tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46670771610551613242024-03-09T07:15:55.453+11:00Prescribed IncongruitiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-82774031775564015762014-12-31T20:04:00.000+11:002014-12-31T20:04:29.388+11:00A New Years messageAs we roll into a new year I think it's time I did a recap over the past 12 months.<br />
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I rekindled old friendships with Captain Janeway & the SS VOYAGER, while i said goodbye to those who touched me deeply, Korra & that guy from the Newsroom which was a really good show even if it was only about journalism in so far as everything being ethics in gaming Journalism.<br />
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IRL, I dislocated a rib at the gym & developed a healthy addiction to skyrim. Moved out of the country yet again to discover that it's cheaper to eat out than to cook.<br />
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But from this year I am most greatful for managing to avoid anything with Keira Knightly in it, which fills me with such pleasure because she is just aweful.<br />
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Looking forward there is much to be optimistic about, like the numerology of 2015 isnt as bad as 2014 and Holding The Man is being turned into a feature, though Keira Knightly will be present in The Imitation Game, a film which I won't be able to resist.<br />
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All in all, Interstellar was a really good film, and King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard have really stepped up and beyond.<br />
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PeaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-16643003425108101202013-12-25T13:45:00.001+11:002013-12-25T13:45:53.176+11:00A Christmas message<div>This Christmas it's time to reflect on the past 12 months because I sure as fuck don't want to be living in the moment today. Seriously, the music is bad (except the Bieber Christmas album), you eat food that you never eat any other time of year because of it's general shitness. If any of you have eaten Turkey in the last year outside of December please let me know, you freak. </div><div><br></div><div>In the past year I have undergone some amazing milestones, I watched the breaking bad finale, watched Friday night lights, & stopped watching modern family. </div><div><br></div><div>It's not just TV that has been there for me, we have also had a new hunger games movie & WWZ (which wasn't as good as the book but whatever). </div><div><br></div><div>I've also done things other then consume media like accidentally hit on someone at work, been robbed while asleep on the sofa, & pulled both of my quads Twerking to destinies child. </div><div><br></div><div>To Surmise, I want to be Amanda Bynes.</div><div><br></div><div>Merry Xmas,,</div><div>Kane Out </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-21153050350916715322013-04-19T15:38:00.001+10:002013-04-19T15:38:37.546+10:00Transcending rainbows & glitter<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">In recent years the landscape in which youth are growing up in has changed significantly especially in regards to advent of social media and an increased representation of same sex attracted persons in the media. This has had a major impact on the way in which same sex attracted youth construct their personal identity resulting in a moving away from the previously established Homonormitive </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">queer community</span><span class="s2">. This change also has social and socio-political ramification.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">B</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">efore I begin to analyse the “</span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">post-queer</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">” movement and its effects on same sex attracted youth, I would like to redefine a few terms which are commonly used though for this instance would be considered broad terms. The term queer is referred to as people who describe themselves as </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">gay</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">, </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">lesbian</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">, or </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">bisexual</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">, while </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">same-sex attracted</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15"> refers to persons who are same-sex attracted, but do not necessarily describe themselves as </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">gay</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">, </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">lesbian</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">, or </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">bisexual</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">either due to a rejection of the community, or not subjecting their personal sexuality to these terms. Secondly “</span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">queer community</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">” is in reference to the larger collection of people who see themselves as what I stated earlier as </span></span><span class="s15" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">queer</span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont15">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">In the following I will be analysing articles in relation to same sex attracted youth within the school system, and how social changes, and changes in media has lead them to identify their sexuality, and reflect on it in ways that weren’t </span><span class="s2">available to previous generation. I will also be looking at issues such as bullying and suicide, and ways in which this could be combatant, and comparing it to the current discourses adopted by schools.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">According to Marshall (2010) the </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">queer youth</span><span class="s2"> have traditionally been “portrayed as…victims of adult homosexual predators, [&] overbearing mothers”</span><span class="s2"> (p.69-70)</span><span class="s2"> however this trope has </span><span class="s2">made significant </span><span class="s2">movement away from this</span><span class="s2">,</span><span class="s2"> towards a more biological viewpoint. Marshall compares this to pop culture through third party comprehensions of characters through their </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">coming out</span><span class="s2">. Though this is the basis of his contention, he also focus’ heavily on queer youth and their analysis of this in a social context</span><span class="s2">, displaying that these stereotypes are not only (close to) irrelevant to Same-sex attracted youth, but the youth themselves are analysing the texts and writing themselves </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">in </span><span class="s2">or </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">out</span><span class="s2"> of these contexts. As is stated “the key interpretive problem is not the absence of gay and lesbian representation… but its presence… causing young people to critically distance themselves from stereotypes.” This </span><span class="s2">itself</span><span class="s2"> is the forbearer of the </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">post-queer</span><span class="s2"> movement which is becoming a more significant way of life for these student.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s2">From this writing in & out of the context, same-sex attracted youth feel as though the former stereotypes are not applicable to themselves, and fell as though the social justice issues which haunted older generations are more historical then a current issue and no longer feel as though they need to push social justice issues. This </span><span class="s2">itself</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">displays what is occurring within the older generation of same sex attracted persons who detach themselves from the queer community.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s2">Part of the analysis of these media characters has resulted in same sex attracted youth describing characters as “useless” as they represent what is commonly perceived within the public forum as gay stereotypes. The youth are also analysing the way in which the characters are being portrayed based off their own experiences, and whether the character is “sexualised or relationship </span><span class="s2">based” in their portrayal is being reflected by these person, showing that dichotomy of relationships which has now become a way of these persons lifestyles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Talburt</span><span class="s2"> (2010) reflects on how </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">queer studies</span><span class="s2"> has somewhat stuck itself within what </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">was</span><span class="s2"> a </span><span class="s2">GLBTI</span><span class="s2"> linear social progression which does not reflect the community as a whole. As there are many </span><span class="s2">facets</span><span class="s2"> to what can be considered the </span><span class="s2">same</span><span class="s2">sex attracted communities, and contrary to Marshalls (2010) positive outlook on same sex attracted youth, </span><span class="s2">Talburt</span><span class="s2"> (2010) focuses more heavily on </span><span class="s2">“epidemic queer youth suicide” caused in part to homophobia which is cultivated within the school grounds. As a result she reflects on how the post queer movement has sucked away focus from such issues and the political virulence as a result of queer theory becoming somewhat monotonous, and what can be considered as passé.</span><span class="s2">Because of this it is inferred that action needs to be taken within the school environment to tackle homophobia during a student’s developmental stages. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s2">Talburt</span><span class="s2"> (2010) also talks about how rationalism is being misconceived as forms of liberalism and neoliberalism though socially the link between may be highly associated, rationalism does not directly lead to liberalism as one is a social perception while the other is a method of social analysis. This in itself is being question by same-sex attracted youth, where the association and is being cultivated and is resulting in same-sex attracted youth are socially progressing beyond identification as a victim, and instead a member of society.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s2">As a conclusion, </span><span class="s2">Talburt</span><span class="s2"> (2010) states that </span><span class="s2">Queer</span><span class="s2"></span><span class="s2">interventions</span><span class="s2"> that aren’t about sexuality, but universalising tendencies and removing the “queer stigma” is a part of rewriting the wound culture of </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">don’t </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">don’t</span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;"> ask don’t tell</span><span class="s2">policies as a cultivation of shame </span><span class="s2">in same sex attracted youth within the school environment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Berlant</span><span class="s2"> (1998) covers a case study set in New York which was taking place when sex on premises venues (SOP) were being shut down if they were within a certain distance from another venue, which with a large collection of SOPs being concentrated on </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">gay streets, </span><span class="s2">which means that in these districts a large</span><span class="s2"> number</span><span class="s2"> of venues would have to close down. Also covered by this was an amendment which prevented SOPs from existing within a certain distance of places of worship, or places of education, and these further restrictions could mean that whole districts could be forced to close, pushing </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">queer culture</span><span class="s2"> underground. </span><span class="s2">Berlant</span><span class="s2"> (1998) puts this down to the misconception that “sex acts are… the most intimate communication of them all” (p555) and that “these are people whose </span><span class="s2">reproductivity</span><span class="s2"> governs their lives, their aspirations… to everyone and everything else” (p564). These concepts though fundamental to some aspects of society</span><span class="s2">ignores</span><span class="s2"> the way in which </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">queer culture </span><span class="s2">functions, as formally meeting places were </span><span class="s2">relegated</span><span class="s2"> to </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">beats</span><span class="s2"> (places where same sex attracted people meet up for anonymous sex) where a lack of control can result in the passage of sexually transmitted diseases, and/or cultivate areas where hate crimes can take place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Tilsen</span><span class="s2"> (2011</span><span class="s2">) emphases the importance of establishing a stable identity is the primary task of not only all youth, but is tantamount to the establishment of the new same sex attracted youth culture, as opposed to feeding of the previously establish cultures, and makes comparison to other similar movements such as the women’s movement and the civil rights movement in the United States. The article goes into movement of what is thought to be the base of same sex attraction, from a socially induced one as was stated early by Marshall (2010) towards a biological </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">cause</span><span class="s2"> and how this cultivates a dichotomy</span><span class="s2"> of male/female, homosexual/heterosexual. It is therefore touched on by </span><span class="s2">Tilson</span><span class="s2">(2003) </span><span class="s2">that the </span><span class="s12" style="font-style: italic;">born this way</span><span class="s2"> outlook poses other issues for people who do not fit into the binary-ism of gender and sexuality, and excludes bisexual, transgendered, and intersex persons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">As far as policies are concerned in regards to same sex attracted students there are no real policies outlined, instead there are materials available to school with how to deal with issues that may arise with same sex attracted students, though these are guidelines which may or may not be accepted by the school as an organisation. This does present a few issues in so far as the lack of uniformity between schools means that possible perceived discrimination can take place. It is also apparent </span><span class="s2">according</span><span class="s2"> to Harris (2012</span><span class="s2">) 40</span><span class="s2">% of schools lack any support for same sex attracted students.</span><span class="s2"> Mayer</span><span class="s2">’</span><span class="s2"> (2007) idea of creating guidelines that can </span><span class="s2">be implemented, and the</span><span class="s2">ubiquitisation</span><span class="s2"> of same sex attracted issues throughout the discourse could help with decreasing the high rate of bullying and high suicide rate.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-7640699729386146572013-01-30T16:41:00.001+11:002013-01-30T16:41:05.106+11:00The race to the bottom in 8 monthsIt has come out today that the election is going to be held on Yom Kippur (14th September the most sacred day of the Jewish calender. My thought is that maybe this choice of day is more dirty politics then it may seem to the general observer.<br />
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Firstly, The Jewish population isnt really a part of the Labour demographic, but the part of the community which has recently parted ways with the Labour party are the pro-Palestine, human rights focused voters who have predominantly migrated to the greens. though this isnt really a pro-Palestine move in itself, it does plant the sub-conscious seeds.<br />
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It can be assumed that the choice of date and the significance was apparent to the PM when choosing it.<br />
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From the choice of date, the LNP are forced to acknowledged the date so as not to seem insensitive, which gives the impression of the LNP taking the first cheap shots as with politics everything is blown into hyperbole by supporters of the opposing sides. This forces the LNP to look as though they are the ones playing dirty.<br />
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By not changing the date the Labour Party secures votes from persons with the "This is Australia, and in Australia we..." mentality.<br />
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I don't know if i have just read way, way, way too into this and politics is a lot dirtier, or if i have become a conspiracy nut, but it just kind makes sense. Sacrifice a community which doesn't support your party and secure some fringe groups which have been lost to the opposition and the Greens.<br />
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Let me know if i have gone mad.<br />
Kkane CitizenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-43994450752539067002012-12-20T13:04:00.001+11:002012-12-20T13:04:57.215+11:00A few words before the end of the worldSince its the end of the world tomorrow I would just love to thank everyone who has been making quality programming over the past few years, I know that Australian TV means that it's generally all on cable or has to be downloaded illegally, but breaking bad was just incredible. <br />
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Over the past year I have done so many things, I've met a baby, spat on a hipster that was wearing the same clothes as I was at my birthday, & made cat noises continuously for 10 minutes; & though I have missed things like the Xfactor finale, I just don't care because I really just don't care.<br />
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Before I sign off I would like to say that Keira Knightley is a really shit actress & I don't know how she gets any work.<br />
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Yours truly<br />
Kane CitizenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-80190832517678217762010-09-02T11:15:00.001+10:002010-09-02T11:26:54.823+10:00kookaburra has a happy life, not a fun one<span>The controversy about changing The Kookaburra from mentioning the word “gay” so that it says fun for once has outraged me over such an unusual topic. The reason why gay was adopted by the homosexual community is because of its multi-semantics.
The word gay originally meaning happy which is why it was originally used in the song, later meaning sauted, & used as a term for bachelors & prostitutes, because well… people were having a good time. As homosexuals were generally considered bachelors as they weren’t married, the term gay carried on to represent this niche of society.
This was then taken as a badge of pride, a way to describe oneself without having to exclaim explicit sexual detail, but instead just saying that your happy seemed enough. Then came post-discrimination.
After things were just implied, then said out of vitriol, came post-disc. A time when you say what something is, even if it doesn’t apply, as a way to normalize & own. Then there is the suburban take on this, where you don’t want to have people think one thing when you clearly mean another. This is where this kookaburra ordeal came in.
Being a gay man, I have owned the kookaburra song, not as a gay anthem, but as a where we are from. Then political correctness goes insane. Someone has thought it inappropriate to A. have school children sing about sexuality or B. it disrespectful to the “gay community” to imply that all gay people something something ignorant. Its not even that this one person has thought it, its that other people have been sway by
Personally not up in arms over it, just a little offended that the thought of changing it for such a naïve reason is deplorable. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-7725917357240767442009-05-15T20:16:00.003+10:002009-05-15T20:40:25.700+10:00Worth=(Happiness-Effort)/time<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i have come up with a formula to determine if it is worth doing anything.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">=</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Happiness-Effort</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> time</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">so complete happiness is 1.0 and the opposite is 0.0, while complete ease is 0.0 for effort, with complete effort coming to 1.0, and the time is actually apart of the rating system allowing you to rationalize your results, so that you can weight it up against instant gratification and long term and delayed gratification.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">so if you go to the gym, and you have a good session for 1 hour, you get H=1.0 and E=1.0 (H=1.0 due to the endorphin hit that comes with a a good session. and so at the end of the session it is at that point a zero sum equation, but the good session leads to a high for the rest of the day, without any effort, so H=.8 for 5 hours, + a good nights sleep. the next day your a little sore, but still feeling good from the day before</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">> H=.8 (endorphin high)-.2 (for sore muscles) for 1 day baseline... leads to a day with a .6 baseline with 0 effort which is overall happiness. plus numerous 10 second 1.0 where people say you look well and BAM, hitting the gym is a positive outcome from a seemingly 0 sum equation. (plus other good <0.5></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 10px;">
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 10px;">the thing that seems like it would be a perfect option is however a 1 night stand, happiness is 1.0 (from the hunt and the kill and the eating of the cake) effort is about .14 (possible drinks bought, having to talk to the person, and taxi fares maybe why not). but it falls down on the time scale. so 30 minute hunt, and 5 hours for pre and post. so Worth Rating of 0.86 over 5.5 hours, but this means that you are single. so over 6 months so with say 24 1 night stands at .86/120 hours in 6 months, leaves out that gap bits, and so the gap bits amount up-to something into negatives of time spent alone, and cold bed, and not having dinner cooked for you. and so a swingers lifestyle can lead to an overall happiness scale of around .5 a break even point, slightly higher if you enjoy single life, or lower if you don't have the fall back friends, or intermittent dating. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 10px;">
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 10px;">so all in all, hit the gym, have fun if your single, but a relationship like the gym with about .5 effort and .8 happiness, over its longevity=.3 baseline, +5.5 hours *1.0-0.0 effort, and the spikes where all is well.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 10px;">
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 10px;">now all i need to do is figure out exactly what i want, so ill go to the gym for a baseline. :)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667077161055161324.post-33118759131915551912009-05-04T14:37:00.004+10:002009-05-04T15:23:54.946+10:00Are We Dancer??<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">I have recently been going through a break and one of my mates said that I'm only allowed to listen to happy music. This started em thinking about how music can alter the Human Experience.</span>
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">With the Left side of the brain being the literal thinking side, and the right side of the brain being rhetoric, (or vice versa, now i doubt myself) which side is the music resonating with. at first i thought, i cant listen to sad music, so i was sure not put on Conner O'berst's last album, because that is never a good idea, so i went with Yael Naim's Paris. as its not in english, so i thought, "don't know the lyrics", which had more of an effect than the English speaking music preceding it. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Then 2 days later at 4.30am when dancing at a club Pinks, "So What?!" started, and was taken over by rage, not the rabies modified virus that wipes out Britain twice if you have seen 28 days/weeks(/Will there ever be months(?). So where does this over emotion-ness of music come from that exaggerates our experiences... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">One of the last things that i learnt in neuroscience, was that the brain takes in stimulus from the outside world in the frontal cortex, and asks the internal environment, and asks what the gradient should it be at. Thats why when your at a theme park, when you go on a roller-coaster, while your on there you feel scared, and if your scared of hight, really scared, and the degree of scared-ness you had when you got off the ride, is your degree of "Uber-Happpy" in the after math. and the next day, you have a terrible come down from this, because you have had allot of happy stimulation.</span>
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">So with music being the a great mood alternator, and mood being controlled in the frontal cortex, after taking in information about how it should be feeling from the eyes and ears, and the reassessment of that information in the context of the day, and stress the level of stress the body is going through (increased insulin, Blood pressure), can you get over something faster if you induce a series of mediocre days? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Each time you focus on a memory, it is taken in, and recreated, and it has been proven that by using drugs that erase memory formation, if they are then taken remembering of something, the memory is dampened, and so a memory that is never remembered is truest to itself. And we remember due to a series of sticky notes being placed at moments in the day that are different, and the body is stressed. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">This brings me to think is it better to Drain it, strain it, and percolate something bad until it looses all of its momentum and turns itself into a Grims tale, repress it, or refocus it into something more productive? Or more simply: are we Dancer?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-Kane</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0