HAPPY BIRTHDAY, mxmn!!!!!

tagged by miz shivar/post_future:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Wai Pi Wai, "White Sand" ("Blue Voice" is also divine) -- the whole album is a perfect ( Read more... )

boston & providence peeps, i'm thinking of heading to club hell after dinner tonight, anyone interested in going out?

saturday, in an attempt to get back to the healthy plant-based eating, i put up some kidney and cannellini beans, and spent the evening cooking. first i put up the italian vegetable stew for which sulla gave me her family recipe, a slow-cooking concoction of eggplant, zucchini, peppers, potatoes, green beans, and kidney and cannellini beans. i altered ( Read more... )

i'm now a freelance writer and critic:

The myth of tech gadgets and social alienation
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/11/16/EDGEHFOQ451.DTL

According to NPR's Marketplace the other day, a leaked memo from Microsoft revealed their joint plans with the Associated Press to provide news video online. Apparently news circulation rates have been dropping recently (and of course, the internet is presumed the guilty party). Anyhow, I was particularly tickled by this bit of news, because I've ( Read more... )

sorry for the flyer spam, but i've got two upcoming gigs that might interest some folks:

NeuroGenesix -- this friday at the rawhide in SF, harsh ebm and industrial noise downstairs, electro tech/techno/other cool electronic beats upstairs. our debut night last month in our new location went smashingly, so don't miss out on the noisy stompy fun! i' ( Read more... )

For SF/CA peeps, today is voting day, so go out and tell the Governator what you think of his propositions. zapophenia has a nice summary of a couple of the propositions here ( Read more... )

so, last week i was really entertained by the inconsistency in media representations of "goth" -- are we a teen cult that engenders violence and depravity? or an appropriate aesthetic in high fashion every few years, as long as you're a wealthy white woman who wants to be "edgy?" or just a bunch of aging clubkids who wear too much black and still ( Read more... )

also, pir was able to create an LJ feed for my new blog, which I just updated today:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/styleoverconten/