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Tales From The Other Side - September 2006

Dice Living

September 28th 2006 04:54

Just... Roll

So, 1. Spend the day trying to find someone to go on a date with me.
2. Buy a skateboard.
3. Begin preparing resumes for my three main dream jobs.
4. Try to convince my friend to fight me.
5. Donate ALL my clothes to charity.

6. Move to Sydney.

And then you roll the dice.

Dicing, Die-ing, Dice Living; Everyone has a name for it. Everyone who's heard of it that is. What it is, is simple. Some call it freedom. You give yourself over to chance. Six options. Six life paths. Then roll.

It’s a bizarre case of life imitating fiction. The concept itself comes from Luke Rhinehart's Diceman novels, but the appeal goes well beyond a good storyline. Dicing is a means to embrace uncertainty, to worship it, to derive happiness from it - not to fear it.

Change is inevitable - but this way it can even be fun. Dicing teaches you to treat life as a game and to simply ENJOY IT. Something far too few people seem empowered to do.

So…

Roll.

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Arrrr!!! Pirates vs Ninjas

September 19th 2006 00:06

Yarrr!

Yarr ha ha ha!!!

So unless ye be livin' twelve feet below, ye'd most likely be aware that today, September 19th, be International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Now blast yer guts if yer don't know th' history of th' matter - I haven't the intention to inform ye that with this here post. Indeed, what I do be wishin' to speak on, is a meme most of us have become aware of, and a believe ye'd know it;

The Pirate Vs Ninja Debate!

Now, certain things will be able to permeate modern culture - The Da Vinci Code, fer example did, whilst Ali Smith's The Accidental lay buried in the sand. So the question to be asking be this; why does this debate rage like a sea mad sailor, whilst others, such as Polar Bears Vs Penguins, and Cats Vs Dogs, fail to equate?

The answer be simple, lads. The Pirates Vs Ninja debate be a symbol of some of our deepest human desires.

For Ninjas, of course, it be about discipline. It be about wishin' to be perfect, effective. It be about hard work blessing ye with the rewards of good life. It be about a code of honour, whereby ye be livin yer life to solid moral principals. It be about absolute superiority.

But do today be about Ninjas? NO! Today be about PIRATES lad!

Pirates be more than fighting, stinking rapscallions.

Pirate be Freedom. Pirate be a total lack of inhabitation. Sexual freedom, freedom of travel, freedom of company, freedom form law, from authority, from judgement from the serpent strong grip of puritan values being demanded by others. Inside us all, everyone, in the need to be free - to feel the symbolic wind in our sails, raise the rum to our lips, our sword to the sky, and scream a scream that boils mens' bloods, as it comes from the passion and fury of life itself.

The late, great foe of the Aussie Seas, Mr Steve Irwin be a Pirate. A man who grasped life with unfathomable passion. A man who be living without dead time, who grabs life by the husk, slices it open and drinks it down. Like Pirates can, he died early - a fiendish blast to the heart! But every moment of his lilly-livered life was filled with freedom, with love, with treasure more valuable than gold Doubloons.

Ninja's might have efficiency. But we, lads, we understand what treasure truly is.

Yarrrrr!!!

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Dresden Dolls Show

September 16th 2006 04:05

The Dresden Dolls

I went to the Dresden Dolls show last night in Brisbane and part of my exploded head is still missing - absolute awesomeness.
The Dresden Dolls shows are famous for their famous Brigading - the name given for performing audience members performing pre-show. I have to admit, I had high expectations. Freaks everywhere, just doing their own crazy shit, rocking out like nothing else.

It was nothing like I expected. Not a single impromptu performance in sight - a casual air of uncertainty before it all started. My own shebang, mask and burned manuscript for a ‘failed author’, character stayed in my bag (eventually stuck on top a table as a temporary artwork - disappeared by the end of the night).

Now this isn’t to say anything of the performance - it was as good as you could imagine - the way in which that stage just let people break loose and spill their brains and passion was incredible. Tiny flashes, Jason Webley blasting out Hey Ya on piano accordion, Amanda spitting her beer out over the audience, Red Paintings crazed Oriental style violinist reciting Alice In Wonderland. But maybe I was looking for something else that wasn’t really there. I dunno.

Then again, what was I looking for? An alternative vibe? A zest for shooting down the mainstream? Looking back, it might not look quite how I thought it would, but it was there. And it was something insanely awesome.

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Thank You For Smoking

September 10th 2006 16:08

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Pretty Nifty little film this one – Thank You For Smoking. Saw it just the other night, and it made me chuckle.

What’s more, is it made my friend, an unusually passionate smoker chuckle. The film was quite happy to beat both the pro and anti smoking groups around the head, and whichever side you’re on, you find yourself happy to allow it to do so.

This is probably because the film acts very much the same as it’s protagonist – Nick Naylor, tobacco industry lobbyist. It come over to you, all sweet and charming, and slips it’s message to you so simply and convincingly that you barely have time to react, let alone try to fight it.

The reason I feel compelled to write a film review in a blog about alternative viewpoints, is that this is what really lies at the crux of the film; the alternative. We are clearly informed that every view holds an equal and opposite view, and each alternative view has an alternative view and each alternative view’s alternative view has a… blah blah blah… which we could go over endlessly. However, at the end of it all, it’s up to you to check it out both sides and make up your mind. That’s all it is – a plea for viewers to think for themselves.

Which I think many would agree – is something well overdue.

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