streamofconsciousness
Friday, August 6th, 2010i would actually like to go on a proper stream of consciousness type of thing with my blog, but i’m pretty sure none of you will read paragraphs of ranting raving and mumblings. which is a shame really!
There’s this problem with blogs, where the relationship can become really one-sided, one person blogs all the time and you feel you know them, but of course they don’t even know you’re reading, let alone how you are – this is where the low-commitment of twitter comes in handy.
But there’s this other aspect of blogging where in fact the blogger (me) only tells extremely select things about themselves or always tries to sound cool or whatever, to the point where it becomes alienating or it just stops.
I said ‘no’ to a date the other week, a couple of them actually. This happens about once a year, some nice (or not-so-nice in some cases) guy asks me out… but it inevitably falls apart at the point where we must find a first date venue. A place that is neutral, a place we can both relax etc… Movies is my first date of choice, or a band if you have established that you both like said band.
Galleries are hard for me because I really can’t walk that long due to stupid foot. standing on the hard floors doesn’t work for me, seeing the art does though.
Gigs terrify me even if i’m with friends even if it’s a venue I know, even if I like the band. Even if I’ve been going to gigs regularly for months. I think it’s because it’s a room full of strangers which unfortunately you’re more likely to interact with somehow than say, a cinema audience. Awkward unintentional eye contact, being sized up as to how you fit in the scene, whether I know you, whether you should be there.. I’m sure most of it is in my head. But it has never gone away in the 18 years of gigging.
I think if I did other things, interacted with other groups at some point I’d get more offers for dates than the current annual offers. But I’ve not found a place i’m comfortable that also offers up lovely lads on a regular basis. it also seems to me that the higher density of lads, the less nice they are. eg. Footy bars… not the nicest lads. Librarian conferences, very nice lads, though few and far between.
But even when I’m asked, unless there’s that neutral space to just be, no pressure, relax.. I may as well just sew my lips shut. or not bother showing up. same difference.
And now we move on to the PRIVACY issues I do so love to jump on regularly… because personal dating sites make Facebook look like a bunch of happy-go-lucky linux developers. What I’m saying is, Dating sites are so evil they make facebook look like fluffy bunnies. And look at who owns these dating sites, and how many more are starting up even fairfax want their own dating site… why? because you will tell them everything about you that is real, and they will profile you and target you for advertising. they have no interest in your future happiness. You could get raped and dumped in a ditch for all they care. as long as they get your dating profile. and it’s a catch-22. classic. if i lie on the dating site then i wont get the man of my dreams, i’ll get some other weirdo. so i have to be completely honest and reveal my heart.
MARKETING COMPANY’S WET DREAM!
And speaking of Marketing companies… Hows about the Labour Party! OMG lets take all the rough edges, human emotions and personality out of our PMs shall we? You too can vote for a PR spokesman, oh no, wait… that’s PM Julia Gillard (the #gingeroverlord). Tony Abbott in comparison can be a complete git and actually SAY you can’t trust anything he say, and still come off the better candidate, because we can relate to him more as a member of the human race than the woman who compromises every one of her convictions at the drop of a hat, in a shiny white suit we’re praying she wont accidentally menstruate in.
On the upside there is a Green member for my electorate, so my voting decision has been made. I get to stick it up the government for sticking it up the Boat People, the Kyoto Protocol, and anyone who uses the internet.
But my preferences will still make sure Abbot goes down the toilet along with the silly bitch they put in my seat who nearly didn’t get the job because her party members didn’t want such an important seat going to a woman.
Bet those party members were sweating in their sleep when a woman became Prime Minister of Australia. Don’t let them fool you kiddies, they attack attack attack and say they don’t like Julia for saying she’s going to “get real” or whatever, but we all learnt this lesson from the Americans. Saying you’re not going to vote for Obama because he has a Muslim middle-name is NOT a convincing cover for that fact that you’re a xenophobic-bigoted-misogynistic-mother-fucker-of-a-lying asshole. Atleast half the shit that’s being thrown ad Gillard is because she’s a woman. Step back, take a look, open your fucking eyes.
And speaking of opening ones fucking eyes. You all know what a fan I am of the iPhone cancermaker, well that was before they made the new one out of an aluminium antenna which you have to touch (ruining reception, and probably amplifying cancer toward your brain) and extremely shatterable glass. I’m sorry it’s butt-fugly. I may have forgotten to mention this in my last post way back when, but by the time they proved that the bloody-thing works less for left-handers, I’d fucking had it. There’s actually a long list of things wrong with this phone. And the funniest bit is how iPhone5 is going to come out in a year or so and it’s magically going to look totally different, not that they’d ever admit they fucked up with this one, but you know, it’s not a mistake they’ll do twice. One would think… they did make the ultra pointless iPad…
Still not going to Android though, I’ll wait for a TRUE open source device such as Linux. Cory Doctorow leads the way here, we don’t want our future devices, which will eventually replace our PCs and laptops to be little boxes of advertising in our pockets. Our ‘cells’ as described by William Gibson back in the early 80s of cyberpunk, which would be little pod things which act as our gateway to the world, holding everything we are within them digitally – we don’t want these things controlled by a company which doesn’t let us put files on it, or our own games, or copies of comic books we got from friends. We want total control of these future PC’s we hold in our pockets. We don’t want their spyware, we don’t want them shooting ads through the air at us, we don’t want them to upgrade the OS every five minutes so we have to buy a new piece of plastic just to be able to load our address book before going senile. We would never let them take our PCs or our laptops, so why are we letting them take our phones???
I know iPhone is against everything i’ve just said here, I’m well aware of that. I was aware of it the moment the phone came out. But above and beyond any other phone on the market they understood User Interface. I don’t want to THINK how to write an SMS i just want to bleeding have it written and sent already. THAT they got right. for a PHONE they got it right… for a future PC/laptop replacement they got it ALL WRONG.
And I think that’s most of the rants I’ve been penting up.
