Psychology Today: Crying Over Spilled Semen
The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful—and potentially addictive—mood-altering chemicals.
A day in the life of an atheist | Corrente
Being an atheist and all, I killed a few dozen people this morning, took all their stuff, and urinated on some priceless art.
They say that laughter is caused by a shock, and that when we realise we are safe, we laugh. A good joke takes us by surprise, it twists what we expect- the outcome is not the anticipated ending.
Good music i believe does the same thing. Our musical tastes are expanded when a common sound takes a new twist. We also seem to like music that conjures up the past, even the recent past. A good tune is almost never interesting on the first listen, and a crappy tune we digest and get bored by after only a few plays.
cover of the punk band “Dead Kennedys” single “holiday in cambodia“
Music also seems to be innate, we all like some of it. Even the dumbest understand music. Not everybody likes abstract art, yet music is totally abstract. Music seems to beat the time of our lives -starting with our mothers heartbeat. As we get older some music we have listened to in our past makes a short cut to memories in our brains, much as a smell from our childhood can take you right back to buried memories.
I wonder if rock and roll will survive the internal combustion engine? The rise of rock and roll could be linked to adolescent access to dads car in an affluent America of the 50’s. “Driving” power cords on a Stratocaster sound similar to an engine (just play “Born to be wild” by Steppenwolf or L.A Woman by the Doors ). If you are driving in the USA, there is good driving music and there is crap driving music- non of it can be played on an acoustic guitar.
When the oil runs out, and assuming we can still light up our ipods, will hard driving rock music still be popular? Bach could never understand modern music, but maybe after a year or so on a road trip across the USA in a car with a big V8- he might understand why.
So when the oil runs out will we all get into new age humming. And after the last memories of the car have died off, will our descendants wonder what the hell we were listening to.
Oh, and just in case you think i have dropped a rod - I also think one of the first punk songs was the batman theme song from the 60’s TV show. Just have another listen to “You’ve got my Number” by the undertones.
OK well i have absolutely nothing to say, I just wanted to make a post with a bunch of sevens in it - can not imagine why - perhaps just the thrill of knowing that this post will appear at exactly 7,07 on 7/7/07.
Geek thrills are pretty sad.