I stumbled across the new Portishead cd, Third yesterday, while looking for something else entirely. I was pretty pumped when I heard Machine Gun on their myspace page. But for all the awesome that is Machine Gun, the rest of the album is nothing like it. Lots of experimental stripped down sound, which while very good in places wasn't what I was ( Read more... )

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Speaking of iPods, Apple surely wants their piece of my soul badly. I have resisted buying one of these devices for so long, partly due to lack of need, partly due to the loss of my mp3 collection, partly pure inertia. And then one cold and windy night some weeks ago, they laid a clever trap for me. There on the street, looking up at me with its ( Read more... )

I feel as though a piece of my soul has been returned to me. I did not know how empty, until it was filled. Blissful reunion, after so long a separation. I had not realized how much was missing that is essential to me. I am reborn ( Read more... )

Last night I realized the trick to seeing visions. It has to do with releasing control over your perceptions so that you are open to randomness and external influence. It is release of the ego, and the same mental muscle used in meditation for dissolution of the ego but applied to a sense. There is a feeling of having to give up your eyes so you ( Read more... )

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Oh, and Carterday is March 8th this year. The Pfeast of Pisces! Usual warnings and disclaimers apply. This year in the newly renovated Neverland, at The Island of Lost Boys (formerly Carter's Home For Wayward Girls, which was less applicable when the house became a total sausage-fest ( Read more... )

I read over some of my old poetry today, and it occurs to me that I haven't written anything like that in quite awhile. Well, the rewrite of the xmas tree horror thing aside, I suppose. But I mean new pieces. Its a sure sign that the pressure of trying to make the next month's bills in an uncertain world while under legal attack by a psychotic X ( Read more... )

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