Bite me! (or don't)

http://www.greencine.com

When and how do you think people become so interested in vampires? Have zombies and aliens lost their cachet? Although I enjoy my frequent encounters with the latter species through the visual medium, I find them less romantic and fantasy-driven as opposed to the prior. If I were a zombie or alien, I would most likely have someone euthanize me.

Dirrrrr-ect-tivvve?

http://www.the-leaping-lamp.com

A few weekends ago, on a particularly dark and cold, rainy day, my fuse abruptly decided to blow itself out. Without any proper power supplies, and communication devices, (Internet, dead. Mobile, out of battery.) it took me good 3 hours to fully restore the electricity. The weekend following, I innocently decided to dewire myself and took a 2-day trip to 안동 (Andong), a charming folk village located in the northern part of South Korea, all the while wishing to return to the civilization where a modern toilet with bidet function, and high-speed Internet connection were. I would probably rank it as one of the most horrendous episodes of my life after the NYC blackout experience and the infrequent escapade at Heathrow in which I accidentally ran over Iggy Pop's foot with a luggage cart.

O human, wherefore art thou?

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In The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, human like ourselves are living under the Machine supremacy where the direct individual contacts are rarely necessary as all the communication can be achieved via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine. The world has also became a place where you ask to be a parent, and your request can likely be turned down by the Machine because you are not a type that the Machine desires to hand on, or you can also ask for Euthanasia but the death-rate is not permitted to exceed the birth-rate, and the Machine hitherto might refuse it to you. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and threatened with Homelessness. What a wild wild world it has become... Can you possibly believe that it was actually written in 1909, in other words, over 60 years before the Internet was even invented?

Finding otto

http://www.taringa.net
 

Otto; or Up with Dead People is pretty much my favorite gay zombie film directed by Bruce LaBruce, a very creative underground porn star. The film follows the coming-of-age of Otto, a handsome and sensitive neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. Otto basically looks and smells like a zombie but isn't certain that he is one. Already smells like fetish spirit. Here is a note to you from Otto himself:

Sexual fetishism for dummies

http://www.filmsquish.com & http://spank-the-monkey.typepad.com

The film, Spiklenci slasti a.k.a Conspirators of Pleasure by Jan Švankmajer follows the rituals of the “ordinary citizens” of Prague who seek better sexual bonds with unique objects. From a fetishism perspective, his depictions of food, animals, and human body parts make any Japanese erotic animations or his fellow fetish aficionados like Pedro Almodóvar look less perverted. In other words, he makes people’s wildest desires come true, often without even showing the actual intercourse.

The woman who married The Eiffel Tower

Ooh La La! "Aurore"

My mother just introduced me to a fascinating reportage on Erika La Tour Eiffel a.k.a The woman who married the Eiffel Tower. This Erika person is said to be one of the 40 people in the world called "objectum sexuals" -people who fall in love with lifeless objects such as Eiffel Tower, Berlin Wall, and Golden Gate Bridge. According to the coverage, the objectum sexuals believe in polygamy.

Flesh is my most favorite fabric - L. Bowery

http://www.xlr8r.com

In this class, we observed the contemporary art from a fetishism point of view, which was shockingly refreshing. Above all, I was pleasantly hypnotized by people's obsessive dedication to their actual bodies as a form of expression. The artists such as Orlan and Liegh Bowery are often regarded as mad or too avant-garde by conventional standard. Still, I found their über advanced experiments thrilling especially now that we are living in the society where the experience of body modification is no longer rocket science. Can we think of anyone else who had done that to the extent that they did? I believe the guys from Little Britain were the one and only who had more or less pulled it off but only with a help of crazy sci-fi tech. In that sense, the pleasure of watching Little Britain feels not quite as organic as those of the legends'.

A confession of a new respectful blogger

Yuri Endo 2005

Dear Readers,

This is my first blog entry to my first ever blog. If it weren’t for the class assignment, I normally have neither the guts nor the strong driving force to threw myself in front of some 6,808,100,000 inhabitants of the universe. As writing those first few sentences, I am already feeling at ease... and here comes my first confession in this little virtual space... I LOVED THAT MERYL STREEP'S BLOG MOVIE! I even admitted it in capitals. Okay now, you just sit back and enjoy!