So, this isn’t going to make much sense, but it was wonderful. Essentially, I’ve just woken up from a particularly intense barrage of dreams, but I’ve got to go somewhere pretty soon (Tai Chi practice marathon) so can’t go too in depth, I just want to cement some of what happened.
It all started with what [...]
3 February 2008
Categories: Creation, Creativity, Death, Dreams, Intricate, Mind . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 1 Comment
So, I don’t usually plug stuff, obviously. But apparently gametap are offering Psychonauts for free to people who come under it’s license. That means anyone in North America can get one of the greatest and most imaginative games of all time for free, until the end of the year.
Now, I actually think a lot of [...]
21 November 2007
Categories: Creativity, Dreams, Gaming, Narrative, PC Games . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: No Comments
So, Busdriver’s been inspiring me, but more below than above. I just thought you might want to know why I called the post that.
Also, would anyone who wants to help my creative composting pass comments on yesterday’s post, as I need help.
I also need to know how the hell I can research the spiritual/political aspects [...]
22 October 2007
Categories: Conflusion, Confused, Creativity, Imagination, Music, Ramble, Rant, Shoddy Conclusions, Weird . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: No Comments
More filler (though actually, last post ended up sparking some awesome conversations, and all the content is only going to bring up my stats, even if it is just more people looking for nudity and weird sex).
I’ve had a very messy weekend, lots of fun, far too much self pity, and I converted all my [...]
21 October 2007
Categories: Composting, Creativity, Ideas, Nanowrimo, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 5 Comments
So.
Ever since I was ill (I’m still getting tired easily and so taking it easy…but I’m definitely better now), I’ve been in a very creative mindset. Thoughts following in slightly more coherent chains than usual, and getting somewhere…and staying there so I have time to analyse.
These a fat and lugubrious times.
I don’t know what lugubrious [...]
24 September 2007
Categories: Creativity, Drinking, Mind, Reading, Straight Edge, Writing, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 2 Comments
So, I have this problem.
I love reading, I really love reading. I’ve got huge stacks of books left to read and I’ve read huge stacks of book. The one problem is that bigger than either of these stack, is the stacks of books I’ve started but not finished.
I’m terrible at it.
I’ve started two books in [...]
15 March 2007
Categories: Artistry, Being a 'writer', Books, Creativity, Critique, Hope, Imagination, Narrative, Possibility, Ramble, Rant, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Telepathy, Thoughts, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 6 Comments
Just posting a little bit I wrote for some character speculation. We’ve got a future Taoist deciding to leave life in a underdeveloped country to seek the Bright Lights of the Genetically engineered world of tomorrow.
It’s mostly thoughts I had while watching the Ocean. I regret to say that unlike the narrator, I failed to [...]
28 February 2007
Categories: Change, Character Development, Creativity, RPG, Sea, Taoism, Thoughts . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: No Comments
So, indeed, I did watch the Science of Sleep the night before last. I enjoyed it massively, in fact it was an incredibly personally affective film for me. A little nerve-wracking almost, for all the naive silliness that goes on. I’ll explain in a moment.
First off let me mention that the french title is shown [...]
21 February 2007
Categories: Blurs, Boundaries, Creativity, Critique, Curioisity, Diary?, Dreams, Elegaic, Emotional, Emotions, Everything, Experience, Fantasy, Fear, Film, Fucked up, Gah, Heart, Honest, How to think, Identity, Imagination, Incoherent, Learning, Madness, Mania, Me, Memories, Mental, Michel Gondry, Mild Mania, Mind, Observations, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Schizophrenia, Security, Self, Silliness, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, The Science of Sleep, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Tired, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Wonderful, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 4 Comments
So, I am still maintaining some kind of forward motion on the nano. I finally got the ball rolling again.
Only problem is it’s going incredibly slowly.
I kinda took the weekend off and spent most of it absolutely bladdered…or at best hungover. This was good in a way, but in fact I think I would’ve preferred [...]
12 February 2007
Categories: Beer, Creativity, Detachment, Diary?, Drinking, Emotions, Energy, Feeling Rough, Film, Frost Troll, Gah, Hope, Imagination, Incoherent, Looking forward, Lovely, Mild Mania, Music, Nanowrimo, Nonsense, Novel, Personal, Personal Growth, Ramble, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Tired, Tiredness, Vikings, Violence, Werid, Writing, boredom, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 7 Comments
So, it’s miles off from the full moon and everything’s gone a little weird.
I think I’m having fun. In principle at least.
I keep on not thinking about what I’m saying and just splurging random sentences based on things I can see or smell or am remembering. Poor Mr Subliminal had to put up with me [...]
10 February 2007
Categories: Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Beer, Broken, Creativity, Culture, Curioisity, DJ, Day, Debate, Diary?, Dirty Snake, Dreams, Drill 'n' Bass, Drinking, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Energy, Events, Everything, Experience, Lovely, Lovely Strangers, Mania, Meaning, Media, Memories, Mental, Mild Mania, Mind, Music, Naive, Nonsense, Nostalgia, Observations, Optimism, Paranoia, Perception, Personal, Philosophy, Ramble, Reality, Sea, Self, Self Indulgent, Self-Identity, Silliness, Silly, Simplicity, Storytelling, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Weirdness, Werid, Wonderful . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
Random research sometimes yields better results than anything specific.
Following a linkĀ on an article about the iPhone (current wordpress number one) led me to Schroedinger’s cat, which I’ve known about for years. Anyway, I looked at the related links and found some interesting stuff. Most useful perhaps was the bit on Quantum Suicide.
Now this I’d [...]
20 January 2007
Categories: Being a 'writer', Big Brother, Creativity, Feeling Rough, Geekery, How to write, Internet, Investigation, Learning, Mild Mania, Nanowrimo, Novel, Quantum Physics, Science, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Vikings, Wikipedia, Writer's Block . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 7 Comments
Indeed I will, I shall and I have been for the last hour.
The track (YTTE by Matmos) is only 9 minutes and seven seconds long. It is rare that I repeat a track this many times. But it’s just so damn good. Before I start talking about the music though..a bit of background.
Here’s what the [...]
13 January 2007
Categories: Art, Artistry, Creativity, Drill 'n' Bass, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Everything, Experiment, Fun, Imagination, Incoherent, Internal Organs, Le Petit Mort, Lovely, Matmos, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Music, Nonsense, Observations, Optimism, Orgasm, Pain, Perception, Personal, Personal Growth, Poo, Propaganda, Ramble, Rant, Real-Time, Revolution, Scientific Endeavour, Storytelling, Thanks, Things that make me Smile, Track Review, Unconfined Joy, Vaguely Postmodern, Violence, Wonderful . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 4 Comments
I had a day today. Not quite finished it yet, but I thought I’d jot some thoughts down as I’ve been quiet for a coupla days.
I got practically no sleep, with what I did get performed entirely in stops and starts. I need to figure out a good way of forcing myself to sleep…but forcing [...]
11 January 2007
Categories: Art, Artistry, Brighton, Comics, Creativity, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Day, De Old and De New, Diary?, Dreams, Education, Electronica, Emotional, Environment, Everything, Evolution, Fashion, Friends, Fun, Games, History, I am an Artist, I'm a Hippy, Identity, Imagination, Incoherent, Investigation, Learning, Literature, Looking forward, Matmos, Media, Mild Mania, Money, Mood swings, Motivation, Music, Observations, Optimism, Perception, Personal, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Punk, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Stereotypes, Storytelling, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Talentless, Thanks, Things that make me Smile, Vaguely Postmodern, Want want want, Weird, Weirdness, Werid . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 12 Comments
So, this is about a lot of discussions I have with people. It’s about music, but it’s not going to be just like my random reviews of music. I want to look in a bit more depth at why I like music so much, and some of the kind of processual analysis of music that [...]
8 January 2007
Categories: Accordians, Apathetic Fallacy, Creativity, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Dancing, De Old and De New, Debate, Emotional, Experiment, Herbert, Ill, Matmos, Mild Mania, Music, Music Theory, Nonsense, Nostalgia, Observations, Perception, Ramble, Sickypoo, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Weirdness . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 1 Comment
So, last post I looked at the detachment of reality and media images of reality, and generally pondered how much our view of reality is shaped by media sources. This is a simple and obvious statement…the medium is indeed the massage…or whatever.
What keeps on striking me though is how blatant the cinema industry is at [...]
3 January 2007
Categories: Action Films, America, Apocalypse, Cinema, Controversy, Creativity, Critique, Culture, Damn Lies, Debate, Events, Everything, Extinction, Film, Hegemony, Hollywood, Human Rights, Ideology, Incoherent, James Bond, Learning, Lies, Media, Mild Mania, Morality, Nonsense, Observations, Perception, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Rant, Swings and Roundabouts, Television, Torture, Violence, Weirdness, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 4 Comments