Hood Thong

Posted in Web Stuff on December 8th, 2008 by Ast

I won’t post the pic here, you just have to click through and see it yourself.

Hood Thong (NSFW? I’m not sure what to really say about it but that)

Bahahahahhahaahahahaa!! Ahaahahahahahaha!!! Hee hee hee hee… heh… Ok. I’m better….

Wahahahahahahahhaahahaa!!! bwahahahahaaa!!! heh.. hee hee.. heh… ok.. heh… sniff… heh… ok.

That is the entirety of my thoughts on Hood Thong.

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Jack of all Trades, master of some?

Posted in General Blogging on August 8th, 2008 by Ast

Ok, most of my life I have been living with this notion that I have to choose something, ONE thing, and be really REALLY good at it to make it through life successfully. Even now I still have to agree with the 20th century mathematician, Hardy, that if you are good at something, don’t fight it but, rather, choose to excel in it. Furthermore, if you are good at nothing, choose something and become proficient. There is a lot of value in those words. So, when I was a kid, I discovered that I was good at playing guitar. I took my guitar playing to the farthest level I had the time and patience for. I think it is worthwhile to say that I am respectably good at playing guitar. I am far from excellent and I will never be as good at Yngwie, Jimi or Eddie, but I can play better than any of your run-of-the-mill chord strummers. I can even break out a good pentatonic-based blues-influenced solo here and there. Specialization. Neato. Read more »

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The dozenals…

Posted in General Blogging, Philosophy on July 21st, 2008 by Ast

I have discovered a numbering ideology that I am morally opposed to. Honest and true. I really dislike it. It’s called dozenal. Now, before I go any further, I would like to say that I have a BA in applied mathematics. I specialized in applying mathematics to the real world in college. Bearing that in mind, the simple idea of the existence of a base 12 numbering system doesn’t bother me one tick. I am just as comfortable with the idea that there are an infinite number of different numbering systems. This is fine. Where I really draw issue with the dozenal camp is the fact that they want the world to convert to this system. Read more »

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Reminder

Posted in General Blogging on June 30th, 2008 by Ast

Due to a recent visit from one of society’s dim bulbs, I decided that I should probably post a reminder about this blog and you. If you don’t like something I have to say, I don’t care. If you want to complain, I don’t care. If you decide that you are smarter than the rest of the world… I don’t care. If you hadn’t noticed the pattern, unless I say otherwise, I don’t care about what you think of me, my blog, my thoughts, my opinions or my worldview, nor do I care about you and yours. Read more »

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Art and business

Posted in General Blogging on June 23rd, 2008 by Ast

I have decided that people need a reality check. Various different articles and people that I have encountered lately seem to want to imply that the business of art is actually about art… This, boys and girls, is WRONG! Dead wrong. Let me speak from a perspective that people may understand best, though there is almost no profession that is innocent of this kind of thought. Let’s look at the music industry.

Elvis Presley… Musician or product? PRODUCT!! There was no art to what he sold. By the time that his records hit store shelves the art was long over. The art was done when nobody was looking, thinking or paying. There was a songwriter that sat and twiddled on his piano coming up with weird Read more »

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Good horror, bad horror

Posted in General Blogging on June 5th, 2008 by Ast

You know, most people associate horror, both in film and in literature, with campy sideshow type stuff. At best it is full of little things to startle you, accompanied by bad rubber-costumed monsters, cheesy special effects and dialog that would barely be passable in a daytime drama. I say that is bad horror. Furthermore there are some people out there that are veritable purveyors of bad horror. I hadn’t given this a whole lot of thought until this morning. While riding the trolley I started into a new book. I go through books like water now that I am riding mass transit to cut down on my gas expenses. Read more »

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Mortality

Posted in Philosophy on June 3rd, 2008 by Ast

In a strange twist of fate, the topic of existence (not existentialism) has come up twice in the past week. Moreover it got the philosophy machine moving again in my brain. The first time that the topic of life, mortality and human existence came up, it was related to morality. Now, I’ll tell you that I love a good discussion on morality. Morals are infinitely fascinating to me simply because I think that the people that were closest to the underlying reasoning of morality were the hedonists. Ultimately, why do you do something if not for your own pleasure? There are, of course, people that would wholly disagree with me, but all the same, I think that this really does reflect the intrinsic nature of human morality. Now, of course, this will lead me, ultimately, to the thought of ‘why do anything at all, ever?’ Once this has been stated it becomes clear that Aurthur Schopenhauer was right on track to say that life is not worth living. Then, of course, Nietzsche would in turn say ‘Schopenhauer played the flute and you play the guitar.’ Correct! Is it really worth the time to even do these things? I say no, due to the fact that, ultimately it is for naught, so why bother. But I digress. Read more »

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Trent Reznor is an animal…

Posted in Web Stuff on May 21st, 2008 by admin

First the positive:

The SlipThe new Nine Inch Nails album is out. That’s right, the second one THIS YEAR! Not only did he put out a full 2-disk, 4-volume instrumental album, but he also put out another album called The Slip. Not only is it the second album out this year, but he is GIVING IT AWAY! No, not like Ghosts where you could download Ghosts I and then purchase Ghosts II-IV, but, rather, the FULL FLIPPING ALBUM. He does state that there will be a CD pressed later which can be purchased, but you can get the whole album, including album art, for free! Personally, one of my favorite things about actually buying the album is that you get album art. I just like that kind of stuff. I would buy records if I had a turntable. Read more »

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