MODERN LOVE
As David Bowie once remarked – "God and man - no confessions/God and man - no religion/God and man - don't believe in modern love/Never gonna fall for modern love"
And modern love is really getting a tad complicated, schizophrenic, and weirdly accessorized...
TALE OF TWO PLANETS – VENUS
On one level, science discovers that love really is only random chemistry.
Psychiatrists from Pavia University have associated early romantic love with a biochemical known as nerve growth factor (NGF). Apparently, levels of NGF in the bloodstream were significantly higher in subjects who were in the early stages of romance than individuals not in a relationship. Interestingly, "subjects in love who—after 12–24 months—maintained the same relationship but were no longer in the same mental state to which they had referred during the initial evaluation" did not have elevated NGF levels.
But while Maureen Dowd asks "Are Men Necessary?", cellular biology further eliminates sex from the reproductive process...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/fertility/0,2930,68970,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2
Meanwhile, over in the BDSM community, the hot item would appear to be tattooing one’s slaves with a barcode registration. (Mark of The Beast? Now I want to be your dog?) What that has to do with NGF is anyone’s guess.
http://www.slaveregister.com/pictures/numbers/
And in the same general kink quadrant/Twilight Zone, one online sex-toy vendor demonstrates in graphic streaming that all partners may be rendered redundant by stark mechanisms never dreamed of in James Brown's philosophy. (WARNING – Do not click on this link if you are under 18, sexually repressed, daunted or judgmental, born again, or feel that all erotic playacting is somehow exploitative.)
http://www.extremerestraints.com/page/ER/CTGY/sex_machine_guide#love_machines
Now light a corporate AIDS candle for sponsored charity
http://www.light2unite.com/
TALE OF TWO PLANETS – MARS
Supposedly the opposite of Venus, Mars, it seems, holds water...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8397
The secret number is #9
LA CITYBEAT
This week’s column is about Howard Stern going to satellite. (And even since I wrote the piece, I’ve been hearing tell of tech glitches on Sirius.)
http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2937&IssueNum=130
Friday, December 02, 2005
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2 comments:
Sirius and XM are interchangable. If you have an XM receiver in your car, it is very easy to use the same receiver for sirius. Any car audio shop can change it.
You also said "....after I've installed it and figured out how it works."
Why do YOU have to install it? Buy it from Best Buy or any car audio shop and they will install it.
As for ease of use, its as simple as FM/AM.
The only question is, is it worth the money?
But you are way off on the Beta/VCR debate. Any receiver will work on either of them.
Thanks for cluing me in, JoJo, although I was thinking in terms of a home rig, which seems a little more complicated.
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