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About Me

How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager..I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint? - Repetition by KierkegaardBeen looking into Buddhism recently - Some calm would be nice for a change. But then is it actually good to be happy and subdued on planet earth right now? Most of the work here is several years old as you can tell from some of the faces and footage included. Like to delude myself that I'd do lots better now :) I decided against drastically re-editing or changing these pieces. They are what they are (many many) flaws n all. Free MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider

My Interests

Hmmm. Music. Film. Linguistics. Philosophy. My Bed - Never ever enough zzzzzzzzz's Environment. Animal Rights. Extra Terrestrial Life. Death. The End.

I'd like to meet:

No thanks I like to Veggie :) I love the cows and piggies. Check out the vid - We're a nasty bunch - Our track record is pretty bad by any standards. Our entire history is 90% violence end of story. Even most of our best technological achievements are mostly spawned from war mongering nations trying to get one up on 'the enemy'. Very embarrasing in front of other Extra Terrestrial beings at this stage. Would you be shouting it out 'I'm human and proud' at an interstellar conference? Doubt it. Live in hope I suppose. Trying to put into words how much I hate the meat industry would be futile - there aren't enough powerful words that can meaningfully encapsulate how much I despise it. 2007 and we're still stuffing other living creatures with drugs and hormones so they'll look better in a bun after being electrocuted and having their head's hacked off - Progress! Other than all this I'm actually pretty laid back and love laughing my ass off at the unfathomable ridiculousness of it all :")

Music:

Epic Dark Haunting Edgy Angry and not jangly? Then I like it... So Quality TECHNO and ELECTRO of allsorts Too many records and fave producers to even know where to begin. Johannes Heil - Early Berkovi on Djax in particular - The Advent - Chris McCormack - Kobayashi Records - AFX - Carl Finlow - Manu Le Malin - Surgeon - LFO - Planetary Assault Systems - Luke Slater's Clementine stuff on Djax - Ultradyne - Speedy J - FSOL - D -D -D - D - D -DETROIT - The usual suspects: Old Underground Resistance & Red Planet - Carl Craig - Jeff Mills - Kevin Saunderson - Aux 88 - Drexciya - DJ Bone etc DEEP TECH Basic Channel - Murcof - Jonas Bering - STL - Kompakt - Rhythm & Sound - EARLY JUNGLE and DRUM N BASS - Doc Scott - Congo Natty - Firefox - Photek - Dead Calm - Old Metalheadz . METAL INDUSTRIAL. Mostly older bands at this stage. Sepultura - Napalm Death - Sick Of It All - Nine Inch Nails - Misery Loves Company - Alec Empire/ATR - Pantera (Vulgar Display of Power) Couldn't listen to them for years for being such a bunch of bloated dinosaurs but there's no arguing with the early Metallica stuff - Selected Slipknot + Machine Head. HIP-HOP - Public Enemy - Anticon - Cypress Hill - Beastie Boys - CloudDead - Boom Bip and Dose One - HARDCORE BREAKCORE So Venetian Snares - Hellfish - Producer - Asphasia - Manu Le Malin - Herv - Loadsa Planet Mu stuff and Ceephax Acid Crew although that could really go under a load of other sections too and it's def not hardcore NOISE - Merzbow - Torturing Nurse - Kylie Minoise - Ok then I do love loadsa softer stuff - It's just kinda hard to stop being angry these days - maybe I need to stop watching and reading the news - So anyways Johnny Cash - Neil Young - Leonard Cohen - Nick Cave. Also stacks of INDIE PUNK ROCK POST ROCK COSMIC AMERICAN n ELECTRONICA stuff. Grant Lee Buffalo - Sonic Youth - The Pogues - Early Smashing Pumpkins - Fugazi - Godspeed You Black Emperor - At Silver Mt Zion - Breeders - Bjork - Funckarma - L'usine - Four Tet - Anticon - Old WARP n SKAM stuff Boards of Canada - Autechre - Gescom etc etc...

Movies:

To Live - Dead Man - Taxi Driver - Amateur - Paris Texas - Funny Games - All About My Mother - Irreversible - Pan's Labyrinth - Buffalo 66 (Although Vincent Gallo what an absolute PRICK!) - Fargo - Jean de Florette & Manon de Source - La Haine - Hidden - Early Woody Allen - Loads more........

Television:

Channel 4 News - I actually trust John Snow - The Sopranos - Lost - The Premiership - Even if it's just a big horrible business - Bremner Bird and Fortune -Dispatches + All quality documentary- More4 - League of Gentleman - Frasier - South Park - Podge and Rodge - Law and Order - First few series of the X-Files I'll watch on repeat forever - Trek Next Generation

Books:

Recently finished 'Why aren't they here?' by Surendra Verma - I was pretty disappointed and found it very 'listy' a bit of a slog actually and I'll read sci-fi & alien stuff all day. Reading Neuromancer by William Gibson at the mo and I'm still trying to figure out how I've only gotten around to it now. For shame. 'I was Bono's Doppelganger' - picked it up second hand not really knowing what to expect - Very funny account of trying to get famous in Ireland in the 80's against the backdrop of U2 taking over the world - Recommended if you fancy a nice light read after finishing Ulysses or something :) I will definitely exit this world with a load of stuff I really should have read...But stuff I've gotten around to and loved - A Scanner Darkly - The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - The Pilgrim's Regress - Johnny Cash autobiography - The Famished Road - 1984 - Brave New World - Life of Pi - Dance Dance Dance - Again loads more - Always interested in Apocalypticism and relevant texts from a social and cultural point of view - Unfortunately right now however we get blown up or obliterated - As a collective we fucking deserve it. Seriously.

Heroes:

These are more people I really respect than heroes - I'm not exactly sitting around sighing at the mention of their names :") Eamonn Dunphy - Travis Bickle - All the many many techno/electronic originators and pioneers - AFX -Delia Derbyshire - Kraftwerk etc etc could fill this whole section! -Sepultura mainly up to Roots for being so utterly on the ball and progressive when it came to environmentalism and highlighting the globalisation that was especially affecting the Third World they came from and THEN recording ROOTS! Stuff still worth being well fucking angry about - Respect - Shigero Miyamoto - Johnny Cash - Nelson Mandela - Richard Dawkins - Noam Chomsky - Human and Animal Rights Groups and Anyone Who Sticks Up For Those Without a Voice - Fatboy - the greatest sexiest nastiest put you in your place cat to ever slob around this planet - R.I.P pal. Oh & Roy Keane of course for single handedly redefining the debate and publicly questioning why Irish people are so inherently lacks a daisy, feckless and willing to say 'Ah it'll do'!

My Blog

The Sopranos

So it's over. The series justifiably lauded as one of the greatest dramatic achievements in televisions history bowed out with an ending that has inevitably drawn a deep line in the sand between ...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:38:00 PST

Damien Hirst Diamond Skull

Anyone else sick of the amount of column inches this guy gets? Ok I'm not exactly helping writing more about him here, but then this is only my silly little blog. But credit where ...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:20:00 PST

Rock the Vote like!

I've been so inspired by the amazing work of Rock the Vote I sent them an encouraging mail!!Thank you for helping me to make my mind up definitively about this years election. After being endlessly la...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:45:00 PST

An Irish Prayer :)

Religion has died a spectacular and welcome death in Ireland in recent times almost in direct contrast to the success of an equally nauseating beast - The Irish singer songwriter/commercial rock band....
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:03:00 PST

Very important invention

If any of you are sick of being telepathically manipulated this could be very useful. The thing I like about this guy is that he acknowledges something which is plainly obvious 'that al...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:36:00 PST

Bad handwriting

Ok normally my rants are big existential diatribes which no one gives a fuck about so I'm going to have a really normal bland aul moan today. Bad handwriting! I'm in work and am desperatly trying...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:28:00 PST

These definitely won't flying

Quite possibly one of the saddest things I have seen in my life occured in Ireland last week. A truck carrying hundreds of pigs to a slaughter house was going over a bridge when it collapsed. RTE repo...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:13:00 PST

Saint Pope John Paul

I couldn't decide whether to fall around laughing hysterically or get even more pissed off with the people running the planet when I read that the 'rat in the vat' or Pope Benedict XVI is fast trackin...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:52:00 PST

Eloi and Morlocks

This is really really fascinating - not sure how many of you have read the HG Wells book but it really does seem at least plausible that the Eloi and Morlocks desribed in 'The Time Machine' could bec...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:04:00 PST

New Years Whoopee Fucking Doo

I have never been more underwhelmed by the prospect of a bunch of people around me whooping and hollering cos our agreed annual increment of time is increasing by one. What a first world sham - nothin...
Posted by Apocalypse Kid on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:34:00 PST