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 a Sunday. Apologies if I offend.
Anyway, here’s my confession. I absolutely adore sassy, sexually [...]

It’s Your Damn Fault - The Cult of the Individual

 Meanwhile, dominant society prefers to understand such oppressive harm as aesthetic taste, entertainment, or freedom–and not deal with the harm of it at all, except, perhaps, in psychotherapy or on talk show which will never deal with the harm as structural, political, and institutionalized.
- Over Her Dead Body - Julian Real
First up, Meanwhile is a [...]

Ugly Little Goat Monster, Why you looking at me like that?

Sooo.
I’ve been planning a post about beauty for a while. Lots of different aspects of it. But then I started feeling Ugly. Real Ugly. I was lying in bed last night, very tired, just trying to experience my body from the inside (not like that). Feeling and sensing the limits of my body. Where my [...]

Blue Sky Thinking

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 their path through life. I’ve never seen anything so cute that manages to be as [...]

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. I’ll explain in a moment.
First off let me mention that the french title is shown [...]

Too Much Too Fast - Somebody Engage my Brain

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 on…it’s just that either my life is speeding up or my brain is slowing down.
The swing is [...]

Conflusion

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 [...]

Intellectual Detachment - Emotions (are) for Idiots

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 detaching myself from the fact that it’s been a problem I’ve had for ages. It [...]

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.
People…the way people talk and communicate… the importance and power of the tiniest moments and things.
This may [...]

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 there..it’s one of those slightly irritating articles that doesn’t go into any detail about anything. It raises a [...]

Securer Tea - How much can you fit in a cup?

So, I was just reading loads of unrelated things, and a thought sprung up in my head. Unrelated to anything I was reading, but it’s been bothering me for the last five minutes and I’m stuck at work so I’ve got nothing better to do than pour it out.
Security.
That was the main thought. Just that [...]

The US Government Clearly hasn’t seen Highlander 2 - Fools

So, I haven’t read the rest of the paper yet, but the front page of the guardian says that the US reckon it’s important to look into blocking out the Sun in order to save us all from global warming. Now, all of us Sci Fi geeks know that a certain member of the Clan [...]

Yield To Total Elation

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 [...]

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 and starts. I need to figure out a good way of forcing myself to sleep…but forcing [...]

News O’ye Worlde - Today I learnt and Thought

…about lots of things. Some have been bubbling under for a while, some have just popped into my head. In an atypical post I shall attempt to deal with real events in the real world…the news.
Yes that’s right. I just read the Guardian…and by lord I’m going to talk about it. Just you wait.
Not long [...]