Oh what a bunch of hypocrits there are in the music business! I fly all over but I know I am burning carbon. At least I don't pretend to be a good guy about it. Not like these imbeciles. Have you got into the Live Earth thing yet? Well if you haven't you will. And what a crock of non-sense it is. Imagine this; Bring a load of self centred, ego-maniacs with their entourages half way across the world. Put them up in 5 star, expensive and non-eco friendly hotels. Ferry them to and fro in big Limo's and then charter the most expensive helicopters to get them to the gig. Make sure that whilst they are there the tents are air conditioned and filled with chilled Champagne from France and Grapes from Guatemala- clearly defined on the rider these items must be of original provenance and it doesn't matter if you can make do on Sparkling wine and a packet of Jaffa Cakes. The celebs must be looked after! Now get 50 fat roadies from Arkansas and Alaska to fly in and rig and turn on a 50 thousand watt light rig and the biggest PA that money can buy. Make sure that they are all trucked there on large flat bed - diesel powered lorries. Power the whole thing on generators fuelled by Diesel. Leave them running even when there is no need. Now pretend the bill is lower when you turn off the lights for 10 seconds! Then invite 200 000 of your closest friends and make sure that they need to travel to the most far flung places in the world from London, to Sydney and Japan, Shanghai, Brazil, South Africa and New Jersey ( where of course you won't be able to smell the stink from Elizabeth because they will turn fans on to re-direct the fumes from the chemical plants). Add in the global TV execs and the sponsorships and the added air miles and congestion and you have a recipe for Live Earth. Has anyone thought this through? Live Earth? More like Kill me quick. No wonder we are worried. Our stars are burning so brightly they can't see how toxic they can be! Wankers.
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What do we want and when do we want it?
Everything. Now.
At least it seems that way.
Trouble is, you can't have anything. Ever anymore.
You may have noticed that the past few posts have been sporadic and a bit tetchy. For good reason, let me say.
Along with most of my colleagues I am spending inordinate amounts of time contemplating my navel and the one question that constantly arises is "what do we do now?"
The reason that the question arises is that almost everyone I know is terrified of imminent bankruptcy and unemployment. Obviously that is not a great state of mind to be in so we are all looking for solutions. Thus far we have come up with an inspiring concept ...."bugger all".
"Bugger all" may be an enticing concept but as an economic and career policy it leaves a lot to be desired.
I have already raged about how we got ourselves into this mess but the main issue is what do we do about it now. I have no definitive answer to that question but I can describe few nuggets that have risen to the surface of the toilet bowl that we call life.
Firstly, our world has shifted. It no longer revolves around the US and the dollar. Obama is a nice book end to the American century. Looks good, wins prizes, smiles and looks magnanimous but is in effect powerless and only a token gesture.
Second, Asia owns everything and will be the leader for at least the next 100 years. Their capacity for innovation is increasing and they now compete as the more powerful partner in global trade. If you look at the exploited African continent you will have noticed that China has pretty much replaced the entire western presence in many countries. eg Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Nigeria and so on. This is because they are sucking up all the resources that can manage.
Thirdly, despite the best efforts of government as the lender of last resort the conduits they are using are populated by greedy people who have not adapted to the modern reality of austerity. How can we tackle the issue of userous interest rates being charged to "real" economic activities when they paper money they lend is charged at infinitesimally small rates? The arbitrage on bank lending is obsene. Imagine Bank of England base rates are 0.5% and yet they lend to property developers and builders at 20%! Thus rendeing the largest sector of the economy lifeless and leaving many more people on the dole whilst asset prices crash and the ony people with any cash - banks - in the fortunate position of being able to buy back the assets they foreclosed on for a song whilst ensuring the actual creators of the asset are bankrupted.
In effect the golden goose has not only laid the eggs, she has hatched them and eaten the young whilst the farmer watches on from afar. This is madness!
If we want anything at all. Not just everything and if we want it anytime within the next 50 years we need to address this problem and the Bugger All option is not really viable.
What we need is for collective action to create new lending and finance resources that do not rely on corporations and government but rather that are funded by the people that are direcly involved in the hands on, real world economy.
In short we need to create new building societies. Without them we face a very uncertain future in the short term and a disaster in the longer term.
What goes around comes around.
It is boring as hell and everyone knows what I think about him and the whole deal anyway.
No, instead of that I wanted to bring you news of another prancing buffoon. Mr Donal Kinsella, erstwhile boss of Kenmare Mining Co of Ireland.
I guess unless you are really into mines and company news this one will have passed you by but the story goes that Mr K has got the sack from his job after his company secretary complained about him.
BOSS SACKED BY SECRETARY? HOW CAN THIS BE?
Has the little man finally got his way?
Well, yes in a manner of speaking....
It seems that the grubby hand gang from the mines were celebrating the opening of a new mine in Africa when the boss got hammered on local hooch and started to run around the hotel in the "nip". He claimed he was sleepwalking (on all three occasions) when he knocked on the company secretary - Mrs Cocoran's - door. He later claimed that "the event had been seized upon to reduce my standing".
I would wager that his "standing" was reduced by the alcohol and possibly by the over powerful Air Conditioning in the hall!
Now, I have heard of repetitive strain injury but never repetitive sleepwalking exposure. Maybe they should use it as a sketch on the TV show, E.R. Imagine, Dr Kovax looking perplexed and yet handsome, calm and yet anxious as he glances provocatively at the camera and begins ordering heamo tests and MRI scans and bloods and all that TV medico crap so that they can waste an hour before diagnosing him with "Acute (sic) gluteous maximus with a severe case of pervo neurotic RSE."
Sounds good.
In daily life we call it flashing!
Mr Kinsella defended his position by saying that he "had been holding stock for years." Now I am reporting this second hand and he could as easily have said he was holding his stalk but I will never know. Maybe he is a true politician and says one thing whilst meaning another. Stock or stalk, neither is particularly edifying and neither is suitable behaviour for the chairman of the board.
For my money this little tale of excess and stupidity combined with the minor perverse pecadillos of a man we have never heard of before and will never hear of again is far more interesting that Prince, Conrad Black or any of those other self aggrandising wankers that continue to pollute our media.
Let's hear it for the little man! (and give him the benefit of the doubt. It was cold that day.)
Godan dayin keneri,
one of the things about being alone in a foreign land is that you suddenly find that you have hours of spare time that simply aren't available at home. So what do you do with all that life that suddenly lands in your lap with no commitments to fill it?
I guess that depends on what you are made of and what is pre-occupying you at the time.
For some it involves beer, fags and a canoodle in a dodgy bar filled with ex-pat oil workers and lady boys. For others there is the opportunity to go shopping with abandon. Then again there are the solitary types who hike mountains and masturbate frantically in the privacy of their sleeping bags. Yet again there are others who take the opportunity to go sight seeing and absorb some local culture.
This time for me it has been a voyage of discovery; a vertitable orgy of indulgence; I have finally read some new books.
However, it's not all good. As is often the case I picked up the tomes ta Heathrow in the Borders shop there and not being inclined to read Jeffrey "plagiarist" Archer I decided to try and fill in the gaps regarding doing business in the modern world.
As you may know there are a plethora of books that claim to teach you how to make millions or fix companies or manage networks or any of that other corporate crap when in fact they all have one thing in common: one idea expanded and reiterated ad infinitum.
It's kind of interesting that most of these books ignore what they purport to tell us. I mean how many Internet marketing books are there? Book - Internet...? Some dichotomy there I think.
Then there are the enticing quotes on the gate folds - "brilliant.. A masterpiece .. every CEO should read this book..." etc. All total bullshit. These little nuggets are the synopsis of a book and of an entire ideology. The ideology of instant gratification.
I want to tell you that they do not and will not work for you or your organisation. They are simply another pile of pulped paper that would be better used in art classes for 5 year olds.
Take for instance the last one I read - THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell. The bullet points on the cover say, " fascinating" twice, nay thrice! whilst the reality is that the entire thing is dedicated to trying to justify a spurious theory that fads are akin to epidemics. He has three new terms to pontificate about and an interminable analysis of Sesame Street and Blues Clues - I kid you not.
Now that may be fascinating and relevent to the makers of kids TV but it has not the slightest bearing on how anyone else does business - although he does try tp make Hush Puppies some kind of uber-brand.
So I guess what all that means is that most of the stuff you read is totally irrelevent and/or useless.
Sadly there are sufficient numbers of graduates in big companies who rely on these kinds of books so that they can impress their bosses with the new ideas. Unfortunately the bosses are too damn busy to read them for themselves so experience is subsumed in a wave of "modern" thinking which is 99% useless.
Which brings me on to the basis of this rant and that is that American / Western business practises are about to be dealt a body blow by the East.
In the past few days in Singapore I have read a lot of stuff about various markets that I have little knowledge of and I have to say that I am massively impressed with what I have come across.
Did you know for example that Singapore, The Philippines, Malaysia and India are all in the middle of huge property booms? Singapore has more than doubled in the past year alone.
Now there is a great deal of action by foreign companies here - Citibank - HSBC and so but there is an equal amount of action going the other way. Did you know that the ousted PM of thailand is trying to buy an English soccer club? Just like the Americans are doing? Perhaps that will be the battlefield where the lines are first drawn - America v Russia v Asia using African and S American troops. Sounds ominously like 1984 to me!
The difference I have seen on my many visits to Asia is that people here are ready and willing to learn about how we Westerners think whilst Westerners are almost all in the dark when it comes to figuring out what makes Asians tick. That is a legacy of empire and the unwavering belief that we are right.
We aren't. At least not always.
So the business school models that teach us all about profit and loss and corporate legacy and so on are going to have to change and change quickly. Much as Microsoft will loose out to Linux and ipods so will Citibank fall to the claws of an emerging and dynamic asian tiger where longterm planning take over from short term gain.
You can already see it in the UK where the richest man is Mr Mittal - an Indian, followed by 2 Brits and a Russian, and an Iraqi Jew and 2 more Indians. Pretty soon you will be amazed to find that 7-11 in downtown Montana now sells shells made in Amritzar, beef jerky from Phnom Phen and the latest Chinese chart hits for download on your Tawaniese made cell watch and nano computer. (wanc for short - made by the wanc corporation of Dubai).
America and the West have an unflinching belief in their systems and methods but I can't see why. they don't even work in the home states so why on earth would they translate across continents?
There is a definitive list of certainties in this world and it is this:
DEATH
TAXES
I would also like to add one more vital element to this combination; shit.
You will die; you will be taxed; and you will continue to shit until it is all over and even then you will probably manage to squeeze one more turd from the passage of time.
All else is maleable and transient.
So before you get too concerned about your career and life aspirations take these items as the basis of your creed and try to adapt to the new world. It could be better than you think and I for one would rather eat a curry than a Big Mac anyday - even if the last turd before my passing requires a loo roll in the fridge.
see you in paradise parishioners.
Good morning, I have run out of steam a bit today but in the spirit of co-operation I have decided to sell off our last remaining copies of the Lovemakers debut album in Australia. So, here is the deal. As avid readers of my rants I am giving away the last remaining copies. I just need a $1 for the postage so that it doesn't cost me too much. paypal me at info@bariarecords with your address and the record is on its way. As we go through our stock list I will let you know whats going to be available. There are a few vinyls from Glovebox and a very few from Heavely States, Gasolineros and Blue Eyes son available as well so if they are your faves let me know. We won't be pressing them again so I guess they are by default limited editions. Cheers
Hola,
I have been thinking again about how the new world of WEB 2.0 is going to affect us all and I am a bit worried by the whole thing.
There are a few things about the way it all developing that are causing us real problems and I can only see it getting worse.
Web 2.0 is supposed to be the new way of the world and whilst I am no expert I have had a few discussions with people that make me wonder if anyone has the faintest idea of what is going to happen next.
For us at the label the web has been a bloody nightmare to deal with. Let's be honest for once. Peer to Peer is screwing every label on the planet and anyone who says different is a liar. The genie is out of the bag and now we face ruin. I mean it.. RUIN! It has become a better business idea to give away music and make money on the shirts. The same is about to happen to movies and TV and print and god only knows what else. Even retail is about to fall of a cliff when more of the high end purchasers move away from shops and online.
The thing with being in business is that you are suposed to make a profit and if you don't it's all over. All that are left are amateurs and dreamers. Like the guys who repair steam engines for fun. Maybe 2 of them make a living from it but it isn't an industry anymore. Music is like that, It is raidly becoming the preserve of the gifted amatuer and rock stars are a thing of the past. We had better get used to it. From global industry to cottage industry in 10 years. That is some change in the landscape I think you will agree.
Of course there are winners from this new dynamic and new models are emerging all the time but they only last a few months before being bettered. Look at Myspace - who seriously thinks that works any more? Or Money Supermarket or or friendsreunited or lastminute.com or Napster or any of another million sites. They come and go with abandon and all they leave behind are cached pages and memories. facebook will last until 2008 before it become passe and goes the way of all others.
What will happen is that there will be a few local phenomena and maybe one or two big acts that break through the chaff and become household names but before the decade is out there won't be any bands just individual songs.
It's logical when you think about it. There are millions of tunes already out there and you can pick and choose whatever you want at will and for zero cost. Where is the upside in that?
Of course the "industry" is talking to itself and saying there is a future and all that but I woke up today with a feeling like it's all over so I have no regrets in annoucing that we are no longer going to release CD's anymore. We will do digital for now but frankly I am looking for a new job. Who needs it? I don't want to be a sad lonely cyber individual bleating on about the death of my label when I know in my guts that I have joined in too late and with too much optimism.
OK, you say, there is no brand loyalty anymore and who cares where you buy your stuff from so long as its cheap?
No one.
There.
What matters more these days is getting a bargain. Ok, fair enough but where does that leave quality and service?
These issues are not irrelevant.
For music it means an ability to sort the good from the bad - talent from hacks and only experience and energy will figure that out, It also means that lots of people were inevitably consigned to dead end jobs in Wal Mart. But what if there is no Wal Mart any more?
What then?
The fact of the matter is that in our time the rules of life are changing so fast its unprecedented.
Expertise is worthless. Quality and innovation are devalued and intellectual gain is a by word for useless loser.
Plato said in THE REPUBLIC that there should be an elite who are tasked with governing the minnions. they should be selected on merit and not on birthrite and that they should be a class above the rest.
Our new version of democracy means that we have disbanded any pretence of having an elected elite who are able to make decisions based on rational self interest and instead we have reverted to the tyrany of the masses where the simplest things are open to debate and argument and that in itself is seen as a good thing.
IT IS NOT.
If we spend our entire lives arguing about everything then only the loudest voices get heard and being the pack animals that we are the loudest voice invariably belongs to the biggest biggot.
I am really worried that we are going to loose everything that makes our lives livable, The NSA and Murdoch will take over the internet and we who rely on the net so much will find ourselves in a murky world of half truths and lies. If you have the time and energy to promote a political agenda you will prevail and the search engine tyrany will mean that we come to rely on WIKIPEDIA or some other half wit resource rather than looking at the original material for ourselves.
There is a value in the old paperbased systems - libraries I think we call them. The value is that they mean we are forced to physically look for information and copy and read and think about what we are seeing. Its much slower and harder work than googling but it means that the quality of research is better and more refined and it also means that it isn't open to falsification. (Red ink underlining is much harder to believe than a careful edit on You Tube.)
The people are not always right. they don't have the information to be right. If they did we would never have bought the Birdy song and Concorde would still be flying. People power inevitably means the rise of the righteous and draconian repression. Communism by the back door if you like.
If you take an average day in the life and wake up, get out of bed and drag a comb across your head you haven't much time to figure out if Melody 1.0 is better than melody 2.0. You want someone else to do that for you. But if you want to decide id a guy should hang for a crime you can make that call in 5 seconds flat and without the information or evidence. That's how it works, Death is an easy judgement to make but choosing that video is much harder. That's what the new world will lead to.
Another thing that freaks me out is that there are only American values in place. America sees itself as the greatest nation on earth and its institutions as infallible. They are not and they simply don't work anywhere else. You can't export democracy to places where there is no tradition or demand for it. That's why Iraq ia such a mess. No one wants the goods you are exporting and in a weird way its like trying to sell Trabants to Toledo. There is no demand and the whole thing is a bust. But what happens when some enterprising despot gets hold of the web and manipulates it in his own image. We don't just loose power - we loose the whole civilisation . It is a dangerous game they are playing these designers.
We need to filter and refine our lives to make them better not open them up to more crap.
I for one will not trust anyone who hides behind a corporate screen and who pretends to have my best interests at heart. He doesn't know me and he doesn't care and in the great western tradition of recent times if I can screw him over I will. I expect nothing less from him. These are the real lessons America has taught me. Screw or be screwed.
And me a European socialist!
VIVA LA REPUBLIQUE!
THE RADIO PD AT CLEAR CHANNEL Feliz mi amigo's, time to get back to the music business. And what a business it is. There are a few things that have sprung up this week that are worth a look. First of all there is the news - old though it is - that a deal has been struck with US radio networks to ensure that a couple of thousand hours of indie music is played on commercial stations this year. I will believe that when I hear it! What a load of hockum. The promise is about as realistic as the promise made by Catherine the Great when she told her mum that she never even kissed a boy. Yep, the same Catherine who died whilst humping a horse! If radio ever really got itself involved and started investing time and energy in street level music there would be an almighty disaster that would shake the very foundations of commercial broadcasting throughout the western world. Radio is not what it seems. It is programmed according to focus groups and small playlists. The key to success is getting onto the playlist and making sure that there is something happening for people outside of the industry to latch on to. Most stations are now programmed by a computer that picks similar beats, keys, rhythmns etc and the probablity of a machine having any artistic intergrity is pretty close to zero. In fact it is a certainty that it is zero but I have seen Terminator and Matrix and I don't want to annoy my metal masters! Indie and street music is explicitly not something that adheres to the major label - radio friendly - melange that bores everyone over the age of 10 to tears. In fact you are much more likely to find interesting and exciting music choices on network TV. At least someone there has to combine visuals with audio to create a scene. No chance of that on 99% of radio stations these days. There are some real pluses to that system though. I saw a weird show this week that has the Promoter - Harvey Goldsmith acting like Donald Trump. For some bizarre reason he was asked to go and take a look at a small radio station in outback UK - somewhere called Frinton on Sea. Now I live in the Uk and I have no idea where that is. Some Station! The station is run by a guy who looks like he sells newspaper ads and 2 old DJ's from the seventies - Diddy David Hamilton and Mike ' my ego is bigger than your ego" Reid. What a bunch of wankers! They have no playlist, no transmitter, no audience and no idea how to do anything other than add the platitudes between songs. They are actually losing £50 000 per month on the station but I can't see how. They don't seem to be there in person and the entire place is run by a bald bloke called Gary who looks fierce but is actually unable to have a hissy fit without crying. These dorks all live in a big house togther where they drink expensive wine and eat spag bog every night. They share this house and spend most night telling each other how much they love the Beatles before beetling off to bed at 10pm with a copy of Razzle and some Vaseline. God knows what the blokes who are paying for all this think they are doing but to me it looked like a close approximation to a gay porn movie from 1973. Before I get criticised for not haveing a clue about Radio let me tell you I was a founder member ofteh team that set up Radio Wombat in Manchester in the late 80's - my first pirate radio station - costing us about 12p a month for electricity. The trasmitter was converted from an old pub amp and the antennae was makde from wire wrapped around some himney statcks. We had no idea how it worked but we broadcast to about 10 square miles of manchester for months until the amp blew up and set fire to the roof! So now I see these imbeciles who have worked their way through to the heights of the BBC and been thankfully they have been fired. Boy, am I glad I never got that job at Radio 2! Imagine how much more up my own fundament I would have been by now!!! The trouble is that they are also the guys who know how to make an impression at an interview and then end up running your local network. For all you Aussies I give you Richard "encyclopedic knowledge but bugger all charisma" Kingsmill at Triple J. Once upon a time radio was new and vibrant and had something to say. The rules were unknown and so it had feeling about it that was exciting and worth listening to. I am sorry to say that the rules are now so established that there are core "sectors" to every show - Weather - Time - Traffic - ads - Chat - sponsors etc. And because of that - much like life itself - there is no scope for anyone to experiment or make a difference on commercial radio. So what happens is we get a set playlist of maybe 10 songs when it should be 20. We get vile and incoherent broadcasts that project the views of a tiny minority of the population EG Rush Limbaugh - Chris Moyles and John Laws and we the audience are desensitised or revolted to such a degree that music is totally devalued and made a pointless commodity. This industrialised model of broadcasting has led to the mass migration of listeners away from music as a part of everyday life. It has become just another widgit that you can buy if you really need it. Like a new front door. Why buy a new one if the old one works well? I say you should get new music if for no other reason than it makes new synaptic conections and increases your brain power. Music makes you stronger - better looking and inreases your sexual prowess. It makes girls drop their knickers and boys open their wallets. It makes your dad mad and your mum edgy. MUSIC MATTERS! So now the deal has been struck who says what constitutes indie music? Is a record released by Cherry Tree via Interscope with all its major label clout an indie or is it the guy at home with his Mac and keyboard? Bet you guess the same answer as me. Sorry mate - not our thing! Plus ca change mes amies Salut! PS. - I wonder why the major labels haven't bought as many stations as they can? If I had their money I would. PPS - Anyone like to offer me a job? I need the credibility.
Commiserations my friends,
I have had a few thoughts on the Blacksburg massacre. Not related to the victims or response teams - more about the mourner in chief and his cohorts.
I wanted to know who wins from this sick debacle.
Unless Sting releases a "sympathy" single I can't see how pop music has any relevence today.
Suggest you play Beethovens Requiem Mass. It suits the mood and is soothing somehow.
Here is what I have come up with.
Formula:
Psycho Kill kids.
Public buys guns to defend itself and armours homes, cars and schools.
Increase paranoia across the country.
Isolate a racial characteristic and make that a reason for allienation.
Sales of guns increase tenfold.
Shareprices of arms makers increase tenfold.
Foreigners become harrassed and carry guns for self protection.
One or two get involved and kill.
More guns bought for "defence"
Cheney - Haliburton and all Bush's cronies make money.
More guns - more deaths = more money = a virtuous money making cycle for some.
Winner - Arms dealers and manufacturers ( you don't make guns to grow food )
Winner - security companies
Winner - Paranoia councillors
Winner - Weird sects that divide people from their neighbours
Winner - Racists
Winner - Fox News
Winner - Funeral homes
Loser - everyone else
My advice:
Protest Peacefully.
Do not get freaked out.
The odds of getting shot in America are really bad but they are still only 41 gun related deaths per /1 million population
(1/1 million in UK where there are no legal guns and 3/1 Million in France. In other words you are 41 times less likely to be killed in a country that has no weapons to defend yourself with. There's not much need to shoot someone dead when you can jump back five feet and miss his fist is there? We don't carry arms so criminals don't either and crazy people can't get them so the best they can do is strangle you and I think its pretty hard to strangle 34 people without being stopped.)
Buy shares in gun companies - they are going to have a bumper year.
Today is another sad day.
You all know about Virginia Tech already and the mass murder there. The 19th school massacre in the past 10 years in the US.
What madness is this?
I am sure that you already knw about the ones that happened in the UK and Australia as well in recent years - Hungerford, Port Arthur, Dunblane.
What about The Russian armageddon at Beslan as well? Or the last one in Lancaster County when the Amish kids were murdered.
My mind is just too battered and bruised to see what the point of any of these things are.
It is as if there is an invisible demon wandering amongst us just looking for children to slaughter.
But there isn't.
There are just lunatics who can get their hands on weapons. Nothing more. It is not some spectral emmince destryoing our world.
It is us.
When I heard about the disaster I sighed - like always - and wondered how things had go to this stage. This morning - a few hours after the event it seems that the murderer was upset because his girlfriend had dumped him for another guy.
When that happened to me I had a cry in private and then got on with my life. I didn't have a gun so I didn't kill my rival suitor. In fact, we are now friends and I like to think that we will always be so. I like him a lot more than his wife; which tells me that we aren't always very perceptive when it comes to love and matters of the heart. If I had killed him the world would have been a poorer place. He lives, she lives, and so do their 2 kids and a million happy memories that I could have snuffed out if I had lived in Virginia and had access to a gun. Thats why you don't need guns.
But the thing about Virginia Tech that has struck me the most is the way the students reacted.
They closed the doors and looked at the internet.
Not one hero emerged. Not one extra ordinary individual has been cited. There was no brave soul willing to risk trying to save his fellows. Instead they remained in their dorms googling like mad and hoping to survive.
Victims of virtual reality.
Let me tell you people. If you are one of the new ipod generation that grew up with video carnage on PS2 and HI DEF Tarrantino movies where heads are severed with Katana's for entertainment you are so desensitised that you will sit like rats in a lab until some fanatic comes and blows you away. Like all victims you are willing to submit yourselves to the ultimate sanction without fear becasue it has become a normal part of your day.
CSI is not real.
Kill Bill is not real.
Resevoir Dogs is not real.
The Godfather is not real.
You should change things. It is in your interest. It is simple self preservation.
When your skin feels the burn of real sunlight and the sweat burns your eyes you are alive.
When the shiver of cold courses down your spine and a touch makes you recoil you are alive.
When your guts ache with envy and your ears ring with noise you are alive.
When the hum form your bloodstream drowns out your own thoughts you are alive.
As Ibsen once said,
You have only one life.
Once thats gone you don't get another.
START NOW!
Ban weapons.
Switch off the screen.
Get out of your Air conditioned room and experience real life.
Buy a guitar and play it.
Make love to your lover.
Masturbate.
Eat your fill.
Drink with a cheerful companion.
Sail on the ocean and swim in the sea.
Shit with abandon.
Sleep on bare earth.
Fight with your fists and your words - eschew the mechanical tools of death they are for cowards.
Kiss your kids, your parents and your friends.
Sleep easy
Tomorrow is another day
Posted by BariaBlog at 1:36 AM
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