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Hard to believe that it has been 10 years since David Bowie died but it has. And the world is a worse place for it. What I remember is that I heard that he had died, and then it was revealed that he had had cancer. At the time(10 years ago) I remember saying that I knew that he had been sick but was shocked, shocked that he had died.

The best part is that he lives on in his family.His daughter is an artist and musician and his son is Duncan Jones.

It’s impossible to underestimate his influence on music.There are so many bands that have been influenced by him(Duran Duran come right to mind.)

Nick Cave.

There’s a new series based on one of his books-The Death Of Bunny Munro coming soon.Matt Smith(Dr. Who!) is playing him which is amusing because in the book he is homely and has trouble talking to/getting women.

Nick is an interesting-and multifaceted-person.He has an understanding of grief.He has buried two of his kids and he wrote a book with Sean O’Hagan on that subject(among other things.)”Philosophical “ would be a good way to describe our man.

Also(like so many people) he struggle/struggled with his feelings about organised religion.

I like to listen to podcasts and I discovered one called Liberty Lost.

It is about girls who were sent to the Liberty Godparents’ home ,run by Liberty University which was founded by Jerry Falwell(you can tell already where this is going..)

The girls who get sent to this home..their only sin was getting pregnant out of wedlock(to say that is a no-no in fundamentalist families would be putting it mildly. These are kids who are shielded from the outside world as much as their parents can manage(though they have been known to listen to non-approved music like Coldplay and John Mayer and watch non-approved TV shows including The Secret Life Of The American Teenager which has a teenage mother as one of the main characters(and the mom on that show was played by Molly Ringwald who has played several teen mothers-in For Keeps and also in the TV miniseries of The Stand.)

Now,in my case, my birth mother was married and had several other kids.Then she got pregnant with me.So quite a bit different than the girls I’ve been listening to on this podcast.

Given how..Christian these families are..I guess my worry would be that they would take out their hatred of the kid being out of wedlock being the reason they are hard on the kid that they adopt. I’m not saying that this is the case but to me it is a legitimate worry.

After all, the way that the girls are treated says a LOT about the fact it is a religious institution.Random ass rules,they have to give their kids up for adoption, etc. You would be surprised how many girls who were in the home had family(never their parents;usually grandparents or aunts and uncles.) who were willing to help pout with raising a child.

(As an aside:I was adopted at the age of 4 months . My birth mother wanted me to be adopted by a Catholic family. I am well aware that I could have been aborted and never existed.And that’s something that gets me thinking.I wonder :

A)What my birth northern would think about her child being pro-choice.

B)What did she think when Roe Vs. Wade became a law(and then when it was repealed.)

Was watching Leave The World Behind and I was struck by several things:

1)The son gets bit by a tick and immediately starts having weird symptoms.That’s not how tick bites work(and ultimately the cause is revealed ti be something else;related to why the world has gone to shit.)

2)We get a reveal that it’s some sort of cyberattack..GPS doesn’t work, and neither does the internet and the TB(though briefly the TV -and the radio-come on and we get hints of what is happening.There is a emergency alert on the TV-which stays on for some time.I was thinking it was an EMP(electro magnetic pulse) which might explain the GPS not working but not anything else(cars wouldn’t work for one thing.) The power outage happens, eventually, but not until quite a ways into the movie.

Back in the day we had the constant threat of nuclear war hanging over our heads.I don’t think we realised it-with hindsight-until we were grown.Three words:The Day After.People my age and a little bit older and a little bit younger were *scarred* by that movie.

Suggested videos I have been getting on YouTube lately(and a few other surprises so stick around ‘till the end.)

Bin Stores(factory seconds and overstock. From stores and especially Amazon.)

Overbreeding dogs(as someone who loves dogs and has noticed this..I have to agree.Puppy mills are a HUGE part of the problem.)

Atheism(as someone who is practically a heathen I find this amusing.Also,the videos make some GREAT points about organised religion.)

The shorts videos on Facebook.. I have spent WAY too much time lately watching those. Cooking videos where they make the unhealthiest things you can think of. Cookie dough bars with a Nutella filling and another cookie on top of that. My stomach hurts just TYPING that!

Nutella and banana tacos(the “taco shell” is Wonder Bread.)

Oreo pancake bites-Oreos dipped in pancake batter and cooked and THEN drenched with syrup. Would you like a Pepto Bismol *and* insulin chaser with that?!

 End of the world movies-well some of them-defy  any sort of categorising 

But there sub groups and I’ll talk about one here:

Jeruzalem (two friends go to Israel and  wind up right in the middle of the apocalypse .)

Bokeh(couple goes to Iceland and the apocalypse happens.A remote place becomes even more remote.)

Travelpocalypse:it’s  a whole ‘nother category  of movies.

I forgot to mention the other day that Los Alamos, where the Manhattan Project was headquartered, was also where the remake of Let The Right One In, Let Me In, was set.When I heard they were doing a remake I thought “where in the U.S. is as remote seeming as Sweden?” New Mexico comes pretty close though Wyoming or Montana would have worked too.

I forget where I read this but it was heavily implied that the parents of the kids in the movie, a lot of them, worked for LANL*,*if not their grandparents. And of course the setting is during the Cold War.

In the Oppenheimer trailer there-is a comment about “why would you go to the middle of nowhere?”There wasn’t much to Los Alamos before the Manhattan Project and it’s still a bit isolated . They needed that space because of what they were doing.You notice that when they did the testing for the nuclear bomb they did it in the most out of the way places ,away from lots of people.

*The nickname some working on the Manhattan Project had for Los Alamos.

*Los Alamos National Laboratory.

And also how much I like deep dives, which I have talked about more than once . I have been watching this show called Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia.

He does a lot of episodes on psychoactive drugs, some of which are supposed to help various ailments. We all know about shrooms, and peyote, and getting a little more out there ,toad licking.Not saying I would do any of these things(but more about that in a minute.) but if they work for others then great. However, not everyone will have the same experience. Do your due diligence, is all I am saying. Add to that depending on where you live it may or may not be illegal(peyote is used in indigenous ceremonies)

I mentioned a moment ago that I said I wouldn’t necessarily try any of these things. I have heard a lot about ayahuasca. Doing some googling reveals that there are quite a few places to do ayahuasca in San Diego. In doing more googling, it might not be a good fit for me because I have health issues that preclude me from participating.

This also being said..at one point I entertained the idea of getting a prescription for medical marijuana for a few things I’ve been dealing with for a long time.

Siberia is a fount of weird shit.

There have been two hiking disasters-both of which ended badly.The bodies in both cases had hypothermia and tissue trauma. They were missing eyes, parts of the head. Why were they not dressed for the weather?

Then there’s the two comets /asteroids that have hit there. One in the early 20th century(you’ve probably seen a picture of it with all of the trees flattened..that was Siberia .Siberia, also, during wars, was where you were sent if you were an enemy of the country. It’s remote, miserably cold most of the year and if they send you out. In the middle of nowhere, nobody is going to know(that’s how it worked back then.)

Nicholas and Alexandra,the last Romanovs, were exiled to Ekaterinburg. It’s a remote area of Russia though not quite in Siberia. They were held at what was called The House Of Special Purpose .Of course, they were all assasinated after some time there.

I DO have my things that I believe in.My last post on this subject was confusing and for that..sorry.

HowEVER:
I definitely believe in ghosts. If you die in an unhappy/unsettled state..

UFO’s(there is DEFINITELY intelligent life out there..a LOT smarter than us!

Ouija boards

Dybukk boxes(see my previous post on the subject)


I do not believe in:
Prophecies(which seem like a whole lot of guessing, especially in the case of Nostradamus and Harold Camping. As far as the Mayans are concerned, it was something that was discovered and distorted ..turns out it wasn’t even the end of the world.. people just freaked out like it was. Hell, I’m old enough to remember Heaven’s Gate..that was fucking shocking at the time that it happened . Also, as I mentioned in a previous post, the prophecies of St. Malachy were rewritten MANY years later.

There are a lot of gullible, easily suggestible people that buy into such things -just look at the popularity of Coast To Coast AM-there are people that buy into that completely. I used to listen to it at night but I don’t think I have in 3 or 4 years now.And I have no interest in doing so. I feel bad for people who are so completely bought in to what they hear on there. Going back to 2012 for just a minute..the host of the show George Noory said he never believed that something was going to happen in December 2012.Well, then why do so many shows on it? Mind you, Art Bell, the previous host, did a lot of the same things. He entertained some pretty bizarre shit at times and I can’t remember if Art or George was the host but there was a lady named Nancy Lieder on his show..I fell asleep listening to the show but when I woke up she was not on there and I was never able to find out what she did.I can hazard a few guesses.Her website is insane( because of an end of the world prediction she told her cult mem..I mean followers to kill their pets, and themselves. There may have been more than one person doing that. When it comes to.. *waves arms* that, some people lose all good sense.