There are many things one can do with their spare time, if of course you allow for such a thing in your hectic and important life. Some people like to do outdoor activities, which are fun, providing you have the get up and go to get up and get there. Hobbies tend to work also, as do watching films and tv shows, which is a personal favourite of mine, and I suppose that is a hobby. Either way, spare time is not something to be fearful of, if there was something more important to be done you would probably be doing it. I realised this last night in the middle of my 5 disc of TV show Fringe (which is brilliant coincidentally) I had two things planned for last night, well three, but two things I haven't done in a while. Sit in on my own, and get through my large box of what can best be described as demented scribblings.
I tend to write everything in lovely books you can buy at my local stationary shop which will remain nameless because despite it's local tag, I don't really like the place. However, the books are good, and fairly cheap. Before the discovery of these books, I would write everything down in yellow legal pads that were housed in a lovely leather folder that was a gift from my good friend Becky B. I also had a period of writing on my little notebook laptop, but that has contracted aids from some filthy site I must have visited one day.
The good thing about looking back at old writing is finding the stuff you didn't want anyone else to see, the stuff you don't print, just as much fun is finding the original notes of things that became something else. For example i found my notes from the first night me and my buddy Gus played GTA on the PS3, online, which then became a post on this blog. I also stumbled upon the book that houses the lyrics I contributed to what would become a major label album, which was exciting because I was almost positive I'd lost that book.
I've lost my train of thought, as I am working in a cafe at the minute, making coffee for people, and trying not to gorge myself to death on the fine selection of cakes I sell. Spare time, that's where I started. I had mentioned to one of my customers that I had spent my spare time doing as I mentioned last night. His reaction was to make fun that I had spare time, and implied that if I had a job like his I wouldn't have spare time. It took me a while to realise he had pretty much called me a loser, so long in fact that he had long since left the cafe. I lost, I need to deal with it. However, he was wearing a suit, which given the area surrounding my work makes him a banker or a lawyer, or some other 9-5 shit hole of a job. Which would mean he has more spare time than me because if I'm not working here I am working nights at a bar. Of course he could have children that take up time, but that's not my fault, that has nothing to do with his superior profession, if anything his kids should be the first thing he thinks about when someone says the words 'spare time', but they weren't, and I'm sure there is a reason for it.
Anyway, aside from pompous pricks, I remembered what I was getting at. My hobby is writing, and you can now read more of it at www.worldnewsvine.net. Come check it out.
Henry. x
Friday 16 October 2009
Friday 2 October 2009
You can have your nuke back at the end of class.
Nuclear weapons are bad. I get that. They are bad, and against the law, but only if they are held by countries that we don't trust, not when we have them. This is only half the problem because of all the countries in the world, we side with the Americans. This is either a very clever strategy, or a terribly dumb one. It could very well be a friends close, enemies closer sort of affair behind the scenes, but in the public eye the special relationship has been strong for years, and by special I mean America is like Biff Tannen, and UK is like the guys who stand behind him, we are basically a young Billy Zane. Laughing and lording it up in our big bullying pals shadow.
All over the papers this week is Iran, where our soldiers will be 'liberating' next, taking freedom and democracy to people who don't ask for it, and delivering the western way of life via laser guided missiles. We won't stop until these heathens have a McDonalds on every corner, right next to the Starbucks. It is no wonder that Iran is next after all they have the audacity to try and build a nuclear weapon, and tell the Americans (and us) to fuck off, when only us, the coalition of good guys are allowed those weapons. The un-christian, un-democratic Iranians can have sharp sticks and whatever weapons are left over from the last army the Americans armed.
This is maybe slightly off subject, but I was watching a programme yesterday about the state of Germany in the decade before Hitler rose to power, and I was amazed at how poor the country was in that period, and even more amazed when you see how they salvaged their economy in time to unleash their hate on the world. It could have something to do with the Americans funding the Nazi party I suppose. Just like they did with the Taliban and the IRA. Or that could all just be coincidence, or the work of the dreaded 'conspiracy theorists'. Dun dun duh. Those crazy guys.
So if half our problem is not knowing if America feel the same way towards us as our PM seems to feel towards them, then the other half must be the knowledge that we are now, to the rest of the world, just another State of America. Since before Tony Blair fooled voters into thinking he was anything but a sadistic little con artist with an ego bigger than his wifes unsightly mouth, and long before George W Bush pretended he wasn't snorting cocaine in the White House, the majority were happy to follow the Americans wherever they decide, at risk of being the next country they invade. Although that may never happen because we just give them our oil, they have no need to take it by force.
Now that America have a leader who can actually talk and think at the same time, they have tricked everyone into thinking they have changed, trying to show that they are not just tyrannical war mongers, spurred on by the (not so) mighty dollar and the pursuit of un-tapped oil sources. It is transparent though, they still have the same motives and agenda, and the same tired old techniques. Find oil, make up an excuse to get the public on board, and go in all guns blazing and just take the oil. It's the American way.
All over the papers this week is Iran, where our soldiers will be 'liberating' next, taking freedom and democracy to people who don't ask for it, and delivering the western way of life via laser guided missiles. We won't stop until these heathens have a McDonalds on every corner, right next to the Starbucks. It is no wonder that Iran is next after all they have the audacity to try and build a nuclear weapon, and tell the Americans (and us) to fuck off, when only us, the coalition of good guys are allowed those weapons. The un-christian, un-democratic Iranians can have sharp sticks and whatever weapons are left over from the last army the Americans armed.
This is maybe slightly off subject, but I was watching a programme yesterday about the state of Germany in the decade before Hitler rose to power, and I was amazed at how poor the country was in that period, and even more amazed when you see how they salvaged their economy in time to unleash their hate on the world. It could have something to do with the Americans funding the Nazi party I suppose. Just like they did with the Taliban and the IRA. Or that could all just be coincidence, or the work of the dreaded 'conspiracy theorists'. Dun dun duh. Those crazy guys.
So if half our problem is not knowing if America feel the same way towards us as our PM seems to feel towards them, then the other half must be the knowledge that we are now, to the rest of the world, just another State of America. Since before Tony Blair fooled voters into thinking he was anything but a sadistic little con artist with an ego bigger than his wifes unsightly mouth, and long before George W Bush pretended he wasn't snorting cocaine in the White House, the majority were happy to follow the Americans wherever they decide, at risk of being the next country they invade. Although that may never happen because we just give them our oil, they have no need to take it by force.
Now that America have a leader who can actually talk and think at the same time, they have tricked everyone into thinking they have changed, trying to show that they are not just tyrannical war mongers, spurred on by the (not so) mighty dollar and the pursuit of un-tapped oil sources. It is transparent though, they still have the same motives and agenda, and the same tired old techniques. Find oil, make up an excuse to get the public on board, and go in all guns blazing and just take the oil. It's the American way.
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