Twenty Ten

And so begins the new year. For a few hedonic hours the populace puts their problems aside. As I watched the Times Square revellry (a forced, corporate event sponsored by Nivea) via Earth Cams' site I thought to myself how wonderful and hilarious it would be if we celebrated each day with the same enthusiasm. Logistical nightmares aside, why not? Oh well. Im sure the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. "Its Thursday eve! Wooohooo!" Funny thing is I personally find 'Thursday eve' a worthy candidate for a party. Its the night before payday baby!
....So goodbye 2000s. Hello 2010s. Lots of online discussion regarding appropriate ways to refer to the decade and the year itself and how to best abbreviate it. The 10's? Twenty Tens? 10? The 0-10s? I think this year will just end up being refered to as Twenty Ten. Simple enough. The decade, not so sure - the teens? What were the 1910s refered to as? As the clock ticked over in Times Square, which happened at 6pm jan 1 here in NZ, I could sense a number of prayers or incantations being offered up - people utilizing the collective human focus and gnosis to intensify their projections...private wishes. Like - 'give peace a chance'. And 'let peace reign' and 'lets get it right this time' or something. That same pulpy but potent void that emerged when Obama came into office. Its nice to fool yourself for a few hours isnt it. Not only will peace fail to be implemented, in all current theatres of war, we wont get it right either. BECAUSE THE PROFIT IMPERATIVE IS STILL THE MOTIVATION BEHIND ALL BIG BUSINESS - therefore the WORLD. Peace simply isnt in the best interest of these forces. The only peace to be conjoured up is subjective. We must find our own peace, inside ourselves. A kind of radical subjectivity. I suppose I just speak for myself here.I truly believe being born here in NZ is a blessing because we are so geographically removed from the turmoil of the northern hemisphere. Its almost a utopia. And it is here where I will find enlightenment. Maybe i come across a little new age here, I don't really care if I do. Go start your own blog. I suppose I'm just not vital enough to be an activist. I look to those in history who rejected the behemoth by withdrawing, by exploring the inner reaches of their minds, and by reporting what they find back in whatever medium suited them. These reports may or may not be for the public. They may be purely self-satisfying works. Thats beside the point. Activism, like that of say, the Red Army Faction or the Weather Underground is beyond me. Too dangerous. I believe deprogramming from, education about the true doings of (which is exploding lately thanks to the net) and intellectual rejection of the man is the first step. Or at least A step. We have the Alex Jones army out there, a vast right-wing libertarian horde. AJ certainly does an amazing job exposing the crooks. Much of his information is excellent. If you listen to him long enough, you gradually pick up little clues to his world outlook. And the fear and urgency he expresses - these dooms - they never eventuate quite the same way he warns of. In fact 9/11 type events can only empower his career more and more (a great AJ audio clip is his show on 9/11 - go find it online its a cracker). But the show lures you in - its like a hyperactive real-time world collapse, or a natural disaster report. And he hates 'PC'. In my mind 'PC' is essentially feminism, so to call yourself anti-pc is to basically say you want your wife barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen making your dinner. I reckon anyway.

Ah, Ive gone waaay off the rails with this rant. I don't even know what my point actually is here. Oh well. Thanks for dragging your eyes across these lines and have a good holiday and rock on. CRUDE is playing above the 'Whiteroom' on Moray Place on December thee 9th with the lads from Proxy Music - a new music venture here in Dunedin. So go check it out.
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the 2010 project

Greetings readers! Here we are standing on the precipice overlooking the land of promise and/or peril that is 2010. I for one am looking forward to kissing the 9/11 decade goodbye. Of course, who knows what madness awaits us in the next. Oh well. Anyway, Crude is taking a new tact next year and will be working on a COLLABORATION series. Basically I want to team up with the dozens of musicians and artists I know and love and record tracks with them all - oned track per individual - ie Crude+Iso12, Crude+whats its , Crude+paul honeybone, Crude+whos its etc etc. So, if yr interested in this project, get in touch.

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