I have no idea who Tegan or Sara are. Did they call Tyler the Creator out? Fair play if they did. I think Tyler the Creator is an infantile little shit but with talent who wouldn't get away with the nastiness if he was white and I would imagine that most of those buying his stuff are white. Doesn't really matter as to me he's like the flipside of Beiber. Others will come along soon enough.
I don;t get the whole Clarkson thing. The bloody union shot themselves in the foot with their ludicrous reaction and thus took all attention away from the march and the issue. Morons. He's a joke. Cowell. People lap it up. Let them. Cattle. McClaren is arguably more interesting as he did actually create something, even if it was through piracy. As for the 'he stole black peoples' stuff. Name me white artists/entertainers that don't. P-Orridge, Tibet, Lydon...Bambaataa was ok with McClaren and what people forget, as was recently pointed out by Arthur Baker, is that early hip hop was more mixed that it is now. Fab5Freddy and Futura hung out with the Clash etc.
I am concerned about the 1%/99% sloganeering. I feel it negates our personal responsibility for consuming and wasting as much as we do. The only reason anyone is starting to give a shit is that their own comforts and more are now threatened. Before that and even still we turn a blind eye to what we as individuals cost others elsewhere on the planet.
Surely the easiest way to break the system would be to stop buying shit. No new shiny phone devices of any sort. Control social media by using it for specific purposes only. Delete Facebook accounts. Don't watch tv. Volunteer our time etc etc yada yada.
We buy the shit and they supply us.
Junkies always hate their dealers but run back to them all the time. We allow them to control our destinies by agreeing to the contract. Then we get to misbehave a bit.
One thing I think is to ignore/cut out any influence you see on your life as negative culturally. Be it Cowell or McClaren or Clarkson or Murdoch or the Royals or pop or apps or...whatever.
But then hold on to and cherish what or who you see as a positive.
Nowhere are you mentioning who you see as inspirational or admirable or...
Just looking at the Observer Review there were 'intimate portraits of people we lost this year'. Laced between Winehouse and Falk and Scott-Heron and Barry and Styrene and Taylor and so on were people who were more unsung. One of them, Tim Hetherington, I found hugely inspiring in life. Another, John Herival, I was unaware of. Undoubtedly there are many and obvious reasons why music and film dominate our consciousness.
But should they so much?
Where is Control? Right where we all choose to spend most of our time.
Cowell has made millions from music. Of course, he doesn't care about it. If he he'd lose his game. Repackaging it for the cattle. Clarkson has a book out and says something dumb and gets the press.
We make them important. Tell you what...you know the Seditionaries t-shirt 'One day you'll wake up and realise what side of the bed you've been sleeping on' (probably not)...I'll try to hunt out or copy the text.
Then I'll make my own.
Then if I show you mine you'll have to show me yours...
shit...now I have to sort this lamp problem out...
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I don;t get the whole Clarkson thing. The bloody union shot themselves in the foot with their ludicrous reaction and thus took all attention away from the march and the issue. Morons.
He's a joke.
Cowell. People lap it up. Let them. Cattle.
McClaren is arguably more interesting as he did actually create something, even if it was through piracy. As for the 'he stole black peoples' stuff. Name me white artists/entertainers that don't. P-Orridge, Tibet, Lydon...Bambaataa was ok with McClaren and what people forget, as was recently pointed out by Arthur Baker, is that early hip hop was more mixed that it is now. Fab5Freddy and Futura hung out with the Clash etc.
I am concerned about the 1%/99% sloganeering. I feel it negates our personal responsibility for consuming and wasting as much as we do. The only reason anyone is starting to give a shit is that their own comforts and more are now threatened. Before that and even still we turn a blind eye to what we as individuals cost others elsewhere on the planet.
Surely the easiest way to break the system would be to stop buying shit.
No new shiny phone devices of any sort.
Control social media by using it for specific purposes only. Delete Facebook accounts. Don't watch tv.
Volunteer our time etc etc yada yada.
We buy the shit and they supply us.
Junkies always hate their dealers but run back to them all the time.
We allow them to control our destinies by agreeing to the contract.
Then we get to misbehave a bit.
One thing I think is to ignore/cut out any influence you see on your life as negative culturally. Be it Cowell or McClaren or Clarkson or Murdoch or the Royals or pop or apps or...whatever.
But then hold on to and cherish what or who you see as a positive.
Nowhere are you mentioning who you see as inspirational or admirable or...
Just looking at the Observer Review there were 'intimate portraits of people we lost this year'. Laced between Winehouse and Falk and Scott-Heron and Barry and Styrene and Taylor and so on were people who were more unsung. One of them, Tim Hetherington, I found hugely inspiring in life.
Another, John Herival, I was unaware of.
Undoubtedly there are many and obvious reasons why music and film dominate our consciousness.
But should they so much?
Where is Control?
Right where we all choose to spend most of our time.
Cowell has made millions from music. Of course, he doesn't care about it. If he he'd lose his game. Repackaging it for the cattle.
Clarkson has a book out and says something dumb and gets the press.
We make them important.
Tell you what...you know the Seditionaries t-shirt 'One day you'll wake up and realise what side of the bed you've been sleeping on' (probably not)...I'll try to hunt out or copy the text.
Then I'll make my own.
Then if I show you mine you'll have to show me yours...
shit...now I have to sort this lamp problem out...