| Dia De Los Muertos! |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|02:50 pm] |
Here in this dreamworld
I wait for the real world..
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| Linkage |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|07:14 pm] |
Some links from The Register:
Autonom-nom-nom-nomous technology.
The return of some of our rights?
One hell of a potential threat. |
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| Inkubus Sukkubus do Leipzig! |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|10:28 am] |
Inkubus Sukkubus do the WGT Leipzig!As one of the many highlights of the current 20th anniversary tour, in 2009 Inkubus Sukkubus returned to the Wave Gotik Treffen, the biggest and most spectacular Gothic festival in the world.
Here's the story of that gig.
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| Anyone looking for Whitby accomodation this October? |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|02:08 pm] |
I've a large double room going spare for the Whitby Gothic Weekend in October. My friend Elanor and I share a cottage between us, and have done for the last few years, but she'll not be going to the next three WGWs, so we're looking for two people to take over the double room in the cottage.
It's very centrally located, about half way between the Spa and The Elsinore, and is a spacious modern property, 4*, with full facilites including large kitchen, washer/dryer, dishwasher, spacious lounge, and two bedrooms.
It's only a few years old and the owners maintain it in absolutely top class condition.
Our rules are fairly simple, don't annoy the neighbours, no hair-dying in the bathroom, no smoking in the cottage. The owners are happy to have Goth tennants as long as we look after the place, and we want to keep it that way.
We've it booked from Thursday to Tuesday.
Cost for October is £110 per person.
The double bedroom includes a large walk-in wardrobe.
Anyone fancy joing us for Whitby? |
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| Eeep! Sunday evening already! |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|06:14 pm] |
Wow, that weekend flew past quickly!
Hair of the sheep that bit you down at the club tonight, anyone? |
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| Freight train crash filmed live from locomotive |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|03:02 am] |
Now this is one hell of a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFe0846RgWc
It's footage shot by an automated camera from the cab of the trailing locomotive of a Union Pacific freight train which was derailed by a tornado while in motion. After the initial derailment of the car right behind the locomotive, look up the track for the rest of the train still coming!
Fortunately no-one was hurt, but it's pretty spectacular stuff. |
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| Flock Tomorrow! |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|01:54 pm] |
Flock as in Friday, not as in the Sheepish euphumism for a certain expletive! :-)
Live music 8pm - 10pm, from The Screaming Banshee Aircrew (who are launching their new album) plus support from Luxury Stranger, who have a really cool name and aparently sound a bit like the Chameleons!
And then of course the usual fun and frolics with Mr Vodka and Phono Paul on the decks from 10pm - 3am.
There was a poll floating around yesterday (which I can't post as this is a free a/c) but ISTR the winning category of reasons to come was "Gay Disco", beating both Goff and Bleep into joint second place, which seems weirdly appropriate for the current weather conditions!
Bring yourselves, bring some sheep (well, possibly not - they'd get all hot and bothered and monopolise the baar), bring a camera!
http://www.fridayflock.net |
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| Population Control - how not to do it |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|01:57 pm] |
Rwanda is being urged to drop a draft law which would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8128121.stm
Comment: Ok, I'm all in favour of global population reduction as the only real solution to the problems of both poverty and climate change, but it has to be done by educating people world-wide to the benefits of having fewer children, and most definetly not by forced discrimation.
Though we probably shouldn't be that surprised, as it's not that long ago that disabled people here in the UK won the right to actually have sex lives.
And what on earth do they thing that compulsory HIV tests for people getting married will acchieve? Madness. |
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| Vote Conservative! |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|01:11 pm] |
No you're not imagining things.
At a keynote speech at Imperial College London, David Cameron has pledged the Conservative party to dismantle Labour's "Control State". http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/jun/26/cameron-renounces-control-state Link courtesy of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) asw909.
Yay for David Cameron! Now we just ave to pray for an overwhelming Conservative victory at the next election so he can implement his ideas. Tony Blair once said he wanted to make the Labour party the "natural party of governance" in the UK, rather than the Conservatives. Well we've had twelve years of the New Labour experiment, and in that time we've been taken into an illegal war, even so seen our troops sent out to fight ill-equiped and ill-armed, had the government pying into every aspect of our lives, even legislating what consenting adults can and can't do in their own bedrooms, and seen the beginning of the construction of a surveilance state that puts the worst excesses of Cold War era Eastern Europe to shame. Tourists and trainspotters are told they can't take photographs, young adults are routinely followed, watched, and searched, and large chunks of the population treated as a barely contained enemy to be harried and harrassed. The police are out of control, hiding their ID numbers and beating people, councils treat their residents as an enemy to be spied on.
This is not the Britain I grew up in. This is not a free society. It's a nacessent police state, and it grows worse year by year.
Growing up in the Thatcher era I used to wonder about the Labour-haters who claimed that all socialists were control-freaks in disguise who would, given half a chance, try to dictate every last detail of people's lives. Surely that couldn't happen here? Now I know where they were coming from.
The madness has got to end, and only a landslide Conservative victory can possibly end it.
At the next election, if there's a chance of the Conservative candidate in your constituiency winning, vote for them. Pay no attention to the actual candidate, it's parties and ministers who govern, it's the party that matters. If, like me, you live somewhere where the Conservatives have no chance of winning, vote tactically. Vote Liberal Democrat, vote Plaid Cymru, vote UKIP. If you're in a labour seat, vote for whoever came second last time.
And of course if you live in Scotland, vote SNP. Independence is acchievable, and both Scotland and the rest of the UK would benefit from it.
Labour tried to destroy our country. Now it's down to us to destroy them. |
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| It's Armed Forces Day - join the UKNDA! |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|02:02 pm] |
It's Armed Forces Day today, designed to encourag people to think about our armed services and what they do, and have done throughout history, for us. However controversial (indeed, downright bad) some of our elected leaders' decisions have been (did Tony Blair realise he'd be damned in all history for the illegal invasion of Iraq when he ordered it?), the fact is our armed forces are and always have been some of the very best in the world, and it's their sacrifices over the centuries that have bought us the freedom we all enjoy today. No enemy force has succesfully invaded these islands in the last 1000 years (though the Vikings did manage to claim some of the northern bits for a while), and since King Henry VIII's time the Royal Navy has been our ultimate defence.
Which is why its a complete travesty that the government chronically underfunds our military year after year, resulting in troops being sent out to fight with inferior equipment and insufficient weapons and ammunition.
As to what our military people actually do, you can read some of their stories here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8119138.stm
There is an organisation campaigning for better finding for our fighting men and women, the UK National Defense Organisation, UKNDA. I've joined, it's only 12 quid a year. Anyone else care to join me? |
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| Movies Movies Movies! |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:27 pm] |
Saw Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ok, preposterous concept, and plot holes you could drive a giant robot that transformes into a huge truck through, but a lovely romp with some great special effects, loads of nice hardware, and cute characters. Fun!
Also saw quite a lot of interesting looking trailers for upcoming films:
GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra, lots of fast pased action and borrowing from The Matrix (slow-motion bullet-dodging, except this time it's rocket propelled missiles), Underworld (black-clad action-girl characters), and Black Hawk Down (lots of through-the-air stuff and dust-heavy explosions), looks good!
Blood, The Last Vampire, which is out at the moment and seemingly blends a vampire action story, lots of Crouching Tiger-esque martial arts and swordplay, and the Japanese fetish for sailor-girl uniforms. Thinking of going to see that tonight, it'll be good to see a movie in a cinema which isn't a Hollywood epic for once.
There were several other entertaining trailers I've forgotten (I wonder if I'd get chucked out of the cinema if I tried to record the trailers so I could remember them afterwards?), one of which was I think for an all-new style of Disney animation, and then:
2012. Oh yes, that's my kind of movie! I grew up in the 70s and early 80s watching Irwen Allen's string of disaster movies on TV, The Night The Bridge Fell Down, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, etc, and I've always loved the disaster genre, I suppoose it fits with my own beliefs that the human race is going to exterminate itself in the next few hundred years. Of course Hollywood always has to go bigger and better than before, so the localised disasters of the 70s have been replaced with global catastrophes that involve the entire world, especially now the CGI is advanced enough to convincingly show entire cities, even entire countries being believably destroyed. Based on the popular myth that the Mayan calendar predicts the world to end on Midwinter's Day 2012, the movie comes out in November, I'll definetly be setting aside a night for that! |
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