Art and Life

Met up with Paul Munson this morning as i was about to go off to Worthing for another survey job. He seems to be doing very well with his OU studies - better than i did which does wrangle with me a bit, but then at age 50 there is litle chance of moving in a new direction. Or am i being defeatist here?

Anyway i have too many interesta and "pies" in things like Snoopers to worry about academia! Still i have a niggling doubt that i should continue studies just for well-being rather than anything else. Deciding factor is expense. And to me that is where i began to baulk at it,esp. when you can get the Grateful Dead 12Cd box set for a mere £79 now - origially £120. It comes down to choice in the end and available time to do such things. In the end,not to be boastful about it,through my own interests ,and search for new knowledge, i know more about thinngs than the average university graduates who are still wet behind the ears. Even the limited exposure to university life i had has made me much more totally aware of the enviroment around me.

I know that we now have age discrimination laws via the EU but will it change percwptions? Over a certain age you still seem to be over the hill by most employers. So for now i will stick to market research which is quite immune from this age shit fiasco and put my energies elsewhere. Love of music takes a bit chunk of my non-working life and my love of art is unbounded by qualifications which try to make you think in a different way - perhaps i apply the outsider aesthetic here. Any art is good and proscribed art by the critics is a fallacy of the ways that established art impinges upon us.Actually you can extend that to all walks of life, free thinking is being slowly denuded by the clever spin by poliicians that we still live in free society,and the worst adherents to this obfuscation is the current Labour party.

I agre wholeheartedly with Bradxxx - everyone should vote Tory (an naethema to most Labour supporteres ,maybe) next time as it is only they they who will allow (to most degrees) unfettered individualism and total non-bureaucratic freedom.



So there! The revolution ,as Gil Scott-heron said, will not be televised it will be live!


Anyway just got back from Worthing and been drinking a nice bottle of Californian red wine. Hnece on da piss.

OK i am in Steve Reich kind of mood - whatvever that is!

Education and Life

Ruffled some feathers,didn't I? (hello wanderingcherie). Well it is only how i felt at the time and i am not begrudging education per se - what i am saying it should not be paramount against anything else. I too would be willing to take any short course if it further my interests in a measured scholastic means,but only if i enjoyed it and it wetted my appetite for more of the subject. I don't see any point in doing something just because you have to, in filling some need that is not a pursuit of yours. So enough of tht subject for now.

Having just ranted i will probably tak up the electronic music course at our local Polytechnic next year, since you do learn to biuld your own circuits and instruments from scratch, just lke Pan Sonic did with their miniamlist techno music.They also do a fine 8mm and 16mm avant-garde film course.

Picked up an old Egberto Gismonti LP from 1978 called "Sol Do Meio Dia! (ECM reords ECM 1116) from Snoopers for £3 this afternoon after my return from Worthing.Slightly noiy vinyl but otherwise fine Also features the cool sax lines of Jan Garbarek. Had noted it is still available on CD to my surprise.


I spoke to my cousin Tim over the weekend,and it looks as though he is back to square one looking for work again as the trader of imported beers he was working for went bust. Then another job fell through. He has not had much luck and really needs to get settled down to soething soon. I hope he does get something more permanent and wish him the best of luck. Again,education would help to further his carre. Okay so i have eaten my own words!!