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Due to a recent visit from one of society’s dim bulbs, I decided that I should probably post a reminder about this blog and you. If you don’t like something I have to say, I don’t care. If you want to complain, I don’t care. If you decide that you are smarter than the rest of the world… I don’t care. If you hadn’t noticed the pattern, unless I say otherwise, I don’t care about what you think of me, my blog, my thoughts, my opinions or my worldview, nor do I care about you and yours. Read more »

I have decided that people need a reality check. Various different articles and people that I have encountered lately seem to want to imply that the business of art is actually about art… This, boys and girls, is WRONG! Dead wrong. Let me speak from a perspective that people may understand best, though there is almost no profession that is innocent of this kind of thought. Let’s look at the music industry.

Elvis Presley… Musician or product? PRODUCT!! There was no art to what he sold. By the time that his records hit store shelves the art was long over. The art was done when nobody was looking, thinking or paying. There was a songwriter that sat and twiddled on his piano coming up with weird Read more »

You know, most people associate horror, both in film and in literature, with campy sideshow type stuff. At best it is full of little things to startle you, accompanied by bad rubber-costumed monsters, cheesy special effects and dialog that would barely be passable in a daytime drama. I say that is bad horror. Furthermore there are some people out there that are veritable purveyors of bad horror. I hadn’t given this a whole lot of thought until this morning. While riding the trolley I started into a new book. I go through books like water now that I am riding mass transit to cut down on my gas expenses. Read more »

In a strange twist of fate, the topic of existence (not existentialism) has come up twice in the past week. Moreover it got the philosophy machine moving again in my brain. The first time that the topic of life, mortality and human existence came up, it was related to morality. Now, I’ll tell you that I love a good discussion on morality. Morals are infinitely fascinating to me simply because I think that the people that were closest to the underlying reasoning of morality were the hedonists. Ultimately, why do you do something if not for your own pleasure? There are, of course, people that would wholly disagree with me, but all the same, I think that this really does reflect the intrinsic nature of human morality. Now, of course, this will lead me, ultimately, to the thought of ‘why do anything at all, ever?’ Once this has been stated it becomes clear that Aurthur Schopenhauer was right on track to say that life is not worth living. Then, of course, Nietzsche would in turn say ‘Schopenhauer played the flute and you play the guitar.’ Correct! Is it really worth the time to even do these things? I say no, due to the fact that, ultimately it is for naught, so why bother. But I digress. Read more »