Your expectation changes as you grow up from the very childish ideas of what life is, from being a child to harsh reality of what life actually is when you start to grow up.
You start at nursery where everything’s great everything is the colour of a rainbow and every wall has a badly drawn winnie the pooh on it, taken from the eye of somebody who failed at art college.
Then you move up to big school where you have to start to learn, which is fun for a bit until you start to wish you was back in nursery were you could piss yourself as often as you like drink a gallon of Ribena and run at the winnie the pooh wall all day. But even big school seems fun as you start to become more aware of things outside of that and you start to believe you could be spiderman and everybody is too polite to tell you they wasn’t sure you was ever going to walk or stop pissing the bed. Your parents had started buying you McDonalds wallpaper to give you something to aspire to be when you grow up. But nobody corrects a child at that age so everybody will say of course you can become a footballer never mind that you were born with bandy legs and walk everywhere like you’re in a western film. And then you become cocky as a child and confused with reality you start telling people I’m going become a footballer…….on mars and wolverine will be in goal and we will win the universe cup beating darth vadar and everybody from the lion king. But parents wouldn’t correct that child for being an idiot “aaw he’s very imaginative….. he’s’ a moron and you’re not helping.
Then you get to secondary school and hormones start to kick in and you start to think I’m not going to be a footballer…….im going to be the world’s greatest love maker and you spend your entire time chasing girls with your bandy legs promising them the great time they and your one pubic hair could have and being beaten by the tougher boys with their actual penises, mocking your triumphant prawn in a cocktail of two curly pubes you still hide under your spiderman pants while they chase you whipping you with a wet towel while the suspicious PE teacher, with the unnecessarily short, shorts watches on.
If you go to college you start believing you’re an academic who was stifled by the conventions of public school and you’re going to become the greatest at whatever, of the easier subjects you chose, like the……greatest sports scientist the world has ever seen. You will discover whole series of muscles previously unknown to humans, which will allow a footballer the leap from a third floor window, of his teammates wife’s bedroom while remaining unharmed. But you start to realise, how much you miss secondary school and its simplicity and how you’ve let down the 15 year old version of you by not becoming the world’s greatest love maker…unless your hand is responsible for giving out the nominations. Because now, you know that everybody else is doing it, so you to must have a responsible adult relationship which, when your that age means the only conversation you do have is how long your partner is willing to wait before she will allow you to dry hump her again. And you miss that idea of a relationship you had at school, were a relationship would last 20 minutes of fingering the new girl behind the bike sheds before she moved on the next one in the queue.
People who go on to university become ridiculous creatures full of self-loving idiocy, they’re going to change the world and take a gap year teaching kids in Uganda without TV’s about the importance Mark Whalberg has played in the history of film. You become some ridiculous idea of what adult and working life actually is. Until you realise you’ve spent 3 years studying a subject you’ve gradually lost any passion for and have pissed and vomited on yourself in front of more strangers then you had at nursery, at university parties. You realise everything you said you was going to do with your life, was decided at 4 o’clock in the morning after a night drinking Tesco value vodka with a load of other idiots whose every decision is based around getting high in listening to Bob Marley. “Let’s move to Estonia we can start our own rap/ morris dancing band and just get high every day”. "Let’s move to Greenland..we can track polar bears. And get high all day. My cousin did it during his gap year until he lost a testicle to frost bite trying shag seal, while high as fuck.”
You know you’re going to leave university get a shit office job that’s barely related to what you did there and work until you retire at 206 where all that’s left of you, is a brain that’s connected to a computer that speaks for you…..Which people can also play tetris on.
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Another thatcher related post
The following are things that are of more concern to me than Margaret thatchers death.
1. The price of Freddos
2. Getting a numb leg from spending too long defecating
3. When will they bring a new Ben and Jerry's flavour out?
4. When will I be able to own an actual light sabre seeing as america have made an actual laser gun?
5. Is Jurassic park scientifically accurate? If so why the fuck don't i own my own T-Rex yet?
6. What ever happened to Cadbury "marble" bars?
7. Will so solid crew ever have a reunion?
8. Why don't more people wear parachute pants?
9. How can i get my hair to be a high top fade like will smith in fresh prince of bell air?
10. Why is it only with crabs, that once the meat is removed do they still present the meat in the shell? Why can't they do that with other animals like using the pigs legs to suspend bacon like a hammock?
11. Will there be a shortage of Nutella and how will that effect global economics if there is, will we fall into a triple dip recession because of it?
12. Is it a hate crime if i call another white man "a fucking cracker" in anger?
13. Can we forgive Michael Barrymore so we can bring back strike it lucky?
14. How much wood could a woodchop chop if he indeed could chop wood?
15. Who buys Ferrero Rocher when it's not Christmas and how does that company keep going?
1. The price of Freddos
2. Getting a numb leg from spending too long defecating
3. When will they bring a new Ben and Jerry's flavour out?
4. When will I be able to own an actual light sabre seeing as america have made an actual laser gun?
5. Is Jurassic park scientifically accurate? If so why the fuck don't i own my own T-Rex yet?
6. What ever happened to Cadbury "marble" bars?
7. Will so solid crew ever have a reunion?
8. Why don't more people wear parachute pants?
9. How can i get my hair to be a high top fade like will smith in fresh prince of bell air?
10. Why is it only with crabs, that once the meat is removed do they still present the meat in the shell? Why can't they do that with other animals like using the pigs legs to suspend bacon like a hammock?
11. Will there be a shortage of Nutella and how will that effect global economics if there is, will we fall into a triple dip recession because of it?
12. Is it a hate crime if i call another white man "a fucking cracker" in anger?
13. Can we forgive Michael Barrymore so we can bring back strike it lucky?
14. How much wood could a woodchop chop if he indeed could chop wood?
15. Who buys Ferrero Rocher when it's not Christmas and how does that company keep going?
Margaret thatcher died. The following are the real consequences of this
Margaret thatcher has died and these are the issues I am most concerned with. Nerve mind if she stole milk off people if you can't fight off an old testicle faced bitch for the sake of your milk than you clearly didn't want it enough in the first place and therefore don't deserve it. Plus she never stopped people drinking soya or goats milk! And how many people owned female cats and dogs or knew somebody that was lactating. If people wanted milk so much they should be more astute and find ways to have it. Yet the real tragedy of her death are the following:
*Will I get a useable day off work.
*And has the result of industrial Britain effected climate change to a point in which this potential day off will be warm.
*will my tax money go to sending her off? Couldn't we just leave her in one of the many abandoned houses caused by the collapse of industrial Britain and just leave one of them airwick plug ins that spray so often as so the scent doesn't become too overwhelming.
And more importantly then all of these is will people become confused and think that Meryl Streep has died because that would be a bigger tragedy.
*Will I get a useable day off work.
*And has the result of industrial Britain effected climate change to a point in which this potential day off will be warm.
*will my tax money go to sending her off? Couldn't we just leave her in one of the many abandoned houses caused by the collapse of industrial Britain and just leave one of them airwick plug ins that spray so often as so the scent doesn't become too overwhelming.
And more importantly then all of these is will people become confused and think that Meryl Streep has died because that would be a bigger tragedy.
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Acceptable and unacceptable statement 2
The water park is my favourite place, i love to swim. The slides are my favourite
Acceptable
The water park is my favourite place, i cant swim. The kids are my favourite.
Unacceptable
Acceptable and unacceptable statements. Statement number one
I think in the light of all the recent abuse claims I thought it may be useful to explain the difference between acceptable and unacceptable statements.
Statement number 1:
"Emma Watson is hot"
Acceptable
"Emma Watson is hot...in the first Harry potter film.
Unacceptable.
Statement number 1:
"Emma Watson is hot"
Acceptable
"Emma Watson is hot...in the first Harry potter film.
Unacceptable.
Friday, 31 August 2012
Some potential wedding vows unfinished
I will one day stop being lazy and tidy these up, add more and make it into a speech but that won't be anytime soon. So it's as it is.
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*I promise to always love you.
I promise to always perform at least 5 minutes of oral sex on you as foreplay before sex unless we haven't showered, were drunk or if I have an ulcer or other affliction that may effect my mouth or jaw area.
*I promise to always listen and cherish you.
Unless your being your typical moody self and bitching about everything or your menstruating and acting like a psychotic wanker!
*I promise to love you until we are old and grey or until you get fat and start growing facial hair. Or start listening to somebody like Michael Buble, watching loose women and stop making an effort in what you look like.
*I promise to always take care of you
Unless you get so fat that you have to winched in and out of a reinforced bath or can only be washed while still in bed with a rag.
*I promise to always respect your opinion
Until your quickly and inevitably wrong or you start watching sex in the city as that instantly vetos any opinion you may have about anything.
*I will always think of you first
Especially when I've come in late from a night out and drunkenly voided my bowels.
I promise to try and not fall up the stairs and will sleep in the bath as not to wake you.
*I promise to hold you when your sad
Unless its over a romantic comedy, to which I will repeat that I insisted we watched robocop in the first place.
*I will raise a beautiful family with you
Unless that child is a wrong un then we can sell it madonna and try again.
*I promise to laugh with you and at you to cheer myself up when I'm feeling down.
*From the moment I set my eyes on you I knew you was the one for me you could drink your own body weight in WKD's and still locate the nearest take away and finish close to three quarters of a kebab before vomiting on yourself.
*I promise to laugh when you laugh. Smile when you smile. Cry when you cry and only fart loudly and masturbate while you sleep.
*I promise to always love you for you and ensure that i hide it, so you never find my collection of midget and bestiality porn!
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*I promise to always love you.
I promise to always perform at least 5 minutes of oral sex on you as foreplay before sex unless we haven't showered, were drunk or if I have an ulcer or other affliction that may effect my mouth or jaw area.
*I promise to always listen and cherish you.
Unless your being your typical moody self and bitching about everything or your menstruating and acting like a psychotic wanker!
*I promise to love you until we are old and grey or until you get fat and start growing facial hair. Or start listening to somebody like Michael Buble, watching loose women and stop making an effort in what you look like.
*I promise to always take care of you
Unless you get so fat that you have to winched in and out of a reinforced bath or can only be washed while still in bed with a rag.
*I promise to always respect your opinion
Until your quickly and inevitably wrong or you start watching sex in the city as that instantly vetos any opinion you may have about anything.
*I will always think of you first
Especially when I've come in late from a night out and drunkenly voided my bowels.
I promise to try and not fall up the stairs and will sleep in the bath as not to wake you.
*I promise to hold you when your sad
Unless its over a romantic comedy, to which I will repeat that I insisted we watched robocop in the first place.
*I will raise a beautiful family with you
Unless that child is a wrong un then we can sell it madonna and try again.
*I promise to laugh with you and at you to cheer myself up when I'm feeling down.
*From the moment I set my eyes on you I knew you was the one for me you could drink your own body weight in WKD's and still locate the nearest take away and finish close to three quarters of a kebab before vomiting on yourself.
*I promise to laugh when you laugh. Smile when you smile. Cry when you cry and only fart loudly and masturbate while you sleep.
*I promise to always love you for you and ensure that i hide it, so you never find my collection of midget and bestiality porn!
Sunday, 26 August 2012
How to make a woman love you tip 1
How to make a woman love you.
Tip 1
Buy flowers. It may seem old fashioned but flowers always work. The bigger, bolder, more exuberant and more expensive, the better. Then simply hide a tiny cat shit in the middle of it, so it's not visible to the naked eye. And when she recoils in horror at the stench, when she takes a breath into the beautiful bouquet. Simply say "looks aren't everything, love stinks and life can be shit, so marry me!!!" guaranteed to work without fail, and if it somehow does fail it was probably never meant to be in the first place.
Tip 1
Buy flowers. It may seem old fashioned but flowers always work. The bigger, bolder, more exuberant and more expensive, the better. Then simply hide a tiny cat shit in the middle of it, so it's not visible to the naked eye. And when she recoils in horror at the stench, when she takes a breath into the beautiful bouquet. Simply say "looks aren't everything, love stinks and life can be shit, so marry me!!!" guaranteed to work without fail, and if it somehow does fail it was probably never meant to be in the first place.
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
The simple idea I believe love is all about
Love isn't at first sight! Love isn't an instant overwhelming feeling of one person truly being for you. Its not found in the throws of an unsuspected moment of passion. Its not found in the eyes or in the comfort of a persons presence. Its not formed in any amount of beautiful words, a song or a single moment. Love and true love is discovered down the line. when such moments have faded, but the lasting love, is your partner feeling your erect penis in their back, and not only, not taking offence to it, but giving a sleepy reach around so you can both sleep in peace.
That to me, is the true definition of love.
That to me, is the true definition of love.
Saturday, 4 August 2012
A post without any reference to penis's is a great achievement for me!
It was a blur, but a joyous one, the likes of which only fleeting moments of clarity occur, but leave burned somewhere subconsciously.
Burned in some deep place that seemed lost before her presence evoked.. something.. Many things, all great emotions. sadness, loss, fear, joy, then. a smile.. a kiss.. the flash of a footprint left in the sand, the last remnants of a beautiful memory that had long but faded. It was all there, but wouldn't form anything clear, as all good love should, it crashed together everything that had been before, but everything that had formed him. battle scarred but still complete, with a heart that beats for her now, arose the noble man, once lost, clenching the hand that pulls him from that cavernous place and holding it, eternally.
Burned in some deep place that seemed lost before her presence evoked.. something.. Many things, all great emotions. sadness, loss, fear, joy, then. a smile.. a kiss.. the flash of a footprint left in the sand, the last remnants of a beautiful memory that had long but faded. It was all there, but wouldn't form anything clear, as all good love should, it crashed together everything that had been before, but everything that had formed him. battle scarred but still complete, with a heart that beats for her now, arose the noble man, once lost, clenching the hand that pulls him from that cavernous place and holding it, eternally.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
me and mark sat down and talked about all things art, the shitness of university and the "cesspit" that is hull. (first draft they will be mistakes)
I arrive at
the gate of marks house, his spacious backyard in full bloom under one of few
days of the summer so far where the sun sits high in the sky and finally warms
what has been a torrid few weeks of almost constant rain. Sat on a sunbed with
a book about semiotics in his hand a bunch of papers and several pencils sit on
the floor beside him. I go to open the gate and Mark peers above his book before
his little black terrier peanut comes flying out the open hallway door. Bounding
towards me as I tentatively open the gate he jumps up excitedly “PEANUT” yells
mark as he lifts himself out of the sunbed and approaches tapping me on the
shoulder and asking in his typical friendly “Alright man”. I follow him into the house and into the
kitchen where he starts to fill the kettle with water. “Brew?” he asks and I nod
in approval. We stand a chat for a while as the kettle rattles and bubbles away
in the corner. It clicks off and Mark prepares himself a strong cup of black
coffee and me a cup of tea and we head upstairs into a back room. The back room
has become his drawing and study area in which sits a full professional drawing
desk, a large shelving unit packed to the brim with comics, graphic novels and
art books. In the corner sits a thick pillowed green chair which he uses to
read in and the other corner a computer and desk. I make my way towards the
comfy looking green chair taking with me some of his recent work and starting
to flick through it as we chat. Mark cuts a completely different figure to the
one of only several months’ back, struggling with the frustrations of his
university course he chose to leave to work on his drawing skills and
understanding of all things art. His work reflects this hugely and the progress
made from the early days after he quit and to now is remarkable. Without the
burden of university which he felt was stifling his progress. His work is
unique, intriguing and wonderfully done, with the same oddness and jovialness
that he has always drawn with returning to him. Allowing him the freedom to study
his passion in his own way has in no doubt paid off. Yet as he acknowledges it
is a risk to find your feet in such a demanding business without a degree but
like me he believes ability should speak for itself. Mark sits down with me to
answer such questions in his typically and almost brutally honest but always
humorous manner.
1. ME: So we’ve talked about how you
almost teaching yourself instead of going through a university, what was your
reasoning for this?
Mark: well basically I was there previously but dropped out the first
time because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to do it. And then when I
returned the second time I felt that, especially from talking to people and
starting to realise for myself that people don’t really care (in regard to the
tutors) so I thought I’m not going to spend 3 years of life and however many
thousands of pounds it is to be taught by a load of apathetic people (when
speaking to mark previously I had always felt that he struggled to get what are
clearly unique ideas across to his tutors which he clearly found
frustrating)-he continues; so I thought if I’m going to learn anything I’m
going to have to teach myself that’s how I’ve always done it from school and
right up to university. And I feel that everything I have ever really learnt is
from teaching myself and I feel if I had the same drive I do now as I did when
I was younger I would already be in a company or a good job because (he
mentions the pictures of two self-portraits he has done. One which he did after
he just left university for the second time and one more recently and the
difference in terms of quality, all through what he has taught himself about
everything about drawing and art and general practise is clear to see)
2. ME: So you went through the
university process but it wasn’t for you what didn’t you like about it?-about
being restricted by briefs and not feeling like you were learning?
Mark: Erm basically I didn’t think I was learning anything
even though I was only there 5 months but I started to look at the work of
people who’ve been there 3 years and there seemed to be a lack of development
and I think my progress like other people there would be shit.
3. ME: And do you think it in anyway
disadvantages you by going that way or as you having the opportunity to develop
your skills and your understanding without the burden of things like briefs out
way that?
Mark: Don’t get me wrong I know how much of a detriment it
could be not having a degree initially, like people with degrees may find it
easier to get their foot in the door. But I think if you build up a bit of a
reputation then they (companies) can’t really say anything and it’s not just
like I am drawing things that I see or I like I have forced myself to do things
I know are difficult and I’ve been setting myself briefs and put time limits on
to do things and it’s kind of the same thing. And I’ve read a lot from artists
that if you know the right people and your work speaks for itself then you can
do things. And like there had been a lot of people who have taught themselves
(he names people like van gough and the famous illustrator Adam Hughes as
examples, he also names people like Jimi Hendrix who also taught himself) and I
think that if you have the drive and the passion then keep doing it because I
think eventually you will get there. If you sidestep or be lazy then you’re
never going to get anywhere
ME: (I interrupt) I think regardless of whether or not you go
to university its more about how you apply yourself.
Mark: I think the thing is John in creative industries people
like Stanley Kubrick didn’t go to film school Ernest Hemmingway didn’t go to
university he became a journalist and forced himself into the real world to
experience things and learn stuff about himself (this is something we had
spoken about often before how much life experiences can shape ideas and
creativity, he goes on to quote the significance of the works of Mozart and
Kubrick in terms of the influence they have had in their retrospective fields of
work and say about how often quotes are clichéd because they are used so much
because they are the truth. He uses the quote “genius is 1% inspiration and 99%
perspiration” he says about how the will and determination to do something is
just as important or maybe more important than the skill and needing the drive
to push yourself.
4. ME: And what do you feel your gaining
by doing this? We spoke about how you can study the areas you are interested in
which must be easier than being forced to do something you don’t have an interest in an issue I know
many people have with university?
Mark: To be honest I enjoyed the projects I thought they were fun but I
didn’t feel they were practical
ME: “You didn’t think you were gaining anything from them”?
Mark: I thought they was childish to be honest I suppose they have to
cover a large area of interests but the things is a lot of the time you trying
to curry favour from people that unless you’ve got them on your side (the
tutors) or your trying to mates with them or them with you, which some people
did and got good grades but in my opinion didn’t have very good work then your
chasing people who don’t really give a shit because you’re bound to fail
because you’re not licking their arse basically. (We both laugh)
5. ME: So how long do you want to keep
doing this?
Well I’ve paid my rent off until next September (his little black terrier
dog who rarely leaves his side comes and starts sneezing and trying to attack
the flies that have flown through the window on this muggy July day) So at the
point I’m going to either get a part time job or become one of the dole scum
that populate this area, but to be honest I’m going to just keep doing it until
I become a professional at it. And I have friends who have just come out of
university who are worrying about getting a job because they want to see
something coming from the 3 years they have studied at university for. I think
if you’re a creative person you’ve gotta be creative (it’s at this point that I
realise how much Mark has settled into the interview and really started to
speak openly and perhaps even brutally honestly which is something I admire
greatly.) he continues with. “ Even if you write a comic or whatever just to do
work, like Damien Hirst wasn’t given a studio really he just went out there and
started working.
ME: Do you think it puts extra pressure on you going to university
knowing you’ve done it all and spent all that money, to do something maybe more
with it?
Mark: Yeah probably (the
dog starts to sneeze uncontrollably and Mark looks down in distain at it) Will
you shut up dog (we both chuckle) There was a book I was reading not so long
ago (another strategically placed sneeze from the dog starts us both laughing
again) I’m gonna break your tiny jaw if you do that again you motherfucker (he
says jokingly, and begins to tell me how the dog had ate a bee earlier and how
it was probably sneezing up its wings.)
I started reading a book which was talking about how people get a degree and
then never do anything with it as the degree itself was their mountain to
climb. You know you only have a small time to do something in life and if you
don’t you’re fucked. It’s like I look at people in my family who have never
achieved anything because their lazy or they’ve been too frightened to go for
it and I don’t wana be that person I think I’ve been spurred on by other
peoples failures. But I wana do something with my life I don’t wana look back
when I’m middle aged and say what a fucking waste of time that was. Like a lot
of people I know are like that.
6. ME: Is it hard to keep motivated
without working to deadlines like you would at university or is that an
advantage in itself? And how would a normal day go?
Mark: Well a normal day, I would get up at 8 then do some sort of
exercise like go take the dog for a walk or something. But I guess I’m like
every other person I wake up sometimes just want to play with myself and watch
telly (we both laugh in acknowledgment as much as anything) Or I will check Facebook
or watch the news or whatever but then get straight up and get breakfast get a
shower and then maybe just put some music on for a bit just to get me into it
and then get to the desk and start working. But like the things is now
throughout the month I will do 3 weeks practical work so working on my skills
then a week theory like reading about things like semiotics and the history of
art things like that. I will take breaks for dinner and tea but will always
have a book going to keep myself stimulated.
ME: it’s like you’ve regulated yourself.
Mark: Yeah like I will give myself deadlines a lot like reading a book in
a certain time or drawing something every single day for a month. (he talks
about how he talks to in keeps in touch with many famous artists such as Joe
Cooper, John Arcudi writer of the mask comics, Guy Davis who works on Hellboy,
and how a lot of them say about keeping the determination to do something it
and practising regularly will eventually reaps its rewards.
7. ME: And what after this? Where do you
hope to move onto?
Mark: In terms of work, I think maybe in 2 and a half years I would like
to get my foot in the door of a company or be in an internship. Or go it alone
and self—publish my own books or artwork. Or doing commissions and living of
that so you don’t have to do something else and compromise that time working on
things. Because I think if you’re doing something or working constantly and not
putting your full interest into something you can’t expect it to be 100% your
best work.
8. ME: I know when speaking to artists
there is often a need to move away especially from places like Hull to places
like London, is this something you’ve considered?
Mark: Yeah definitely like I’m not being funny but Hulls a backwater
shithole. (He laughs) people who’ve come over from places like Afghanistan as
refugees don’t wana stay here cos it’s basically a cess pit of….. shit
basically.
ME: Do you think there’s a shortage of jobs.
Mark: Yeah definitely not just in creative industries. Apparently in Hull
there’s 14 people applying to one job and that’s a not creative job, that’s
just like bar jobs and factory work. As it’s mainly an industrial city there is
no much room for creativity. I mean it changing and people like “Fruit”. I mean
maybe Hull is the perfect place for people to take advantage of that but when
you look at places like London and America, Manchester or France or wherever
basically you go where the work is and that’s what you’ve got to do.
ME: that’s what I was going to ask you to be honest. I know a lot of
people who are looking abroad for places is that something would consider?
Mark: Yeah definitely but I would only go across if I knew I had a
definite job. I wouldn’t go and maybe expect to get a job because people would
think why can’t get a job back home. But I would just go wherever the work is
to be honest with you.
ME: So it’s not about a personal choice of living somewhere?
Mark: no not at all I would go work in Afghanistan if the right work was
there really. (We laugh and he takes a sip of his coffee which has been sat
there for some time and has gone cold he pulls a face that shows that puts it
down and slides it away from himself.
9. ME: And where do you see future where
would you to go with it? Not necessarily just reality wise but maybe dream wise
as well?
Dream wise. Erm (he stops to consider it and comes back with) I don’t know
have my own hareem of Asian prostitutes living on Jupiter (we both start
laughing)
ME: (I laugh and ask sarcastically) Ok reality wise.
Mark: (continues with where he left off, while laughing) I don’t occasionally
firing nuclear missiles at Wales (he laughs and stops to actual consider the
question) what if I could actually do whatever I wanted?
ME: (laughing and sensing an on-going theme of where this could lead to)
Ok then no reality wise?
Mark: (laughing) No I don’t mean superpowers or something like that. (We
both laugh and he stops getting serious again) I don’t know I guess I’m still
trying to find my feet with it I suppose I mean I always knew from being a kid I
had a talent for it and that I liked and it would probably become the thing
that defined me when I got older. I think as a kid I wanted to work on cartoons
as most kids who liked drawing at that age would. I think when I got to about
15 or maybe before that I started reading proper novels and then I started
getting into graphic novels and thought I would want to do that. But then as I’ve
got older I’ve realised that there is so many different things to do
potentially do.
ME: So it’s constantly changing as you’ve got older and more aware and
interested in different types of art?
Mark: It’s not really changing, like I still have the core ideas of what I
want to do. Like I still want to do comic books as its always something I’ve
been interested in and that there a medium that hasn’t been explored into as
much as they can be and I think it’s like video games as well I think there
both things that are being held back by people’s perceptions of them. But I mean
over the last few years I’ve really gotten into “proper art” (he says so using
his fingers as quotation marks) I say proper art but everything is proper art. I
mean I wouldn’t say fine art as that’s a bit of a wankerish term but I mean
what is considered as classic art (I nod in understanding to say I’m on the
same page as him in terms of what he is trying to say) but I mean like Van
Gough and stuff like that and how it can affect lives and countries and society
and that’s kind of fascinating to me. I mean in 2 years I will be 26 and I think
I would like to have something to show for it by then and have found my feet,
Because to be honest I think as I said earlier I think if I have the same drive
when I was younger that I do now I think I would already be a professional and I
don’t mean that to sound like I’m blowing my own trumpet or being arrogant and
just now I know I have the stamina to teach myself and not have the fear of
failing because I think that’s a lot of peoples problem when it comes to art or
whatever else like music or film failing is part of life and that you have to
do it. I suppose university was a failure for me because I didn’t get a degree
out of it. But at the same time I knew I was going to fail anyway, not in terms
of the course but that I wouldn’t have achieved what I wanted to achieve at the
end of it. So (going back to the original question) in general I want to be a
professional or a household name even though I feel that there’s not many
people who are necessarily household names (he mentions people like Banksy,
Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin) but I want to be established I want to be
financially comfortable and like anybody I want to be happy in my life. I want
to do what I enjoy doing and be paid well for it and be happy and suppose that’s
the same for anybody else.
ME: Thank you mate
Mark: it’s alright (he goes for a victorious sip of his coffee before
remembering its cold and putting it back down in disgust.
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Porn and it's educational importance in teaching children manners, household maintenance and car mechanics.
By gosh there's a lot of swearing in porn these days it's always "F me" or "shove your fat C into my A" or "yeah like that you filthy C" and nobody says please or thank you. Its just "Do this" or "do that" or "F me here" it's so impolite. No wonder kids these days have no manners. Who else are they going to learn from? These people should be setting an example to the people that watch! Truly terrible!!! Not like my day where every porn started with a woman facing a predicament such as something is broken, something isn't working, her car has broke down or such and not only would a man come and offer to help but would also satisfy her needs sexually, like a true gentleman! And then always somebody carrying something like a tray or some towels even if the woman's car broke down in a desert there would be a guy with a tray either just nodding in approval or politely getting involved in some way. Ah it's not like the good old days where porn was educational and not just necessitated people's need to masturbate. I learned how to unblock a U bend in a sink how to change a car tyre, air filter, change the oil and help get one out heavy snow! I've learned how to fix an aieral on a tv and the best techniques for cleaning a pool, all vital life lessons that kids of this generation miss out on. And then we wonder why there is a shortage of plumbers and car mechanics. It's a real shame what this generation miss out on.
Much love
JD
Much love
JD
Friday, 11 May 2012
I got irked about somebody patronising me about music
Hate it when you ask somebody what kind of music they like and they intentionally name the most obscure bands they know as if in some way trumping your love of Steve wonder. :P And rendering themselves better than you. "oh yeah you probably wont have heard of them called lufata plouts there from a really small farming village in Lithuania they kinda fuse jazz and folk music with a kinda Morris dancing hybrid. They're really big in Greenland, I went to go see them at a festival you probably wouldn't have heard of eith.............CUNT!!!!
Saturday, 5 May 2012
My daily advice day 5
The only thing to fear is fear itself. Oh and werewolves
-my daily advice day 5
-my daily advice day 5
Friday, 4 May 2012
Daily advice day 4
An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth Is a pretty pointless trade!
-my daily advice day 4
-my daily advice day 4
Thursday, 3 May 2012
My daily advice day 3
Smile and the world smiles with you. masturbate and you'll be asked leave the library.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Daily advice day 2
Life Is like a box of chocolates, it's nice for a bit then all that's left are the shit ones!
-my daily advice
-my daily advice
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Life advice
I'm gonna post short daily life advice lines everyday for a bit. This is for today.
"Remember there's no I in team! Unless your a retard. Then you can put an I wherever the fuck you want!"
"Remember there's no I in team! Unless your a retard. Then you can put an I wherever the fuck you want!"
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Im back baby!
Like the husband of a beaten and neglected wife I've been away for a while. Off pursuing middle aged women with yeast infections and gingivitis but full of charm and whimsical stories of their great grand children. But I'm back baby with a handful flowers, stinking of Stella Artois and a hatful of nonsensical ramblings to throw your way you lucky minxes, you!
It started while working on my latest filmmaking pursuits, I started to consider the affect film and filmmaking has had on me. Realising I can't watch a film without picking any potential pitfalls or good camera shots etc I realised what a terrible date I must be meaning the cinema isn't a viable option to get my end away with any unfortunate female foolish enough to agree to accompany me on a prearranged outing to any stereotypical dating location. I realised the terrifying depth of my passion for film when watching porn and becoming more engrossed in the vague storyline that supported a sexual encounter between a female boss and an unemployed male, attending what I now think may have been a fake job interview. The sexual encounter itself went off without a hitch all parties seemed suitably satisfied with the exchange of bodily fluids that accompanied the thrilling climax. Yet I couldn't help but feel short changed as it wasn't confirmed whether the man actually got the job or not. Which was annoying as he showcased his typing skills as she requested not with a keyboard or in any traditional format for testing such skills but this woman seemed a bit of a maverick when it came to filling vacant positions, not only in the company. Nevertheless the interview continued with questions such as "you need to be able to handle big packages?" which is understandable for a package delivery company. In which the male responded in the very professional "well i'm used to dealing with big packages as I have one of my own". Excellent I thought, prior experience in package handling will stand him in good stead for this job. He then proceeded to give her his big package in a way in which would would seem alien to most package delivery personal and certainly not the way Royal mail work, not as I've experiences at least. Yet still, after all this, she still never confirmed whether he had got the job or would even be receiving a callback which suggested her standards are higher then her loose attitudes toward sex would suggest. Which must be disappointing because I couldn't even got a job at ASDA even after sending a letter in support of my application. I would imagine I would be rather vexed having to go through all he did and not got the job but I suppose it's a tough and competitive market out there! In conclusion to all of this, maybe I've been looking for jobs in the wrong place and perhaps I should be looking at parcel delivery companies instead. Who knows I may also get a job, or some kind of JOB, out of it at the very least. It may also lesser the need to go through the awkwardness of the dating process. Or perhaps I've read too much into all this and my next planned trip to the post office will be a huge disappointment.
Much love
JD
X
It started while working on my latest filmmaking pursuits, I started to consider the affect film and filmmaking has had on me. Realising I can't watch a film without picking any potential pitfalls or good camera shots etc I realised what a terrible date I must be meaning the cinema isn't a viable option to get my end away with any unfortunate female foolish enough to agree to accompany me on a prearranged outing to any stereotypical dating location. I realised the terrifying depth of my passion for film when watching porn and becoming more engrossed in the vague storyline that supported a sexual encounter between a female boss and an unemployed male, attending what I now think may have been a fake job interview. The sexual encounter itself went off without a hitch all parties seemed suitably satisfied with the exchange of bodily fluids that accompanied the thrilling climax. Yet I couldn't help but feel short changed as it wasn't confirmed whether the man actually got the job or not. Which was annoying as he showcased his typing skills as she requested not with a keyboard or in any traditional format for testing such skills but this woman seemed a bit of a maverick when it came to filling vacant positions, not only in the company. Nevertheless the interview continued with questions such as "you need to be able to handle big packages?" which is understandable for a package delivery company. In which the male responded in the very professional "well i'm used to dealing with big packages as I have one of my own". Excellent I thought, prior experience in package handling will stand him in good stead for this job. He then proceeded to give her his big package in a way in which would would seem alien to most package delivery personal and certainly not the way Royal mail work, not as I've experiences at least. Yet still, after all this, she still never confirmed whether he had got the job or would even be receiving a callback which suggested her standards are higher then her loose attitudes toward sex would suggest. Which must be disappointing because I couldn't even got a job at ASDA even after sending a letter in support of my application. I would imagine I would be rather vexed having to go through all he did and not got the job but I suppose it's a tough and competitive market out there! In conclusion to all of this, maybe I've been looking for jobs in the wrong place and perhaps I should be looking at parcel delivery companies instead. Who knows I may also get a job, or some kind of JOB, out of it at the very least. It may also lesser the need to go through the awkwardness of the dating process. Or perhaps I've read too much into all this and my next planned trip to the post office will be a huge disappointment.
Much love
JD
X
Sunday, 25 December 2011
My 2011 round up
2011 In My Silly Words
So the the year is almost over and 2011 has been
a huge year for social, political and economic change. Not so much in the
England as England has always being a shitty, skint country with social
standards set low, as to not disappoint ourselves. The world changed hugely and
the question we asked ourselves in England when voting in Tit 1 and Tit 2 is would the leave
the poor, poorer and the rich the same as it’s always been. The answer was a
predictable yes. Cut after cut like a country wide vasectomy. Left England
shooting blanks with the exception of, at more middle eastern countries.
Everybody must now work until they die and cull their pets for warmth and
nourishment, a decision which angered many reptile owners. So as with most
years it started in January.
January
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| Ex Tunisia's president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali; Like a chubby Middle Eastern Mr Bean |
February
Middle eastern president number
two goes down, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, leaving the rest of the middle
east panicked to a point that Libya smuggled away its oil in Tupperware boxes
in preparation. resulting uncertainty in crude oil output, resulting in prices
rising to over 20% over two week period. Thus causing the 2011 energy crisis. A
decision which angered David Cameron as now each roasted partridge bathed in
tears of university students now cost significantly more.
March
Bahrain sick of Tunisia and Libya
hogging all the overthrown government limelight, pitch in with their version,
which seemed at the time to only concern formula 1 fans, outside of Bahrain. ![]() |
| The Bahrain F1 circuit |
A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. It was shocking and terrible. Although if some positives can be taken from it, is that a 7 year old girl befuddled the idiot below.
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| Pope Benedict unsucessfully disguising himslf as santa |
Well dealt with…
It finally kicked offf in Libya resulting in the United Nations Security council voting to create a no fly zone over Libya. Something that the UN quickly became tired of after sending in French fighter jets supported by Britain and America on RECONNAISSANCE flights. Which quickly became TACTICAL assaults on key targets of Colonel Gadaffi forces in support of rebel troops.
April
May was a big month for America the
Noel Edmonds of the muslim extremists world Osama Bin Laden was found and shot
dead in Pakistan, just a short distance away from a military base. So we know
now not play hide and seek with Pakistan, there just like them kids who don’t even
look leaving you hid in a bush for an hour before you realise they've gone. It was heralded as a great success despite crashing a helicopter and
having to set in on fire as to not leave behind any important military information
and spending 10 years looking and over 1 trillion dollars in funding the
war in Afghanistan on top of the countless lives lost. To kill an old frail man who could barely walk
and was apparently slowing dying. You have to wonder who the real winners were.
Because in all honesty 10 years of playing hide and seek against the American and British military must warrant something
in the Guinness book of world records.
The European Union also agreed to bail
out Portugal to the tune of €78 billion even though Portugal as a whole probably isnt worth€78 billion. Also Ratko Mladić, the man wanted for terrible acts of war
crimes and genocide is arrested in Serbia. May turned out to be a big month for
capturing arseholes and while America spent 1 trillion on blowing up a desert portugal need €78 billion for.....some crazy paving.
June
Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupted
forcing over 3500 people to evacuate the surrounding area. The explosion
resulted in a 10 kilometre high gas column, with winds pushing the ash towards
Argentina. The eruption also caused a busy border crossing into Argentina to be
closed which showed South Americans reluctance to allow any other white powder
other than cocaine to pass between its borders. The eruption did however make
for some stunning photos.
The torture and killing of a 13
year old boy causes Syrian’s to pour into the streets in protest of violent
government crackdowns resulting in thousands of deaths and causing people to flee
into Turkey. Unfortunately for the Syrian people they have, new and working military
equipment unlike the old shit Britain sold to Libya nor do they have anything
worth owning resulting in the UN quietly deciding that, “This might be one for
the Arab league to sort out”.
July
Avoiding the horrendous Norway massacre
for the sake of more uplifting news from July. The first ever synthetic organ
transplant was performed. Surgeons in Sweden carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant,
after scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was the coated in
stem cells from the patient. The greatest thing about it is, it can be made in
days, needs no donor nor is there a risk of the organ being rejected. Now if
only they could make a synthetic face for Justin Bieber that would
make less people want to punch it.
America was typically, boringly, patriotic about the whole thing
August
Intense rioting
and looting occurred throughout London and also spread across other cities in
England. The fatal shooting of Mark Duggan was claimed to be the source of the
rioting. Many people questioned who were these people carrying out these
senseless acts of violence and looting and their motives behind doing so. Simply put, it was chavs and scumbags, who wanted a TV and some new tracksuit pants.
Hence why the main focus of the riots where places such as JD sports, Sony
centres and Curry’s, while places like M&S and Waterstones where either left
un-looted or set on fire. If people where running out of organic farmers
markets with armfuls of duck eggs and wild organic artichokes while hurling
their flaming cravats at police officers, such questions may have been worth
posing, but with people like this.
Who when free to take anything he wanted,
chose to take a big bag of budget rice, shows the kind of people of we are dealing with.
Perhaps all the Arborio rice had already been looted and ruined his plans to
make a tasty risotto, instead he had to make do with paella.
On a positive note, despite most
of the world being completely skint the United Nations launched a $357 million
appeal for the victims of the Sindh floods in Pakistan. Which an estimated 434 civilians have been killed, with 5.3 million people and 1,524,773 homes affected.
October
The big news in October was the
capture and killing of Mummar Gaddafi in his home town of Sirte, hiding in a
small drainage tube like the most amateurish of hide and seek players. (Perhaps
advice from Osama Bin Laden could have helped). The National Transitional
Council forces took control ending the bloody war. Rebel fighters
as they had always seemed to do, possibly only in the eye of foreign journalists,
fired bullets in the air in jubilation. Which seemed to have been done from
the start of the war. It therefore seemed necessary to ask the question, surely
those bullets would have served better use, being shot at the enemy rather than birds
and disgruntled kite flying enthusiasts??
But who were we to say, seeing as we were only funding it.
Israel and the Palestinian
militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured
Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027
Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners
serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks. Seems like
an unfair deal, clearly neither had ever collected Pokemon cards.
Steve
Jobs died on October 2nd after a hard fought battle with cancer he
passed away at his home at the age of 56. The founder of Apple the pioneer of
great inventions like the Ipod, the Iphone and Ipad, jobs leaves behind a
legacy of beautiful and world changing gadgets. Unfortunately he couldn’t get
it together to release an iphone 5 before he popped his clogs, leaving
everybody stuck with the rather disappointing iphone 4s
Also another European country was
bailed out. I forget which one, Greece was short on cheese I think!? And I’m
pretty sure Italy was in there somewhere. After Silvio Berlusconi literally
spent all the countries money on prostitutes and Bunga Bunga parties, the horny
old rapscallion
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| Silvio Berlusconi. "feel how hard that is!!.......Now this!!" |
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| Silvio Berlusconi. Giving it the, "This is the finger that got this exact reaction!!" |
November
Doctor Conrad Murray was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of singer Michael Jackson. Murray was sentenced to the maximum sentence allowed under the law and will face four years in prison although with good behaviour will be out within two. America was typically philosophical about the gross negligence that caused his death. Los Angeles County Court Judge Michael Pastor said “There are those who feel Dr Murray is a saint. There are those who feel Dr Murray he is the devil. He’s neither. He’s a human being. He stands convicted of the death of another human being.” If that was the case surely he would deserved a longer sentence. In many jurisdictions such as California, malice may be found if gross negligence amounts to willful or depraved indifference to human life. In such a case, the wrongdoer may be guilty of second degree murder. Surely giving somebody the surgical anaesthetic Propofol to help deal with sleep deprivation is indifference to human life. He allegedly demanded $4.8 million when offered the job before eventually accepting $160,000-a-month. He was, it was said, using the money to help pay for his two medical practises which faced $631,000 in court judgments and he was late paying a $64,000 personal loan and thousands of pounds in child support. And with his $1.2m Las Vegas mansion about to be repossessed, it would have made sense to do a better job of keeping him alive. In all fairness to him, most people would take $160,000-a-month to act like a Doctor.
December
December brought more flack for David Cameron off most of Europe
after he was the only one out of 27 other countries to veto changes in the EU
treaty. The changes were designed to form a Fiscal union intended on bring
greater economic integration but Britain refused to join the other 26 countries
after French President Nicolas Sarkozy angrily refused to give Britain special
safeguards for the London and the single market exchange instead insisting they
should move toward the single economic government. This left Britain
potentially isolated from the rest of Europe. Although in fairness to the
dopey, posh, fop, potentially integrating more of Europe’s wealth seems rather stupid
seeing as most of Europe has no wealth with the majority of European countries
in mass amounts of debt it would seem foolish to potentially take on more of
Europe’s debt. A decision that typically angered the French to the point where
Nicholas Sarkozy had to be physically restrained and after an unnamed French
official said Mr Cameron had behaved ‘like a man at a wife-swapping party who
refuses to bring his own wife’, the Prime Minister said: (wihtout sarcasm) ‘I have not and have
no plans to attend any wife-swapping parties.’ But who could blame him if you
have seen her.Doctor Conrad Murray was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of singer Michael Jackson. Murray was sentenced to the maximum sentence allowed under the law and will face four years in prison although with good behaviour will be out within two. America was typically philosophical about the gross negligence that caused his death. Los Angeles County Court Judge Michael Pastor said “There are those who feel Dr Murray is a saint. There are those who feel Dr Murray he is the devil. He’s neither. He’s a human being. He stands convicted of the death of another human being.” If that was the case surely he would deserved a longer sentence. In many jurisdictions such as California, malice may be found if gross negligence amounts to willful or depraved indifference to human life. In such a case, the wrongdoer may be guilty of second degree murder. Surely giving somebody the surgical anaesthetic Propofol to help deal with sleep deprivation is indifference to human life. He allegedly demanded $4.8 million when offered the job before eventually accepting $160,000-a-month. He was, it was said, using the money to help pay for his two medical practises which faced $631,000 in court judgments and he was late paying a $64,000 personal loan and thousands of pounds in child support. And with his $1.2m Las Vegas mansion about to be repossessed, it would have made sense to do a better job of keeping him alive. In all fairness to him, most people would take $160,000-a-month to act like a Doctor.
December
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| Mrs Cameron |
I think the rest of Europe would veto on that one especially when you look at the women who attend the kind of sex parties the Italians have.
Some interesting article about some FACTS About the great man. http://listverse.com/2010/05/30/top-10-crazy-facts-about-kim-jong-il/
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| Bunga Bunga Girl. Or as she was known, Venezuelan number 2 |
In other news Kim Jong-il leader of North Korea since 1994 died at the age
of 69 of a heart attack.
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| Kim Jong-il how he will be remembered, Just chilled as fuck and a full time player |
Millions of North Koreans were “engulfed in indescribable sadness”
according to the KNCA state news agency. His son Kim Jong-un was named as his “great
successor”. Fears arose when unconfirmed reports from South Korea news agency
Yonhap said that the North had test fired a missile off its eastern coast
before the announcement of his death although they believed it was unrelated. Kim Jong-il, was known for his strong handed rule over the
communist nation but what he was really known for was his heart wrenching
performance in this.
Some interesting article about some FACTS About the great man. http://listverse.com/2010/05/30/top-10-crazy-facts-about-kim-jong-il/
Happy New Year
2: Your not going to stop drinking your life would be empty and boring without it.
3: Your not going to learn to drive. Your a retard, that's whay they made buses. So people like you aren't responsible for anything more powerful than a microwave.
4: Your not going to meet somebody nice and settle down your a slag and you love the taste of cock, don't ruin it for everybody else.
5: Your not going to stop smoking, That's the only thing from stopping you from having a cock in your mouth.
My genuine resloution is to look at the world in a less mocking way but I suppose that could easily end up being a resloution for 2013 if 2011 is anything to go by.
Much Love
JD
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Creator of worlds, drunk and soiled he is our mighty lord
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