Musings and Thoughts of the Day 4/4

Phantom Husband

A Prayer For The Condemned

The Red Pill

And All That Could Have Been

I Watched The Avengers This Week

I Had An Out Of Body Experience in Poznan

As more and more of our loved ones leave us, we cling more closely to our past and our history. But the paradox is that history itself is a

What is a Revolutionary Really?

What is a revolutionary really?

The Comparison of the Windrush Scandal to EU Immigration Is A National Disgrace

Voluntary economic immigration and slavery are not one and the same thing.

Fairy Tales

Without any meaningful competition for the heart of the Prince, there are no more fairy tales.

Does This Look Straight To You?

Written in the summer of 2017, during what I hope will prove to be the last few weeks of work on my forthcoming play. It is much like...

Feminism has been reincarnated as intellectual apathy.

The most far reaching but unappreciated impact of feminism upon modern women is the inculcation of a certain type of intellectual and...

Why We Should Not Trust Equality

1) The first remarkable fact about "equality" in the sense in which we use the word in the West, is that it is something which by...

Brexit - Spurious Debate, Specious Result

I am already so sick of hearing, reading and having to speak about Brexit that I honestly could not care less about the outcome of this...

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Click to Punch Elliot Borges in the face

My Ugly Mug

My Qualifications:

Let's just say, I'm a man who knows life.

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Gin

Tequila

Jack Daniels

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EXTREME SONG OF THE WEEK:

I listen to a lot of old music - Motown, Classic Rock, Blues, Jazz, but the one type of music I always come back to is extreme music. I seem to find a lot of beauty in extreme music.

IDIOTWATCH

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/the-power-of-the-dog-thomas-savage-stoner

"Phil needn't have worried, but you do wonder sometimes if people are what you think they are, or if you only think that they are and they are what they are and not what you think."

No. Just no.

Thomas Savage's book is a solid, if somewhat plodding affair, which reveals a genuine flair for storytelling but also that he cannot really write.

Time and time again he reaches for a type of Southern dirt track poetry, but his hands clasp only around dust slipping through his fingers.

He is simply too clumsy a writer to merit the type of rave reviews the re-release of this book generated.

Thomas Savage was an interesting man.

Unfortunately the renewed enthusiasm with which his work has been greeted is no coincidence but rather part of a modern fetish for authenticity in these most inauthentic of times.

The record company must wondered whether he had finally lost the plot.

They must have shat their pants.

Side 1 was frazzled, new wave short bursts of pop music (before new wave even existed).

Side 2 sounded in 1977 like it had come from another planet.

The "Berlin Trilogy" remains one the greatest artistic achievements of the past 100 years.

The guy is a genius. And the scary thing, he probably was not even really trying.

David Bowie; 1947-2016

One of the greatest artists in any artform of all time.

When I was doing my GCSEs, one of my mates went off an a huge tongue in cheek rant in English Literature about how we were all going to grow up to be Prime Ministers, Philosophers and Multimillionaires and how we were the best/most talented boys in the country, etc, etc.

I said "Listen, I guarantee if you put all of our talent together, all 20 of us, in total it will not even get to half of the talent David Bowie has."

My English teacher, a triple 1st from Cambridge and himself a huge Bowie fan told me, "That's the only thing that you have ever said which I completely agree with"