Monthly Archives: June 2008

Random Thoughts From No Sleep

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Tasty

How come The Bird And The Bee aren’t megafamous?

Isn’t the light outside lovely right now? It’s warm and clear, like golden syrup poured over the flowers and the trees.

I’ve just downloaded 90 more tracks from Emusic, using up my allowance for this month again. Got to wait aaaages for it to refresh now! Still, I now have some lovely Pete And The Pirates, Motion City Soundtrack, Blitzen Trapper, Neon Neon, James Taylor (live!) and Sebastian Tellier waiting for me… mmmmm…

DJing

I feel the world of music is bigger than the physical world. It’s a superposition rather than a simple mapping. I miss DJing because it’s the best chance I have of trying to show people all these new places they haven’t been to. Charming lands filled with romance and drama, chocolates and a dozen flowers.

I bought Cerrone’s ‘Supernature’ as a 7″ single when it came out originally, which I guess was 1977. Since I’ve been hearing it while playing GTA IV too much, I had to re-buy it as a download (from iTunes, it’s sadly not on Emusic). Hearing the proper length album cut, I got lost in the sound. I wonder if I’ll ever manage to make a piece of music so simultaneously innovative and poppy. I doubt it.

I keep getting the stares and when I look around, the negative after-images are looking increasingly like the power effects from ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before.’ This is perhaps not good. Unless I am actually developing fabulous psionic powers. It’d certainly save me on batteries for the remote.

Polarised pics

I wonder if I can use the laser in an optical mouse to try and recreate the quantum mechanics experiment with three polarising filters in series. Is it actually a proper laser, a source of coherent light or is it just a bloody bright LED? Maybe I should get one of those laser pointer thingies from Maplins? Are they real lasers?

Tasty

I wonder if I should have some breakfast now? If so, should I go for the full English or perhaps have more of a continental whatsit?

I wonder how Cerrone got that lovely, tight kick sound? The whole album makes modern production sound wank.

Will it be sunny later? Will I see it if it is or will I have passed-out by then?

Time for a cup of tea! :-D

Australian Forces Leave Iraq

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Aussies Leave Iraq

Australia, one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, has ended its combat operations there.

Australian troops are due to begin returning home in a few days in line with a promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who swept to power in November.

He said the previous government had abused intelligence information to justify joining the Iraq war.

“Of most concern to this government was the manner in which the decision to go to war was made: the abuse of intelligence information, a failure to disclose to the Australian people the qualified nature of that intelligence,” Mr Rudd said.

He added the public had not been told of a pre-war warning that an attack on Iraq would increase, not decrease, the terrorist threat to Australia.
(Source: BBC News)

Notice the bit I’ve put in bold:

an attack on Iraq would increase, not decrease, the terrorist threat to Australia.

If you said the above in Britain, you’d probably get banged-up for encouraging terrorism or breaking some other Big Brother law that New Labour have invented to squash dissent.

And yet, here is the new Prime Minister of Australia saying exactly what the whole global antiwar movement has been saying for the last five years.

But wait, we’ve got Gordon now!

Brown

He’s completely different from Blair. Completely! Surely, he’s coming into line with popular thinking and realising that Blair was wrong to conspire with Bush’s mad crusade?

Well, no.

Instead, he’s personally backing a new law that’ll allow the cops to lock up anyone for forty-two days with no charges, no proof – nothing.

Just because they don’t like the look of you.

Welcome to Britain!

Time to emigrate to Australia?

New Labour MPs Back Police State

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The Face Of Evil

Ministers are winning over Labour rebels on the controversial terror detention vote, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.

The Labour peer, who was attorney general when Tony Blair made a failed bid to increase the detention limit to 90 days, said: “There can be no mistake that extending the period suspects can be held without charge is a very serious incursion on our fundamental freedoms.”
(Source: BBC News)

So, we’re being sold out by New Labour MPs yet again?

I wonder how these spineless “rebels” are being won over? No doubt with a series of threats, bribes and promises of cushy positions. The same way Blair was bought into the disastrous illegal invasion of Iraq by the USA.

Straw protests that these new laws will only be saved for the very worst situations. They won’t be abused. Oh no.

And we all know that must be true, since politicians never lie.

Never mind that UK police are already running round shooting innocent people to death, invading innocent people’s houses and attacking them and otherwise covering up their crimes in order to guarantee our freedom from tyranny.

Hold on – this freedom from tyranny is starting to feel a whole lot like tyranny to me.

Better watch what I say or I’ll get branded a terrorist by our lords and masters and disappear with no trial and no due legal process. You know, like what happens to dissidents in China.

And, if New Labour get their way with this new law, Britain.