sheesh

45 years and still rocking.

i’ve just realised that status quo have been rocking for 45 years! And still they march on rocking and rocking and rocking. Uncompromising. True to their core. 

just goes to show that micheal schenker was true when he stated that “rock will never die” I think Salvador Dali has helped him make this point in this very surreal video.

 

 

Dear old Skibereen

Chances are, if you are of irish extraction in the UK or the States (47 million in the states are of irish extraction), a big part of your gene pool will have emigrated due to An Gorta Mór  euphamistically known as the (potatoe famine)in the 1840s. You don’t know what the gaelic means do you? Neither do I, thats because our language was near destroyed too, but thats another subject we’ll be dealing with on this blog at some point….

In Scotland, where anti irish racism has never been acknowledged never mind tackled the opening of carfin monument to the famine victims with theTaoiseach Berti Ahern had to be posponed due to the controversy it would cause around a rangers and celtic game.

This song Skibbereen captures this period well and we should pay heed to its message which has contemporary relevance to the famines we periodically witness in places such as Africa. All of which are social!!! The last verse demonstrates that it does not take Amartya Sen to suss this out and that the victims know fine well who the perpetrators of such holochausts are and that there shall be payback for these injustices.

Below are the lyrics and a version of the song that i found on youtube.

Oh father dear, I often hear you speak of Erin’s isle

Her lofty hills, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild

You say she is a lovely land wherein a saint might dwell

So why did you abandon her, the reason to me tell.

Oh son, I loved my native land with energy and pride

Until a blight came on the land, my sheep, my cattle died

My rent and taxes went unpaid, I could not them redeem

And that’s the cruel reason why I left old Skibbereen.

Oh well do I remember that bleak December day

The landlord and the sheriff came to take us all away

They set my roof on fire with their cursed foreign spleen

I heaved a sigh and bade goodbye to dear old Skibbereen.

Your mother too, God rest her soul, fell on the stony ground

She fainted in her anguish seeing desolation ’round

She never rose but passed away from life to immortal dream

She found a quiet grave, me boy, in dear old Skibbereen.

It’s well I do remember the year of forty-eight,

When we arose with Erin’s boys to fight against our fate;

I was hunted through the mountains as a traitor to the Queen,

And that’s another reason why I left Old Skibbereen

And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame

I could not leave you with my friends for you bore your father’s name

I wrapped you in my cota mor in the dead of night unseen

I heaved a sigh and bade goodbye to dear old Skibbereen.

Oh father dear, the day will come when in answer to the call

All Irish men of freedom stern will rally one and all

I’ll be the man to lead the band beneath the flag of green

And loud and clear we’ll raise the cheer, Revenge for Skibbereen

 

Blantyre Explosion

I heard the Christy Moore version of this old scottish song about the Blantyre Mining Disaster which took place on October 22, 1877 where 207 miners died and 92 widows made, and 250 fatherless children. I had never heard of this explosion yet, this town is just next to my home city Glasgow till i heard this song. Tears came down my face first time i heard this..

Dunno there is something about this song that really touches me, makes me think of all us ordinary people that get fucked over by a system that reduces us to a means of production or reproduction, or a wastage underclass and how precarious our existances are within that set up…

It is songs like this that gives us an insight into the real lifes and emotions of such events that can alas only be generally put into statistics for us to recount such is the magnitude of the problems of this world….

I came across the chords for it and have been practicing it, i like to sing real songs about real people, and the real struggles that we all have to endure that rarely get noticed.

Anyway heres a great version by Luke Kelly and below are the lyrics..

By Clyde’s bonnie banks
as I sadly did wander
among the pit heaps
as evening grew high.
I spied a young maiden
all dressed in deep mourning
a weeping and wailing
with many a sigh.
I stepped up beside her
and this I adressed her
“Pray, tell me fair maid
of your trouble and pain.”

Sobbing and sighing
at last she did answer
“Johnny Murphy, kind sir,
was my true lover’s name
twenty-one years of age
full of youth and good looking
to work down the mine
of high Blantyre he came.
The wedding was fixed
all guests were invited
that calm summer’s evening
my Johnny was slain.
The explosion was heard
all the women and children
with pale anxious faces
made haste to the mine.

When the truth was made known
the hills rang with their mourning.
Three hundred and ten
young miners were slain.
Now husbands and wives
and sweethearts and brothers
that Blantyre explosion
they’ll never forget.
And all you young miners
who hear my sad story
shed a tear for the victims
who were laid to their rest.”

 

the Posts that i Pick Up # 1

Right this series is going to be posts or parts of posts from various PU forums that i think challenges the prevailing paradigmns in the PU scene which has a strange form of idolitary for the alpha male image. Also, i shall bring forth posts challenging dishonesty and manipulartion. I believe that there is a shift in some sectors of the PU scene towards ‘being oneself’, ‘(genuine)respect for women’ and a distaste for manipulation and dishonesty emerging in the PU scene. There seems to be a lot of momentum gathering in this sector, and its a process that is by no means nearly finished and it appears to me that this process is going through a lot of refinement discarding the old mold, but at times is still present. Its an exciting development and i think it may go much further in the future putting to death many of the old idols in the PU scene…. What i post in this series is what i think challanges these notions although i may not agree with everything i post here…

This has been partly inspired by the thinkinggirl thread on PU with regards to alphaness, manipulation et al that i thought i should post here rather than clutter up further the thread…..

with that said onto post#1: exerpts from the thread titled ‘Fuck Value’ by Comecuca on the badboycafe forum (direct seduction forum).

First off I am absolutely fed up with the obsession with value that most guys in the community have. What the fuck is going on? This obsession is leading to a lot of unnecessary trouble with guys not understanding what to do to the point where they can’t figure things out and just drop off back to their old habits and give up on the community.

 ……….Most guys who are reading stuff about seduction have this imaginary 200 pound uber macho guy as an example of a guy that gets laid. So what happens? The community has you compare yourself to this guy not even knowing that this is not the only thing that women find attractive. Sure these guys get laid but at the same time the women who are going out with them would go out with a regular guy just as fast if he learned how to get out of his own way and show something which these guys may or may not have. So in this post I’d like to open up your eyes to how you can get over your obsession with value once and for all and start learning how to open up to women………

Most of the guys that PM me have the same small problem. They have finally decided to go out and approach women but they’re so scared that instead of being AFC now they become ass holes or worse unfriendly/creepy. This dawned on me because it was the same shit that I was doing until recently. Sure I was getting laid but I was putting in too much work. So what was it? I created the perfect masculine image for myself to hide what was truly underneath. Sound familiar? Well it sure as fuck should if I’m getting 10 to 15 of you guys writing me a month and it is the same fucking problem over and over again.

What this does is that it takes you from one extreme to another but it doesn’t find the sweet spot where you need to be. This sweet spot is made up of what a woman finds attractive in a man (masculinity) and what she finds even more attractive a guy who can open up to her and listen to her as well. This my friends is the ideal that women long for. See you can be the best looking, machoest man in the world but a lot of women will not go for you if you don’t show your natural side because you come off as a fake. You’ll get chicks but you’ll get the ones that go for fakeness. On the other hand if you’re super friendly and give out a good vibe they’re willing to overlook a lot of things because they want to feel good around you. This phenomenon is real because women, as much as some may not want to reveal, are just as scared of you as you are of them. So in these instances the ability to make friends is a very valuable one. You ever hear an expert telling guys how they should talk to women as if they were talking to their guy friends? This is why. So you have all of your body language and leading down pat for attraction but don’t let that be the only side of you.

See opening up and revealing yourself is what value truly is. It’s not just posturing and sprawling yourself all over a couch and it most definitely isn’t a well placed DHV or anything like that either. We here talk a lot about leading and one of the most important characteristics of a leader is being proud of who he is. If you were to allow yourself to open up and share your own embarrasing stories or your deepest secrets then guess what? Women will too. You’ll create a bond so strong that you’ll have her. If you go back to my sweet spot commentary above there’s no reason why a woman would LJBF you. LJBF is a big reason why guys have sworn off opening themselves up. By showing your natural side to a woman you allow her to open up to you and women really, really like this.

 

quick rant on islamism, democracy,hamas, fatah, palestine, isreal and the occupied 6 counties of (northern)ireland

There is the attempt to construct what is happening in palestine that Hamas seized power. They never siezed power. They were democratically elected, but all the powers that be  such as the US and the EU (which withdrew its funding for the emerging palestinian state), and including the old palestinian adminstration rearguard combined together and did thier damned hardest to countervaile the democratic wishes of the palestinian people.

Secondly, PLO, Fatah etc are hardly famed for thier democratic credentials, i mean lets face it arafat was a gangster that was towards the end of his reign was getting loathed by the palestinian people which was also the time of the rise of Hamas.

Thirdly, there isnt any historical precendent to justify the notion that if islamist type administration get into power  through democratic or the very least quasi-democratic means that they will impose antidemocracy. Becuase, the contingent facts regarding islamis regimes is that whenever they nearly come to fruition through the popular will of the people they have always been undermined by forces within the nation states (military juntas) and forces without these nations states such as US support. Algeria is a classic example of this.

And i believe to an extent that in a sence its by the fact that whenever there is a move to islamism by the popular will of the people that is repressed that actually shapes the anti democratic islamist responce. Since thier aspirations no longer can be achieved through democracy of course its going to channel it in another direction. Thats exactly what happened in Algeria.

IMHO if islamic aspirations had been allowed to manifest themselves through the will of the people and then for them to Feck up just like any other grand social experiment it wouldve probably meant that radical islam woudlve died off a long time ago, but now its a hornets nest.

The lessons never get learned, i mean look at how in turkey where they are making small cautious islamist steps have the military waiting in the wings to defend the ‘free’ secular state…

One last point. Its only when you get the people at the extremes of poltical viewpoints to come to a resolution that progress can get made. People in the middle of two opposing viewpoints always have common ground its the people at the fringes that really call the shots. I mean look at the sucess of the power sharing they’ve got going in stormont with Ian Paisley the leader of the DUP as the first minister and Martin McGuinness the deputy leader of Sinn Fein as the deputy first minister.

The sad thing is, whilst hamas where still going for thier death to isreal rhetoric *which they had to do so as not to alienate aspects of thier support* they were moving pragmatically towards a tacit acceptance of a two state solution. This was a great opertunity that was missed there, and it will be a long time till it comes back again. IF ever.

 

Yeah… im feeling a bit sorry for myself……

Darkest Hour by Megadeth

In my hour of need
Ha [no] youre not there
And though I reached out for you
Wouldnt lend a hand.

Through the darkest hour
Grace did not shine on me
It feels so cold, very cold
No one cares for me.

Did you ever think I get lonely
Did you ever think that I needed love
Did you ever think to stop thinking
Youre the only one that Im thinking of.

Youll never know how hard I tried
To find my space and satisfy you too.

Things will be better when Im dead and gone
Dont try to understand, knowing you Im probably wrong.

But oh how I lived my life for you
Still youd turn away
Now as I die for you
My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
All these years I thought I was wrong
Now I know it was you
Raise you head, raise your face your eyes
Tell me who you think you are, who?

I walk, I walk alone
Into the promised land.

Theres a better place for me
But its far, far away
Everlasting life for me
In a perfect world
But I gotta die first,
Please God send me on my way.

Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt be fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you, alone so alone, Im lost
Consumed by the pain
The pain, the pain, the pain.

Wont you hold me again
You just laughed, ha ha, bitch
My whole life is work built on the past
But the time has come when all things shall pass
This good thing passed away.

 

Metal with a Message…

So…. how did i get into social and political issues. Well i guess having a socialist for a father was one thing. Secondly my own thought processes. Thirdly Heavy Metal…..

 Metal was not just a scene of spotty teenager males that couldn’t get girlfriends.. Indeed it was the vanguard of critique of all that is existing. This shall be my first post proving this case, about how radicalism and heavy metal are entwined.

 Nuclear Assault in this song ‘Brainwashed’  tackle thought control of the mass media. Apt for these fox news times. I like how they link media to perpetuating our consumer capitalist society..

Brainwashed by Nuclear Assault

Radio, an insidious form, helps shape your thoughts making you conform
Programming music easy listening, help you achieve that moronic grip
Playing you regurgitated pap, selling products that are mostly crap
Rarely hearing music you want to hear, it bas an effect over all these years
Why don’t you think for yourself
Live in this self made Hell
Television, the idiot tube, helps to raise our children as fools
Watch the news see what they want you to see, our awareness is limited by network
Moronic sit-coms and one-sided news alter your feeling give you conformist views
Why can’t you get that garbage out of your Head, you’d better off to read a good book instead

Newspapers, what do they say, Not much I think when they want school kids to pray
Getting the facts from some daily news, you hate the system but adhere to it’s view
Blaming the dead because they can’t complain, shielding officials holding them above
You’d better wake up and see what’s plain to see, or end up a willing part of the machine

 

 

Turning Point…

I have been at a serious impasse regarding life direction since the loss of my religion,  breakdown of my marraige, homelessness, at all those wonderful things. All the motivating factors for my studies were no longer there, all that defined me ceased to be.

I am now finding my way as a single dad who sees his kids less than hed like to. Its a tough adjustment going from stay at home dad to weekend dad. However, i know what i want, i want to be as involved with my kids upbringing as much as possible. Ideally, i would like to have them 3 days a week overnight - that is the goal im kinda working towards although im realistic enough to know that i will have to approach this in an ad-hoc manner.

What this requires though is for me to have a liveable income, and at the moment my studies which are going nowhere is hampering my efforts. Univerisity at the moment means that i am sleepwalking towards being a teacher something which is cool and all that but considering that my studies was with the aims of being educated where i could be a progressive muslim academic its quite different to being a teacher. I lost my ideology anyway so i can no longer engage with it or try to be a polemicist for it. For the sake of income to be the family man i so desire to be again i need to work full time, that is not possible to do with full time studies at university. So what do i do? It came to me this week and it feels fucking awesome to find direction again.

 I withdraw from university, and do a credit transfer to the ‘open university’. I can study at the open university part time which means i can work full time and get my finances sorted. It will take me 3 years to do the degree that i want to do at the open university which means it would only take me a year longer than to complete the degree im currently doing at Glasgow. But heres the really cool thing. The degree that i’m changing to doing instead is a LAW DEGREE!

I can’t wait, now i need to get these wheels moving…..

 

Most realisitic prediction of Glasgow in 2020?

Read about this controversial  study undertook by thinktank demos on my bus journey to uni today in the Herald Newspaper. Predicting how Glasgow could be in 2020 if certain measures were taken. There was a diversity of visions, to me this one below stood out, based on my experiences as a Glaswegian. Indeed, i would say that most of this stuff has come to pass already here. I experience it every day living in a poverty striken scheme and then travelling to the bourgouise west end. The amount of people that go to Glasgow University who have never gone beyond the west end is astounding. The west end really is a horrible bourgiouse bubble but i wont go into rant mode today…

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1417677.0.0.php

Hard Glasgow is a quiet place. “Apart from the constant growl from police helicopters swirling overhead,” said Mr Hassan. It might, however, appeal to some more than Two-Speed Glasgow. Another caricature, this time of Glasgow’s notorious social divide.

“By 2020 economic and social divisions are so entrenched that Glasgow has become two cities living side by side in blissful ignorance of one another,” Mr Hassan wrote. “One half believes that everyone is middle class now’ while the other half is bedded down in social housing estates, existing in temporary jobs or on benefits. Both halves believe that they represent the majority experience of living in the city.

“With social mobility at an all time low, people are born in the same side as they die. There are little to no movements between the two cities and the politics of Glasgow are entirely conducted around the values of the richer half. The excluded have by-and-large opted out of voting, politics and notions of citizenship.

 Something that made me laugh out loud on the bus had to be this quote:

 Football is no longer so important - one sport among many. Glasgow has lost the chip on its shoulder, making up with Edinburgh and reaching peace with the wider world. It has even taken the step of apologising for its role in the British Empire, and brought an elderly but still lively Bill Clinton to the city to chair a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend sectarian disputes.”

and then this quality statement lol:

 There isn’t much room for sectarianism in another imagined city of 2020. That’s Kaleidescope Glasgow, where so many newcomers, even the English are welcome, have arrived that Old Firm rivalries are long gone - Partick Thistle is the top team.

lol I wish!

apparently this report cost £200k lol funded by Glasgow City Council and it pokes fun out of them.

You’ve gotta love the old academic fraternity with the audicity they have with how they justify thier careers! Still id rather give them money to come up with funny reports rather than Glasgow City Council who squander money on zilch…

 

Demonstrations of Diversity…

 Edited to add: This post HAS got past the spam thing, I’m too impatient with these computers, anyhow i will leave this post here, since i would like to have some dialouge with feminists and PUA around the themes that PUArtistry throws up. I will write a more extensive post on these aims here in due course.

Stupid title i know but i thought it sounded like PU community talk so i just couldn’t resisit it. Anyway what is presented below is a post i made on the excellent thinking girl blog thread on feminist critique of PUA ideology.

 http://thinkinggirl.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/professional-pick-up-artists-run-woman-tricking-business-to-help-guys-get-laid/

Unfortunately, my posts resemble spam thus the spam blocker blocked it so im going to post it here anyhow just in case anybody should be intrested in reading it.

One of the little-understood facts of the PUA community is that PUAs and PUA gurus are constantly trying to “neg” and “AMOG” those who are not of their group or school or method, or someone who they deem as a rival for their “target’s” attentions.

Negs are definitely popular within the PU community but they are by no means deemed as universal. I have posted a couple of posts I discovered after a quick web search to give a couple of examples to demonstrate this point.

http://direct-method.net/invisionboard/index.php?showtopic=2489

Last night I was explaining to my wing, a guy with Aspergers, how negging is dumb because it is used to cut girls down. I told him that it comes from lack of inner game, because by doing it, you are automatically assuming the girl is of higher value, or better than you. Then you cut her down out of insecurity and revenge for this “subjective” fact. This is a bad mindset. You are being reactive because you place her frame higher than your own. I told him you could never get too far with this girl because you are already assuming she is better than you, and IF she stays with you, she will only do so if you keep cutting her down, putting her in her place per se. she would have to be pretty low self-esteem to take this as well.

http://direct-method.net/invisionboard/index.php?s=&showtopic=2489&view=findpost&p=18403

By “negging” you are demonstrating lower value, as well as trying to qualify yourself to her.

The point of negging is to bring her down a notch or two. That automatically sub-communicates that she is above you, and that you have to try to bring her down to “your level”

The other point of negging is to show that you are not intimidated by her beauty, and that you feel comfortable enough around HB9’s and 10’s to the point where you can behave that way around them, but it just sub-communicates that you are also trying to qualify yourself to her at the same time.

“I negged you, because I’m not intimidated by you” so to speak.

It’s like when you’re about to get into a fight, and your opponent says “I’m not afraid of you” or “You don’t want to fight me”

By saying that, it shows that he is indeed afraid of you, but he’s trying to convince you he’s not.

Same principle applies to “negging”

With regards to ”arms dealing” and Neil Streuss, I was just arguing essentially that this ‘arm dealing’ thing is a precedent that has already been done by David DeAngelo. (At least according to the wikipedia article). But from my own personal experience with ALL PUA gurus (including the ones that I have a wee bit of a leaning towards),  are all in it for the money, and just like any good capitalist, the best way to maxamise returns is through finding new markets. Reminds me of the growing male cosmetic industry, some bright spark in some boardroom had the epiphany that there was another 50% of the population that was an untapped potential market.

 Neil Streuss has proven with the creation of the “annhilation method” his quasi nepotisitic marketing as the ‘worlds greatest pickup artist’ with a source that was far from objective demonstrates that his first concern is with his bankaccount, not with his conscience.