The guess my birthday game.

Here’s a selection of interesting people who share my birthday.


1. 1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
2. 1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
3. 1924 - Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
4. 1928 - Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
5. 1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
6. 1930 - James Baker, American politician
7. 1937 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
8. 1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
9. 1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
10. 1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
11. 1955 - Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
12. 1966 - Too $hort, American rapper
13. 1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
14. 1960 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
15. 1960 - Walter Zenga, Italian footballer
16. 1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
17. 1972 - Violent J, Insane Clown Posse
18. 1974 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
19. 1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress

Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on the person, a number of interesting people also died on my birthday, here’s a selection.


20. 1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
21. 1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
22. 1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
23. 1853 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
24. 1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
25. 1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
26. 1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
27. 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)
28. 1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
29. 1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
30. 1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
31. 1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
32. 1975 - Tom Donahue, American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio) (b. 1928)
33. 1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
34. 1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
35. 1992 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)
36. 1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
37. 1993 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
38. 1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
39. 1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
40. 1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)


Now see if you can guess my birthday, I just need the day and the month but you can get special extra points if you guess the year as well.Remember I’m trusting you not to cheat by looking in my profile.

Liberty, Fraternity, Equality.

It seems to me (the rant from hell begins sedately enough) that Nikolas Sarkasky (Frances president elect) is little more than a facist pig, but don't get me wrong this is fascism with a small ef. It seems to me (a phrase that once sounded so sedate and polite now brisstles with rage) that he has a pathological aversion to anything even slightly left wing, which apparantly includes strikers, immigrants, students, and of course anyone who dares to take part in a protest unless of course that protest is protesting something left wing or something in one of the previously mentioned 'left wing' catogries. People say that he's a modernist, but it seems to me that if you want to progress then you build on the past, you don't try and destroy it and Sarkosky has publically stated his wish to destroy the legacy of 1960's student radicalism. He wants France to be able to compete in the world market (OK cool man, but please put down the gun, i say in my finest Parisian accent) so he wants to get rid of the 30 hour working week, fair enough some might say, but do you think he's going to put a limit on it, or do you think he's more likely to let employers set whatever hours they like without any legislative protection for the workers because of course protecting the workers from abuse isn't cost effective, and of course longer hours mean greater productiveness for the average company about town (town in this case being the global market place) If by chance these hours are just the other side proper and good and someone falls asleep because they don't have enough time to get a decent nights sleep then just dock their hours and make them stay longer to make up the time, but wait a second the money i gave them (the worker) after i docked their (still the worker) hours was a lot less than what i gave them before i docked their hours, hmmmmm that gives me an cunning idea maybe i should just pay them less then i get to keep more money and they work longer to earn the same as they were earning before, and i get more money, and they fall asleep more and and more and i pay them less and less and keep more and more for myself and pretty soon i'm not paying them anything at all, and now we're really competing i mean we're going great guns those Yanks better watch out cos there's a new cat in town (town being the global market place) and the best thing of all is that if anyone commplains then you can just call them a Communist traitor, and who ever listens to them i mean come on man this ain't Russia 19 something something cos i didn't do that well in history (but who needs history thats like so yesterday), i mean what are you gonna do send me to the work camp! Ha Ha Ha Haaaaa.

In my honour, moi?

thank you Katie & Da Katz
and www.imagegenerator.net

correction 3

In reference to my post intitled 'Well anyway....................................................'
I also stated that these labels are good thing when I should have said that they are rubbish. The only reason I thought they were good was because I thought that they would allow someone clicking on one of them to go to a list of all the bloggers who have labeled their posts with that, but all they actually do is go to another post in the same blog with the same label, so really they just work as an index, but really what they should have done was just have an indexing button that you can install on your blog, like they have a news thingy that you can install it would be much better that way, and you should be able to link your index to indexes on all the other blogs that have them, this has gone a bit out of the realms of corrections hasn’t it.

NFNF

Some people say, 'never forgive never forget', others are more liniant with the world and they can forgive, but they never forget, but imagine if you do it the other way round so you forget but you never forgive, so you go around being angry, and holding grudges against people that you can't remember!

Correction 2

Concerning my post intitled 'Midterm ma? maaa?..... something begining with a M signifying boredom.'

Though I was correct to say that the Labour party’s recent thrashing in the local elections was no where near as bad as had been predicted it was still a thrashing and a thrashings a thrashing a thrashings a thrashing, what’s more it has also meant that they have lost power in Scotland, where most of the party’s leadership seems to come from. The party replacing them is the Scottish National Party, commonly referred to as the SNP, the interesting thing about this is that they want to break Scotland away from the rest of the UK, great I say maybe this’ll mean we can send back our Scottish politicians like Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and Jack Straw, not that this is likely to happen as they have proportional representation in Scotland, and though the SNP got more votes than the other parties they did not get a majority of all votes and thus they will have to rule in coalition, and none of the other parties want that idea to even be on the tables. phhhhhhaaaaiaa aphhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa thats proportional representation for you, no no no say what you like about it but for ruling a country there's nothing quite like good old semi-sonic, semi-detached, semi-democracy. Just like they have in the good old United K.

More boredom drones from a music obsessive (part 1)

Favourite bands of mine in terms of the amount of albums I have of theirs:

Studio albums only.

All

Marilyn Manson [ 5 + 3 EP’s, 1 Collection/DVD, and 4 bootlegs ]

Slipknot [3]

Amen [3]

Akercocke [3]

Nine Inch Nails [5+ 1 EP]

American Head Charge [2]

Above 4

David Bowie [13 + 1 DVD]

Marilyn Manson [ 5 + 3 EP’s, 1 Collection, and 4 bootlegs ]

Nine Inch Nails [4 + 1 EP]

4 and under

Rage Against the Machine [3]

Akercocke [3]

Amen [3]

Ministry [3]

The Clash [3]

Napalm Death [3]

Ash [3]

The Electric Hellfire Club [2 + 1 Collection]

Darkthrone [2]

Pitchshifter [2]

Nirvana [2]

Fear Factory [2 + 1 Collection]

The Smashing Pumpkins [2 + 1 Collection]

Only 1

Thorns

Skinny Puppy

Bad Religion

Static X

The Smashing Pumpkins [+ 1 Collection]

Soft Cell [+ 1 Collection]

Murderdolls [they only have 1 album]

Sex Pistols [+1 live album] [they only have one album]

Lolita number 18

My Ruin

Alec Empire [+ 2 live albums]

Ramones [+ 1 Collection]

Emperor

Collection only

Black Flag

NON

Correction 1

Concerning my post titled 'Nine Inch nails Year Zero'


I find that on the seventh, or is it the eighth listening, the beats of Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Year Zero’ are ever and ever less and less Alec Empire(esque) and the album as a whole is ever and ever more and more revelatory and even revolutionary it becomes to be ever and ever more and more of a sea change, and at the same time, somewhat paradoxically, the more and more I listen to it the more and more it seems to ingrain itself into the Nine Inch Nails tradition; of course really there’s nothing paradoxical about it, continued listening doesn’t simply allow you to plumb the depths of the thing itself, it also breeds familiarity with it, and with familiarity your rational mind puts it ever and ever more and more into your previously held concepts and knowledge.

Commentary

When i first started writing said peice, [Nine Inch Nails Year Zero] i had no idea that i would end up saying anything negative about the album [Year Zero] at all, i thought i would just make a series of observations, but the longer i left it the more convolluted my thoughts of it became, and so when it came time to write it, i really and truly did not know where i would be coming from, or rather i did not know how i was going to structure the peice, and unstructured writing is very much like thinking aloud, one never quite knows where it is going to go.

Final clinching proof of the non existence of God.

More diplomatically called, ‘three arguments against the possible existence of God’

Argument 1

If God is God then he must be the biggest thing possible.

If God is God then he must be separate from all things.

If God is separate from all things then he must exist completely outside of any possible thing, God must exist outside of the universe, and if God exists outside of the universe then there would be a space bigger than God, i.e. The universe plus God.

Argument 2

Some people would say that far from God having to exist separately from all things the opposite must be the case, he must exist inside of all things, but if God exists in all things then he must be indistinguishable from them, and if that is the case then one can not logically talk about any entity called God, this however is the difference between the polytheistic eastern concept of god and the monotheistic western concept of God.


Argument 3

If God is God then he must be perfect.

If God is God then he must be sentient.

If God is sentient then he must be capable of free choice, but if God is perfect then all of his choices must be perfect choices, and if all of his choices must be perfect choices then he cannot make bad choices in which case he is not truly capable of free choice, in which case he is not sentient.


God can still have the qualities of all knowingness and all powerfulness, but these are of little use to him without the quality of existence.


“Oh dear” says God and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Mommy smack bad Tony

I tell you that git Tony Blair, he such a baby 'Me no wanna go, me nooooo wanna goooo!' 'Now come on Tony its time to let Gordon play Prime Monkey' 'Don't wanna, i hate gordon' 'Now Tony you know thats not true, you love Gordon' 'I love George, Gordon, smells' 'Well then he should be well suited to playing Prime monkey, now are you going to give it up or do i have to take it from you?' 'its mine, its mine, iiitttttttsssss mmiiiinnneee!' and so on and so forth.

'Wah Waaaaaaah', says british public.

Midterm ma? maaa?..... something begining with a M signifying boredom.

We just had our midterm elections over here in blighty, and i thought... well i won't bother to pay much attention to them, barely knew they were happening infact, i mean i'm a voter but they weren't happening where i live, so i couldn't vote, i don't live in some wierd Vatican like enclave its just that they are staggered over here, or so i would imagine they are, on second thought maybe i do live in a Vatican like enclave, its called London pleased to meet you, so anyway i didn't really care, midterms never make a dent in the political spectrum, and they never really change anything.................... but then i remembered the most recent mid terms in the US................ didn't the Democrats fend off everyones predictions of another boring mid term by winning The House? If you have a very poor memory and don't remember, then the answer is yes, yes they did that thing, they took The House, they fought them here they thought them there they stormed the beaches and they came out triumphant, it almost brings a tear to the eye.......................................... no such luck for UK, Labour were given a bit of a thrashing but not as big a one as everyone was predicting, same old same old, same old same old.

take advantage of the absence of the devil and he, or in this case she, will come.

So i'm at work and my boss has been gone for sometime and i don't have anything to do and so i'm getting a bit bored to say the least, so i start to think maybe i should use the free time to post something on here, and so i start composing it in my head and i'm about half a line in, or so, and in she walks all fire and fury and brimstone and red glowing pride with her tail and pitch fork..........well allright she isn't actually the devil, just a bit analyretentive, if that how you spell it, she's allright though, well maybe...............

Phat joke about fat people.

How do fat guys pull? They have their own gravitational field, so occasionally girls just get pulled into orbit.

The Punishment of Strength 2

An epic narrative exploration of the effects of egalitarianism on certain individuals living within society. The punishment of intelligence. Disruptive children are rewarded with attention whereas quite children are ignored. Weaker students are rewarded with attention regardless of whether there is any hope of improvement, whereas the stronger students are ignored or to put it another way they are punished for their intelligence. The consequences of this is that the stronger students eventually gain much resentment and lose much faith in the system and as a consequence of this they stop caring and stop trying and thus they end up being weaker academically than those who are less intelligent than them, worse even than those who are considerably less intelligent than them. I would put forward a supposition that this is irony, though more ironic than that is that this is the best probable consequence that one can hope for, there are far worse ones, and that is an irony in itself.

another blog? yes another blog, why shouldn't i, you have 5 yourself you know? well allright no need to get snippy, i'm just saying.

I’m thinking of starting another blog, bringing the total to four, five if you include my one totally inactive, or rather, unused blog, blog from the bog. It’ll be totally dedicated to the lyrics that I’ve written over the years. I’ve put off doing something like this for sometime now, basically because I’ve always been worried about bands taking them and using them without my permission, I don’t really have a lot of knowledge of copyright law so this is justified to a certain degree. However I recently learned that in America, where blogspot, or blogger if you will, is based, you get automatic copyright, or ownership rights, or something like that on anything that you write so those fears have been dispelled, somewhat at least, I still don’t know much about copyright law, let alone international copyright law. This of course, leaves just this one nagging doubt, putting my lyrics out as poetry, written word without music, wouldn’t that be an admission of defeat, like me saying to you, “yeh I know I’m never going to form that band, you where right all along, I admit it damn you.” But increasingly I’m starting to think that if I put myself forward more as a musician and lyricist then maybe it’ll put that problem to rest. For the last few years I’ve plowed on with my own music without that aid of band mates maybe its time I did the same thing with my lyrics.

The Punishment of Strength 1.3

An epic narrative exploration of the effects of egalitarianism on certain individuals living within society.

The Stoic child part 3

Starting point

The unhappy noisy child is rewarded with attention, the happy stoic child is punished by not getting any.

Consequences

The happy stoic child remains stoic but does not keep his happiness for long, no more than anyone could. Then his stoicism ebbs away replaced by extreme introversion and resentment, he resents his parents and all of his contemporaries regardless of what ever personal pain they may have, he is unable to notice such things and why would he?; as he grows up these feelings grow and deepen he resents not just his parents and contemporaries but society and everyone in it regardless of whatever personal pain any such member may or may not have, he has never noticed such things, and why would he have? The resentment burns ever deeper, his stoicism grows ever weaker, and resentment turns to rage without the temperance of a super ego. He talks to few people and unable to make connections has no outlets, he has little stoicism left but its enough to keep him bottled up.Such people often explode and if you care a jot for the poor beggar’s mental health you’ll pray that this happens sooner rather than later and that he learns quickly to channel his violence against deserving targets. This is from that perspective the best outcome second best is that he develops a taste for violence and employs it whenever angry, worst and most likely of all outcomes is that he never does explode, society is happiest with this outcome, it is least disruptive and produces the particular neurosis that causes the neurotic to become a great cog in the wheel of the economy. It can therefore be seen that it is not within societies best interests to encourage this particular aspect of good parenting.

Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero

For the last few days I’ve been listening to Nine Inch Nail’s new album ‘Year Zero’, suffice it to say, it kicks arse harder than a giant mechanical arse kicking machine, and there is much machine about this album. Trent Reznor can be found to be singing in a manner that I cannot say I have heard from him. He is for the most part barely singing at all, not that this is bad thing, the tone of his voice is calm, cold, ultra clipped and quite, quite terrifying no more so than in the moments when it leaps into full roar and full soar. The beats are more harsh and industrial than they’ve ever been before, they are rather Alec Empire(esque), and the ......... slight obviousness of the albums influences doesn’t end there. When I first started listening to the album I found myself thinking that this was a retread (conceptionaly speaking) of Marilyn Manson’s fine, fine album Holywood (in the valley of the shadow of death), but I quickly realized that this was a false impression, however I did find that the album’s seventh track ‘Capitol G’ has a great Marilyn Manson(esque) stomp to it which is surprising, perhaps even pleasantly so. All in all the album is a great sea change for Trent Reznor and co, with Year Zero they seem to have (with the possible exception of the first two tracks) escaped the straight jacket of the Alternative Rock spectrum that they’d placed themselves within during the course of the previous two albums The Fragile, and With Teeth, in exactly the same way that they escaped the straight jacket of Industrial music with those previous two albums, unfortunately this is in the great scheme of things nothing revolutionary, which is the most truely terrifying thing about the album and its biggest sea change.

Still four stars out of five ****.

The Problem................

The problem, or at least one of the problems, one of the many problems, that I have with religion, or rather, those who practice it, any of it, all of it, is that they choose a set of beliefs, they choose a way to look at the world, and a way to live their lives, a way to view others and to judge them, and they are proud of these choices and yet at the same time they would have you believe that there was no choice, they would have you believe that they were forced, that there was a gun to their head ............ the gun of god. Isn’t that oh so very convenient all your choices made for you, and a ready excuse for every nasty little opinion you have in your head; none the less, its lie, these were their choices no one else could have made them for them and ultimately life is full of them, life is full of choices, in fact its life is made of them, and when you deny your choices, even if its the just one of them, you deny life itself.

The punishment of strength 1.2

An epic narrative exploration of the effects of egalitarianism on certain individuals living within society.

The Stoic child part 2

Starting point
The unhappy noisy child is rewarded with attention, the happy stoic child is punished by not getting any.

Consequences

The happy stoic child becomes more and more quite, he regresses into himself and becomes an ego without desire, boundaries without anyone to keep, a cage without a prisoner; Ego becomes permanent super ego, he becomes a robot of society.... in other words, a door mat.
People upon examining this case cannot say for sure whether this condition is caused by nature, or lack of nurture. I would not want to use the term catatonic.

Well anyway....................................................

What do you think of the slightly new blog design, i'm thinking of making the blue brighter, also gotta love these new label thingys there great.................... no really they are................ i'm so not being ironic...... or any thing of the sort.............. you should be ashamed for even thinking such a thing.......... I write what i say and say what I mean.

I like dots . . . . .

Anyway choi mien gratzias

Holy sweet lord god bloody bloody hell

Chriiiiiiiiiiist the trouble i've had logging in today first i put the wrong username in, though i don't realise this and go through a leangthy process getting blogger to recognise my password only then to find horror of horrors that my blogs were no longer there, which of course is because i have just created a new blogger account, but of course i hadn't worked it out yet so you just cannot imagine how i felt so i try to get it back by reinitialising my old blogger accout and thats when i twig onto it................... Jesus was that a mouse i just saw!!

These thoughts and fevered imaginings were brought to you UTO in assosiation with panic and paranoia.

New Game for the Enjoyment of All.

Game name:
Random. web

things you need:
1 internet connection or access to one
1 blindfold or other eye blinding such as a cloth
1 dice, or indeed a bowel with 6 bits of numbered paper numbered 1 to 6
1 dictionary
2 players

what you do:
First player roles the dice is then blindfolded and goes ito the dictionary the ammount of times suggested by the roll of the dice in order to pick that ammount of words then the other player has to take those words and turn them into the address of a website if the address turns out to exxist then he if it doesn't then he loses, its just that simple.

The punishment of Strength1.1

An epic narrative examination on the effects of egalitarianism upon certain individuals living in society.

The stoic child part 1

Starting point

The unhappy noisy child is rewarded with attention, the happy stoic child is punished by not getting any.

Consequences

The happy stoic child learns to be noisy, then he learns to be unhappy, no amount of attention is ever enough. He never learns that noise does not always promote attention, quite the opposite in fact, in later life people tend to avoid that sort of person. He learns this, eventually, but by this juncture in his life he is simply too old to change. This realization makes him unhappy and his unhappiness makes him weak, and he loses the remnants of his stoicism. He now never expects anything he does to elicit any response from the world and with the loss of his thick skin this hurts him terribly. He is constantly shaking his head and hanging it in shame. He is the sad little man on the bus, you won’t recognize him, you never even notice him.
This story does not end happily he commits ego death and contrary to the Buddhist view on such things it brings him no happiness, it merely makes suicide more easy a task.
Ego is the bastard in the suite, it holds the whip that disciplines the angry ugly monstrous id. Ego is pride, and pride is the light that you drag yourself towards, ego is the power that drives you out of the pit, without it you would be lost but he was lost long before he cast such things out.
All hurt has its start in childhood. I blame the parents.

I'm back

back for good.
Well probably..............

Politically correctly incorrect.

We used to call ‘Native Americans’ ‘Red Indians’, until we decided that the term ‘Red Indian’ was racist, I’m not sure why we did this but I guess we were right, after all what could be more racist than RE - naming one racial group after another one that they almost certainly have absolutely no migrational, or genetic link with? Well how about this, ‘me bucco’,
RE - name them after a racial group that not only do they have nothing to do with, but also is responsible for their complete and utter degradation; that is essentially what we have done with the term ‘Native American’ after all when the white Europeans came to their ‘New World’ i.e. the land that we currently call ‘America’ they raped, tortured, killed, made slaves of, and of course stole the land of the natives not to mention brought in new diseases that the native’s immune systems simply could not deal with, but I’ll think we’ll let that one slide.
Calling the Sioux and the Navajo and the many others ‘American’, native or otherwise is like calling a Jew a Nazi or an Armenian a Turk and in many ways you could say its even less justified.
Another reason why both of these terms are racist is that they imply that there is just one group native to America, when actually...............well I don’t know exactly how many there are but its quite a bit and what’s more they all have completely different cultures. Calling them all Native Americans is somewhat like calling every white guy in my neighborhood ‘Phillip’, not exactly cricket is it?, down right offensive some would call it, not exactly politically correct, is it? But then when you take a close look at it political correctness never is, so maybe it’s just not correct, maybe its just dumb.

Observation et blogging.

I've just noticed something, exciting design means boring content.

The more bright colours, the more pretty pictures, the less time there is to write;

But of course some don't start blogs to write, for some the blog is nothing more than a modern version of the diary, except that diary's are meant to be private.

Was that an adequate summation of your output, well then........ what can i do for you.

Equality of intention.

Insurance policies are like nuclear weapons,
you have them and maintain them but hope to never use them.

Genre confusion 3: Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails are usually said to be an industrial band however their front man has been shown to have very ambivalent feelings towards this term and if you examine their releases ones sees that Industrial is not by any means the full story.

Their first album the now embarrassingly dated ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ was basically Synth Pop.

Their second major release ‘Broken’ is very much harsh, hate fuelled, Punk Rock influenced, Industrial.

Their second album The Downward Spiral is to a certain extent more mellow it brings back the Synth Pop influence and replaces some of the harshness with a greater experimentalism and replaced the Punk Rock with a certain level of Heavy Metal influence creating a Avant Guard Industrial tour de force.

Their third album ‘The Fragile’ is considerably more difficult to describe so I’ll just put in a few descriptive terms that I think fit the album and hope you agree; softly industrial, massive, epic, beautifully destitute and emotive.

Their forth album ‘With Teeth’ is easier by far to describe, it simply combines some of the best elements from all their previous albums and has got them labelled [in the music press at least] Alt Rock [Alternative Rock] rather than Industrial.

From what I can tell they are influenced by Ministry, Alec Empire, Skinny Puppy, Gary Numen, and David Bowie, so make up your own mind.

The influence of genre is mutable and difficult to describe accurately.

Genre confusion 2: Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson, like Green Day also have a somewhat contentious history of classification.

They are usually referred to as a Goth band much to the annoyance of Goths [the young and un-knowledgeable nature of many of their fans is once again a contributing factor to this]. However both the band and their eponymous singer have for their part always denied, or at the very least been very ambivalent about the application of this term, mainly due to its constricting implications. Other phrases often used by the more knowledgeable are Industrial, Glam Rock or sometimes Neo Glam, general all purpose umbrella term Metal, and to a considerably lesser extent Punk Rock. The band for their part have often referred to their music as being Rock and Roll.

This hugely eclectic mix is met out in their influences:

The Beatles, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Sex Pistols, Bauhaus, Adam and The Ants, Gary Numan, and in a much more direct way Nine Inch Nails. [the bands only permanent member Trent Reznor is a long time friend of the Mansons and has produced two of their albums as well as being their label boss until he shut up shop as it were.]

Genre confusion 1: Green day

Green Day are said to be chiefly influenced by The Clash, and Stiff Little Fingers I would add to that list: Ramones, The Pogues, The Sex Pistols, and Bad Religion the fact of the matter is that they add very little to that mix. This does not however justify the argument that they are not a Punk band clearly they are, clearly they make Punk music. This argument is based primarily on the fact that they are not only very popular but that they also despite the fact that they’ve been around for something around fifteen years attract a mainly young audience that is for the most part un-aware of the length breadth and history of Punk Rock and thus have a somewhat over inflated view of the bands importance within this history.

Curb my agreement?

I have for quite some time found myself in agreement with Larry David’s character on Curb Your Enthusiasm and I just have some questions;

is this normal?

Is there something wrong with me?

Should I be worried?

I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m often excruciated by his behaviour and find myself at a loss to understand the reasoning behind it [particularly when he makes up horrible lies rather than be honest] having said that, I more often than not have the same reaction to other characters in the show. In any case I think a great number of the things that he does are perfectly reasonable and I get the feeling that most people would act in the same way were it not for the taboos of social convention.

Is this nothing more than a monstrous act of solipsism?

Am I simply trying to justify my agreement with this strange character by suggesting that really 'you all think the same as me and you’re just to scared to say it'?

Racists use this sort of justification all the time, and I can assure you that I’m no racist.

Having said that this sort of solipsism is actually quite common, one sees it all that time, and its actually quite disturbing when you think of how many people must be using it to justify totally abhorrent behaviour and how many of them would not have allowed themselves to do this were it not for that justification.

This has gone rather off topic but then I can’t think of anything else to say on the topic, I do however find that writing this has been rather therapeutic, I find my fears and worries subsiding, besides I’m sure you're all thinking the same thing anyway.

Here's a question i asked on Yahoo answers.

Did Nine Inch Nails re-invent industrial music?

Some aditional information.

industrial music was a genre invented in the mid seventies it is not a sub genre of anything else allthough it does ocasional cross paths with many other genres but its not a part of any of them.

One of the answers i received.

I don't really think of NIN as industrial. It's heavily influenced by industrial, but it's a whole other animal. Pretty Hate Machine was more synth-pop type stuff. It's closer to late 80's Depeche Mode than it is to "industrial." (That's a compliment.) Broken was the most industrial sounding IMHO but it was heavy on guitar (and that's not really industrial.) Reznor made his own genre really. He combined elements of synth-pop, industrial, speed-metal, classical, drum & bass, and ambient (among others.) I've never really liked the "industrial" label much though because it doesn't mean anything. It's usually used to describe music that incorporates a lot of ambient noises and sampling (stuff like machines) for instruments and percussion, but the music over (or underneath) those noises is what's really important. Groups like "Skinny Puppy" rarely even had a "song" mixed in with their chaos. NIN mixes some chaos with what are generally full melodic songs. Almost all NIN songs could be performed with an acoustic guitar and/or piano. That's not really the case for what I consider "industrial."

And my response to it.

This is definitely the best answer i've seen in a long time allthough having said i don't agree with it the term industrial does mean something its bassically a statement against the music industry [look at that word 'industy']
"heavy on guitar (and that's not really industrial.)" the original and some would say only true industrial band throbbing gristle used guitars as did and do ministry, as with any ellement of industrial music its not so much what you use as how you use it. "Reznor made his own genre really. He combined elements of synth-pop, industrial, speed-metal, classical, drum & bass, and ambient (among others.)" all electronic genres of music including synth pop and drum and bass have some level of debt to industrial music
the music of the original industrial pioneers particulaly NON beers some resembalance to the experimental 'neo classical' music that was being made in the 50's and 60's.
ultimetely reznor probably has wed experimental industrial music to the idea of actual song writing and pop sensibility but its hardely a new genre.

Feminism through film.

Certain conventions of filmmaking state that men must fight men, and women must fight women, if a man has to fight a woman then he must either be soundly thrashed by her and if not then he must be a bastard to be hated. He can’t be a ‘good guy’ because no one, woman or man will see him as such.
When the ‘good guy’ beats the ‘bad guy’ its victor and vanquished but if the ‘good guy’ beats a girl even if she is the ‘bad girl’, then it will always be a case of victim and victimiser.
Women are seen as weak creatures to be protected both in movies and the real world. Feminism rather than destroying this perception has fostered it, creating a case of ‘double think’ whereby women are scene as both equal, and in needing of protection not afforded to men, in some cases this is extended to ‘triple think’ whereby women are seen as superior to men, equal to men, and in needing of protections not afforded to men.

A woman slapping a man that’s all par for the course, and we all know he deserved it, even if she kisses him afterwards, I mean that’s passion baby; but a man slapping a woman well that’s unusual, I mean it happens but its just brutal, even if he does kiss her afterwards, did she deserve that? Was that passion?

Picture Angela Lansbury in the original version of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ I mean her character is just about scariest most evil character ever committed to celluloid but now imagine the character’s long suffering much put upon and manipulated son [Lawrence Harvey] beating her………..

Isn't it funny how......

saying someone's a lady's man means that they let us say greatly enjoy the company and suduction of the female gender, but saying that someones a mans man doesn't mean that they enjoy performing similar actions with members of the same gender.

Strikes me as a tad homophobic wouldn't you say.

The path from man to god.

A man is born; and he shows great bravery, tales are told of his bravery and, with the bounty of his deeds he buys the acceptance of followers and, with the bounty of his followers he becomes king.

As king he performs great deeds and, tales are told of his greatness and the previous tales are brought up to match the new ones and he becomes great and with the bounty of his greatness he becomes magnificent the tales are brought up to match his magnificence and with the glory of his magnificence he becomes glorious and the tales become glorious his deeds become legendary and he becomes a legend, he dies and tales are told of his death and life and they are made to match his legend and he passes into legend.

The tales are made to match his greatness and his becomes a great legend.

The tales are made to match his magnificence and his becomes a magnificent legend as he passes into myth.

The myth is told to match his glory and his becomes a glorious myth and with the bounty of the glory his followers buy him virtue and with the bounty of the virtue his myth becomes not the story of a great or even a man of glorious deed but the story of a god ascending to his heaven.

Story is the key; The first tale is of bravery the second is of great deeds the third is of death the forth of life the fifth and final tale is also the first tale, a tale of the birth of a god.

The UTO certified dictionary.

Some of the time
Pity = Sympathy + Hatred.
but more often than not,
Pity = Sympathy + Disgust.
And the disgust leads to hatred and the sympathy leads to self hatred.

AVAST ME HEARTYS. This be no deviant furnace!

Upon receiving a E-mail marked "deviant furnace" I was devastated to note that this was not infact a ranty Christian evangalist trying to convince me that those who diviate from cultural and sexual norms end up in a furnace of somesort but just someone trying to sell me something. However I did learn that someone called "Carter prays with rabbis angered by book ." and that "Aruntx appreciates your patronage and look forward to serving you for many years to come." and that this Aruntx be he person or creature is ion the buisiness of "thanking your best customers for their loyalty." and that "Upon arrival there everybody gets a pair of great wings in exchange for pain and grief." we also learn that "One who drives an automobile too fast, especially as a habit." whatsmore "Warning: Heavenly New York is a Chick Christian mystery." and in further strangeness "The word of the day is leadfoot." and "Kitty Kelley to write Oprah biography ." apparantly.

Heed my word! And go hence were I tells thee!

And lo it was on that day that I having remembered a good episode of the Simpsons placed upon my url space the address misterx.com hoping for further news of mayor quimby and yet i came instead to this www.vaughnsphotoart.com a far more supiriour supiriour product and one that i fully recomend having fully understood all aplicaple laws of recomendation rule.

The war is over, who do we fight now.

Hazzah the war on Christmas is over, the evil Wallmart have finally caved in and are now no longer wishing their customers happy holidays [oyvai I can barely say those words] but [joy of joys] merry Christmas, won’t Wallmart’s Jewish customers be so pleased that wallmart no longer wishes them to have a happy holiday. This battle against the tyranny of political correctness [don’t they know we don’t want to be correct] has been won by the good guys, but just as it ends another one begins. Even as I speak homosexual spies are infiltrating our institution of marriage, and so begins the war on marriage.
This was brought to you straight from the pages of right conservative fantasy land, If you wish to subscribe simply begin watching Hanity and colmes and the other guy, for added benefits you may wish to join the republican party. Unfortunately this offer is only open to citizens on the United States of America, but frankly everyone else is just glad that these wars only exist in the minds of wing nuts like Sean Hanity, cos frankly enough bombs are falling as it is.

Land of six wars.

There’s a lot of talk going around at the moment about the war in Iraq being lost, ‘the war’ which war? What’s more out of all of the various armies in the country, which is losing it? After all there’s ‘the coalition of the willing’, but there’s also French and German troops and they certainly aren’t part of that, and what about the Iraqi army?
From what I can tell there are currently six wars going on at the moment, they are:

1: The war against Islamic terrorist ‘insurgents.’ [no matter what victories we {yes I’m using we I didn’t want to but I’ll think I’ll have to give in} have against them, they seem at liberty to attack any time they want, we are most definitely losing]

2: The war against terrorists insurgents loyal to Saddam, previously called The war against Saddam [ditto]

3: The war against ‘terrorist’ insurgents neither implicitly Islamic nor loyal to Saddam. [ditto]

4: ‘The war for hearts and minds’ yes this is a war, if ‘The war on terrorism’ can be a war then so can this, besides we talk about it enough it must be real. [seeing as we spend a great deal of our time blowing them up I don’t think we have any hope of possessing them, Losing with a capital L]

5: The war against the people of Iraq, we don’t like to talk about this one but we’ve killed enough of them that it becomes pointless to argue about intention, pointless to argue about what we did and did not plan. [we’re actually winning this one.]

6: The civil war [we were fighting to prevent this one, we didn’t, we lost]
[this is by the way a most interesting civil war in that it is a three way, a war fought between three parties all of whom are fighting each other.]

So there you have it, The coalition and all of its unwilling allies are fighting all of these wars, and losing all but one, the one that they……… we.. are fighting against non aggressors, civilians.

Chick flick??

Just watching ‘Jack and Sarah’ it’s billed as a ‘chick flick’ but it strikes me that it is more about men than women, a man learns to survive as a female role taker in a mans world, and a man in a woman’s world, it also teaches us that butlers don’t grow on trees they grow in skips.

Not long ago, on a TV screen.......

I sit here [at my computer] watching the extras on ‘Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith’ and it strikes me that it is the best in the entire series, possibly even the best that George Lucas has ever directed although having only seen five out of the seven movies he’s done I cannot say this with any great level of certainty. ‘Episode 4, A New Hope’ is a brilliant popcorn movie, a crowd pleasing masterwork, an action adventure flick with an incredible depth and soul….. but it’s not exactly challenging. Really and truly though it has the potential to do this it does not make you think, it is brilliant, and far more complex than it would at first seem but this complexity is lost in the near complete lack of subtlety and ambiguity. This lack of subtlety is corrected, and brilliantly so in ‘Episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back’ the depth and soul of the first movie is elevated as the story comes top greater complexity in this the undeniably darkest and best of the original trilogy. ‘Episode 6, Return of the Jedi’ is somewhat a return to the [even] greater lightness of the original but with a greater richness of story and action and for better or worse a nearly Spielbergian level of schmaltz on its own it would be a good movie it only becomes great when put together with the previous two. The less said about episodes 1 and 2 the better but ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is a truly brilliant, terrifying, heart wrenching, thought provoking, tragedy in the true Greek sense of the word, it has a terrible complexity and ambiguity to it, it will twist your head in a million different directions from sympathy to revulsion and back again you will shed real tears and feel real emotions, only true art can do that to you and ‘Episode 3’ is more real than any of the others, it is the one resounding, final clinching piece of proof of Lucas’s genius, and yet Lucas himself sees the series in the simplistic shades of black and white, good and evil, his view of it is bereft of the finer tastes of the deeper, more shocking and mocking ambiguitys of near paradox.

Delights of the Inferno.

Life’s little disappointments can, in your mind grow to monstrous proportions, if not offset by any sort of triumph, so it is with that in my mind that write this in an attempt to find something worthy of such an offset. I find nothing except……..

Interestingly the week began with a triumph, not such a monumental one but still…..

I was watching a movie; a movie called ‘Hellraiser’ subtitled ‘inferno’, the fifth in a horror series that began with ‘Hellraiser’ written and directed by the brilliant Clive Barker, the erstwhile ‘future of horror’ [a quote from Stephen King made a few years before Barker turned his pen to exclusively writing dark fantasy works such as Arabat] based on his own novel ‘the hell bound heart’. However, despite this pedigree [as well as the recommendations of friends] I held little hope for the movie reaching the lofty heights of the original, as Barker had, feeling that the series had run its course, not had any involvement with the movie.
To cut a long story short, I was wrong. ‘Inferno’ capitalises on many of the better aspects of the previous films as well as well as Clive Barkers more subtle and psychological film ‘lord of illusions’ [written and directed by Barker based, as all three of his movies are, on one of his own stories]. Where the original movie was perhaps the last true classic of ‘classic’ horror, ‘Inferno’ is a modern horror classic, a psychologically terrifying Lynchian, Cronenbergian, Barkerian masterpiece.
I implore you to watch this film.

P.S. The other film that Barker wrote and directed was the now seemingly out of print ‘Nightbreed’, based on his novel Cabal.

My week got better then it got worse then it got better.

After logging off on Thursday of last week, I went out to take back the mouse that did not work and get a new one. I was pleased to note that the new one stated on its packaging that it was compatible with Windows 95 [the week gets better]. However, upon getting it home I found that it provoked the exact same response from my computer, as had the previous one [the week gets worse]. Having said that my week was greatly improved when on Saturday after having sent them off five days ago my DVD’s finally arrived.

So to summarise and make the final tally
1 disappointing trip to the job centre [disappointment rating 1/5]
2 disappointing computer mice [rated 3/5 for the first one and 5/5 for the second]
3 disappointing days without DVD’s [1st day 4.5/5 2nd day 5/5 3rd day 1/5]
Weekly disappointment rating [19.5/30]

If there’s anything, I missed out then frankly good riddance to it. I’ve already written two pieces about my disappointing week, so I don’t want to dwell on it anymore than I already have.

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Check em out and see what company I'm keeping.

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Today is turning out to be soooo pointless.

oooh I am sooo annoyed, and disappointed too

My movie stream has fallen from grace or perhaps the royal mail has not that they have ever been in grace atleast not during my life time or atleast not during the part of my life time so far in that I would have been using them, too reiterate............Well lets just start again.
I'm signed up to my movie stream [an online DVD rental service] .......... You no what this is just so pointless surfice it to say that I was meant to receive my rentals [king Kong and another inderterminate film] on Wednesday, I did not nor did I receive them today, I have just found out that they have only just today received my previous rentals which hopefully means that I will receive the new ones on Saturday however seeing as they two days longer than usual to get there this seems unlikely. What is more likely is that I will receive them on Monday meaning that I would have had no rentals this week whatsoever. The fact of the matter is that the royal mail is almost certainly to blame for this...... And what's the solution well I'm usually against privatization but in this case I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea of the royal mail having a little competition and thus giving the public some choice.
Other disappointments this week on Tuesday I got a new optical mouse for my computer and it didn't work, the last optical mouse I brought also did not work. Also on Tuesday I signed on at the job centre and that cannot ever fail to be disappointing, well that's pretty much been my week just one disappointment after the other, it only has two days to improve.
Roll up roll up, place you're bets.

Anybody else get this spam?

'Good afternoon many have machines which not insuranced,
you have a unique opportunity only today to receive insurance the machine free of charge'

God it sounds dumb.

Eliminating racism, or "'meddling scientists playing god' tabloid nightmares".

Considering how racially mixed the average white person is, it seems to me that the solution to racism, at the very least racism on the part of white people, is to have DNA tests. If for instance a young English skinhead were to find out that actually he’s…. say…… a quarter Asian then its likely that his sense of racial aggression will at the very least be diluted if not removed completely or more likely ‘almost’ completely. Of course there is quite a large chance that really hardened racists will simply refuse to believe the results of the tests, thinking them perhaps some part of some sort of global Jewish conspiracy. What’s more I suppose some people might suggest that saying to someone that they can’t possibly be a racist as they are themselves so racially mixed, brings about in that persons mind, and the mind of anyone who hears this argument, the idea that it would be perfectly reasonable, and acceptable to be a racist if one were less racially mixed. This would be disastrous. Ultimately I suppose that I am one of those ‘some people’. One should never put one’s faith in magic bullets nor should you keep all you’re eggs in one basket. Racism must be attacked on all fronts. Its logic must be attacked and minimised [for racism does have a sort of logic to it]. Its psychology must attacked and treated. And if there be a genetic component, then that to must be attacked though how I don’t know, I suppose eliminating a gene or two would be the way for that, but it is likely that there would be consequences to that. The other two points are in their way easy enough, but genetics……… genetics are….. murky…. unknown, one never knows quite what might happen if you were to eliminate one gene, another may go haywire, it may take its place, human life as we know it might change…….. and other such ‘meddling scientists playing god tabloid nightmares’.

Stupid, Pointless, Badly told joke. [S.P.B.J]

Those Pakistanis, I tell you they must be terrible Islamaphobes they actually have a place called ‘Islam a bad’ obviously they haven’t quite grasped the finer points of written English as they clearly meant “Islam is bad” but it is after all their second language so one shouldn’t hold it against them.

I suppose I should make a new blog for all of these stupid jokes, as to make them not clutter up the otherwise pristine walls of this here blog……..perhaps another time.

The TToP, The Two Types of Parents.

There are two types of parents, one who if failures they be will do anything they can to make you suceed were they have failed, they push as far as they can without any real consideration for you're feelings, then there are those who if failures they be will not be able to see any good reason why you should achieve anymore than them, it is just as bad to have either of these, and the same can be said of those who are in there own lifes great sucesses there will be those who will be those who will encopurage you in the same dirrection that they themselves went and allways hope and pray that you do just that little bit better than them cos they want to build a dynasty, then of course there are those who will be very much into the idea that you don't have follow them infact that you should not follow them with no consideration given to what you want.

My new addiction.

Some number of months, or was it weeks ago, i wrote something explaining how at one point i was obbsessed with www.wikipedia.org [address provided for those who have not hear of it] the online encyclopedia, and that then my obssesion shifted to blogger, and then to yahoo answers.

I then proceaded to offer you the chance to direct the next movements of my obssesion, but you in you apathy choose not to and thus, my obsession was left to wander aimlessly flitting between yahoo answers, blogger, and wikipedia. Eventially cold, alone, and scared it no longer had the strength or fortitude to brave the uncontrolled savagery of wikipedia and thus left its self to wallow in the barren muck between the worlds, the internet and all it had to offer glittering away in the distance like a far off galaxy. But eventually after untold times of electronic pounding against, the frozen shell of fear encrusted around my obsession in its muck an e-mail got through, an e-mail that was to give new meaning and life to my [lets cut the crap and call a spade a spade] addiction www.mymoviestream.com a saviour an enslaver an open world my new addiction.

the content of this [insert word here] does not seem to lend itself to any title.

Just received an e-mail suggesting that attendance of church prolongs life.........hmmmmmmmmm are you sure it doesn't just feel like longer [I thought to myself] and allso why is it that the inclusion of the word prolongs seems to put a negative slant on those words [ I think perhaps that its {the word 'prolongs'} use is usually acociated with the end of ones life {i.e. a terminal illness}]

Anyway what i was going to say was that i hate it when religionists refer to something involving scientific evidence, in this case that, ' scientists upon taking a survey have found what may be termed a casual relationship between the attendance of church and the living of a longer life for example one person who never attended church lived to 70 whereas a person who attended all their life lived to 80.' but you just know that if anyone tried to test this further to see, for a start exactly how far reaching these findings and secondly weather they can be replicated in labrotory conditions and thirdly weather there is a particular part of the church that affects people to the elongation of there lifes, you just know that if anyone tried to do that they just wouldn't allow it and they'd still be quoting that damn statistic!

Ahhh, scam e-mails, light of my life.

FROM THE DESK OF HER EXCELLENCY
.DR. MRS. MARYAM. ABACHA.

GOOD DAY ASSALAMUALAIKUM.

DEAR SIR, CONFIDENTIAL/URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

I AM DELIGHTED TO WRITE THIS LETTER TO YOU HOPING THAT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MY PREDICAMENTS AND ANSWER BACK WITHOUT HESITATION. I AM DR MARYAM ABACHA THE WIFE OF THE LATE NIGERIAN HEAD OF STATE GENERAL SANI ABACHA. I GOT YOUR CONTACT THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INQUIRY ON INTERNET AS I WAS LOOKING FOR AN HONEST FOREIGNER WHO WILL HELP SAVE MY LIFE AND MY CHILDREN, HENCE OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN FRUSTRATING US SINCE THE DEATH OF MY HUSBAND. I AM IN POSSESSION OF
$25 000.000 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS) WHICH I WANT TO INVEST IN YOUR COUNTRY. FOR YOUR CLARIFICATION AND UNDERSTANDING, THIS MONEY IN A BOX WHICH I DEPOSITED WITH THE FINANCE AND SECURITY COMPANY IN DISGUISE AS A FAMILY EFFECT SINCE 5TH OF MAY 1998, IS NOT AN ILL GOTTEN WEALTH RATHER, IT WAS GENERATED FROM MY ORGANIZATION FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM (F.S.P). I WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU MORE OF THIS ORGANIZATION IF YOU INDICATE A HELPING INTEREST TO SECURE THIS MONEY ON MY BEHALF.
ON YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO RENDER THIS ASSISTANCE TO ME, I WILL INSTRUCT THE FINANCE COMPANY TO EFFECT A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP OF THIS FUND IN YOUR NAME AS THE BONIFIDE OWNER/MY NEXT OF KIN TO ENABLE YOU RETRIEVE THE FUND, ALSO I WILL DISCLOSE TO YOU THE COUNTRY AND THE NAME OF THE FINANCE AND SECURITY COMPANY WHERE THIS MONEY IS BEING DEPOSITED.
WHAT I DEMAND FROM YOU IS TO ARRANGE AND GO TO THE FINANCE COMPANY WHERE THIS MONEY IS BEING DEPOSITED AND CLAIM IT.
IT IS VERY IDEAL YOU FORWARD TO ME YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS TO ENABLE ME SEND ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS PERTAINING THE DEPOSIT OF THIS FUND FOR YOUR STUDY.
BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS TRANSACTION DEMANDS ABSOLUTECONFIDENTIALITY BECAUSE PROPERTIES, ASSETS AND BANK ACCOUNTS BOTH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL BEARING THE ABACHA'S FAMILY NAME, ARE BEING ORDERED TO BE CONFISCATED BY THE NEWLY ELECTED CIVILIAN PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA (PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO) HENCE I WILL NOT WANT TO BE EXPOSED.
FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, 25% OF THIS FUND $25 000.000(TWENTY FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS) WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU IF YOU ASSIST ME TO SECURE THIS FUND AND ANOTHER 5% HAS BEEN SET ASIDE FOR ALL THE EXPENSES YOU MIGHT INCUR DURING THE PROCESS OF SECURING THIS FUND.
EXAMPLE: TELEPHONE BILLS, HOTEL BILLS, FLIGHT BILLS AND OTHER MISLINOUS EXPENSES. WHEN YOU MUST HAVE TAKEN THE AGREED PERCENTAGE, YOU WILL USE PART OF THE BALANCE TO BUY A LIVING HOUSE FOR MY FAMILY THERE IN YOUR COUNTRY, WHERE WE SHALL LIVE IN FUTURE AND THE REMAINING PART WILL BE KEPT FOR INVESTMENT PACKAGE ALSO IN YOUR COUNTRY WHICH WILL BEUNDER YOUR SUPERVISION.
REPLY THIS LETTER URGENTLY THROUGH MY TRUSTEE
E-MAIL [address taken out to save room and protect the innocent]
OR YOU CALL HIM ON HIS PRIVATE LINE 226-7037-7447 BECAUSE I HAVE ALREADY INFORM HIM ABOUT THE STEP I WANT TO USE TO TAKE THIS MONEY OUT OF THE SHORE OF AFRICA AND AVOID US LOSING THIS MONEY, SINCE IT IS THE ONLY REMAINING FUND FOR THE SURVIVAL OF MY FAMILY.
THANKS FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.
YOUR URGENT RESPONSE IS NEEDED.
WASSALLAM,
YOURS SINCERELY,
ALHAJA MRS.MARYAM ABACHAMY
TRUSTEE EMAIL ADDRESS:
[Address taken for the same comedic and practical reasons as before]
PHONE 00226-7037-7447.
NAME : USMAN DANLADI.

Mobility Scooter Menace!

I was just nearly run down by one of those old people on those mobility scooters, they seem to think that they have right of way over the entire pavement, if cyclists have to use the roads when cycle paths are not available then why shouldn't they, course you can't tell them that, the fact of the matter is, is that most of them would be too scared to go on the road and so would probably just stay home and stew in their own juices, this is no solution, really what we need is some laws as for how they should use these scooters while on the pedestrian area of the street, remember, they are not pedestrians, any breaking of these laws should be met with a temporary revocation of their scooter using rights. Of course they'll be a public outcry, and the human rights people will be up in arms but then they often are and this is a perfectly natural and indeed normal position for them to be in, whats more most old people are so angry and bitter that they'll refuse to conform to any such law and go around running young people down as an act of protest, so more old people on ASBO's then.

5 things about “the Madonna adoption.”

1] She has almost certainly PUMPED money into that orphanage and will no doubt continue to do so. [Over two million so far.]

2] There are any number of reasons why she would not have been able to go to the airport and collect the boy herself, only one of these ‘in order to prevent a press frenzy’ has been explored at all and the real reason for her non attendance may well come out in the next few days, and may well cause her critics to eat there words. [Maybe i'm just grabbing at straws.]

3] The boy will almost certainly continue to have contact with his family in Malawi. [Hopfully.]

4] There are more important things to talk about. [But there's no accounting for the press, is there?]

5] The whole point behind celebrity adoptions is that they can be used to draw attention to the plight of children in certain countries and encourage others to adopt in likewise. [That and it gets you lots of sweet publicity.]

Funny news.

Two teenage girls were on a railway platform beating up a third while telling her that she can’t hit them back as they are pregnant. Kinda sums up our society, doesn’t it?

Self-analysis.

The first time I took a sabbatical from blogging it was essentially because I was busy and didn’t have the energy to do it the second time I wasn’t busy at all and I had plenty of ideas but I simply couldn’t muster up the will power to place them down on paper as it were on this occasion however the problem is much deeper I feel very strongly that I have simply lost the knack for structure this was I think caused by an increasing feeling that there was no importance in what I was writing probably caused by the fact that there seemed to be an increasing lack of interest in the blog and perhaps worse than that the fact that the people who were regularly coming on to the blog were rarely making comments and when they were they didn’t seem to say anything that added anything to the blog [see my previous post] this I suppose proves that I am not quite as secure within myself as I have previously thought, increasingly however the knack for structure has returned and yet I still feel like I don’t have enough energy or time to do it [despite the fact that I am getting up earlier than I have done for years] and so I feel as though I have come full circle and well here I am to prove it, back for good I hope.

Negative discussion killing liberalism running rife through blogger.

I've noticed something recently, that people [on blogger] seem for the most part to be unable or unwilling to make any percific comment, when speaking about someone elses writing, they just make a joke or something else vague. I don't think that anyone could think this to be a possitive thing as it allmost completely stops disscussion and as such is worse than those who write long comments of criticism and then never come back to see my counter points [yes this is me centred]. The fact of the matter is that discusion is never a bad thing regardless of what you're saying atleast its out in the open and can be countered and perhaps even ripped apart [or of course agreed with] if need be. So what's the reason for this , is it motivated by simple fear, fear that they may be made a pariah [in this case it would also be paranoia] or is it more to do with not wishing to offend or perhaps just being too lazy to think about what has been said the internet does after all does breed a certain sort of entertainment comes first thinking second culture but in any case there is one major cause for all of these things and I'm afraid that that cause is liberal society. I know that liberalism is often seen getting completely unjust beatings from conservative idiots and I disagree with that, liberalism has given us many wonderful things and its legacy should not be poo pooed but the fact of the matter is that liberalism does not breed people to be brave and forthright, it doesn't empower them to do the unpopular no matter how necessary it is, it makes you bite you're lip when you want to scream all the while not criticizing others for not biting theirs, it breeds hypocrisy and when you're a bigot possessing nothing more than the worst quality's of a Neanderthal this is a good thing, but liberalism has bred [for the most part] those quality's out of society so I ask you what is the point of it? Break free of the spell of false tolerance and speak you're mind.

Persecuting the skinny

At Milan fasion week they have put a ban on models under a certain weight meaning for instance that 5 foot 9 inch tall model would have to weigh atleast 8 stone now thats perfectly reasonable but what i object to is the completely hypocritical affront to personal liberty that this ban is. Being over weight is as bad if not worse than being under weight as it is easier to gain weight than it is to lose it [ i should know as a child i was under weight by about a stone but i'm now over weight by the same ammount ] but imagine if such a ban was introduced against any over weight person. My second objection is a logistical one what for instance what would happen if some one weighed just a pound or less under imagine the scenes back stage everyone piling in the crispy creams making themselves sick just to make sure their allowed to do their job.

Dead dogs and idustrial tribunals.

Just heard the story about a postman who was fired after he took a week off work to grieve for his dead dog Brandy [don't know how he spelt it] who he had, had since he was 11 [16 years good age for a dog] he then took his former imployers to court and the case was thus found in his favour he got his job back and was paid damages [and hopefully expenses]. Alot of people have suggested that this was a silly case and no doubt further proof of societys desent into luvy dovy madness and perhaps you'd exxpect me to agree with them, i do after all often attack this idea of molly codeling as a weakening and therefore negative influence upon a person [allthough on second thoughts a may not have actually done that on this site but i assure you i do hold tha opinion] but i think that the fact of the matter is, is that if a person can prove that they were grieving no matter what they were grieving for the simple fact of the matter is that you can't force them back into work before they are ready as this wouls cause potentially massive emotional distress on there part and allso probably prevent them from continuing to do the job to anything approuching a high standard and thus it would be a bad idea.

The ironic thing about this case is that the steriotypical relationship between a dog and a postman is that of the dog chasing the postman out of someones fron garden and bitting them on the bum.

Chief Rabbi Major Idiot reporting for duty.

The chief Rabbi of Great Britain has recently suggested that England has the most anti-semetic society on the planet, and yet there is another country were you get Arabs and Palastinians of various different sorts killing Jews and you get Jews of various different sorts killing Arabs and Palistinians keeping in ming that these people are essentially all part of the same race [the semites] surely this society [Israel] is more anti-semetic than England.

Having said that clearly there has been a rise in anti-semetic related incedents and obviously this has something to do with the recent Israeli war in Lebenon. Thae fact of the matter is that there are certain ignorant barstards in this and every country in the world who cannot tell the differance between their local Jewish butcher and an Israeli soldier driving a tank through Lebenon in much the same way as the Israeli soldier is incapable of telling the differance between a terrorist and a small child.

Why the title?.......well its just fun.

Giving oxegen to insecurity or to mild comedy?

Do you ever phone someone up, to arrange a time to meet up, only to then get scared that if you don't stop talking to them now, you won't have any conversation left fo later. It seems to me that this is based on some sort of profound insecurity, based on some idea that you have not lived and ultimately there is no path of escape from this monster because nature abhors a vaccum so it allways fills it with something but at the same time this insecurity creates paranoia and thus if you were to start doing more things thus filling tha vaccum your self in a way you would only give the paranoia oxegen the ironic thing being that there is allways something to talk about, the best thing to do is to fill the vaccum with your self.

this week [by week i mean whats gone by of this week and last week also] i have been mostly

watching Clerks, like Richard Linklaters i don't know how to spell his last name] Slacker inspired Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith has inspired me to do what? i'm not sure make a movie i suppose but i think i'd have to do it on somewhat less than twenty eight thousand dollars[!!!??!!?!?!] i have some ideas, well alright i have one idea, bassically make a movie about making a movie where the story is told through a series of auditions seen through the eyes of the directer and through this you would see the plot of the movie developing and allso see who gets what parts and allthough there would be only one camera and you would only ever see the audition room you would allso see the story of the peoples personal lifes building up through little comments that the people make durring the auditions like say for instance explaining why they were late and you would also see the story of those making the movie unfolding in a similar manner so the film would in effect be telling four story lines at the same time. most of it would be unscripted only the major plot points and the a basic film script for them to read from would be written before hand.
all ideas
Copywrite Phillip R Goodman [sept 2006]
Curse all who attempt to steal [sept 2006]

OK thats my pitch [maybe that should have been the title, it certainly would have been shorter why do i have such long titles? whats the attraction?]