Normal: The collection of huge debts on expensive cars, credit cards, houses and products. The expectation to work unreasonable hours in order to maintain a basic standard of living. Subdued acquiescence to the indiscretions and illegalities of the state. A repression of the weirdness gland and an assumed posture of maturity. A lack of interest in anything other than the immediate and media perpetrated environment. A quiet but consistent level of hypocrisy and apathy marked by tokenistic commentaries and gestures with little to no effect. An unmerited feeling of superiority over those not on the same economic level regardless of reason. A sense of national pride without national shame. Beer. Status Quo maintaining friendships. Wife. Mortgage. Kids. Crisis. Depression. Consumption. Relief. Death.

Idealists dream in an unlikely fashion.
Dreamers speak in a transient way.
Speakers speak to enable the future.
Futurists think of what time will become.

The spinning globe is a little refraction.
Buoyed by laws which we name but don't get.
Repeal the laws and what's left is a memory.
The living thought which created the play.

First was the word and the word was a bang.
Then came the smashing, thrashing, the blasts and the rays.
Then came this, and this spoke to the rest.
So the past came to know itself.

This is not a poem, its just short sentences.
Stacked in four to create an illusion.
Depth, meaning, causation, reversal.
In the end, its all mush given form.

20 Favorite things about last week!

1. Making panoramic pictures of Melbourne.
2. Going to a Jazz bar and drinking Ethiopian beer.
3. Making a penis shaped cake for Carolines birthday.
4. Watching Caroline dive headfirst into the cake.
5. Getting a raise & promotion at work.
6. Sitting in an abandoned shop patio & watching the sunset.
7. Buying zines at the zine fair.
8. Paying for a ticket to Thailand.
9. Getting an email from Dana about how happy she is in China.
10. Finding out all my housemates were locked out of the house all day.
11. Watching Jesse get his face covered in flour then ride off on a bike wielding a meat cleaver.
12. Playing guitar with Rachel & Jesse.
13. Learning what the Phrygian scale is about.
14. Not having to work for a day because the phone and internet didn't work.
15. Making art and craft zines with Louis, Jesse and Rachel.
16. Going to a zine workshop with Chay Ya.
    
17. Meeting a cute girl at the Zine workshop.
18. Finding a lime tree.
19. Meeting a beautiful black cat that reminded me of Motita.
20. Getting a free lamp at work.

Yay!

'little shrine of the boombox' by Louis

I wanted to share this video about how we're revolutionizing communications.

Human evolution, communication, and interaction is being revolutionized in front of our eyes every single day, and we're missing it!

We're so busy doing it and interacting with it, that we forget to stop, step back, and appreciate the meaning and implications of the machine.

This video is inspiring. I wish more people thought about these things.

Steve was given this by his Grandma for Christmas because she thought it would be a 'nice game'. I don't think she realized that what she gave him was Engrish and Spiritual gold.
It is now his religion.

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Intelligent Marble
Intelligence add Lucky
A GAME OF MARBLES

Marble is a kind of game that is very modern now. It collects excitement fasciration. It's a very interesting game. It can not only train lover's skill and intelligence but also is a best way for lover to make friends. It's an intelligent game for a family to be a happy field. Spring your miracle competitate your level.

You'll surpass yourself intelligence and skill through a sernies of intelligent competition actions, compitiate your intelligence and your skill by participating in together plagways. 1. The two parties will judge winning or losing according to the highest grand total. The one who get the highest grade is a big winner. 2. Before a game begins players may also engage to shoot the five provided plastic teased pearl early or late, getting the grand total. We winner according to how many points it can reach. Where there is a will there is a way. The training of will, intelligence, skill will be your best ladder of success. It is your best training way of defeating everything.

I keep tabs on the past to remember the present..

Sophie sent me a wonderful comic book which I had to share.

It is written by Lynda Barry and is an excerpt from a book called 'What It Is' which I will certainly be buying (published by Drawn and Quarterly).

Please take time to read some of the scans (*click*), they are wonderful.