2007-04-25

vostoklake: (Default)
2007-04-25 04:06 pm

Me = meme whore



Sylvia Plath. Who did, in fact, end up in an oven gassing herself. A bad-taste variation on an old meme.



[livejournal.com profile] jessikast once made a comment to me that a protest we were having - which involved topless and rather hot young women painting themselves green to make some kind of point to Al Gore - was not classy. I hotly retorted that "Socialism isn't supposed to be classy!" and only afterwards realised I'd made quite a clever pun (geddit? as in classless society?) :-)



Wayne Hussey, guitarist for the Sisters of Mercy 84-86, lead vocalist for the Mission on and off until today. His former colleague Andrew Eldritch memorably and I think accurately described him as "a very good guitarist whose songs are feebleminded". Pretty much the stereotypical late 80's gothboi, and his lyrics of the time sound as silly as he looks. That picture is of Wayne around the time of the Mission's first album, and the caption was a comment made by someone on JournalFen - again, harsh but I think accurate.

ucp: You really had to pick the difficult ones, didn't you? ;-) The Universal Conscious Practice is a do-it-yourself psychoanalytical tool worked out by a very clever man called Martin Cornelius, who unfortunately spent 30 years as a prominent Scientologist and, I fear, may never be sane again. I have used it to very good effect and would recommend it to others who are interested in debugging their personality - although, like any exercise, you have to keep at it on a regular basis before it will really help. Details here - I will not point you to the inventor's website because he still writes in difficult and offensive Scientology jargon, but you can Google it. Please tell me if you use it and we could compare notes.

ultraculture: a term invented by Jason Louv to describe the "new generation" of pop-culture occultists. It is described in detail in the book Generation Hex, which you should fish out of [livejournal.com profile] darthsappho's to-read pile. An intoxicating mixture of penetrating cultural insight, anti-corporate politics, and sheer Crowley-in-a-previous-life bullshit. You might also want to check out the journal which Cousin Jason has started editing.

welsh language: Rwy wedi dysgu yr iaith Cymraeg pan oeddwn i ar brifysgol. Rwy'n ei siarad e tipyn bach eto. :)