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"As I realized that many of these acts were female-led or had female members, and as ?witch? is obviously a gendered word, I asked Disaro if gender had anything to do with it. ?There are lots of women on Disaro that are banging out the based-out beats and doing vocals, like White Ring, Passions, //TENSE//, Crones, The Beauty, Pregnancy Pact, Modern Witch, How I Quit Crack, along with all the others on different labels: Creep, Salem, Sleep ...
"Lexical Darknet"
My clever friend hep just told me something interesting that I didn't know.
on irc to hide channels, we often make channels after patching our unicode so you can do things like katakana and cyrillic letters. then most irc clients can't even read the chans if they are unpatched (tho modern GUIs often can). some people even patch their ircs to read color codes so that you could join a channel named a block of colored text.
†‡† (Cross Doublecross Cross?)
†‡†, as mentioned in the Witch House music post below, appear to live at this MySpace page — because †‡† is of course unsearchable and generally not terribly handy for this internet lark, they use the ID "rrritualzzz" on MySpace.
It occurred to me last night that having a name that Google can't process well might actually be entirely deliberate. On the internet, there is no real underground anymore. So if you wanted to create an underground for yourself, the first thing you might do is...
Brain Shopping
Am at pub, working through my third energy drink and thinking. One of these days I need to do a poll about what people come to this website for. If blogging is dead – it's not, but the Big Blog of large audiences probably is, boingboing and Techcrunch are as locked-in as Mainstream Media now – then what (new?) purposes does the personal site of general interests, like this one, serve?
This used to be called "blogging about blogging," and was considered gauche at best and a cardinal sin at...
June 4, 2010
Wandering Off Today
I'm buried in The Second Novel all day, and so I'm switching mission control down to low power — RSS off, twitter off, message boards off, just coasting on a email notifier app until I've gotten some words I like.
Here's a pretty picture by Ellen Rogers. If you missed it last night, I have a new music podcast up – the first download link is working for some, not for others, so there's a secondary download link just below it. That one, however, doesn't ping the podcast tracker, so it looks...
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