The Cure - All Cats Are Grey [Live]
Chromatics - Shining Violence [Reprise]
I Monster - Heaven
Mazzy Star - Into Dust [Live]

Jahcoozi - BLN
The Shamen - Hyperreal
The Orb - Vuja De
Colder - To The Music
Depth Charge - Han Do Jin 2
Jah Division - Dubmission
Banco de Gaia - Soufie
Higher Intelligence Agency - Speech 3 (Conoid Tone Reform by Autechre)
Shatner woo remix

A new book by David Levy recently came out entitled "Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships" which the good dr™ kindly asked me to write about, despite my not having read it...a premature evaluation, if you will. Well, here's my two cents on the subject based on what little I've thought about it.

Sounds like a great fucking idea. I say, "Bring. It. On!" At least if we're talking from a strictly sexual standpoint. Robot love? Let's discuss the robot sex part first.

What this basically boils down to is refined masterbation; interaction with a "super deluxe vibrator" of sorts. I can't say how it is for most people, but it seems to me, optimally, that people try to simulate real sex in their imagination while they masterbate. Why WOULDN'T you want to use a convincing tool to help elevate the sense of realness? If these robo-whores with machine feelings turned out to be amazing, no one need go sexually unsatisfied ever again, especially if they're customizable.

Truthfully though, wouldn't it be a really long time before these sexual automatons became affordable for personal ownership? I'd imagine long before that there would be robo-brothels, where minimum wage workers enter the cybersex rooms after the johns took care of business to spray down the robo-prostitutes with sanitizer...but who knows? I figure if they can make a robot fuck, they can probably have it clean itself...I'd bet these cybernetic love machines could even be self-lubricating, if desired.

Now as far as the robot "love" thing goes..."Love" is a pretty hard thing to define anyway. But is loving a robot a good idea? *shrugs* I can't see why not if it makes you happy. I guess what it would come down to would be the matter of being able to completely suspend disbelief [think Lars and the Real Girl], albeit on a much deeper level than just doing it temporarily so you can shoot your load. I mean, on the one hand, I can see why it could be immensely appealing to make a robot interact however you wanted it to...but on the other hand, how could you convince yourself it was real if it was completely predictable and never disagreed with you? Where's the love in that?

Fucking robots is a wonderful idea. Loving robots seems like it could fuck with my head slightly less than getting involved with a flesh-and-blood human being, but would still probably mess me up pretty good nonetheless. But then if I were ever to go that route, I'd probably have concurrent relationships with at least three completely different robo-sluts (granted I could afford it), and they'd be cleaning my apartment, chauffeuring me around, fixing me exotic drinks...

Just a quick note that new content is on the way. Between holiday lethargy and being internet-less at home, posting has become rather infrequent as of late. You deserve better, I know. A new DSL connection is set to go online tomorrow, so stay tuned to this robotic freakwincey.

In the meantime:
Elitetechnique - We Shall Control
Ginger Ale - Happy House (Dfunked Mix by Dexter)
SMD - It's Just The Beat