Saturday, August 23rd 2003

A cartel to control our ideas

People have realized superstar DJs are just hyped fabrications that do nothing but pressing a button with a green isosceles triangle pointing right. Club culture is out, as now it is 'cynical, exploitative and banking on ecstasy to mask the rip-off' (as opposed to the current 80s revival, which instead is cynical, exploitative and banking on cocaine to mask the rip-off). And we are left post-moderning post-modernism. Any person who ever had a five-minute crash-course in contemporary culture knows history is repeating once again, and in a few years a cynical reapreciation of the superstar DJ will lead to actual apreciation of the fingers pushing those CDs into the players (as the new hiatus will finally kill vinyl and "CDs are the new vinyl"), and then people will come along telling that rock's the reall thing and some people in Camden Town or The Village or that borough in Tokyo with the holographic karaoke bars will come up with the electro rock revival and then the 80s and the 00s and the 2020s and the 2030s when clubs appear full of kids with fluorescent geneered skin worship Eduardo Kac's psychedelic bunny while folk somewhere else delve into antique 90s triphop records and someone in Germany samples record noise out of the old Portishead record while old lady Beth Gibbons sings in a dutch gabbaclash track. And then you die. Blimey.···

It appears I write like a girl. No, not with hearts instead of a dot on top of really small 'ii'. The Gender Genie says my writing has little girlish quirks. What can I do? I'm not a native english-speaker, so perhaps I got manneirisms that seem girl-like writing to the CGI app. But rest assured, my portuguese is quite macho, as follows: foda-se, caralho para esta merda. Does this typically Northern, redundant untranslateable swearing look girlish? Cuntish automations...···

Really Simple Syndication made harder, just because we can setup our own webserver with PHP and a MySQL database, and then run this Feed on Feeds script in it, instead of downloading a simple Windows/Linux/Mac app and setting everything up with a single click. Well, I'm so nerd I didn't resist.···

Astrology is a lie. This has always been so obvious to me I can't even conceive how can someone believe Saturn rising high in the sky can cause some people having a visit from an old friend while or Mars' perigee makes others catch a cold. And if you consider 6 billion people on Earth as meaning there are 500 million people sharing the same sign, or 42 million sharing both the same sign and the same ascent, now there's a whole lot of people going on an unexpected travel abroad today. Not to mention that, astronomically speaking, there are actually 13 divisions of different spans in the Zodiac. And what about those stupid horoscopes that say "If it's raining don't forget an umbrella or you'll catch a cold". If? A 'science' that can predict the behaviour and the complex iterations of 6 billion people could certainly predict the weather as a bonus, shouldn't it? And do I really need a horoscope to sound like my mother? And what about the proven scientific fact radiation pouring out of my neighbour's TV set upstairs will act upon my body more than anything coming out of Mercury?···

Ok, lots of catching up. Let's go.···