Now, I have a lot of time for Marilyn Manson these days. Much of his music doesn't do a lot for me, but I enjoy his persona, himself as art. He's a clever man, and I suspect the he's not all artifice. He's thirty-four years old now, experienced artist and media operator, and he must know his audience. and I don't mean by looking at them you grotty little forty year old plus wankers. and it's still a good time for him. The US and UK are, untill next election, existing in a political dead zone. George W Bush does not have credible opposition and 2004 was crippled by the nomination process in any case. In Britain, the same holds -- the leader of the opposition, Michael Howard, is still a leering, unelectable monster with criminal tendencies who was shunned and vilified by his own party as a moral mutant.
Because of that anger in art has largely gone away. This isn't the cool detachment of post-modernism, so much as just a turning inward. The kind of stuttery lurching rise of emo over the last couple of years is a case in point: a total defanging of pretty much any working definition of punk in service of whining about how you've got no girlfriend. "Emotional punk" = Crying Ugly Kid Music. There should be a sign in guitar shops: "We reserve the right to refuse sale to people who want to write songs about wearing glasses and being dumped by girls who didn't know your name anyway."
Also, anyone know why it seems that now all popular culture has to say is, "well, fuck it"? Even as a transient pose? If the 1930s has tought us nothing it's that in a time of encroaching conservatism and creeping repression, the correct response is not to flush your fucking spine down the toilet.
Other than that things are boring, been reading. Re-read the Great Gatsby,[when I told someone this they thought he wasa magician.
] along with batman year one. Can't be arsed to do much else beside work now so some news that's quite interesting...
Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navys cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying toxic dart guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planets smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea
Looks like Dr. Evil didn'tg get dolphins with laser beams on thier heads. They have darts now. Poisonous ones.
Because of that anger in art has largely gone away. This isn't the cool detachment of post-modernism, so much as just a turning inward. The kind of stuttery lurching rise of emo over the last couple of years is a case in point: a total defanging of pretty much any working definition of punk in service of whining about how you've got no girlfriend. "Emotional punk" = Crying Ugly Kid Music. There should be a sign in guitar shops: "We reserve the right to refuse sale to people who want to write songs about wearing glasses and being dumped by girls who didn't know your name anyway."
Also, anyone know why it seems that now all popular culture has to say is, "well, fuck it"? Even as a transient pose? If the 1930s has tought us nothing it's that in a time of encroaching conservatism and creeping repression, the correct response is not to flush your fucking spine down the toilet.
Other than that things are boring, been reading. Re-read the Great Gatsby,[when I told someone this they thought he wasa magician.
] along with batman year one. Can't be arsed to do much else beside work now so some news that's quite interesting...
Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navys cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying toxic dart guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planets smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea
Looks like Dr. Evil didn'tg get dolphins with laser beams on thier heads. They have darts now. Poisonous ones.
bluelight3:
I can understand how the dolphins might be pissed. Is it possible they went AWOL to Tampico for some lazy days of fishing and R&R?