Pagan386
I lay my cards on the table. Being GC does not make a bigot, it does not make me a rightwing idiot, & it does not mean I hate Trans people.
Feminism isn’t homogeneous. For example, to me ,gender woo woo is a very, middle class, neo liberal concept that is churning up mischief & distracting left wing thinking & politics . Transgederism does not have anything to do with LGB, its not about sexuality
So the UK has left Europe. That is sad. Don’t get me wrong , I think there has been problems with the European Union, but when compared to being out under a right wing Tory Government & its lying, selfserving Prime Minister Boris Johnson, well I’d much have preferred to have remained.
Even in the London Suburbs you can go chill in the woods. Which is a nice calming thing to do, be it any time of the year. A lot of people may know of Highgate woods,but unless your local you may not know of Coldfall woods.
Once upon a time part of a bigger woodland that included Highgate & Queens wood, this little patch of woodland is an oasis from street traffic, & at this time of year as the leaves are beginning to turn a beautiful spot to walk.
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My reaction everytime Trump tweets.
Its amazing how empty the finacial part of London is on a Saturday. Pretty much all news items make the finacial heart of London seem all important & vibrant. When in reality it isnt. Though at least it still consists of some buildings that are aesthetically pleasing. If you truely want to see a souless crap hole London, you need to go to Canary Wharf. 😉
From the very time as a child that I learned to read & write, I have loved both. I wrote from a very early age, filling up note pads with poetry,songs, & stories. Just before I hit thirty years of age I took all I had written & kept from about the age of 12 yrs…& burnt them on a bonfire.
How I wish I hadn’t.
It didn’t matter if they were childish writings or thoughts. They truly were part of me that I destroyed. I would say that psychologically that at the time, they were part of my psyche that I wanted to destroy. So I did. In flames.
Why did I do this? Its simple really. Though I have lived the usual life of work, family, being a `grown up’. I still did arty things in my spare time. Then I allowed that mostly universal thought of `Put away childish things’ to enter my world.
All arts it seemed are deemed to be `Childish things’.
Get to a certain age & writing for pleasure, making music, painting pictures, becomes frivolous, unless of cause you are an artistic wonder to be admired. How dare the you express yourself through art if you are low paid &,.. whatever Deity forbid not considered a recognised and/or admired `Artist’.?
That seemed sadly to me at the time was to be the manner of things. I now realise this kind of thinking is wrong. One can still play & be adult in their interactions within the society around them. What I have realised to my horror, is that perhaps it seems even more to be the case in the 21st century ..That you must put away childish things’…. Why do you think there are barely any actors/actresses that have `common’ accents’, Why do you think there are no popular musicians singing about Ghost Towns (The Specials), How shit it is being unemployed (UB40-One in Ten). Why do you think that tablets are popular..(Tablets are for media/content consumers), & desktops sales,(mostly used by media/content makers), are dropping . The masses are not expected to create, they are expected to consume in a corporate world.
In the 21st Century, we are beginning to build a world of Corporate Feudalism, whereby, `The Arts’ (Writing,Music,Painting, Drawing,Acting..etc), is the pursuit of the priviliged, the monied, regardless of whether or not the monied are actually any good at it. The everyday spaces have or are disappearing. Where have all the Common lands gone, The Village Halls, Small venues gone? For gia sake Pinkfloyd & Motown artists played at the California Ballroom in Dunstable, (No longer exists). Huh? Where you say?
Well thats my point.
Once upon a time in Britain, you could arrange to hire a field from a farmer, rent a flatbed truck, rent a local sound system, get a cheap printed flyer out and host a local gig. Whether it was a play, or local bands, sometimes local events included on occasions nationally known bands, & would you believe children of the 21st century, Artists, that were in the charts, appearing in national theatres, and even, would you believe on prime time TV. Once upon a time in the UK, Local communities could put on & provide events for their local & surrounding communities.
Now it would seem, unless its a charity event, that local artistic endeavors are based on..`How much MONEY will this make’ .. `Will this upset the council’..`Security/Policing/Security/Policing..POLICING/POLICING…Control..Control.
It would appear, according to popular media & our political classes that we the average, everyday people are uncontrollable louts. We must have our leisure time as well as our working hours controlled. We the masses are unreliable, we the masses have no manners, no decorum, no respect for each other, let alone our betters. (?). Thus, in the 21st century we must be guided, must be Nannied. Its for our own good.
For the human species, ART, from cave art, graffiti, prose, ballards, plays & dare I say especially through the artistic expressions of satire, we as a species have been driven to learn & express ourselves, not only in admiration, but also to critique. Now at the same time we are technologically creating & sharing tools to enable the masses to express themselves, we as societies are also allowing hierarchies to to control social structures that allow for repression & exclusion throughout all levels of society.
It would seem that in a time where there has never been so many tools available for mass communication, that we the masses. are actually allowing ourselves to be entertained & `educated’ by a small elite section of a global media savvy monied subculture that have no interest in the world, other than our species appetite to consume & preserving their own positions of political,social, & artistic privilege.
Well its been a while since I have had the inclination to start a tune & finish it.
Well over a year anyway !!!
But finally the Music Muse has bypassed the Photographic Muse & pinch my earlobe & whispered “Oi, wakey wakey, do something”
So I have have, musically. You may or may not like it, its steering toward the Germanic Stomping Techno feel. But thats ok as I love German Techno. Hopefully this willhave woken the music muse side of me to express its self.
Like all things this isn’t about being an `Artist’ its about having fun & democratically using the technology available to express y’self.
So without further ado…enjoy or not…but go on you just might…
I Know Not But Its Fun With Fury
Its strange, its been such a long time since I merely express my thoughts & feelings on/in a blog. I have seen over the past couple of years especially, the rise of Trolls. Those who would be loud, aggressive, smart arsed. Sadly they drive away the true voices of moderation, of reality. They drive away the voices of those who seek knowledge, & no im not talking necessarily about on an academic level, but more importantly I feel, those who seek knowledge on an holistic scale.
People who are interested in the world about them & the world in far off distant shores. Not of Governments or Corporations, but of people. It would seem now that Trolls, arnt just mere wankers hiding behind anonymity & spouting verbal bilge, some are actually paid, yes paid, to divert discussions away from critical thinking to be caught up in tribal or pedantic nonsense. Thus, internet discourse has become yet another corporate controlled medium as all the free spaces of chatter have died out, shut down or become mainstream media controlled.
This seems especially true as physical infrastructure in regards the internet or www has become the main source for mainstream media to communicate to the wider world to the detriment of other forms of communication. In other words, more & more, Big Corp controls & owns Bandwidth.
Theres a whole WWW out there, Google, The BBC. Sky, Netflix, Facebook are not the world wide web. How sad it is that a majority of people cant/dont realise that.
Wishing everyone all the very best for the New Year XX
Yep, more black & white photo’s added to paganfreak.net.
I love the fact that a metropolis such as London can still retain ancient woodland spaces.
This series of pictures are of Highgate wood, in addition to this another set of pictures will be added of Coldfall Woods. Both woodland areas are the remnants of an ancient forest.
As you can see, not all of this part of South East England is completely concreted over, & hopefully these woodland areas will last another thousand years..plus.