Thursday 28 June 2012

this message is so important I refuse to sell it to you

This message is so important I refuse to sell it to you. For if it is for sale, it will be sold back to me and the message itself will be removed. I can buy three punk rock t shirts on the market for £10 don't you know . That is not to say that in any way I will be attempting to give the message away. No of course not , that would never do. Like some cheap promotional freebie, in advance of the sales pitch , with a view to converting marketing touches in to cash, clicks into views, points into prizes. The bruce forsyth of the underground. Knowing this it would be easy to make the assumption that the absence of any message, of any marketing slogan, or chant politik, given , or sold, for it is much the same, means that a message does not exist. That would of course be incorrect, in so much as it is possible to be right or wrong about these things. Equaly one should not confuse the absence of a message as some sort of apathy, when infact there is burning rage. Although it is of course important that apathy or rage is not seen to exist, as they would of course be messages in and of themselves. Just as atheism is the deepest and most strongly felt of all the religions, apathy and reaction is of course the deepest and most strongest of all the messages, yet having them , also justifies the need for a message, which in itself justifies and and both defines the existence , of that which we feel rage or apathy for.  Therefore in many ways there is no message that can possible be given, that is not to say that this message itself has not been careful crafted, refined and agonised over. Yet at the same time improvised. And it is this very lack of a message, which must be seen as distinct from simply the absence of message that is so common in the over ground (if such a ground were to even exist) that it what we seek to convey.

In conclusion, I think I can safely speak for everyone, though I would of course prefer to speak for no one and to no one,  when I say " My council house is shit". Thatcher? She's demented.

Saturday 16 June 2012

beauty in small sights

If thinking around balance has become as important, if not more so than thinking around duality. is it the year that postmodernism finally broke. is this here the water has ended up. some sort of transcendance where self reference, where for and against, of and not of no longer matter. in fact they matter so little that it was almost as if the never ever where. over and over until they will always have been but they will never have happened. does beauty override purpose and meaning if is it of sufficient strength that it is a purpose and meaning in and of itself. is it all hippy bullshit , or do I really only need a hard on for blueberries?

Monday 4 June 2012

Principles don't put bread on the table

A self-proclaimed Communist and homosexual, U.S. poet THE WREN caused a stir in several Communist countries he visited (Czechoslovakia in 1965, Yugoslavia in 1980, China in 1984), to the extend of being expelled from Cuba in 1965. His visit in Hungary in 1980 went smoother and he could perform the poetry readings and meetings with political activists that were his usual diet while travelling abroad