— Russell Edgington
From what I can gather from facebook, the song the will be desecrated this year by ‘x factor’ is Cannonball; the loathe i will feel when my ears stumble upon the nauseating squeals of the ‘finalist’ nullifying Damien Rice will be unparalleled. Quality new music is scarce, don’t destroy the classics we turn to instead. At the next act of social unrest, i’ll make me some witty banners about video killing the radio star or maybe reference how John Lewis turned a timeless Smiths song about an aching desire for emotional reciprocation in to a beacon of sickly materialism - giving and receiving as such. Kim Jong Il could learn a thing or two from Simon Cowell on how to control a population through propaganda. He is basically the ‘house’ in a casino, in the end, he always wins. Rant over—
I am not made for this world.
I am resigned to a simpler future, in which i shall roam the welsh valley’s in animal hinds and silk. Living in archaic hut made of the earth. With nothing but a bed, book case, and wind up vinyl player. I will spend my days lost in Tolstoy and my evenings deciphering Chaucer, unwinding to Motown and getting messy with peanut butter blues and melancholy jam.. I will spend days pondering the meaning of life. I will hunt small animals and forage for delectable plants. I will adopt a more ethereal abstract name like winter bark or morning dew. I will truly succombe to the Id and it will be good.
England by definition is the country of rebels with absolutely no cause, go home you precious little bastards and maybe when you live in totalitarian state or live through some form of genocide, or have any genuine reason to riot then you can smash as many inconsequential shop windows, cause permitting. In the Middle East our youths rise up for basic freedoms and against oppression, the youth of London and other cites / towns rise up for a HD ready 42” Plasma TV…. perspective. I cant help but feel that the UN should send in american troops to quash these evidently outrageous human rights violations….. wait….there’s no oil in england? Never mind.
At midnight last night Sudan was split in to two countries, the north, (where part of my family is from) still called Sudan, and the south, now called the independant republic of South Sudan.
A joke is a joke. How so? Well, you won’t die in free country when you have the Brits, the Yanks and the whole neoliberal capitalist West vying with China for new “grazing rights” for petroleum and anything they can dig out, pump out or cart out.
South Sudan, another piddling, under-resourced, under-everything African state— just a fresh piece of tenderloin for the hungry lions of international capital.
That was the U.S/Israel axis goal—notwithstanding the stupidity and complexed fanaticism of wannabe Arabs, Nimiery all the way up to Bashir—all along. Truncate Africa’s largest state with propaganda, unrest and war. Well, they got their wish. Let’s hope they get some karma in return—the evil ones.
social commentary, 21st century fables and cautionary tales including interjections from the super Id.
