receiving

[ateolf]

uh...i got some mail! cds:
Mission of Burma: Peking Spring
Oneida / Liars: Atheists, Reconsider
and a Game Boy game...it's one i used to have or maybe still have somewhere buried within my parents' house...but anyway, obviously i've been unable to find it for quite some time:
Daedalian Opus
it's a rad puzzle game and i've missed it...stuff in the mail's cool...that's all...

Comments

[1tinything.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Oneida, have you ever read about the Oneida cult? It's totally creepy. There was the head dude and he made people live in this compound with no doors so they could never have any privacy and he did it with all of them cause they were 1 big family and he thought he should people the world with his seed or something. And then they got famous later for making silverware. Oneida silverware. I have some at home. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[newness-ends.livejournal.com]

Amber did this thing for school about utopian societies and millenarians and stuff, and part of it was about the Onieda folks. I just mentioned these guys to Robert the other night. I thought their schtick was not just that the main guy got to do everybody, but the whole cult was freeeeekin' each other wild, puttin' the sting in sideways.

[1tinything.livejournal.com]

The sting in sideways? What the fuck is that supposed to mean, Jacques? Yeah, I guess everybody was getting bucky-naked but this guy thought he was a badass. I don't recall the details but it sounded pretty fruity. I don't wanna be in no cult where there ain't doors cause how else am I gonna do embarrassing stuff like pretend I'm on a catwalk in a major fashion show or look at my own butt in a mirror?

[newness-ends.livejournal.com]

You know, like I always say to dudes: "Baby, I'm-a put my sting in you sideways. Fields of gold"

pretend I'm on a catwalk in a major fashion show or look at my own butt in a mirror

Ummm...what?

[1tinything.livejournal.com]

Ya know, like when the door's shut and no one's looking and sometimes people have fantasies about being a high fashion model and you don't want people to see you posing and strutting around and stuff. And sometimes you just wanna look at your own butt and you don't want people thinking you're weird.

[1tinything.livejournal.com]

Fields of gold? Like Sting? Oooooooh, Sting. Ok, I get it now.

[newness-ends.livejournal.com]

No, I mean sticking it to a dude is like being in a field full of actual gold.

[1tinything.livejournal.com]

What? Wouldn't it be more like being in a field full of actual brown?

[newness-ends.livejournal.com]

Golden brown, like the Stranglers song.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

Jacques was mentioning that the other day when i was talking about said ep being ordered...i didn't recognize the name of it as a cult, but the description sounds familiar...oh yeah! the silverware...i think the conversation came up in the past over a discussion of some Oneida silverware...i didn't remember the name but yeah...and not i haven't read about the cult, but i have listened to people talking about them around me...

droppin' knowledge

[la-musica-pop.livejournal.com]

noyes didn't make people live in his compound; it was all by choice. it was like a self-sufficient little town with its own gardens, mills, and factories. you only had to contribute to the community by working in it and you were free to leave at any time. plus, your job was based on your own personal interests and talents, and you could change "careers" if you got bored. it was really revolutionary for the time because women could work alongside men in any profession they chose. oh, and if you decided to leave the community, you were given a new suit of clothes and $100, plus whatever money or property you contributed to the group while you were there.

there were no stings involved, sideways or otherwise. noyes encouraged "complex marriage" among the community members. he believed that people should get their freak on, but never form an emotional attachment. if two people were spending too much of their lovin'-time together, they were broken up. monogamy was considered selfish and was therefore against god's will and threatened the community.

it was all going fine until stupid fundamentalists started harshing noyes' mellow. he fled to canada to avoid persecution and the community basically fell apart without him. the remaining loyalists turned what was left of the community into a joint-stock company. now their tableware factories are still around and stuff. pretty cool, huh?

Re: droppin' knowledge

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

if you like it so much why don't you go live there, hippie!!!

Re: droppin' knowledge

[1tinything.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is totally bananas. We spent 2 whole day talking about him and some other cultish dude a year ago in my American Communities anthropology class (which was way way cooler that it sounds). Noyes didn't seem to be ULTRApsychotic or anything, just a little beans.