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Category Archives: Critique
Gimme Some Sass – Gender Funk
So, be warned, this may not be my most forward thinking post, but I’ve been thinking about the contradictions inherent in myself recently, and thought writing about them, whilst posting some relevant videos might be something I could do on … Continue reading
Posted in Aggression, Analysis, Androgynism, Body Image, Boundaries, Changing the World, Chauvinism, Commodication, Confusion, Consumerism, Critique, Culture, Dancing, Debate, DJing, Electronica, Empathy, Equality, Everything, Femininity, Feminism, Gah, gender, Gender Equality, Gender Identity, Gender Play, Gender Roles, Genderfuck, Glamour, Humps, Identity, Ideology, Individuality, Language, life, Mild Mania, Music, Objectification, Observations, Personal, Personal Growth, Perspective, Politics, Problems, Punk, Ramble, Rant, Rude, Self Image, Self Obsession, Self-Identity, Sex, Sexuality, Sexy, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Transgender, Women
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Hopes and Schemes – The Promise of Fiction
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Artistry, Being a 'writer', Books, Creativity, Critique, Hope, Imagination, Narrative, Possibility, Ramble, Rant, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Telepathy, Thoughts, Writing
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Love what You Do
So, I know I cussed down Freakonomics fairly the other day, but I found something really interesting on their site last night. One sentence in this report (found here)really stuck in my mind and sparked off a whole chain of … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Education, Learning, Personal Growth, Psychology, Thoughts, Work
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Students today are Rubbish – I want better Journalism
Good morning everybody. I feel a bit hazy, so I expect this post to be a little hazy. Sun outside has replaced the rain of last night. This is good, but I kind of expect the pattern to repeat. Anyway, … Continue reading
What the Folk are you on about? – Putting Musical Pigeons in their holes
Music has been treating me grand recently. After a less than satisfying set on Saturday (not enough people there that early, and only about fifteen to twenty minutes of the set really worked….the ending was rushed, I thought it was … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Culture, Do Make Say Think, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Ellis Island Sound, Emotion, Emotional, Empathy, Everything, Folk, Folktronica, Freedom, Genre, Imagery, Imagination, Lost Myself, Mild Mania, Music, Music Theory, Perception, Pigeonholes, Post Folk, Post Rock, Rant, Rock, Self Indulgent, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Waves, Weird, Wonderful
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Bald head in the Morning -Not worth the trouble of an argument
So, once again, a shaven area of Britney Spears’ body has grasped the attention of the blogging sphere (or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days). I can’t remember where I first saw this, so I’m satisfying Raincoaster’s … Continue reading
Posted in Britney Spears, Critique, Culture, Equality, Fucked up, gender, Gender Equality, Gender Roles, Haircuts, Identity, Objectification, Rant, Silliness
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Perchance to Wake? – The Science of Sleep
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. … Continue reading
Posted in 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, life, 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
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Odd Porn Spam – Too Much Information
hair everywhere said 10 minutes ago:I haven’t been up to much these days. Such is life. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me these days, but I don’t care. That was it. It cropped up in my ‘My comments’ … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Everything, Feminism, gender, Gender Identity, Idiot, Incoherent, Inequality, Le Petit Mort, Learning, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Morality, Nudity, Offensive, Orgasm, Personal, Politics, Porn, Rant, Reality, Self-Hate, Sex, Sexism, Spam, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Time Bomb, Wanker, Weird, Werid, Wordpress
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The Seriousness of the Everyday – Squids and Whales and Books
So. I’ve just noticed as I listen to the music I currently hear pouring into my ears, that there is a common theme between the music, and the reason why I love the film I watched last night so much. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Critique, Culture, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Energy, Everything, Family, Film, Food, Heartbreaking, Hip Hop, Hope, Humour, Imagination, Importance, Incoherent, Insignificance, Learning, life, Literature, Lovely, Music, Observations, Pain, Perception, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Simplicity, Squid, Swings and Roundabouts, The Books, The Squid and the Whale, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Whale, Writing
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What is the world coming to? – Kids Today
It’s time to act like I’m older and more prudish than I actually am. Though I do mean it. Basically there was an article in the Education Guardian yesterday about young kids and porn. There’s a lot of stuff in … Continue reading
Posted in Bigotry, Controversy, Critique, Culture, Debate, Equal Rights, Everything, Family, Feminism, Fucked up, Gender Equality, Gender Identity, Gender Roles, Identity, Ideology, Imagination, Inequality, Internet, Media, Mild Mania, Morality, News, Nostalgia, Observations, Perception, Ramble, Rant, Storytelling, Swings and Roundabouts
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Day…Today…Indeed
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 … Continue reading
Posted in 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
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It’s all in your head – Ways of Listening
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 … Continue reading
Posted in 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
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Violence in Action – Or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the abuse of Human Rights
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 … Continue reading
Posted in 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
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Who’s reality is it anyway? – The Case of the Missing America (and the damn lies)
So, this could be long, and it might actually even be a two parter, as I want to get back to Brighton soon. Unfortunately I want to start writing now. I had a wonderful new year…including Ska and Mountains and … Continue reading
Posted in America, Anachronisms, Apathetic Fallacy, Art, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Damn Lies, Debate, Education, Everything, Film, High School, History, How to write, Identity, Incoherent, Lies, life, Literature, Lovely Strangers, Media, Mild Mania, Nonsense, Observations, Perception, Possible Lies, Ramble, Reality, Stereotypes, Storytelling, Swings and Roundabouts
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Tired and Ill but still thinking too much – Lies and Fantasies and Raising Children
So, this is being written while I’ve got something resembling a cold. Also my guts are churning and my head is screwed. I may not be on top form. However, I am also trapped in work and this is the … Continue reading
Posted in Abnormality, Anti-Capitalism, Bum, Capitalism, Consumerism, Controversy, Conversation, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Diary?, Education, Emotional, Environment, Ethics, Everything, Evolution, Family, Gender Identity, Ill, Incoherent, Learning, Lies, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Morality, Observations, Personal, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Politics, Possible Lies, Raising Children, Ramble, Scientific Endeavour, Stupid, Subversion, Swings and Roundabouts, Tired, Weirdness, Yuletide
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