lick

2004-02-13T01:27:00.000-08:00

this week in rock in los angeles

tonight
berlin, the canyon
lee rocker, cozy's
kanye west, house of blues
tony bennet, disney concert hall
mort sahl w/ mare winningham, mccabes

saturday 2/14
r. kelly, la entertainment center
deep purple with thin lizzy, wiltern
billy vera and the beaters, cozy's
kanye west, key club

sunday 2/15
busta w/ lil kim, la entertainment center
snoop dogg's playas ball, key club
the spazmatics, dragonfly
swell, spaceland

monday 2/16
metal shop, viper room

tuesday 2/17
michael penn, largo
cannibal corpse, key club
melissa etheridge, house of blues

wednesday 2/18
stephen pearcy, cat club
melissa etheridge, house of blues

thursday 2/19
star fuckers, cat club
nina hagen, key club
supersuckers w/ the hangmen, roxy
melissa etheridge, house of blues

la blogs + joz joz joz + kate sullivan

2004-02-01T17:52:00.000-08:00

lick is up

im exhausted

i'll write more about it later

http://www.lickmagazine.com/

2004-01-25T10:03:00.000-08:00

there was problems getting the domain name. it was expensive to buy it from the previous owner.

then he didnt want to go through on his side of the bargain.

but now its there thanks to mr os. defender of all that is good.

yahweh bless you Os.

2004-01-20T21:09:00.000-08:00

dear ladies of the internet,

welcome to Lick.

lick is and will be an online magazine written exclusively by women and girls who like to write.

lick is a place for one to write things that they wouldn't normally write in their personal websites, blogs, or online diaries.

lick is a place to be anonymous or public - it's up to you.

lick will be a monthly online zine with weekly updates.

count on dozens of women to write each month for Lick and don't be surprised if it turns into hundreds.

why not.

are there 100 women who have something of interest to say in a given month?

are there 100 stories to tell?

and if so, why couldn't there be 1 place for those stories written by those women?

well there could be, and there will be

and it will happen on the Internet

and it will fucking rock.

the question is, will you be part of it.

the question is, what will you get to say.

wanna know why there wont be any men writing for it?

because.

if i had to do it all over again id call this

because

but i like Lick better.

it's sexier.

and this will be a sexy project.

will it be sexy so i can get turned on?

it will be sexy so everyone can get turned on.

and it will rock.

it will rock not so i can rock out to it

but so everyone can rock out to it.

and it will discuss drugs

why will it discuss drugs

because hardly anyone talks about them like adults.

this url and this page isn't Lick. this is the dirty ugly behind the scenes blog of Lick. there will be a Lick website which will be the zine, and there will be a real blog where the contributors can participate on a daily basis. this is the behind the scenes and making of Lick.

there are several assignments on the table that you as a contributor can either partake in or pass on.

so far we have Things About Me that My Mother Would Cry About if She Knew

we also have New Years Resolutions

and we have Secrets.

email me at xxxtonyxxx at hotmaildotcom with any or all of the above three assignments and include your fake name.

send me a separate email for each assignment.

if you would like your blog to be linked on the right hand side, tell me, and i will put you up there.

most people understand what is going on here and want to be part of that list.

hopefully you are one of those people.

not everything that goes in Lick will have to be part of an assignment. in fact most of what will be in there will be just plain old entries that you would have posted in your own blog but felt like you couldn't, or shouldn't, because either you didn't want your readers to think a certain way about you, or you didn't want your parents to read, or whatever. none of that matters.

what matters is you wrote it down and you want someone - or in this case - lots of people - to read it.

to me, the worst thing that could happen is that something would go unwritten because of the doubts in our head stopping us from being creative and communicative.

what if JD Salinger had never written Catcher in the Rye because he didn't want his parents to get their feelings hurt about sending him to the schools that they sent him to?

what if Shakespeare didn't write poems because all his friends thought that poems were for girls to write?

and what if you don't write because you're afraid that you're not good enough, or smart enough, or have something interesting to say?

we all have interesting things to say.

and sometimes the most mundane observations will touch people in positive ways that you never imagined.

so i say get it out there.

it will only make room for something new.

and then get that out there too.

Lick will be the sanctuary for ideas to be free to be themselves. Where doubt loses with each new post.

these are the ideas and stories that don't get told

get told.

the assignments are just ways to get stuff out when you don't have any ideas right then.

here's this week's assignment

have an Instant Messenger chat with a blogger that you respect. tell them that it is an interview for an online zine. send them this url if you want, but assure them that this isn't what the zine will look like.

ask them some simple questions, and ask some risky questions.

see if you can ask them at least one question regarding sex drugs and rock.

even if you're not 100% into any of these topics, that's ok, but act as if you are.

later you can tell them that you weren't.

the interview isn't about your judgments, it's about your interviewees responses.

when you're done, paste it into a word processing program and change your screen name to something different and change your interviewees screen name into something different.

if you're not sure how to do it, email it to me with the desired changes and i will do it for you.

include the url of your person's blog and be sure to thank them on my behalf.

Lick will officially launch in less than two weeks during halftime of the Super Bowl.

perhaps you'll want to be part of it.

2004-01-17T01:32:00.000-08:00

nicole: you're idle, perfect.
nicole: here ya go.

nicole: slobbery. wetter than the wettest amount of wetness and out of the blue like. completely forgiveable tactics.

nicole: i roll over on my back and stretch. he yawns like a coyote, announcing how discouraged he feels that his need to take a piss woke him out of his wet dream. he licks his left nut, licks my left leg and rubs his lipstick all over my duvet cover.

nicole: i kick him off the bed.
gently.

nicole: because he woke me out of mine.

nicole: i wiggle my toes ...one of em feels broken. i shuffle my dog to the balcony and down the steps to the parking lot. i bark the usual morning commands that'll keep him step in step with me.

nicole: stupid stupid me.

c'momonnnnn t-mo. t-mo c'mmerrree.
t-mo !whhaat thhhee fuck.

nicole: lakjfl;ka'l;teeaaammmmmmm-o! i swear to fucking god.. cocksucking stubborn jla;lsja; piece of shit jew; GETHEFUCKOVERHEREGODAMNIT!

nicole: his tail just wags. ..he's a loyal bastard. but he must feel by heart that he can't behave. ..he keeps a playful distance.

nicole: he must be a taurus too.
nicole: no errors.
nicole: except cannot behave instead of can't behave

nicole: can't reread gotta go to bed.
nicole: dick
nicole signed off at 1:02:02 AM.

blogging from baghdad + i'll have several black friendsters

2004-01-11T21:18:00.000-08:00

everything is coming along perfectly. in fact i cant believe how perfect it will all be.

the first theme for the first issue of Lick has been agreed upon.

the theme is Secrets.

the beauty of anonyminity is that one can tell as many secrets as one chooses and all will be well.

some of you know me.

no offense, but im not interested in discovering the secrets of my friends.

if you feel the same way, may i recommend that you sign up for a new Hotmail or Yahoo email address and send me your secrets.

which secrets are we looking for?

being that its the first issue, lets start with the deepest and the darkest please.

thank you.

i'll start with a Lick secret, just for you.

Lick will officially launch at halftime

of the super bowl.

so get your shit together, get your shit written, and get your shit in.

send it to xxxtonyxxx@hotmail.com

tell your friends.

women of all ages and political backgrounds are welcomed.

no dudes.

if youre not comfortable revealing your secrets, try with Things My Mom Would Cry About Me if She Only Knew.

and/or your new years resolutions.

its not too late.

its never too late to start kicking ass.

tell your best friends.

2004-01-05T22:46:00.000-08:00

to everyone who has submitted their New Years Resolutions to xxxtonyxxx at hotmail dot com, thank you. for everyone who has sent in their Things My Mom Would Cry About if she Knew About Me to that email address, thank you.

for some of you, thank you very much.

for those of you who havent.

hurry up.

do it.

Lick is going to be up and out and ta da before you know it.

it could happen like a theif in the night.

when youre least expecting it.

and let me tell you this, youre going to want to be in that number.

lick number one.

theres going to be three sections in lick

sex

drugs

rock

write about something in one of those catagories.

tell the truth.

pretend nobody you know will read it.

odds are they wont.

say something that is tough for you to say.

then say something thats easy for you to say.

then say something thats not true at all.

everythings just an excercise.

specially on the web.

even though it is, quit pretending that everything you write is so precious.

if you think youre writing from the heart write from the left ventracle.

then the right ventracle.

dont look up how to spell ventracle

just write from there

from the darkness of that chamber

whats there

is it shiny

howd it get shiny

write the way youd like to see on the screen the next time you powered up your shit box.

write how youd write if you were courageous and reckless

write how youd write before it all started

lick is a place to take off

2003-12-30T21:16:00.000-08:00

do you know we're about five years away from the first woman president of the usa?

we could be.

i think thats pretty interesting.

i also like that the dems have two black presidential candidates, and one who isnt all that bad.

to me those are three pretty big things.

one of the nice things about blogs is that you can determine what the current events are.

you can write about what theyre talking about on tv or about whats in us magazine

or you can write about something you havent seen on tv

and what theyve never written about in us

i cant believe that incredible line up, by the way.

there will be several other people who will hopefully say yes, but thats a mighty strong foundation right there.

a new level of overkill.

i hope everyone has a great new years eve.

if you would like to send in your new years resolutions, now is a great time.

just email xxxtonyxxx at hotmail dot com

2003-12-27T13:20:00.000-08:00

i dont think many of you know how good this thing is going to be. when i first started Lick back in the olden days no one had blogs no one had live journals no one read eachs others shit on the web. there was barely even a web. friggin html 2.0 had barely been around the block.

now there are not only lots of blogs but lots of good blogs. lots of good writers. lots of good ideas.

people have already done their thing for a little while. they know whats up. they know whats missing.

write whats missing in Lick.

write it in your own thing too if you want, but take it up another level for Lick.

if the people in your comments dont really like it when you talk about sex or politics or religeon on your blog, or if your mom reads it, or if your job reads it, write it in Lick.

if youre cheating on your lovah, if youre secretly digging justin timberlake, if youre silently loving the OC, tell us why.

you have the blanket of secrecy here.

nobody will know your name.

if you think people will know you by your style, write in all lowercase. only paragraph every ten sentences. most people are dullards. kurt vonnegut wrote 25 books and that one graduation speech about "always wear sunscreen... live in new york once in your life..." they attributed to him even though he would never say anything like that.

write about your life. write about your dreams. write about your friends.

you think i can write about my friends on my blog? youre crazy. and i have Great friends. write about your friends.

write something true that if your mom found out would make her cry.

lord knows i have a few of those tales. not too many, but the one im thinking of now would make for a great lick entry.

wanna start smaller? tell me about a great new cd you got for christmas. tell me about a movie you saw. tell me about a blog you read that isnt written by a friend of yours. or if you must, tell me how much you love your best friend.

you can put your real name on items that you want to put your real name on, fyi.

you can write lots of things if you want.

you can write a haiku if you choose.

you can do anything.

you can do nothing.

i like pictures. i like pictures of city garbage cans. "keep memphis clean" signs on garbage cans. take pictures, upload them somewhere, like on Buzznet, and email me the link.

dont email the pictures. my mailbox is a nightmare.

try not to email Word documents. again, my mailbox is a nightmare. copy & paste into the body of your email body.

tell me your new years resolutions.

eventually we'll get to the rest of your secrets.

Lick will be the shit, because of you

not me.

2003-12-25T09:27:00.000-08:00

today is christmas. im sitting in front of the imac of a pretty girl. ive been in her bed for the last 12 hours. its now 9:27am.

im not sick. shes not here any more. shes on an airplane ride to the east coast. it's raining outside.

although imacs are cute, supercute, i dont like writing on them.

by the way, this isnt lick. this is behind the scenes of lick.

trust me, when lick launches you'll know. it will be beautiful and big and thick and you barely will even see my name anywhere. which apparently some of you want.

i dont mind controversy. i dont mind haters. i dont mind people asking me questions. but i do mind people doubting me and questioning me. big difference there.

i want this to be an all girls thing because i want it to be an all girls thing. period.

nothing up my sleeve.

nothing has ever been up my sleeve for as long as youve "known" me, which is why my approval rating on this thing is in the high 90s.

people trust me because they should.

i dont get a shitton of hits on the blogoshpere, but i get enough, and i could use those powers in evil ways, but i never have becasue thats not my style.

whatever "powers" i have, i have typically tried to use to turn on people to other writers.

who writes 2-3 times a day and puts 3-4 links at the bottom of each post like i do? very few. i dont do that to be any damn saint i do that because i appreciate the good that is happening on the blogosphere and i think its insane that some of the people who i link to average 12-50 hits a day and i average 1,000.

on one level lick is speaking to that imbalance.

on another level i think people will write differently when the can write anonomosly or however the fuck you spell it.

i know i will write differently when i can write anonomously. i will say stuff about my job, i will say stuff about my feelings, and you know what i will even say stuff about my real sex life. get 30-40 people writing honestly and freely without the chains of their own names and youve got something that you do not see on the web right now.

and that should be celebrated and anticipated, and not doubted nor rejected.

i havent yet figured out all of my new years resolutions but one of them will be that i will stop the insane belief that everyone will understand me and my motives and i will stop assuming that everyone will like what i do just because im me and i have a pretty good track record.

in 2004 i will just do what i do and i will do a better job of ignorning those who doubt me, and instead focusing my energies on those who support me.

not everyone is gonna get it.

todays jesus's birthday. not everyone got him, and im nowhere near as cool as he is. peter "the rock" dissed him three times before the cock crowed. phillip, right before jesus was about to die said before you die, can you "show us the father." and jesus looked at him and said wtf?

so tony baloney full of macaroni shouldnt assume that no one is gonna diss him three times before the cock crows either.

thats what is important about the good book.

thats whats important about the story of jesus.

thats what we should think about during christmas.

thats what i think about anyways.

i hope you all have a merry christmas.

i will.

2003-12-23T01:50:00.000-08:00

katie hall has problems with Lick.

well it's about damn time!

Is anyone besides me turning down Tony's offer to pimp the blog senoritas out on his new site, Lick?

first of all, no.

nobody has said no to this besides you.

secondly, just cuz im black you gotta call me a pimp?

its like that now?

jk.

Likely he had good intentions but it feels icky and sleazebally to me. Why write on a site he runs rather than your own?

my intentions are not only good, but theyre great. and theres nothing icky nor sleazebally about wanting to be part of something with a lot of people who i respect, and people who i wouldnt have normally had the chance to work with.

whats icky is distrusting someone who allegedly has good intentions. either believe that that person is being as genuine and truthful as hes been publicly for years, or dont. but dont say one thing and then in the same sentence say something completely opposite.

Are you really writing that many snazzy blog entries during the day that you can diddle them away for his jollies?

everyone can write a little more. and most people, especially people who Like to write appreciate the opportunity to write to a different and/or broader audience. and most people need a reason to write more.

consider this your reason.

as for my jollies

i dare you to write something that would appeal to my jollies.

i read and read and read every damn day, for hours, and maybe its cuz im 110 years old, but there are very very few writers who can quickly or easilly find their way to my jollies.

maybe its because people continue to act as if im just like the lowest common denominator of their fears.

honey, im about sex, drugs And rock.

and you dont even want to get me started about my number one jollie which is none of those.

Sure, Gawker and associated web dignitaries could very well link it and send mad readers a stampeding. That is cool.

excuse me, who? ive done the busblog for over two years now. ive had my website longer than that. the first project i ever did on my own was the original Lick, which, it so happens, was also primarilly written by women.

Gawker has never linked me even once.

Gawker the last time i checked was about celebrity gossip. i know im hot, but do i look like cameron diaz?

mad readers will come a stampeding because it will be a worthwhile read, not because of any associated web dignitaries. of course there will be spikes but you keep those people by having consistant quality and surprises. people will come back because theyre getting something better than if they click to somewhere else. so fuck anything other than quality.

But most likely, Tony will be the only one mentioned and discussed for his genius of organizing a bunch of amazing females to churn out his bread and butter.

i love when people see into the future and all they chose to see is negative spoiling it for positive. on one hand people are saying nice things about me in the future but on the other hand the spotlight remains on me and me alone.

not even hugh hefner gets the only attention when surrounded by tons of women - and hes hugh hefner!

are you saying that the work of 30-40 completely different women writers cant compete with me? who exactly are you trying to insult with that sort of talk?

would it have been better in your opinion if i would have made it a boys club?

and the busblog will obviously remain my "bread and butter".

(who the hell churns out bread?!?!)

The writers are by no means floozies but the comparison pretty much makes my point for me. Ya dig?

uh, no.

are you comparing Lick writers with floozies? are you comparing bread and butter? what exactly are you comparing that pretty much makes your point for you?

and if they were floozies, are you saying that floozies shouldnt be allowed to write?

floozist!

Write for yourself or join a group blog,

this is a group blog, basically. its a group of people writing. and while also writing among a vast web site, they will do it on a blog. as a group. and individually. its like a super group blog.

the difference is, this one hasnt even seen the light of day yet and is already being judged by you

and the other difference is this one will get read.

but maybe not one masterminded by webfamous sexchickman who only invited females to tell their sordid tales.

how many times do i have to be punished for having a mastermind, for being webfamous, or for wearing tshirts that say sexchickman?

the donnas only invited females and they sound better because of it

and ive said repeatedly that the writers can write about anything that they want to write about including participating in the very first group assignment which is New Years Resolutions, hardly sordid

unless they are.

and since i said write whatever you want, if they become sordid who am i to judge?

who the fuck is doing anything decently sordid nowadays anyway.

like these pithy complaints i bet most of the planet lives boring

unsordid

predictable cookiecutter

mundane lives.

one of the goals of Lick is to attract people who actually live life

have them write it down

and email it to my sexdrugsrock ass

and if some motherfucker wants to flow you some paypal because of it

or if you end up writing a bunch more this year because of it

or if someone gets a smile on their face because you wrote something good

or if traffic gets flowed to your personal site

or if you get to be part of something bigger than just lil old you

then this little thing would have been worth it.

i appreciate your opinion

next time allow me the courtesy of making something first before you throw your tomato.

and that goes for your pouty friend too.

2003-12-23T01:15:00.000-08:00

as you can see on the right, the list just gets longer with each day.

theres power in numbers.

my girl jeanine sent in a haiku, besty sent in her wish list for next year, and there were multiple right ons regarding the project from all over the country.

the first assignment is simple.

email in your new years resolutions.

im hoping to get at least 50 before the begining of the year, which is in 8 days. but none of this is about quantity, its the internet, its all about quality.

two thousand and four and what do you want to do with yourself

no ones gonna do it for you

(for nothin)

so what will next year have for you.

this year im most proud of the fact that i switched over to diet sodas and it stuck.

lost maybe 7-8 pounds right there.

next year i want to be proud of something slightly more important.

is that so insane?

one thing i want to do is make something on the internet that isnt there right now.

marc brown figured out a way to put poop on websites.

if only i could think in such simple ways.