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i don't even remember my last blog. It had something to do with the freedom of motorbikes. Now that is cool because motorbikes are awesome and awe-inspiring, it's like viewing your life in its last few moments but also being in complete control. And congratulations Casey Stoner on your second win in a row, donnington park (england) and now assen (netherlands) hopefully yo ucan now transfer this second place in the world championship into a first place. So jroc i haven
t seen yo uonline in awhile, have yo ubeen online????? i transferred your msn addy to my new msn adress did that work? i would love to talk to you.

motorcycles

motorcycles are awesome because you feel alive when you ride one, more alive than you will ever feel in your life because death is so close, and you can really feel your own mortality, which is so much further than what can be said when you just follow convention and work and watch tv etc.... it's like 'life is art' and you can use that as a philosophy about how to live really live life. Like instead of buying a 10 dollar mcdonalds meal you buy a 12 dollar thai meal, or instead of a 6dollar OK magazine you buy an 8 dollar science journal....

now the OK magazine and what not are cool, but 'life is art' just means that sometimes you work a little but harder to have alittle bit more reward, just a little bit more culture, like having a table and seeing a nice piece of glass and spending the money on it instead of beer or something, anyway you can interpret 'life as art' any way you want, even if it is like Jroc watching the lord of the rings over and over again as eye candy .... i got the whole 'life is art' notion from john travolta on the tv show 'interview with the actors studio' and travolta was talkign with nic cage about how he would rather buy a new yorek instead of a crap magazine and cage said he likes a nice piece of glass... anyway Casey Stoner just won the donnington (british) motogp and is third in the championship and his ducati is going well so hopefully if he can string some more wins together he can take the lead , his form is good so hopefully he can keep it up.... i will have my R1 sooon, that's right a vehicle that can do 295km/h or about 180 miles per hour, in a fewe seconds. so let the test and tag roll on.. lol, anyway who plays nintendo wii ??????? please tell me, because it rocks, jroc ill get you down under soon , i swear to god, it will be the greatest few months of your life,

peace out eveyrone, i'm off to watch 'into the wild' whcih is a movie of which i devoted a whole blog to not long along,... anyway i think said blog went deep enough, if you have any questions please ask and we will delve into the depths of what it is to be human... and beyond.... have a nice 24 hour period, over and out....

Hifalutin

In one of my previous posts i was railing against the over-interpretation of art in the critical circle. I think what got me started was because in the english honours course that i'm doing, one element of it is a creative piece. And i thought i'd write a psychological sci-fi piece dealing with the very nature of the human mind, and following a very mediocre character etc... And to go along with the creative piece is a research essay almost as long as the creative piece. So i was talking to my assigned advisor about how Tolstoy's 'The death of Ivan Illych' really inspired me to write a story about a mediocre character, and what not, but because i'm doing sci-fi and it's considered a 'genre' piece she was urging me to shy away from doing it. She was saying how they don't encourage genre pieces and what not... I showed her some of my awesome ground-breaking story, lol, and she admitted she doesn't like sci-fi, but then came to an agreeance to get me a co-advisor that has an interest in it. Now i've got no problem with her not liking sci-fi or what not, but if i was writing crime or anything genre they wouldn't want me to do it, even if it's a really hard thought provoking philosophical piece which mine is going to be. And i'm only choosing sci-fi so i can deal with some far out brain altering stuff... I'm having a real experience writing my piece, in the medium of sci-fi i can explore any crazy idea that appeals to me. And i think it's the most philosphical piece i have ever written. But according to my advisor i have to follow exactly Tolstoy and make it a modern sci-fi interpretation of the death of ivan illych instead of just using it as my inspiration to write a really cool piece. So anyway, in the creative workshops, the sort of non-genre literary stuff that they seem to gobble up is most of it crap. I can't stand listening to any more self-indulgent tripe being spewed out and fawned over. Where the hell is the character development? Seriously some of the gay-ass pieces that come from being moulded the way the university wants it are terrible. Tolstoy was the man, yet why mould everyone into little literary heads. Let's also explore how wonderful 'genre' can be. You go to a bookshop and 90 % of the stuff is genre, because it's interesting and stuff people actually want to read. So anyway i'm just going to write the piece i want and say it's a really loose abstact interpretation of ivan illych.
The main point i'm getting at is that i'm dealing with the very nature of the human mind in my story and i hope it is really thought-provoking, yet if i handed in a wacked out piece that just had me walking down the street and describing all the things i'm seeing, and every little gayass feeling i'm having then they would fawn over it and love it, even though i've just written about walking down the street. Nothing cool like altering the mind with machines and what-not.
So i'll fight the machine!! and write my own damned story.
You've been a great audience.