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Category Archives: Observations
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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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Abnormality, Feminism, Individuals, Nonsense, Observations, Ramble, Society
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Beholder, Body, Body Image, Down, Emotional, Feeling Rough, Feminism, Goat Monster, Introspective, life, Looking forward, Objectification, Observations, People, Perception, Personal, Personal Growth, Photogenic, Security, Self Esteem, Self Image, Self Obsession, Self-Hate, Sexy, Ugly
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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 … Continue reading
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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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Abnormality, boredom, Brain, Emotions, Idiot, Imagination, Incoherent, Learning, life, Mind, Observations, Personal, Personal Growth, Ramble, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Tiredness
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Beer, Broken, Creativity, Culture, Curioisity, Day, Debate, Diary?, Dirty Snake, DJ, 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
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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 … 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
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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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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Meaning, Mild Mania, Observations, Paranoia, Politics, Security, Thoughts
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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. … Continue reading
Posted in America, Climate Change, Film, Global Warming, Highlander, Observations, Politics, Sci-Fi, Science, Science Fiction, Silliness, Silly, Television, US Government
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in 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
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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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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Blair, Bum, Controversy, Ethics, Events, Everything, Fear, life, Media, Mild Mania, News, Nuclear Weapons, Observations, Politics, Terror, Trident
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