"The worst mistake that you can make is to think you are alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room."

SPONGY BRAINS!

One of these brains is infected with mad cow disease (more properly known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or, in humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease); one of these is not. Since you can't see inside your brain, guess which one is which!

"This is your brain. This is your brain on bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Any questions?"

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"Where Your Eyes Don't Go"
by They Might Be Giants

"Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go

Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering
You're free to come and go or talk like Kurtis Blow
But there's a pair of eyes in back of your head

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders
What the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you
Or is it worse because it's always waiting where your eyes don't go?

Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering
You're free to come and go or talk like Kurtis Blow
But there's a pair of eyes in back of your head

Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go"

Robot Philosopher and the Invincible Mullet

Watching MST3K with N8 and Big Al. That is a pretty good show. Don't you agree?




Here are some of my new favorite things from the World Wide Web. This link, which comes suspiciously close to hacking the real world, and its internet counterpart. I like it when systems which are designed to be exploitative are themselves exploited for their flaws! I just like it when people who try to fuck other people are, themselves, fucked! Okay? I'm trying to be less angry and vindictive but it just... isn't... working.

Anything that can make me consider more deeply my relationship with my body, never mind my glands, is okay by me. "My relationship with my body." Yeesh.

Bertrand Russell On Mind And Body Problem - VidoEmo - Emotional Video Unity

Finally, this.

On the analog front, besides being a bit of recluse, I'm currently trying to finish up Fables of Identity so I can really pour myself into The Tibetan Book of the Dead; the real title is Bardo Thodol and is more accurately referred to as The Great Book of Liberation Through Understanding in the Between, which sounds pretty all right to me. Then I would like to read a really good novel after that; any suggestions for a solid, really engrossing read? I haven't had any really stellar book recommendations in a long time. I like Kundera, Joyce, and most graphic novels of any ambition or quality. Stuff that is difficult but fun-difficult, like a puzzle or a game.
Good music recommendations are always welcomed, too. I've been into Grouper, Stevie Wonder, and pretty much anything I haven't heard yet.

Alternately, what should I do this weekend? I want to get out of the house.

Love,

Hawkwind Albumcover



edit: Tom Lehrer rules. Thanks, buddy.



edit 2: (fake edit)

OH MY STARS AND GARTERS!

WILL YOU PLEASE JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THIS



Thanks to Autumnumnum for sending that over, and for also Stumbleupon for being so darn spiffy. It 's randomness that isn't really random! Get on it, friend some cool dudes, and start hooking up with the relevant data. No matter where you are, everyone is always connected!