Wednesday, February 11, 2015

another day in paradise...

maybe.
Godzone country.
maybe?
Got to unplug the dvd and plug in the vhs.
seems like everything I want to watch I have bought from various thrift shops on vhs.
some for as little as 50c each.
today I scored Dennis Wheatleys "to The Devil A Daughter".
another christopher lee cracker with richard widmark to boot.

dont beleive everything you read.
looking for a tab for 'turn to the one'.
a little ripper from Lacy J Dalton.
She is pretty good and her Survivior album is right up there.
anyway the tab was one tone sharp and filled with minors that are not in the arrangement on the cd.
????????????
and .
the tab for the BYrds 'Ballad Of Easy Rider' has all the chords but the time signature is 4/4 while to my mind is 2/4 but very disconcerting when you are trying to sight read the music.

not to worry.get there in the end.
it is a lovely song and worth the effort to get right.

thinking about my trip to Wellington yesterday.
The old brigade has nearly passed.
but the young fogeys are very much in evidence.
I had morning tea with my friends wife.
she told me about her upbringing in the Wairarapa and the "RULES" for girls in the 50's and 60's and how she just had to break free.
I never noticed them.
My dad did his own thing and nobody tangled with my mother if they wanted some hair left.
she was born a princess of the church and she didn't take any nonsense from bucolic wannabees.
anyway now and then you get a reminder from the stuffed shirts with a permanent carrot up their arse who used to own a business or somesuch and figure it gives thema right to make "RULES" for everyone else.
In those days back them it was easy to isolate people and send them coventry but now thanks to the internet everyone is on an equal footing.
more or less.
just as well or the self important bluenoses would still be calling the shots and making those peoples lives who do not agree with them a misery.

and.
 along with my vhs I copped a couple of last years scientific americans.
after doing the philosophy of science at university it is much easier to understand certain arguments  and check them for validity and logical process.
I am afraid scientific american has followed the british new scientist by allowing speculative articles to be presented as fact.
take the January 2014 issue with an article on our unconscious mind.
the conclusion purports to falsify freudian psychiatry by using the same argument that is used to argue for the fact that life came to the earth from somewhere else via comets.
so where did it originAte?
no one knows but those protagonists just want money for nebulous studies that dont prove much but will keep them busy for a lifetime of subsidised quackery.
The article in scientific american purports to falsify freuds take on the origin of emotions but offers no alternative to their origin and the writer needs a crash course in freudian psychiatry before they can make these sorts of assertions.
denial is a mighty big river boy.

and dark matter.
no one can find it.
well no one has quantified gravity yet.
e=mc2
e=gravity
m=?
hehehehehehehehehe.

seeya 




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