For Your Consideration: The Two Josephs

Now I'm not one to judge a book by it's cover, but I'm going to go out on a limb with this one. If your name's Joseph and you look like the devil, you probably shouldn't be left in charge of kids.

[Pictured: Josef Fritzl & Joseph Jackson (Michael Jacksons Father, whom is reported to have severely abused Michael physically and mentally as a child)]

[ UPDATE 15.09.2010 ]

All the talk of the popes visit to Britain this week made me think of adding another important "Joseph" to all this...

Current Catholic pope, Joseph Alois Ratzinger.

[ addendum post ]

My Cock Ring

A while back I have a "guess the object" compitition, which turned out to be a rather uncomfortable looking Cock-Ring. At the time of revealing what it was I had the idea that I could tack on images of my own design "improvements". I decided not to bother even though I had the images already taken and the video shot.



As you can it, it's quite a snug fit, and it case it's still a bit loose, you can always tighten the "love pinchers" to achieve your preferred level of sensation...



... no matter how intense you want that sensation to be.



Crappy video with crappy effects. I was going to put some spooky Art Zoyd music over the top...

[Some points to note: Carrigaline was thinking along the same lines, but for thrifty reasons... nitro2k01 reminded me about the pics in his post about a different kind of cock ring]

Star Trek: TNG - Interactive Board Game

I found this in the attic over Christmas. "Interactive" board games were all the rage back in the mid 90's. Basically you ran the included tape while you played the game and the character on screen would give instructions that altered the game play. "Athmosfear" was the first if I'm not mistaken, certainly the most famous Video-Board game. Very privative stuff, but I guess it seemed cool back then.



I think I played this game once or twice (literally) before moving on to something else. Everything is still there and except for the box, which is a bit scuffed, it's all in pretty excellent condition. The quality of the tape is still fairly ok but the sound got a bit messed up. There's some serious over acting on it by Robert O'Reilly (who played Gowron in TNG and DS9), but it's all good campy Star Trek fun.



In the clip, you see a star field with a timer counting down. Pretty obvious why thats there. Then the klingon Kavok(O'Reilly) who's hijacked the Enterprise comes on screen and demands that the player who's currently active must "experience Bij" which is basically an instruction to pick up a Bij card that acts as a luck variable. Oh how terrificly fun it sounds I know.

Taken (2008)

Shit hot movie! Liam Neeson is totally badass in it. He pulls off the Jason Statham action-hero, but with more substance. Totally non-PC film, which is so fucking refreshing. He kills more people than Rambo, and doesn't give a fuck about it. He's even shooting innocent women at one stage. All the action and moves are totally sharp, very rarely does he loose the upper-hand, which is unusual in todays movies. All we ever seem to get are protagonists who are getting the shit kicked out of them for 10 minutes and then suddenly they find this "magic power" and kill the "bad guys" in 5 seconds right at the end. None of that muck here! Just a lot of neck snapping and head banging... yehaw!

Wimpy people criticise the film makers for Neeson's character ignoring the plight of the other "trafficked" women. The man went off to save his daughter, he wasn't fucking Jesus you know. What did you want, a 90 minute ad for Amnesty International? Fuck sake! No, totally fantastic film.

Michael Jackson: 1958 - 2009

I followed the whole thing on Twitter, as it happened! Minutes after the first Tweets proclaiming his death were confirmed I created (possibly) his first MS Paint tribute! Some other choice images appeared too:

I found this picture of a woman displaying her shock at the news of Jacksons death, over here: [yfrog.com/i/b5b.jpg]

And pedobear grieves with the rest of us.....

The weird thing about following the story over on Twitter was how a fake story of his death was spread first (using one of those fake news site generators) and then shen he died the real news stories filtered through. The Raw Feed has a view on it.

Michael Jackson: troubled, disturbed, dead, misunderstood... but pretty awesome at the same time.

Obama Is Watching

"The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.

As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.

Martin Luther King once said - “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness."

Talk about a weak-assed reply. Maybe Iran needs to be run by a fly for Obama to feel riled up about it. I know he's in a catch-22 situation but jeez, a few "strong words" wouldn't go astray. As bad as Bush was at least he wasn't afraid to call Iran how he saw it.

[original illustration by Matt Wuerker]

Jon Lord to Celebrate 40th Aniversary of "Concerto" in Dublin

On September 24th, Jon Lord along with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will perform his "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" in Dublin, to celebrate it's 40th anniversary since it's debut performance in 1969.

I wonder if the original score will be played on the night, as it's had a few revisions since 1969. I presume Lord chose Dublin for the event because of Malcolm Arnold's (the conductor of the original performance) connection to Dublin before he passed away in 2006. Or maybe it's because he's totally neglected Ireland for so long and now he feels bad since there's such a huge fan base here... hmmmmm... well one huge fan anyway :)

I have my tickets, I rushed to get them as soon as I heard about the concert. Here's the comment I left on the post by Rasmus Heide advertising the concert over at Jon Lord's website:

"I was so excited by reading this that I just jumped out of bed, scrambled to find my wallet, jumped back into bed, clicked on the “book tickets” link, franticly hammered at the keys on my keyboard to make my internet connection go faster, it finally got there and I managed to book myself a few seats. This is going to be an excellent September this year!"

Here's a video clip from the Concerto. The obvious choice would have been to include a clip of the original performance in 1969, but I eventually settled on a video of the 30th Anniversary performance in the Royal Albert Hall in 1999 simply because no other video had such a snappy intro into the third movement, Vivace Presto.



So get your tickets here, prices to suit all! [www.nch.ie/Box-Office]

* Oh and I can't wait to hear that "Child Of Our Time" song, I don't think I've heard that one before heehee :)

The Crucifixion of St. Peter

I told you I was going to do one of St. Peter some day but you didn't believe me. What would have happened if people didn't believe Jesus back in the day, mass sodomy no doubt.... but more importantly, what would happen is Charlie Manson started walking on water, or Tom Cruise turned water into wine... or Obama brought that fly back from the dead? Massive cultination if you ask me (<--- cultination, new word for you to use... defined as, indoctrination into a religion on a national scale)

Church of Death Tag Lines

For all those whiny little cunts who say "don't joke or say ill of the dead/dying"

"Laugh or cry, you're still going to die" or "Laughin' or cryin', nothin' gonna stop you from dyin'" or "No such thing as an unhappy corpse" or "Your mothers carcass ftw!"


Church Of Death is a subsidiary of Riemann's Cut

Quetzalcoatl and the Trimethylxanthine Warriors

I made two poops today (no, not those kind of poops). I was messing about with image filters and stuff and created the above pic from a photograph of a man wearing sunglasses, and I created the song below after getting bored with fixing my midi keybaord. I was just experimenting with a Thor module in Reason (piping a Subtractor output into it and mashing it up with its own audio). I liked the growling bass effect so I decided to extend it into some kind of musical thing.

It's all so shit, but they are just experiments for something greater.

Quetzalcoatl and the Trimethylxanthine Warriors by Gamma Goblin

Rory Gallagher 1948 - 1995

Awesome talent, awesome shame... one of Ireland's greatest exports. Donegal born "Cork Man" Rory Gallagher, gone 14 years today. I have been meaning to visit his grave, as it's only out-the-road-from-me in Ballincollig. A great musician in his own right, but so very nearly in Deep Purple too. And what do we have left in term of Irish musicians, Bono!? *sigh*

Schrödinger's Cat

[unedited image source]

Hypertension - 167.806 {music}

Swedish musician (yes musician, and Swede too aparently) nitro2k01 released a short track as part of this "30 songs in 30 days" thing he was doing. He published "Hypertension" on day one as his first musical effort. By his own admission it was unfinished, and when I listened to it initially the song seemed to keep building and building without resolving. In my head flashed a simple new arrangement of the tune. I decided to chop up his work, load it into Reason, rearrange it and put down a drum track, just to document this notion I was having.

Well, it wasn't so easy as the BPM of the track kept drifting (due to the nature of GameBoy harware) but eventually I settled with a BPM of 167.806 which fit with my arrangement. After all that I decided to lay down a wank-synth solo and added some chord progressions. Then there was lots of tweaking involved.

Nearing the end of the process I sent a copy to nitro2k01 to see what he thought of it, and like the dirty little viking that he is, he put it up on his blog without my knowledge. So there you go, that's the reason this thing is unfinished and is covered in warts (and it has nothing to do with the fact that I was getting lazy about it anyway, oh no!)

Hypertension-167.806 by Gamma Goblin

Re: artwork... found a crappy image on some BBC site about Viking settlements, I jigged it around and made it awesome! Vikings, the obvious choice for Ireland vs. Sweden. The piracy element works on so many levels. Recent win for the Pirate Party in the EU elections, The Pirate Bay, the way the tune was initially released, the fact that "Viking" is Old Norse for "Pirates"...

"Avast ye landlovers, we be the Vikings, and we be takin' our prize: a chest full of warez! Arrrr! Shiver me downloads!" etc...

The Ryan Report: New Internet Meme

Most people in Ireland know about the "Ryan Report" in depth by now, but for those in other countries who read this blog, I will give a brief summary. The Ryan Report, or "Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse", is a recent government finding which vindicates those who told of the horrific abuses they suffered at the hands (and penises) of Christian clerics while interned in institutional boarding schools. Children were, for the smallest of reasons, taken away from their families and locked up with paedophile priests, Brothers and nuns.

'Those abused were, amongst other things, stripped, beaten and raped by nuns, subjected to naked beatings in public, forced into oral sex and even subjected to beatings after failed rape attempts by brothers. One person described how they attempted to tell nuns they had been molested by an ambulance driver only to be "stripped naked and whipped by four nuns to 'get the devil out of you'". Another described how they were removed from their bed and "made to walk around naked with other boys whilst brothers used their canes and flicked at their penis". Yet another was "tied to a cross and raped whilst others masturbated at the side"'

Some have described it as "Ireland's Holocaust" and you know what, I think they're right. What I found most shocking out of the whole story is how the system was set up like a business: there was an active demand for new children to be brought into the system. It wasn't a case of "what shall we do with these unruly chillin's" it was more like "go out there and find moar! Invent crimes if you have to!"

My words can't do this justice, so instead watch a raw and candid account by Michael O'Brien, a man who suffered abuse in one of these institutions as a child, and is pictured in the inspirational poster at the beginning of this post.



Some will naysay and begrudge his motives for coming out but I freely admit to finding the video quite upsetting to watch, no matter how many times I view it.

Use the inspirational poster to spread the word of the Ryan Report, and to pwn any Catholic-Apologists you see back tracking in a forum.

[Video by Daniel Sullivan] [Transcription by Will Knott]

European Elections 2009

Yeah so I went in votin' there on Friday. I gave Fine Gael all my votes in the local elections but as for the European elections well, I thought the whole thing was a pile of shite. My ISP is snooping on my internet activity so I would have given a vote to anyone with a strong stance of internet rights (e.g. a Pirate Party) but all we had were Green cretins, wheelchair dudes, Sinnott bitches and GAA stars. I couldn't decide so I took the ballot sheet home with me. Maybe I'll decide by the time of the next election comes around and I'll pop it into the ballot box then.

Sweden had their European Elections today, but boy, do they have a weird voting system or what!

George Lee Wins Seat In Dáil Éireann

... but I love a good ghost story.