Thinkcrime.

This is not a blog about the actual year of ninteen eighty four, it's about the book/movie called 1984. It's a vision of a man from 1949 of the future. in ninteen eighty four he sees that the world will be under the control of a lovable dictator called Big Brother. Everyone is under the control of the government in an insanly powerful facist dictatorship.

The book has two interesting concepts: The concept of thinkcrime and the concept of doublethink, as well as the modification of the english language to newspeak. They control speech because they hold to the philosphy that if you cannot speak it, then you cannot think it. If you do think it it, you're commiting thinkcrime, and must be fixed. If you hold in two contridicting thoughts at once, seeing that black is white and white is black and finding both are true, and never thinking you knew any different.

I watched the film on youtube, of which two parts I had to see in Italian, because they contained nudity and the thinkcrime of nudity cannot be allowed on the Youtube. Alot of New World Order conspiricies seem to take ideas from this story, and it could be the origins of most of this thought. however if it were really a conpsiracy, wouldn't the conspiritors be controling our thought and access to such material? Is the internet and youtube so free that we are completly free to do anything on it? Some would say yes you can download music illegally, you can steal almost anything digitally, and others would say no, it's all controlled by the system's super computer.

The other creepy thing is that technology is slowly getting closer and closer to that of 1984, where everyone can be monitored, such as with cellphones being tracked by law enforcment, cameras on stoplights and places of buisness, slowly they are installing a system that is not radically different from this film, and it's rather freaky.

The wars in the film are not much unlike our modern wars which are constantly perpetuated for the right wing think-tank, and the empire building of post-modern America. We cannot seem to keep out of international affairs and always seem to be in a war whenever republicans get in office. I think that watching this film and reading this book are very good ideas for modern americans, because some people honestly need a wakeup call.

And ofcourse there is the always looming fear of 2012 that has been slowly growing fear in the common man.

Another interesting dude, my friend Tamera turned me on to, is this Terrence Mckenna guy, who has many ideas relating to this, including that culture is your operating system

Intersting stuff.. Check it out.

3 INCHES OF BLOOD

Alright mannn You guys love metal as much AS I DO so if you've not heard of these dudes then listen up!



(3 INCHES OF BLOOD comes from Canada aye, which uses the metric system, but obviously 3 cubic centimeters of blood is too long to use so I assume they just said Inches would have a better ring to it :D)

SO when you hear these dudes it's like Judas Priest Painkiller mixxed with even crazier thrash metal shit, and sudden screamo vocals. They have two vocalists, and two shredding guitarists. It sounds like a much heavier version of Maiden from time to time too. I really dig these guys, and had a chance to see them almost at Ozzfest 2007, but we didn't get there early enough and they were pretty much opening the jagermiester stage so we didnt see them. (Yes me and my family went to ozzfest for free in 2007, and it twas metal.)

Check these dudes out, I like this Darkhorse track quite a bit, but there most famous one would have to be THE GOATRIDERS HORDE off the album fire up the blades.

So has anyone seen this Jesus Camp doc? [Bad Idea Series]

I had watched it awhile back, and now I saw it again recently, and it really freaks me out. Luckily only 30% of the USA identify strongly with conservatism. It's freaky how much these guilt ridden evil facist republican think tanks can take over the minds of the weak. Watching this video you can see President Bush and all sorts of Army stuff just thrown in the background, like these people can't exist without it. At one point they bring in a cutout cardboard version of George Bush, which basically brings flashbacks of Nazi Germany and all sorts of other weird shit. Fanatics in any form are always creepy, but these ones are in modern day life... They use religion as a drug and a crutch to keep people obedient and like livestock herd them.

Plus the whole chanting in tounges thing kinda makes me cringe.

Yngwie Malmsteen

This guitarist shreds like crazy, If you've not heard of him I feel sorry for you. He has such insane classical training that I can't even begin to explain his playing. Listen to that video and you'll understand, once you get past the incredibly 80's sounding keyboard solo. This song had a video that is no longer around, but It show's Yngwie fighting a 20 foot tall dragon with pure heavy metal shredding.

I love the sound of this song. It's got incredibly Neo-Classical style while not making a complete specitcle out of Yngwie, like some of his other material does.

Check it out.

Rockin' the STRAIGHT EDGE.

I got my band "Sacred" and the prog rock band "Open Evolution" a gig at a little venue called the Straight Edge. It's actually the only all ages venue in the area. As the name would prompt the show has strict rules against Drugs and Alchohol, it's about the music. I think this is a cool idea, and I respect the venue's rules (but I'm definatly not a straight edge individual, mean come on it's about the drugs sex and rock and roll always.) It's a completly do it yourself in a garage rock out with your cock out kinda gig. I've heard many different opinions about the venue, but I personally don't care, and plan to rock the gig. Who can complain anyway? It's exposure, and everyone has to start somewhere, No one plays an arena their first gig. Working your way up the laddar is part of the whole experience.

Plus EVERY good rock band starts in the garage.

Of Roadies and Tech Crews.

ONE night was a disaster. In all honesty my group got boned. I'm not going to mention names but I'm glad there will be other gigs. My friend Tamara just said Tofu Wiener.

An astounding horrible idea relating to post-modernism. [Bad idea Series]

In relation to our post-modern studies, I've found something that ties in quite well. A film about NOT stealing video game software from the early nineties. Yes that sounds incredibly like a bad idea am I right? Not only is it a cheesy public service announcement, it's also done in a hip-hop format. Hip-Hop almost always uses sampling of audio, and in this case most obviously does. At one point they say that this stealing of programs could be the "end of the computer age". It's no wonder society as a whole sunk it's teeth into illegal downloading. Let's watch and see.