saturday morning funnies

hi diddly hi hi hi....

top ten authors of the twentieth century

thomas mcguane
tom wolfe
hunter s thompson
nick cohn
charles shaar murray
nick tosches
mick farren
emmett grogan
chester himes
elmore leonard
lou cameron
kurt vonnegut
philip k dick
frederick pohl
a e van vogt
william s craddock
norman spinrad
james crumley

and beware kiddies. a copy of NIck Cohns "ARFUR" will cost you at least USD$50 anywhere!

real movies, real music...

why dont they play some of these on NZTV?

We the people...

Listening to Chris Trotter on RNZ yesterday afternoon. He expressed grave doubts about the Constituional Advisory Panel. A selected group who are going to tells us what to do.

Who selected them I might ask?

I have included here a facsimile of the first page of the United States Constitution and it begins, "We the People" and not we the constitutional advisory panel!

We here in new zealand with a unicameral parliament are totally susceptible to corparatist authoritarian edicts but this one must not be allowed to pass.

We need a constitution to protect us ffom this sort of behaviour and not to reinforce it.

Kittys Choice.

Simply one of the greatest female vocal albums ever made.

Take my word for it.

(it aint much good for nuthin else)

I got the ears dude.

United States Redux.

Like it or not the whole world looks to the UNited States for many things but mostly for the nebulous concept of freedom.

It is becoming clear now that the republican right have turned into an antiscientific, racist claque of geriatrics and their familiars.

this aint good enough and one of the most pressing outcomes of the presidential election is to use the media to let people know in general just how much science has contributed to the greatness of the UNited States and how ethnic diversity built the country for all and not just the bondholders and the coupon clippers.

to the President of the United States Of America

Go Bo
We  still believe.

wairarapa trust house hockey complex

hockey one
hockey two
hockey phut....

you must wait for the next big erection...

if you got the money honey I got the time

The Secrets of the Temple and A History of Medical Psychology have both been stolen from the Victoria University library.

Will they replace them?

Had to turn the teevee off last night.

CCTV doing a programme on science and nature.

First a coral reef in Bali where the Hotel destroyed the reef to build a hotel and n ow the reef is gone!

Then the Aswan Dam where the Russians built a typical soviet monolith and has nearly totaly destroyed the ecology of Egypt.

the world is being run by noo noo heads.

It was too much.

They all go on about the glories of the past and then do their best to destroy everything in the service of the building contractors.

WOW.

Its the same as developers in England chopping down the trees and then naming the new street after them!

After I turned the teevee off I started to read Man Against HImself by Karl Menninger.

The First chapter is an explication of the dynamic forces operating in the unconscious to enable the human organism to destroy itself.

Suicide is a peculiar death which entails three elements.

the element of dying.

the element of killing.

and the element of being killed.

The most important thing is that what the average guy considers to be a factor in suicide is merely a symptom and it is more than obvious that most of the so called experts in suicide in New Zealand are just trying to obfuscate the real origins of the psychodynamic forces at work and shift the blame.

okay.

Most of the kiwi blabbermouths are retailing their personal experience as facts because a) they are too lazy to do the real research and b) they can pander to the chronic kneejerk syndrome in NZ of looking for the easy answer everytime.

More to come as I work through the book.

Rosemary Mcleod.

You been had Rosemary.

the doco on show at the Dowse is not art and is not about kiwi male prurience.

If it is that private then it would be shown in private.

It is about provoking New Zealand Christians.

Dig?

may every song you sing be your favourite tune

Hi folks.
Went to town today but didnt make any money.
made some amends though and that is more important.
sometimes you think that you can never make up for all the wrong but Jesus forgives us and then you have to forgive yourself and if others cant then it isn't my problem
I cant change the past.
The only thing I can change is me and its one day at a time.
yep.
Hoping that the person I sold Kitty's choice to will tape it.
Only availlable on mp3 now but it is one of the great country albums with mucho pedal steel on it and her wonderful voice.
Found Karl Meninger this morning at the Regent Bookshop in Masterton.
Perhaps the best little bookshop in the whole wide world at the moment.
Yes indeedy.
Menninger is fantastic too.
One of Americas greatest psychiatrists  who seems to be forgotten in this day and age.
His insights are still cogent and true!
Got out 2 Ry Cooder cd's last night.
Great interview with Kim Hill a couple of weeks ago.
I have totally revised my opinion of him as a man.
Top bloke and his musics ok too.
going to read The Man Called Noon tonight for the umpteenth time
5***** stuff.
Barack Obama.
Hi Boss the whole world waits for romney to self destruct.
WE need YOU at the moment and not some neo-liberal nitwit with delusions of grandeur.
Give it to him boss.
And the three Bells for Neil Armstrong.

get yer ya ya's out...

Great night on the teevee last night.

Two vey good documentaries on the natural history of the world and then "The Stones In Exile" for the complete opposite.

The decadence of the modern world where the only things that counts is drugs and money.

Women are  extras.

They come with the territory.

Music is very much a matter of style and in the modern world we are told what to like by the arbiters of taste, viz the radio stations.

There is no choice.

They serve it up and you just gotta take it.

Just listen to the banal pap served up on 9-noone in the mornings.

Who chooses that crap?

Vapid whining gamines with bought solo's to spice it up but most of it is still piss weak effluvium from post modern nitwits who think music is ok before they get a job in an ad agency.

whine whine whine.

Anyway the Stones have always followed their own path and at their best the songs are not harmonically complicated but driven by ferocious energy.

And they are great to play along with.

There is always one or two that are perfect for the novice to learn the changes and get  into it.

At the beginning their music was an amalgam of Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Slim Harpo, Muddy Waters and Buddy Holly (hehehehe).

May the good lord shine a light on you.

May every song you sing be your favourite tune.

The hedge was busy this morning.

Finches

Tuis

Sparrows

et al.

sometimes I see a native hawk going after the local doves.

I'm gunna get me a gun.

All those people who put me down.

Better get ready to run.

Big item in this mornings rag about the arms trade in Africa.

It is awash with guns and ammo.

Mainly AK47's or knockoffs.

The march of civilisation I suppose?

Yeah right. 

Dowse Art Museum.

They think they can do what ever they like just because its art.

You know. 

Abrogate the human rights tribunal.

Its only art because they say so.

I think they are just bullshit artists!

and panderers to boot.

Tried to sign in to Bernard Hickeys new site JOURNALISM .ORG and post a comment but somehow I couldnt find out how to be enabled to BECOME!

any old how the comment I wanted to make was about Jeremy Rose on Mediawatch on Sunday mornings with Chris Laidlaw.

Like Laidlaw and the rest of the current crew on Radio New Zealand they are inveterate and persistent users of interrogatives which are an invalid mode of argument and dishonest and disrespectful but that does not deter them.

They are supposed to be asking people what they think.

Not telling them!

DIG?

Dunedin Longitudinal Study.

results purport to show that cannabis use by adolescents leads to a decline in i.q. later in life.

This sounds suspiciously like heavy metal poisoning to me.

Where could it come from?

Captan in the cloning process.

Colchicine in the polyploidal process.

Heavy metal in the clay balls used in hyrdroponics.

What are we doing to our kids?