When the rain is tough and troubles keep coming, I’m here to offer you a warm embrace, to wipe the tears from your face, and to let you know how much I care you. When the night falls long and hard, and you’re alone, and the pain cuts deep, a jagged edge, I’ll be here to hold your hand, ready to console you, ready to listen. When the tempest rages on the black sea, summoning thoughts of confusion and despair, I’ll be here to hold you mahal, to protect and cherish you until the whole world shines like new. And the only tempest you will see, is the brew of emotion between you and me.

Meet Sarah — 29 years old, looking for some nice hunk of a man who could pop her cherry before she turns 30 this November. And I’m not talking figuratively; Sarah really wants to lose her virginity so badly she’s turned to chic mag Jane for help.

Everybody just wants to fall in line. Since the Jane mag outing, her blog says she has dated a couple of guys. Seems she’s either the type who’s very finicky with dates (hence, the virginity at 29 thing), or she eats guys alive. Me, I’ll just stay in the sidelines. I don’t really care if she’s a virgin; show me a girl who advertises sex, and I’m instantly turned on. Show me a girl who advertises sex FOR FREE, and I’d just drop dead with my mouth bubbling.

If only girls in our neighborhood (who are not related to me) would just switch to Sarah’s brand of free love, life would be a rolling, frollicking, raunchy good time.

Sarah’s Blog

What’s Joy Division, New Order and Factory? Joy Division was a band that existed in a brief period of time between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The band ceased to exist when the lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Macclesfield, England on the morning of May 18, 1980. The band became New Order unofficially about 1 - 2 months after this tragedy. Factory was both bands’ record label.

Joy Division : a work in progress

My obsession with the band, and with punk and new wave in general, started in the early 1980s.Here is the smallest tribute I could possibly perform - a collection of images you can use as wallpaper or anything else.

77 Barton Street, where Ian had lived and died.
77 Barton Street, Macclesfield, England.
Ian worked in the room that has the window to the left of the door.

The spot where the Electric Circus once stood.
This is the spot in Manchester where the Electric Cirus once stood.
It looks like it was replaced by Council flats.

51201 Flag atop the Hacienda.

FAC51 The Hacienda
This is actually in the brickwork of the Hacienda.

Ian’s memorial stone - IAN CURTIS 18-5-80
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Photo taken 10 years and 10 days from the day Ian took his own life.

Ian’s memorial stone with flowers, cards and poems from friends and family.
"How I wish you were here with me now."

The old Factory I in Hulme.
This was the original Factory.
This was the PSV Caribbean Club in 1990.

The Factory Must Be Built.
The new Factory circa 1990 - Manchester, England.

Rare Records - where Ian used to work in the 1970s.
Rare Records in City Centre. Ian had a job here.
It was originally on another street adjacent to it, or so I’m told.

Some pictures will be posted on my My Photo Album