the...other...blog

I've resurrected my...er...'creative' blog...basically just stream of consciousness stuff...not really stories...just kind of...I dunno...mad thoughts and dreams. All written fairly badly it must be said...described by my sister as "disturbing" and by James as "not enough storm troopers". I don't think anyone else read it. Some things, perhaps, are better left unread.
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I really must get out more

Strange things are happening. Like. My alarm clock somehow setting itself to 5:39 am. It woke me up at ten the previous morning and I swear I didn't touch it all day, but I went to set it last night and it was at 5:39. Could this be some kind of electrical fault? Did I do it in my sleep? The amount of times I would have had to push the buttons makes it unlikely....and it takes some effort to keep the alarm button pushed...
I suppose there must be a rational explanation.
But, being completely paranoid, I put 5:39 into google and it came up with a couple of bible verses. Thats how they're written, like the numbers on a clock. John I didn't understand. Mathew was something like "if someone hits you on the right cheek, offer them your left cheek as well". I'm not about to go around doing that. Is this God's way of telling me that he's going to give me a good slapping at some stage? If so, I may have to edit my blog a little...
Actually, I'm not quite an atheist, despite some of my earlier posts...I get religious feelings all the time, they just aren't connected to any particular belief system. I can't believe in things without evidence and to me that seems the only way to live your life. However it is a fact that religious people are generally healthier than people without beliefs. There is a theory that religion satisfies a deep psychological need-no one can deny that there is something in our minds that we do not control: dreams are accepted to carry meaning, therefore our minds are at least separated into a messenger and a receiver of messages. So there is a part of our minds that we do not have conscious access to, that has a different kind of perception, that knows more than we do. And maybe being in touch with God through praying is in fact a way of keeping in touch with this 'higher self'. And....
I've confused myself.

Revelations

Found a copy of revelations online and decided to do some reading. I'd been led to believe(I think it was by one of those godawful 'Left Behind' things) that Jesus starts turning people inside out at one point- imagine my disappointment. He does kill people with a big sword that comes out of his mouth though, which was quite good. And he seemed like such a nice guy.
Its all pretty dramatic, the seven seals being broken and all that. Everytime one gets broken something horrible happens like an earthquake or something. Then, once the seventh seal is broken, heaven's brass section starts laying down some improvisational jazz. Blood and hail and fire fall from the skies-a third of the creatures in the sea die, to their considerable relief I should imagine. Then the sixth angel pull off one hell of a saxophone solo which results a third of mankind dying with fire, smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
All this is seen from the point of view of John, who, while sleeping off a hearty mushroom dinner, received the revelations. At one point he says he was 'quite astonished'.
Its an interesting read. I think I've possibly found a plausible reason for Christians to vote for George Bush, as well. I'd always wondered why they did, I mean his policies are hardly Jesus-like, you know, killing everyone and so forth, denying healthcare to the meek. I'm wondering if maybe they think he's the antichrist. The antichrist is supposed to be a political figure who takes over the world, creating a global economic/imperial hegemony while pretending to be a Christian. He's also backed up by a 'false prophet'. Pat Robertson maybe? All this has to happen before Jesus can do his reverse sword swallowing trick and kill everyone. So maybe that's why they like him in power.
Or, more likely, they're just idiots.

More Dreams...

It seems that everytime I wake up in the morning and go back to sleep for an hour I have some kind of utterly fucked up dream...today I dreamt that I was being stalked by people with roast chickens instead of heads. Scary.

WWIII? Bring it on...

Iran is going to be attacked it seems. Herr Rumsfeld has drawn up plans to airstrike about 450 installations, some of which are underground and will have to be hit with nukes. Apparently they're getting the nukes ready at the moment. Far out. Of course this has nothing to do with Irans own nuclear ambitions-they're still at least a decade away from even beginning the production of a warhead let alone the massive infrastructure needed for a delivery system-no, its about oil. Again. Iran is planning to stop trading in dollars when it sells its oil, which will cause the value of the dollar to plummet and possibly cripple the American economy which is already several trillion dollars in the red. Saddam was also planning to do this before he got taken out. Iran has promised a crushing response if its attacked, and unlike Iraq, it can deliver one. It has 800,000 soldiers and tanks that actually work. It has missiles that can hit Israel and possibly Europe. It has enough ship to blockade the gulf and effectively halt oil exports. Its friendly with China, which owns a large proportion of the American debt, and Russia, which owns about 6000 nukes. Its close to the new Iraqi Taliban that America accidentally brought to power, and has a pact with Syria which also has a big army. I wouldn't attack Iran. But then I still have at least a trace amount of sanity left, unlike Donald and his pals.
Fortunately 86% percent of Americans are opposed to military action in Iran, but that could well change if there's another terrorist attack. The pentagon are already planning to implicate Iran if an attack occurs. So I hear.
It really would be stupid to hit Iran. Crazy. So get ready

The Mergatroid

Finally added a new link - simply click on it and be transported into the sonic world of The Mergatroid. Immerse yourself, download the music, flee your home countries and go to the gigs, view the photographs-incidentally I can clear up a little self-made mystery here; James is the one with the beard and the glasses. Yes, James Boston-fastest piano fingers in the West. Or the East. Of London. Perhaps...the world! We were at Eton together back in the sixties, you see.
So there you have it; The Mergatroid! Share and enjoy...

Did anybody say "good shot"?

Dick Cheney shot someone. It was an accident-he peppered an 80 year old lawyer in the face and neck with buckshot on a hunting trip. Fortunately for the old geezer Cheney doesn't go hunting without being followed by a crack team of medical professionals in case his bloated, corpulent heart should give up the ghost yet again. Still, there is a good side to this-perhaps Cheney now has a slightly better idea of what it feels like to be in a war situation, the screams of a fallen comrade, the blood, the horror...but probably not. Interestingly the owner of the ranch subsequently described Cheney as being 'an excellent shot.' She was probably just sucking up, though. Still, it makes you think.

Nosing Around

Been nosing through other peoples blogs. Strange just being able to just dip into someone's thoughts at random. I didn't see anything that upset me. There were lots of dictionaries. And stuff. I feel like a character in a Phillip K. Dick novel at the moment. Its good and bad.

Elephants

Is alcohol the answer? Yes. If the question is; what can I consume today that will make me act like a complete tit? Harsh, really. I hadn't had a drink for two months before tonight. Why? I dunno. All I know is that there is a part of me that is saying; we have found the answer! Drink! Drink! Driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink! But the pay off is too much. Such dark thoughts to be having, and I'm happy tonight! Aren't I?
Elephants. Bloody elephants. Following me around. Bastards.

Fuck Religion

This has truly been a historic period in the annals of human stupidity.
A Danish cartoonist publishes pictures of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb instead of a turban, holding a machine gun etc. demonising Islam as a violent, murderous religion. Stupid.
Demonstrations take place against the publication in London featuring placards proclaiming: 'behead those who insult Islam' 'remember Nine-Eleven' and a protestor dressed in a suicide bombers outfit-therefore proving the point of the cartoons they were protesting against. Stupid. A series of cartoons mocking the holocaust are run by an Arab newspaper. Stupid.
The protestor with the suicide vest deserves a special mention-he had recently been released from prison for the very holy activity of dealing class A drugs. By attending the demonstration he violated the terms of his parole and is now back in jail. STUPID.
This whole thing is ridiculous. I've heard the most bizarre and outrageous views espoused in the past week-a Muslim cleric demanding that the cartoonist be tried in an Islamic court and executed for blasphemy...it just goes on. I think the cartoons were idiotic. But in a democratic world we all have the right to make complete fools of ourselves without having vital areas of our bodies removed.
The point is that all of this is based on complete and utter nonsense. People are prepared to commit murder, to stone people to death, to take away people's freedom based on a mass delusion-this applies to all religion. Christians, Jews, Muslims...as for mocking the holocaust, which is worse: mocking a belief system based on blind faith and zero evidence or mocking the very real murder of six million men, women and children? I realize that the murderous elements within these faiths are in a minority but it doesn't let religion off the hook. No-one should be encouraged to live their lives according to a delusion and that is what faith is.
Some people believe that aliens are here on Earth. These people are treated as being a bit crazy. And they are, but there is more evidence to support their beliefs than there is to support Christianity or any other religion. Religion argues that it cannot be disproved that there is a God but there are a million things that can't be disproved. Maybe the whole world is a computer simulation and we're being used as batteries by artificially intelligent machines. You can't disprove that, but if I said I belived the Matrix to be true I'd be locked up. Imagine if I went out and killed anyone who made fun of Neo?
How can people live like this. Without thinking about the world, getting all the answers from a book. Religion removes the sense of wonder from life. It cheapens life. If God existed then I could happily just walk into the street with an AK47 gunning everyone down and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. The good would go to heaven; doing them a favour, the bad would go to hell; doing God a favour. If there is an afterlife then how can anything that happens on Earth matter? What would be the point of compassion? The word for this is nihilism. Its a nasty word. And why is Satan held up as being evil? All he supposedly does is punish the guilty. And as for his influence on the Earth, in the face of all the evil done in the name of God Satan must have retired a long time ago. Fuck religion. And fuck you.

The Ghost of Richard Nixon

He has to go. He has to go.
I suppose we all know about the whole warrantless wiretap thing that's going on. George Bush breaking the laws of his own country rather than just those quaint international laws. He would have us believe that these wiretaps were set up to track a small number of terrorist communications...I say bullshit Mr Bush man. The fact is that to get a wiretap, you have to go through a FISA court which provides the warrant. And out of the 4000 or so warrants that have been applied for since 2001 all but about ten have been granted. So why would Bush break the law if he could have easily got the warrants?
Here is my theory: he broke the law in this way because he wouldn't have got the warrants, because the people he wanted to spy on were not suspected terrorists. Who they were we don't know. Peace activists, political opponents maybe? Members of the UN?(they did it in Geneva).
Perhaps I'm paranoid. But considering everything that's happened, I wouldn't put it past him.

A Walk

Hmm. Still no response from Galloway. I guess he's just a wuss. A big Scottish girly man. Oh, well.
I'm going for a walk in a minute. I don't have anything I need to do out there, I'm just gonna...go for a walk...This is unusual for me. As you can probably see from my picture I spend most of my time sitting in the dark, rocking backwards and forwards whilst sharpening my scythe in preparation for the coming apocalypse. But not today. Hastings has a variety of big hills with some fairly stunning views so I might walk up one of them. Nietzsche used to walk up mountains. He said that no thought worth having ever occurred to him when he wasn't walking. He wrote an entire book about this called good god I'm fucking knackered from walking up this damn mountain but hey, I've had some thoughts worth having and no mistake. No he didn't. Why am I so fascinated by this geezer when I still don't really have any solid idea of what he was actually going on about? Perhaps because he was misunderstood...like...me(sob). It was the moustache that did it. People took one look at the thing and thought he was a broom, as detailed in his 1874 work Ich bin nicht ein Besen (I am not a Broom). Many described it as his masterpiece. Not including his sister, who was busy on her own work; Crikey, I Can't Wait For Hitler to Be Born.
Right. I'm off.

So what are we gonna do today, Brain?

Hmm. Stuck. I have an idea but it is incomplete. Certainly not enough to hang a 90 minute script on. But I've done a few characters with biographies, back stories etc. Also, I know what it is I'm writing about. But I have no story. I have to do this...I need lagre amounts of money to validate my existance...yes, lagre amounts. Its like large amounts but spelled wrong.
Enough of this tomfoolery, time to talk about something sensible. Like human-animal hybrids. When I heard Bush mention this in his State of the onion thing, my reaction was the same as any other right-thinking person. Obviously the man is insane. Maybe 'God' told him about it. But no, after doing a little research, I discovered that in fact animal-human hybrids are real. They've made pigs with human blood running through their veins and rabbit eggs have been successfully fused with human eggs. Also, Stanford University in California is planning to create (wait for it) mice with human brains! Mice with human brains! Mice! With human brains! I mean how the f...I mean what th..why in the w...mice with human brains!
So there we have it. A warning about mice with human brains from a human with...oh, make up your own joke.

Found a Job

I've decided to try and write a screenplay. When I get ideas they tend to be visual so it seems the this may be the medium that I should be concentrating on. So...I sat at my computer, opened up Word and realised that I had absolutely no idea how to write a script. None whatsoever. So I bought a book on how to write a screenplay, which is helping. I have an idea...at best half formed...I'd say it was probably between 20 and 40% formed...I've started sticking pages full of notes to the wall of my bedroom so I don't have to sort through them...if anyone ever sees this I may well be sectioned...but at least I'm happy. Aren't I?

Pretty Speeches

Watched the chimp giving his big state of the union speech last night. Always tough to watch a war criminal receiving multiple standing ovations. Wagging his finger at us. Smirking. Trying to justify his illegal activities. Lying about...everything. Always talks about helping the poor at these things. Since he's been in power those living in poverty in the states now number about 37 million- the highest rate in the western world. So at least they've got a lot of company I suppose. Also he said at one point "there is no peace in retreat." Reminds me of a book.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

Enough is fucking enough. When will the man be arrested?