More Rushkoff linkage: In which it occurs to our protagonist that contemporary western democracy is eminently recognisable as – gasp – nothing but an elaborate con!! Who’d a thunk it?
Category Archives: Evil
What I Got For My Birthday
A can of whoop-ass Hagakure style yo Easy Surface Prep
A Discombobulator of my very own
Two bottles of apparently non-lethal Red Bull concentrate
Two bottles of Arrogant Frog sauvignon blanc
Two delicious, beautifully wrapped and generally special cupcakes (not shown)
Colourful and appealing multimedia art products
A hefty biography of John Fowles, bafflingly enough
A black 30 gigabyte iPod, which was nice
A Brave New World mug
Cards & chocolate
Amongst other things.
Thanks everyone. It was great!
Filed under Benevolence, Death, Drugs, Drunkenness, Evil, Illusion Of Time, Movies, Music, People, Photos, w0ot, Wine Criticism
Grant Morrison Explains Everything
at Disinfo.con in February 2000. (Grant Morrison is a writer, iconoclast and man who Knows. He basically invented The Matrix, amongst other things. He is also funny as hell.)
Semi linked this a while back but having just re-viewed it, I’ma pimp it again because it’s fucking brilliant and everybody with at least half a functioning brain and any clue at all should watch it now.
No, I don’t care what else you think you’re doing or have to do. Watch it now.
Watch it now.
That is all.
Does Anyone Else Ever Get
That dark, menacing feeling which you just know (because it’s familiar from more overt contexts) means someone you know is hating on you really hardcore – but you can’t for the life of you figure out who it is, or why?
I have that right now.
Who are you, and what did I do?
Spill it.
Don’t Have Time To Check It Out Properly Right Now
But this is quite interesting.
“The message [reg required] went on to explain that Lonelygirl15 was a project to harness the audience to develop and evolve a story and “usher in an era of interactive storytelling where the line between ‘fan’ and ‘star’ has been removed”.
While not everyone is convinced that the filmmakers’ confession is genuine (many believe it’s part of the developing mystery), it now seems certain that Lonelygirl15 is a fake – although who is behind the hoax and the purpose of it is still unclear.
A clue left in one of the videos suggests it may be another month before we find out.
In a video posted a week ago titled Bree The Cookie Monster, Bree and Daniel rate batches of cookies they said they baked.
Bree’s purple monkey puppet holds up score cards. The first one gets “10”, the second “12” and the third one “06”. Why “06” and not “6”?
Viewers point out that the sequence makes a date: 10/12/06 – or October 12, 2006, using the US method of writing dates. October 12 also happens to be the birth date of the late occultist Aleister Crowley, whose picture can be seen on a wall in Bree’s room.
News of the hoax, however, does appear to have dented Lonelygirl15’s popularity.”
Filed under Art, Current Affairs, Evil, Video, Web/Tech
Adam Got Hacked!
Cunts messed with his template and his archives – and deleted Hagakure 419. Cunts!
Life just keeps dropping the bombs this week. First there was that whole freakish untimely death of Steve Irwin thing.. now this.
Bonnie & Clyde
This morning I cannot stop playing the cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s Bonnie and Clyde by Boyd Rice and Giddle Partridge which is currently available as a stream from their joint MySpace page.
Go and listen to it! It’s great.
The first bit is, anyway. Unfortunately it fades out after two minutes.
I wish they’d hurry up and finish their album. I will buy it if I have to.
Charlie Says
We have domain!
Do we have domain mapping? Well, no.
But who cares?
So happy right now. (And I’m not on even on drugs. For once.)
UPDATE – But I’m about to be. Braincells? Who needs ’em etc
Filed under Audio, Evil, Philosophica, Web/Tech
From Tomorrow The Signs Are Going Up
Be afraid.
Do not be afraid. Be brave, for a glorious new era beckons. Vote Nada!