Their Finest Art

You might have noticed the change in my LJ headline — it's a Charles Bukowski quote from 'The Genius of the Crowd" — I used a version read by him in a recent mashup, about being an artist in an age of indifference. 

It's as much a message to myself, but the lyrics of Jimmy Eat World's The Middle are far better and far more poignant than they ever deserve to be....mixed with Etherwood, so drum and bass.

Not Wanting Solitude
Not Understanding Solitude
They Will Attempt To Destroy
Anything
That Differs
From Their Own

Not Being Able
To Create Art
They Will Not
Understand Art

They Will Consider Their Failure
As Creators
Only As A Failure
Of The World

Not Being Able To Love Fully
They Will Believe Your Love
Incomplete

And Then They Will Hate
You

And Their Hatred Will Be Perfect
Like A Shining Diamond
Like A Knife
Like A Mountain
Like A Tiger
Like Hemlock

Their Finest
Art

And also a few more mashups from the same challenge — inspired by the bandlist of the frankly odd 'When We Were Young' festival later this year in Las Vegas.

One a rather sad slow mashup, mixing Wolf Alice's Lipstick On The Glass with Slowdive's Falling Ashes and a more upbeat new wave one that I think fiftypoundnote  might like — Linda Linda's vs The Go Go's — GOh Beat! — Oh! vs We Got The Beat.

Freedom, you've gotta give for what you take

I think one of the things that will take a long time after this whole pandemic is to regain my trust in people. It broke severely during lockdown and is not repaired.

As someone who is at risk and in the vulnerable category for COVID, the whole 'freedom' debate to not have a vaccination or not wear a mask or protect others is basically saying 'I don't care if you live or die, I'm gonna do what I want, and screw you'. It's blatant as if they said 'go away and die' to my face. Major lack of respect to me and it is incredibly rude. You bet I take it personally.

Their freedom is my demise, yet weirdly they get all upset and play victim when I don't respect their decision that their 'freedom' - such major life-changing actions like wearing a mask indoors in public spaces or a vaccination, such onerous tasks *eyeroll* - basically stops mine (and might stop my life, let alone freedom!), and makes me have to shield and avoid people like that cos they are most likely carriers. 

They cry about free speech and 'MAH FREEDUMB' but what about MY freedom to not get COVID-19 and be seriously ill or worse? Apparently that's not worth shit. Apparently they think it's some Darwinism in action, and cull the herd and screw science or caring.

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