Pomparkour?

Birth of a new marketing opportunity?

It's fun to watch other people do dangerous stuff!

e.g. Destroyed in seconds, Any reality police show...

It can also be fun to do crazy dangerous stuff yourself too, if you like a bit of raw adrenaline...

kids don't try this* in your local urban centre...

*Unless you want to look really cool and have a strong ladder!

Perfect Citizen :)

Big Brother is watching?

Should we be worried or not?

American Splendour (stolen from wiki)

Harvey Lawrence Pekar (pronounced /ˈpiːkɑr/; October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.

Pekar described American Splendor as "an autobiography written as it's happening. The theme is about staying alive. Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't."

The Venus Project

I got a flyer in my mailbox the other day it read...

Some people believe a "free-market" will produce freedom.

Turns out it produces cartels and monopolies.

Think about it.

www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

I find this very interesting...

As it tends to fit with my personal beliefs and view so far...

but unfortunately I cannot see those who currently control our earth's' resources willingly redistributing them, which seems to be a necessary part of the plan...

they would kill all of the working class and the third world, before giving up their ill-deserved privileges

inheritance is theft

property is theft

socialism is corruption

we are not yet civilised

I fully think we should all check it out and research a little further into these ideas.

Anything that can improve our current system of neo-slavery,

third world manufacturing all our goods and all the other badness

e.g crime, war, torture, twilight, BP, victory riots, assassinations, rape, advertising, animal cruelty, starvation, shity jobs, depression, financial collapse, economic failure, graffiti, urban decay, chewing gum on the bottom of seats, wankers, fat people, unfunny comedy, manipulative rom-coms, other stuff I dislike, etc... (sorry went right off track)

I guess it's slightly utopian and optimistic, but that's still far better than the alternatives.

Of all forms of caution...

Now I say quotes to go here:

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

-Dwight D Eisenhower.

"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."

-Art Spander.

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

-Laurence J Peter.

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument."

-William G McAdoo.

"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening."

-Barbara Tober.

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

-Voltaire.

"Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

-Frank Leahy.

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

-Thomas Szasz.

"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated." George Santayana.

"The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary."

-Dave Kellett.

For more quotes talk to other people or read.

Or subscribe to reality's daily feed of useless information...

Titles for when recent events become movies

Guatamala Sink hole of Doom

Containment Dome of Failure

(Terrorist*) Aid Flotilla of Death

(*Parenthesis used dependent on which country film being shown in)

Nominally interesting You Tube Link Post

Figure out for yourself which of these aren't safe for work!

My favourite song of the day:

Pursuit of Happiness - Kid Cudi/mgmt/Ratatat

Most boring video of the day:

Party with Children - Ratatat

New sexy version of Sesame St pinball song:

Giddy Up! - Tahuna Breaks

(Not strickly you tube cos they banned it)

Marvin Gay cover of the day:

Sexual Healing - Hot 8 Brass Band

Weirdest/WTF/homoerotic song of the day:

What What (In the Butt) - Samwell

(slightly unsure why I added this, don't click it if ur a bit scared of gay... Life is a bit of an adventure tho really, so go on have a look/laugh/cry/cwank as you see fit, but maybe don't....)

Best band on Letterman this week:

Laredo - Band of Horses

*Sorry if the name of the band/unit/group/person is meant to go first.

Hope they don't all turn to broken links in the futurocity y'all....

Tell me what you know about dreaming...

Take your medicine dear

Recent quriky quotes I enjoyed:

Life - Natures way of keeping meat fresh!

Love is like an astronaut - it comes back but it's never the same.

If history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

Ancient Technology from a Forgotten Past

Does anyone remember the Dreamcast?

I was only reminded of it cos I went past an old ManUre playing shirt on a washing line on the way home...

Division(s) v Disunity

categorisation

specialisation

classification

jurisdiction

distinction

partition

segment

stream

silo

wall

barrier

boundary

obstacle

exception

ruler

us and them

elite and mass

divide and conquer

ruling with class

schism

split

breakage

faction

group
splinter

alliance

clan

cell

network

militia

society

unit

squad

force

brigade

battalion

company

exclusion zone

Look who overuses their thesaurus/wikipedia...

Losing the Will to Blog

Mass destruction

Turn me on

dead man

just kidding

reverse manoeuvre

kinky hostel

leave it out

no really

get flickered

see ya bebo

unnecessary twitter?

ubiquitous faceslut

annoying msn

tabloid sleeze merch

social marketing

robot porn

unsolicited correspondence

gone off track

does it matter?

well it does

and it doesn't

because all

significance

is relevant

to time and place

chronology and

geography

if ya hadn't worked it out

ding ding

whoop whoop

newsflash

nothing matters

everything matters

fictional or

gritty reality

subjective

you could say

apologies accepted

and I have to ask

why are there

new people

famous each week now?

You have to catch up sometime

We all have to catch up sometime, indeed!

Lyrics I liked:

I'm not as crazy as I used to be...

Next time baby, I'll be bulletproof.

Something I thought:

Both the cultural and physical world, independently consist of hierarchies of power structures, which are constantly being challenged. Everything is fighting each other in some way, or in a state of potential tension awaiting a spark.

Recently Recommended Album-type downloads/you may have purchase:

(..beats working...)

Los Angeles- Flying Lotus

Hinterland - Aim

Wolf cub/Moth - Burial/Four Tet

Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian - Prefuse 72

Hard To Earn - Gangstarr

Buffallo -The Phoenix Foundation

Weapons of Self Destruction - Robin Williams

Crazy yes. Dumb No (Enright House Remix) -The Mint Chicks

Lets go fucking mental - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Crackhouse 5 EP

Sexual Healing - Hot 8 Brass band

Making Up A Changing Mind - PrettyLights

Arch Hill Recordings 10th Anniversary Album (sampler)

An End Has A Start - Editors

Flash Delirium - MGMT

What am I ya _ (insert one of following here...)_

• mother
• crack dealer
• poisonous dessert topping
• adulterous uncle
• drinking buddy
• 6th rate cowboy
• adventurous lover
• only link to the outside world
• lost my train of thought
• sorry did I break your concentration?
• band camp
• flute lesson

I haven't even seen that movie...

I am Stupid. You can too!

The old lookalike, lost at birth, being funny but really being nasty oh dear deal, gag type thing. Aren't you glad the internet is used for such important informational crapola?

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE...

Local Joke for those that don't know:

jokes aren't always funny

sometimes they are politicians...

who like the odd power grab

to help out their rich mates, mate.

Ghost Track

The fall of Man is not a joke (unless you laugh)

Nonsensical Titles

Methodical Madness

Deleted Theories

Strange Rituals

Nice it up

Street Art Disaster

Space is the Place

Infinite Folder Disorder

Recent Downloads:

Broken Bells _ Broken Bells

Gorillaz _Plastic Beach

Albert Hammond Jr. _ Como Te Llama

The Walkmen _ You and Me

The Flaming Lips _ Embryonic

NASA _ The Spirit of The Apollo

Movies to look out for: (No links provided)

Boy the Movie (Taika Waititi)

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)

More to follow hopefully...

get all me ducks in a row or something.

Skankalicious with Cheese

While he/they/I/you was/were off trying to solve the worlds' problems/accomplish something,

they realised...

some/many/all/none had already been solved!

But (un)fortunately many new ones were created in the aftermath...

................which will now be recapped in bullet-point format:

• like what to do with ourselves
• spare time
• priorities
• needing money
• doing things to get that paper
• having that jay-ohh-bee take your time
• having no time
• retiring
• having too much time again
• but less paper
• the end

so you see we either have far too much time

or no where near enough

never really in the middle

your all too old now

there's a younger generation

waiting to take your place

so they can stress about:

appropriate time-management

and other modern dilemmas...

of vital importance one moment

and absolutely none the next.

Have fun you fallas but don't muck it up for the rest of us eh!

(well only in your experimental adolescent phase, but then u get right back on track, ya hear!)

You can get back to licking stamps now, if for some reason that was what you were up to when you started reading this post?? You weirdo...

The Rambonator

Promises, promises...

i'D quite like to go to the US sometime in the not too distant future, cos that place has influenced the shit out of me... with its TV and its movies and its music... its products and commercials...

all over the place everywhere, more than any other stuff

shit i musta grown up on a mix of like 50% (or more?) American content on telly, not that I really noticed nationalities as a child, ohh not to forget the stuff from the UK and Australia (both sorta US copies and wannabes in their own way...) that padded the rest of our seemingly national identity vacuum... before we got-over ourselves in the noughties and realised we're quite a buch of funny buggers who have met the odd famous chap at the airport...

so does that make me culturally like at least 20% American even tho I ain't been? Well no cos it's really just a big homogeneous mix of other cultures anyway, but we forget all cultures came from somewhere else, and were usually influenced by what came before, whether were talking contemporary culture influenced/spread by the net or ancient societies writing on cave walls,

it (their/our culture) all draws from what is around it, or what it comes into contact with, e.g other things that are not itself...

all borders are bullsh*t.

we discover what is uniquely ourselves by experiencing or witnessing things that we haven't seen before, or haven't been exposed to...

we are all related, if u go back far enough.

The day i got mobile broadband...

the trickle turned into a torrent!

even if i do live in a (some would say) backward peasant society where the plebs are bamboozled through trickery (and shiny things), into thinking that this shit should rightfully cost a fortune...

ohh well...

Oh and I got my very own lap top like a week ago aswell, so have gone and cobbled together all me years worth of data, including songs (maybe 30G) pics and old odd-and-ends from my digital childhood (10G or so)... so I am thoroughly chuffed and all that palava, which is probably why you get the following rant:

HIGHLY UNUSUAL BUT: a wee story for ya....

the cam belt in my old Mitsubishi pretty much shat itself tonight, just (possible italics necessary) as I was leaving my parents (I had gone like less than half a k), after the Monday night ritual feed* the aforementioned vehicle slowly and quietly died, all motor functions lost forever. Stopped running and never started again and will probably never ever run again, after I slowly ran it into the ground over a period of 10 or so years. Funny thing is (possibly ironic as well) it was about to be traded tomorrow for a newer more European 4 wheeled pimping device. That should still go through sweet, as they won't want to jeopardise lots of money for a little money. or so we shall see...

I haven't won lotto I just decided to spend my way out of the recession, my savings were attracting naff interest, and my portfolio of awesome cars has just expanded!

Invest in --> Gee Rad Hedonistic Adventures Holdings Co. Ltd Pty and son corp..

I'll try and keep the spelling nice, but other over-editing techniques of the past my expire (e.g correct grammar and punctuation)

(*see: earlier post dates from certain time periods always being on Mondays)

The Human Condition of Ultimate Controversy

According to signs on buses:
(and I quote)

THERE'S PROBABLY NO GOD.

Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Ohhh thems fighin' words!
You can imply that the superstitions of others may not be valid.
That's just too thought-provoking, or to some just too rational!

Ownership Awareness Responsibility

Fake List #25:

• start list
  
• move car
• eat yogurt
• get haircut
• pay powerbill
• sort parking fines
• meeting at 3pm
• make shopping list
• solve world hunger
• complete booty rap
• invent new RC toy
• live a healthy life
  
• donate to wikipedia
• go shopping
• find spirituality
  
• create freewill
• promote choice
• be realistic
• give up
• find secret shows
• reorder DVDs
• transcribe dreams
• file everything
• meet the press
• pimp those hoes
• reinstall reality
• end list
  

Cliche Soup (to amuse/confuse)

Headlines that never quite made it to print:

('cos they are nonsensical rubbish)

• Frozen pilot-scheme sundae school rhetorical questionnaire subsidiary holdings baffle.
• Politicians picked last by Captain's of Industry in Gym-class brawl for hearts and minds.
• Nun caught trafficking mystery variables through undefinable love-making alternatives.
• Critics claim anally-retentive plot-twists murder lost serial number subversion.
• Guerrillas missed chance in boss attack level of ultimate game console play-off.
• Attack of the intangible jungle boogie monster truck madness of past monarchs.
• Oscar-winning treachery leaves consciousness underneath unsafe proportional performance when represented with colourful graphics index finger discount.
• Unethical experimental customer service contemplation configuration consternation.
• Logic mushrooms deny justifiable homicide committee's rest-week function growth.
• Digital sandwiches of defiance edict cultural cringe-worthy opposable thumb wrestlers.
• Conclusion jump-start cuts test-run motorcade lift-off panorama convertible.
• Impossible illusions taint mission of unrequited attempts to stop this sentence.
• Aimless alliterations annoy alternative anarchists allied amusingly.

Aren't. Can't. Won't. Don't.

get your groove off.

you can't keep everything...

or destroy everything.

you can't stop, but I won't start.

This internet attraction.

(dot com)

Blame Excuse Denial

As you may have noticed this blog was on an unscheduled hiatus from May to November of this year. This is due to several factors, the major one being we don't even have a phone at my flat, let alone broadband or even (*shudder*) dial-up. I have also been a bit busy living the life of a undiscovered non-hedonistic rock-star/comic book creator, who abandons the outside world after many disillusionments and being rejected for his vast talents. But now I return, modest as ever, to try and continue to carve out my niche. By highlighting things that I want to be remembered, long after we are gone, like those people from the past that left us funny stuff to ponder. While also drawing attention to other ideas/achievements that have been forgotten, far too prematurely.


So here are some crazes/phases I have been involved with while I've been absent:

• Dexter (series 3)
• Arrested Development (All episodes of all 3 series)
• Mr. Show (See: Youtube)
• Wonder Showzen (also See: Youtube)
• The Genographic Project
• Flight of The Conchords (series 2)
• Summer Heights High
• Other Stuff
  

NB:Now these are only reasons, not excuses. I will have my own judgement, yours can wait til after!

Word Collections

Noun or Never:

Introduction, arrival, rebirth, sacrifice.
Hope, vision, ignorance, bliss.
Desolation, neglect, abandonment, decay.
Dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, mood.
Colonisation, delegation, supremacy, theft.
Sex, exercise, fun, love.
Loss, sadness, grief, self-pity.
Scheme, manipulation, plot, grave.
Wonder, magic, mystery, surprise.
Pride, respect, honour, discipline.
Freedom, liberty, excuse, abuse.
Home, familiar, natural comfortable.
Encourage, develop, foster, protect.
Conflict, aggression, competition, victory.
Leave, flee, escape, depart.

Legends of 8-bit

Who needs friends when you have fan art?

Politicians Can't Save Us

In the days before mankind organised itself into remunerated hierarchies of governance, events like plagues, famine, climate-wrought disasters and general suffering were endured (or not) as part of the cost of being alive.

Smash and Grab

Just to keep things ticking over...

So what are all the answers?
Because all I hear are questions!

Please Be Nice!

Tactical Persuasion

deep thought
space invasion
malevolent structure
invalid function
ongoing investigation
implied consent
internal audit
wanton destruction
intended criticism
jealous motives
duel intentions
grand delusions
old conclusions
risk management
review process
token criticism
induced independence
elegant decadence
righteous prank
humorous crusade

Shut up and Dance

clouds of smoke
bring your own bomb
satan's triangle
process orientated
thinking sucks, let's party
manifest destiny
outcome-focused
ingrained character
Some disassembly required

Mirrors for Eyes

We want significance!


Go ahead crack a joke all you'll get is laughs!

Sketches of the Sun

I long to feel some beauty in my heart
As I go searching, right to the start...

doves - kingdom of Rust -2009

Control! Control! Control!

I used to have a grip on everything, now I find it's better to let go...

Save Thyself

Vast amounts of time wasted
vicious rumours, etcetera
not all of them true

it's much better now
we're all grown up
no more fear
all smiles
not

Wild Accusation of the Month Club

Micro-blogging is for Nazis!

Glass Ceiling

weather is an abstract concept...

when you're in a transparent building

The Sexy Terrorist

the longer your with me
the less normal you will be

Society Is Brainwashed

"Every society honours it's live conformists and dead trouble-makers."

"Old men start wars for young dudes to die in
Madison Avenue tellin' what you should be buyin'
religion and science always profess peace but in the end
who created the deadly war machine society is?"

When I'm in the streets I always remain cautious.

-Ill Bill

Anti-Socialite

Naturally secretive
instinctively private
temporarily focused
unwilling participant
devote revolutionary
ubiquitous underdog
unsuccessful alpha

Disproportionate Response

There are two types of people in this world:

• those that categorise others
• those that are categorised
  

No Free Rides

If you want redemption, then you better redeem yourself.
or go to hell like the rest of us...