Arrghhh... the pipe to the geekhouse is a little too skinny tonight for me to edit this entry properly. Ah well. Praise be to Allah for ftp.

Getting married... *sighs* Everyone's doin it, man... You like flyin, kid?

Ya know, I've been thinking alot recently about all the people that I know that have gotten or are getting married. It's like a rash. It's funny, my mom used to tell me, only half-jokingly, that I couldn't get married until I turned 26. That ill-fated day is fast approaching and, ironically, I don't think it's going to be a problem. I have so much that I need to work out in my headspace that I don't feel like I can commit to anyone... was there anyone in my life to commit to. To be honest, I'd kind of like for the person I find to have their own headspace sorted out and at least be on the way to knowing who they are and what they want. I don't want that person to expect any less from me, so... I wait... and think.

Which leads me to a question. Those of you who got married young: what's the secret. I just want to know what made up your mind?

I had a terrifying thought, tonight... the very thought that spun me off on this tangent: I says, "self? What if you got married? Then you wouldn't have to keep asking yourself these silly questions. You'd have no choice but have a new set of goals and thoughts". Ugh. WTF! I promptly said a handful of hail-marys, donned my hair-shirt, and got on with my life. Is that it? Is that why people get married? My sources say: Maybe some. Most? Not likely.

Anyway...

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Why you don't ask Google for personal help
Here's what google has to say about finding out who you are. Ugh. Kind of a sad statement. Should I have really expected more from the web, though?
Brute Propaganda
This shop did the art for the KMFDM album covers. They do great work. I love propaganda-style art.
Smooth, just like the silk... Soft and cuddly hug me up like a quilt I'm a lyrical lover... No take me for no filth... With my sexual physique, jah know me well-built
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Agitprop
Dude, if you love propaganda art, you might like Aleksandr Rodchenko, a designer from the early days of the Soviet Union.

Athough it's for a movie I haven't seen, there's a poster he did for a director I like, Dziga Vertov. Vertov's editing style is very MTV, which is sort of surprising, since he worked in the 'teens and 'twenties. Kinoglaz is everybody's favorite, if they have it at the library or something.

Apparently the avante-garde community in the early Soviet Union was very insular and close to Lenin, but after the Depression hit the USSR, Lenin had a change of heart and declared the avante-garde "decadent" and favored more "natural modes" of representation.

Anyway, yeah, like I like Rodchenko a whole lot.
AVERAGE JOE
Gettin' hitched
I got married at 23, maybe not young but young enough. I think the secret is as simple as the convergence of the right person at the right time.

My wife was the right person -- you really can feel it, know it, just as much as you know your own name.

Finding the right time? It just makes itself apparent. The way I figured it out was when I noticed that the relationship kept getting stronger and stronger as time went on. Most relationships I had been in fizzled out over time. The right ones don't.

Once you hit those, it just takes a leap of faith and a commitment to work through the inevitable low spots...
loophole
More great links...
I'm glad someone can come up with some good content. I've been in kind of a slump lately. Thank you :) AJ: That's what I hear from the people that I think it's really going to work for. I just need to figure out how to find that person for me -loop
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Ms Right
Loop, you'll find her. I at one time told myself that I'll never get married until I'm at least 25. And for me too that day is getting very close. I have less than a year before I hit 25 and it's looking like more and more all the time that I could possibly be married before I reach that ripe old age. ;) But seriously, leave the time frame behind and just focus on what you're looking for in a person. That probably sounds a bit flaky but it's one of the things that makes it all last and worth it in the end.