l∅ckedinab∅x

28 May 2004

sometimes I think the most interesting thing about the blogosphere is the gossip on the sex blogs. Everybody loves them. From Belle-du-jour to the now outed Wasingtonienne (link to Wonkette reposts) everybody seems to love reading about other peoples sex lives. Of course, it's even more alluring when the blogger in question is a call girl. Call girls are mysterious. Call girls seem dangerous. Call girls get paid for sex. Ooooh... Taboo! Plus, in my eyes, if you can pull off being a call girl, working a normal job, carrying on with your life, have a relationship and blog the whole thing... That's like uber-sexy and insanely cool.

Of course, it's not all secret call girl confession-time, but these are the blogs that seem to get alot of attension, both in the press and in other people's blogs. Those zany newpapers love to try and figure out the identies of said people, even if they do not want it known, cuz... goddammit! The people have a right to know! And we have the right to sell lots and lots of newspapers! I've thought about selling my body in the past, but I reckon I'd be too choosy. Plus, you should meet the typical humanoid around here.

"Eeew! I am not fucking you! Shell suits are the work of the devil!"
(seriously, townies still wear shell suits in britain)

Not that I'd sell my body in this shitty country. Fucking eeeeeew! If you walk along bute street at night you will see them everywhere, scatty crack whores offering blow jobs and quickies to passers by, to feed their habits for the demon rock. Have I ever talked about the drug situation in Wales? Fucking crack and smack everywhere. Up in the vallies it can be paticularly bad I've heard. Not alot to do up there but fuck and get fucked. I used to go out with a girl from Aberdare and I remember walking to the train station from her place one night and there were drunken assholes everywhere. People puking, screaming, fighting... and it wasn't even friday! Fuck, might of even been monday. The towns in the vallies are not pretty.

Course, get away from the towns up into the hills and woodland and it's all, "oooh... beautiful nature!"

Living in Cardiff is a god send. I seriously don't think I could live anywhere else in wales. For starters, Cardiff is the only real city in the whole fucking country. I mean, you've got Swansea and Newport, but they're both industrial dives. At least Cardiff is kinda pretty, with the castle and all the parkland, not to mention the architecture over in Park Place (where the uni is). Newport is full of theiving townie assholes whom mug my friends for their borrowed uni video cameras and shout abuse as I walk down the street in flared jeans. Of course, you get that abuse everywhere from townies, just because you don't wear the same clothes as they do. Can you fucking blame us? Fucking Reebok classics? *yawn*

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"one helped oneself out of solitude reluctantly by laying hold of some little odd or end, some sound, some sight." Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

[on cinematography] "After you have done a picture you forget everything you have ever known, so that you become a child again, or an infant or a void into which the new picture creates a whole new evolvement... So that you do not have to keep doing the same thing all over again. In other words you take what yourself back to ground zero. Of course you cannot unlearn what your brain knowns. But I mean it emotionally. I mean you just become scared again, as if you do not know anything... I never felt on top of it. I neverfelt that I knew so much that I could sit back with a cup of coffee and it would all turn out wonderful." - Conrad Hall

[on cinematography] "When the budget is minimal you are forced to look at light as you find it, and to make it look good." - Haskell Wexler

"Rock 'n' roll is like an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Like anything can be rock 'n' roll." - Lester Bangs

"The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long-term consequences." - Daniel Pinchbec, Breaking Open the Head

"In shamanic cultures, synchronicities are recognised as signs that you are on the right path." - Daniel Pinchbec, Breaking Open the Head (excerpt), Book of Lies

"...reality is up for grabs, so learn the codes through which the narrative is crafted and participate in its unfolding." - Douglas Rushkoff

"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. The American leaders were acting with almost inconceivable treachery by denying that they had received requests for peace…The bombs were exploded on congested cities filled with civilians. There was not even the slightest military justification, because the military outcome of the war had been decided months earlier." - Dave Dellinger

"We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on." - Tilda Swinton

"Pursue the small utopias: nature, music, friendship, intimate love." -The Fugs

"We have reconstructed the Tower of Babel, and it is a television antenna: a thousand voices producing a daily parody of democracy, in which everyone's opinion is afforded equal weight regardless of substance or merit." - Ted Koppel

"There are alot of things you have to sacrfice. It all depends on how deep you want to get into whatever your gig is. Whatever you're there for. So like the deeper you get into it the more sacrifices you have to do, maybe even on your personality or your outward this and that. I just dedicate my life to this whole art. You have to forget about what people say. If it's art or anything else, whatever you really, really dig doing, you have to forget about what people say about you sometimes. Forget about this or that-when you're supposed to die or when you're supposed to be living. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. Once you reach that point of where you don't give a damn about what everybody else is saying you're going towards heaven. The more you get into it, they're goin' to say "Damn, that cat's really flipped out. Oh, he's gone now". But if you're producin' and creatin', you know, you're getting closer to your own heaven. That's what man's tryin' to get to, anyway." - James Marshall Hendrix

"With its totalizing claim, the system created the conditions for this horrible retaliation. The immanent mania of globalization generates madness, just as an unstable society produces delinquents and psychopaths. In truth, these are only symptoms of the sickness." - Jean Baudrillard

"If poetry is what you can't translate, as Robert Frost once suggested, then art is what you cannot define. Nevertheless, it's fun to try." - james monaco, 'how to read a film'

"This spectacle of banality is todays true pornography..." - Jean Baudrillard

"...today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. We are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms." - Philip K. Dick

"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose ideas, shining in his head, frighted people and for whom delirium is the only solution to the strangulation that life has prepared for him." - Antonin Artaud

"The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out from the heart." - Charles Bukowski

"Tea heads are a sociable lot. Too sociable for my liking." - William S. Burroughs

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