16.9.10

it's bugging me.

I keep saying that I'm done with the past. That I'm 'over' it all, but today I heard something so unsettling. I doubt one person can ruin the life of another. Other factors have got to be involved.

Three years on and I still wonder.

9.9.10

ear worms.

drinking red wine, listening to Ella and pondering. I wonder when it was that people started to get songs stuck in their heads - ear worms, if you will. I guess now with iPods, CDs and television, we're constantly being exposed to tunes and the potential that a horrible tune sung by a whiney and anorexic American with a good beat, will get stuck in our minds - play on and on preventing us from being productive. Evolutionists hypothesise that our brains have evolved in such a way that we are prone to remembering repetitions in rhythms and in melodies. In hunter-gatherer societies such a trait could have been advantageous - if you remember the sounds of the birds and wind in a location known for good vegetation or scrumptious meat (lol) you could continually return to the same place and increase the survival of yourself and your offspring by bringing back enough to feed the fam etc. This evolutionary adaption has perhaps become a burden in an environment inflitrated by doof doof rhythms and banal melodies!

It's similar to the obesity problem. Once upon a time, having a sugar tooth meant that you would be more likely to consume high energy foods (because they are indeed tasty and delicious!) which were difficult to find. The Aztecs must have gone CRAAZZZzzzZZZZZyyyy when they found the cocoa bean! Now, a sugar tooth where delicious cupcakes and carrot cakes are just around the corner leads to unhealthy weight gain. (I read an interesting article today about how thigh circumference is correlated to premature death - the smaller the thigh, the more likely you are to die early or suffer from heart disease. Thank you Body Pump and thyroid disorder for rendering my thighs MASSIVE. Clearly, I am never dying). Our hunter-gatherer brains start to think that simply because you hear the latest Rhiana song 219346234750 times in shopping centres, clothing stores that this is something that should be stored in our minds. Oh, faulty brain! Why, why do you torment me so! Mark Twain wrote about this ear worm phenomena in one of his short stories - but were humans before this time also afflicted by the burrowing worm? Perhaps, but I doubt it was in the same way.

I read about epileptic/temporal lobe tumour patients that often hear music right before seizing. In a world that didn't hear music, did this exist? Did you hear bird calls or rhythms? How can one hear music if you're not exposed to it? Or is it perhaps your own invention? But if you don't know what music is, how can you construct a song in your mind? Are we just inately predisposed to melodies? I haven't felt so strongly for music in a long time. I wish I could hear music in my dreams and compose based on these melodies upon waking like my friend can. I used to think that I was somewhat less musical than my perfect pitch friends. I don't think so anymore. Music is much more than that.

Oh Ella, I've missed you so. As much as I miss NYC and more so than past memories.

"Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky, stormy weather. Since my man and I ain't together. keeps rainin' all the time."

Dear God, I love how I feel right now.

6.9.10

reminiscing.



I'm reminiscing. Bee Hives is a good album. I drank too much. Yay to drunken times with the fam.

2.9.10

bonk me #1.


Argh! I love this book so so much! Mary Roach is a hilarious woman. When I grow up I want to be just like her (with Shaun Micallef or Don Draper as my husband - oh listen to the girl that never considers marriage). Some interesting points that I need to research further/find facinating:

- There are 11,250 sex related sudden deaths in the US annually, on par with Hep C, brain cancer and food poisoning
- sudden death during sex is more common with a prostitute
- Kinsey used a tootbrush (bristle end) for masturbatory purposes
- sex has the power to stop stutters temporarily, and enables you to lose peripheral vision. It can also relieve
leg stiffness and muscle spasms in cerebral palsy sufferers for an average of eight hours using a rectal probe electroejaculator.
- 70% of women fail to orgasm through intercourse without clitoral stimulation
- 1 in 5000 women are born without a vagina so some doctors fashion va-jay-jays out of intestines or rectums (why would a man NOT want to sleep with you if you have a rectina?)
- the clitoris is in the va-jay-jay of a domestic sow (how unfair!)
- if the distance between your clitoris and urethra is less than the width of your thumb you are more likely to come
- shorter women and women with smaller breasts have been shown to orgasm more easily
- neoclitoris = transgendered clitoris made up from a stitched-in-place nub of penile glans tissue
- G spot comes from Ernst Grafenberg who first wrote about this "erotic zone"
- Denmark's National Committee for Pig Production recommends sexually stimulating the pig during artificial insemination since there is a 6% higher success rate in such pigs. There is a Five-Point Stimulation Plan which details how this should be done. Some inseminators even jump onto the back of the pigs to stimulate the real life experience of copulation. There is even a vibrator known as the The Reflexor that can bring about orgasm in the sow though few farmers use it (only 1%). The Government has issued an explanatory dvd showing exactly how the sows should be stimulated. The movie itself sounds majorly amusing - the man in the dvd gets the sow off whilst the cameraman focuses on a ring on the farmer's left hand. I mean, sure, he's married so there's nothing suss. CLEARLY.
- 26-28% college age rural males have had "some animal experience to the point of orgasm" according to Kinsey, ps, I love Kinsey
- one study came out that said that women who use condoms are more depressed than those who don't. They suggested that the ejaculate may have some happy effect on women. The pill, however, does quench sexual urges forcing women into a "permanent menopause". How bizarre-o. Perhaps if you're on the pill, you don't feel so mightily disappointed because your libido is quietened? Thus why the 'no condom' women are happy people? Too many weird factors come into play. I rule this study RIDICULOUS.
- masturbation can be a way of medicating menstrual pains and backache. Perhaps you're simply taking your mind off the pain/disturbance? I find masturbation helps when you feel like crapola. POINT: everyone should masturbate more for health reasons.
- Apparently marijuana and Ritalin can increase your chances of reaching orgasm. Few studies have been done on this, however. I can imagine it would be difficult to get funding for an "illegal" substance.
- Women who cheat have sex more with their boy toy in the middle of their cycle.
- A study
in Chicago discovered that the smell of cologne, cherry and barbeque meat actually decreased vaginal blood flow. Cucumber and candy smeels increased blood flow by 13%.

to be continued brudderzzzzz...

 
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