I write these “state of me” things sometimes.

Posted in My Big, Black Cock. on June 28th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

Here’s what’s up, as of now…

Sleep: I started my day at 8:45 PM yesterday. That tell you anything?

Meds: I tried 75 mg of Zoloft instead of 50. Not so good. Back to 50. Considering trying 25 as my next experiment. I end up taking about half a .5 mg Xanax maybe once a month still. I was on Diclofenac for my leg (see below), but that was SHREDDING my stomach, so I stopped, just going with Advil for it now.

Therapy: about the same. Doing a fair number of sessions over the phone because my sleep’s been messy for most of this year, so that’s kind of a drag, especially when we keep trying to deal with relaxation techniques when my life stays out of the way long enough for us not to have to address it. Have you ever tried practicing relaxation techniques when you’re on the phone? It doesn’t work.

Running: none yet. Leg is feeling better, to at least some degree, though. It’s interesting, soaking in a hot bathtub a week and a half ago did more for it than a year-plus of rest, ice, anti-inflammatories, and so forth, but alas, there is no bathtub here. My plan, humble as it is, is to start testing the leg with short walks next week, barring any setbacks. I’m going to start building up strength that way, and when things are significantly better, I’ll start the running program again, probably in the Fall.

Court case: in a total holding pattern. Remind me to call my lawyer and cause trouble this week.

Second Life: Heck still exists. Not a lot of activity there at the moment, but there is a movie playing there now. Going to see about moving to PORNO CONTINENT when they start letting mainlanders relocate this week, as that’ll put an end to the “Well, can I or can’t I?” questions surrounding some of the more, um, adult facets of what goes on there.

Music: two things of note here.

First off, I’ve been releasing some! Go get it, it’s free! Donations have been slow (to be expected, not sweating it, but hey, donate if you’re so inclined), but music that was just sitting on a hard drive is now getting played or downloaded by people an average of 62 times a day, with pretty limited promotion outside this site, and the numbers keep improving. I would say that this is better exposure than I had been getting.

Second, to the excitement of about a dozen people, I am once again playing improvised Moog synthesizer for the reformed Get Precious. Our first gig back was on June 12th, my 35th birthday, and no one aside from Geoff Precious himself (this includes the rest of the band) knew I was coming back until minutes before I took the stage. After 3 and a half years without a single full-band rehearsal, we were…well, what we always are, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. What’s more, we had fun, which was very important to all of us. No anxiety involved in playing the show (but GP was always a lighter load than my solo shows or even Murder In The Dark shows, less responsibility), outside of that one constant, the “I want to get up there and get it over with” dynamic. Opening bands, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth! Y’all get to enjoy the remainder of your evening sooner than headliners do! As for the future of Get Precious, we’re talking about that now, and we’re going to keep it fun and not careerist, but we’ve all agreed that there should be one. Todd thinks we should do gigs with ABBA, but we haven’t contacted Benny and Bjorn about that yet. Stay tuned.

Writing: the output on the comic book project I’ve started has been a little slower of late, but I’ll get back to it soon. In the meantime, if there are any artists in the audience who want to do super-hero comics with a slightly pre-Crisis DC, but realistic bent to them, get ahold of me.

Higher Education: I think about it all the time now, but I’ve gotta move ahead on the court case before I open up another can of worms. So, for now, it’s “home schooling”. Planning on spending a good chunk of the second half of this year getting serious about learning things. Hopefully it works out. If you want to kick in for “textbooks”, I’ve got a bunch of stuff listed on my Wish List nowadays. Any of the books on comics or physical fitness would be welcome, if you want to keep your purchases purely educational.

Money: phase one of The Scott Crawford Government Bailout Package into its 3rd month. It’s nice to be able to buy food and get a break from paying for therapy and prescriptions (Though I still can’t find a general practitioner who will return my phone calls; bring on health care reform!). I’m still not in great shape or even good shape by any means, and I can still use any help you’re willing to contribute, but I’m doing a little better. “It’s a long way to the top”, though, as Bon and the guys once said.

That’s about it for now, unless y’all can think of things I haven’t. Floor’s open. “What’s your opinion? We’d like to know.”

Most Overdue Obit Ever: RIP Roger “Wildchild” McKenzie 1971-1995

Posted in I write too many obituaries., My Big, Black Cock. on June 24th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

(Roger “Wildchild” McKenzie, press photo, photographer unknown. If you took the shot, let me know and I’ll credit you.)

Back in ’95, when I was working at a publicity office, I worked for a few months with a woman named Donna. Donna had a boyfriend named Roger, who was trying to get some demos of his heard under the name “Wildchild”, as I remember things. She played them around the office a few times, and a song called “Renegade Master” stuck in my head a bit, fun little hook to it. Roger would pick her up from work every so often, too, so I met him a few times. He was pretty quiet, but seemed nice enough. Never really had a conversation I can remember with him, but I think of him now and I think “friendly enough guy”.

Fast forward a few years, and I’m out at a club somewhere. Music playing, all of a sudden, I hear the hook from “Renegade Master”. No one I was with knew what the fuck I was talking about, but I was like “Holy shit! It’s Roger!”, and started dancing. Sometime after that, I got a copy of the record, and I still give it a listen here and there. It’s loud, dumb, fun music to bug out to.

For some reason, even after all these years, I’d never thought to look Roger up and say “Hey, cool that your record caught on, hope all is well” or even see how he was doing beyond the fact that his record did well until today. A friend of mine referenced “Renegade Master” on Facebook earlier, and I was like “w00, Roger!” which made me say “Fuck it, let me look him up.

I got to Wikipedia and found this:

“Roger McKenzie (1 January 1971 – 25 November 1995[1]) also known under his production aliases of Wildchild or DJ Wildchild, was an English musician and DJ. Born in Southampton, England, he released many singles on labels such as Hi Life Recordings, Ultra Records, and Polydor (UK). The tracks “Jump to My Beat”, “Renegade Master” and the subsequent “Renegade Master 98″ were his most successful. Fatboy Slim’s Old Skool Mix is perhaps the most famous version of “Renegade Master 98″. “Renegade Master” was his first in 1995, peaking at #11, but was surpassed by the success of Fatboy Slim’s remix “Renegade Master 98″, which peaked at #3 in 1998.

Just before his death from an undiagnosed heart condition, he formed his own record label, ‘Dark & Black’.”

Now, I’m not gonna act like I really *knew* the guy. He was to me, in all truth, a guy who picked my co-worker up from work and made a cool song. Still, what a fucking kick to the gut. As I said to another friend, “I haz a sad today, not a huge one, but still, it’s like “Whoa, he died and it took me this long to find out?”, on top of “Whoa, poor dude was only 24…”, on top of “Whoa, that was almost 14 years ago”, on top of “I wonder how he’d have felt back then if he knew that my friends from New Jersey would be talking about his song on the Internet 14 years after he died”. Damn Wikipedia. Made me go all quantum.” Just a lot of thought-provoking stuff in there. I almost died when I was 24, too, and at that point, I’d accomplished almost nothing. I’m 35 now, and just barely starting to scratch the surface of what successes Roger had before his passing. I bet he’d trade, and I know I wouldn’t, selfish as that may sound. Damn shame for anyone to go so young.

So yeah, today, I am pouring a 40 on the ground for Roger, who some of you may know as Wildchild. If Donna or any of his other loved ones read this, I’m very sorry for your loss, and hope you take joy in the memories you have of him, as well as the fact that years on, he’s still making people dance. For the rest of you, here’s a clip of Roger on Top Of The Pops. Enjoy.

Free Music Volume Five: “New Song”

Posted in Scott Crawford's Free Music. on June 19th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

A bit of a change of pace for our fifth installment. Back a few years, everyone and their mother was playing around with a program called ReBirth, which emulated Roland’s TB-303 Bass Synthesizer, as well as their TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines. I’ve used ReBirth on a few of my other tracks (the forthcoming “If I Could” is probably the most noticable one), but not a lot of my “screwing around with ReBirth for the sake of it” tracks or patterns exist, beyond this one…

Creative Commons License

New Song by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/

This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.

Here’s the song, but in a departure from usual policy, it’s just a 128k mp3 file, no WAV. Amazingly, I’ve had this floating around for years, at least 5, but I’ve never recorded a better copy. I believe I still have a functioning copy of the ReBirth file, so if there’s a ton of demand from audiophiles, I can attempt to re-record it at some point, but surprisingly enough, the 128 still sounds fresh, probably because sound never actually exited a digital environment.

New Song: 128k MP3

Right-click this file (or Control-click it, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save it. If you want to play it first to hear how it sounds, click the play button next to the mp3 download link.

If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.

As for artwork on this one, I’ve never done any. Does anyone want to make me some? That’d be kinda cool.

I told you a little bit about the track above, but here’s a little more. It was programmed, performed (yes, the filter twisting and the punch-ins/punch-outs were done live by me, for better or worse) and recorded entirely in ReBirth, which is a fun little free program if you’re running a machine that will still behave with it. It’s instrumental, and it was done, from what my disc cataloguer tells me, sometime between June 13-15, 2000, so it’s been hanging around here for 9 years doing nothing, virtually unheard. I labelled it “New Song” back then, and have never changed the title, even though it’s hardly new anymore, and has no attachment to any other song called “New Song”, whether by Howard Jones, The Who or anyone else who’s ever used the same title. Really a pretty simple, elementary track, but I can still listen to it almost a decade later and not cringe, so I figured I’d share it with y’all. Enjoy, and if you end up making any music with ReBirth, share it with me!

From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!

While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.



Free Music Volume Four: “Tonight”

Posted in Scott Crawford's Free Music. on June 10th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

Some might say I should save “the best” for last, but that’s not always how we roll around here. While I know it’s occasionally a bummer when Echo And The Bunnymen drop “The Killing Moon” smack dab in the middle of a set with no build-up, it needs to be done sometimes. So with that, I give you “Tonight”.

Creative Commons License

Tonight by Scott Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/

This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.

Here’s the song, in both 320k MP3 and WAV format. (Sorry, FLAC nerds, but you’ll just have to convert your own. Consider it your punishment for the years of y’all being snobby to people on torrent sites, while posting “lossless” copies of things like Sammy Hagar albums. As I’ve said in the past, “When you post Sammy Hagar albums to torrent sites, EVERYBODY loses”.)

Tonight: 320k MP3 | WAV

Right-click these files (or Control-click them, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save them. If you want to play them first to hear how they sound, click the play buttons next to the mp3 versions of each song.

If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.

No cover art for this one. Really, does it need any? I think it’s at its best when it’s on scuffed up, dirty little CD-Rs that get passed around without a case, don’t you?

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the lyrics.


Tonight
Lyrics by Scott Crawford
Music by Scott Crawford and Kage Hopkins

it’s not always black or white
the difference is only slight
in a world that isn’t right
lick my fucking ass tonight

lick my fucking ass tonight
tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight, oh

darling, don’t put up a fight
I just want to take a bite
you make my whole world seem bright
lick my fucking ass tonight

lick my fucking ass tonight
tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
in a world that isn’t right
lick my fucking ass tonight

on the loneliest of nights
maybe I am too uptight
you make my whole world seem bright
lick my fucking ass tonight

lick my fucking ass tonight
tonight
lick my fucking ass tonight
in a world that isn’t right
lick my, lick my, fucking ass tonight

lick it tonight
lick it tonight
lick it tonight
lick it tonight

This one sorta speaks for itself, and loudly, I might add, but I’ll give you a little backstory, nonetheless: back when I was in Murder In The Dark, Kage started playing the bassline of what became “Tonight” during practice one day, and I thought it sounded a bit like The Chameleons, so I laid down a drum track and, being a jackass, started singing the chorus you all know and love over the top of it in a sort of Mark Burgess voice (apologies to Birdy, who I hope will get a laugh out of the song if he ends up hearing it, at the very least). About 5 minutes of other ridiculous, improvised lyrics later, a legend was born. I’ve heard talk of it being played in foreign lands and enjoyed by people who have no idea at all about the context of the song, it was a live favorite at MITD gigs before it came with Kage and I in the divorce, and I still have people mentioning it to me, years later…”You did that ‘lick my ass’ song…that’s awesome!”, all of which is pretty cool. I’d feel kinda like an embittered one-hit wonder, if the song weren’t so goddamn funny.

Like I said, this song was co-written by Kage Hopkins, and he’s graciously decided to let me do whatever the hell I want with it, so if you decide to make a donation via the button below based solely on the virtues of this song, please note that in the “Note” section of the donation page, so I can kick him some of the money, and by all means, check out his shit, too.

From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!

While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.



Race for McGee 10 KM Race In Colonial Beach, VA Saturday, June 20th!

Posted in Help A Brother Out., Upcoming Events. on June 8th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

Some of you may remember me mentioning Deb McGee in last year’s New York City Marathon coverage. Some of you may also have noticed that she’s become a regular commenter here since then (she found my mention of her on a Google search, and stuck around after that…), and is a pretty swell gal in general. Well, Deb’s friends down in Virginia have started the Race For McGee 10 km in her name, to benefit the ALS Association. I’m pretty sure this is the second year they’ve done it, and it goes without saying that it’s a great cause. The race takes place at 7:30 PM on June 20th, 2009 on the boardwalk in Colonial Beach, Virginia. The race will be followed by a post-race barbecue as well, and if you’re not familiar, post-race parties can be a lot of fun. Deb’s not running in the 10K from what she says, but I’m pretty sure she’ll be there, so say hi for me if you run into her. I’m sure she’ll get a hell of a kick out of hearing from anyone who heard about the race on My Big, Black Cock, so don’t let her (or me) down, my hairy-palmed readers!

If you’d like to enter the race, grab a t-shirt or make a donation to the ALS Association via the Race For McGee, the mail-in entry form is here (warning: PDF file at the other side of that link), and the online one (which you’ll need to sign up for a Race Timing Unlimited account in order to access) is here.

Free Music Volume Three: “alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion”

Posted in My Big, Black Cock., Scott Crawford's Free Music. on June 4th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

Time for more music! I am releasing the long-awaited debut, self-titled and only EP of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion under two different licenses:

Creative Commons License

Zenova and Wolftab by alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at: http://www.mybigblackcock.com/

This means you can play it on commercial and non-commercial radio, remix it, copy it for your friends, put it on your web site, whatever, as long as I am properly credited, this license information is included wherever you choose to put my music, and, if you sample it, remix it, etc., your music containing any part of my music must be released under this same license unless you contact me specifically to negotiate other terms that I agree to.


CC0


To the extent possible under law, Scott Crawford
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
Something In My Drink by alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion.
This work is published from
United States.

There’s a reason why I’m licensing this song separately than the others, which I’ll get into below, but with this one, do whatever.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s the record, in both 320k MP3 and WAV format. (Sorry, FLAC nerds, but you’ll just have to convert your own. Consider it your punishment for the years of y’all being snobby to people on torrent sites, while posting “lossless” copies of things like Sammy Hagar albums. As I’ve said in the past, “When you post Sammy Hagar albums to torrent sites, EVERYBODY loses”.)

Zenova: 320k MP3 | WAV

Something In My Drink: 320k MP3 | WAV

Wolftab: 320k MP3 | WAV

Full “alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion” record in ZIP file: 320k MP3 | WAV

Right-click these files (or Control-click them, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save them. If you want to play them first to hear how they sound, click the play buttons next to the mp3 versions of each song.

If my bandwidth takes a hammerin’ from all this fun, I may also post links to .torrent files, so you can help spread the load around, but let’s learn to crawl first.

Here is the cover art for the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion EP (right-click the picture (or Control-click it, on a Mac) and go to “Save as…” to save a higher quality image):

And here is a secondary graphic I used on the MySpace page, because I know you all love animated gifs:

In the meantime, a little bit of explaining and some “lyrics”: wow, this is some messed up music. I actually created it on a dare with myself, y’see. At the time it was made (late 2004 to early 2005), music was just beginning to explode on MySpace, and promotion of music wasn’t the well-oiled machine it is now (*snicker*). Back then, it was very, very easy to get your music a lot of plays and get your band a lot of friends just by playing the game right, getting your profile page seen in the right places, and so forth. The band didn’t even have to actually exist. So, over Christmas week of ’04, I set out to see if, just on pure piss and vinegar, I could get a band very, very noticed despite said band not actually existing, despite the “band” not being comprised of anyone whose name anyone knew (sort of a spin-off of my feelings at the time that the little bit of notoriety my name had was hindering my success rather than helping it…I’d been around a long time and accomplished very little at that point, so I was feeling like my work, whatever form it took, wasn’t getting very much respect or credibility from the peanut gallery; these days, I could give a rat’s ass) and despite the music not being terribly commercially viable in any way, shape or form. I was thinking pure promotion here.

So, first, I cracked open an image editor and doctored up some images so they’d be all provocative-like. Then, I came up with the name, while I was looking through a list of Usenet newsgroups. Then, I recorded the first song, “Wolftab”, using rough recordings of a nonsense lyric I’d heard in one of my dreams (“How can it be, my little Wolftab?”, the only line of the whole song; it’s stretched out so I say it very slowly, and backmasked over the top of that) that I had laying around and a bunch of other noises. Most of the construction of the song was done mathematically (in fact, on all 3 alt.abortion songs, math played a heavy role, as did symmetry, backwards masking and so forth). I had it finished in about 2 hours, and while it’s the roughest of the alt.abortion tracks, it’s got its charms.

From there, I wrote up some nonsense that sounded vaguely controversial and invented a half-assed persona named “Mr. Abortion” or “Mr. A” to curate the whole deal, grabbed a MySpace page (deleted when I began phasing out MySpace) and went to work. I added early adopters with huge friends lists and popular bands, and left comments for them so my profile would be visible on their page. I tried to keep those comments “in character” and say something new and weird to everyone, rather than just using your classic “Thanks for the add!” form letter. I then also created a LiveJournal account for Mr. A, and in another act of half-assed creepiness, I used a serial adding script to randomly add 500 LiveJournal users as friends. Some were not pleased. Others warmed right up to Mr. A. A lot of what’s posted there tells the story of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion better than I could here, especially as it’s been a while and I don’t remember it all.

I will note, however, that “Zenova” is indeed named after Zenova Braeden, who has a pretty popular MySpace page. After I added her, the comment I left for her said “I’m going to write a song about you.” So, not long after that, I sat down in front of my computer and made that song. I think it’s the best of the three alt.abortion songs, but it’s also unbelievably creepy. To this day, I listen to it and wonder how anyone, much less me, could make a song that sounds like that. I guess there’s something to be said for doing that. I sent her another comment telling her that the song was finished, with a link, but I never heard from her. I have no idea if she listened to it, or what she thinks of it. Zenova, if you read this, hi! Hope you like it.

I did one more song after this, “Something In My Drink”, which got 2 revisions, the second of which has the sample I used at the end (which was added for the first and only alt.abortion live show). I may end up hearing shit for the sample used in the revision posted here, despite the fact that said sample was recorded by a bunch of major news outlets, spread everywhere for decades (similar to Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech), and has lyrics in it that have perhaps the most dubious copyright claim ever attached to them. Wikipedia’s even got the damned thing up (with a justification, admittedly), and they’re pretty careful. If people who have a legitimate, defendable claim to the rights want it taken down, they’re welcome to send me a takedown notice and I’ll replace it with the original version, sans sample. If not, cool. As seen above, I have released my music for “Something In My Drink” to the public domain, unlike all of my other works, as I feel this is most “good faith” way to handle this issue, and perhaps the best way to get the song heard the way I think it should be heard. I am not a lawyer, though, so dissenting opinions are welcome.

Like I said above, the LiveJournal account does a much better job of telling the story of alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.abortion than I could here, in a voyeuristic, in-the-moment kind of way. Hopefully, it (coupled with my description of events here) gives you some context into what the hell I was thinking or doing. The experiment was a success, a failure, and a successful failure, and probably eventually a failed success story as well.

From here, I’ll be continuing to compile and finish up what I have of “babykiller.”. I probably won’t record any new tracks that I haven’t already, not yet, anyway, but I may tweak a few (For example, the vocal track on “If I Could” needs some serious help). I will probably also throw some bonus tracks up as I go through my archives and find stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Stay tuned!

While I’ll be doing all of this free of any kind of mandatory charge, and I think I’m going to move forward with that plan for the rest of the time I’m making music, donations of any size above $1.00 USD (below that, and PayPal fees make your donation kind of useless, sadly; if you want to give me less than a dollar, do it in person) are greatly appreciated. Donations will enable me to compensate the people who work on this music with me as best I can, as well as perform much-needed repairs and upgrades on my aging home studio. Ideally, this will result in more music being made and released, though I’m trying to take this music thing one tiny act at a time these days. In the meantime, thanks in advance for your continuing support, as well as for all the support you’ve given my music and I over the years. As always, if you have any questions about this release or anything else, suck@mybigblackcock.com.



And now for something completely different…

Posted in My Big, Black Cock. on June 4th, 2009 by Scott Crawford

Here’s a few pictures taken in Tiananmen Square on “anniversary day”, by my friend and Flickr user Firepile about 8 hours ago:

Thanks to Firepile (and be safe over there!) for sharing these! She’s apparently also tweeting in the area, despite all the talk of The Great Firewall blocking transmissions in and out of China, so while it may also be filled with such Twitter gems as “I dun a poo”, you may wanna check that out as well.

My Big, Black Cock: bringing you scoops the news networks can’t even manage.

“Sita Sings The Blues”: Now Playing at Heck!

Posted in My Big, Black Cock., Second Life. on June 4th, 2009 by Scott Crawford


(Sita at my club in Second Life! Click the image to go straight to Heck!)

For those of you who have lived under a rock for a few months and haven’t heard me say it yet, I love “Sita Sings The Blues”, a new animated film by Nina Paley, not just because the movie itself is brilliant, but also because, as you’ll read here (warning: there be some spoilers), Nina went through HELL trying to get this movie released. I have the utmost respect and empathy for anyone who stands up to the “intellectual property” machine the way she has and continues to. Indirectly, Nina’s the one who finally got me off my ass to start releasing my music for free, and she’s awesome.

So, to serve the dual purpose of entertaining my guests there, and giving a little more attention to Nina for her efforts, today, I set things up so people can watch “Sita” at Heck, my club in Second Life (as you can see in the screenshot above). I told Nina about it, and she was pretty jazzed, so she wrote about it on her blog! (Thanks again, Nina!) And now, the circle is complete.

One more time, though, folks…whether you watch it at Heck or out here in that “other” life, you should totally check out “Sita Sings The Blues”. Best movie I’ve seen this year, and I’ve seen some good ones.

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