Self-destructing post.

Where in the world does one get an invitation code for demonoid? There's a million members or something, you'd think invitations would be floating around somewhere but google has proven useless.

A long time ago I used to comment a lot on posts both on my friends list and in communities, and then respond to the responses and sometimes talk to LJ friends on AIM. I generally used the internet as a tool for near-constant dialogue while I was using the computer.

However, somewhere along the line I stopped doing that. I stopped posting frequently and stopped reading LJ frequently and really stopped commenting almost entirely. The result has been that I don't have much of a dialogue with anybody on the internet anymore. My internet usage has become mostly one-directional, with me fucking around and browsing news and blogs and message boards and so on and never really engaging, and it's a much less satisfying internet existence.

I have often justified spending a shitload of time on the internet as just being a different form of socializing, where there is just as much communication as in real life. Usually much more communication in fact, and much more really significant discussion and less mindless chit-chat than most people have in real life. But I realize that the less dialogue there is, as I act more as a passive observer, the more legitimate criticisms of "wasting time" on the internet are, and for a while now I really have been just wasting time on the internet.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I miss talking to you guys.

America, you have done well tonight and I am proud of you.

Now, I am off to the Nevada Democratic Party big event to watch the victory speech when that happens. Again, congratulations everybody, we've really done an amazing thing.

I know somebody is going to argue "oh but that's just the fringe supporters, there are crazies on every side!" which is definitely true. I'm sure there are some complete nutters on Obama's side too but here's the difference: Obama's campaign isn't actively feeding their extreme supporters a steady stream of bullshit, lies and smears and encouraging this sort of shameful behavior.

John McCain is running the single most disgusting shameful campaign in recent history. And the blame lies on him. Not just on the crazy shit heads in this video. Not just the surrogates on the news shows. Not the media. Not the campaign managers. He's the candidate and he sets the tone.

This is John McCain's America.

The dates for Coachella 2009 were announced a couple days ago and they've broken the tradition of being the last weekend of April/first weekend of May. This year it's April 17-19. So I'll be missing Coachella for the first time since 2004, but I don't feel too bad about it because I'll be here instead:



Yeah, I'll get over missing Coachella. I am sort of hoping for the lineup to be terrible though, just out of spite.

It also helps ease the pain a little bit that for the first time in forever, Vegas has a few decent acts visiting. This week I'm seeing current one hit wonders the Ting Tings before they disappear into obscurity forever.

In November I'm seeing The Faint, who just released a pretty good new album after a several-year hiatus.

But there are more exciting things than that. December 29 marks the day that I will see Girl Talk here in Vegas. Girl Talk was possibly the absolute highlight for me of Coachella 2 years ago, and since then he's released a great new album, Feed the Animals, that I think is about as good as Night Ripper (which defines "fun party music"). And he's had like half a year to come up with even more new shit since then. At Coachella, as soon as his set began the crowd rushed the stage, and the entire set was a wild and crazy dance party, and I'm looking forward to more of that here.

But before that, in just 3 weeks, I'll be at my first little pseudo-rave, Fabulous Fest. It's not a real rave because it's in a casino arena instead of a warehouse and the drug of choice will be $12 rum and cokes, but it's got a pretty great line-up of electronic acts that we rarely see in Vegas. In case you don't know, there is almost no electronic music to be found in Vegas and the clubs play top 40 hits exclusively. I'm really looking forward to going out and not hearing Beyonce or whatever. Best of Fabulous Fest includes MSTRKRFT, SebastiAn, Deadmau5, and Crystal Castles.

Finally, since I'm not going to Coachella next year, please recommend a different music festival I should attend.

Diesel has always had pretty great ads but I think this is the best ever.

We don't have the beach or trees in Las Vegas so this was particularly fun. Somebody in my journal left a comment recommending we take a little 10 minute hike just north of Brookings, Oregon.

We've been together 4 years but this is probably like one of 5 photos we actually appear in together. We seriously never use our cameras.

Ugh I am such an idiot. Our vacation was going wonderfully to plan until I just realized that I booked our hotel in Vancouver and our travel from Seattle to VICTORIA. And now I realize, about a day and a half before we're set to go, that Victoria is NOT Vancouver, and we have non-refundable ferry tickets to a place where our hotel is not. How the hell did I miss that?

Whee, adventure!