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March 25th, 2017

11:02 am

I always thought "War Pigs" was basically a blues song

Ruthie Foster proves it, and kicks ass all over the place while doing so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsZEvbPCvQY

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Tags: dark arts, music

March 24th, 2017

08:03 am

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Piercings

Over the past few months I've had some radical changes in my drug prescriptions, and I've been feeling like I have more energy, to a degree that, while I had previously resolved to grow old semi-gracefully, I have done a 180 and decided fuck that. So I dyed my hair auburn and decided to get some of my piercings, which had closed up, re-pierced.

(I know some people are asking "You feel like celebrating feeling better by having a piece of metal inserted in your flesh?" and all I can say to that is "As a matter of fact, yes.")

Yesterday Ben C. was in the Boston area so we went to

Punctured Professional Body Piercing
1018 Commonwealth Avenue (across the street from the Green line station at Babcock and Commonwealth)
puncturedpiercing.net

Ben had a car, which was very welcome considering the incredible cold.

The silver lining to yesterday's atrocious cold was that not that many people were inclined to take off even a single layer of their clothing, so we got to hang out and talk with Matt the Piercer for a couple of hours, which was great, because he is amazingly knowledgeable and could explain to me all the changes that have happened in piercing procedures and jewelry materials, and even let me hold all sorts of jewelry so I could get a sense of each piece while he explained about each piece, which at times included me being very confused and asking "And this hangs off...where?". We also talked about raptors and movies and prosthetics (he really liked my Delirium eyes). So add to incredibly knowledgeable very fan-friendly. The studio is also vegan, which means it doesn't carry bone or ivory jewelry, and only uses cruelty-free products.

In every way this was a great experience and I highly recommend Punctured. Plus, I love having the name in the contact list on my phone.

So, at this point, I know some of you are thinking, "Is she ever going to tell us what she got pierced?" and I really waffled on this. I was asking myself "Do I really want to tell the world where I have my piercings? That's kind of ...intimate."

Then I thought "Am I or am I not the same Kestrell who posted a detailed description *with pictures* about the making of her awesome Delirium eyes? Now *that* was intimate."

So fuck that. I got nipple piercings. The jewelry is purple ionized titanium bars. Matt, the piercer, gave Ben a long list with color samples, which included four kinds of purple, so I got to pick the purple I wanted and then matt went and put the jewelry in a machine which ionized it in the color I wanted. *Piercings plus geek tech!*

And to answer the next question, No, I am not going to be posting pictures of my piercings to the Internet.

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March 22nd, 2017

09:08 am

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The Devil's Music

So I started making a playlist titled "Angels and Devils," with songs that mention or personify either angels or devils.

The devils are definitely winning, so I've had to retitle it "Devil's Music."

This got me wondering if people had favorite recommendations for songs mentioning the devil.

I know you folk music fans have a million of these, and you should post them, but I'm really looking for songs with a rock or metal beat, though I include anything with a great voice in it, like this one with Johnny Cash

Devil Comes Back to Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XUTD7QYcs
Edited lated: And yes, I already have all the Rolling Stones songs.

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Current Location: aerye
Current Music: devil's music
Tags: dark arts, music

March 12th, 2017

06:37 am

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Kes and Alexx discuss which superhero movie to watch next

Alexx: We haven't watched "Ironman 2" or 3 yet.
Kes: I can only take so much Tony Stark. How about "Doctor Strange"? Which one is he?
Alexx: He's the surgeon [insert more red kryptonite description here].
Kes: That doesn't sound very interesting. Who is the one who has mystic powers and transforms his girlfriend into a book? I mean, negative points for killing his girlfriend, but turning her into a book, that's kind of hot in a bibliophile bondage way.
Alexx [sighs]: That's Doctor Doom, and he turned his girlfriend into armor.
Kes: That's not very hot.

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Tags: books, movies

March 9th, 2017

12:53 pm

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Fear and loathing on Facebook

If any of my Facebook friends or total strangers get weird links from me, it's because I was just dragged through FB hell. All I wanted was to like the post about writhing reptilian fury, but I think I ended up sending friend requests to people I don't even know. And didn't there used to be a simple mobile interface? and a nice little "Update status" field? Aaaaargh!
Facebook developers, I have a voodoo doll and I am putting your name on it *right now*.

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10:45 am

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Samantha B in a blaze of semiotic fury

A wonderful, dazzlingly witty use of language: she's like an angrier version of Molly Ivans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpFB2q_3pJo&index=1&list=PLur87nTwD0BtIreRwNBMG63ZCc4EXo9F9

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Tags: language, media studies, semiotics

09:50 am

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Article on the feminist legacy of "Buffy"

https://decider.com/2017/03/09/the-complex-feminist-legacy-of-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/

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Tags: media studies

March 8th, 2017

11:16 am

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Because who among us doesn't consider Wednesday Addams to be a strong female role model?

Did everyone else know about this web series but me? Starts a little slow, but she definitely finds her voice around episode 3 or 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D98aB3CtcW8

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Tags: horror, media studies

10:24 am

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Chuck Norris commercial

So my Holtzman playlist morphed into a D.G.F. (Don't Give a F*ck) playlist and, while the other tracks all feature strong women, I had to include this commercial, because CN definitely radiates d.g.f.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ3vNftrQHk

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Tags: media studies, music

February 24th, 2017

12:46 pm

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Holtzman hair

I got it. I walked into a Supercuts in Central Square and asked, "Can you give me Holtzman hair?" Alexx pulled up a picture on his smart phone, and I think I can even reproduce it for Mardi Gras (it turns out my hair is pretty much Holtzman hair all the time).

I'm still trying to figure out how to do the braid thing, if anyone would like to describe it to me.

And how to do the dance.

I'm pretty certain I know where to find a torch.

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Tags: mad science, mardi gras, media studies