Another hot-button issue tackled

PK: what do you think of emoticons?

ghostproofblanket: i hate them

i use them as an ironic joke sometimes

but if a guy uses them in an IM convo with me we are never having sex.

PK: haha

11:05 AM ghostproofblanket: there was this one dude i was talking to that used the smiley all the time and it was gross

PK: i can't bring myself to use them

ghostproofblanket: "i'm a nice guy i mean no harm!" =)!

PK: creepy

ghosproofblanket: it does seem creepy! but it was actually just...provincial

11:06 AM PK: i get emails from girls with emoticons in them and I'm just hoping they aren't looking to me to use them as some sign

11:07 AMthanks for helping me to clarify my stance

And there you have it. Two out of two people agree that if you're over 15 and not an ESL student, you should reconsider your earnest use of emoticons. *banging gavel sound*

ANYWAY, Emynd released a free digital EP of "We Don't Give a F*ck" featuring Young Chris from Young Gunz ("can't stop won't stop Rocafella records cuz we get down baby, we get down baby" etc). The DJ Eli remix is my favorite but it's all great, get it here.

Emynd ft. Young Chris - We Don't Give A... (DJ Eli rmx) (div share)

unconditionally, irrevocably, cringeworthily

I like this a lot. It's set for official release in late spring-early summer, I'm told:
Drlkt Freddie - Blood (div share)

Check Drlkt Freddiespace - Their mix of the Lauren Flax track featuring Sia on their page is pretty hott too.

Speaking of blood: a voracious reader friend who has given me some great recommendations told me to read "Twilight" over Christmas, since I'd be spending it on planes and trains a lot. And she was right, I got weirdly hooked on the word-crack. But now I've got to see this thing through to the terribly written end and I've devoted several thousand pages of eyeball juice to this weakass goth shit. Also the home stretch is getting downright creepy, honestly, and the fact that she dedicates it to the band Muse pretty much sums it all up. Yet I STILL won't read this Bitch article (heh "abstinence porn," totally) because apparently I'm afraid of being spoiled? I seriously have no standards at all. As Bella Swan would say, my cheeks are burning with hot shame.

Edited to add: But if you also have read these for some reason and/or seen the movie (I haven't), I Rock I Roll has an excellent Twilight-inspired soundtrack. Cure, duh. Muse, inevitable I suppose.

they have a muchness with each other

"They've really taken a shine to each other as they are both burned and share the same burned smell."

So well put David Tree, volunteer with the Country Fire Authority Victoria. FUCK a he-went-to-Jared. This is what love means to me.

You can donate to the Aussie Red Cross here.

I'm really excited to see Antony and the Johnsons on Thursday at the Vic, it'll be my first time. My first time at the Vic too, which my brother describes as "an intimate dump" (another sign of true closeness with someone else, the intimate dump).

Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone (divshare)

Freak Machine

The 9000's music is slightly more head-centric (as opposed to ass-centric) than I usually take my electronic music but this song is fun and I'm a sucker for low budget yet effective video concepts. Plus the boy in the plaid is cute. Also the director apparently.

Speaking of freak machines, PLEASE watch this clip of a documentary on women who are attracted to and in love with inanimate objects. "I'm definitely physically attracted to this fence...and I would like to get to know this fence better."

Vintage Apple system warning sounds (via Goldenfiddle). Nostalgia-inducing, but in college my Apple II let me record my own warning so it was Black Francis's "Hey!" from the Pixies song.

Links, because I still haven't found a new hosting service

This series of fake vintage paperback covers for modern-day movie novelizations is the coolest thing I've seen on the Internet this week. I would buy several of these if they were posters. (Thanks, Emily G)

Willy Joy, one of my favorite Chicago DJs, has a Pre-Party Jamz mix up over at NickyDigital. All killer no filler. Download it here.

I blathered on about why Josh Wink's new album is kind of depressing to me over at Radio Free Chicago yesterday.

Some coworkers and I were talking about how Mad Magazine shaped our sense of humor in the formative years and my Al Jaffee Googling led to this great classic Fold-Ins interactive on NYT from a couple years ago.

Ok - I have to go put on my Snuggie and lie down now, it's naptime.