrighted music on the Internet without permission from the copyright owner is illegal. When you do so, you hurt the artists, songwriters and musicians who create the music and the other talented individuals who are involved in bringing you the music.
“More than 40,000 Canadians work hard producing and supporting the music you appear to enjoy, including producers, engineers, retailers, music publishers, distributors, manufacturers, record companies, concert promoters and broadcasters.
“When you break the law, you risk legal penalties. There is a simple way to avoid that risk: Don’t distribute music to others on a file-sharing system like this. For further information, please go to www.cria.ca.
“Remember that you need music and music needs you.”
August 12, 2003
Well that’s an auspicious hobby!!
Remembered that I made a bunch of comics at stripcreator a few years ago. This one would have to be my favorite.
artnet.com — Perversion in Art. by Donald Kuspit, who’s arguement is interesting inspite of the uptight position he writes it from. In particular, the association he makes between shorn pussy and perversion reveals more of his personal sexual issues than it supports his arguement.
A bald vagina is a vagina with no emotional edge, indeed, no emotional appeal, which is why prostitutes and female porno stars shave their vaginas. It is not so much to reveal all, confirming men’s worst castration fears, but rather to deny emotional entry and create a certain emotional distance…
A naked vagina is too matter of fact to be as sexually stimulating let alone teasing and enticing as a vagina hidden by pubic hair. It affords an emotional hold on what would otherwise be a slippery slope. Removing it makes the female body less seductive, for a stark slit is rather unappetizing — hardly conducive to foreplay — however much it invites quick and easy entry, as though telling the man to get it over with.
Shaving off pubic hair suggests woman’s rebellion against her seductiveness to men, for the raw display of the vagina is hardly seductive — but shaving legs seems to be a standard part of woman’s seductive style — but it also suggests that she continues to think of herself, however unconsciously, as a sex object, indeed, the ultimate sex object — the prostitute. Nonetheless, in demystifying the vagina by perversely shaving it, which in effect devalues it — it no longer looks like such a great prize to win (no longer having to go through the jungle of pubic hair the sexual adventure is more perfunctory than thrilling, more mechanical than perverse — woman also devalues male looking, for there is no longer much to look at, at least in that part of the female body.
Or rather what one looks at looks rather grim. “Be blinded by the real thing, the stark reality, the ugly actuality,” the vagina seems to be ironically saying to its admirers. But to devalue the vagina and male looking is to devalue the womb and sexual intercourse, and the motherhood that may result from it.
