Places I have been

Montreal 

Quebec

Vancouver

everywhere in between

Winnipeg

Roseau Minnesota where I played a round of golf 91 IIRC

Not bad for a 9 holes. 😂

North Dakota where they had chickens in a barn so long you couldn't see the end and the first human to touch the eggs was the buyer at the grocery store,
chickens packed 4, 5 stories high with eggs going down a small elevator between Styrofoam pads

San Francisco CA  Mountain View Santa Clara Santa Cruz

Chattanooga TN

Evanston IL where my son spent 7 days in ICU basically the 2nd week of his life

Paris twice

North of England , Lake District, Morecambe etc bis

South of France Arles, Avignon, etc Nice, Marseille

Perth WA Australia 

Yanchup north to Augusta south 

where the 2 oceans meet: Southern and Indian 

and I have been to Warwick too :)

me taking the train back home to Rockingham from Perth or so I think ...hopped on the train with sunglasses on cap deep down earphones on and not watching not hearing anything until I looked up and expecting something like Warnbro I saw WARWICK.
WARWICK???
WHERE THE FUCK IS WARWICK?
I had taken the train in the wrong direction, north instead of south,

Kuala Lumpur Tokyo Frankfurt mostly airports with Frankfurt being a mad dash as our plane was an hour late and we had 1h20 mins between flights made it just as they closed the door never had time to buy a giant pretzel.

Melbourne Sydney 

New Caledonia too: a quick bottle of Gaillac at the grocery store on a quick stop over on a cruise.

I had to smuggle that bottle back on the ship :)

and many more I forgot now  I am sure Google Map could tell you much more since it doesn't forget mind you many of these were before smart phones and the internet

non skip albums

First one to come to mind is

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band

This album was so revolutionary and claims to be

the first album meant to be listened to

as opposed to danced to.

Those were the beginning of heavier drug use and one

did not feel much about wiggling around on weed or LSD

so while we're on the Beatles subject 

Abbey Road  and

Let It Be

would prolly be 2 non-skip albums as well

I remember in our foolish youth how we formed clans in high school

the "cool" kids upping their noses at those who liked the "commercial" side of Abbey Road as opposed to the enlightened one who much prefer the B side ( the white half apple).

If I had to name a few more album of this era

Wing's Wild World was pretty good

and Babe Ruth's debut album also.

Come to mind now 

Tea for the Tillerman should be on that list for sure 

much more than any other Cat Stevens album.

Carole King's Tapestry also and CCR's Cosmo's Factory as 

I mentioned previously in a FB post

Amos Lee's debut album comes to mind also

Some albums ALMOST make it to this list

Tom Waits and Alanis Morrissette come to mind here with

a habit of ruining the start with Track 1 and "redeeming" themselves with the rest of the album. I would have to dig and Google here to pinpoint which album.

Alanis's 2nd album and I seem to recall not being a fan of Tom Waits' Big in Japan

OF COURSE one CANNOT NOT mention : 

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

even though I would be reluctant to add more Pink Floyd album to this list maybe Division Bell of all choices strangely enough.

Correction here maybe with Pink Floyd's Meddle which is quite enjoyable especially the side B with the classic Echoes and who doesn't love Seamus? :P

Contrary to popular opinion I don't consider AC/CDC's Back to Black to be part of the non skip. 

I am not an unconditional fan of Alice Cooper or Deep Purple or even Led Zeppelin 

George Michael's Faith should also have a special mention here

oh and I forgot two of the best albums ever:

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

AND

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Voila for now 

All that my old brain can bring back to life for the mo,

Ciao for now

Ecce Homo

 

Words, Words, and more Words.

I was just listening to a short Jordan Peterson videos and he kept using two words that made me cringe every time:

TRUTH and REDEMPTION.

Words that have been massacred over the millennium beyond errrr

REDEMPTION 😂

So many religious words used in today's vernacular.

Words devoid of meaning by the very fact that everyone has a different definition of their meaning.

The good old proverb:

He who has a watch knows what time it is

He who has two watches knows nothing at all.

7 billion gods out there, 

7 billion devils, 

7 billion hells,

7 billion devils,

7 billion truths and 

7 quadrillion lies if not more.

In the days of COVID the word truth is becoming more and more sickening.

All I wanted to say to JP is the older I am getting the more I stand with the fictitious story of Pontius Pilate:

WHAT IS TRUTH?

Same with redemption and such other words: atonement, sin etc.

Words all created to CONTROL others in what I would call an evil manner: another word used and misused: evil.

The idea behind redeem in French is to buy back, RACHETER, to pay some sort of ransom established by some vengeful holy god and administered of course by god's accountants aka priests and imams and what not. The only voice this non existent god has.  Religious leaders waving a huge big stick made out of air. (after all the words soul and spirit mean nothing but that: AIR)

WHAT IS TRUTH INDEED?

WHAT IS TRUTH?

I could go back to my old ramblings of course saying again that in the original New Testament Greek TRUTH is NOT a WORD.

It is a negation.  

And yes if there was less, much  less, concealment and hiding and devious deception it would be a better world I guess or would we just kill each other faster now?

But in my not so humble opinion JP being a great great mind don't get me wrong is as far as the truth as possible because again in my not so humble opinion the truth begins with the simple acceptance that obviously 

THERE IS NO GOD.  

I would consider Stephen Fry in this case closer to the truth than Jordan Peterson even though bottom like is prolly that we are all each of us FULL OF SHIT.

But when you start mixing and confusing your truth with myth you get a very muddy, unhealthy mixture.

If I wasn't so deflated this week I'd go on also on redemption and all these songs and stories when the male ( and it is always the male) says I'll make it up to you, i.e. I'll redeem myself

Cynical translation: 

I fucked up, I really fucked but I want to get laid again.

The scars of lies and deception are usually very hard to completely erase.

The religious language is too invasive to cover properly.

Hell the Americans even call their war instruments: HELLFIRE.

Talk about self-righteousness when they are used to blow babies arms and bodies up to smithereens. 

so to use the same old semantics again

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? 

or even FIND his FUCKING  way?

By taking heed to whose words???? 

Please try to name a real EXISTING person.

As a matter of fact of course there is NO SUCH person the truth if there was one is scattered in a quadrillion pieces a little piece here and there in each one of us but usually as I said often buried under a ton of shit like a pearl in a fuckton of manure.  By the time you get to it you stink to high heaven. (more religious language)

So go on Pontius and keep asking

WHAT IS TRUTH?

more of the same

 

it took us 1000 years to make it to 275 millions

the next millennium brought us to 6 billion

when I was born there was 2.8 billion people on earth

now the last 20 years have brought us really close to 8 billion

Numbers all too big for us to handle.

I just past the 2 billion seconds and it would take 4 times that roughly 260 years to count all the people on earth now (at one per second) , 

thing is by the time we would be done most of them would be gone and we'd probably need another 100 years to count the next 3 billion.

Now that is JUST counting them at 1 a second. 

Deciphering all their delusions and lies they've been told and mythologies would need Laplace's Demon to compute it all out.

so basically we just are an exponential entropic ginormous MESS. :)

I have often express the foolish desire to know it all, to understand it all but all I understand is that our puny simian brain will never be able to comprehend it all or just even to comprehend a microscopic part of it.

Who am I? Where am I? What's the Purpose of Life?

A question I ask myself more or less jokingly quite often as in a way to

DEFINE myself.

I have an affinity for many songs who ask the same questions especially the "who am I" part.

Supertramp's Logical Song comes to mind.

I know it sounds absurd

Please tell me who I am

Ani DiFranco's Untouchable Face

and who am i

i bet you can't even tell me that much

And one I used to sing in the mirror many many moons ago

Harmonium En Pleine Face

Où es-tu ? J'en peux plus

Je ne t'entends plus, où es-tu ?

Where are you? I can't take it anymore

I can't hear you anymore, where are you?

Thing is as I am getting older I am getting to "KNOW" it is a stupid question.

There is no logical or real answer to that question since to quote Heraclitus

 So "who I am " keeps changing every second and by the time I would finish to answer my answer would be obsolete already.

Woke is a Joke indeed

 

Don't waste your time arguing with people who believe in their own lies

~ Paulo Coelho 

A man who was pretty good at writing lies and fiction and who appealed to so many potheads out there.

The biggest problem with this quote is that it is USED by people
who DO believe their own lies.  

The mind is such a complicated twisted thing.

Reminds me of the old verse:

 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

The whole world and especially from my POV the whole province of Quebec seems to be under a curse of delusion and utter stupidity. 
or maybe it is just my FAMILY 😄😄😄
A bunch of uneducated know-it-all lumberjacks (or BS to use the colloquial)
who believe anything:  

The Dunning Kruger effect at work in a perfect example.

I do understand that fear does a number on a mind but it is just getting ridiculous.

I have come to notice and stay away from any site that has the word TRUTH in it
because truth is the last thing you will find in such a site.

Everyone is so proud and arrogant, the more ignorant the more proud and arrogant in fact that Dunning Kruger again.  

So fucking full of themselves for being so fucking "WOKE" and "LIT" and superior to all the world and SCIENCE out there.

Why am I not in this group?

I am not that intelligent anymore

(I remember calling myself a minor intellectual years ago LOL )

I had a good laugh this week when I read that Georges Santayana’s father Ruiz de Santayana was a colonial civil servant, painter, and minor intellectual.

I want that one too on my epitaph now:

Poet, Philosopher, Failure and Minor Intellectual! 

and certainly not educated but I try to keep an open mind on NUMBERS and SCIENCE .

I don't believe the world is trying to get me and that I am the only fucking Messiah on this planet.

My Messiah days are long gone and far behind me.

Anyway having said all that I will get my vaccine this week and try to survive all this.

It has me wondering how the graph comparison would go between COVID spreading and Illiteracy.

It is more a Stupidity Pandemic really than a virus one. 

Stupidity made it much much worse in any case.

NUMBERS

this whole world maybe just a Lie Inception 

A Lie within a Lie within a Lie

It is getting clearer and clearer to me that our brains are not wired to know the difference quite the contrary in fact. 

Late night thoughts

 always the same though

Life is just a big RNG game

The Random Number Generation just for you to be born is ginormous.

The Random Number Generation for you to stay alive every second is ginormous.

Everything is RNG.

There is no god, no devil, no heaven, no hell.

When you die you are forgotten in no time 

(do you know anything about the daily life of your great grandparents? ) 

When you die your atoms are scattered on this planet until it explodes 

and it will explode 

and then your atoms will be scattered in the galaxy somewhere.

Death is the Win of Chaos over Order and Chaos always always win.

The law of entropy is inexorable.

Inexorable: CANNOT BE PRAYED OUT OF

Therefore the Dédé Fortin Mantra comes handy at times, cuz in the end

Y'a pas de coupable Y a pas de Honte

There is no guilty one, there is no shame.

Band Synergies

I have been listening to a lot of Supertramp lately, one of the best band ever IMHO.

I fell on the writing credits of the band and I thought it was amusing.

For one thing many bands seem to be a 2 males leading out of 4 or 5.

Some seem to have a bad cop / good cop mix to them.

Beatles

Good cop: McCartney

Bad cop: Lennon ... father issues mother issues

Pink Floyd

Good cop: Gilmour

Bad cop: Waters same again father and mother issues

Supertramp

Good cop: Hodgson

Bad cop: Davies?
Well I could be wrong but it seems to me that he married a control freak and Hodgson might have had issues about that or he simply needed to leave the fast life as he said

While I am on the Supertramp subject the writing credits are somewhat ANAL for lack of an another word, almost tense.

Most albums have an EXACT division of writing taking turns

here is an example

No. Title     Lead vocals     Length

1. "School"     Hodgson 5:35

2. "Bloody Well Right" Davies 4:32

3. "Hide in Your Shell" Hodgson 6:49

4. "Asylum" Davies 6:45

Side two

No. Title         Lead vocals Length

5. "Dreamer"         Hodgson 3:31

6. "Rudy"         Davies 7:17

7. "If Everyone Was Listening" Hodgson 4:04

8. "Crime of the Century" Davies 5:36

Anymore anal than that and they would have divided the time straight in two to a second close

Same thing with Breakfast in America: 10 songs - 5 songs each

Even in the Quietest Moment has a little edge for Hodgson leading the score 4 to 3 but still presented alternately.

There you go Rolling Stones magazine can sign me in now as a rock critique on their writing staff 

Personally I am a Mc Cartney / Gilmour / Hodgson fan for some odd reason??? 

Not a fan of bad cops I s'pose.