7 Million Girls Love 7 Million Songs 7 Million Times More Than You Do

The other day, Warren Ellis tagged me in this 7 Songs meme that's taking the world by storm, and some women you'd probably like to have sex with if they let you (they won't) have offered up their 7 Songs since.

Debauchette: "They say you should never talk about religion, politics, or music with someone you plan to sleep with, presumably because a mismatch in these subject areas can really kill attraction."

Panther in Pumps: "If I close my eyes, sometimes I forget I'm even there, and I remember back when I just rode horses, and that's all I wanted to do."

The Stripper Hates You: "A song about masturbating in your car. We’ve all done it, um, right?"

Beautiful, Depraved: "This song was playing while I was wandering in the London Coco de Mer."

Pretty Dumb Things: "I love him so much I could burst open like a dehiscent fruit."

My Seven Songs

Warren Ellis has tagged me in one of those wretched memes, this one called Seven Songs.

First, I must post the directive: "List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to."

Ellis adds: "These things circulate like a dose of the intellectual clap." I guess this means Ellis has given me a dose of virtual gonorrhea. Thank you, Warren.

1. "Alice" by Nick Bertke who made the video, lives in Australia, and is nineteen. I can't listen to it enough, and it was this tune that compelled me to start writing my porn novel, Happy, some 50 pages ago. I listen to it when I write.

2. "Give It 2 Me" by Madonna. Embarrassing, no? Clearly, I have no class. Right now, "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" is playing on the TV behind me. I'm trash. At least I know it.

3. "Wish" by Franka Potente and Thomas D. Otherwise known as the song from "Run Lola Run." Sometimes I have issues with getting motivated. This song gets me going. Komm zu mir, indeed.

4. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as done by Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. Totally good tune for when you want to feel bad. Some people like feel good songs. Some people like feel bad songs. We are Susanna(h)s.

5. "Electric Alice" by Grinderman. Play it at my funeral.

6. "The World's Gone Mad" by Handsome Boy Modeling School and featuring Del the Funky Homosapien, et al. Such a pretty caterwaul starts this ditty. Sounds like a broken heart if a broken heart could speak. Has the world gone bad? Maybe. But listenin' to Mr. Funky Homosapien's spittin' makes you want to make up and fuck.

7. "Breakfast" by Le Le. "Bitch. You breakfast. Bitch, you breakfast. You breakfast. You breakfast. You the cheese on my baguette, the jelly on my bread, the French on my toast. Where the ho's at?" Warren Ellis, you breakfast.

Hey, maybe somebody could turn these into a Muxtape.

Consider yourself tagged:
Alex Balk
The Stripper Hates You
Lauren
Debauchette
Kasia
The Harpoonist
FourFour

Tag I'm It

Greta Christina, who edited the upcoming Best Erotic Comics 2008, which will include one of my bukkake comics, tells me that tag I'm it.

Here are the rules:

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

1. Today I started doing yoga again. It's been two years. I am a Gordian Knot.

2. Right now, I'm reading a book I'm reviewing. It's short stories. Some are sweet. Some are not. This is a good line in it: "George said: 'You know, I never thought of it before, I can't figure out whether your amputees pray to God to make them whole, or just to make sure nothing else comes off.'"

3. From my mailbag: "Who is this? Think twice (I also think twice). Who is this? Is it you reading me? Is it me writing (to) you? If so (whatsoever), Where are we now? Am I there in front of you, becoming an image, a supposed figure, a sort of chimera or, is it you in my mind reading me, curious about these peculiar set of messages? Who are we? I mean, only when you read me is you and at this very moment / while I am writing, I know is me. Do you like misteries? I feel all this as a kind of. I love mistery. But, what is the point? That is the point. The mistery of being here-there, the porn/unporn theme bounding us, in some place where we are not, but we are. That's why I asked first (or it was you?): Who is this?"

4. [Pause]

5. This year, it will be ten years since I set foot on the set of a porn movie for the first time. I have yet to write a definitive piece on my experiences in Porn Valley. I am attempting to do so, slowly. Yesterday, I watched a porn movie online as "research." I was present at this one. I kept looking for myself. A couple years ago, I lost my mind. One night, I decided I would never write about pornography again. Then, I checked my email. It was around 1AM. There was an email from a man I did not know. He'd been watching a porn movie, he wrote to me, and, he told me, I had appeared in it, he said, stepping in and stepping out of frame, for an instant. I don't know how he knew it was me. I don't remember which movie it was. I did realize at that moment that no matter what I said or did or didn't say or didn't do, I would always be stepping in and stepping out of that movie.

6. The yoga teacher said: "The past and the future do not exist."

7. There was the girl in the middle of the screen. When I was there, I wasn't there. (See: Dissociation.) Now, I am not there, and yet I am more there than I was when I was there.

8. "Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself."

Tag You're It:

1. Confessions of a College Callgirl
2. Mr. Sex
3. Daphne Gottlieb
4. La Petite Claudine
5. Reader of Depressing Books
6. Eric Spitznagel
7. Unscathed Corpse
8. Jayme Waxman