Category Archives: Perception

Narrativomania – Stories across Genres

Posted on 7 January 2008 by

Wow, that’s a weird title. I think this is going to be a long and rambling weird one. I’ve been thinking about writing it for too long, and right now, a lot of peggle has made my eyes bleary and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Fiction, Narrative, Perception, Ramble, Rant, Reading, Reality, Strange, Television, Writing | 4 Comments

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

Posted on 23 May 2007 by

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 | 14 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

Points of View – Electric Bitches and Storytelling: A Matter of Perspective

Posted on 5 May 2007 by

So, this isn’t another post whinging about my life, don’t worry. Instead, I’m talking about computer games. Specifically my favourite computer game (probably). And in fact that’s not even what I’m going to be talking about…but lets not get ahead … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Feminism, Game Design, Games, Gaming, Gender Roles, Interaction, Literature, Narrative, Next-Gen, PC Games, PC Gaming, Perception, Perspective, Possibility, SHODAN, Stereotypes, Storytelling, System Shock, The Future, Thoughts | 16 Comments

Photo Jenny and the Eye of the Beholder

Posted on 20 March 2007 by

So, among other things I’ve been reading a bit more news than usual. Particularly the Guardian because it’s what I read generally, if only because I’d happily pay the cover price for getting to read whose Birthday it is (and … Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty, Everything, Haircuts, Me, Memories, News, Perception, Philosophy, Photogenic, Photography, Racism | 8 Comments

What the Folk are you on about? – Putting Musical Pigeons in their holes

Posted on 23 February 2007 by

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 | 4 Comments

Conflusion

Posted on 10 February 2007 by

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 | 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

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

What is the world coming to? – Kids Today

Posted on 31 January 2007 by

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 | 23 Comments

Yield To Total Elation

Posted on 13 January 2007 by

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 | 4 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

It’s all in your head – Ways of Listening

Posted on 8 January 2007 by

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 | 1 Comment

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

Who’s reality is it anyway? – The Case of the Missing America (and the damn lies)

Posted on 2 January 2007 by

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 | 5 Comments