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This post is really of no substance, but it is merely to tell people that I have my deviantART account up and running.
I have uploaded original artwork and photography, and some of it is even available for purchase if you so desire to have something pretty hanging in the front room.
And if not, you can still go and see all the pretty and swooshy colours that you might wish to have as a wallpaper on your desktop.
Whatever it may be, it's there!
The link is here and I have also posted it on my Link Love section to the right.
Cheers!
x
PS Tomoz is my birthday.
Woo!
At this moment in time, I am sat in my cousin's flat rather alone, as I went spur of the moment to visit them.
I've got no wheels, so I must wait for right now.
I have taken the liberty to have a bop to a couple of tunes, as I so often do.
I do say that the Chems are treating me rather well. :D
Push The Button is an ace album!
I can't seem to shake this frustration I have currently.
I need to get to a gig and dance like a madman. (madwoman doesn't sound as smooth as madman)
I need to go on holiday. I need to do something worthwhile.
Before I explode.
Anyway, not much else to say...I would like to thank Ashley at likesounds.com for posting in my previous Oasis blog.
Check their site out...tis ace.
Right, am off for now.
That is unless I think of other things to randomly post.
x
Oasis put out a new album titled "Dig Out Your Soul" as the follow up to the 2006 release of "Don't Believe the Truth."
Though I don't physically own it, I have been streaming it on myspace and imeem rather often.
I am no self-procliamed Oasis expert by any means, but what I notice on this album is more of an emphasis on the songwriting and the tracks that seem to have more of an acoustic edge.
Though I have yet to form an opinion on this album, I will say that it is a very solid collection of tunes, but there aren't as many instant Oasis classics.
That being said, a few of my favourite tunes on the album are "Bag It Up, The Turning, Waiting for the Rapture, Shock of the Lightning, To Be Where There's Life" and "Ain't Got Nothin'."
Those particular tracks have some classic Oasis vibe to them, and they've got potential to be crowd favourites as well.
It's defo worth a listen!!
1. Bag It Up
2. The Turning
3. Waiting for the Rapture
4. Shock of the Lightning
5. I'm Outta Time
6. (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady
7. Falling Down
8. To Be Where There's Life
9. Ain't Got Nothin'
10. The Nature of Reality
11. Soldier On
I had come across this review of Bill Maher's 'film' "Religulous" from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, written by Ann Rodgers.
It's a very well written article:
""Religulous" has the theological depth of a religion documentary by a seventh-grade church dropout, which is exactly what filmmaker Bill Maher is.
He uses a more fundamentalist reading of scripture than most fundamentalists do. He doesn't even know the proper name of the New Testament book that he reviles as a threat to humanity. It's "Revalation" not "Revalations," and the vast majority of the world's Christians do not share the doomsday interpertation of it that Maher most fears. The vast majority of those who do have no desire to hasten the apocalypse.
The film is an alleged quest to find out if "religion is detrimental to the progress of humanity."
He concludes that it is, even though most of the believers he meets treat him with far more respect than he treats them. He makes no mention of any good ever done in the name of God, or the millions killed by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot in the name of atheism.
His fears focus on scripture, but at no point does he interview an actual Bible scholar or theologian. The closest he comes is a Catholic priest who is also a Vatican astronomer and another whose job at a Vatican-related seminary is to translate terms such as "automated teller machine" into Latin.
Maher seems shocked that the Vatican sponsors scientific research, revealing his own ignorance. The Latin scholar may overstate some changes since Vatican II, but that may have been necessary because Maher seems to have missed the council entirely.
He explains that he was the product of a Catholic-Jewish marriage, which may tempt some rabbis to cite this film as evidence against intermarriage.
Maher thinks anti-Semitic stereotypes are funny, telling a bargain-hunting Pentecostal, "You shop like a Jew."
Few Jews have met any like those featured in the film, such as the rabbi who participated in Iran's conference of Holocaust deniers. Maher's thesis seems to be that the lunatic fringe of any religious group is that faith's truest expression.
A young Muslim woman was the only person permitted to give an intelligent response on camera to his questions about difficult scriptures. In this case it was a commans in the Quran to kill unbelievers. When she said the verse was about a specific situation in the sevemth century and did not apply today, Maher replied, "That's not how people read holy books."
But that is exactly how theologians and scripture scholars read them. Their job is to study the historical words, to find what something meant on the day it was written and try to work out how it applies to today. Sermons in evangelical churches are filled with references to life in the Roman Empire and the meaning of Greek verbs. The bestselling Bible in the United States is the "Archaeological Study Bible."
Dangerous distortions come from people who try to teach scripture without a background in history or ancient languages and literature. The guy who wrote "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988" wasn't a theologian, he was a rocket scientist. Osama bin Laden isn't a theologian, he's a civil engineer.
Bill Maher isn't a theologian, he's a comedian.
There are intelligent arguments to be made against faith.
This is not one of them."
Bill Maher is a fool.
If I may be so crass.
Well, it would appear that I lied.
I did not have a day of random postings, as I ended up doing other things.
I spent the evening putting things up on ebay (though I doubt if anyone will bid on it), messing about with photos, watching TNA wrestling (Christian Cage ftw!), enjoying some white wine mixed with cranberry juice (yum) and being in sub-arctic temperatures.
It is currently so frigid that my fingers are slightly numb.
Joking set aside.
It could be because I am sitting in only shorts and a t-shirt, but that is my attire year round.
But I do love the cold, so there are no complaints here!
Now enjoy some photos of Christian Cage:
If you haven't noticed, I am a huge wrestling fan, and have been my whole life.
Currently, my favourite is Christian Cage (^_^), as he is a mega wrestler.
I do have others that are ace as well.
Perhpas sometime I shall do a photo barrage!
x
I'm sat here in the throes of technology.
Tis rather frustrating transferring files at the speed of butt.
I found an extra portable hard drive that I am going to use to back up the content on my laptop, as it's not backed up anywhere.
It's a Seagate FreeAgent and tis double cool.
It's got a capacity of 232GB, so not bad at all!
But when I checked what content was already on it, I saw that it was almost maxed out completely.
Yikes.
So I now have the task of cutting the files out the device and pasting them into the massive-capacity desktop.
The catch is that it's taking an AGE.
It has been taking about seven minutes on average to transfer only about 500MB worth of files at a time, and I'm going to have to deal with ones that are about 23GB in one go. :|
Currently, am transferring a file of 10GB and it says it's going to take 7 hours.
Please be false!!
These files I am dealing with are actually the complete contents of a custom-built Alienware laptop that was tricked-out like a movverlicker but had crashed.
We hacked the hard drives and extracted the files.
But here we are, dealing with these frustrating contents!
Oh dear, it says now 8 hours.........
Am trying to occupy myself during this daunting task by jamming to me iPod (which is still fucked and chooses what it wants to play most of the time) and have got me noise-cancelling Bose headphones on.
It offers some release of tension, as I despise technology playing up like it does so frequently.
In an effort to beautify my blog and to add some visual stimulation for my ghost readers, here are some photos of the tech bits I am currently a-using.
Apologies for the low resolution on some:
Seagate FreeAgent
Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones
Ancient runs-on-gasoline-has-no-colour-display-and-is-seldom-believed-to-exist iPod Third Generation
HP Media Center PC m7757c
HP w2207 LCD Display Screen
Logitech UltraVision Webcam (I don't actually have it on right now, but it's still there)
Woo! I am pleased to say that the transfer of 10GB is complete, and it didn't take 8 hours!
But my work here is not yet done...
Moving on to the next deliciously large file...
Today might be a day of random postings, as I have nowt much better to do but wait.
We shall see.
x
