Samuel Goldwyn. “Spare no expense to save money on this one.” [Quotes of the Day]

One of the more interesting blogs to show up over at Salon Blogs is the reverse cowgirl’s blog. She posts about a new fetish that I just don’t get.

i spent the weekend in Vegas, but it wasn’t until i was reading Daze Reader this morning that i learned all about tamakeri, a new fetish being featured in Japanese porn, wherein men get kicked in the nads.[the reverse cowgirl’s blog]

No thank you.

Pasi once again pointed me to a very cool site. This one is called Hunkabutta.com: Tokyo Photos, A stranger’s life in pictures.

Hunkabutta is a site designed to display the life and work of me, Mike Clarke. I’ve always enjoyed living vicariously through other people’s sites, so now I feel that it’s time to give something back, to share a little bit of my life in Tokyo with whoever might be interested…

I’ve thought about doing things like this more then a few times, but I just need to get better at taking pictures.

I made the mistake of stopping in at the used CD store as I made my way to dinner. While there I picked up a few cheap CDs:

• Lush – Gala
• bel canto – magic box
• the Breeders – Last Splash
• Bangles – All Over the Place

I think my best finds were the Bangles and bel canto CDs, especially the later. I’ve had my eyes out for them used for a while and hadn’t seen them at all.

Adam Asks:

Is my blog Hot or Not? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

I gave him a 9 (too bad you can’t give fractions).

An article about what the recording industry is doing to try and stop pirating of music with review copies of songs:

Epic Records Takes Steps to Seal Its Newest Music. The Epic Records Group, a unit of Sony Music, is approaching the sticky problem of prerelease music’s being traded online with an even stickier solution. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Technology]

Why don’t they just go lotech like tapes. People still might bootleg it, but it’s not quite as easy to make an mp3 from a tape as it is from a CD. You might still get some people doing it, but I bet you’d cut down on a significant portion.

Clyde B. Aster. “When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he’s going to have a go at it anyway.” [Quotes of the Day]

Emo Phillips. “Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.” [Quotes of the Day]

I’m cranky.

From a few days ago:

Porn company wants to buy Napster. A public net-porn company has offered to buy Napster for $2.4 million. LinkDiscuss [Boing Boing Blog]