tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18893979291142855902024-02-21T07:42:33.908+00:00The World Of MorrisseyHome of the Deluded Dozenheathercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214253508596912469noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-51258744177961160662017-06-11T12:56:00.001+01:002017-06-11T13:02:48.160+01:00How can you consciously contemplate<span style="font-size: x-large;">When there's no debate</span><br />
The long awaited (sic) part 2 sequel to <a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/so-much-to-answer-for.html">So much to answer</a> for is finally here.<br />
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I don't mind a good discussion. I can learn a lot from them.<br />
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But some "people" (like certain online rodents) are near impossible to have a sensible discussion with. What I expect when dealing with an adult is some respect for facts and logic, I prefer to argue and debate with someone who responds calmly and with reasoned arguments; in short, someone who is prepared to enter into a dialogue and debate the points raised and who looks at the evidence.<br />
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It's frustrating to argue with someone who responds to everything dismissively, with non-sequiturs and straw-man arguments, who evades with sledging, who rationalises and attempts to close the argument when out-maneuvered. It's the kind of thing that God's faithful and ideologues do.<br />
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Take this recent Twitter exchange as an example that followed <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/22503-morrissey-islamophobia-martin-rossiter-gene">Martin Rossiter's response</a> to Morrissey's Manchester bombing statement:<br />
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Earlier, there had been an exchange of views in the toilets of the Wrong Arms with TRB. This is copied and pasted verbatim and without permission (because I'm evil, as you shall see, so I have nothing to loose).<br />
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Removing a lot of comments today.</div>
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I would love to know if that removed comment below my comment quoting the Brighton bombing quote was in response to my comment.</div>
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The response from Our Mozzer, who I've already told you is the fraud who took over MW, was indeed a response to you. Let me retrieve it for</div>
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You would agree with Rat.All of you here praise and preach how people need to think for themselves, yet that is the opposite of what you do.</div>
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You listen to everything this "Morrissey" says, and you do as he says. See the irony?</div>
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<span class="DirectMessage-footerItem"><span class="_timestamp" data-aria-label-part="last" data-include-sec="true" data-long-form="true" data-time="1495813500">May 27</span></span></div>
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Why delete that? I believe that I wrote something very similar. Hardly inflammatory. A reasonable argument. How can you conciously contimplate when there is no debate?</div>
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I deleted it because I don't want the cunt on my blog. His words are irrelevant.</div>
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<span class="DirectMessage-footerItem"><span class="_timestamp" data-aria-label-part="last" data-include-sec="true" data-long-form="true" data-time="1495858894">May 27</span></span></div>
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The words were certainly nonsensical given my qualified desent from the FTM groupthink, but you are in your rights to implement a ban. It's a very MW thing to do. It's tradition.</div>
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'FTM groupthink'? Pathetic. You really think you're on a higher plain, don't you, and yet your, "I'm a vegan & you're not" line</div>
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is straight out of the playground. Fuck off.</div>
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You have proven my point exactly.</div>
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You don't have a point. Now do excuse me whilst I go off to join the Catholic Church, PETA & all the other groups that Morrissey says I must</div>
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join.</div>
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Groupthink 101</h4>
Let's examine groupthink. The term as we currently know it was defined by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Janis">Irving Janis</a> in 1972. In his <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=1975-29417-000">seminal paper on groupthink</a>, he defined it as a " psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups." In this case, the BRS stands in for a "cohesive decision making" group.<br />
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I quote from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink#Symptoms">Wikipedia page on groupthink</a>:<br />
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<span style="color: white;">To make groupthink testable, Irving Janis devised eight symptoms indicative of groupthink.
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<span style="color: white;">Type I: Overestimations of the group — its power and morality
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<span style="color: white;">1 - Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking. </span><br />
<span style="color: white;">2 - Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Type II: Closed-mindedness</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">1- Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group's assumptions.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">2 - Stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, impotent, or stupid.
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<span style="color: white;">Type III: Pressures toward uniformity</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">1 - Self-censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">2 - Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">3 - Direct pressure to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of "disloyalty"</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">4 - Mindguards— self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information.</span><br />
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The Type I symptoms concern a "masters of the universe" status, which is appropriate for Janis' original context, which was a "psychological study of [American] foreign-policy decisions and fiascoes." But even those play out for the diminutive, bullying pimple on the universe that is the BRS.<br />
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Here's how the narrative goes. Morrissey issues a typical firebrand and divisive statement. As an active BRS member, I anticipate a hostile response if I suggest any criticism of Morrissey's statement from the group's self-appointed, comment deleting Mindguard, so I self-censored for a while. At the slightest, qualified dissent, direct pressure is placed on me, my loyalty to the group is questioned and I am characterised as stupid and evil (Uncle Skinny, no less). If I had remained silent, agreement would have been assumed.<br />
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I could go on, but you get the picture.<br />
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Now for the well-reasoned comments....<br />
<br />comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-12373510538937772892017-05-30T14:43:00.000+01:002017-11-22T12:07:47.920+00:00So much to answer forThis will be a two-part post, or a post with a sequel, if you like. The focus here is on Morrissey's statement about the recent Manchester bombing. The focus of the next post will be on the recent discussions with TRB.<br />
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<b>Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke. The anger is monumental.<br />For what reason will this ever stop?</b></div>
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<b>Theresa May says such attacks "will not break us", but her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues. Also, "will not break us" means that the tragedy will not break her, or her policies on immigration. The young people of Manchester are alr<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">eady broken - thanks all the same, Theresa. Sadiq Khan says "London is united with Manchester", but he does not condemn Islamic State - who have claimed responsibility for the bomb. The Queen receives absurd praise for her 'strong words' against the attack, yet she does not cancel today's garden party at Buckingham Palace - for which no criticism is allowed in the Britain of free press. Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the attack is the work of an "extremist". An extreme what? An extreme rabbit?<br />In modern Britain everyone seems petrified to officially say what we all say in private. Politicians tell us they are unafraid, but they are never the victims. How easy to be unafraid when one is protected from the line of fire. The people have no such protections.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For me the problematic trouble starts with the bit about "her policies on immigration." Which of Theresa May's immigration policies are relevant is not detailed. I don't mind rhetorically bashing Tories (or Labor), but I do have a problem with evidence-free opinion and dog whistle politics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Manchester's Muslim bomber was born in England. He was 22 years old. He was a Manchester-born British citizen of immigrant parents (sounds familiar). He travelled to Libya and back in April-May this year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What UK government immigration policy could stop that? A Trump-style travel ban wouldn't do that, as although Trump's executive orders covered Libya, they didn't apply to American citizens. A British duplication of those bans would not have stopped Salman Abedi from leaving and returning.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Australia has something that may have stopped Abedi even if he was an Australian citizen and had visited we called a "<a href="https://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/WhatAustraliaisdoing/Pages/DeclaredAreaOffence.aspx">declared area</a>" of "terrorist hostile activities". Entering or remaining in these areas is an offence. </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">However, even if he was an Aussie, Abedi could still have travelled to Libya and back without a problem, as the "declared areas" are all currently in Iraq and Syria. Even if it did cover Libya, o</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ne of the few exceptions to the offence is "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.6px;"><a href="https://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/WhatAustraliaisdoing/Pages/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsDeclaredAreaOffence.aspx#EntireCountry">making a genuine visit to a family member</a>,"</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and we know that Adebi did visit his family, so he may have slipped through even that by arguing that this was all he did while there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-25/manchester-attack-authorities-missed-warning-signs-leader-says/8559956">many Muslims in the Manchester area had already alerted the UK government their concerns</a> that this dim and troubled lad was a likely jihadist, you hope that the responsible authorities would have put two and two together and either refused his re-entry under such laws or detained him at the airport. However, w</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">e do not know if the "immigration policies" that Morrissey referred to means that he endorses the Australian</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-style "declared area" offence for Britain and that it should cover Libya. All we have his a vague dig at Theresa May's "policies on immigration". By the way, the Australian "declared area" offence isn't even an immigrant issue, as it comes under Criminal Code Act of 1995. If this is what he meant, he should have said so.</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What about the Manchester bomber's parents? They were refugees from Libya who entered Britain in 1994. They were dissidents from Gaddafi's regime, which was hardly popular in Britain (especially as they were being held responsible for the Lockerbie bombing and arming the IRA). Can Theresa May be blamed for allowing the parents of a future suicide bomber into Britain? As she was only elected to the House of Commons in 1997, and then as an opposition backbencher, it's a long stretch.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Which brings us back to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics">dog whistle</a>. The idea behind the dog whistle is to appeal to different audiences through some bland statement that is alienating to a minimum of people (those who are going to disagree with you anyway or who are aware of the statements possible alternative interpretations). Let's look at how Morrissey's Facebook post went down in terms of reactions the last time I visited it:</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitWk-j_ad1bhbjNYqjqiJvCvPwKLzdRlIjSdR-f87tiHclpFqTHeYM38s8S8I78hh8T8JyXk4zKdvxnC0WwKQFiC5JU9z5rR1Nklc3fSIe4sHM5-zJLmCO2yKyV_gpyiwbFqlJ7HxDY00/s1600/split.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="440" height="64" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitWk-j_ad1bhbjNYqjqiJvCvPwKLzdRlIjSdR-f87tiHclpFqTHeYM38s8S8I78hh8T8JyXk4zKdvxnC0WwKQFiC5JU9z5rR1Nklc3fSIe4sHM5-zJLmCO2yKyV_gpyiwbFqlJ7HxDY00/s640/split.png" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Facebook responses to the post are overwhelmingly positive, with 89k Likes and 9.2 Hearts. Negatives are just 6.3k Cries and only 683 Angries. Mozzer, the self-declared outsider is on a winner, however much the mainstream media bleated. Exceptions were the likes of the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/05/23/morrissey-rips-british-politicians-manchester-attack-petrified-admit-islamic-extremism-behind-terror-attacks/">Brietbart</a>, the alt-right troll <a href="https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/milo2.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&strip=all">Milo Yiannopoulos</a> and Murdoch attack dog <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/867145073481310209">Rita Panahi</a>: they heard the whistle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Then there's this bit:<br /><br /><b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the attack is the work of an "extremist". An extreme what? An extreme rabbit?<br />In modern Britain everyone seems petrified to officially say what we all say in private. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Search Hansard and you'll see many results for "<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?searchTerm=%22islamic%20extremism%22">Islamic extremism</a>" and more for the phrase "<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?searchTerm=%22islamist%20extremism%22">Islamist extremism</a>" being said in the UK Parliament (and not just by UKIP types). They are <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?searchTerm=extremism">far outweighed by the use of the word "extremism"</a> (in a diverse range of contexts), but it has been said.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">There are several reasons why politicians are disinclined to say the words that Morrissey is also apparently too petrified to say in public. There is the fact that it only takes a tiny minority of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims to turn to jihadism or terrorism to cause quite a bit of trouble. This is part of the answer. Islam is not monolithic and <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/17/in-nations-with-significant-muslim-populations-much-disdain-for-isis/">most Muslims do not support ISIS</a> (including in majority Sunni nations). I can't recall the Provisional IRA constantly being referred to as "Catholic extremists."<br /><br />We need the support of these people if we are to marginalise the jihadists into history. There is the well-grounded fear that constantly banging on about Musim/Islamic/Islamist extremists by Westerners will only embolden ISIS-style propaganda and help to justify their arguments. When Western politicians speak, their audience is global and not just domestic. As Richard Stengel, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/why-saying-radical-islamic-terrorism-isnt-enough.html?mcubz=0&_r=0">has pointed out</a>: <br /><i><br />"The implication is that we were all somehow too timid or too politically correct to say it. But the reason was a much more practical one: To defeat radical Islamic extremism, we needed our Islamic allies — the Jordanians, the Emiratis, the Egyptians, the Saudis — and they believed that term unfairly vilified a whole religion....<br /><br />"They also told us that they did not consider the Islamic State to be Islamic, and its grotesque violence against Muslims proved it. We took a lot of care to describe the Islamic State as a terrorist group that acted in the name of Islam. Sure, behind the scenes, our allies understood better than anyone that the Islamic State was a radical perversion of Islam, that it held a dark appeal to a minority of Sunni Muslims, but it didn’t help to call them radical Islamic terrorists."</i><br /><br />There is also the issue that when politicians use the euphemism of "violent extremism" they are actually acknowledging a problem that is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/omar-alnatour/muslims-are-not-terrorist_b_8718000.html">much larger than that posed by Islamists</a> (or immigrants). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Like it or not, but in the political world beyond seminal agitprop popstars there are international considerations to the language used to describe Islamic terrorists. The thing is, that kind of nuanced and delicate position doesn't make great headlines. Morrissey's disdain for the mainstream media is well-known, but here he has fallen for a tabloid understanding of the problem.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, to quote someone whom Morrissey says will kill America: "</span><a href="https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/777969615217434624?lang=en">Anyone who cannot name our enemy is not fit to lead this country.</a>"<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></div>
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comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-61211729366971343302016-11-22T23:56:00.002+00:002016-11-23T00:03:42.219+00:00The Q3 mysteryI am sick and I am dull and I plain. I am slow. And I have a poor memory.<br />
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On <a href="http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/day-1939-five-years.html">27 September, 2016, TRB posted</a> what is currently the last post of FTM. I still visit FTM occasionally, to check if there's been a new posting and to read through the comments that are still being left on that last post. Comments like this, which I read last night:<br />
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I thought it a bit odd at the time, but I was in the moment and I thought I'd heard the "tell me, quando, quando, quando" lyrics in EILS before. But after seeing romina's comment, I did a bit of poking around. Turns out that there is <a href="http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/day-1444-quando-quando-quando.html">an entire FTM post</a> from last year about the Quando thing:<br />
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Here I must add that I'm not the only one insufficiently alert to Morrissey's BRS signs, as going back to Rat's belatedly released private posts around the time of Morrissey's Manchester concert in August confirmed that he had also missed the three quandos. While FTM noted the hand gestures and chesticular plaster, we all appear to have missed another Qx3 moment, although it was <a href="http://www.nme.com/photos/whatever-happens-i-love-you-morrissey-s-triumphant-return-to-manchester-in-pictures-1404844">picked-up by some hack in NME</a> and others like writers of the <a href="https://theblackwax.com/2016/08/21/live-review-morrissey-at-manchester-arena-20082016/">Black Wax blog</a>:<br />
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It should have been for the amusement of the BRS, but we appear to have missed it. Here it is:<br />
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But here's where I'm going to introduce a twist. Maybe there's a good reason for me to have missed the significance of the Q3 lyric at Melbourne and for the BRS to ignore it at Manchester. That's because Q3 appears to be sung so often. A quick trawl through some 2016 renditions of EILS presents these moments at <a href="https://youtu.be/0OkRKZIk814">Berlin</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/bc19gQvHeME">Tokyo</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/I4obRw1SEIc">Singapore</a> and the <a href="https://youtu.be/buM080cUJaU">Caesarea Amphitheater</a> etc. Rat will come out of his silent stupor to correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that BRS members weren't at all these gigs. Or, is Morrissey just constantly referencing the BRS during this song, so much so that it has become the norm and passes without comment?<br />
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Maybe it's just another example of hiding in plain sight? Maybe Moz just enjoys the lyric, which means "Why, why, why" (which, of course, if also featured in <a href="http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/lyrics/moz-iwsyifop.htm">IWSYIFOP</a>). The fact that the song was originally Italian and Moz has gone through his Rome period and the Humperdink version was a single lifted off on album called A Man Without Love is enough (and it does sound quite nice, too).<br />
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I don't know where this leaves the BRS on the Q3 phenomenon, but I'm prepared to go where the evidence takes me. And it leads me now to SoLow, where Quando quando qando joined as a member in September and <a href="http://www.morrissey-solo.com/search/136471/">has been quite active</a>:
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<br />comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-31218829127282448302016-11-17T12:06:00.000+00:002016-11-18T06:07:56.120+00:00Gustavo's saluteWhat would I notice without my BRS friends? Not much, it appears. Again, a BRS member has alerted me to "a sign".
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Gustavo Manzure Jnr's backstage collapse triggered the cancellation of the Boulder gig and Morrissey took to the stage to give a heartfelt apology. On behalf of the Blue Rose Society I take this opportunity to wish Gustavo a speedy recovery and a return to full health.<br />
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But as @girlwithout points out, there is something else happening here and that's probably only something that the BRS understands. As anyone at all familiar with the MW/BRS story knows, we believe that Morrissey is giving us signs by hand gesture. It's a game that we like to play. But lately it's also been the band members giving signs, in particular the two-fingered salute, which can be read many ways (there's nothing like plausible deniability): an innocent gesture of peace and goodwill, an "up yours", a symbol for victory, a symbol of membership of a secret society, the Master Number of 11.<br />
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So it's interesting that days after bassist Mando Lopez published a couple of Instagram photos featuring the V finger gesture (thereby following Morrissey's own Singapore V gesture), now Gustavo is photographed by Mando giving much the same gesture from his hospital bed, as <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_161115_01">posted on TTY.</a> It could mean that he's OK. It could be a BRS sign that now the whole Morrissey Band are in on the BRS fun. Note also the Morrissey-esque the finger lingerie :)<br />
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A different photo, with Gustavo giving a thumbs up, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gustavo.a.manzur/posts/10153862408256890">was posted on his FB page</a>, along with a beautifully written post:<br />
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This is, perhaps, a game of ping-pong, like that played out between Morrissey and Marr. If it's not, then maybe we can make it that. I suggest that members of the BRS comment on Morrissey Band-related social media posts with a hand gesture with a reciprocating hand gesture, like this: ✌ or 👍 or 👌 as appropriate.<br />
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Then let's see if it continues.comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-23864558606604615792016-11-13T13:21:00.001+00:002016-11-14T02:40:31.150+00:00#MozInMelb Pt.IIIMorrissey's recent visit to Melbourne keeps giving to the Blue Rose Society.<br />
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I attended Morrissey's Festival Hall concert on 22 October, 2016. My thrown blue rose was not caught etc, but you can <a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/morrissey-in-melbourne-231016.html">read all about that elsewhere</a>.<br />
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Then came the photo on bass player Mando's Instagram account wherein the <i>trapped deer</i> <a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/mozinmelb-pt2.html">repeated the hidden eye gesture</a> used as the profile pic on my Twitter account, whilst in my own home town.
Well, that same photo has now <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_161111_02">cropped up on TTY</a>:
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Such a little thing, but lOOk at the date. It's crucial to remember that, amid the (self) parody, concepts of hidden meanings and Illuminati signatures are vital to the MW phenomenon and to understanding the Blue Rose Society.
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The TTY post is dated 11 November 2016 (11.11.16), which is quite some several days, ancient oceans and continents crossed and numerous concerts after Morrissey's visit to Melbourne where and when the photo was taken by members of his entourage. Why the delay?<br />
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11 has some kind of significance in the occult and numerology and is accepted as a sign of the Illuminati. Hence things like 9/11 and the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month (Remembrance Day, the end of the War To End All Wars (sic)) are of special significance because the 11s. I would link you through to a website that explained all this, but so far all the ones I've found are (appropriately enough) rambling word salads that leave me more exasperated than enlightened. New Age types seem to think it's a positive sign, while others think it's a sign of the AntiChrist (yet, these opposing views may not be as mutually exclusive as they seem). Enough to note that some of YouTube's brightest thinkers made a lot of the (brilliant and breathtaking) movie Arrival (that left me in Life Is A Pigsty-type tears on Saturday morning in a cinema with 3 other people) being released on 11 November 2016.
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Don't forget that on 4 November, 2016, Morrissey's guitarist Jesse Tobias <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BMVp09QgY7cmP-wyw30UrOQJKMnbmHsySpS9jg0/?taken-by=8stitches9lives">posted on his Instragram</a> account a photograph on him gesturing with an (Illuminati, MW, BRS-related) V, or as I'll refer to it here, an 11.<br />
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OK, I've found a vid on the Master Number 11 (it's a visual word salad, but you can mute the sound and listen to <a href="https://youtu.be/Xv8LdKp2Y-8">November Spawn A Monster</a> instead - oh, I've never thought of that song in this context before, but it's very MW, come to think of it):
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comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-39526888501584866192016-10-25T12:38:00.001+01:002016-10-29T09:11:38.858+01:00#MozInMelb pt.2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaTmXGh6iq0IPpGFkl30_UeyGSxqLw1K6_MqDLlKjXPUmZ3qF2htTxjrJNpLId3i0SjMPVFM__Gc0pRYDL0n616aeUJQQlLF377U9RLzAT7GHqNhUF4BX_D3oJriMII-GSjsbadecl94/s1600/Jake.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaTmXGh6iq0IPpGFkl30_UeyGSxqLw1K6_MqDLlKjXPUmZ3qF2htTxjrJNpLId3i0SjMPVFM__Gc0pRYDL0n616aeUJQQlLF377U9RLzAT7GHqNhUF4BX_D3oJriMII-GSjsbadecl94/s400/Jake.png" width="400" /></a><br />
Peek-a-boo! It's Moz playing silly Illuminati hand gestures in this photo by Jake. I use it as my <a href="https://twitter.com/comradeharps">Twitter profile picture</a>. I am the sole BRS member in Australia and I live in a suburb of Melbourne's south-eastern pincer grip about Port Phillip. I also went to Morrissey's most recent concert, not coincidentally in Melbourne, on 22 October, 2016. <a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/morrissey-in-melbourne-231016.html">With a blue rose</a>. Which I threw to Morrissey across the barrier during Alma Matters. <br />
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But then came this coincidence.
It was Heathercat who noticed it:
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Great photo. This reminds me of <a href="https://twitter.com/comradeharps">@comradeharps</a> profile pic <a href="https://t.co/dbCJ7ZT5tM">https://t.co/dbCJ7ZT5tM</a></div>
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I know, you're gunna file it under flimsy, but that's the point, isn't it?comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-86283045986999765262016-10-23T03:40:00.002+01:002016-10-23T07:34:55.075+01:00221016 Morrissey in MelbourneI plan my day around the night. A Morrissey omen, the morning is wonderfully cold and wet. I paint Airfix plastic in Humbrol with small brushes. This Japanese Kate will have fictitious Italian 1941 Eastern Front markings when finished, being part 6 of a themed what-if build. A delicate scheme of 5 colours.<br />
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She arises after several rounds of skipping hail. It's 1.30 and we're leaving at 2 for her mother's place. A soy milkshake with strawberries, banana and vegan protein powder compliments my bread and vegan hot dogs with mustard lunch. The grey decking wood is dry and warm against my soles as the sun bursts through between showers.<br />
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We take both cars and I return with furniture as she goes off shopping. It's like we're cleaning out the house of a dead person, but Nanna's only moved-in with other relatives (one of whom has died quietly at Nanna's new lodgings during the week). I park on the front lawn and wait out the heavy rain, half asleep.<br />
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Indoors, I tend to the blue roses. Purchased at the supermarket next to work on Thursday, they've been drinking in food dye and are no longer lily white, but tinged and mottled shades of blue. I didn't know how long it would take and I should have started this much earlier. I make-do with applying a blue permanent maker to just one.<br />
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I shower. dress for the occasion and gather my travelling kit. I ask harps jnr to take a photo and discover that I've become like my paternal grandmother: smile, but I am, oh, I see, it feels like I am, we'll try it again. I have to show my tofu-stained teeth for a what I feel to be visible.<br />
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About to leave for Morrissey in concert tonight in Melbourne <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueRoseSociety">@BlueRoseSociety</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BRS?src=hash">#BRS</a> <a href="https://t.co/REhDphiLEm">pic.twitter.com/REhDphiLEm</a></div>
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It's raining again so I take the little black hatchback to the station at the end of the electrified line. Looking for a seat on the train I find a wallet (with money) and hand it over to the railway staff (still with all the money inside). Good deed done for the day, I settle in for the hour-long haul to the city.<br />
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At Southern Cross I have a Lord Of The Fries vegan Melbourne hot dog with chunky chips and Oreo soyshake. Please note, I don't usually have this many not dogs in one day.<br />
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Then the walk to Festival Hall and join the queue round the back at door 4. Just before the doors open the rain falls again and I'm glad to be wearing my rain coat, the one I got for my 21st birthday, when, after my few friends had departed, I sat and listened to the Meat Is Murder CDthat I'd just been given. I was alone, 21 and unemployed and didn't know whether to laugh or cry to That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore.
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Inside, I join the rush to barrier. I'm to the right of stage, in front of a speaker tower. 2nd row, I'm within rose throwing distance. Time to take a photo and tweet it. The world knows where I am.
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The eclectic entry music mix makes way for the pre-show video playlist. The crowd warms up, bopping to the beats, wriggling to the tunes.
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Nutbush really amps us up for what is coming.<br />
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He walks on stage and I've never been so close. Last time at Festival Hall I was seated and distant. At the Sydney "my life is an" Opera House last year I was in the nose bleed last row, sat up against the inside of one of those iconic white sails. Now I'm just a few meters away and wondering how and when to rose toss. He is beautiful.<br />
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From the starting number of Suedehead it's clear that Moz and co. are in good form. And did He just glance in my direction twice during the opener?
Next up, Alma Matters. Mid-way he walks over to my side and he's standing near the edge of the stage, directly in front of me. Maybe I should wait, but here's a clear invitation. We get the BRS stuff over and done with quickly. I toss the rose and he moves a hand to catch it, but it they miss each other. A deliberate fresh-airing? Maybe. He's already accepted his annual rose gift for 2016. I know I'm going to be accused of going off too soon (Ratty is so predictable). Of course, I've waited 5 years to do this.
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He only comes close to where I stand once more, but I get to see plenty of Jesse coming forward and playing solos right in front of me. The concert goes on. With no foot room to dance, I undulate, sway and weave, anticipating each note, chord change and everyone around me should be glad that even I couldn't hear my singing. One of the great things about Morrissey in concert is that he can reach into his repertoire of singles, album tracks and B-sides and still make it sound like a greatest hits set list. There's also a great continuity of theme.<br />
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Further along the barrier someone has white roses with a note attached. They are held out to him and at one point he teases an acceptance. Eventually, before the encore I think, they are handed over to the a bouncer, who places them on the edge of the stage and a roadie them moves them to Morrissey's monitor. Spied, he leans over and waggles the fingers of both hands over them and motions to another roadie to pick them up. Unfortunately, I have video evidence of the white roses not none of my blue one.
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There's that gesture again.
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As an aside, I think tomer1982 is on to something here. Surely Morrissey has both read and watched On The Beach.
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Funny thing (<i>a pure coincidence</i>), that when I got home mrs "fatty" harps was watching the Kinky Boots movie.
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With the Rank-like What She Said/Rubber Ring medley and shirt toss Morrissey and band are off and I tweet but 2 words:
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<br />comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-52714993164809900672016-10-18T13:56:00.000+01:002016-10-30T02:02:40.827+00:00Reach for my handWhile on the surface it seems that the Blue Rose Society is all-but dead, it appears to still be alive in Morrissey's hands (literary).
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At Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theater, Sep. 22, 2016, Morrissey made a hand jive out of MW-related hand gesture.<br />
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On 24 September, Morrissey reached out and accepted blue roses from Jesse, <a href="http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/day-1939-five-years.html">as noted in FTM</a> and shared in video on Twitter by <a href="https://twitter.com/DlEDlEmyDARLlNG">@DlEDlEmyDARLlNG</a><br />
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More finger action happened in Singapore on 16 October when Morrissey was photographed <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BLnod4Sg16j/">giving a V sign</a>. Regular (sic) followers of the Blue Rose Society story will be aware that the V sign was referenced on the MW blog as having <a href="http://illuminatisymbols.info/v-sign/">Illuminati overtones</a>. See below for Morrissey and a small selection of several evil people giving the V sign. Of course, Moz is not evil; we might reasonably assume that he is ironically drawing our attention to others that are.<br />
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All going well I will in in the presence of Morrissey on Saturday night at Festival Hall. I have a ticket for the floor. I also intend to be carrying blue roses. I don't expect His hand to reach out for them, as Jesse's blue roses have already satisfied the annual picking event.<br />
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journey to Stavanger started on Sunday early morning. Unconveniently there were no trains going to Oslo Lufthavn that day, so I had to take the slow sick making bus to the airport. At the airport going through security, I was picked out of the line and tested for possibly having been in contact with explosives. When the security man smiled an awkward smile, looked me in the eyes and said 'Fingers crossed' while waiting for the outcome, I was ready to spontaniously combust. Just in time he announced I was fine and could move on. The flight between Oslo and Stavanger was just 45 minutes, and I was the lucky one that got to sit in the last row, next to a big, fat man who's one leg was as big as 3 of mine. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Totally squashed I arrived at the airport where I was first going
to meet up with a friend who lives about 80 km south of Stavanger. </span></span>
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arrived at his island mid afternoon, and soon after found myself hiking to
the first cast iron lighthouse of Norway, the Eigerøy Lighthouse. I had a good look and
feel of wild waves crashing on the slippery rocks we were standing on, while squawking seagulls flew against the wind above our heads before we headed back for some delicious homemade food. Many drinks and having
listened to tons of vinyl records (</span></span><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">I hadn't heard before) </span><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">later, I went to sleep at around
2.30 am. Three hours later I woke up again from annoying yet exciting pling-plongs coming from my phone. I had forgotten to turn off the wifi. Ewa was on her way to Stavanger and was busy letting this be known. I had no choice, sleep was already moving back to darker places so I stept in the light and my day started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">After a 1,5 hr trainride through a lot of tunnels, and stops in towns with no more than 10 people and some sheep, I arrived in Stavanger where I met up with Conor, a young fan from Birmingham. We had some
coffee, talked and walked over to the venue through pouring rain to see what went on. Nothing much, and walked quickly back to his hotel to stay away from more rain and
wind. There I waited for Ewa to arrive. Her bus soon stopped in front of the
hotel with the same name, but one block down. After some chaos we found each other and quickly walked to our booked hotel on the quay at the harbour. Half
an hour after I had left Conor's hotel he tweets 4 pics with himself
and Matt, Gustavo, Jesse and Mando. He had met a sweaty Jesse in the elevator, (sweaty from a workout in the hotel gym) and
the rest of the guys in the lobby downstairs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Second row it was, a nice spot, right across from Boz. The show
started as always with the video montage. Then, as if it would never come, at 8.30 a long intro of
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absolutely loved Moz singing It’s Hard To Walk Tall. His voice, so clear and beautiful. I think it made a lot of people in the audience quiet. It sent chills down my spine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">We had decided to throw the roses on stage when Morrissey was standing on our side of the stage. If not for the cause then as a nice gesture. Moz didn't pick them up, one of the security people took them after he moved back to the middle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">I saw them lying lonely on the side of the stage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The lights went on, and it always makes me feel sad and empty to realise the music has stopped, and it is over. Wish I could rewind nights like this. Well, I can, inside my boney skull, but it's not the same...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We were lucky to find Lynn who was willing to share a bit of her treasure: a piece of shirt. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">And so our night ended at the pub in the centre where we were almost washed off the quay into the harbour, but nevertheless had a good time with many that had attended the gig. Also someone had managed to convince the pub to just play Morrissey's music. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">On May 20th I wrote a blog DEFYING Our Mozzer's instructions not to mention Australia: <a href="https://t.co/CKKadLKaLR">https://t.co/CKKadLKaLR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MorrisseyIsOnTwitterYouTwats?src=hash">#MorrisseyIsOnTwitterYouTwats</a></span></div>
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On 29 April, 2016, @HoarselyCry found a certain photo of The Mozziah making a certain religious gesture. You can see a <a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/in-name-of-mozziah.html">typically mesmerizing blob post about it here.</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3wP3fC1e_7_B9PU5vxd6hzlTrUAUiSLri8ucL4XYIA2zBt2Y6TcX6a3FGVS5ZGPILpEEJ4LWcQJmzfnUhQPcdKn83YefcU6lKd5MnUsYi6kbtKrDDhTZvowdttmOIu6OQB35lLLuS1QY/s1600/mozben.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3wP3fC1e_7_B9PU5vxd6hzlTrUAUiSLri8ucL4XYIA2zBt2Y6TcX6a3FGVS5ZGPILpEEJ4LWcQJmzfnUhQPcdKn83YefcU6lKd5MnUsYi6kbtKrDDhTZvowdttmOIu6OQB35lLLuS1QY/s640/mozben.png" width="640" /></a><br />
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Well, on or about 23 Jul, 2016, @HoarselyCry messaged me to draw my attention to the observed fact that @BRSChairman had changed Twitter avatars, thusly:<br />
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<br />comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-91803537331269679712016-07-28T12:16:00.003+01:002016-07-28T12:19:30.277+01:00The Birth of a New Star<div class="p1">
I've always had a weakness for one particular character on
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<span class="s1">It is an other worldly maiden, who wrote sometimes incomprehensible but poetic lines, it was her wittiness,
beautiful music choices and dreamy pictures of classic film actresses that struck a chord. New windows to beautiful landscapes opened up and I was lost without realising, until she was gone, forever.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Astraea is whom I am talking about. We all know the star maiden's account was closed many months ago. People come, and people go, and life goes on as usual. But not this time. For some reason, </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular" , serif;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="s1">after many months of
feeling a strange kind of emptiness, I decided to speak my mind and call for her. It took some courage; knowing someone in flesh and blood and missing them is an understandable
emotion, but missing someone who's not personally in ones life, and who is part of the night sky, what do you make of that? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">So on July 23 I tweeted "If I had
the powers in me to summon the ever charming and poetic Astraea back, I
would..." </span><span class="s1">Heathercat replied
"So would I". I was definitely not alone in this. And then, the next day, on the 24th, Dawn Mist
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<span class="s1">On the 26th Not Astra's
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<span class="s1">"@HoarselyCry I
heard she was recently seen in Forte dei Marmi. Then over the weekend, in
Montecatini Terme"</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular" , serif;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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50 Hail Marys for her wounds, kindness once lost, forever unfound"</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular" , serif;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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A few hours ago @HoarselyCry contacted me in the toilets of The Wrong Arms with news of a photo. Had I seen it? What did I make of it? Questions were asked that I was unready to answer, partly because it was after midnight where I live. After some discussion and a collaboration on the #InTheNameOfTheMozziah hashtag, @HoarselyCry tweeted and I retweeted. And I went to bed. Not alone, but to sleep, without euphemism. <br />
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Looking in over my breakfast of organic Weetbix, I observed the expected underwhelming response. As I had already noted to @HoarselyCry, my most recent blob post had received no comments (despite posing a highly relevant question to what may laughingly be called<em> the readership</em>), so I didn't expect much action in The Wrong Arms over this.<br />
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I mean, the Dramatically Deluded Dozen barely breaths more than Victoria Woods or Prince.<br />
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Ra Ra Rasputin last inhaled in December 1916, poisoned and shot several times to make sure. In April, 1999, the popular music combo Electronic (featuring Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr) released a phonographic album called Twisted Tenderness, which features a poor quality image of Russia's notorious mad monk on the cover, making the sign of benediction (you've probably seen The Pope do it, too). At some point either before or after the publication of said recorded music anthology, the English seminal artiste known as Morrissey was photographed making a similar gesture.<br />
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It turns out the guitar player Marr and singer/lyricist Morrissey had also previously been in popular music band together. Since then, it has been documented that the two have repeatedly made public acknowledgement of each other's existence by way of visually replication. Sources allegedly close to being Morrissey call this public, but otherwise private, game ping pong.<br />
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This shared gesture of benediction, I humbly suggest, is an example of ping pong. Just who pinged and who ponged is as yet unknown.comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-79353545230194825232016-04-26T14:54:00.000+01:002016-04-26T14:54:51.140+01:00How far would you follow The Mozziah?As soon as an artist, seminal or not, stops breathing for a bit longer than is healthy, out they come.<br />
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No not literally, but metaphorically. Of course. They live on through their art.<br />
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But this blob post isn't about that. It's just an association to some other things that cropped up following Prince's death. Until I saw the <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_160424_01">TTY statement about Prince</a>, I never realised that he was a vegan.<br />
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Which got me last brain cell onto pondering the importance of celebrity in our choices. I'm unashamedly vegan because of Morrissey. Fits of balling on the floor to Meat is Murder (and to Yes, I am blind, as well, little lamb... ) projected my skeptical, rational self emotionally into vegetarianism. Although most days of the week I was vegan, I didn't go fully vegan until I heard that Morrissey (and Marr, too) had made the move.<br />
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Whilst obviously exposed to Prince's music, I was never a great fan. It's just not my kind of thing. I don't know if he ever made a vegetarian/vegan anthem, but if I was a Prince fan, and did release such an affecting polemic, then it would probably be enough to propel me along that dietary path.<br />
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But how far do we allow our musical heroes define us, how we live and what we believe in? Do you really agree with everything that Morrissey says?<br />
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If I was devoted to Prince as much as I am to Morrissey, what would I, a skeptical, rational kind of fella, make of his comments about jet trials in the sky? And as an atheist, about his comments on religion and morality? The 8 Presidents before Lincoln is pretty sharp, though.<br />
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Where does such talk lead us to? Cue the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=prince+chemtrails">YouTube Illuminati wacthers</a> and the MW Twitter account related Alex Jones!<br />
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(Brian Force apparently has some annoying side effects, cleverly hidden as benefits - or was that just satire?)<br />
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Unfortunately, Prince's musical talents, political savvy, emotional intelligence and moral standards weren't matched by his understanding of logic and science. Not only does he make an argument from ignorance about chemtrails (by way of the anecdotal fallacy), but also totally whacks out the chemtrailer's own timeline by saying that there were chemtrails when he was a kid. He was born in 1958 and was well and truly an adult by the 1990s, which is when the conspiracists claim <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory">chemtrailing</a> started. Never let facts get in the way of folklore, but then again <a href="https://youtu.be/2r0bkkOC-XE">he was a Jehovah's Witness</a>.<br />
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Is (musical) celebrity comment an argument from authority? Probably not if it's about science, but that's a seemingly radical stance to take now-a-days.<br />
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And, of course, we have Morrissey possibly making nods to chemtails via the Joni Mitchell inspired jet trails lyric in Lost and repeated in Autobiography. Nothing direct, mind you, just saying.<br />
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So, short of SoLow trolling, how do you take it when Morrissey says something that you disagree with? Do you <i>be yourself,</i> bend or twist?<br />
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By the way, didn't Prince have a wonderful speaking voice?comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-8707765660877581772016-03-28T12:06:00.001+01:002016-04-07T13:21:24.351+01:00Understanding empathy, a tee and a B-side<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chairman Mozziah says</b></span><br />
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I probably should be posting part whatever of my Maladjusted essay, but I've lost interest (drama can be exhausting), so here's something else to upset people instead.
Recently, Our Mozzer as the @BRSChairman tweeted:
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Most of you say things that you think will make me have empathy. There is little truth in the conversations I have. Be yourself.</div>
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— Chairman (@BRSChairman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BRSChairman/status/713006895351668736">March 24, 2016</a></div>
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It sparked quite a few replies:<br />
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Shoving aside the philosophical existentialism of identities (including pessoa), I'm interested in the concepts of truth, boundaries and attraction.<br />
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The Dramatically Delude Dozen of the #BRS frequently share divergent opinions, not least about issues relating to Our Mozzer and often about each other. Hence the various schisms over Faggate and Supremegate and the responses to my Jimmy Saville readings of Maladjusted songs. Only Morrissey knows the truth of his own actions, the inspirations for lyrics and fonts and the plethora of issues and rumors which surround him. The rest of us can guess or research, defend or reel back in bewilderment. Or try to understand.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morrissey planning a holiday in the land of Skippy and Home and Away in a luxurious Supreme caravan. </td></tr>
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Wouldn't it be nice to be in the land of skippy and Home and Away. I must book a holiday.</div>
— Chairman (@BRSChairman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BRSChairman/status/712925565477584896">March 24, 2016</a></blockquote>
I can't claim to know what specifically led to the empathy tweet. Was it somethings that we tweeted or was Morrissey having a bad day with yes men? Maybe he felt the need to be challenged? Was the Mozziah experiencing a Monty Python moment? Is it that we see the Mozziah as our savior, to tell us there's nothing wrong with us? I mean, it's not like he cultivates a cult-like following, doesn't want to be judged etc. I dunno and I wouldn't expect an illuminating answer if I asked. Only Marcus replied with challenging questions, which were, of course, unanswered: just like prayer.<br />
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Anyway, the pessoa @BRSChairman doesn't was us seeking empathy from him. He wants us to be truthful and to be ourselves; although I'm sure that seeking empathy and being honest and yourself are not mutually exclusive.<br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Or I'll kill you</b><br />
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OK I will. I don't always agree with your rather extreme black and white views about some subjects. But I admire your honesty.</div>
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I must admit, that when I disagree with Morrissey or with Our Mozzer's pessoas, or even with other members of the #BRS, I tend to remain silent. I pretend not to have seen the tweet or post. Or, I reply with a tangential deflection.<br />
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One example of where I disagree with Morrissey and some other #BRS members is with a certain vegan t-shirt. I even felt a slight pang when Moby posted a pic of a man with illustrated arms wearing one (minus the Morrissey branding).<br />
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I made a tangential joke in reply to a photographic tweet of Miss Misery wearing the said item of clothing. I went for empathy over challenge.<br />
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You can buy this t-shirt <a href="http://uk.mporium.org/t-shirts/light-blue-be-kind-t-shirt.html">at the Mporium</a> and there are <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=be+kind+to+animals+or+i%27ll+kill+you&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCneP3ouLLAhUCMKYKHUSOBcMQ_AUIBigB">numerous non-Moz variations</a>. OK, it's meant to be ironic. I get that. It's just something that I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.<br />
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As a vegan, I can empathize with Morrissey wanting to reach for his arms cache shelved on the top bunk of his Supreme caravan at the Tweed Heeds South Big 4, as the stench of unholy murder drifts over from the evening's ritual BBQing. But I'm not a murderous zealot. And neither is Morrissey, nor, presumably, Miss Misery.<br />
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I just wouldn't want some crazed vegan doing a shooting spree at a Macca's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre">like messed-up omnivore James Huberty did</a> - especially if they were wearing a t-shirt like this or if the cops later found one in their closet.<br />
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I also wouldn't want veggies to do something like the recent lynching at Dadri, where a Hindu mob murdered a Muslim man and injured his son because they were thought to be eating dead cattle during Ahimsa (alas, they were wrong, it was mutton in the fridge and on not bovine), To <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dadri-lynching-Meat-in-Akhlaqs-fridge-was-mutton-not-beef/articleshow/49280525.cms?">quote The Times of India</a>:<br />
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<i>The real issue here is whether we will allow lynch mobs to enforce their dietary and cultural choices on others and let them get away with murder. Neither the state and central governments nor civil society should lose sight of that...</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christian Dior</b></span><br />
A lot of people, including Mozziaphiles and members of the #DDD, have issue with many of Morrissey's pronouncements. I'm not talking about the hysterical responses in the media or the negativity at SoLow, but the reactions of people otherwise empathetic to Morrissey.<br />
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The thing is, Morrissey reads a lot, is apparently active on Twitter, spends a fair bit of time on YouTube, has a need to be heard and has identity issues, as played out via the pessoa. These things are referenced in numerous songs and interviews, TTY statements and Our Mozzer's Twitter personalities. What we have are a potent mix of exposure to many varied and conflicting world views and a complex, fantasy-prone personality.<br />
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As an aside, yes, conspiracy theories as we now know them did exist before the Interwebs became popular and any blithering idiot could create a website or a YouTube channel devoted to their own ignorance and paranoia. I mention this because in pondering Morrissey's interest in conspiracies, I wondered if they pre-dated his LA exile, but then realized that any well read, library, newsagent and book shop loafing oaf would have access to plenty of conspiracy theory literature. And I should know, because I used to be one.<br />
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So, what has this to do with a fashion designer? Let me quote a possibly overrated B-side ditty.<br />
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<i>I could've run loudly and proudly </i><br />
<i>all forcible entry </i><br />
<i>and morally bankrupt </i><br />
<i>and never non-violent </i><br />
<i><b>and drawn to what scares me </b></i><br />
<i><b>and scared of what bores me </b></i><br />
<i>years alone will never be returned </i><br />
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It's a song that's a reflection on choices, including Morrissey's own choices for the pursuit of a career.<br />
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But I think the most revealing lines are what's I've highlighted in bold. Although the context of the lyrics claim otherwise, Morrissey is drawn to what scares him and scared of what bores him. Hence things like the videos with skin heads, the UKIP statement, the conspiracy theory stuff and Our Mozzer following Alex Jones on Twitter. And hence the I'll kill you tee.<br />
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It all adds to his mystique, but is a product of his adventuring and contrarian nature. He's drawn to what scares him and inevitably shares some of that with us. I think it explains a lot about Morrissey, Our Mozzer and the pessoa phenomena.<br />
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I could say more, but you get the general idea.comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-87672625389067068472016-03-08T15:42:00.000+00:002016-03-08T22:38:12.927+00:00The MorrisseysWorldVision Pessoa Contest<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Preamble</b></span><br />
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Morrissey doesn't do social media. He's said so, not misquoted or taken out of context, but officially on TTY, THREE times concerning the Morrissey's World blob alone. He's also denied involvement with other Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts that have also claimed the air of officialdom.<br />
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And yet, there still exists the Blue Rose Society, a fractious and Dramatically Deluded 1/2 Dozen who believe otherwise. It is an article of faith among the DDD that Morrissey wants his fans to take blue roses to his concerts, although this request has never officially been stated. The request has come from other sources. As have numerous predictions, which Morrissey has conveniently made come true.<br />
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The sources that are arguably the real Morrissey, hiding in plain sight and communicating online through Blogger and Twitter (and even So-Low) are a variety of persona, known to the DDD as pessoa (in honor of the <a href="http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/following-mozziah-day-209-tuesday-10th.html">heteronyms created by Fernando Pessoa</a>). Each pessoa is a unique identity, with its own history, interests and writing style.<br />
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Here, your intrepid triumvirate of TWoM blobbers (orange mécanique, Jjazmine and comrade harps) are charting the top pessoa, <b>but we'd very much appreciate if the rest of the DDD members, should there be any, would give their votes in the comment section. </b>After all, this is a <i>contest</i>, as we'd never post a bloody <i>countdown</i> (or steal the idea and just modify it slightly). Our key performance indicators are:<br />
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<li>Coincidence counter</li>
<li>Literary appeal</li>
<li>Enigmatic otherness factor </li>
<li>C**t factor </li>
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Coincidence counter obviously includes accuracy of predictions, literary appeal covers blog comments as well as twitticisms, and the rest is self-explanatory. DJ judgement was debated as a possibility by the panel of THREE, but our jukebox jury decided (after much debate in the toilets of The Wrong Arms) that all pessoas would pretty much achieve full scores on musical taste, with possibly one exception, so it was dropped.<br />
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One of the critical debates was finding agreement on which pessoa to include. Along the journey there have been many false Mozziahs, with Italian housewives having been misidentified and some bedsit malcontents having been outed as fakers faking. Some have been prematurely consigned to the gulag only to be validated and levitated to the status of rehabilitated at a later date. The identity of others remains a popular topic in the several virtual pubs where the DDD conspire and debate. Thus, after some intercontinental messaging between breakfasts, dinners, work and sleeps, the TWoM THREEsome agreed on the following pessoa to compete in the coveted MorrisseysWorldVision Contest: <br />
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<li>AlfsButton </li>
<li>Astraea </li>
<li>Broken </li>
<li>BRSChairman </li>
<li>Mademoiselle Fifi </li>
<li>Not Astra's Derrière </li>
<li>Our Mozzer</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pessoa Contest Rules</b></span><br />
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In good tradition of the once fabulous Concours Eurovision de la Chanson, each DDD member is asked to award 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1 point(s) to each pessoa of choice (ideally all of them) in each category. If you decide to vote
anonymously, please give yourself a creative, ridiculously stupid, or just <i>any</i> name. Otherwise, we'll do it for you... <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>DDD Votes</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><u><b>Orange Mécanique</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>AlfsButton</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Astraea</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Broken</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>BRSChairman</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Mademoiselle Fifi</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Not Astra's Derrière</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Our Mozzer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><u><b>comrade harps</b></u></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>AlfsButton</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Astraea</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Broken</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>BRSChairman</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Mademoiselle Fifi</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Not Astra's Derrière</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Our Mozzer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><u><b>Jjazmine</b></u></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>AlfsButton</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 6 (six points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Astraea</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 1 (un point)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Broken</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>BRSChairman</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 4 (quatre points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Mademoiselle Fifi</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 4 (quatre points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Not Astra's Derrière</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 2 (deux points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 8 (huit points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 3 (trois points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b>Our Mozzer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 10 (dix points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 12 (douze points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 5 (cinq points)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><u><b>Derek Sandy</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>AlfsButton</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Coincidence counter: 7 (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Literary appeal: 6 points (six points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 6 points (six points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;">C**t factor: 7 points (sept points)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Astraea</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 6 (six points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 8 (huit points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 7 (sept points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 6 (six points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Broken</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 8 (huit points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 10 (dix points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 10 (dix points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 12 (douze points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>BRSChairman</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 10 (dix points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 12 (douze points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 10 (dix points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Mademoiselle Fifi</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 12 (douze points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 7 (sept points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 8 (huit points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 8 (huit points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Not Astra's Derrière</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 5 (cinq points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: </span><span style="color: #073763;">5 (cinq points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: </span><span style="color: #073763;">5 (cinq points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: </span><span style="color: #073763;">5 (cinq points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Our Mozzer</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Coincidence counter: 10 (dix points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Literary appeal: 12 (douze points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">Enigmatic otherness factor: 12 (douze points)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #073763;">C**t factor: 10 (dix points)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Current Results</b></span><br />
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<b>AlfsButton:</b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 28/48<br />
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Literary appeal: 24/48 <br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 29/48<br />
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C**t factor: 14/48<br />
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<b>Astraea: </b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 13/48<br />
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Literary appeal: 44/48 <br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 34/48 <br />
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C**t factor: 10/48<br />
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<b>Broken: </b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 24/48 <br />
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Literary appeal: 30/48<br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 35/48 <br />
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C**t factor: 41/48<br />
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<b>BRSChairman: </b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 29/48 <br />
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Literary appeal: 34/48 <br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 29/48 <br />
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C**t factor: 24/48 <br />
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<b>Mademoiselle Fifi: </b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 19/48<br />
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Literary appeal: 34/48<br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 36/48 <br />
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C**t factor: 14/48<br />
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<b>Not Astra's Derrière: </b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 10/48<br />
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Literary appeal: 17/48 <br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 18/48<br />
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C**t factor: 10/48<br />
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<b>Our Mozzer: </b><br />
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Coincidence counter: 42/48 <br />
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Literary appeal: 46/48 <br />
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Enigmatic otherness factor: 48/48<br />
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C**t factor: 33/48comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-48406415876159024142016-02-27T14:16:00.001+00:002016-02-27T14:41:25.328+00:00OUT TO LUNCH: The World Is Full of Crashing Bores<a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_160227_01">From the oracle of TTY:</a><br />
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Paul Joseph Watson:
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"While Morrissey and Johnny Marr once fused poetry and melodic genius to venerate Oscar Wilde.
Now Nickki Minaj and Fergie fuse putrid nihilism and vacuous verbal diahhrea to venerate their asses."<br />
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Tell me I'm wrong. Get upset. Smoke and explode. Go post another countdown. But, I'm telling you, Our Mozzer is into this stuff. It is part of his world view and outsider identity and it's in his lyrics.<br />
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That, or he's just messing with our minds.<br />
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Or someone else is.<br />
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Lots of folk, actually, but I typically digress.<br />
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So, Morrissey posts a video on TTY that examines and decries the totalitarian blandness of contemporary popular music. It's an Orwellian vision. Indeed, to quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four:<br />
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<i>But by degrees the flood of music drove all speculations out of his mind. It was as though it were a kind of liquid stuff that poured all over him and got mixed up with the sunlight that filtered through the leaves. He stopped thinking and merely felt.
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and<br />
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<i>The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as versificator.</i><br />
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Or, to put t another way:<br />
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<i>and there's a song I can't stand
</i><br />
<i>and it's stuck in my head
</i><br />
<i>there's a song I can't stand
</i><br />
<i>and it's stuck in my head</i><br />
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and<br />
<br />
<i>What really lies
beyond the constraints of my mind? </i><br />
<i>could it be the sea? </i><br />
<i>with Fate mooning back at me?</i><br />
<i>no, it's just more lock-jawed pop-stars
thicker than pig-shit</i><br />
<i>nothing to convey </i><br />
<i>so scared to show intelligence </i><br />
<i>it might smear their lovely career </i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>or</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>hang the DJ</i><br />
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Ok, enough quoting. Who is this Paul Joseph Watson? Well, until a few minutes ago I'd never heard of him. Obviously a Smiths fan. But what else?<br />
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Clue one comes at the end of the video:<br />
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Infowars.com is a alternative news site run by <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alex_Jones">Alex Jones</a>. Jones is <a href="https://youtu.be/ror9v2LwHoY">louder than bombs</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/alex-jones-youre-in-danger-huffpost-live_n_2459055.html?section=australia">alarmingly alarmist</a> on stuff like GMOs, gun control, vaccination and Syrian refugees. Mr Watson is an editor and writer for <a href="http://www.infowars.com/search-page/?paul%20joseph%20watson">Inforwars</a> and the related <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/section/paul-watson-articles">PrisonPlanet.TV</a>. He even has an <a href="http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson">article in the Uncyclopedia</a>.<br />
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Watson appears to have a particular specialty with <a href="https://youtu.be/PwYN7l--3oY">anti-feminist rants</a> and claiming to be censored (although he's across Infowars, PrisonPlanetTV, <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paul.j.watson.71">Facebook</a> - everything but a major record label).<br />
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The narratives of Infowars/PrisonPlanet are in many ways related to the kind of conspiracies we saw from Our Mozzer's MW phenomon and fits well with TTY's infamous <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_151118_01">Monachy is Anarchy</a> videos and some of Morrissey's more perplexing political public statements, like "I nearly voted for UKIP". Like Watson, Our Mozzer could be said to be about "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PrisonPlanetLive/about">Culture, controversy, contrarianism</a>."<br />
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Oh no, I'm about to make a Maladjusted reference!<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W5x2F9C15S0" width="560"></iframe><br />comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-75148300974356427682016-02-20T09:32:00.000+00:002016-02-20T10:13:06.984+00:00List Of The Lost Comments<br />
Apologies for that incredibely creative blog title. As you know, our blog shrank a bit recently, and hopefully the articles will one day be republished elsewhere, but of course the comment sections are lost. Well, not really, the comments are still visible in the admin part of the blog and in the associated email inbox, and Monsieur El Rat had asked me to go through them and collect the few lost anon gems, which was a great idea, some of those are wonderfully written. So after having successfully beaten my laziness, I compiled them this morning. They're a bit out of context, but it's questionable if there ever was much context anyway... So here is the (hopefully complete) collection.<br />
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The first set of comments was published around the time when we did our <a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/08/qa-with-morrissey.html" target="_blank">Q/A session with Morrissey</a>; they all refer to questions that were left on that article, however the answers were distributed across the blog:<br />
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Published on "Poem Left on Following the Pessoas" (12/8/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In The Decay of Lying, Wilde said, “Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.” Do you believe thinking (or overthinking) can possibly be an unhealthy tendency?<br /><br />Oscar always speaks sense and it is to Oscar I find myself returning to time after time. Although one must disagree with him on one point; “thought it not catching” is quite clearly a ridiculous statement in regards to England as in England nobody ever thinks so there can be no data on whether it is catching or not. The same opinions are repeated in newspapers, on television, on radio but with different words or perhaps a different style of speaking. The window of discussion in England has become so narrow, opaque, and dull that soon only one opinion will be able to be viewed, much like staring at the same view every day for the rest of your life. Anyone with a difference of opinion will be viewed as a crank, an idiot, or even worse, mental. Indeed if anyone ever managed to conjure a unique thought then they would become so shocked they would decompose into mush in the very spot in which they were standing.<br /><br />I find that thinking or overthinking is an overtly personal affair. How many bedsit poets are there? How many box-room philosophers? We will, of course, never know. Those who are capable of thinking will never voice the true thoughts in their heads. They will suffer and probably plunge into a deep depression in the belief that they are outsiders and that the world doesn’t want or indeed need them. They don’t know, for how could they?, that it is the outsiders who make the world. I should know. Back in 1981, before the internet and before Tony Blair, I was an unknown freak. Today I am an icon. Why? Because I dared to say something different. In a world of grey, I was a spec of orange.<br /><br />Thinking can be totally and incongruously ruin-able. A disease if you would. For to sit for days, weeks, months, and possibly years with your own thoughts, never to be able to articulate them is ruinous. That can kill the spirit. But we must plough on. It’s either isolation and our thoughts or the dumbing down of our minds thanks to television or the internet. </span></span><br />
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Published on "How old is Morrissey?" (14/08/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">You published your autobiography in 2013, and recently stated that you've finished your novel. When it comes to your literary choices regarding genre, do you prefer fictional or non-fictional books? Is a story more touching and relevant when/because it really happened, or are these unrelated subjects?<br /><br />Sometimes the fiction of a story is actually the author’s true thoughts and experiences so should not be labelled fiction at all. Most non-fiction can bore the knickers off of a nun. We are told not to judge books by their covers although you are allowed to do so with musicians! How many more records would I have sold if people would dare scrape behind the public image?<br /><br />I find that most non-fiction authors are emotionally detached from their subject matter; one could read a book about the genocide in Rwanda and feel absolutely nothing. Then there are books such as The diaries of Kenneth Williams which produce tears from the very first passage, a shovel to the head. ‘Britishness’ died when he snuffed it. </span><br />
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Published on "Demos, Demos, Demos" (14/08/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Would you consider marrying me in an ancient occult blood sharing ritual in a graveyard at midnight during a full moon?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><br />It’s already happened. Can you not remember? I shall not expect an anniversary gift then. Unloveable forever.</span><br />
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In case you're interested, other answers referring to our Q/A that are still available can be found in the comment sections of these articles:<br />
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<a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/07/beautiful-blue-roses-that-i-saw-in.html">http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/07/beautiful-blue-roses-that-i-saw-in.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/08/love-in-morrisseys-songs.html">http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/08/love-in-morrisseys-songs.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/08/larry-king-tty-post.html">http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com/2015/08/larry-king-tty-post.html</a><br />
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And here's the rest of the comments, in chronological order:<br />
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Published on "Astraea's comment on the FTP Blob" (20/07/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">I am the patron saint of lost causes. The purveyor of maladies. The conflicted court marshal of hope. Moving between different states appears to be a talent many humans possess however only a select few of them can achieve the required results. Well, what are the required results? Can you acquire the mental faculties to summon the answers for yourself or must I spell everything out? Liquid becomes slabs of concrete in the presence of the suffering masses. Nourishment of mental thought is lacking throughout the human condition. The ability to present oneself in many different guises is the only way you can hope to survive in the world. If you scrape beneath the mud, dirt and grime of the Id, ego, and superego you find only a shell on a man. This shell must, in whatever way possible, build up a front of character to bypass the hazards and suffering of existence. Traits from characters in literature, cinema, music, and even friends if you burden yourself with such commitment ,must be taken, consumed, and adapted to provide an ‘original’.<br /><br />Of course such images are everywhere and there is much to choose from. Mobile’s bring us closer together but also further apart. Whereas before you had the excitement of the written word on paper in the form of a letter, now you have impersonal type fonts and instant messaging. Send a message and you can immediately see if it has been read and ignored. With the letter you could potentially wait weeks for a response, baited breath and tightened trousers. The world of instant communication is a distraction, it tricks us into thinking that we have ‘friends’ but really we only have screens. Whilst one message is sent on one platform, another is soon sent on another. The time where discoveries of art could be made is now taken up with messaging and television. We live in hope of a technological disaster. The primitive state has never and will never be bettered. </span><br />
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Published on "Boozey's Hammersmith review (2nd night)" (23/9/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Hammersmith was not the end.</span><br />
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Published on "Boozey's Hammersmith review (2nd night)" (23/9/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Beauty masks the ugly and ugly masks the beauty. Who has it in them to be unmasked? Starts feel like endings and endings feel like starts. Who has it in them to end a start? Art becomes distasteful but then distasteful itself becomes art. Who finds art distasteful? Life is death and death is life. Each second matters to no-one but ourselves. Selfishness accelerates at such a speed that whiplash is to be expected if the speed is to slow. My life has been given to art and yet art wants nothing to do with my life. Managers manage nothing but self-loathing. Artists must manage themselves but self-loathing in artists happens long before the management process. We spend each day processing smells, processing sights, processing faces but we do not process feelings. True feelings do not exist in real life. The only true feeling we have is the emotion that is a response to the singing voice. The singing voice can produce feelings of sadness, happiness, nothingness, loneliness etc.<br />The singing voice is all we have. The singing voice is all I have.<br /><br />Yours unretired,<br />Nobody’s nothing</span><br />
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Published on "Walk of Sheame" (22/10/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: For crimes against animals, transgressions against anyone with a brain, and the shuddering, vomit inducing atrocity of cankles - not to even begin to mention the much, MUCH else (our lives wouldn’t even be long enough) that will NEVER be saved - It is hereby announced that Gail Shea has been FINED. Rest easy. Go in peace. And never, ever be afraid to send back a cocktail that isn’t precisely to your liking. Signed, The LEGSINSPECTOR</span><br />
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Published on "Intermission Blob - Morrissey's Christmas Photo" (9/12/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">As a street urchin lurches into song, my heart skips no beats. As cute as the soil and just as dirty he riddles with the fiddle and makes a flute out of foil. Carving crowns on the backs of necks to show loyalty to tryanny posing as royalty. The royal we, the royal she, the royal he, collapsing into their own history. The moments has passed, as the street urchin knows, to change anything. So the music plays. He is free and a libertine with no time for fairytales and kings. He removed the king from the thone and to the gulliotine he was shown. Madness elopes and disproves. Trousers sticking to legs in afternoon heat. A shirt untucked and buttons carassing the air. No care as he teases the passers by with a glimpse of his underwear. He knows no other life than the street. Stylishly unfasionable with hair from nowhere down to everywhere. Life begins when death is no longer feared.</span><br />
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Published on "Eboozer Scrooge in the USA - San Francisco LEG" (28/12/2015)<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-57426036015307318612016-02-15T13:00:00.002+00:002016-02-15T13:25:12.073+00:00Supreme signs<div style="text-align: left;">
Of course there are signs, including signs on posters.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or not (with Pagan logo).</span></td></tr>
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The most recent sign that has Mozophiles, Deluded or not, a-buzz, is Supreme. You know the story and how Our Mozzer broke the news to a select few back in September (before the pictures were taken by TR in October).<br />
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Clearly not being into fashion or design, I've had to educate myself on what Supreme is (their own <a href="http://www.supremenewyork.com/about">About</a> page is a little scant on details) and what the Supreme X campaigns are about. <a href="http://www.supremenewyork.com/previews/springsummer2016/t-shirts/morrissey-tee">T-shirts</a>, apparently. To skate boarders. Being a remote and ignorant Antipodean, I had to ask in The Wrong Arms what White Castle is. Let's just say, I'm not the target audience of either company.<br />
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My first thought, though, was that Morrissey had sold out. Then came the dispute and I thought not. Then the fluffy rodent suggested that it was all a rouse and I was confused. A modicum of web searching and I found that the <a href="https://advsoc2013.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/supreme-x-enter-edgy-celeb-name-here/">Supreme X campaigns are meant to be edgy</a>, which only supports the cute gnawing one's theory. How edgy is a public spat with Morrissey to launch a promotion? They do appear to go out of their way to <a href="https://wrldwde.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/a-supreme-history/">court cease and desist orders</a>. They even have a history with... <a href="http://www.illroots.com/read/supreme-occult-shirt">the occult</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">El Supremo X 2012 Kate Moss being edgy.</span></td></tr>
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Anyway, all that is mere digression. Of course, I want to be flimsy. Can Morrissey's pose tell us something; even if he claims <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_160213_01">not to have selected it</a>? I mean, all statements on TTY are factually true, aren't they?</div>
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lOOk:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">WebMD has a scary new entry: THREE + THREE = 6</span></td></tr>
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Two eyes. Two arms. A neck. An ear or both. Maybe some prayer beads (always liked his beads, did Morrissey). Not even one watch. Fairly normal so far.<br />
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Grey hair. I've got that, so no big deal.<br />
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Some kind of ring. </div>
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Right hand making a 6 symbol, with one horny finger pointing upwards to the heavens.<br />
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Left hidden hand.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/supremeofficial/posts/10153940158578739?fref=nf">Supreme say</a> that " Morrissey was free to do, and pose as he wished."<br />
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Nothing to see here. Although, it will probably get whoever runs <a href="http://thedoggstar.com/secret-societies/illuminati/obey-unif-rocawear-illuminati-clothing/">this website</a> making an update.<br />
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It'll be bigger than Elmo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently this bloke made a skate ramp for Supreme's NYC staff.</td></tr>
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comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-60040561209979127422016-02-11T12:31:00.001+00:002016-02-11T12:55:31.756+00:00Trigger warningsI feel like a bystander to my own blob posts. Some innocent research, discovery and sharing have touched off a comments flame war. Actually, I think my blob post just happened to be a convenient place to troll the fluffy rodent.<br />
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Maladjusted's "unpopular themes" are disturbing. For years I rarely played the album because it left me bereft. It's bold rawness and disclosure would leave depressed. I can only listening to it now and appreciate it at other levels without despair thanks to a daily dose of little white lies.<br />
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I don't want to upset people or ruin their experience of the songs. The magic of songs and their lyrics is that we can all have our own interpretations. They are cherished as part of our own identity.<br />
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I remember what happened when my first and almost final girlfriend and I discussed the meaning of Peter Gabriel's <a href="https://youtu.be/FkLTwX0duY4">Red Rain</a>. She thought it was about a drought in Africa. I thought it was a metaphor for being an activist witness to a reign of terror by death squads; it was, after all, the '80s and Gabriel was doing the Conspiracy of Hope tour for Amnesty.<br />
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Well, she didn't like that. Her interpretation was final. So, she rolled her eyes and closed her legs.<br />
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Turns out, the song was inspired by a <a href="http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=755">rather surreal recurring dream</a>.<br />
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Morrissey, as a master lyricist, can weave many influences in to his song poems. Some are obvious and some are not. Some are sourced from poets, novelists, playwrights or other lyricists. Some influences are selected from direct personal experience and others may not be conscious. Lyrics can be crafted for meaning and effect, be from spur-of-the-moment inspiration or from moments of daydreaming and dissociation.<br />
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Sometimes, the lyrics that work the best don't really mean a thing. You feel them.<br />
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I can't claim any certainty with my analysis or interpretations. I'm probably totally off the beam. But, this is meant to be not just potentially enlightening, but also fun. I don't want to spoil anyone's enjoyment of any Morrissey song. Ever.<br />
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However, I shall complete my self-assigned task of looking for possible hidden meanings, references and loopy stuff in the lyrics of Maladjusted. I started something that I intend to finish.<br />
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Thus, I have decided to complete my wacky analysis of Morrissey's Maladjusted-era songs by taking a double-pronged approach.<br />
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For those sufficiently brave, foolish or robust to want to continue reading the odd gear, please read any blob post prefixed with OUT TO LUNCH.<br />
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For those who want a less challenging experience, please feel free to read any blob post with a title beginning thus: MORE BREAKFAST IN BED.<br />
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Stay tuned. Or not.comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-89321726067160413272016-02-10T13:35:00.001+00:002016-02-10T22:30:27.516+00:00Satan rejected his soul pt.2Welcome to more (possibly) flimsy interpretations of Morrissey's Maladusted album.<br />
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In our previous and initial blob part, we left off after Alma Matters, but first I want to pick-up on some additional thoughts that my final brain cells had on some of songs already addressed.<br />
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<b>Ambitious Outsiders - updated</b><br />
I was thinking about the Jimmy Savile connection and listening to the song when it struck that I heard additional "evidence" to back-up my claim concerning Savile and Top Of The Pops. What's that short, sharp sound at the start? <a href="https://youtu.be/K-CfJhkiLDY">Static</a>! White noise, actually, I think. Like that heard on a radio or analogue TV.<br />
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A reference to the mass electronic media, which provided Savile his day job and which brought him and the dreaded Devil's music beyond the bolt-locked doors of otherwise safe and secure Lancashire homes.<br />
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And another thing:<br />
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<i>when you are </i><br />
<i>giving, giving, giving </i><br />
<i>and we're receiving- </i><br />
<i>No, no, we're taking </i><br />
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But you were probably there already. Yes, giving over kiddies, but part of his scheme was to do charitable work in return for access. He was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile#Fundraising.2C_sponsorship_and_voluntary_work">great fundraiser</a>. You know where I'm going with this.<br />
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<b>Trouble Loves Me - update</b><br />
Is there a Jimmy reference or few here?<br />
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<i>See the fool I'll be </i><br />
<i>still running 'round </i><br />
<i>on the flesh rampage </i><br />
<i>still running 'round </i><br />
<i>Ready with ready-wit </i><br />
<i>still running 'round </i><br />
<i>on the flesh rampage </i><br />
<i>-at your age! </i><br />
<i>go to Soho, oh </i><br />
<i>go to waste in </i><br />
<i>the wrong arms </i><br />
<i>still running 'round </i><br />
<i>Trouble loves me </i><br />
<i>seeks and finds me </i><br />
<i>to charlatanize me </i><br />
<i>which is only </i><br />
<i>as it should be</i><br />
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Sir Savile certainly was on some kind of <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31637937"><i>flesh rampage</i></a> in the <i>wrong arms</i> and he would have been over 70 (Morrissey only 39) at the time of the song's release - <i>at your age</i>. Savile <a href="http://swns.com/news/jimmy-savile-paid-whiplash-thirteen-year-old-friend-3-unprotected-sex-1960s-26633/">frequented London's <i>Soho </i>for trade</a> and <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/speaking-to-the-man-behind-jimmy-saviles-biography-121">was a kind of court jester</a> (aka, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#English_royal_court_jesters">Royal's professional <i>fool</i></a>). Indeed, like that song from The Court Jester, you could say that he was the Maladjusted Jester. And what does the Royal fellow in the clip below say about the <i>lovely little wench</i>?<br />
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<i>Come here my child...</i><br />
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How could you be <a href="https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121017135427AApDyyb">so ugly and as popular</a> as Jimmy? Not just the hair, but bulgy eyes that look like their filled with that alien black oil infection from the X-Files,<br />
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Wizardry? Maybe.<br />
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But what about r<i>eady wit</i>? To quote from <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/06/weve-forgotten-just-how-attractive-jimmy-savile-once-was/">an article on a play about Savile</a>:<br />
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<i>His easy wit and rough-diamond charm made him not merely appealing but also irresistible.</i><br />
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As explained in the Maladjusted Jester:<br />
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<i>Your majesty I have a confession my secret I must now betray </i><br />
<i>I was not a born fool it took work to get this way...<br />She took one look at me and cried hehehehehe, he?</i><br />
<i>What else could he be but a jester...</i><br />
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Beyond being a jester, he was a charlatan for sure.<br />
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Just I thought I'd share.<br />
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And no, I don't think these songs are about <a href="https://weloveallthat.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/john-peel-home-truths/">Saint John Peel</a>.<br />
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Damn, I should have called this series of posts the Maladjusted Jester Code.<br />
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Anyway, I'll get to part 3 and the other songs soonish.comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-61280095855946976532016-02-09T02:31:00.000+00:002016-02-09T12:09:48.699+00:00But have I forgiven the Illuminati?I feel like Mulder, who's just been given a tip-off by some mysterious figure whose knowledge goes deeper.<br />
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Someone calling themselves <a href="https://plus.google.com/115667518172240867415/posts">piluleli</a> has left some interesting comments on my recent<a href="http://theworldofmoz.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/satan-rejected-his-soul-pt1.html"> Satan rejected his soul pt.1</a> blob post. So, while I take a break from Maladjusted to get some sleep, get over a cold and get my research going, I'll follow up on something that piluleli mentioned.<br />
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A while back we were all-a-twitter when Our Mozzer pointed us towards some "ping pong" moments between himself and The Guitar. The I Have Forgiven Jesus video was cited in one of those discussions, where Morrissey's walk in front of a large wall was <a href="https://youtu.be/SXEc9WZ1bkY">mirrored in a video by The Guitar</a>.<br />
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But here's what piluleli had to say about the I Have Forgiven Jesus video that's prompted this post:<br />
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<i>Also check the official video clip for "I have forgiven Jesus" at 1:34...." </i><i>Do you understand ?"</i><br />
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And I think I do.<br />
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In fact, a lot more than just at 1.34. I have written before about hand gestures; well, watch the video and in particular, watch Morrissey's hands and you'll see for yourself.<br />
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Left top and bottom: Morrissey is wearing two chains, each with jewelry, one a ring of some kind and the other a cross. A circle and cross together form an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh">ankh</a>, which is an ancient Egyptian symbol for internal life, but it can also refer to strength, power and sexual energy. It's interpretations appear to vary widely, but many websites and books list it as a Satanic symbol and it can therefore be linked to the Illuminati.</div>
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Also note that in the top left image, Morrissey is walking with a <a href="http://illuminatisymbols.info/masonic-hidden-hand-sign/">Hidden Hand</a>.</div>
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Top and middle right: Morrissey's two outstretched fingers are forming the common <a href="https://warningilluminati.wordpress.com/hands-signs-signs-of-satan/">The El Diablo</a> or Sign of the Horns.<br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br />Bottom right: Here we have an OK with El Diablo, the OK circle fingers forming a 6, being a reference to the supposed Devil's number of 666.</span></div>
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At the end of the video, Morrissey does the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_cross">Sign of The Cross</a>. As we know, sometimes gestures have two meanings.</div>
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I think what piluleli is suggesting (and I hereby invite him to elaborate in the comments if I'm getting this wrong) is that here Morrissey is alerting us not just to child abuse by the Catholic clergy, but to deeper, secret, Satanic, Freemason and Illuminati connections. As we know from recent exposures in Australia, Ireland, Britain, America, Canada and elsewhere, there have been massive cover-ups of the children in pieces from sexual abuse by Catholic priests. This, I suggest, is what Morrissey is alluding to by his choice of hand gestures and jewelry in the I Have Forgiven Jesus video.</div>
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comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-14533678171498934312016-02-06T07:46:00.002+00:002016-02-07T02:11:40.035+00:00Satan rejected his soul pt.1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maladjusted can be read many ways. If you know enough nonsense, interpretation can be open to all sorts of possibilities. Fortunately, I've immersed myself into the world of conspiracy theories and maintained both my sanity and (hopefully) my critical capabilities, so I am aware that what I suggest here is nothing certain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hidden Hand gesture on the cover of Alma Matters is well documented. The, perhaps inadvertent, Freemason-related triangle and circle that can be seen on the Roy's Keen cover has already been mentioned in a previous blob post. But, these are all visual references. Morrissey's key trade is lyricism, so here I'm going to explore some outlandishly flimsy interpretations of his Maladjusted-era lyrics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recorded in the immediate aftermath of Judge Weeks' Goat-affirming judgement and his devious character assassination of Morrissey, it's quite clear that Morrissey has deeply hurt, angry and traumatized. Much of the album can be seen in this context. But the writing process is open to many influences and, thanks to the MW phenomenon, we know that Morrissey is into conspiracy theories (and, much to the bemusement of the uninitiated masses, <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_151118_01">confirmed recently on TTY</a>). So, if his knowledge of such matters influenced his cover art of Maladjusted's singles, so it might have been a factor in his choice of words, consciously or otherwise. Let's take a lOOk.</span><br />
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<b>But first, we have to start before the beginning</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hidden Eye gestures in Morrissey's cover art go back to his second solo single, so such influences predate Maladjusted. Then there's that two-handed 6 gesture from Smiths days. This esoteric knowledge may have been the result of deep and vulgar conversations and of his intense study of popular music culture. Maybe, he'd been introduced or approached.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do pop stars become involved? I don't know if it's even real or a just a mythic pop music trope, but it's often been said that <a href="http://www.illuminatirex.com/illuminati-celebrities/">pop stars have to sell their souls the Devil to gain success</a><br /><br />When <a href="https://youtu.be/w2EiuZnw7JE">pop stars say they've sold their soul to the Devil</a>, are they speaking literally or figuratively? Are singers simply saying that they give their all for success and wealth in a mutually nihilistic <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/django-wylie/the-truth-about-the-illum_b_1963467.html">deal with capitalist corporations</a>? For all those Hidden Eye pop stars to be in on some secret knowledge or secret society, to be part of a Satanic or Illuminati or MKUltra conspiracy, they must at some stage be introduced, seduced or blackmailed and inducted to be controlled, brainwashed, appropriated or co-opted. Fortunately, Morrissey's Irish blood, English heart is maladjusted to selling his soul to Satan for fatal fame. As we know, Satan rejected his soul. But, he may be been tempted or involved before the rejection, like going from indie label Rough Trade to Big Four label EMI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For our purposes here it doesn't matter if the claimed conspiracy is real or not. This is about Morrissey's experiences and understanding of the world, real or imagined, or merely played with as an artistic influence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm sitting at my rinky dinky computer thingy (over several days and nights) about to spin you an improbable yarn about one of Maladjusted's "collection of unpopular themes": Morrissey's brush with the music industry's Satanic conspiracy. <br /><br />Are you ready? Get the sound of <a href="https://youtu.be/GqyNhkIFit0">the Redux version</a> into your ears:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However much I love the title track, I can't really see any hidden messages in it (other than SW6, a post code with the number of the Devil, but that's pretty flimsy, so please ignore this aside). So, I'll let this pass on to the Redux version's second track, </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ambitious Outsiders</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Morrissey lists this song as one of those from the album that makes him "swell with pride" (the others being Trouble Loves Me, Alma Matters and Wide to Receive - see Autobiography, pg 342). Here's where things get spooky.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bolt-lock your doors</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">alarm your cars </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and still we move in closer </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">every day</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">top of the list </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is your smiling kids </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but we'll be smiling too </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so that's OK </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I always through that this song was about pedophiles, but I'm about to argue that it goes deeper than that. The threat to safe and stable homes here isn't entirely physical, as it can penetrate past your locked doors and target your kids. How? "<i>Top</i> of the list" gives a hint. Britain's most watched and influential pop music show from 1964 to 2006 was <i>Top</i> of The Pops (TOTP). There's two associations with TOTP that come to mind. The most obvious is that its was often presented by notorious pedophile <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scandal">Sir Jimmy Savile</a>, who broke through the domestic barriers by way of several radio and television programs. People have already <a href="https://cowanandthestupiddream.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/panic-jimmy-savile-the-smiths-synchronicity/">linked Panic with Savile</a> (and by extension, the British monarchy), but I'm reading a similar interpretation into Ambitious Outsiders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although his nefarious activities only became public knowledge well after this song was recorded, they were an "<a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/terry-wogan-hatred-jimmy-savile-2341936">open secret</a>" in his lifetime, as witnessed by Half Man, Half Biscuit's <a href="https://youtu.be/1O0f1m3CKP8">I Left My Heart In Papworth General</a> from 1985. Yet, he was awarded an OBE the Queen in 1971 and was knighted by her in 1990. He had friends in high places, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile#Public_image_and_friendships">including the hated Margaret Thatcher</a>, who recommended him for the knighthood and who <a href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/279380/TORY-PAEDO-COVER-UP">covered-up a pedophile ring of the British elite</a> with the assistance of senior <a href="https://www.rt.com/uk/315296-police-drop-pedophile-westminster/">UK police</a> and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/06/britain-s-horrific-vip-pedophile-cover-up.html">security officers</a>: <i>Your taxes paid, but police waylaid</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That certainly fits with a theme of the lyrics, but let's go deeper. As a music program, TOTP brought more than Jimmy Savile beyond your bolted doors. It played the Devil's music and introduced everyone from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performers_on_Top_of_the_Pops">Adam Faith to The Zutons</a> to a young and impressionable audience. TOTPs was where you could go each week to watch and hear it in your living room with the family. Enriched with visuals, it would often be a more compelling experience than hearing the same songs on the radio. Was it an in-joke referring to <a href="https://youtu.be/-QUuCWNyvv8">Savile's reputation as a witch</a> that the TOTP theme tune between 1986 and 1991 as Paul Hardcastle's horrible <a href="https://vimeo.com/14944933">The Wizard</a>? Sometimes words have two meanings, or more, and so these lines could be a double reference to TOTP's seduction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Intermission: here's a typical <a href="http://www.highbrowmagazine.com/2448-smiths-saved-his-life-interview-simon-goddard">moment of moral peril</a> from TOTP.</span><br />
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<i><br /><br />we're taking
keeping the population down</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Killing kiddies, like in List of the Lost? But that's one at a time, with even the <a href="http://disinfo.com/2013/01/satanic-paedophile-rings-linked-to-government-jimll-666-it-for-you/">alleged Royal Satanic pedophile ring that included Savile</a> having little real impact on capping population growth. I always thought it was an odd line, but it's even how the song ends: <i>We're just keeping the population down</i>. The other related population conspiracy is that the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nocancerfoundation/wwf">British Royal family is attempting to depopulate the Earth</a> through the World Wildlife Fund (but apparently doing a really bad job at it). This ties in with Morrissey's hatred of the Royals and the later, infamous <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_151118_01">Monarchy is Anarchy TTY post</a> and Prince Philip's 1986 <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/422879/Did-Prince-Philip-s-population-fears-make-the-royal-family-see-double">extinction level event virus quote</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We're on your street, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but
you don't see us<br />or, if you do
you smile and say Hello</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is <a href="http://www.illuminatiagenda.com/top-ten-illuminati-symbols-hidden-in-plain-sight/">Evil hidden in plain sight</a> (a common conspiracy theory trope) and cloaked in the banal respectability of the British Establishment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The irony is, of course, is that the ambitious outsiders are actually the ultimate insiders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the Blue Rose Society, this is "our song" when sung live. It was one of the four pointed to with pride in Autobiography.The narrative of internal struggle reminds me of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust">Faust legend</a>, where Faust sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and earthly pleasures (<i>on the flesh rampage... go to waste in the wrong arms)</i>. It's a story of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil">deal with the Devil</a>, the kind that is referred to by a figure of speech or a description of an occult reality by many pop stars in order to gain success (see above).<br /><br />Although it strikes me more as a personal reflection than a jibe at anyone or anything else, it is addressed to his (passive) better companion. Good and Evil. I am two people. Life is a pigsty: <i>and once again I turn to you..</i>. <i>I can't reach you anymore</i>. Removed from God's help, but still subjected to Satan's or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephistopheles">Mephistopheles</a>' attention, <i>who seeks and finds me</i>. A metaphor, of course. Or, so my rationalist skeptical nature assumes, but Morrissey does believe in ghosts and I don't, so what would I know?<br /><br />While the deal may not have been sealed, Morrissey is lost in his own purgatory between Heaven and Hell.<br /><br />Here's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/16721-faust-eine-trag-die">a quote from Goethe's Faust</a> to ponder and align with the lyrics of Trouble Loves Me and other songs from the Maladjusted Redux:<br /><br /><i><span style="line-height: 21px;">You are aware of only one unrest;</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Oh, never learn to know the other!</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">And one is striving to forsake its brother.</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Unto the world in grossly loving zest,</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">With clinging tendrils, one adheres;</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">The other rises forcibly in quest</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Of rarefied ancestral spheres.</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">If there be spirits in the air</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">That hold their sway between the earth and sky,</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Descend out of the golden vapors there</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">And sweep me into iridescent life.</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">Oh, came a magic cloak into my hands</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">To carry me to distant lands,</span><br style="line-height: 21px;" /><span style="line-height: 21px;">I should not trade it for the choicest gown,</span></i><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown.</i></span><br />And:<br /><br /><i><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">You’ll ne’er attain it, save you know the feeling,</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Save from the soul it rises clear,</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Serene in primal strength, compelling</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The hearts and minds of all who hear.</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">You sit forever gluing, patching;</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">You cook the scraps from others’ fare;</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">And from your heap of ashes hatching</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">A starveling flame, ye blow it bare!</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Take children’s, monkeys’ gaze admiring,</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">If such your taste, and be content;</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">But ne’er from heart to heart you’ll speak inspiring,</span><br style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">Save your own heart is eloquent!</span></i><br style="color: #181818; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br /><b>Lost</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wasted as a B-side, this grand ballad is rightfully elevated to the album in the Redux.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jet trails in the sky </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">leave one word behind </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a hand bangs into sand </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a name </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and we all understand </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everybody's lost </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but they're pretending they're not lost </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beautiful imagery, but what does it mean? The <i>jet trails</i> is often taken as a reference to Joni Mitchell's equally wondrous <a href="https://youtu.be/vzGHOucTxY8">Don Juan's Reckless Daughter</a>, which uses the phrase (and also references the occult with the lines like <i>the serpent cannot be denied</i>). In Autobiography, Morrissey notes that <i>jet trails</i> can be seen from Hook End Manor, where Maladjusted was recorded. An unusual point to mention. And, why get upset and <i>name</i> at floating condensation? And whose name, anyway? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's see a bigger quote from Joni's song:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over virgin wilderness</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It prowls like hookers and thieves</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through bolt locked tenements</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behind my bolt locked door</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The eagle and the serpent are at war in me</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The serpent fighting for blind desire</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The eagle for clarity</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recognize some familiar words and themes here? Maladjusted's <i>thieves hours </i>and<i> working girls like me</i>, Ambitious Outsider's <i>bolt-lock your doors</i>, the inner tussle of Trouble Loves Me? If nothing else, Moz owes Joni a fair bit on Maladjusted. Joni might owe something to Goethe, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But back to Lost and those jet trails,<br /><br />To <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/69982-once-i-blazed-across-the-sky-leaving-trails-of-flame">quote from Goethe's Faust</a> again:<br /><br /><i><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Once I blazed across the sky</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">, <br />Leaving trails of flame; <br />I fell to earth, and here I lie - </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ah, the glories of the past. It's a theme that permeates Maladjusted-era songs. So, another possible reference point, but let's get wackier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chemtrail conspiracy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory#Spread_and_response">came to note about a year or two before Maladjusted</a> was recorded. Chemtrail conspiracy theorists claim (usually <a href="https://youtu.be/IcyplG14dec">with hysterical alarm</a>) that They are using airliners to disperse bad chemicals, which we see as persistent contrails. There's some disagreement about which chemicals and to what ends, which vary from <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Geo-engineering">geo-engineering</a>, <a href="http://www.dataasylum.com/mindcontrol-chemtrails-summary.html">mind control</a> and our new acquaintance, <a href="http://humansarefree.com/2014/07/the-connection-between-chemtrails-and.html">depopulation</a>. Curiously, there's even a theory that <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Morgellons_disease">connects chemtrails with Morgellons</a>, a <a href="http://jezebel.com/real-delusions-of-an-unreal-disease-a-history-of-morge-1696912437">controversial skin disease</a> that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3024635/Joni-Mitchell-s-mystery-aliment-Morgellons-disease-seen-experts-mental-illness-sufferers-say-colorful-fibers-grow-skin-feel-bugs-crawling-them.html">Joni Mitchell experiences</a>. Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could Lost be, in part, a response to concerns about the alleged chemtail conspiracy, which was being spread through the new alternative media of the World Wide Web? Of course, Morrissey would never do something as vulgar as be an early adopter of the WWW, but he gives us the most minuscule wink that he might have been in the Maladjusted album track, Wide To Receive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flimsy I know, <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chemtrails#Chemtrail_conspiracies_make_no_sense">just like the chemtrail theory itself</a>, but we like that around here.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He Cried</span></b><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ride our minds <br />if you must</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simple words, but could these lines be flimsily be seen as a mention of the </span><a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/10/08/monarch-mind-control-popular-music/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">MKUltra/Monarch music industry mind control conspiracy</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that brainwashes a pop stars when they sell their soul to the Wicked One for fatal fame?</span><br /><br /><i>oh you don't know the power <br />in what you're saying
</i><br /><br />If we are to accept the occult, then we must accept that the words used to recite spells and ritually summons forth demons and whatnot are powerful.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Mr G's Faust:<br /><i><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 21px;">Dear me! how long is art!</span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 21px;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And short is our life!</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Mr M's He Cried:</span><br /><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">time is short<br />don't be cruel</i></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alma Matters</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I am suggesting a narrative where Morrissey was maladjusted to the conspirator's cause, be They be the Elite, the Establishment, the Illuminati, Satan, whatever. Just as there is a sense of lost glories, so there is a feeling of impeding doom throughout the maladjusted-era songs. These are things that are difficult (and dangerous) to publicly express, even for big mouth Morrissey, requiring allusions in lyrics, hints on cover art, interview rants about radio airplay and so on. It's that or be dismissed by all and sundry (excepting a few nutty conspiracy theorists) as touched.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><i>So, the choice I have made <br />may seem strange to you <br />but who asked you anyway? <br />it's my life <br />to wreck <br />my own way </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What choice? May I suggest that it was Morrissey's choice not to enter into a pact with the Devil to further his career; or, was it his decision to leave it and struggle on alone? Was he thrown out? I dunno, I'm just a librarian from Frankston. Either way, his choice spells ruin.<br /><br /><i>Because to someone somewhere <br />Oh yeah <br />Alma matters<br />in mind
body and soul <br />in part and in hole</i><br /><br />Clearly a play on the phrase </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">alma mater, a reference to the a school you graduated from and its community students.</span></span><span style="color: #272727; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This could easily be a reference to the Joyce Goat's determination to be counted as a full, true Smith. Or just the importance of being from Stretford.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It may also be a reference to alumni networks such those formed around the old school tie and reflected in </span><a href="http://www.almamater1492.org.uk/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Freemasonry</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and supposed Illuminati-linked organisations, such as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Skull and Crossbones fraternity</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bohemian Lodge</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Then there's the Helen Earth Drag and Supper Club that protects List of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lost's child murderer, <span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21.56px;">Dean Isaac. <br /><br />Or the networks of kinship and shared interests that form around the minds, bodies, souls and <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/">bloodlines of the 13 Illuminati families</a>?<br /><br />I leave what the <i>hole</i> might be to your imagination.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21.56px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /><b>Enough already! </b><br />Digest this lot, leave a gracious comment about my loss of critical thinking capabilities and come back for part two at a later date. <br /><br />Why couldn't I have done this with Southpaw Gramma? Less songs, you see.</span></span></span></span>comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-2257050862253291542016-01-31T08:18:00.001+00:002016-01-31T22:13:38.377+00:00The watch(er)sI've always wondered about the cover of Swords. Aside from Morrissey looking pained, there's something a little unusual going on.
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On the back cover, Morrissey is clearly wearing two watches. On the front, he is covering the right watch with his left hand.<br />
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Are these more (missed) MW-related signs? Let's do what conspiracy theorists do best and go down the rabbit hole of Illuminati theory,<br />
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The Watchers go by various names and if you have the time and the inclination you can read David Icke's lengthy <a href="http://throughancienteyes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/noah-bloodline-of-watchers-and.html">essay on them here</a>. The Eye of Horus and the Eye of Providence can be associated with all this as being symbols of <a href="http://illuminatiwatcher.com/decoding-illuminati-symbolism-the-all-seeing-eye/">The Watchers</a>. As we know from the previous blob post, this can be symbolized through the Hidden Eye (and is a common gesture with pop stars). The Watchers might be Fallen Angels, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim">Nephilim</a>, our <a href="http://illuminutti.com/2012/12/21/shape-shifting-aliens-control-the-earth-embarrassing-conspiracy-theories/">Reptilian Shapeshifting overlords</a> or <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/09/dont-believe-in-nephilim-you-will-after-this-photos-top-secret-fbi-documents-and-more-mind-blowing-information-2476146.html">whatever takes your delusional fantasy</a>.<br />
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So, here we have Morrissey wearing two watches on the back cover of Swords. This image is necessary so that we can see he is covering a watch on the front. Like the <a href="http://illuminatisymbols.info/hidden-eye/">Hidden Eye</a> and The <a href="http://illuminatisymbols.info/masonic-hidden-hand-sign/">Hidden Hand</a>, is The Hidden Watch Morrissey's creative reference to the Illuminati/Eye of Providence/Hidden Eye/Eye of Horus/Nephilim/shapeshifting reptilian symbolism?<br />
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But wait, there's more! We know that Morrissey likes his typefaces and on Swords the W appears as a double V. Why? Well, a <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/codex_magica/codex_magica25.htm">V or chevron is also an occult symbol</a> (hence the reference to Roy's Keen's triangle and circle in the previous blob post).<br />
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Going back a bit, I mentioned the Nephilim and I'm reminded of It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small. Is this a reference to humanity in comparison to our supposed gargantuan overlords? I doubt it, but we should rarely let skepticism or reality get into the way of MW-related theories.<br />
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But I'm getting ahead of myself. We'll visit an alternative analysis to some specific songs (from the Maladjusted era) in my next blob post.comrade harpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16868307582875295395noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889397929114285590.post-78818477380602026442016-01-27T12:26:00.000+00:002016-01-27T12:38:24.462+00:00He always said that there were clues we had missed<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">The Hidden Eye</b><br />
The sign represents the evil eye floating above the pyramid. The single eye, or the eye of Providence originates in Egypt with the eye of Horus. In conspiracy theory lore, it represents allegiance to Satan and the Illuminati.<br />
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Why do this? Is it a celebrity in-joke, messing with us plebs? Quite possibly they're satirizing the whole <a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/devils_music_no_effect.htm">Devil's Music thing</a>. Is it <a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-do-celebrities-cover-one-eye-in-their-pictures-albums-videos">brand marketing</a>, and if so, what's the brand? Is it pop music itself? And since when did Aldous Huxley make albums?<br />
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Usually, a hand blocks one eye (as seen above), but there are creative ways of doing this, such as:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Remember the hidden hand? </b></span><br />
(I'm sure FTM did something on this, but I just can't find the blighter blob post.)<br />
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Anyway, here's what the <a href="http://www.illuminatirex.com/illuminati-signs/">Illuminti signs sit</a>e has to say:<br />
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Hidden Hand of the Men of Jahbuhlun (Jahbulon, Jabulon), Sign of the Master of the Second Veil<br />
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Texe Marrs calls this sign the Hidden Hand of the Men of Jahbulon in his Codex Magica. According to Marrs, it represents the hidden Masonic deity, Jahbulon. The sign’s true meaning must remain hidden from the public. Jahbuhlun = Jah-buh-lun = Yah-Baal-On = Yahweh-Baal-Osiris = The true god of Masonry ~ <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/codex_magica/codex_magica04.htm">Codex Magica</a><br />
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;">lOOk - unhidden hands!</b><br />
We know <a href="http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/day-758-kristeen-young-founded-blue.html">Kristeen Young founded the Blue Rose Society</a>. As displayed in our last thrilling blob post, she's been known to wear Eye of Horus eye make-up. But's there's something else about that photo that I want to share.<br />
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Even the Roy's Keen cover has been mentioned (and largely dismissed) <a href="http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=137469">on a David Icke forum</a> (not surprisingly, given the level of intellect on display there, I think they missed the point, as the sign is actually the <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-circle-in-the-triangle-mean">triangle and wheel</a>):
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Pt.1 - How I missed Bowie</h3>
I remember seeing the Heroes video on telly and finding the music interesting, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g">if the visuals a bit underwhelming</a>. Then there was the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0">Ashes to Ashes</a>, which blew me away and which was oddly played a bit on Simon Townsend's Wonderworld (as was OMD's Souvenir) and this was a revelation. Back then, I was too young to buy records and was exposed to what my elder siblings brought home (Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream on one side and Sherbert and Abba on the other), what was on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Australian_TV_series)">Countdown</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_(Australian_TV_series)">Sounds Unlimited</a> and 3XY.<br />
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However, I was aware of Bowie through of several his singles that charted in Australia, but the only Bowie recording in our home was a copy of the Heroes LP that was rarely played. When I did play it, I only found the title track and the ambient <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eTvCiMjJWc">Moss Garden</a> attractive.<br />
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By the time that I was buying my own vinyl (Laurie Anderson's Big Science in 1982), Bowie had moved on to his most overtly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie#1980.E2.80.9388:_New_Wave_and_pop_era">commercial and pop era</a>, which didn't catch my imagination. I only became aware of Bowie again when he covered <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljhm-gJ9RRw">I Know It's Gunna To Happen Some Day</a>, so I listened to Black Tie, White Noise and wasn't impressed.<br />
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Only when he died and there was an outpouring of grief from all and sundry, highlighting his Morrissey-like importance to people's lives, did it occur to me that I was wrong in thinking that he was overrated. Of course, Bowie meant a lot to Morrissey, beginning 1972 when he heard Starman. </div>
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David Bowie sings Starman with future Your Arsenal producer, Mick Ronson.</div>
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Pt.2 Does joining the dots expose reality?</h3>
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Those who cannot accept that Morrissey was behind the MW phenomenon can no longer deny that he supports wild conspiracy theories. The <a href="http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_151203_01">TTY post Monarchy is Anarchy </a>features videos that outline a global Satanist conspiracy, featuring a rogues gallery of rulers including the British monarchy. The List of the Lost references similar themes.<br />
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Note what Morrissey says about Bowie in Autobiography: "... a sanity heralding a coming of consciousness... David Bowie is detached from everything, yet open to everything..."<br />
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This issue of consciousness is essential to an understanding of certain conspiratorial world views. Morrissey fan and friend, Russell Brand, has interviewed Davic Icke about these kind of things.<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Russell Brand was married to Katie Perry, who uses the Eye of Horus, owls and other occult imagery in her visual iconography. They <a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2010/07/30/morrissey-miserable-over-katy-perry-russell-brands-wedding-plans/">have clearly met.</a></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">So, we now come back to David Bowie. Bowie was the master of alter-egos; Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, the Tin White Duke and, of late, Lazarus. Bowie was <a href="http://gnosticwarrior.com/david-bowies-gnostic-obsession.html">interested in the occult</a> (especially during his cocaine years). With his provocative spaced-out lyrics and iconic visuals, Bowie has been implicated in numerous occult, <a href="http://cherylkicksass.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/david-bowie-his-satanisms-worth-serious.html">Satanic</a> and Illuminaty conspiracies (<a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/david-bowie/news/david-bowie-the-craziest-conspiracies-following-his-death_5098269">some of he latest are here</a>). He' just the kind of character to open up a fan like Morrissey to the possibilities of other ways and meanings (along with other Morrissey idols such as Jean Cocteau). <br /><br />Of course, Bowie and Morrissey have met, touring together and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOz-F1HeNZs">singing Cosmic Dancer</a>, so Morrissey has had the opportunity to discuss such matters with him. However, their relationship had <a href="http://www.gigwise.com/news/87322/morrissey-calls-for-end-to-david-bowie-rivalry-that-was-just-high-ribbing">broken down</a>, leading to a failure to pen an obituary on TTY (no matter how many times we've refreshed the News page since Bowie's death). </li>
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