Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Telling The Time with Dave Corso, Miranda Kelly, and Duncan O'Finioan



From time to time I can listen to someone and feel or sense straight away that the only reason they are sharing information is because it needs get out. I got that feeling straight away with Duncan O'Finionan and I've been putting his excellent Randy Maugans interviews up here so you can listen for yourself. This interview is raw and unedited but there are moments of strong laughter and it's those points when we connect with people and remember little details like real people have a sense of humour even through tragedy. Unlike the humourless David Wil(cock) or the (prick)ly Richard Hoagland. 

There's a lot of hardcore information in this recording but life is hardcore my friends.

Monday, 16 January 2012

Crying With The Onion



Sometimes humour isn't there to entertain us it's there to facilitate bearing the unbearable. What might not be obvious to the amused observer is how fake the presenters and the commercial breaks are to the person who doesn't watch Television. 

Should we really be laughing at the blowback of a music factory churning out the least desirable role models for our children possible? From the presenters to the celebrities to the commercials. Television is diseased.

All of this becomes extraordinarily crystal clear once TV is rejected in a persons life. I'd rather have a vagrant opposite me than listen to someone else's profit agenda spewing out. At least the vagrant is real.

Regrettably the only way that the United States can comment on the Western consumer models' sickness is with humour. The Onion, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are pretty much the only serious cultural commentary on commercialised politics, commercialised art and commercialised wars and one gets the impression that because it can only be tackled with comedy that many don't know how to take it seriously.

John Lash - Planetary Tantra - Talk Two



"I like it, and it likes me" - John Lash on interactive magic with Gaia.