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1. Vroom Vroom
2. Too Much
3. Doo Doom Chit
4. Boogie Woogie
5. Tonight
6. Get it Here
7. Sketch Book
8. Love Couple (ft. The Zoo)
9. Vroom Vroom (inst.)
10. Doo Doom Chit (inst.)
Crayon Pop is scribbling their name on the charts again with 'Evolution Pop Vol.1.' Apparently, this is a DIY project, with the girls in charge of just about everything. According to Chrome Entertainment (via Naver), "The members will participate in the direction for the pre-release video and the overall album production." This includes promotion, marketing, costumes, hair, makeup, even the artwork and logo design. Soyul did an awesome job, frankly, on the artwork. As a bonus, there's a second disc with 7 of their previous hits.
The pre-release single "Vroom Vroom" is interesting. It's still got that fun, peppy feel to it, like all Crayon Pop tunes, but this one feels more filled out than previous entries. There is a little more production thrown at this song. They also use their lower registers when singing. There's even a little hip-hop styling here. It all works well, though the chanting is slightly jarring at first. I really like the way this one's put together. It's catchy, danceable, and definitely had me singing along.
If I liked "Vroom Vroom," then I loved "Doo Doom Chit." This is full-on dance pop, with skirling horns and more than one awesome hook. It's breathless and frantic and beautiful all at once, and just what you need to get the blood pumping again. It's a bold choice to abandon the higher pitched vocals, but it paid off here. Ellin's raps are fierce and fire. This song was still rattling around in my skull long after the song was over.
"Get It Here" is a more mature-sounding tune, standing easily with other pop tunes and surpassing some of them. The raps are fun fast and go very well with the song and just one of the best tracks on here. It's got the easy hooks in the chorus, and the vocals hit that sweet spot during the main verses.
Crayon Pop songs have been hit and miss for me. "Bar Bar Bar" was fun, "F.M" was truly killer down to the sentai MV, and "Uh-ee" was dog's dinner. But the girls have done well on this one, especially for a DIY project. In an industry where everything is largely decided for you, it's refreshing to see them take the reins, even if it might be because of financial hardship. Each of these songs are very different from what Crayon Pop has offered us in the past, in a good way. Truly an evolution as the title suggests. I'm hoping these girls continue to wow us well into the future. I think this album raised the bar (bar bar).
Watch the girls of Crayon Pop bounce from one environment to the next in "Doo Doom Chit!" From a classroom to a living room, a tennis court, a playground, an office and beyond. Rather than stay in one area, they decided to adopt multiple locations.
However, it's not all as it seems, as they're cheap sets built in the same room. With an inexplicable stuffed animal tooting away on the saxophone. But they seem to have an awareness of all that, that it's all just a facade because the sets are really small, often times smaller than the girls!
The choreo wasn't bad, but I think I wanted a bit more. Some of the moves seemed less than challenging, but I haven't really heard anyone rave about Crayon Pop's dancing, so that may be expected. It was hardly the focus of the video.
The costumes are pretty well done, but I do have to sort of take issue with the schoolgirl outfits -- what are they now, 26? Still, it just seems like it's a zany romp from one set to the next and it looks like they are having tons of fun.
It was fun to watch. Lacking any kind of symbolism or gravitas, it turned the tropes on their ear and just realized that fun was the name of the game. And I think they won this round.
MV Production.........6
MV Concept.............8
Album Production...8
Album Concept........7
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I moaned softly as the dark-haired man ran his tongue over my nipple and then over it again, chills running down my spine at the feel of the hard, round metal stud rubbing on my nipple. I was thinking hard, although having a hard time organizing my thoughts - Steve was his name, I thought.
I had met up with him in the bar downstairs. I don't know what had drawn me here. I'd carried the card for the tattoo parlor with the handwritten address of the bar downstairs around with me for nearly a week before I'd come here. It was just general curiosity nagging at me. Once in the bar, when I saw him again, it was the stud in his tongue that won me over - that had me simply getting up from the bar stool and following him up the stairs at the back of the dark, smoke- and men-filled room. This was something I'd never done before. Still curious, I also felt the danger and arousal of it.
* * * *
It had been a busy Saturday afternoon at the airport when I first saw him - busy enough that he was mostly a blur in my memory other than that nagging curiosity he surfaced at the back of my mind. I was working security, and Fred Stringfellow, Wanda Miller, and I were on the metal-detection wands. If someone set the tunnel machine off, they were handed off to us and we'd run the wand over the passenger and make sure they weren't packing anything we didn't want on a plane.
This young, dark-complexioned guy wearing a sports jacket over a clean, white polo shirt and well-pressed khakis, his head covered with a reversed baseball cap, set the tunnel machine off like the 4th of July fireworks on the Hudson, and Fred and I took him aside.
'Sorry,' I said as I waved the wand down his chest to his thighs and heard the counter go off like a swarm of angry locusts. 'I'm afraid you'll have to go over to that booth over there, we'll have to check this out more closely.'
'No problem,' he said to me, with a big smile. 'I'd be happy to go into the booth with you and show you what I got,' he said.
I let that slide, although I reddened up a bit. I was sure he couldn't tell just like that that I liked men - although he looked like a great specimen of one. The passengers were usually too nervous to wisecrack like that. This was one cool customer.
Fred cut in at that point. I don't think he heard what the guy had said - but another man had set off the tunnel machine and one of us had to see to that. 'I'll take this guy,' Fred said. 'You can get that one.'
When Fred and the passenger came out of the booth, the passenger was still smiling a secret smile, but Fred looked a little flustered.
The guy went on to the bin at the end of the bag security belt, and I saw him take out his wallet and a pen and scribble something on a card. And then he was at my elbow, smiling, and he handed me the card.
'If you want to know what the other guy found out, go to this bar,' he said. 'I've written the address on the back of this card. I would have rather shown you than him. You're hot. I'll be back in town on Tuesday.' And then he laughed and walked off.
And we were so busy afterward that I forgot to say anything to Fred about it. But the card burned a hole in my pocket for the rest of the week, and the more I felt it when I put my hand in my pocket, the more curious I became. Fred had gone off on vacation after that work shift, so I couldn't ask him. The address was in a part of town I'd never been to. And I meant to go down there one of these nights anyway. I'd heard it was a good area to cruise in, although I hadn't done a whole lot of that. And it came Friday night and I was bored and didn't have anything better to do.
* * * *
It was the first thing I noticed about him when he moved into the stool next to me at the bar. His self-assurance. He stubbed a cigarette out in an ashtray in front of me before ordering a beer over his shoulder from the barkeep and then turned sideways toward me. One hand went to the back of my barstool, the heel of his hand warm against my tailbone. The forearm of his other arm laid across the rim of the bar between me and my drink, and he was leaning in toward me.
'I see you kept the card. Haven't seen you in here before,' he said to me. It was the guy from the airport who had given me the card with the address of this bar on the back. He opened his mouth in a friendly smile. It was a nice smile. He was a leather kind of guy, but he didn't look too rough. He had a full head of dark hair with a tendril of curl hanging down over what appeared, in this light, to be a violet eye. The lustrously dark hair was mostly on one side; the other side was cut short in a buzz cut and when he turned his head I could see that he had two initials, a capital B and D, shaved into the side of his head. I hadn't seen this at the airport, but he'd had it covered with a baseball cap there.
'Haven't been in here before,' I said.
'Lookin' for some action?' he asked. I let my gaze float down from his well-tanned face to take in how he filled out the cut-off athletic T he was wearing - which was quite well. He swelled and bulged where he should if he was spending quality time working his body, and he V'd down to a trim waist with armor-plate-like abs. There was a metal ring in the navel I saw peeking out below the hem of the cut-off T.
'Yeah, maybe,' I answered. 'But maybe just curious. I'd wanted to check out this part of town. This looked like a good bar.'
'It's a good place. A good place to get your itch scratched.'
As he talked, I could see that something was going on with his mouth. A flash of a reflection off something. And then when he brought his beer around to take a swig, I saw that it was a gold bead he had pierced in his tongue. I noticed then that he had small rings pierced elsewhere on his face too - an eyebrow ring and then two in one earlobe - in all three cases, it was on the side where he had the buzz cut. It almost seemed like he was two people. A punker on one side and the captain of the college football team on the other.
'You've got a pierced tongue,' I said, almost involuntarily, an observation I half thought I'd made in silence to myself, but he laughed and followed up on that, so I must have said it out loud.
'Yep. That defines me. It's what I do. It's sexy. I believe it's what every man secretly wants - what every man should have.'
'I didn't notice those . . . the tongue and the ears . . . at the airport.'
'Ah, so you do remember me,' he said with a little laugh. His smile conveyed that he'd scored a point. It really was his invitation that had brought me here. 'I take them out when I fly. Having hardware like that is a sure invitation to security scrutiny. As it was I didn't strip down enough.'
I was going to say something to that, but wasn't quick enough in deciding what to say, and he went on. 'Your mug is dry. Can I buy you a beer?'
'Yes, I guess so,' I said.
That must have been some sort of code, some sort of signal in this bar, because he smiled, and when the barkeep delivered the beer, the guy moved his hand up under the hem of my T-shirt and palmed my lower back. His hand was warm to the touch, and I felt myself getting into the mood.
'Those must hurt, though. I can't imagine eating with a stud like that.'
'What, can't imagine being eaten with a stud like that?' he asked in mock horror. And when I reddened up, he said, 'That can be easily fixed. And no one has ever said it hurt. Everyone's liked it . . . a lot.'
I covered the embarrassment of the moment by taking a deep drink of beer.
'My name is Steve,' he said.
'Oh, I thought it was something like Billy or Butch,' I said, coming up for air from my beer.
He turned the punk side of his head toward me and said, 'Oh this? These ain't my initials. These define me too. Know what they stand for?'
'No,' I said, with a smile. 'Tell me.'
'Well I'll give you a hint. The B is for big. I could show you what the D stood for.'
I laughed but changed the subject. 'You said the piercings defined you. What does that mean? And how many do you have.'
I took another big swig of my beer as he sat there and smiled at me with some sort of secret smile like maybe I'd bitten on exactly what he wanted me to ask. He ran the tip of his tongue out of his mouth and moved it around on his lips. I couldn't help but watch it move, and he knew that was what I was watching.
'Thirteen. Lucky thirteen. That's how many piercings I got now. And it's what I do. Mainly I do tattoos at the parlor just down the street. You probably passed it on your way in. But I do piercings there too. In the back room.'
'Thirteen. I can't imagine where you'd put thirteen - and no tattoos.'
'A tat or two, yes, but not where most would notice. Just some close friends. You could be a close friend, though.'
He stood up from his stool then and came in close beside me. The hand that had been on the small of my back moved slowly but quite noticeably around my side, under my shirt until he was completely embracing me with his arm and his palm was on my lower belly. The tips of his three longest fingers were pushing into the upper reaches of my bush.
'Here's another one,' he said as he ran his free hand down to his navel. The thumb of his other hand was thrumming my own navel gently - and my dick was definitely starting to take more notice.
'That other security guy at the airport didn't tell you about the other ones?' he asked in a low voice. 'Didn't tell you whatall hardware was setting your machines off?'
'No. I didn't talk to Fred about it after that,' I said. 'We're trained not to talk about the passengers that way.'
'And yet you came anyway? I feel honored. Hey, it looks like you could use another beer. OK?'
'OK,' I answered. I was breathing a little heavy, though, because of the hand on my belly, which was pushing a little lower. I moved my own hand down to cover it - I thought to let him know that this was far enough. But he took it as recognition that he had his hand there. And that it was OK with me. He moved a finger on each side of the root of my cock, and he'd somehow moved a thick ring he had on one of the fingers down near the tip and jammed it on top of my cock where it rooted, rubbing it on the vein there, which was hardening me right up. I started to tremble, which wasn't lost on Steve.
I looked around the room in panic, thinking we were on exhibition. But all the other guys there were pretty well paired off - and some of them were in more intimate poses than we were.
'Another beer here, Tony,' Steve was calling out in a horse voice. 'A special, please.'
The barkeep came over and set another mug of beer down. And as he winked at me, he also flipped out two condom packets on the bar top. So much for wondering what a special was.
Steve leaned into me and moved his mouth to the side of my neck, and I felt the golden tongue bead move along the jugular vein there.
I moaned quietly and shuddered.
His lips went to my ear. 'I have a room upstairs. I want you to count all thirteen piercings. And then I want to fuck you.'
'Uh, no, I don't . . .'
'It's what you came for.'
* * * *
He had me arched over the double bed, his arms encasing my waist, the stud in his tongue rubbing over my nipples, first one and then the other as I moaned softly, my fingers laced in the hair at the back of his head. He ran his tongue up onto my neck and took my mouth in his, rubbing his tongue stud across my tongue. One piercing.
He released my lips and I moved mine up his face and kissed his eyebrow. Piercing Two.
He held me in place with one hand while he unzipped first my jeans and then his with the other and pushed our jeans and briefs to the floor. Meanwhile my lips went to his ear and played with the two small rings there. Piercings Three and four.
I moved my hands between our chests. One hand went to one of his nipples. Piercing five. And the other to the other nipple - piercing six - before descending to his navel. Piercing seven.
Steve leaned down more into me, arching me back onto the surface of the bed, until my shoulder blades rested on the surface and then he raised his chest from me. He was smiling down at me, his hands going to encase my cock and gently working it, making it engorge as I moaned and sighed under him.
I watched the muscles of his chest move with the motion of his arms as his hands worked me. I saw then that he did have tattoos. There was a small green lizard poking its head and the front of its body out from underneath his arm pit, the lizard curved up under the bulge of his breast. Another, smaller lizard was curved up toward that one from the other side of his body, coming up from the hollow above his groin and beside his lower belly.
I played with those with my fingers and watched his violet eyes with my needy, imploring ones while he smiled down at me and slowly masturbated my cock with his hands. Increasingly I wanted him. I wanted to know about the other six piercings, but I was heating up fast. He no longer was moving his hands as they encased my cock. He was just holding them, and I was moving my hips, sliding my cock in and out of his hands.
He moved his mouth and that golden tongue stud down to my nipples again and then slowly slid it down my sternum, stopping briefly at my navel, on its way into my bush, as I started to writhe under him more insistently, fucking his hands. He still wore the ring, and it was rubbing up and down, up and down, on the vein at the root on the top of my cock.
The tongue stud went onto my cock and began to play with it as his hands, the fingers slick with lube, went to cupping my buttocks, pulling them apart, and his lubed fingers working closer to the rim of my ass, until they were there - and then beyond there, invading me, teasing my hole open. And then more open, the fingers sinking deeper and beginning a slow, counter rhythm inside my hole.
The tongue stud was driving my cock crazy. It moved from root to glans and the stud was working my piss slit, working its way inside me there, slowly, gently fucking my piss slit.
I writhed and cried out and groaned and grunted and warned him I was coming - at which he just raised his head and smiled up at me and said 'I know you are,' and then went back to work - until I did.
Panting and moaning, in exhaustion, I lay on the bed, trying to regain my breath - never having come like that before. I looked down, and he was standing over me, grinning and holding a huge, hard cock in his hand. I gasped, not so much as the length and girth of it as at the thick metal ring piercing its cut head. Piercing eight.
I was going to be fucked with a thick metal ring. I shuddered and began to tremble.
'This is what the BD was about,' Steve said in a proud voice. I just moaned in acquiescence. He didn't require confirmation.
'Have you have been fucked with a cock ring before?' he asked.
'No,' I replied in a low, gaspy voice.
'And that's not all. Here, feel this.' He took my hand and brought it down to the underside of the cock that was standing straight out from his belly. Piercings nine, ten, eleven, and twelve. A line of thick metal beads ran down the length of his cock with the largest one right at his root.
'This one,' he said, holding my finger to the one at the root, 'is going to make love to the rim of your asshole.'
I moaned, as he ran my fingers up and down the beads. 'I'm told that each one can be felt separately as it slides inside you,' he murmured. 'Doesn't that sound tasty?'
I moaned, already imagining the sensation. Afraid of it. Wanting it. Wanting it so badly.
But he wasn't finished. He moved my hand lower, to his perineum, under the scrotum sack, where there was yet another ring piercing. Lucky piercing thirteen.
I trembled and entreated him to hurry as he stood over me and opened a condom packet and crowned his cock. And then I was pulling him to me and inside and thrusting with each of his thrusts, as he hunched over me and drove into me, thrusting deeper and deeper, and I cried out and writhed and felt each and every metal bead that followed along behind the gloriously rubbing thick cock ring. 'Oh god, OH GOD, O-H GAWWWD!'
Before he came, but not until after I had done so again, he turned me on my belly and let the other side of my channel feel the full benefit of the beads, as my fists bunched the bedspread and my teeth bit into the sheets attempting - but not successfully - to stifle my screams of ecstasy. Never, ever, had I ever . . .
Later, his cock still deep inside me, he leaned over and opened a drawer in the nightstand and took out a pad of paper and a pen. 'Here. Write down your cell phone number and address.'
'I don't think . . . it was a great fuck,' I said, '. . . but I don't think . . . again. I don't . . .'
'Write them down.'
I was scared, frightened of the effect of this taking of me. Never had I been so fully fucked before. The studs and beads were a nice novelty. But this wasn't me. This wasn't my world. I didn't want to . . .
But I wrote my phone number and address down and then he was gone, leaving me, in emotional and physical tatters. Dominated and scared. And more fully fucked than I'd ever been before. Ashamed. Remembering how I had begged for it - how I had taken his cock and guided - no, literally stuffed - it inside myself. How under the feel of the cock stud and the beads, my hips had gone into a frenzy. This was just too much - too exotic, too far into fetish. I couldn't . . .
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In a meeting, sitting at the back of the room, bored at the droning on about that week's changes in security check procedures, I heard the quiet buzz. I'd forgotten to turn the cell phone off. I'd do so, but I might as well check the text message first.
The stud revolving around your nipple, rubbing the tender flesh, sending signals to the very quick of you.
I stifled a moan, reddened up and switched the phone off.
In the cafeteria, instinctively clicking on the phone when it buzzed. Another text message.
Sliding the tongue stud down to your navel. Exploring. My hand going lower, possessing.
I clicked it off and acted like nothing was happening. But I had to hold my glass with both hands, I was trembling so hard.
At home, in the evening, trying to read, the cell phone sitting next to me on the table. Trying not to look at the phone. Not wanting it to buzz. Knowing it would. Wondering why it hadn't. Then it did. His voice this time.
'Are you home?'
'Yes.' A faltering reply.
'Are you wearing a ring?'
'Unzip your pants. Take your cock out. Run the underside of the ring on your finger up and down the top of it, along the vein.'
At each instruction, there was a pause. And without thinking or resisting, I responded to the command in his voice.
'I hear you breathing harder. You have done it, yes?'
'Yes.' Almost a whimper.
'Go to the door. You'll find a package outside. Bring it in. Go to your bedroom, strip, and lay on the bed and open the package.'
'Steve . . .'
'Are you going to the door?'
A pause. And then, in a low, tortured voice. 'Yes.'
'Are you there, on the bed, now, naked?'
'Open the package and do it. Do not hang up. I want to hear you come.'
The package contained a thick dildo with knobs on it and a small bottle of lube.
'There, that was nice,' he said when I was finished. 'Now, come to me. We begin.'
'Steve . . . I can't . . . I . . .'
Using all of the strength inside me I switched the phone off.
It was raining, and dark, and I hadn't ever driven in that section of town at night. I didn't even know if I'd be able to find the tattoo shop that was advertised on the card he'd given me that first Saturday at the airport. My hands were trembling and were slick on the wheel of the car. I wanted to turn around and go home - to get rid of the cell phone. To get a new one. To move, even, because he knew where I lived.
I couldn't do this. This wasn't me. I didn't want to be dominated this way.
I found the street. I could see the bar up ahead. It's lights were on. That made sense; it was the height of the night there. But a business. It surely wouldn't be . . . but there it was. The tattoo parlor had its lights on and an Open sign was blinking in the window.
He was standing behind the counter when I entered - smiling. A new piercing, one at a nostril. Piercing fourteen.
'Come into the back room,' he said, holding his hand out to me. With his other hand he lifted a stainless steel tray holding needles and forceps.
I whimpered, hardly managing to croak out, 'Steve . . . I don't want - '
'Yes you do, you want. It's what I do. Come with me. We begin.'


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Citywide hotel occupancy was down 0.2 points to 78.1 percent from 2012's 78.3 percent occupancy. Motel occupancy slipped 0.1 point to 45.1 percent from 45.2 percent in 2012. Weekend stays in January decreased a full 2 points to 80.6 percent occupancy from 82.6 percent occupancy in 2012.
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Last week's news that Genting Group had bought the moribund Echelon property and would build out a $2 billion to $7 billion Strip hotel-casino complex was hailed as good news for recession-weary Las Vegas.
But not all analysts are sanguine about adding another 3,500 hotel rooms to an already saturated resort destination. At least one was downright negative.
Construction of Genting Group's Resorts World Las Vegas won't be as quick as flipping on a light switch. Development of the 87-acre site on the Strip's north end will take at least three years to complete, allowing the Strip's recovery to gain additional traction.
Fitch Ratings Service gaming analyst Michael Paladino told investors that the timing and scale of the Genting Group's plan exceeds previous expectations for the Strip's near-to-medium-term gaming expansion and hotel room addition.
Many analysts have said Las Vegas is an oversaturated hotel market with more than 150,000 rooms. The $400 million redevelopment of the Sahara into SLS Las Vegas adds 1,620 more by the end of 2014.
"Tepid capacity growth has been one of the key considerations for our favorable outlook for the Strip," Paladino told investors. "The two projects' proposed room capacity equates to 3.4 percent of citywide room inventory as of December 2012."
Macquarie Securities gaming analyst Chad Beynon echoed some of Paladino's concerns. Adding SLS and Resorts World will give Las Vegas almost 155,000 rooms.
"That's more than any other city in the world," Beynon said.
Kerkorian may increase MGM Resorts ownership
Less than two years after saying it was exploring the sale of its stake in MGM Resorts International, the private investment firm of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian said in a regulatory filing it might reverse course.
Los Angeles-based Tracinda Corp., which is the largest shareholder of the Strip casino giant with an 18.6 percent ownership stake, said in a 13-D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it might increase its ownership to 25 percent.
The announcement comes a little more than a year after Tracinda sold 20 million shares of MGM Resorts for $268 million.
A year earlier, Kerkorian said Tracinda might divest itself of its entire MGM Resorts stake.
Tracinda owns almost 91.2 million shares in the company that operates 10 Strip resorts — including the MGM Grand, Bellagio and The Mirage — and has a half-interest ownership in the CityCenter development.
The company also is the majority owner of the MGM Grand Macau and is building a second hotel-casino in the Cotai Strip region.
Wynn Resorts expresses interest in Toronto project
A Las Vegas-based gaming company has sent a letter to Toronto's city manager expressing its interest in building a luxury casino-resort.
"Much of the public debate on this issue has centered around a false choice between an outdated big-box slots model and no casino," Gamal Aziz, president and COO of Wynn Resorts Development, wrote in a two-page letter.
"I am writing you to make it clear that we would offer another option," Aziz wrote. "That is to create a luxury resort and spa experience that will confirm Toronto as a major global tourist and convention destination, one that will integrate seamlessly into the urban fabric of the city while standing out as an architectural asset."
Any project would include fine dining and casual restaurants, a five-star spa, hotel rooms with view of the Toronto skyline, and a convention center, according to the company.


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This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/645,935, filed on Jan. 25, 1991, now abandoned.
The invention relates generally to addressing of frames between local area networks, and more particularly to encapsulation of an address within a frame forwarded from a first local area network to a second local area network.
The following Applications for United States Patent are related to the present application, are assigned to the same assignee as the present application and are filed on even date with the present application:
Title: "Many to Few Group Address Translation Through a Network Bridge", filed by F. J. Backes, et al., law firm docket number PD91-0077;
Title: "Using a Multicast Address in a Local Area Network where the Local Area Network has Inadequate Multicast Addressing Capability", filed by R. J. Perlman, law firm docket number PD91-0138; and all disclosures of these related patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.
Local area networks, LANs, have been designed with many different addressing schemes. For example, the Ethernet LAN design, IEEE 802.3 standard, has 47 bits designated for multicast addresses for a total of approximately 140 trillion addresses.
In contrast, implementations of the token ring IEEE 802.5 standard provide only approximately 24 to approximately 31 separate addresses for multicast addresses, and these addresses are provided in the functional addressing defined by the IEEE 802.5 standard. The IEEE 802.5 standard provides 6 bytes, or 48 bits, for functional addressing, but chips implementing the standard first require a few of the bits to be set to a defined value, referred to as the Functional Address Indicator, and also require that only one bit of the remaining bits be set to "1", and the others be set to "0". The bits having the defined value give an indication that the rest of the bits indicate a "functional address", and the "rest of the bits" is only approximately 24 to 31 bits depending upon the implementation, and only one of these bits can be set.
It is common practice to forward frames from one LAN to another LAN by means of a bridge. Normally, the destination address field of a frame arriving at the bridge from a first LAN is copied into the destination address field of the frame transmitted by the bridge onto the second LAN. However, in the case of multicast addresses, in the event that the first LAN is an Ethernet supporting 140 trillion multicast addresses it is not possible to directly map to a token ring IEEE 802.5 address space of only approximately 24 to 31 addresses available for multicast purposes.
A solution to the mapping of multicast addresses between LANs of different size multicast address spaces has been suggested in U.S. Pat. No. 4,933,938, issued to D. B. Sheehy on Jun. 12, 1990. In the Sheehy patent a translation table is used to directly map the multicast addresses of the first LAN onto the multicast addresses of the second LAN.
However, there still remains the problem of some LANs such as Ethernet having approximately 140 trillion multicast addresses and other LANs such as the token ring IEEE 802.5 standard LAN having only approximately 24 to 31 multicast addresses in their functional address space. In bridging an Ethernet LAN to a token ring 802.5 LAN, much of the advantage of having many multicast addresses in Ethernet will be lost in the forwarding of frames to the token ring IEEE 802.5 standard LAN.
The invention provides a means to preserve the multicast address of a frame on a first communications system having a large multicast address space when the frame is forwarded onto a second communications system having a small multicast address space.
A connection apparatus is provided for connecting a first communications system with a second communications system. There is a means for receiving at least one first frame from said first communications system, said at least one first frame having a destination address field, said destination address field containing a desired destination address, and there is a means for forwarding said at least one first frame onto said second communications system as a second frame, and for writing a second destination address into a destination address field of said second frame. Also there is a means for writing said desired destination address into a predetermined field of said second frame, and a means for writing an indicator into said second frame, said indicator capable of being interpreted by a receiving station to mean that said desired destination address is written into said predetermined field of said second frame.
The frame may be forwarded onto a third communications system supporting the multicast address structure of the first communications system, and the multicast address is recovered from the representation of the multicast address written into the second frame and the multicast address is written into the address field of a third frame transmitted onto the third communications system.
Other and further aspects of the present invention will become apparent during the course of the following description and by reference to the accompanying drawings.
Referring now to the drawings, in which like numerals represent like parts in the several views:
FIG. 1 is a frame field diagram in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of multiple LANs connected by bridges and routers in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 3 is a block drawing comparing the OSI Standard Reference Model with IEEE and IEEE/ANSI LAN standards.
FIG. 4 is a standard frame field diagram for a MAC header.
FIG. 5 is a standard frame field diagram for a LLC header.
FIG. 6A is a LLC header in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 6B is a MAC header and a LLC header in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 7 is a LLC header in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 8 is a look-up table in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 9 is a look-up table in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
There is shown in FIG. 1 a field diagram of a frame having a self describing feature in accordance with the invention. The frame is transmitted onto an original LAN by an originating station and is received by one or more stations on either the same LAN or on other LANs connected to the original LAN.
Fields 100 are leading fields, and may, for example, depend upon the particular standard to which the LAN design complies. Field 102 is the destination address, referred to hereinafter as the DA field. Field 102, may in some embodiments of the invention, also comprise an indicator to information which must be interpreted in order for a station detecting the frame to know the intended destination address.
In an example, the frame was forwarded from a first LAN by a bridge to a second LAN, and the DA field in the first LAN contains a multicast address and the second LAN has a small multicast address capability so that there is no direct translation of the original multicast address into an address on the second LAN. In this example, the DA field 102 of the frame on the second LAN is an indicator to additional information stored in the frame on the second LAN, where the additional information enables the receiving station to recover the original multicast address. The additional information is contained in the frame in field 104. In another embodiment of the invention, field 120 is an additional indicator to field 104.
In another embodiment of the invention the first indicator may involve field 103. For example, field 103 may be the frame control field, FC field.
Additionally, FIG. 1 shows other fields 110, 112, 114 which are part of the frame but are not directly involved with the present invention. Also the source address field, SA field, 116 is shown, although the SA field is also not directly involved with the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the invention involves at least one, and alternatively several, indicators 102, 103, 120 to a field 104 holding information needed to recover the original multicast address. Any indicators utilized by the invention as well as the additional information held in field 104 may be referred to as a self describing feature of the frame for recovery of the original multicast address.
Turning now to FIG. 2, there is shown a representative system made of several local area networks, LANs. The LANs may be connected together by means of bridges to form an extended LAN, or by means of routers to form a wide area network.
LAN 130 is connected by bridge 132 to LAN 134. For example, LAN 130 may be an Ethernet LAN and or IEEE 802.3 LAN, while LAN 134 may be a token ring. LAN 134 may, for example, be an IEEE 802.5 token ring. Alternatively, LAN 134 may be an ANSI/IEEE FDDI token ring.
LAN 134 is connected by bridge 140 to LAN 142. LAN 142 is connected by bridge 144 to LAN 146. LAN 134 also is connected by bridge 150 to IAN 152. LAN 152 is connected by bridge 154 to LAN 156. LAN 156 is connected by router 160, over a telecommunications link 162, 164, and through router 166 to LAN 170. LAN 170 is connected by bridge 172 to LAN 174.
An extended LAN 180 is formed by the bridge connection of LANs 130, 134, 142, 146, 152, 156. Another extended LAN 182 is formed by bridge connected LANs 170, 174. A wide area network is formed by the router 160, 166 connection of extended LAN 180 to extended LAN 182.
The total system shown in FIG. 2 is simply representative of the complex networks which may be joined together in modern computer communications systems.
Transmission of frames between different LANs is facilitated by standards. For example, the IEEE 802.x series of standards defines a number of standard LANs. The IEEE 802.2 standard defines a Logical Link Control layer which is common to the various IEEE 802.x LANS, and is also common to the ANSI/IEEE FDDI token ring.
Turning now to FIG. 3, there is shown a comparison between the International Standards Organization ISO seven layer Reference Model for communications and the model layers defined by various IEEE and ANSI standard LANs. The IEEE 802.2 LLC, Logical Link Control, block 190 is part of the OSI level 2 Data Link block 192. Also included in the OSI Data Link block 192 is the Medium Access Control, MAC, portion of the IEEE 802.x standards, including the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet block 194, the IEEE 802.4 Token Passing Bus block 196, the IEEE 802.5 Token Ring block 198, and the IEEE/ANSI FDDI block 200. The commonalty of the IEEE 802.2 LLC standard for the specific LAN standards, blocks 194, 196, 198, and 200 is advantageously used by the present invention.
FIG. 4 shows a representative MAC header frame format of the type used to transmit information on a LAN, and to transmit frames between LANs. Only the destination address DA field 210, the source address field SA 212, and the information INFO 214 fields are shown. Each IEEE 802.x standard defines leading fields 216 and also defines trailing fields 218, and each standard may, for example have its own unique leading 216 and trailing 218 fields. Also, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet frame has an additional Length field 220 between the SA field 212 and the INFO field 214. The INFO field 214 is used to transmit information from a sending station to a receiving station.
Turning now to FIG. 5, there is shown an IEEE 802.2 LLC field structure. The field structure shown in FIG. 5 is common to the LAN standards shown in FIG. 3, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet 194, IEEE 802.4 Token Passing Bus 196, the IEEE 802.5 Token Ring 198, and the IEEE/ANSI FDDI token ring 200. The DSAP field 230 is the Destination Service Access Point field, The SSAP field 232 field is the Source Service Access Point field, the Control Field 234 follows the SSAP 232 field, and an optional Protocol Identifier field 236 may follow the Control Field 234. The condition for having a Protocol Identifier field is that the DSAP field have a value of SNAP SAP. The SNAP SAP value is the Sub Network Access Protocol value, and is a unique value defined in connection with the IEEE 802.2 LLC standard. For example, the SNAP SAP is a special SAP value assigned for the purpose of encapsulating a protocol type field in the LLC header, for example Protocol Identifier field 236. For example, the SNAP SAP value may be alternating 1's and 0's in the DSAP byte, field 230. In some exemplary embodiments it is also convenient for the SSAP field 232 to have the SNAP SAP value.
Fields 238 trail the Protocol Identifier field 236 when it is present, or trail the Control Field 234 when the Protocol Field 236 is absent. Fields 238 carry information for use by the LLC layer, or for transmission to higher layers in the OSI Reference model.
A first embodiment of the invention using encapsulation of the desired multicast address is shown in FIG. 6. Referring to FIG. 4, a destination address DA field 210 in the MAC header is chosen to indicate that a multicast address must be recovered from information held within the frame. For example, in the event that the frame is being forwarded onto an IEEE 802.5 token ring LAN the DA field 210 is chosen as one of the functional addresses, and this functional address is reserved to always indicate that a multicast address must be recovered from information stored within the frame. The multicast address may then be located either before the LLC header or after the LLC header.
in a second embodiment of the invention, the DA field 210 of the MAC header is chosen as the same functional address of the First Embodiment, however, referring once again to FIG. 6, the DSAP field 230 is chosen to equal the SNAP SAP value. The multicast address is then stored within field 240 immediately following the Protocol Identifier field 236.
In a third embodiment of the invention, the DA field 210 of the MAC header is chosen as the same functional address of the First Embodiment, but the DSAP value is chosen as a different SAP value. The Protocol Identifier field 236 is then absent, and the desired multicast address is stored in a field 242 immediately following the control field 234, as shown in FIG. 7.
In a fourth embodiment of the invention, a table look-up method is used to recover the desired multicast address in a local area network (LAN), where the LAN has inadequate multicast address ability. FIG. 8 illustrates the look-up table 260. The DA field 210 of the MAC header is chosen, as hereinabove, to contain a functional address. However, a specific value of a SAP is associated with each commonly used multicast address. The appropriate value of SAP is then placed in the DSAP field 230 of the LLC header. A station detecting this frame interprets the frame by first, recognizing from the address in the DA field 210 of the MAC header that information concerning a multicast address is contained within the frame; second, recognizing that the SAP value contained within the DSAP field 230 is an indicator 262 serving as an entry point to table 260 containing the multicast address as an entry 264; and third, using the SAP value read from the DSAP field 230 to enter the table and look up the desired multicast address, where the SAP value 266 corresponds to the multicast address 268. A list of SAP values are dedicated to the table 260, and each of the dedicated SAP values is an entry point into the table stored in the station. A table value corresponds to each entry point, and the table value contains the desired multicast address. The table must be created within the station. The table may, as a first example, be created by the station manufacturer when the station is manufactured. The table may, as a second example, be created by a systems manager by entering the appropriate corresponding SAP and multicast addresses. The table may, as a third example, be created remotely by information messages arriving over the LAN and received by the station.
In a fifth embodiment of the invention, a table look-up method similar to the method of the fourth embodiment is used. The table 260 is illustrated in FIG. 8. However, the DA field of the MAC header contains a broadcast address. For example, the broadcast address may be that all six bytes of an exemplary DA field are set to equal "1", to make 48 "1"s. Again, a dedicated SAP value is written into the DSAP field of the LLC header, and the dedicated SAP value is an entry 262, 266 into table 260 holding the desired multicast address 264, 268.
In a sixth embodiment of the invention, a table look-up method similar to the method of the fourth embodiment is used. However, the DSAP field of the LLC header is set equal to the SNAP SAP value, and the Protocol Identifier field 236 of FIG. 6 of the LLC header contains the entry to the table 260. The desired multicast address is stored as a value in the table at a location 268 corresponding to the identifier 266. Protocol Identifier field 236 is defined in the IEEE 802.5 standard as being 5 bytes long, where each byte is eight bits, for a total of 40 bits in the Protocol Identifier field. With a total of 40 bits, the Protocol Identifier field 236 may hold 2 to the 40'th power, or approximately 1.1 trillion different values, and so the space of this field is sufficiently large enough serve as an entry into a table, where the entry points to a multicast address stored in the table.
In an seventh embodiment of the invention, a frame control field 103 in FIG. 1 from the MAC header is used to indicate that the frame must be parsed and analyzed in order to determine the desired multicast address. This mechanism works in any LAN having a frame control field before the destination address DA field such as the IEEE 802.5 token ring or the ANSI/IEEE FDDI token ring. This embodiment has the disadvantage that the FC field has only one byte, that is eight bits, and it is not possible to have a central authority such as the International Standards Organization or the IEEE assign a unique value for indicating a self describing frame structure for holding a desired multicast address. Accordingly, if another person, or vendor, uses the same value of the FC field for a different purpose, then an interoperability problem will arise.
In an eighth embodiment of the invention, an unused bit, or an unused byte value, in the LLC Control field 234 of FIG. 5 is assigned to the purpose of indicating that the frame contains a multicast address. This embodiment is similar to the use of the Frame Control field from the MAC header, but this embodiment uses the LLC header. This LLC Control field 234 of the LLC header may be one or two bytes long. It is possible to have a value from the LLC Control field assigned, by a standards body such as the International Standards Organization, to a manufacturer for a particular purpose. For example, a particular value could be assigned for the purpose of this invention, to indicate that a multicast address is stored within the frame.
In a ninth embodiment of the invention two items in the frame are used to indicate that the frame contains a multicast address, and is shown in FIG. 6B. This embodiment is similar, but a further exemplary embodiment, to the fourth through eighth embodiments hereinabove. The first item is that the destination address, DA field, 102 of FIG. 1, 210 of FIG. 4 of the MAC header contains a special address. The special address may be, for example, a broadcast address, or may be, as a second example, a dedicated functional address. The second item is that a special indicator 120 of FIG. 1 such as, for example, the DSAP field of the LLC header 211, or, as a second example, the SSAP field of the LLC header 211, or for a third example, the frame control field of the LLC header 211, indicates that a multicast address is stored in the frame. This LLC header 211 is a special LLC header devoted to addressing. Additionally, a "real" LLC header 213 must also be stored in the frame to contain the usual LLC header values, protocol code points, etc., rather than addressing information.
In a tenth embodiment of the invention, the DA field 210 of the MAC header along with the SAP value in the DSAP field 230 informs the station that the frame must be further parsed in order to determine the type of frame. Once the type of frame is determined, then a table 270 in FIG. 9 associating frame type and multicast addresses is entered at frame type entry 272. The table provides an output giving the desired multicast address 274. For example, the frame may be a service advertising message as disclosed in U. S. Pat. No. 4,823,122 issued to Mann et al. on Apr. 18, 1989, and entitled "Local Area Network for Digital Data Processing System". Once the station determines that the frame is a service advertising message, the station looks up this frame type 276 in the table and the the associated multicast address 278 used by this type of frame. The table contains a list of multicast address 274, 278 for each type of frame 272, 276 recognized by the station.
In an eleventh embodiment of the invention the "type of frame" method as in the tenth embodiment is used, however, there is used any of the other methods of indicating that a multicast address is stored within the frame.
An advantage of using a chosen value of a SAP in the DSAP field 230 is that the International Standards Organization assigns values of SAPs for particular uses. Accordingly, a user, or a vendor, can have a unique value, or set of values, assigned to indicate a self describing frame holding a desired multicast address. No interoperability issue will arise with another vendor because the International Standards Organization will assign different values to other vendors for other purposes. Also, this advantage follows from using any other field for which a standards body will assign a particular value to a manufacturer, for example the LLC header Control field.
Use of the invention may be described with reference to FIG. 2. As an example, assume that a frame originates from station 250 on LAN 130, assume further that LAN 130 is an IEEE 802.3 ethernet with 140 trillion available multicast addresses. The frame is forwarded to LAN 134, and assume further that LAN 134 is an IEEE 802.5 token ring with only approximately 31 functional addresses which can be used for multicast addresses. Bridge 132 then utilizes one of the embodiments of the invention mentioned hereinabove in order to make the frame on LAN 134 self describing for the purpose of the desired multicast address.
Bridge 150 will forward the frame from LAN 134 to LAN 152. Assume that LAN 152 is an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet LAN. Bridge 150 will analyze the self describing frame in order to learn the desired multicast address, and will write the desired multicast address into the DA field 102 of the MAC header before transmitting the frame onto LAN 152.
Bridge 140 will forward the frame onto LAN 142. Assume that LAN 142 is an ANSI/IEEE FDDI LAN. Bridge 140 will analyze the self describing frame in order to learn the desired multicast address, and will write the desired multicast address into the DA field of the MAC header before transmitting the frame onto FDDI LAN 142. The FDDI standard may define multicast addresses differently from the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard of LAN 130, and bridge 140 will properly account for any such difference in writing a multicast address into DA field 102.
Bridge 154 will forward the frame onto LAN 156, and in the event that LAN 156 is an IEEE 802.5 Ethernet, then the multicast address in DA field 102 will not require modification by bridge 154.
Repeater 162 and repeater 166 will forward the frame to LAN 170, and in the event that LAN 170 is again an IEEE 802.5 token ring, the invention will once again be employed, this time by repeater 166, in order to make the frame on LAN 170 self describing.
Bridge 172 will forward the frame to LAN 174. Assume that LAN 174 is an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet. Bridge 172 will use the self describing feature of the frame on LAN 170, in accordance with the invention, in order to recover the desired multicast address and write the desired multicast address into the DA field 102 of the MAC header before transmitting the frame onto LAN 174. The multicast address, in this example, started from an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet LAN 130, passed through two IEEE 802.5 LANs, LAN 134 and LAN 170, and was recovered as the multicast address used on IEEE 802.3 Ethernet LAN 174.
It is to be understood that the above-described embodiments are simply illustrative of the of the principles of the invention. Various other modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art which will embody the principles of the invention and fall within the spirit and scope thereof.
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Switzerland is extremely protective of Liechtenstein, and he is extremely kind to her. In return, Liechtenstein is extremely grateful and kind to him for saving her. Although the two share a brotherly/sisterly love, technically they are not blood related, and that they can form a union through their countries.
According to the CD Drama : Hetalia Oyasumi series Vol. 7 of Liechtenstein and Switzerland, Switzerland can be heard calling Liechtenstein by a nickname " Liechten. " and it is also revealed that Liechtenstein sings and counts sheep for Switzerland whenever he comes home stressed and Switzerland does vice versa for her when she couldn't sleep.
Liechtenstein's adoptionEdit
After WWI, Liechtenstein became extremely poor to the point of starvation. Switzerland found her in the rain and took her in even though at that time he was also having a rough time with his economy.
Later on in the series, when Liechtenstein asked him why he helped her even though he was poor as well, he answered "It's my duty as a country." and that he revealed that once he laid his eyes on her, he could not leave her alone.
Though it is believed that Switzerland has a quite tsundere-like character around the people he cares for, still he shows he is loving and protecting of Liechtenstein.
The two characters rarely make appearances, and in episode 23 of the anime Hetalia: Axis Powers (anime) they make their debut together, acting out the first part of Liechtenstein's Journal of Swiss Dopiness, strip of the manga.
In the movie Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint it, White, Lichtenstein asks Switzerland if he is happy, to which he reluctantly responds that he is.
- Episode 23: Switzerland and Liechtenstein make their debut together for the first time, starting with her cutting her hair in order to look like her brother, being self-conscious about her chest when she was mistaken for a boy, and ending with Switzerland buying her a blue ribbon.
- Episode 24: Switzerland and Liechtenstein meet Austria at the supermarket, later they go to dinner together and when Switzerland takes care of her which causes Austria to remember his past with him.
- Episode 25: Liechtenstein gives Switzerland a pair of pink handmade pajamas (in the manga she mistakenly gives her own PJ's to him but he wears it anyways; so she wears his PJ's that she made).
- Episode 44: Switzerland decides to teach Liechtenstein self-defense. However, the lesson is interrupted when Liechtenstein cannot focus because of the cute pictures he draws for the lesson asking him to draw them later in a notebook.
- Episode 45: The past of Liechtenstein and Switzerland about how they met and how he took her in. Ending up with her asking Switzerland why he had taken her in despite his economic troubles.
- In volume 6 of the anime DVD both of their "Marukaite Chikyuu" were released.
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Why did the blonde tip toe near the medicine cabinet? Because she didn't want to wake the sleeping pills!!
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"When I first moved to New York and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more," claimed everyone's favourite fashionista Carrie Bradshaw in a Sex and the City episode. The irony of this statement did not go unnoticed, as the high-end fashion magazine has been repeatedly criticised for featuring Size 0 models and consequently contributing to the media's responsibility for the increasing number of eating disorders.
This week 19 Vogue editors released a joint statement saying that they would ban the use of models who look like they could be anorexic, as well as models under the age of 16. Amongst these editors was Anna Wintour, who heads up the US flagship edition and is often dubbed the "Ice Queen of Fashion", due to her being the most influential person in the industry.
Former super-model Tyra Banks – whose curvaceous figure caused her to lose out on jobs in her modelling days – has publicly commended the move, drawing even more attention to the issue. But the question remains as to whether haute couture is the arena with the most impact when it comes to idealising underweight women.
"The current inclination to embrace a female beauty standard that exalts thinness has devastating consequences on many adolescents' eating habits," said Vogue Italy's Franca Sozanni.
Despite this acknowledgement of the fashion industry's responsibility, editors and designers maintain that using smaller sizes is a financial decision, as they use a smaller amount of fabric. But a recent study has shown that brands which use models who resemble "real women" see a spike in their sales.
Ben Barry, a modelling CEO, said: "My study found that women increased their purchase intentions by more than 200 percent when the models in the mock ads were their size. In the subgroup over size 6, women increased their purchase intentions by a dramatic 300 percent when they saw curvier models. Conversely, when women saw models who didn't reflect their size, they decreased their purchase intentions by 60 percent, and women over size 6 dropped their purchase intentions by 76 percent."
Much has been said about the UK's troubling levels of obesity but eating disorders have received a lot less publicity, despite the fact that one in every 20 British women will develop unhealthy eating habits to try and achieve a slimmer figure.
In 2007, the British Fashion Council recommended that models be screened for eating disorders. This measure was never implemented, but even if it had been – are the aspirational women in Vogue wearing the £50,000 dresses really those who women think they should resemble?
It would be impossible to legislate against celebrities being too thin but magazines and newspapers aimed at women consistently run story after story about the body shape of anyone their paparazzi can snap in a bikini. They comment on the cellulite on their thighs, the protruding ribs or even - on some bizarre occasions - both. And we lap it up.
When Vogue used a picture of Michelle Obama on the front cover of the March 2009 US issue, their sales increased dramatically, proving two points which the media fails to understand: that the public is more likely to buy a magazine with a woman on the cover who has a more realistic figure, and that celebrities can successfully be part of a story without being objectified.
Until publications have a reason to stop using the criticism of women's bodies as a way of making money, young girls will not stop thinking that anything over a size 6 is fat. Having said that, a stance from Vogue is certainly a stepping stone; whether their intentions are honourable or a cry for publicity in an effort to boost their ever-declining circulation figures is irrelevant.
At last this issue is being talked about. It´s about time we found a healthy balance between obesity and underweight. The fashion and music industries are surely culpable for promoting distorted and damaging images of unreal people only for them to be held up as ideals to be emulated.


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This Polo image really turned my eyes the other way, I as a designer go by the phrase "Less is more", as most of my work is kept simple and clean.
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A couple months ago I was talking to my highly intelligent (and very pretty) lady friend on the subject of love and relationships.
We're both single and quite frankly, we prefer it over the more messy, hostile lifestyle that couples seem to endure. But then she took me by surprise and asked me a question that has been kicking my brain into submission for weeks and weeks.
Me: Yea, I enjoy being single… but it would be "nice" to be in a relationship. Ya know?
Her: Can I ask you something?
Me: Shoot.
Her: What do you want?
Me: Huh? In terms of what?
Her: In terms of relationships. Why do you want to be in a relationship? What is it that you want?
Now, I'm not gonna brag or anything but shit, I think that when it comes to relationships and love, I'm quite experienced. I can give relationship advice and sell it as if it were spoken by Jesus himself. If I were a World of Warcraft character my "Relationship Experience" would be like, 30 billion, bro!
This simple (almost elementary level) question paralyzed me. And at that moment I realized…Holy shit… what DO I want? Do I even know what I want? Or do I just arbitrarily want to be in a relationship? And as the minutes of silence creeped over the internet conversation it was clear: I was fucked.
I really didn't know. I felt stupid. NAY! I felt defeated! I felt like Bill at the end of Kill Bill Vol. 2, when Beatrix Kiddo surprised him with the 5 point palm exploding heart technique. So like always, I took my time, and thought about it. I thought about it constantly, repeating that same question over and over again.
" What do you want? What. Do. You. Want? Whadya want? What DO you want? WHAT THE FUCK DO I WANT?!"
In order to come up with my answer, I tried thinking about other answers people might/do use.
Top 5 Lame answers:
1. I just want somebody to hold.
2. I want to be myself.
3. I want someone to grow old with.
4. I want to be loved!
5. I like turtles.
I give up…Maybe I don't know for sure. Maybe I don't want anything at all and I just want a relationship for some arbitrary reason. Maybe I'm just a lonely-fuck who wants someone to fondle. Or maybe I just want someone to play video games with. Aghhhh, who knows? But here's what I've got so far…
For my entire life I've always been skilled at many things: drawing, photography, school work, etc. But I've never been the best at something. I was never the fastest runner, nor the greatest artist. I was just good. And that bothered me. In order to remedy that loss, I've been spending my entire life trying to collect more and more skills: cooking, learning how to dress well, and other things that would make me a better, more well rounded person.
But deep down, I knew something. Hell, I've always known it: I'm gonna be an amazing husband. All of the knowledge that I've acquired over the years happens to be things that would make me a very good husband. I would be the most patient and understanding husband. I would spontaneously cook my wife breakfast in bed, and send daisies to her office – so she can feel special. And she wouldn't have to be a model because I would already make her feel beautiful. All she needs to do is give me an opportunity.
The truth is, I have no real answer. The above paragraphs are merely words that I thought sounded kinda nice so I decided to add it, in order to add "emotional spice" into the mixture. But the question still remains: What do you want?


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Having lived for many years in southeast Asia, Christopher G. Moore returned to Vancouver where he published a novel set in Rangoon and the Burmese countryside, Waiting for the Lady (Subway Books, 2004 $38.95). It concerns part-time smuggler Sloan Walcott and his quest to deliver a camera to Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader who has long been held under house arrest by the junta in control of her country. The camera belonged to a Japanese reporter killed in a suspicious car crash. The camera contains a roll of film with an image of Suu Kyi in an automobile with a bullet hole in the rear window. Another image reveals a seductive woman with an unusual tattoo. The father of the deceased journalist has made Walcott promise to deliver the loaded camera to Suu Kyi. The cover of the book features the photo of Suu Kyi in the back seat of a vehicle with the bullet hole in the windshield.
It was Moore's 15th novel since His Lordship's Arsenal in 1985.
Faced with a bizarre ritual murder, a Vancouver judge takes matters into his own hands in His Lordships Arsenal (re-released Subway 2003 $19.95). The protagonist recounts his youth and education at the UBC Law School in the early 1950s when the Dean's office was a converted army officer's bedroom "in what looked like a working-class brothel", in Mary Bolert Hall. Matthew Borlock recounts his family's involvement in the international gun trade and connects this past with his investigation of a grisly double murder in Vancouver's run-down Delrose Hotel. One victim is found half-eaten by flames; the other has been tied to a cross.
Christopher G. Moore writes both literary fiction and thrillers. Having lived in Thailand for two decades, he is known internationally as the creator of a series featuring a Bangkok private investigator named Vincent Calvino.
Moore was born on July 8, 1946 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Educated at Oxford, he taught at UBC for ten years. "I first visited Vancouver in the sring of 1974 for an interview," he says. "Most of the interviewing occurred in the Faculty Club. Lawyers have this obsession about eating food. Whether you use your fingers, where you put cherry stones, whether you can tell which fork to use first, and whether you call a laundered piece of cloth a napkin or a serviette. I guess they liked the way I ate."
In Vancouver he was active in ACTRA and the Federation of B.C. Writers while producing radio plays such as Sticks and Pucks, set in the Vancouver Canucks' locker room, The Semi-Detached Barrister, set in the West End, and The Bamboo Pillar, set on Powell Street. He credits screenwriter and playwright Michael Mercer with teaching him the science of dealing with CBC staff changes, David Watmough with teaching the Zen of decision making, Phil Savath and Rich Drew for teaching that the ancestral chart of independent producers begins with the shark, and playwright Tom Cone (whom he never knew personally) for teaching that "to get noticed in Vancouver you should move to New York."
Moore moved to New York, then relocated to southeast Asia. "When I think of Vancouver I think of tree-lined streets, stucco houses, well-maintained gardens, mountains, forest and the sea. The sort of place which makes people from Toronto, especially in the winter, feel very insecure. Everything works, is swept, polished and healthy. And when you mention the Times people assume you mean London and not New York; an intellectual trait which deserves full marks... My favourite Vancouver literary location is Wreck Beach and the abandoned World War II gun towers. How many universities have nude beaches protected by high rise bunkers on their doorstep?"
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