After 9(+?) years with a beard, I’m going to a barber for the first time
John
@senselessjf.bsky.social
I.X.XI, Sensuous Enemy, Lorelei Dreaming, DJ senseless, Industrial Light and Morons, Senseless Leather, Wellbutrin + Cymbalta at Tanagra
“There’s a sucker born every minute” was based on early 1800s birth and infant mortality rates.
I haven’t watched pro wrestling in over two decades. But I was there at the 1996 King of the Ring in Milwaukee when Austin 3:16 started. So I’ve got that going for me.
Adventures in flying, eventually: Plane is delayed (to the point we won’t make your connecting flight): boo! Plane is not delayed: yay! Plane is delayed: boo! Plane is delayed more: boo! Plane is not delayed: yay! *get on flight, it’s fine* Second flight is delayed: boo! To Be Continued
Piano lesson has me playing “Faded” by Alan Walker. I try to look the song up to no avail until I realize I’ve auto-corrected myself to Alan Wilder. @nulldevice.bsky.social gets it
Second (third?) time DJing with an active back spasm at Crucible tonight
Scene: This Valentine’s Day, practicing piano alone at home, and my lesson moves to “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” by Elton John. 1) that’s such a good song 2) I realize this sounds like the saddest thing ever but… it wasn’t. Partner was off doing things she loves and so was I.
Fun fact: You can play “Is It Cake” while watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seminal 1973 film The Holy Mountain. You’ll be wrong more than once.
At a house show. Basement show. The lights are on and they have the superb owl projected behind the artists. I am the oldest person here by, conservatively, 15 years. They had to stop the house’s washer and drier before the show because it might trip a fuse. Been there.
As I make my way to Denver for Convergence27 the thought occurred: Half of why I’m there is to shoot laser rainbows. There must be a non-zero number of goth songs where the villain is a guy who comes to a goth get together and shoots rainbows at them. My super villain moment is here!
A group of evil supernatural musicians attempts to destroy a group of good vaguely supernatural musicians. Sinners or KPop Demon Hunters?
Did you all hear about the straight pride festival in Idaho that drew tens of people and was crashed by an Army vet who sang a pro-trans song after lying about the lyrical content of his music?
Finished Expedition 33. Did… did I just play Belle Epoque Nier Automata?
They: “Isn’t my baby just the cutest?” Me: “I’d prefer not holding an infant to modern society’s unrealistic beauty standards.”
Thoughts I had while at the Charming Disaster show: “Everyone in the crowd has been to New Orleans, but not as much as they claim” “A non zero amount of people in this room have written erotic Alice in Wonderland fanfic”
Happy World Goth Day! It is a common misconception that chickens can't be goth, but Lavinia enjoys Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and Victorian poems about beautiful women dying of consumption.
Present papal proclamations: Pietro Parolin preferred pope over Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Preposterous!
Ads seen on meta platforms this morning: Church, other church, date Slavic women, Christian relationship counselors, church, Jordan Peterson, stock tip, stock tip, church, church but in an arena, other church but in the same arena
It’s been years since I contemplated… What IF everything I ever wanted came in a rocket can?
Quick movie reviews: Alien Romulus: scary fun, and the final xenomorph was as disturbing as the queen was 40(?) years ago Crimes of the Future: verrrry Cronenberg, light on plot but good subtext about naturalism vs technology. Also I could watch Kristen Stewart get horny for surgery for days
