I've never posted in this community, so here I go :)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/326435761/

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-07-04/

http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/07/04.html

dapple: a small contrasting blotch; also, to mark with spots.

Sharp and open
Leave me alone
And sleeping less every night
As the days become heavier and weighted
Waiting
In the cold light
A noise
A scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
With spiders inside them
And dust on the lips of a vision of hell
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year

A hundred other words blind me with your purity
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance
I think about tomorrow
Please let me sleep
As I slip down the window
Freshly squashed fly
You mean nothing
You mean nothing

I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls
All the time
Lose me in the dark
Please do it right
Run into the night
I will lose myself tomorrow
Crimson pain
My heart explodes
My memory in a fire
And someone will listen
At least for a short while

I can never say no to anyone but you

Too many secrets
Too many lies
Writhing with hatred
Too many secrets
Please make it good tonight
But the same image haunts me
In sequence
In despair of time

I will never be clean again
I touched her eyes
Pressed my stained face
I will never be clean again

Touch her eyes
Press my stained face
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again

I only bring out this song when I am most unhappy. And here it is. Though I feel closest to "Cold' From this album right now..this song is the best representation of how i feel. With cold it's only "your name like ice, into my heart" that i love and will get tattooed soon.

I love lightning. Tonight I caught a bunch of it on video and pulled out some stills.

(click this image to see all 77)



( video is behind this cut )

From a press release:

An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country.

According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, “Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market.”

Also:

The Bush administration has attempted to wage an aggressive fight in the War on Porn. In fact, cracking down on “manufacturers and purveyors” of pornography was “one of the top priorities” of Alberto Gonzales while he was Attorney General, often coming before terrorism prosecutions.

Ironically, the porn industry is now thanking Bush for his policies. “Getting more people to buy porn was probably the last thing Bush had on his mind when he came up with his ’stimulus package,’ but we’ll take it,” said Fox.

Source: ThinkProgress

I am NOT going anywhere out of town this weekend. I have lots of steam to blow off and the desire to be social. Friday night is Mardi Gras, but otherwise no plans. If there's something to do out there or you'd like my company, speak out or call. I need to get away from this whinging cat!

(Dismantled has canceled and will not be on the bill, unfortunately. However, the rest of the line-up is top notch entertainment, all for $8).

So Michelle pointed out her ebay bad buyer problem and now it looks like I may end up with one of my own. I've been selling a lot of cards lately, so I was bound to run into one of these losers at some point.

( My mostly boring ebay story )

At least it wasn't one of my money cards.

I'm starting to get that 'bored with hair colour' feeling. Let's have a vote!

Though I'm (probably) blatantly going to stick with some form of red-yellow-orange. I like red-heads.

Poll #1217380
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

So what hair colour do ya think would be good?

so, overstock.com has the best deals on rugs of anyplace i've found thus far. there are two between which i'm debating and i can't for the life of me decide!

here's one that's more traditional, but more scrolly than flowery and not nearly as busy as most Turkish rug designs, with the added bonus of no brown or orange in the design: clicky

then there's this one, which is a bit cheaper and has purple in it, but is a lot more modern in design (and i can't quite tell what the colors are, exactly - is that plum and brown? eggplant and olive? it only says 'earth tones' in the description): clicky again

the tile looks a heck of a lot more contemporary than our old taupe carpet, so suddenly my pretty black-with-red-antiquing scrolly china cabinet (the red rubbed antiquing is much more visible in person) looks a bit out of place. i'm concerned that adding a modern rug would only serve to make it look worse and that i'd end up buying a new china cabinet in the end. i'd like to avoid this since we've already earmarked all extra money for new bedroom furniture (desperately need to replace our current fake wood veneer hand-me-down dresser and nightstands, even if just with cheap IKEA things).

however, i can't decide if getting the more traditional rug would only serve to add one more thing to the room that would look out of place, or if it would tie things together. my style is "dark, classy eclectic:" i have Chinese and Japanese-inspired decor, along with frilly old-fashioned touches like the china cabinet and ornate silverplate boxes, antique-looking bits and pieces like skeleton key and lock-plate shadowboxes, dark-themed pieces of my own artwork, and standard spooky things like an eggplant velvet couch and black-and-purple drapery.

i believe i can only return those rugs to Overstock if they're unopened, so i don't want to order and then be stuck with something i don't like; how can you tell if a rug is suitable for your room without opening it?

sigh.

I just realised I still know the entirety of Marillion's Misplaced Childhood by heart.

I believe those of us who grew up in the 80s will always, to some extent, still be there until we die.

On the Pearl is there a shortcut to view sent SMS messages? Right now I do menu > view folder > SMS outbox, but I know there was a shortcut on my Curve, so....
and is there absolutely no organizing for mp3 files on the Pearl? Agh!
thanks in advance.

I left Ubuntu about a year and used automatix for clear type fonts, mp3 support, java2sdk, and other nifty utilities including the ability to use ctrl + alt + del to launch gtop.

My AMD notebook is finally somewhat supported so I gave 8.04 a shot. This is painful to search for each codec and I noticed that ubuntu 8.04 defaults to opensource community repositories which are unstable and hosed my system much to my irration.

Anyway is Automatix gone now? What else can I use to find these great programs all located in a single place?

NEW 2CD ALBUM NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON CRUNCH POD RECORDS



Pre-orders for Manufactura's new album "Psychogenic Fugue + A Damaged Symphony for Depraved Dementia N.2" have begun!

Crunch Pod is offering a special $15 price for this 2CD set until August 1st and the price will go up. The release date is mid to late August.

Direct Link To Order

A new video directed by Karloz.M for the track "Indignant Imprints of Time" from the upcoming album is now available on the Manufactura YouTube Page. The video is dedicated to Charles Bukowski & David Lynch.

3 tracks from the new double album have been added to the Manufactura MySpace Page.



MANUFACTURA

Psychogenic Fugue

+

A Damaged Symphony for Depraved Dementia N.2

When a series of traumatic events come to ahead, certain individuals transform themselves into something entirely different from what they were. All reason, perception and awareness of what is real, seize to be within the self. A state of delusion overcomes; beliefs and ideas are severely altered. History and memories are replaced with events that might have never taken place. Name, appearance and personality are distorted to correlate with the corrosion of the self. Relocation and sudden travel to another city or another life are commonplace. Lastly and perhaps, the most destructive and devastating aspect of this affliction inevitably comes to sharp excruciating focus. The condition and all of its aspects don’t exist, they are not real. Conceivably all of this too, was just a figment of a disturbed mind. Here now is a collection of recorded events during such an instance. Where madness consumes and dissolves our conscience, our convictions and the consequence incurred by all of this. A glimpse into a world that quite possibly is just around the corner, awaiting each and every one of us.

After many highly acclaimed and successful releases, Manufactura returns with what can only be considered as its most ambitious album release to date, “Psychogenic Fugue”. Once again Karloz.M takes a myriad of musical genres, destroys all of them and makes a new, sometimes shocking, sometimes soothing, and always brooding yet powerful, distinctive and very difficult to describe style of his own. Implementing a more vocal experimentation with various styles that are both haunting and deep-felt, it certainly holds many surprises for the listener. Fusing new sounds and noises with raw, violent, quiet and emotional concepts almost seamlessly has now become a Manufactura trademark and masterfully displayed on this release. The sheer size, scope and reach of this uninhibited work of art, makes it Manufactura’s most endearing and accessible as well. A long time staple in many dance club, experimental & electronic music play lists from DJ’s around the world, Manufactura now expands to a wider multitude of various tastes.

To commemorate 10 years of Manufactura since the inception of recorded material, to express gratitude and to appease its most ferocious fans, a second disc titled “A Damaged Symphony for Depraved Dementia N.2: Regression through Precognitive Dissonance” will be available along with the new album as a limited edition double album. Only 1,000 copies of this double disc will be made available with complete and exclusive artwork, lyrics, photography and design, all specifically created by Karloz.M himself. The second disc should be considered as entirely NEW material, it is a complete reworking, production and redesign of several tracks featured on the first 2 albums released by Manufactura, which are now both out of print. These new versions of the now classic material can be described as “fraternal twins” of the originals, the other side of the coins. Diehard fans can rest assured to be pleased and surprised by these new interpretations and brand new material from this electro-industrial project many now consider a legend in the field.


Track listing:
Disc 1
psychogenic fugue

01 aroused conviction
02 rape upon rape upon rape
03 elysian fire enfolds the lost
04 some where made for fucking
05 indignant imprints of time
06 defile the chastity of your flesh
07 the precession concludes
08 treacherous passage beyond the ritual door
09 beneath my hands death is love
10 the failure of the heart
11 the cusp of magic through the realm of sin
12 dream killers vow to bathe in Morpheus blood
13 the absurdity of terms and conditions
14 all things must die

Disc 2
a damaged symphony for depraved dementia N.2:
regression through precognitive dissonance

01 4:00am [summoning secret earth mix]
02 dance of blood [dubbed/chopped/screwed mix]
03 muerto de miedo [absolute condemnation mix]
04 killing you [unbound mix]
05 pain provider [self/injected mix]
06 i’ll tear your fucking heart out [big ol’ jack rabbit mix]
07 the madness & the whores [delusion mix]
08 muerte, sangre [death waltz mix]
09 stoned to death [dispersed through time mix]
10 24 sleeping pills + 11 shots of 151% proof [tambor mix]
11 sacred sin [fear of dreaming mix]



for more information on this release visit crunchpod.com


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I'll be DJing @ The Ruby Room!

717 S. Central Ave
Phoenix AZ 85004
$5 cover, 21+
8pm-2am


industrial/80s/goth/stuff

I'll be DJing @ The Ruby Room!

717 S. Central Ave
Phoenix AZ 85004
$5 cover, 21+
8pm-2am


industrial/80s/goth/stuff

Have a Happy 4th everyone, and be safe!