My World

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Blogs and newspapers are full of editorials about how climate change phophets of doom all forget one thing - that climate changes all the time. This is a little like saying murder happens all the time so the latest massacre was just an optical illusion, but anyway...

They point out that there was a flood in 1952, and a heatwave in 1976, and statistically tidal waves are bound to happen eventually. All of which is true, and completely misses the point.

Extraordinary events happen, by definition, only occasionally. When they happen all the time, they are no longer extraordinary.

Floods used to be rare, now they are quite common, and getting commoner. It doesn't make the slightest difference if there was one worse than any we've seen recently six decades ago - that's not the issue.

The issue is that we're seeing annual floods now, not that worse ones used to happen once in a lifetime.

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It would be a lot easier to not care about any of this if half my friends weren't making babies who'll have to cope with the results of current willful blindness.

Maybe in twenty years, when the unsubmerged parts of Britain are covered in snow, there will be arguments about who is most to blame.

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Here's the search terms people have used to find my blog in the last seven days:

"charles winsor" depression - Is the prince of Wales unhappy? On the one hand, he's got a godawful family, he lives in the permanent shadow of an arranged marriage that ended over a decade ago, and he's virtually estranged from his children, one of who isn't even his.

On the other, he's got loads of money and the love of a good woman. And he might even be king one day.

audition.ses nirvana

catgotwasted - The MySpace of my permanently stoned friend Ralph. He's disorganised, unreliable, and, well, permanently stoned. But I can't help liking him.

(Note to self: Must remember to invite him to the gig.)

(Note to self: Must remember to prepare music for the gig.)

(Note to self: Must repair computer so I can make music for the gig and invite Ralph to it. He will forget, of course.)

equical wikipedia

cd130e2ng price - the price of that particular camera is GBP20. It takes crystal clear pictures, it's light and compact, and it's the most unreliable camera I've ever worked with.

I have four cameras, and they're all unusable for different reasons, but this is the most unusable.

"the entertainer" "techno version" - I do not want to hear this.

tickten, hillel

pseudomix ebay

bbc "model b" secondhand - I do have one of these, somewhere.

"drifters tribute" - I an not a Drifters tribute band! Huh!

papillion in emmerdale -

"kraftwerk cover" - The Balanescu Quartet of Romania made an EP of Kraftwerk covers. Somewhere I've got their version of Autobahn, played on cellos and violas. It works surprisingly well.

mieville waste

De Viris Pulchris et Aliis ("Of Beautiful Men and Other Things", I think. Hi Ric!)

My favourite though would have to be:

"Mother and me have got hold of some new diet pills. They're called "Equical", and they're such a well-kept secret they're not even on ebay"

Yep. Someone pasted a paragraph from my blog, and used it as a search term. With, unsurprisingly, one hit.

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Is this a good idea? Devo's "Girl U Want", rewritten and rechristened "World U Want" for an audience of environmentally aware artists.

Verse 1:
It springs from somewhere you can't see
It makes more products for you and me
It sends out a miasma of undefined smog
It drifts on down like a curse from the gods

Chorus
It's just the world, the world, the world you want

Verse 2:
Hear them lying everywhere you turn
No more time but there just too much to learn
See them on the TV but you know it's all wrong
End of the line but you knew it all along

Bridge:
Look at them, with their mouths watering
Look at you with your life spinning
Why can't you just admit it's all hopeless
It's just the world you want

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This isn't supposed to be an environmentalist blog, or a political one. Or indeed a musical one. It's just me being a bit sardonic about the surrealist parade that is my life.

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