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| Friday, December 28th, 2007 | | 5:20 pm |
Looking at these photos makes me think of pronography - seeing as i'm on a library computer, but they're not and they make me feel the opposite - warm and good. In my chest, I mean. Internet, I summon absence of sarcasm. I love it love it http://www.flickr.com/groups/63378431@N00/pool/page2/ | | Thursday, December 6th, 2007 | | 12:52 pm |
The news seems to get more bizarre and depressing all the time. I don't think I'll replicate the headlines. The sun etc pisses me off too - yes, you're extremely clever realising you can get away with showing average model's bare arse on your front page, but children can easily see these things. It's confusing, is the point. There was a Skinny Puppy interview with the stated opinion that we get given this varied tide of information and it numbs us to all of it. Surely it's useless to join the voices and images. Peak oil, praise it - at least it'll kill this shit. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/violenceservices/ On a lighter note we started psycho-analysis of Poe. Bliss. | | Thursday, November 15th, 2007 | | 9:38 am |
World Oil Peak
"The multi-dimensional meltdown underway in the finance sector illustrates perfectly how the complex systems we depend on start to wobble and fail as soon as peak oil establishes itself as a fact in the public imagination. Mainly what it shows is that we don't have to run out of oil -- or even come close to that -- before the trouble starts. Just going over the peak and heading down the slippery slope of depletion is enough...
The oil age, we will soon discover, was an anomaly. Many of the things that seemed "normal" under its regime will turn out to have been rather special. And as the beginning of the end of the oil age becomes manifest, these special things are starting to self-destruct pretty spectacularly....
Investment banker Matthew Simmons has said that the American public (and its leaders) will probably not "get" the fundamental problem with oil until rising prices are joined by spot shortages -- i.e. gas station lines, which will represent hoarding behavior on the basis of individual motorists.
(Simmons was only one of many analysts who spoke at the mid-October Houston conference put on by ASPO-USA (the Association for Study of Peak Oil))
Behind the hoarding dynamics are several clear circumstances.
One biggie is the growing export crisis, described by geologist Jeffrey Brown. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Mexico that sell oil to importing nations like The USA and Japan are using more of their own oil and producing less. Mexico's trajectory is so steep (due to the severe depletion of its giant Cantarell oil field) that it could easily go from being America's Number 3 source of imports to zero in less than five years. The anticipated yearly growth in worldwide oil demand next year will equal 80 percent of the USA's entire oil production.
The export crisis is only an additional layer on top of the general peak oil situation, but it illustrates the way that complex systems we depend on -- and oil markets are one -- are liable to wobble and fail just as the world comes off the all-time oil production peak for good. Finance is another complex system and it, too, is entering a stage of robust instability. Food production is yet another, with a grain scarcity that has driven wheat prices to all-time highs. The roster of complex systems entering phase change is long and gruesome."
James Howard Kunstler
Author of
The Long Emergency
http://www.kunstler.com/ | | Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 | | 9:45 am |
| | Saturday, September 29th, 2007 | | 2:34 pm |
| | Friday, July 20th, 2007 | | 12:03 pm |
I can't be fucked with the internet. It's just not worth all the silliness, confusion and wrist strain. | | Saturday, June 30th, 2007 | | 9:43 pm |
So when I was younger I read a book called Sex And Love. It must have been written in the 60's judging by the clothes and hair. Among its treasures were rather disturbing pictures of hairy vaginas, genital warts, and the information that male masturbators generally fantasise about lots of things, though stopping short of actual sex, and that some play with their arse though this is much less common. Along with porn and not much else this was my sexual education.
It also told me that after adolescence people often start to find out about and connect with the world at large more. We're just chemically made up that way or something. So many young adults may be seen at protest marches(pictures of student semi-hippies with banners).
So I'm 21 now and the book is depressingly accurate, this is where my desires are turning toward. I do just want to get something fucking done, I want to turn my mind and body into a tool for my frustration and curiosity. I don't want to 'look back' and realise that that desire was allowed to just simmer quietly, be squashed by distractions and other people's shit. | | Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 | | 9:07 pm |
The circus is firmly back with the mass once more
Does anyone join me in hating gore-porn films? Apparently Hostel 2 has been a flop because of internet piracy. Wonderful. At least Roth won't cash in so much on this one.
'The gore, it would seem, is almost incidental. A larger budget and strong below-the-line support allow Roth's imagination to run wild (one ghastly scenario no viewer will soon forget features a sickle-wielding witch who pays to bathe in virgin blood)...'
Variety
His imagination?
I thought the Countess was obscure enough to escape pop culture.
The world is horrifying me at the moment, as if the desensitisation is wearing off and I'm seeing things clearer. Genocide amongst westerners would just drag everyone down further. But the rich just keep getting richer, the poor poorer, and people of worth spread as far and wide as ever. Things are worse than ever in history but you only need one person to start a revolution. | | Sunday, May 13th, 2007 | | 8:30 pm |
My fear of groups and the luxury of being able sometimes to avoid facing that haS perhaps meant that for me to communicate well in a group would be to talk to one person and imagine the rest aren't there. Though this has meant me never getting into a social group, and what that entails, like a social life.
I feel proud of this though. It could only work that way with me. I feel like I can only respect social groups like intellectuals, people who have come together out of a shared passion, a yearning for something they couldn't get somewhere else, that would challenge themselves and continue to challenge.
I'm wondering if we shouldn't try and sum up key issues of peak oil onto a leaflet. I've been thinking it'd be cool to set up a stall next to a woman handing out papers about getting the troops back from Iraq. She brought up alternative energies, though I was pretty terrible at explaining myself to her. Bring the troops home yeah, but have the country educated about peak. More than me, I'd hope.
We met up with Ele's old friend, this female is an archaeologist. It wouldn't be overly dramatic to call this event rare and exciting - the possibility of another connection. I did like her, but though I struggled to rein myself in with perhaps more success than usual, I ended up making grand speeches about woman cult and the vagina dentata - interwoven concepts, but that bounce around my brain and come out unglued.
I really think I scared her off for good - hopefully just from me.
I will be quitting work next week - we are to leave. I feel that those who are nice to me there are simply weak rather than snobby or whatever, they're all equally useless, worthless. Who works in a department store eh?
Just read a couple of pages of the Gormenghast Trilogy. The world is suddenly more fresh and vibrant, enthusing and acceptable, after reading this much. I'm gonna try and find some Lovecraft. Some paths gather dust, fade, others are explored better - I hope. Like connections between neurons during puberty. | | Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | | 5:11 pm |
The wolf. I've been thinking about Hitler. He turned his country around, and our one needs exactly that. Hitler has become somewhat of a popular character in his unnapproachable immorality, even a humorous character. Unlike his time as a ruthless politician, holding a manic grip on a nation. With the masses joining in. Young, grinning nazis stalking the streets at night. Everything legal, even encouraged.
The nazis apparently threw the disabled out of their house and to their death. My ideology is that it is not the fault of those who are kept alive - those who truly can't do anything for themselves or anyone else, like terminal diseases and late stage dementia. This is also cruelty - unthinking cruelty. It is disrespect and unnecessary suffering. I think for many people their cowardice is comparable to these nazis, certainly when it becomes gloating or even predatory. I think it's a terrible crime in itself that euthanasia is illegal here.
Nietzche was fundamentalist and preacher of his ideology. It came purely from his own thought, his reasoning. | | Saturday, May 5th, 2007 | | 1:35 pm |
| | Thursday, April 26th, 2007 | | 1:15 pm |
| | Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 | | 4:33 pm |
ideas for t shirts - WASTE OVERLOAD, with images udnerneath of cramped tube trains, clogged arteries, traffic jams, manic supermarket aisles, etc. One with just - Feels like a fantasy world in my head, cos no one talks about anything - hail the madmen! Question everything feel free to approach me with anything of SUBSTANCE Subcultures are followed directly because of the inadequacy of society. (inspired from the comments on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rignasidhe's journal) | | Thursday, April 19th, 2007 | | 11:22 pm |
I want to know what the Iraqi people think of this whole debate about getting the soldiers out, toughening up the Iraqi police so that they can feel assured all their hard work won't go down hill, and that some people are saying it will whatever they do. I seem to have got the idea people think that attacks by Iraqis against Iraqis have increased greatly since the occupation(Panorama I think) - but that it will continue after we're gone, until only one group is left (peak oil lj community, solely, I think) | | 3:04 pm |
| | Thursday, April 12th, 2007 | | 1:23 pm |
| | Monday, April 9th, 2007 | | 7:25 pm |
http://www.runestone.org/wotvstez.html - heard about this? The californian war between aztec revivalists and norse-revivalists. Could get quite heavy, I heard that asatru is taking off amongst (likely racist) white prisoners in america. Hmm and Ele says she'd like a pistol, though me and Bob seem to have persuaded her to learn something more long range, she seems to like the idea of a sniper rifle. Wonderful if this took off and we went to a training centre somewhere. And I rode on a motorbike for the first time today! Feel a bit weird, I think because I'm really into the idea of ritualising powerful things. The first place I went to when I got off the bike was a chippy, which I soon left because I was feeling buzzy and elated - and thus was applying that to the pop song playing. So left the shop and smelt some dirt. And tried to play some black metal when I got back, but had to use the net, all wrong. Maybe try again tonight, first time on a bike would be a good day to burn my confirmation card in the fire when it gets darker. | | Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 | | 3:56 pm |
Apologies I really don't think I'll break in, but I got some quite good shots of the outside. ( Abandoned House ) | | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 | | 1:39 pm |
Turkey is wonderful. I like the Ottomans quite a bit too. I went there when a kid, paddled in the calcium deposits and swam in the Pamukkale Thermal. Very beautiful colours, warm feelings, crystal clarity all about, and ancient ruins nearby.  Much much better photos in these links - http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/gallery/features/tags/Turkey/http://bloggering-away.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.htmlhttp://www.turkeyinphotos.com/Gallery/QuickGal.php?album=pamukkale/After that alarming tangent away from my normal postings, I had a dream last night. I was a little boy, and stayed at a little hostel place with other little boys, which a 'man' appeared to run, who was a sort of mixture of Frank 'N' Furter (Rocky horror Show), Jack Skellington, the alcoholic father from Shameless, and a repressed child killer. It was fun, if tense. | | Thursday, March 29th, 2007 | | 1:44 pm |
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