Category Archives: Learning

Fear and Loathing on a Happy Monday

Posted on 24 March 2008 by

Stuck in work. This is the second to last shift at the internet place. The place is rammed, due to the Bank’s going on holiday. The only appreciable difference to me is more high pitched squealing all around, and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Environment, Fear, Learning, life, Loathing, Politics, Ramble, Rant, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Satisfying – Sex and the Pretty

Posted on 11 September 2007 by

Innacurate title really. I’m not feeling particularly pretty and I’m not getting any sex. Still…should ramp up the stats a little. First though, an aside. I lvoe my blog surfer, occasionally I find someone on there who I can’t remember … Continue reading →

Posted in Experience, Feminism, gender, Learning, life, Love, Mind, Sex | 4 Comments

Idea Compost – The Androgyne Spirituality of the Berdache

Posted on 14 May 2007 by

Edit: Just did some further reading and the preferred term for Berdache is Two Spirit (Berdache is etymologically Spanish in origin and has negative connotations…however, I don’t want to say ‘Spirituality of the Two Spirit’ as it’s repetitive. More information … Continue reading →

Posted in Androgynism, Berdache, Culture, Curioisity, Equality, Everything, Fantasy, Femininity, Feminism, Fun, Gah, gender, Gender Identity, Gender Play, Gender Roles, Humps, Ideas, Identity, Individuality, Inequality, Learning, life, Objectification, Open Minded, People, Perception, Personal Growth, Play, Possibility, Ramble, Random, Self-Identity, Sexism, Sexuality, Sexy, Strange, Subversion, Swings and Roundabouts, Third Gender, Transgender, Women, Writing | 4 Comments

Mything the Point – Through the Eyes of a Child

Posted on 21 April 2007 by

Curtis has a great article over here. I’ve already posted an essay I did on Myth and History, although it doesn’t make much sense and will probably ruin a great book for you if you read it. Still…I linked it … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood, Faith, Learning, life, Magic, Myth, Perspective, Processes, Reality, Science, Thoughts | Leave a comment

Knew what I Know

Posted on 28 March 2007 by

I watched Rushmore while falling asleep last night (or not..in fact I was totally brutalised by insomnia all night and I’m not looking forward to being at work for ten and a half hours, especially not on a beautiful sunny … Continue reading →

Posted in Diary?, Film, Learning, life, Personal, Ramble, Thoughts | 2 Comments

Blue Sky Thinking

Posted on 7 March 2007 by

Lots of Inspirational things have been driving my way in the last twenty four hours or so. Not least of all is a wonderfully thoughtful webcomic called Copper. Seemingly just about a clever dog and his wise young master and … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Culture, Emotion, Emotional, Energy, Everything, Experience, Film, Imagery, Imagination, Learning, life, Looking forward, Mood swings, Observations, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Ramble, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts | 3 Comments

Love what You Do

Posted on 5 March 2007 by

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 | 2 Comments

Perchance to Wake? – The Science of Sleep

Posted on 21 February 2007 by

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 | 4 Comments

Too Much Too Fast – Somebody Engage my Brain

Posted on 16 February 2007 by

I feel unable to really communicate accurately how I’m feeling right now. It’s not that it’s terrible, it’s just that  everything is going a bit to fast for my self to catch up with. Don’t worry, nothing terrible is going … Continue reading →

Posted in Abnormality, boredom, Brain, Emotions, Idiot, Imagination, Incoherent, Learning, life, Mind, Observations, Personal, Personal Growth, Ramble, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Tiredness | 3 Comments

Intellectual Detachment – Emotions (are) for Idiots

Posted on 4 February 2007 by

So, in my previous article on The Squid and the Whale, I commented on the fact that intellectualising stuff can make emotional experiences more troublesome, stressful, painful and more difficult to react to. I think I actually succeeded in entirely … Continue reading →

Posted in Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Broken, Detachment, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Everything, Experience, Fear, Fucked up, Gah, How to think, Identity, Idiots, Incoherent, Intellectual, Investigation, Language, Learning, life, Logic, Lost Myself, Mania, Meaning, Memories, Mental, Mild Mania, Mind, Mood swings, Multiple Personality Disorder, Music, Nonsense, Observations, Pain, Paranoia, Perception, Personal, Philosophy, Problems, Psychology, Radiohead, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Security, Self, Self Indulgent, Self-Hate, Self-Identity, Self-Recrimination, Squid, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Terror, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Whale | 10 Comments

Odd Porn Spam – Too Much Information

Posted on 3 February 2007 by

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 | 14 Comments

The Seriousness of the Everyday – Squids and Whales and Books

Posted on 2 February 2007 by

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 | Leave a comment

A Quantum Awakening – Scroedinger’s Vikings

Posted on 20 January 2007 by

Random research sometimes yields better results than anything specific. Following a link  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 … Continue reading →

Posted in 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 | 7 Comments

Day…Today…Indeed

Posted on 11 January 2007 by

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 | 12 Comments

Violence in Action – Or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the abuse of Human Rights

Posted on 3 January 2007 by

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 | 4 Comments