I Kill Spies

I was watching “Pop Japan” on the International Channel the other day…

There is a J-pop star called Tommy Heavenly⁶– sort of girl pop-punk. Sort of looks like Avril Levigne would if she was Japanese. Pretty, little, too serious, a very clean approach to punk.

There is also a J-pop star called Tommy February⁶– more of a dance music style. She looks more geeky too, with horn-rimmed glasses, and in her video cheerleaders shout the chorus.

Except they are the same person. Marketed as two different musical acts.

I wonder if they will have separate tours?

If someone has a paper to write on symbolism in pop culture, this one pretty much writes itself!

“I knew it would start building and building,” Bob Berney, the president of New Market Films, said of the demand, “but now it’s like a tsunami.” Newmarket is distributing the film for Mr. Gibson’s company, Icon Productions.

“We’ve had a flood of calls,” Mr. Berney said. “People call and say, ‘I want 10,000 tickets.’ “

BRIAN: note the imagery
BRIAN: foreshadowing?
BRIAN: LA theater hit by freak tsunami?
SHAC: LA is hit by tsunami
BRIAN: ah well
BRIAN: more for us
SHAC: im thinking saddam and gomorrah here
SHAC: their time has come
BRIAN: like some crazy dude reeking of whale vomit is running around the streets screaming about hoiw everyone is doomed, but no one is noticing

Can you see where I’m going with this?

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poster artists:

• Alphons Mucha (Czech)
• Eugène Grasset (Swiss)
• Henri Toulouse Lautrec (French)

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Web link of note: Dyske- VC for self-branding
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Get a cute little flower as a subcutaneous insert! Body mods for mainstreamers!

I believe it’s performance art. The site.
Web link of note: Floral Sculpture Clinic
(At http://www.floralsculptureclinic.nl)

to make your own FOAF without having to read the standard.
Web link of note: FOAF-a-matic
(At http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic)

Used to be at
http://www.sensoryresearch.com/~starkeff/mit.html.

A “mic in track” is a recording made on a PC using MusicMatch Jukebox, a music utility packaged with many new PC’s that allows the user to record from the microphone input of the PC’s sound card and save the recording in mp3 format. The default filename is “mic in track” followed by a number.

If that user also happens to be running a file-sharing program (WinMX, Audiognome, Kazaa, etc.), and shares the directory in which the mic in track is stored, then these personal recordings can be easily downloaded from the user’s computer. The vast majority of them are either silent or uninteresting, but many are like Christmas presents giftwrapped in nondescript serial numbers. They represent unique examples of audio v�rit�.

Web link of note: mic in track
(At http://www.livejournal.com/community/mic_in_track/)

FOAF browsing site. Check out their links to the FOAF standard.
Web link of note: plink.org- FOAF browser
(At http://beta.plink.org/)

It’s a file standard where you make a public FOAF file (in a XML format) which can then be read and searched, to link you together with all your friends… kind of like Tribes.net, except without a central server.

Here’s a quick post on SixApart’s integration of FOAF.
Web link of note: FOAF: Friend of a Friend
(At http://www.foaf-project.org/)

Web link of note: Clever Catcus
(At http://www.clevercactus.com)