+funky fresh festivals galore+
ooh, a list of festivals full of bands i want to hear this summer. i'm sooo inspired. :) <11 april 2000> <2:40 pm>

+ubiquitous voyeurism+
these weblogs make me proud to be a voyeur. god, my paper on american psycho is becoming unduly significant. hee. don't take that as a threat, honestly. i like pixi-pita because not only is it aesthetically pleasing and witty, the links are great. today i found the wonderfully orange orbiting dot org, whose author, melanie, has only been designing webpages for a year and therefore inspires me that one doesn't have to be a precociously angsty and intelligent 15 year old gifted child who has been learning html since the womb to have a beautiful and successful webpage. no offense to those girls, of course -- i'm just amazed by what a lot of teenaged girls on the internet are capable of expressing through this medium, already. i feel kind of stiffed that i finished school before this technology became easily accessible and charmingly ubiquitous. but melanie's page convinced me that this is no excuse to give up and refrain from kicking the kind of ass i hope to. speaking of kicking ass, i happened upon another excellent weblog -- bestkungfu -- today while hanging out on heinous. i love the entries about the drug czar's corruption and the porn industry as a spur to the technology industry. that's one hell of a thesis. <11 april 2000> <11:19 am>

+if you wanna be like neil armstrong, steer clear of black holes and drugs!+
while browsing the nasa homepage, fantasizing about little astronaut me in my new pink rockstar paratrooper pants, i stumbled upon this anti-drug propaganda page. there is a fairly exhaustive pull-down information list of drugs and pictures of astronauts with "inspiring" quotes reminding you that drugs are bad. and what is up with the black hole comment? avoid drugs and black holes? if drugs are like black holes, doesn't that mean that nasa doesn't understand them and can't really claim anything one way or the other? hmmm...anyway, all i could think was how much fun this page would be to look at baked. <10 april 2000> <10:35 am>

+dark matter+
i'm fascinated by dark matter. it's part of my paradoxical physics aesthetic -- i'm terrible at math but i love to try and bend my mind around things like event horizons and black holes and, yes, dark matter. one of my favorite poets, brenda hillman, writes poems about this sort of thing, this physics aesthetic that renaissance-era poets (as i believe we're in now) always have. of course i don't have a link to her poem *called* "dark matter." the poems linked are good, too, though. <10 april 2000> <10:25 am>

+regularly updated tara!+
tara is simply the funniest girl i know. and she's my old-school friend, since babyhood and all that. she created this diaryland basically so i could show her off. her columns are hysterical, full of tara flava, and she goes off on things like how much SUVs suck and why it's okay to whine. and i love her. so go! <9 april 2000> <6:22 pm>

+ancient roman erotic toys and art revealed!+
i can't wait to see what's inside. maybe i should go there and see, it would probably unlock some memories of my past life as a courtesan... <6 april 2000> <11:22 am>

+vengeance central+
okay, so this guy cheated on his girlfriend of six and a half years with his secretary. long story short, the girlfriend retaliates by *totally* trashing this guy's apartment. HE retaliates by having her arrested and running a website telling the whole ugly story, pictures and all. on the one hand, it's hysterical, on the other hand, it's just pathetic. this guy definitely deserves to be on disgruntled housewife's "dick list", but this girl has a problem too. i mean, just because he's a jerk doesn't mean you have to react like a patriarchy snack. have some pride! the logo for this site is really cool...like a trucker's mudflap, a silhouetted psychotic looking busty girl with wild hair and a knife. <6 april 2000> <10:28 am>

+temporary insanity...ALL THE TIME+
read the horror stories, reviews, and just basic bitching from underpaid, overqualified, existentialist temps like you and me. viva la revolution! <6 april 2000> <10:26 am>

+rockstar erica lynn!+
erica and i met at the wondrous grape jam two years ago. we had an amazing blast of a time with kay-tay and erica's people and the frogs. you *have* to hear this girl sing "i'm sad because my goat just died today." anyway, erica is not only a wonderful sparkly princess, she's a web diva -- she has her own personal website, which is linked to the left and above, and she maintains a slew of other sites, including the dude of life's official webpage. and now she's a rock star! woo! go check out erica's latest adventure above. <6 april 2000> <10:18 am>

+scenes from my life in porn+
evan wright tells an interesting story about his experience working for larry flynt publications, publishers of hustler, barely legal, and a slew of other xxx copy. it really *is* shag carpets and tanning beds, kids. <4 april 2000> <8:34 pm>

+powerpuff girls+
sugar, spice, everything nice and some chemical x...the powerpuff girls pretty much rock. i'm sure you know this by now. this site is the official cartoon network home of bubbles, blossom, and buttercup. worship them in all their sparkly-eyed glory. <3 april 2000> <2:25 pm>

<2 april 2000> <8:12pm> <*freshfunkyflow*>
when i listen to music, i'm generally all about the lyrics. in most cases, the lyrics make or break a song for me. i'm a snob and everything, but bruce springsteen is one of my favorite lyricists. he's like the official poet laureate of the jersey turnpike. townes van zandt is the more indie version of bruce. he's a hard drinkin' country boy with a soft heart and a penchant for whiskey. he's definitely worth your time and trouble.

<31 march 2000> <2:46pm>
what kind of sex goddess are you? apparently i'm persephone. this makes strange and significant sense in my life. i'm totally the girl who ate the pomengranate and has to spend six months self-destructively flirting with hades and another six months scampering about the lush landscape. awwwyeah.

::friday::31 march 2000::2:00pm::witchhunt::
i stayed up way too late last night and finally saw this documentary on hbo that my friend law-ra was telling me about. the documentary, um, *documents* the case of three teenaged boys from arkansas who are convicted of murdering three eight-year-old boys in a supposedly "ritualistic" or "satanic" fashion. the strange thing is, there is absolutely *nothing* ritualistic about the crime scene and basically no forensic evidence placing the boys at the scene. anyway, the first documentary is "paradise lost" and the second one is "paradise lost, revelations". one of the convicted men, damien echols, is a practicing wiccan who was asked a lot of random and irrelevant questions about aleister crowley and anton lavey while he testified. can you say "modern-day-witch-hunt?" this really scares me and pisses me off. i think it's worth a look. expect to hear more commentary from me on this case in my diary, but for now go to the grassroots online support group for the three boys, "Free the West Memphis Three," to learn more about the case.

::30 march 2000::6:11pm::newness::
my brother jesse started a pita today. have a look. it's part of an art project he's doing for school. something about narrative. woo!

::28 march 2000::3:12am::twist::glitter::sparkle::glow::
are you in dire need of a soul doctor/guru/astrologer type of person in your life? ok, even if you're not, go give rob brezsny's all-brandy-new revamped free will astrology a try. seriously. i promise he's not a charlatan. grumpy new yorkers have been reading rob's predictions (suggestions is really a better way to put it) in the village voice for ages now. to complete the cosmic rock-star vibe, listen to air's latest cd, the soundtrack to virgin suicides, while drinking an obnoxiously neon drink. and, of course, let me know what you think.