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I see you have a quote from a bulgakov book; did you ever watch the series? i wouldn't say i hated it, but it was a dissapointment, i was expecting it would translate to a short t.v series quite well, but the translator seemed to rip the soul out of it in it's conversion to a series - it just seemed a little flat.

fuck you if you think my writing's confused aswell...i did it on purpose...

i was a late bloomer when it came to reading. i started reading when i was eighteen. someone gave me a copy of The Bridge by iain banks then i got into aurthur c clarke, because A Space oddysey had been my favourite film from early on. i gained an interest in physics and read stephen hawkins a brief history of time, which led me to Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe (which is a blinder of a book, by the way, though i can only appreciate string theory aesthetically. unfortunatly my math skills aint cut out fot it) then someone, i can't remember who, reccomended me schrodinger's cat by john gribbin(which i still haven't read. that's when i first came across robert anton wilson, but i strayed away from it- conspiracy theorist at the height of political turmoil, seemed a bit cliched so i ignored it. ) .from there into hard scifi like gregg egan et al. then i got into italo calvino and georges perec of the oulipo group, both fantastic writers. from there i spiralled into an obsessive collection, of which i have only actually read 50% of through to the end, and now i have settled into a confused reading habit, sometimes i can read through 2-3 a week and sometimes i don't read at all for months -which i have to sort out.

bah humbug, i apologise for MY naivety. i was being brash. i constantly hear the same sort of shit, and took your conclusion to be blaming conservatism, and i thought ...just another scapegoat attitude.

Well, I think a lot of people would take it that way if they didn't read it closely enough.  I think that's the nice subtlety of a piece like this--it gives you THAT vibe until you get to the last bit of it, and then the light flicks on and you smile with delight.

i agree. unfortunatly my light had been stamped on by my bad attitude at the time. and i wish i had that experience -seen as the article summed up a lot of what i have been thinking about.

i see my apology didn't go down too well, what is a man supposed when he can't make a few mistakes without people acting like vultures.

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bah humbug, i apologise for MY naivety. i was being brash. i constantly hear the same sort of shit, and took your conclusion to be blaming conservatism, and i thought ...just another scapegoat attitude.

Dear god just shut up.

Vex,

bah humbug, i apologise for MY naivety. i was being brash. i constantly hear the same sort of shit, and took your conclusion to be blaming conservatism, and i thought ...just another scapegoat attitude.

i think blaming conservatism is just as naive as blaming liberalism, or even for that matter blaming government in and of itself.

I think the closest you got to a coherent statement is "people like jack are the problem". are you like jack?

well, as einstein said...

"fuck this i need a shit"

it's only a silly little song, i'm not sure it's worth going to all the trouble for, i made it on FL a few years ago and then lost the build file and only have a section of it on MP3.

as for my avatar name, it's pretty typical of all the glib distorting of "celebrity" names me and a friend (he thought of the one i'm using) come up with e.g Burt Cataract, and others that i forget to note down.

is there anyway i can upload music, i have a file that's quite short, which i'd like to post

i'm actually looking for a good modern british writer who deals with esoteric knowledge much in the style of umberto eco or pynchon, i know moorcock deals with this sort of stuff, but he seems to be the only one. good modern british writers are few and far between. please don't mention will self...he's not my tea, he really doesn't do taste for me.

i'm reading the first part of michael moorcock's pyat series of books, Byzantium Endures   in the wake of a failed attempt at reading Pynchon's exhaustive and exhausting Gravity's Rainbow, i like his (pynchon's) style and a lot of his humour ("a SNAFU for Rocketman"), but after 5 weeks of trundling through it, i decided it wasn't for me (sometimes i still pick it up from where i left off and read a few pages- maybe in a year i'll have actually finsihed it, if the book hasn't fallen apart). though the crying of lot 49 was fucking ace, which i read previously, and which was the impetus for me picking up gravity's rainbow which is about a writer who compiles the writings of an unreliable and opnionated russian expat, up to and (in the other books i hear) during the war.

Drew