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This is Tomorrow

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Ashley Todd

Maybe if Ashley Todd had a $22K a week make-up artist she wouldn't have had to carve the backwards "B" on her own face? Just thinking...

Hockey Moms, K-Mart Moms, Target Moms

From Wikipedia

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. The novel explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they gain agency, against the backdrop of a totalitarian pseudo-Christian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government in the near future.

Econowives are women who have married relatively low-ranking men, meaning any man who does not belong to the ruling elite. They are expected to perform all the female functions: domestic duties, companionship, child-bearing. Their dress is multicoloured red, blue, and green to reflect these multiple roles.

Yes, oh yes

Etienne Daho "Cet air étrange"
envoyé par musique-show

Alaskans know Palin

Fringe Party : GOP loses traction in 21st century

Republicans are bailing on McCain/Palin- the Right Wing tea leaves are spelling disaster for their candidate. The 8 years of destruction wreaked by the Bush Admin is culminating in an all-out meltdown of the global economy. Americans voting for Barack see Obama not only as an answer to the financial concerns of the middle class but also as a way to get the USA back on its feet and moving in the right direction.

People naturally want to feel good again about their country. Americans want to be able to provide for their families. Americans want a president at least as intelligent as they are.

well- maybe not these Americans:

McCain Supporters hurt their own candidate with racist rants and displays

This kind of behavior is not mainstream. You can't do stuff like this anymore in a civilized, industrial nation. There's no excuse. It's racism. It's ugly. And it's finally started to really die off.

Let's bury it deep and salt its grave so it can never spring up again. Bring garlic- I hear they don't like that either.

Flawless (Go To The City)

Grace Jones offers to pay for dinner!

Michael Barone/Thug bonehead disharmony

Hello there- just a short note to let you know that I find Michael Barone's Thugocracy article highly offensive.

It is hysterical that the Right believes that Freedom of Speech means they can just lie and lie and lie in the hopes that repetition will make people believe it's the truth. Sorry- we've seen that story before- (even if it is coming out next weekend starring Josh Brolin.) And judging by the current tracking polls, most Americans are sick of that rhetoric too.

Your editors should be screening out ugly, hardly subtle, racially tinged hate instead of publishing it. Thug? Come on. That's weak

JDD

questionable article at Rasmussen

The Betty White Experience

Putin Can See Alaska from his house

Make sure you are REGISTERed

To vote!

McSame

Mccain's VP pick brings added attention and concern in regards to his age and health. And his sanity.

Sugar Sugar Top

According to Google...

here are the key terms in my novel, THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES

Pavia, Italy, Darla, Sephora, Italian, Quentin Tarantino, fucked, Ciao, EPCOT, Gucci, Giallo, botulism, Caipirinha, Helmut Lang, tonsils, Milano, Querelle, mortician, Cassie, horror films


sounds about right!

Scams

Don't you want to hunt down the idiot who created those "Congratulations, you've been selected to receive a FREE iphone"

URGH that voice GRATES

Tipsy in Philly

Come on, let's celebrate

Mylene : Sexy Coma?

Mylene comes down to Earth from her space capsule and gets her freak on.

She returns, as if she never left- and consumes the competition

Grace Jones : Corporate Cannibal

pleased to meet you
pleased to have you on my plate
your meat is sweet to me
your destiny your fate
you are my life support
your life is my sport

I'm a man
eating
machine

I'm a man
eating
machine

A man eating machine

you won't hear me laughing
as I terminate your day

you can't trace my footsteps
as I walk the other way

I can't get enough prey
pray for me

(I'm a man eating machine)

corporate cannibal
a digital criminal

corporate cannibal

eat you like an animal

Employer of the year
grandmaster of fear.
My blood flows satanical,
mechanical, masonical and chemical.
habitual ritual

I'm a man eating machine.
I'm a man, a man eating machine.

I deal in the market.
Every man, woman, and child is a target.
A closet full of faceless, nameless,
pay-more-for-less emptiness.
I'll make you scrounge in my executive lounge.

You'll pay less tax but I will gain more back.
My rules you fools.
We can play the money game, greed game,
power game, stay insane.
Lost in this cell, in this hell,
slave to the rhythm of the corporate prison.

I'm a man eating machine.
I can't get enough prey, pray for me.
a corporate cannibal, digital criminal.

I'll consume my consumers
with no sense of humor
I will give you uniform chloroform
sanitize, homogenize
vaporize
you

I'm a man eating machine
I am the spark
that will make the world explode

I'll make the world explode
Corporate cannibal
digital criminal

eat you like an animal

Ms Jones says

"I have a terrible temper, terrible. When I hear 'This is the rule' or 'The computer says..' I get mad. People try to stop me every day." -Grace Jones

Philly

I'm going to Philly on the 15th! I've never been...

I prefer the illegitimacy of integrity, I guess...

"For better or for worse, independent cinema has become co-opted by Hollywood," Redford recently told the local Deseret News. "More big-name stars are appearing in independent films, which does gives them more legitimacy, but that definitely has its negative aspects as well."

Ben Onono's debut long player!

Ben Onono's new album NATIVE STRANGE is out in UK June 29th. The track "Blink" features on the soundtrack to THE BOY WITH THE SUN IN HIS EYES and was also featured in Ewan Mcgregor's BBC series Long Way Down. Pre-order a copy of this amazing debut here at 7digital.

Blood for oil (well at least plasma)

Blood for Oil, Literally
Donors Are Pumping Out Blood to Make Life Easier at the Gas Pump
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN

June 3, 2008—

"Plasma for gas" might not have the same ring to it as "blood for oil," but across the country companies that pay for blood say more people are donating as a way to supplement their incomes amid rising prices for fuel and other commodities.

Recognizing the trend, some labs are actively recruiting donors by enticing them with gas money for simply sitting for 10 minutes with a needle in their arm.

"Donate plasma for gas money," reads a banner outside Las Cruces Biological, a donation center on Main Street in Las Cruces, N.M.

Once donated, plasma -the main component of blood that contains proteins, minerals and hormones - is used by pharmaceutical companies to create potentially life-saving drugs.

"There has definitely been an increase in the number of donors we are seeing," said Debbie Sharp, the Las Cruces center director. "We're seeing anywhere from 50 to 100 more donations per week since March."

Sharp said donors were not stereotypical drug addicts looking for some quick cash, but represented a broad cross-section of society.

"All walks of people come in to donate," she said. "We have teachers, students, people who work for the city. We're definitely seeing a change in who is walking through the door, but they're all saying the same thing. They all say they need a little extra cash to pay for gas."

Sharp said some 720 people donated last week. The center reported record donations in the last week of April, when nearly 1,000 people gave blood.

Christophe Washburne, 38, has been working at the center and donating blood for the past two years.

"I make about $50 a week donating," he said. "I do it just to cover my gas money."

It is not legal to sell your blood in every state, but centers in many of the states where it is legal are reporting an increase in recent weeks.

Rates vary from center to center, but donors are typically allowed to donate twice in seven days and are usually paid more for the second donation.

In Las Cruces, donors are paid $20 for their first visit and up to $35 dollars for their second. Overweight donors are paid an additional $5 there because the process can take longer for them, Sharp said.

At Biolife Plasma Services in Springfield, Mo., donors are paid $25 on their first visit and $40 on their second visit in the same week.

"Some people donate because they need money and other people do it for the intrinsic value of knowing that they are helping others," said Jeffrey Park, the center's director.

Park said there was "no hard data" on how much donations had increased in recent months, "but there has definitely been a steady increase."

"Anecdotally," he said, "donations are tied to the economy. When the economy is bad, more people seem to come in."

But he also attributed the recent increase to an overall trend in plasma donation over the past several years.

Biolife is owned by the pharmaceutical company Baxter, the world's largest manufacturer of plasma-based drugs for the treatment of hemophilia and other diseases.

Laura Grossmann, a Baxter spokeswoman, said the company did not track plasma donation trends.

The Red Cross, the world's largest clearinghouse for blood donations, does not pay for blood but has nevertheless gotten on the blood-for-gas bandwagon.

Donors in California who give blood in the month of June will be entered into a lottery to win a $500 gas gift card. Donors will also be given a complimentary meal at Wahoo Fish Taco.

"With incessant summer blood shortages, there really is no better time to save lives," said Clifford Numark, director of donor recruitment for the American Red Cross Blood Services's Southern California region in a statement. "This June, the Red Cross is helping you fill up your stomach and your gas tank, when you help fill our blood bank."

Gas prices reached an average of $3.98 last week, according to the most recent figures from the Energy Information Administration.

Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

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Between Something & Nothing : June 11 NYC

I'll be in NYC for the World Premiere of BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING at NEWfest 20.

Buzios animoto

Everyone needs a little Perfume

Welcome to the DOLLHOUSE

Lost Highway + Watership Down = Ladytron Ghosts video

New iMix

Blue Moon, Blue Flower & Gold Dream

that time of year...

Pale Saints

I'm tired of too much of this
And this is wearing me thin
There are too many hours
And too many ways to fill them in
Fine friend you're a fine friend
When will I see
Fine friend you're a fine friend
You've been an anchor for me?

I'm tired of holding my breath
There's too much that's been left to say
But I know tomorrow the smile on your face
Will smooth these thoughts away
Fine friend you're a fine friend
When will I see
Fine friend you're a fine friend
You've been an anchor for me?

I'll never walk into your arms

I'm going to see

Ladytron and M83 in JUNE... ;-)

New Stereolab in August from 4AD

AQUARIUS 7

A CHILD BORN OUT OF AN EGGSHELL

This Symbol signifies finding new ways of doing things. Make sure you have the needed materials and resources to nourish this new beginning. Your desire to find a unique way will give you the ability to find new paths and a new emergence.

Transmutation. Birth of a whole new creative original impulse. Expressions of self in a whole new light. Incubated ideas coming to fruition. Private schools. Indigo and Star children.

The Caution: Being different only to follow fashion. Spoilt and naive attitudes. Being too precious about one's offspring, children or creative exploits.

hARD CANDY

is grrrrreat....

Office Boy...

Just cuz

etienne daho - le brasier
Uploaded by cladstrife

Ces instants fragiles sont emplis d'espoir
Même si j'ai été la cible et la proie
De mille aiguilles de cent coups bas
Qui m'éloignent trop de moi
La perfection pure n'a souvent pas de prix

La recherche me détruit
Puis je viens à la vie
Vois tout au fond de moi
Ce brasier qui ne s'éteint pas
Que vive la flamme, que vive la flamme

Pour à nouveau prendre
feu et brûler jusqu'au bout
Cet irrépressible espoir
S'accrocher à des détails, l'espoir
Si la vie se charge de me refaire tomber
Sans personne à mes côtés
Si à nouveau la solitude me déprave
Tu sais même les épaves
Sont de la trempe des braves
Vois tout au fond de moi
Ce brasier qui ne s'éteint pas
Que vive la flamme, que vive la flamme

Pour à nouveau prendre
feu et brûler jusqu'au bout

Rosa

Because she's and that too...

Mountain Battles Record Release Party from The Breeders on Vimeo.

Cindy Sherman-esque Roisin Murphy Video!

She's definitely stolen Bjork's place in my heart...

Flowers on a cliff in Buzios

Self Portrait

I love my iphone

Sick I know
Sent from my iPhone

More on that stupid idea to remake Suspiria

MTV reports (that sounds funny) that it's sorta going forward. And doesn't what's-his-name sound like an idiot?

I am now 38.

Doesn't feel much different from 11 or 23 or last year... sigh

the walls of Buenos Aires

Jimbin on the walls of Buenos Aires
Originally uploaded by diana_malan

Diana took this pic- I love the "A."

North American Weather Foolishness

La Choza

I know it's not just me...

WHY?

Pablo y Jim

Pablo y Jim
Originally uploaded by nave-crematorio

Leo took this at Olho De Boi

More lyrics because I am not the only one that feels this way... or even everyday...

"Só deixo minha alma
Só deixo meu coração
Na mão de quem ama solto

Eu vou dizendo
Que só deixo minha alma
Só deixo meu coracão
Na mão de quem pode
Fazer dele erótico suporte
Pra tudo que é ótimo fator vital "

Katia B.

Other parts of me lost in space... and time

Je pense a toi, mon amour, mon bien aime
Ne m’abandonne pas, mon amour, mon cheri
Quand je suis dans mon lit, je ne reve qu’a toi
Et quand je me reveille, je ne pense qu’a toi
Si je ne te vois pas, je ne peux rien dire
Je ne peux rien faire, je ne peux rien voir
Je ne veux rien savoir
Mon amour, mon cheri
Certains t’ont promis la terre
D’autres promettent le ciel
Il y en a qui t’ont promis la lune
Et moi je n’ai rien que ma pauvre guitare

Back in Boston

Why do I keep doing this to myself??

Robin Millar & Ive Mendes

Robin Millar, producer of Sade and my obsessive fave, Ive Mendes, has a website where you can listen to his work with Ive on her solo cd and his own release "Kiss & Tell" It's the last bit of Ive Mendes music I hadn't heard. When is she going to release a new cd?? Argh!! ;-)

Sundance: Over it

Sundance takes place, without hype

By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff | January 21, 2008

Park City, UTAH - The hot thing for men at Sundance this year is to look like the painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel - untrimmed beard, seemingly unwashed hair, a few proud extra pounds hidden under what you might call a blouse. (It's a look.) The hot thing this year for some major critics and editors who usually come to this scenic resort town was to stay home. more

Dude, that's the look at Sundance every year...

Not ready for prime time...

QUESTIONER: Is it your goal to bring the Constitution into strict conformity with the Bible? Some people would consider that a kind of dangerous undertaking, particularly given the variety of biblical interpretations.

HUCKABEE: Well, I don’t think that’s a radical view to say we’re going to affirm marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal. Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again. I think the radical position is to make a change in what’s been historic.

Ummm...

Huck: We Need To Amend The Constitution, Bring It In Line With God

By Eric Kleefeld - January 15, 2008, 1:00PM

At a Michigan campaign event last night, Mike Huckabee gave an interesting reason for why he wants to amend the Constitution to ban both abortion and gay marriage: Otherwise, the Constitution would be in conflict with God.

Huckabee first observed that some of his opponents don't want to amend the Constitution on both of these topics. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God," Huckabee said. "And that's what we need to do, is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards."

Snoopy dancing to Paninaro by the Pet Shop Boys, wearing Miu Miu

click here for quicktime movie

Favorite Albums of 2007 & 2008 Predictions!

I love making lists...

Albums of 2007





1. Sally Shapiro "Disco Romance" USA version released in 2007
2. Samantha James "Rise"
3. Bebel Gilberto "Momento"
4. Kylie Minogue "X"
5. Miranda! "El Disco de Tu Corazón"
6. M.I.A. "Kala"
7. Etienne Daho "L'Invitation"
8. Siobhan Donaghy "Ghosts"
9. Blue Six "Aquarian Angel"
10. Belanova "Fantasia Pop"


Biggest Disappointments of the Year 2007

Bjork's Volta, the less said the better.
Tracy Thorn, I loved it- but just not as much as I thought I would....

2008 Prediction

Goldfrapp's "Seventh Tree" will be in my 2008 Top Five. It is just totally beautiful.