CAR RIDE INTO GLOSSOP TOWN CENTRE

I drive my car into Glossop.

This is a three minute excerpt from a drive around Glossop, Derbyshire in the north west of England.

I just thought that it would be a weird thing to post.

FREE STUFF THAT'S HARD TOO BEAT

WOW! I'm doing a lot of posting today.

I'm just getting ready to go out and today I'm going to one of the places where hou can get something for free.

It's not something that you can keep, you can borrow it and you have to take it back within three weeks.

I'm off to my local library to get a few books.

Turn off your television and read a book for an hour or so.

THIS IS REALLY WEIRD

If you want to see someting really weird...

take a look at this website,

DIGITAL DISASTER

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I just grabbed my car keys of of my desk and knocked my digital camera onto the floor.

Total disaster, the little plastic lug that holds the battery compartment closed has broken off and the batteries are in iminent danger of popping out at any given instance.

I could go out and buy another, better camera...

but I'm too mean.

I look at the camera and I look at the money and I think about it...

and I'd rather have the money.

WEIRD OR WHAT?

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ARE YOU A SHEEP?

Have you got it yet?

Remember the tv ad about taking one bottle into the shower, instead of a shampoo and a conditioner in different bottles.

IT IS NOT THE HAIR ON THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR HEAD THAT HAS BEEN WASHED AND CONDITIONED.

IT IS WHAT'S LEFT OF THE BRAIN INSIDE THAT THEY HAVE WASHED AND CONDITIONED.

YOU HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED, YOU ARE CONDITIONED.

You sit in front of your tv every night and you are passively ingesting the soap operas and sport that you think are so important, but you don't understand that this is all trivia that they are using to turn your brains into mush.

All you have to do is to turn away from the conditioning.

YOU CAN BE FREE AGAIN.

YOU ARE BRAINWASHED SHEEP

FREEDOM, WHAT FREEDOM?

I dare you to think for yourself

Governments 'licence' broadcasters,

the government 'awards' a licence

and the broadcasters make loads of money by broadcasting

what the government wants to be said.

If they don't toe the line, then they lose their licence.

THERE IS NO FREEDOM TO BROADCAST

except on the Internet, and the governments of the world

can't wait to 'regulate' the Internet.

LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EUROPEAN OFFSHORE RADIO STATIONS.

The governments closed them down,

because Free Radio can't be allowed to exist.

You have prescious little freedom of expression left

and if you don't protect it now it will be gone forever.

I have been reading the 'media' news and

a piece about the government wanting to put 'ratings' on every website caught

my eye. These control freaks are desperate to get their grubby mits

on the Internet, they are so scared of you having any kind of real freedom of

thought and they want to control the Internet.

There was a related article about Internet radio, oh yes, they want to regulate

the content of Internet radio, for your safety of course, they don't

want you to be exposed to any information that is outside the

government's control (that's any government, they are all the same.)

You might start to think for yourself, and that just would not do...

It's not part of their plan.

Read 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell.

It's all coming true.

There is a thought police out there,

and you are being conditioned

SO THAT YOU DO NOT THINK.

Political Correctness is part of the same process,

you are being conditioned to think 'the right way'

and soon you will be thinking what 'they'

want you to think.

You will think what you are told to think,

say what you are told to say,

do what you are told to do.

It doesn't matter who you vote for,

all political parties are the same,

they have the same aim,

to be first up to the trough.

Freedom is being legislated out of society.

There are laws ready to be rolled out that

will prescribe the foods and medicines that you are allowed to have

and proscribe the things that you cannot have.

If you thought that the

STANDARD FOR THE CURVATURE OF BANANAS AND CUCUMBERS

was madness, just wait until

the Official Book of Food and Medicines

becomes the law.

You can read about it now,

The Codex Alimentarius

exists.

The official line is

here

The idea is simple:

As an example think about milk.

I used to drink Raw Unpasteurised milk,

it came straight from cows that were regularly tested for

deseases that could infect humans.

It had all the good bacteria from the cow's gut

and it had great health giving effects.

It was deemed not to be good for you and the

government banned unpasteurised milk.

Now you can buy yogurt with the same

bacteria and it is suddenly good for you.

The reason is this;

You used to get probiotic and prebiotic bacteria

free in a natural product called milk,

but now they are selling it to you.

The whole codex thing is exactly the same.

'They' want to sell you all the things that you can

now get totally free.

Herbal cures that work do not make money for the multinational

pharmaceutical companies so they will use their financial muscle to

'influence' governments to make natural herbal medicine illegal, then

they will make an ineffective chemical version that they can sell to you.

The pharmaceutical and chemical industries of the world are just a

bunch of legalised drug pushers who want to get as many people as

possible to become dependant on the drugs that they peddle.

WEIRD AND FUNNY

There is a great sketch by Spike Milligan on YouTube

The song is also available for download at

Amazon.co.uk

EAT THE TWEET

Edible Tweet for everyone at Twitter

GOING BACK IN TIME...

Today I got some vinyl records in the post.

My Hi-fi has a cassette deck, an FM radio tuner and a MiniDisc recorder sitting there in the stack.

All totally redundant, surpassed by digital playback and recording on computer, the iPod and Wi-Fi Internet radio.

There is something eminently satisfying about a collection of vinyl records, ok so they get digitised and you mainly listen to them on your iPod, but there is nothing like the sound of a bit of vinyl blasting through a 200 Watt RMS amplifier and a set of big speakers.

Rock'n'Roll...

"the music that your neighbours listen to...

whether they want to or not!"

MUM'S BIRTHDAY

Sunday 22nd February

My mum died two years ago and she would have been 87 today,

I have just been to put some flowers on her grave.

DISASTER IN COMPUTERLAND

My new hard drive has failed.

I may be gone for some time...

So, I took it back to the shop and got a replacement.

The new one didn't even work at all.

Took it back for a refund.

Very disappointing.

The price had been dropped by 20% between getting the first one and the replacement.

What a load of Sh*te.

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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING OVER NEW ZEELAND'S POPULATION

If you can 'black out' anything on any of your web presences, pleas do it and

stand up against "Guilt Upon Accusation" for New Zealand

http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html

This site is staying blacked out.

Black out your website and blogger banners, or black out your Twitter inage.

Let NZ's Big Brother know that you are watching back !

HOW TO BECOME INVISIBLE

Over the last few months I have discovered a surefire way to make yourself invisible.

I have been doing it for quite a while now and it really works.

What you do is this...

You need some money, a couple of pounds will do.

Take your money to the local TESCO supermarket and but a few odds and sods, some pens and a couple of litres of orange juice should do it.

Next you go to the checkout, it's best to go to the 10 items or less till in the corner.

Just present your purchase at the till and wait...

You are now invisible...

Watch in wonder as the spotty teenager on the checkout looks right through you and holds a conversation with the person on the adjacent till.

It works every time.

THE AMAZING CLIVE GREGSON

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This is about Clive Gregson.

Not that Clive is weird, what is weird is that he is someone with an outstanding talent with a world-wide following and yet the whole world doesn't really know about him.

This is a great video for 'I Love This Town.'

Clive is from Ashton-under-Lyne in the north west of England and (as someone else who was born there) I'm almost positive that he's singing about Ashton...

I may be wrong, but I don't think so !

Clive's website is

clivegregson.com

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DEATH METAL

I thought that I should say a bit more about Death Metal.

Bloody marvelous !

No wonder I am going deaf.

I just hope that it develops into something that is even more scary.

Rock music should be scary, it should alienate everyone who is not into it.

It should be the Devil's music and make the establishment in fear of their cosy culture, I mean how much of this corporate 'Classic Rock' can you take ?

Rock music should not be safe and cosy, it should be dangerous and edgy.

I'm off to burn a Dire Straits CD as a sacrifice to the Devil's music.

POD MUSIC IN THE CAR

I went out in the car today and used my new FM transmitter for the first time on the move.

Much better than the old one that had to be plugged into the headphone socket.

Amazing sound quality through the iPod dock, even on my car's rather ancient radio.

Loads better than carrying a load of audio CDs in the car and more convenient than having a bundle of MP3 CDs.

Listened to Opeth and Nile.

Scared the shoppers in the car park at the local Tesco supermarket with a bit of death metal blassting out of the windows.

Rock music... it beats the crap out of the Chav's half assed dance music...

how can it be dance music if they listen to it in their cars?

Dance music, now that is some scary stuff !

TODAY I AM MOSTLY READING ABOUT THE PARANORMAL

One of the things that I have been inspired to do since I reactivated this Blog was to revisit my collection of books on various paranormal themes.

My current reading project is to re-read the books of

Harry Price

who was once Europe's foremost ghost-hunter and in many ways the father of modern parapsychology.

Price's most famous book is

'The Most Haunted House in England'

I have been reading it again and nearly seventy years on it still knocks the spots off any other book written about ghost-hunting that came after it.

If you can get hold of a copy you should grab it with both hands and spend a quiet night in reading it.

There is a sequel to 'Most Haunted' and it is called

'The End of Borley Rectory'

and in many ways it is a superior read on respect to the first book.

Price was described as being a good writer but a bad reporter, he wrote his books weeks and often months after the events using the notes he made at the time, but the Borley books are true classics of their type.

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Anyone intersested in this stuff should also check out the work of the late American parapsychologist and author

D. Scott Rogo.

Scott Rogo was very much influenced by Harry Price and you should look out for his book,

'The Haunted House Handbook'

another of my favourites and a cracking good read in its own right.

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More about what I'm reading later, please visit

harryprice.co.uk

to find out more about the remarkable Harry Price.

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PODDING MADNESS !

I ordered a new FM transmitter for my iPod.

The thing that lets you play your iPod through your car radio.

The old one was one that had to be connected through the headphone socket and needed a constant supply of batteries to power it.

So I ordered a new one with a proper docking connector from an Internet shop and I waited for it to be delivered.

This thing is about 2cm by 3cm, about as high as the iPOd dock connector and twice as wide.

I mean, this thing is small.

It was delivered by a courier in a 16 ton truck.

Madness strikes again.

OH NO !

I just realised...

With being deprived of an Internet connection last week

I couldn't post anything here on

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH

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I HAVE BEEN TO A KIND OF HELL

Yes folks, I have been to a kind of Hell in the last few days.

We have had little or no Internet connection since the last time I managed to post here.

The name of the hell that I have been in is worse than AOHell.

Yes, the place where there is no Internet.

I have to admit that being one of the denisons of AOHell seems to have been bad, but to be in the Hellish region where there is no Internet at all is not a place that I would want to be for too long.

I must be becoming an 'Internet junkie.'

PRACTICAL DARK ARTISTRY

I have just ordered some guitar parts online.

I am going to fix up one of my guitars.

That's the real dark arts for you!

Behold... The Red Devil.

THE POWER OF EVIL HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT

When you think about it (and I think about it a lot) it is weird being a fan of 'the paranormal' when, like me, you are an aethiest.

This whole god (sorry, 'God') stuff is just a load of fairy stories that are passed on from one brainwashed generation to the next.

These jokers accept it all and never actually think for themselves.

That is the difference between them and me, I don't believe in all this stuff that 'they' have used as a social control mechanism for thousands of years. I have an open mind, I question everything and if I get an answer it is my answer, not something that I'm told to think.

Make no mistake, you have been brainwashed, you buy the crap that is advertised and you don't even know that you are being manipulated into doing it.

You buy things with the 'right' badge or logo on them in the belief that you are getting a superior product.

The shoes that you buy with the expensive name on them are just the same as all the other shoes with a different name, or even no name at all, on them

WAKE UP!

You have been brainwashed, your head has been emptied and you are doing exactly what you have bee told to do.

Religion, politicians and commerce have all got you where they want you...

ON YOUR KNEES.

SECRET OF THE DARK FORCES

What do you call a ploitician after they have got into power?

Anything you like...

They certainly aren't listening to you anymore !

SPOOKY STUFF IN A BOTTLE

Something spooky happened to me when I came in tonight.

I had just got home after a visit to the 24 hour supermarket, I was greeted by the dog who upon receiving a treat abandoned me to the task of unpacking what I had bought.

I had been shopping for my favourite orange juice and a bottle of cloudy lemonade. Normally I have the strong unsweetened kind, very grown up, like a beer, with a nice 'finish' a bitter aftertaste that lingers on the back of the tongue, but they had sold out and there was only the budget brand left.

Now we are talking budget here in the sense of cheap, I mean really cheap, but it was all they had, so I put a bottle of it into my basket and hoped for the best.

I was expecting mothing from this drink, but it would be something cold and fizzy to drink whilst I sat at my computer, so I opened the bottle, poured a small sample into a glass and with my eyes firmly shut, I took a tentative sip.

WOW! It was amazing, I was instantly transported in a Proustian moment with the taste and fragrance of a drink that was just like the old greengrocer's shop that used to be just down the road when I was little.

For a moment it was as if I really was back there in Mister McAlister's greengrocer's shop, as if, just for an instant, I had slipped through time on the sweet fruity aroma of the kind of shop that hardly exists anymore.

Now that is weird!

PARANORMAL IN THE MEDIA (Part 1)

I have a problem with the television programmes that set out to uncover various paranormal events.

I really do want to like them, but they never seem to get it right, some of them find a ghost in every dark corner, others see a ghost every time a speck of dust floats by (you must know what I mean) and there are some programmes where even the people who are making them have no idea what the are supposed to be doing.

This is a serious subject, not just the hunting for ghosts, but the wider psychological implications.

In the UK you can make a television programme about 'the paranormal' and you can do a live show with a psychic medium, but you have to say that it is for entertainment purposes only.

I have no problem with this, so long as it is applied across the board.

If this rule were to be applied fairly there should be a disclaimer before and after Songs of Praise saying,

THIS PROGRAMME IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
OTHER VIEWS ABOUT THE NATURE OF SPIRITUALITY EXIST
AND MAY BE JUST AS VALID

I also think that the same should be outside every place of worship.

WEIRD STUFF AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

I did an OU course a few years ago and it had a little section about the late 19th and early 20th Century fascination with spiritism.

One of the things that struck me about this is that altough they tried to work ideas about 'the paranormal' into the course they had no idea about the subject at all. It was just a passing thought, a bit of filler.

There was a bit in it about Harry Price, at least there was a picture of him, but totally confused and out of context.

I've often wondered if there could be a possibility of the OU having a course that took a serious look at the nature and psychology of 'parapsychology.'

Perhaps I should ask?

MOST HAUNTED, 1929 STYLE.

One thing that I don't get is religion. I know that lots of people are hooked on this stuff, but I really think it's worth studying... as part of the general field of 'the paranormal'.

Ever since I was a kid I have been into all that ghost stuff, however ghosts and hauntings are different from all that religious stuff, if only just because there is actually some evidence for ghostly hauntings.

I'm absolutely convinced that the paranormal is what the renown British ghost-hunter Harry Price regarded as a subject fit for serious study.

Harry Price, if you don't know, was the author of a number of books about the paranormal, his best known book being

'The most Haunted House in England'

the story of the alleged hauntings at and around Borley Rectory.

There is a superb website dedicated to Harry Price, it is

http://www.harryprice.co.uk

Harry Price is a strange candidate for being a hero, but he was probably the first to advocate the scientific study of ghosts and hauntings, especially Poltergeists.

So, one of the things that I'm going to talk about here is the very difficult idea that so-called 'paranormal' and anomalous phenomena should be given the same amount of serious study as things like religion and other fairy stories.

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TWEET !

This is the blog that I have set up to link to my Twitter account.

As they say, "Be afraid... "

Well, it's not going to be the same stuff that I have put on Twitter, there is not a lot of point on writing the same stuff twice and this is going to be a little 'darker' I think.

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