I’m mostly fixed healthwise, swimming almost a mile again (54 last week)… and so I has signed up for this years Pier 2 Pier swim!

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<<<<<<<<< Progress will be under the link pier2Pier2008 over there

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This man, is in my Top5 DJ/producers ever, to be on the same line-up is such an honour… i might cry. i can’t wait!!!

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Bike Club tonight – 645pm Bomo Pier

Hopefully it’ll be therapy – weather looks ok.

1) clear head (from weekend)
2) clear head (generally)
3) Exercise (Energy to do things)
4) Exercise (Build strength)

Must register for Pier2Pier too – onwards

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is annoying.

I need a name for a project… EVERY single combination I can think of is taken.. no wonder all these weird names for 2.0 sites!

Gaaaaahhhh annoying, especially as 90% of them are parked (not in use).

I might just invent some weird combo of letters n numbers life plato73.com just for the hell of it. 🙁

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It would of been fairly easy to forget today was St George’s Day – I thought it was tomo for some reason – apart from a flag in Yates (gold star) and a few things in the clinton cards window (not at all commercially motivated) oh yeah and fruit man selling red roses (double gold star)… nowt.

Public buildings with 2 flag poles were encouraged by downing street to fly the flag on their second pole today, that something I guess.

I dug mine out and have it hanging out the window.. no doubt people walking by will think I’m a football nut preparing for Euro 2008 (am I right?) or something sporting.

I shall be heading out for a pint of cider later but I doubt many others will. Sad isn’t it?

We’re still scared to be proud of being English I think, maybe..?

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This is a post I made earlier on dontstayin, it tailored to clubland, but i think it’s very true for culture generally:

DJs – often reduced to glorified ticket agents…

Web Design – I saw someone offering site builds for £50 and a flash “hot box” for £20!

Dancers – I could have a different troop of “dancing” girls every night if I wanted.. for free.. which is actually tempting…

Photographers – any pro-spotters still able to charge more than a few beers n petrol money?

Producers – there’s so many wannabe producers with a whole cracked studio in abox, you can get them for £75 a track now, no wonder beatport is full of clone-a-tracks in the latest electro-tech-hard-mnml-grime-bassline-bouncecore or whatever this weeks cool genre is.

The sad thing is, I haven’t even had to exaggerate to make my point, you can find all these things on DSI without much effort.

Here is my question…

What is worth anything now?

I’m worried everyone is working shite jobs they don’t really like, sitting on facebook and dreaming of being a Dj/dancer/photog/web-designer/cat tamer/reality tv star/singer* (*delete as applicable) when really its only ever going to be a hobby.

Kinda sad, I feel like everyones deluded… or am I talking shit?

/ramble-ends

Problem is, the plan was to work and just enjoy DJing (as above – kinda)… make some tunes and work on the ebook site in evenings… job market = shite still :: agency rang me about a job yesterday, put my CV forward, got a call asking when I was free for interview, I gave dates/times… call back 2 hours later, no longer hiring, MD has made 3 people redundant. 2nd time this has happened – kinda.

Gaaaaah stupid illness, messed Plan A up… now Plan B isn’t working… I kind of have a Plan C forming… pppfffft

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Guillermo Habacuc Vargas – the artist who is was reported had starved a street dog to death, as an art exhibition… it’s been the topic of many an email, online petition… facebook group… blog post…

Something like this:

In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, took a dog from the street, he tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving him to death.

For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died.

But this is not all … the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the ‘installation’ was actually art, so Guillermo Habacuc Vargas has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.

Please join and sign the petition to stop Guillermo Vargas from starving a dog to death at the Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008, as he did in 2007.

Except he didn’t.

If you take 2 mins to check the story, which people NEVER do with these kind of things, you’ll find the exhibition owner explained they fed the dog when the museum was closed and then released the dog back to the streets at the end.

Taking aside the potential cruelty of having a dog in a gallery, which is hard to judge having not seen it, the artist made a very clever point about how outrage spreads when its a dog dying for art… but where is the same passion about the street dogs who die everyday?

This is an old story but the amount of emails/facebook messages I’m getting about it seems to be growing, still.

Please people, it’s the internets, don’t believe everything you read without checking it.

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