Lol, I have some dead people on my list as well, I have Dean Martin and Bela Lugosi. People still send them messages as if they were alive. I wanted to ask Dean if he would go out with me but I was afraid that he might accept the offer and a bunch of bones would turn up at my door.
If you want to know what I think about Myspace read the blog entries on 'my space.' It is a nonplace built out of endless paradoxes, mental switchbacks and unsubtle commodification. But it is a real phenomenon. You are all one step closer to being cyborgs.
And who cares how many friends you get -that is just part of the whole 'people are social capital' perversion. I was offered a program that would scoop up thousands of 'friends' off myspace in one cycle. One of the early adapters of myspace said he got up to 10,000 'friends' by offering all sorts of free stuff -cyberschwag- in bulletins. The basic thing I get off on is you are being exceedingly social without being physically social at all. Why didn't someone invent this 20 years ago when I really needed it?
And who cares how many friends you get -that is just part of the whole 'people are social capital' perversion. I was offered a program that would scoop up thousands of 'friends' off myspace in one cycle. One of the early adapters of myspace said he got up to 10,000 'friends' by offering all sorts of free stuff -cyberschwag- in bulletins. The basic thing I get off on is you are being exceedingly social without being physically social at all. Why didn't someone invent this 20 years ago when I really needed it?
Seven, I really like the way you word things, you have smart way with words. Me,,if a word has more than seven letters in it and it confuses me. With my limited brain power, it makes me so much closer to becoming a Cyborg. Well, as long as I can wear eyeliner, I don't mind being a Cyborg.
Well Babette, anything with eyeliner and a short dress and the stamina of a machine is great with me.
Seven, that's what you told me!
I'm probably the only person alive NOT on MySpace...
quote:Originally posted by seven:
Well Babette, anything with eyeliner and a short dress and the stamina of a machine is great with me.
Ha, That kind of machine will need a lot of lubrication.
You'd also need another machine called a videocamera! AWWWW YEEEAAAHHH!!!
MYSPACE Update:
Well, it's been a couple of months now and I have to say the whole MySpace thing has been VERY interesting to say the least.
Being a person who is easily Google-ed I thought that I had heard from every single person that I have ever known... ever.
WRONG!
MySpace is amazing for that. Ghosts from your past greet you every day.
(like this message that I got today)
I was speechless.
Right now I have about 300 friends.
I deny about 30 a day!
People with something to sell -bands, records, parties, political agendas...
people I have never -or will ever want to meet.
Just being a DJ @ Crobar brings me about a thousand potential new "friends" a month.
What do they want?
I don't get it.
I guess having a DJ as your "friend" tells the world what kind of music you listen to.
Wait a minute...
That's it!
Your MySpace friends tell the world who you are.
It used to be tee shirts told the world who you were.
Now it's MySpace.
OK
Now I get it.
Well, it's been a couple of months now and I have to say the whole MySpace thing has been VERY interesting to say the least.
Being a person who is easily Google-ed I thought that I had heard from every single person that I have ever known... ever.
WRONG!
MySpace is amazing for that. Ghosts from your past greet you every day.
(like this message that I got today)
quote:We met when we were both go go dancing at the odussy 2000 in brooklyn.
I was speechless.
Right now I have about 300 friends.
I deny about 30 a day!
People with something to sell -bands, records, parties, political agendas...
people I have never -or will ever want to meet.
Just being a DJ @ Crobar brings me about a thousand potential new "friends" a month.
What do they want?
I don't get it.
I guess having a DJ as your "friend" tells the world what kind of music you listen to.
Wait a minute...
That's it!
Your MySpace friends tell the world who you are.
It used to be tee shirts told the world who you were.
Now it's MySpace.
OK
Now I get it.
It really is 'interesting' how its caught on... i have re-found so many ole ole chums as well as some fascinating new locals and some rather young trade. So, I refuse to be negative about it.
Madge Madison come on board!
Madge Madison come on board!
You get dates from MySpace?
It's funny, of all the 300,000 inquiries that I have gotten...
NONE of them are for anything like that.
I guess "funny" is not the word I'm looking for.
Hmmmmm...
What is the word?
It's funny, of all the 300,000 inquiries that I have gotten...
NONE of them are for anything like that.
I guess "funny" is not the word I'm looking for.
Hmmmmm...
What is the word?
"Sad"?
"Pathetic"?
"Tragic"?
"Pathetic"?
"Tragic"?
I am on Myspace too. Me perform too. I am just learning to use the site.
Daddy, remember Yuroslav Margutin, the gay russian poet/photographer? Check him out on MySpace too. His new book " Lost Boys" looks great. I love the photos.
Daddy, remember Yuroslav Margutin, the gay russian poet/photographer? Check him out on MySpace too. His new book " Lost Boys" looks great. I love the photos.
hurumph Bobby! Why didn't you ask to be friends?
Thaks for the add, Daddy.
I couldn't figure out why myspce was so popular either, but my at horrid day job, they wanted me to create a myspce site for the wretched institution. So I created a ludicrous myspace identity called "Sweet-Bologna-Salad" - just to explore and see what it is all about - and I started finding people that I know, and then seeing who was in their friends list - and through that I have found a bunch of people that I love (or fucked) and am back in touch with. And now I admit that I am addicted to asking famous people to be my friend, but besides you, Hattie and Tangella among a few others, I have not had much luck.
I agree it is a spyware ladden monstrosity of a 8mph SUV on the info-super hi-way. But after a couple of back & forth crashing myspace emails telephone numbers are exchanged.
My Athens, Ga friends say that if one has a band, it is mandatory to have a myspace.
Did anyone see that article in NYT a couple of weeks ago a while back about Satchi & Satchi's site that is the artists' must have myspace imitator? Hattie is right it is all about business. I think that these mywebsite things are going to become super segmented (and super demented) I can't wait for mygsyhustler.com
and
myoldtiredsemi-retired&balloonedupdragqueen.com
I couldn't figure out why myspce was so popular either, but my at horrid day job, they wanted me to create a myspce site for the wretched institution. So I created a ludicrous myspace identity called "Sweet-Bologna-Salad" - just to explore and see what it is all about - and I started finding people that I know, and then seeing who was in their friends list - and through that I have found a bunch of people that I love (or fucked) and am back in touch with. And now I admit that I am addicted to asking famous people to be my friend, but besides you, Hattie and Tangella among a few others, I have not had much luck.
I agree it is a spyware ladden monstrosity of a 8mph SUV on the info-super hi-way. But after a couple of back & forth crashing myspace emails telephone numbers are exchanged.
My Athens, Ga friends say that if one has a band, it is mandatory to have a myspace.
Did anyone see that article in NYT a couple of weeks ago a while back about Satchi & Satchi's site that is the artists' must have myspace imitator? Hattie is right it is all about business. I think that these mywebsite things are going to become super segmented (and super demented) I can't wait for mygsyhustler.com
and
myoldtiredsemi-retired&balloonedupdragqueen.com
Hat..I will when I find you..
Hatches now you started me off on a mini my space friends request binge!
You can have half of mine.
Bobby Mille - add me 2
http://www.myspace.com/sweet_bologna_salad
I am Sweet Bologna Salad AKA Hapi Phace
http://www.myspace.com/sweet_bologna_salad
I am Sweet Bologna Salad AKA Hapi Phace