I just couldn’t make myself write a post this weekend. I wanted to, oh yes. I had a bunch of links hanging out as shortcuts on my desktop. I was a-thinkin’ “god damn, look at all that content! This will be a post to remember!” Unfortunately, somewhere between the clicking the “Write” button and writing this post-to-remember, I became disenchanted. I thought to myself, “why should I bother? No one goes to gonad.org. Why waste my time?!”
Fortunately, I now think I was wrong.
You may recall my post on the Evangenitals (well, I recall it at least). Well, Juli Crockett (or is that Julio? My attempt at stalking didn’t provide much other than the fact that Juli(o) is female. I don’t know any girls named Julio, but then again..) from the band was nice enough to visit and comment on the post. This strikes me as an important milestone. Never before has any damn thing ever linked on this site actually drawn the attention of whoever/whatever it was linked to. Well, I guess that’s not entirely true… I think the dude from Wacky Weasel World posted a comment in the old shoutbox since I probably sent a lot of confused vistors to his site from here with our “we suck so bad, we were gonna steal the tagline from wackyweaselworld.com” tagline 
Although, they techincally no longer have a tagline (nor do we!), so that makes little sense… ANYWAY!
I know neither the Evangenitals nor Juli are big stars, or anyone I should be getting overly excited over, but I think this is exactly what I’ve really wanted gonad.org to be about. So much of the internet is churned out of crazy stories and unique ideas, all backed by the drive, determination or boredom of so many interesting people. And every piece of it is somehow interconnected and related, and most importantly it has to be shared. The good part is learning out what those links are–figuring out just how everything is related.
I don’t think having this ideal as a goal for gonad.org is far fetched. I think its easy to do: just let people tell you what they like, what they found funny, what pisses them off, but I think the important part is that these opinions get back to the source! Not criticism, constructive or otherwise, but just an indication that one person read what you wrote, or heard what you played, or saw what you made. Just a head nod to confirm what you put your efforts into meant something to someone.
So, yeah, I’m nuts.
Although it seems a bit sad that I’m writing a post on, uh, comments from another post.. I might as well continue with more of the same!
Also featured in the comments of this Evangenitals post that I’ve only mentioned like 65 times, is a “stimulating” comment from Chris Blais from the band Beautiful Mess. He was nice enough to plug the Evangenitals’ CD “We Are The Evangenitals” which can be bought at CD Baby. The site also features streaming clips of all of the tracks on the album (track 3 is a great cover of “Hey Ya” by Outkast, retitled “Hey Ya’ll” appropriately).
Be sure to also check out Beautiful Mess on MySpace. I really dig their song “Cigarettes.”
(And to think I wanted to keep this short and sweet..)
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yes, whilst i may not be famous…. there was this crazy run i had in the press because of my connection to the film Million Dollar Baby. for all the potential stalkers out there, it is interesting to note that when one Google’s “Juli Crockett”… ALL of those mentions are ME. yes indeed. I was an undefeated professional boxer, rumored to be the model for the character of Maggie Fitzgerald in million dollar baby. yes indeed. I am an accomplished playwright and theater director, have acted in some random poo, and belong to the CalArts Alumni Board of Directors. Tra-laa! yes, I write a column for getunderground.com under the cyber-land handle of “juliachrista”… and yes, I have posted some horribly dirty ditties over at the Stile Project Forum. I work for a sex toy company. I live up to my knees in smut. i have intra-web ears and eyes that somehow notify me whenever random websites happen to mention an inch of my business. i fucking love the internet. i fucking hate the internet. i’m so happy to have found you and made your day. that dude from a beautiful mess is one of the reasons why i love the internet. connecting random peoples from all over the globe. it takes a village to raise a single voice against the big hoorah. it is so hot in los angeles right now i can barely keep my lungs from turning to sand. god bless you, sir. god bless you!
xoxox
juli
(julio is the nickname of my cowboy alter-ego, by the by. one tough mothasucka, my friend)
perhaps I spoke too soon.. you’re like 93/95th famous.
when I google you there’s already a link to here on the second page of results.. a perfect opportunity for me to dispense disinformation. I could even create an alternate Juli to steal away some of your glory. I’ve wasted time on less worthwhile things than that.
though, what saddens me is when I google myself (”Justin Kraft” for all you Juli stalkers that accidentally found your way here).. not only did I play tennis in 2001, but I rebuild pianos, cycled in 2005, wrestled from 96 through 98.. not to mention my football spurt in Pennsylvania! and that love poem? yup, it’s.. absolutely not mine. soo.. yeah, none of those are me.
the only real results are a couple weird forum posts on overly geeky topics, and a couple guitar and bass tabs I wrote many moons ago (some of which I am slightly ashamed of, I might add).. even searching using “gonadgoat” which I’ve used forever for.. things, I get a few links to gonad.org and a bunch of outdated SETI@home stats.. whoopty-friggin-doo!
back on the subject of disinformation.. I might as well do the same for myself. I could just slip in tidbits around the internet to make my perceived existance just *that* much more interesting:
“In 1980, Justin Kraft scaled Everest side by side with Reinhold Messner! Their only companion, a trusty yak named Mamu. Kraft was quoted as saying, ‘On the cold nights, we would weave Reinhold’s beard hair into warm blankets. I enjoyed the scent.’ Later, Kraft founded Greeland and won the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and most importantly ecnomics, whiched earned him the friendship of life-long companion Alan Greenspan. When questioned of the occurance, Greenspan gave a full-toothed grin and replied, ‘He makes a damn good porkchop!’”
personally, I think that rendition is more plausible than my omnipresent, hyper-athletic persona the internet projects. then again, maybe I just need to get a less common name (though, I never considered it common, hmm). oh well.
I envy your life of sex toys, smut, and theater.. but such is not my life. I guess I’ll just have to return next to Alan Greenspan’s side.. on my couch covered with an afgan crocheted from Messner’s chin fur.. and admire my display case of Nobel Prizes.. such is my lowly existance.
ps: I’m glad you, being the only person that actually comes to this website (that’s right you other fuckers that arn’t here reading this! I don’t care if I have no content.. the potential for content should draw you in!!!!), are actually interesting. also, I hope your lungs do not turn to sand.
i read this justin, i love you.
you don’t love me enough to capitalize!
I’m the Justin Kraft that rebuilds pianos, or at least I used to. Now I teach physics. I’ve always wanted to meet myself.
Yikes.. I’m sort of ashamed that I didn’t tidy up the site, or something equally ridiculous. I would hate for another Justin Kraft to look down on the nothing that is gonad.org
You know.. I almost decided to majored in physics in college, but I’m glad I didn’t. It turns out that combining calculus and physics isn’t quite my forte.
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