You know you must really love your profession when you work in search engine marketing and name your son “Google”.
From the Google blog:

This just in: Walid Elias Kai, a Ph.D. in search engine marketing, is, it must be said, an avid fan of our company. Dr. Kai, who is Lebanese, and his Swedish wife Carol live in Kalmar, Sweden, where their son was born on September 12. His name? Oliver Google Kai.
About this choice, Dr. Kai writes, “When we first knew that my wife Carol is pregnant, I said, ‘we will name our child Google.’ Everyone laughed and did not take me seriously. My brother said, ‘Yeah, name the next one yahoo fuji nikon.” And then, says Dr. Kai, the day came to make the baby official in the Swedish Registry. “I was with my friend Magnus Foss and my wife Carol, and I said yes, GOOGLE KAI. Carol knew how serious I am – she knows how much I adore Google services.”

Google Kai’s site.

Ana Voog discusses in her journal the rise of death fetishism in fashion magazines and art. More specifically, imagery of deceased females used in advertising.

Now images of dead girls are being used to sell the latest must-have handbags, makeup, and shoes.

Does the appeal of this imagery stem from some society embedded subconcious need that women feel they must be victimized in order to be desirable? That the inanimate girl is unthreatening therefore more attractive?

From her entry:

women have been so subjected to violence both real and propaganda, we have been objectified to the point of unreality or hyperreality.
that we just don’t really exist anymore.
we have been killed by the media (and in real life…but both are real..who can really tell anymore?) so much now that we are now dying by the media, as well.
we, as symbols, as symbollically dying…and still selling products while doing it!

Ana’s journal entry.

Uh oh!
Steve Ballmer has vowed to kill Google.
From the article:
“At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the
room hitting a table in his office,” Lucovosky recounted, adding that
Ballmer then launched into a tirade
about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I
have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill
Google.”

D’ is currently producing/recording a release for a new band, Royal Dead, which just came under management of Kheperi Global Media.

DEVIANT is currently recording the follow-up to 2003′s Absenta and it is tentatively set for a 2006 release.

My heart goes out to the victims of the Tsunami. This has been the most terrible tragedy to befall humanity in hundreds of years.
If you want to help out, please take a look at these links. Today’s coffee money could be drinking water for those in need.
Red Cross
America Cares Foundation
Direct Relief International
MSF
Oxfam’s Asia Earthquake Fund

Fucking brilliant.

I watched the one night only showing of THX 1138 at the movie theater tonight. God i love that film. Such an excellent social commentary on where our society could head.
The senseless consumerism, the over-medication to solve problems…I could go on for hours.
Oh yeah, I also felt obligated to go see it because I sampled this movie for a song about 3 months ago, heh.
Too bad that was George Lucas’ first and last serious film.