Nothing's really going on, I'm just changing this because I'm fussy like that.
Having said that, this year's been really quiet and stable, and now all of a sudden, everything seems to be kicking off in the next few months. Exciting times ahead. Until my life kicks up a gear, I shall currently detail some of the ingredients of my brain stew.
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quass
I like this stuff, it's a broken and distorted sound, full of irregular ryhthms and lazy voises. it has a wasted and sinister quality, like a dirty abandoned carousel slowly winding down in a scrapyard.
It makes me think of tenements that look like they're built from rotting stacks of old newspapers, yellowing and stained with mildew and rainwater. inside they're populated with amalgam creatures, amphibian shapes with odd mechanical limbs that could have been salvaged or grown via unknown processes. They wear jumble sale mixtures of clothes, mismatched and dirty, badly patched with rubbish bags and ratskins.
They leave the newspaper towers to tend to mysterious brasswork steam engines in a warren of old brickwork tunnels and basements, the plaster cracking and soggy with the residue of leaking steam from cracked old pipes. In the evenings they assemble on the roof tops and play mournful music under the starlight, on battered old instruments, bent tin whistles and flat sounding drums crafted from a blackened old kettles beaten flat and reshaped.
Middle Eastern Culture and History.
About a hundred times more interesting than any other region on earth. In no particular order; The old ancient kingdoms and first civillisations of the Sumerians, Hitties, Assyrians, and Babylonians. The successive Persian Empires, each of them vast and powerful and stunningly wealthy, filled with near countless people, languages and cultures. Zororastinism. The rise of Islam and the Caliphate, The Mongol Invasion, the fall of Baghdad. Tamerlane. Saladin. The Crusades, The fall of Constantinople and the last traces of the Byzantium or Eastern Roman empire. The Ottoman Empire.
Honestly, All of it is ace.
Levi-Strauss and Structuralism
I'm still having trouble absorbing the ideas he developed, but the best way I can describe it - I think - is that, very very simply, 'primitive' stories and folklore are less stories and more mechanisms for classifying the world and the relationships within it.
This is also feeding my interest in the Austrailian aboriginal Dreamtime. I've read a few things about it that make me kind of understand the idea of it, sort of, whilst I'm reading it, but then afterwards i'm still unable to explain it.
All this stuff appeals to me becuase I'm of the opinion that the future does not necessarily hold advancement for us. Our culture out here in the fat civilised west depends on cheap energy, which in turn guarantees cheap food and consumer goods
We have it a lot better than most of the world. Have you ever thought about how much effort it takes to get fat? About how many calories you have to eat, and how little you have to move? Most people can't afford that luxury. To eat means to tend the fields and watch flocks instead of opening the fridge or rocking up to a kebab house. To drink water means to walk to a well and draw it by hand, instead of turning a tap.
Once the oil runs out, Paul predicts FUCKED. If we're lucky, Paul predicts a slow slide over generations to a level of technology roughly anologous the the Enlightenment.
But yeah, In fifty years time I wouldn't be suprised if we're running around with spears hunting feral dogs and scratching a living out of carpacks we've turned to cornfields and vegatable patches.
GO TEAM PESSIMISM!
Having said that, this year's been really quiet and stable, and now all of a sudden, everything seems to be kicking off in the next few months. Exciting times ahead. Until my life kicks up a gear, I shall currently detail some of the ingredients of my brain stew.
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quass
I like this stuff, it's a broken and distorted sound, full of irregular ryhthms and lazy voises. it has a wasted and sinister quality, like a dirty abandoned carousel slowly winding down in a scrapyard.
It makes me think of tenements that look like they're built from rotting stacks of old newspapers, yellowing and stained with mildew and rainwater. inside they're populated with amalgam creatures, amphibian shapes with odd mechanical limbs that could have been salvaged or grown via unknown processes. They wear jumble sale mixtures of clothes, mismatched and dirty, badly patched with rubbish bags and ratskins.
They leave the newspaper towers to tend to mysterious brasswork steam engines in a warren of old brickwork tunnels and basements, the plaster cracking and soggy with the residue of leaking steam from cracked old pipes. In the evenings they assemble on the roof tops and play mournful music under the starlight, on battered old instruments, bent tin whistles and flat sounding drums crafted from a blackened old kettles beaten flat and reshaped.
Middle Eastern Culture and History.
About a hundred times more interesting than any other region on earth. In no particular order; The old ancient kingdoms and first civillisations of the Sumerians, Hitties, Assyrians, and Babylonians. The successive Persian Empires, each of them vast and powerful and stunningly wealthy, filled with near countless people, languages and cultures. Zororastinism. The rise of Islam and the Caliphate, The Mongol Invasion, the fall of Baghdad. Tamerlane. Saladin. The Crusades, The fall of Constantinople and the last traces of the Byzantium or Eastern Roman empire. The Ottoman Empire.
Honestly, All of it is ace.
Levi-Strauss and Structuralism
I'm still having trouble absorbing the ideas he developed, but the best way I can describe it - I think - is that, very very simply, 'primitive' stories and folklore are less stories and more mechanisms for classifying the world and the relationships within it.
This is also feeding my interest in the Austrailian aboriginal Dreamtime. I've read a few things about it that make me kind of understand the idea of it, sort of, whilst I'm reading it, but then afterwards i'm still unable to explain it.
All this stuff appeals to me becuase I'm of the opinion that the future does not necessarily hold advancement for us. Our culture out here in the fat civilised west depends on cheap energy, which in turn guarantees cheap food and consumer goods
We have it a lot better than most of the world. Have you ever thought about how much effort it takes to get fat? About how many calories you have to eat, and how little you have to move? Most people can't afford that luxury. To eat means to tend the fields and watch flocks instead of opening the fridge or rocking up to a kebab house. To drink water means to walk to a well and draw it by hand, instead of turning a tap.
Once the oil runs out, Paul predicts FUCKED. If we're lucky, Paul predicts a slow slide over generations to a level of technology roughly anologous the the Enlightenment.
But yeah, In fifty years time I wouldn't be suprised if we're running around with spears hunting feral dogs and scratching a living out of carpacks we've turned to cornfields and vegatable patches.
GO TEAM PESSIMISM!
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Quasimoto is awesome although sadly i own only 2 songs but they are on the i-pod though so i get to hear them all the time,hurrah!