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August 28th, 2008
angel_boi
 | 05:07 pm - Bay Area Alert: Grass fire on T.I.
FYI, grass fire on TI
bridge traffic is ASS
but the view is beautiful
really pretty
smoking all of port oakland
cranes in smoke = pretty
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leeeah
 | 04:57 pm - Sound Science October 4
On October 4th there will be a cross platform event "Sound Science" It will be bridging research in altered states of consciousness through sound, light, and other fringe science. From 2pm until 8pm we will be holding a type of science fair with researchers and experimenters in Sound sciences as well as having panel discussions, cymatics machines, binaural beats, and more
Then at night at the Church of Bass there will be an amazing line up from names coming down from Canada, and all over the PNW (further lineup info coming in soon or at psychesonics.org). There will also be a line up of live artist, Performance, digiredos, visuals, and sound experiments happening in different rooms at the event.
( More details... )
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joelledirty
 | 04:03 pm - Tweets for Today
She stirs...
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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cambler
 | 03:09 pm - Wow
I'm often amazed at the quality and feature-richness of free software.
http://www.celtx.com/
Media pre-production and scriptwriting package. Absolutely astounding all by itself - but it's free!
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cambler
| 02:40 pm - Price Increases
Just a heads-up to those of you who own domains - prices will be going up in one month. On September 30th, the prices on .com, .net, .org, .info and .biz names all go up by approximately 50 cents per year. This is a price increase at the registries just like the one last year. Verisign, the .com and .net registry, is allowed to raise prices in 3 out of 5 years, starting last year. They did it last year, they're doing it this year, and one can expect they'll do it next year.
If you have any domains, please note that you can renew them at any time and add one or more years to them, now, at the current price. That is, if you renew a name now, even if it has a year to go, and you renew it for three years, you pay the current price for those three years, and your domain will be registered for four more years.
If you have names through me (http://www.namenerd.com), I've just lowered the base prices on com/net/org/info/biz names to $9.95 for the time being. Additionally, if you transfer a name to NameNerd, you'll get that price, too.
Finally, we have a price promotion running, so I took advantage of that, too - if you transfer a .com name over, the transfer price is $8.50. This is a promotion that we're getting from the registry, so I'm just passing that along.
http://www.NameNerd.com
By way of explanation, for those who don't know me that well, I'm a muckety-much at eNom (a Demand Media company). eNom is the #2 registrar on this dustball we call Earth. As an employee, I have a reseller account to offer domains and hosting to friends and family. If you read my personal blog here, you're a friend. I set the prices pretty low (just a touch over break-even) and you get to bend my ear if you have problems or questions.
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foto_decadent
[tyulka]
 | 02:26 am
Magazine: US Detour Magazine - Mars 1996
Designer: John Galliano
Model: Nadja Auermann
Photographer: Paolo Roversi
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foto_decadent
[ecstasy_lover]
 | 12:42 am - Frederic Meylan Photography
Celebrity: Monica Bellucci
Photographer: Frederic Meylan
Year: 1990
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abandonedplaces
[fiveanddiamond]
 | 05:28 pm - Bath House
I'd be surprised if this place hasn't shown up in this community before
An abandoned bath house in upstate NY .
About 40 rooms, each about 6' x 8', each with a window and a bathtub, once fed by natural, mineral-rich springs. Each room was in a different state of decay; more in my journal, and on my flickr page--
- just click on one of the pics, or go here http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiveanddiamond/sets/72157606992755078/
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cambler
| 02:24 pm - Heads Up
Looks like I'll be in San Francisco September 19th to 21st. Saturday is full (with the reason I'll be down there) but Friday night and Sunday should be open.
More details as soon as I lock down logistics over the weekend.
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abandonedplaces
[dredik]
 | 12:07 am - Abandoned Cyprus
All in Larnaka town.
This year's august.
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spikyme
 | 01:41 pm
It sure is interesting being on the other side of a mirrored glass window watching all sorts of women checking themselves out as they pass by.
Current Music: Morcheeba - Love is Rare | Scrobbled by Last.fm
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canongrrl
 | 03:33 pm - home sick
more McCaion - and why he's the wrong choice - and why he is not really for American's not worth 5,000,000
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velvetgarden
 | 12:20 pm - Happy 10th Birthday Velvet Garden!
I'm a little surprised and terribly happy to announce that, as of today, Velvet Garden is now 10 years old!
10 *years*! Waaah!
Very very soon, I'll be launching a completely new web design for the site, since it's pretty badly in need of updated design.
I started the site back in the summer of 1998 after my first job lay-off, because I wanted to teach myself HTML, and because I had (and mysteriously, still have) too many clothes. I had tried selling on auction sites, and there were a lot of things I didn't like about them, so I wanted to offer the world (or at least the Goth world) something different. Since then, here's what it's become:
* There are currently over 7,500 people who have signed up for our weekly Mailing List updates.
* According to our site stats, we receive an average of over 5,500 hits per day.
* There are over 1,500 items on the site, and 20-120 items are added each week.
* There are currently over 150 sellers on The Velvet Garden, with more each week.
* Items are sold every day, and there are hundreds sales each month.
* According to Alexa.com, the traffic rank for The Velvet Garden is among the top 300,000 websites in the world.
And here's what people have said about it:
"The Velvet Garden is the 21st century’s answer to the garage sale — a Gothic, on-line shopping source for cheap buys and tons of goodies!" ~ Laura from Morbid Outlook
"The Velvet Garden is like a magical wardrobe, you never know what will be there next!" ~ Cat from Fetish Kitten
"Velvet Garden is a very smooth-running machine which offers an excellent alternative venue for the buying and selling of Gothic what-nots. The level of communication between sellers and store owner/diva is a much-appreciated change from the Ebayesque ambiance of other auction sites/online stores." ~ from Morbid Outlook's "Customer Service" Article
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christianb
 | 01:53 pm
I have a hunch it's fake...but the scariest thing is I can slightly imagine it NOT being fake: http://media.tumblr.com/qUZ0jyiGPd49vvcdTLQVFLaR_500.jpg
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leeloolala
 | 10:32 am - My Life Circa 2007-8 - Only Blue Skies Ahead
Mystery Train meets Hiroshima.
Burn baby burn!
Current Location: home
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/elizabethia/gothicsally/loved.gif) good
Current Music: The Snorting Pugs
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cajunsblues
 | 10:30 am - ranty post
Sigh*
Today is just one day I do not want to be here.
This morning crossing the street to get to work, crossing in the crosswalk and legally, a car decide not wait and cuts a left turn in front of me. I take my morning water bottle and throw it at his car. Hits the window but he drives away and honks his horn. Chicken.
Cracked myy water jug.
Come in to the office with a list of cuitomer complaints, meetings and a bitchy customer service rep who hates me since I took her job.
Right now all I want to do is get a car and drive away from it all. It sounds so good and so appealing.
But I have responsibilities. Both jobs are what I am hating. This job since it is end of fiscal month and coming in under projected budget. And CMS with Bumbershoot. Honestly only driving force I have right now it seems is a mojito on monday. And well honestly I am bitchy due to a few more things but that is another thing. Lol.
Ah well
Enough bitching and time to go fuck up a meeting with bad jokes and honesty the management don't want to here.
And the worse has to be the bacon was too crispy.
Heathens
Hakuna matata.
Current Location: work aka hell
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/frank/Frank-Sad.gif) crappy
Current Music: metallica - the day that never comes
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christianb
| 11:46 am
On another note, I totally want to see Sukiyaki Western Django which comes out this weekend, but I can't seem to find any theaters that are going to carry it? Anyone?
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christianb
| 11:10 am - On movie sequels...
With the release of Lost Boys 2 and Wargames 2 recently (both straight to DVD?), it is obvious there's some movie studio executive(s) that is sitting somewhere, looking at the back catalog of 1980s properties that the studio owns and saying to himself "You know, all those kids from the 70s and 80s that loved this stuff...They'll TOTALLY watch any ol' sequel we can throw out there with the same name of their beloved movies from way back when".
And it's not really like when like 5-10 years ago there was a period of time when everyone and their mother was doing full A-budget movie remakes of favorite classic TV shows and such (the remakes of Starsky and Hutch, The Mod Squad, The Avengers, heck, even The Flintstones or Car 54)...no those were big budget, major actor, big deals remakes that were hoped they'd pull in some cash...(most were horrible flops)
These new sequels are a different breed, and fiscally, they really do make sense. If they can crank some crappy straight-to-video sequel out for 15million, and have it make 30 million in DVD rentals of pure curiosity (in that "woah, dude, they made a _______ sequel?...holy crap..."), then it makes sense for them to do. (And I seriously doubt that anyone in their right mind rents these things truly expecting them to be good so much as they expect them to be interesting, amusing, and probably horrifying, but hey, how can you NOT be a little bit curious just in what manner they wrecked the property?)
So given all that, I think it's time for all of us to consider what sequels are likely still to come...What beloved 1980s movie are they totally going to bust out with a straight-to-video sequel with next? Here's a few of my guesses of what execs must be poking at:
- Ferris Bueller's Next Day Off: No idea what the plot would be...maybe Ferris is now grown up and plays hookie from work? Maybe it's Ferris and the chick's kids? But clearly someone somewhere has got to be salivating over making this one...
- The Goonies 2: This one is easy. The kids from the Goonies are all grown up, and own the property their parents did and they have kids of their own. Now, their kids go on an adventure of their own! It's Goonies for the next generation! (That's totally the exec pitch right there.) They obviously get 1-2 of the original cast that have no current acting careers to reprise their roles now as the parents of the next group of Goonies... (Note: I've heard someone actually wanted to do this at some point but the legal rights of who owns what is a nightmare.)
- The Princess Bride 2: Oh god...not even going there...
What else?...
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