Art? Pt 2

What do you think? Art?

What do you think?

I’ve been thinking a bit about the Dennis Ferguson case of late. I believe that paedophilia is a most horrific crime, and is often due to mental illness of which there is difficult (if any) rehabilitation. There are a wide variety of issues associated with placing Ferguson in Ryde, and in hindsight he would not have been giving housing there. But what I want to say is this – Ferguson was sentenced to 14 years for his crime, which he served. I believe that more needs to be done to protect children from convicted sex offenders, but he served the associated punishment for his crime. Whilst this is an issue in and of itself, what I've really been thinking about is what this story suggests about our society.

Society is only as strong as its weakest member. I believe Australia (or even wider contemporary society) is weak - we don’t take responsibility for anything. We should make sure that people are managed, that there is not a constant shifting of blame or responsibility in our society.

Horrific issues, but there are no winners, just losers.

Sing, sing a song

B Shore and the Mods had our first full Jam last night. It was well tops, we’ll soon be ready to take over the world, one dark dingy rehearsal room at a time.

Can't help loving that shop of mine...

I’ve probably moaned about class before, but one little issue is that I can’t shop at my preferred grocery shop, Woolies at Leichardt, because it closes too early on Sunday for me shop after class. As such I have to go to Coles at Broadway. This is disappointing for a number of reasons:
1. It’s far too busy. You can’t move in the place, it is all go. I don’t like it when there are 23752 people in the place, it’s too hard to move up and down the aisles.

2. It doesn’t stock some of my favourite things. Simple things, like Deb & my deodorant. This is INCREDIBLY disappointing.

3. No self checkout. Self checkout is the single best thing about grocery shopping ever. It is amazing, but I can’t revel in its awesomeness at Coles because THEY DON’T HAVE IT. I miss it.

So there you go. Simple man, simple shopping pleasures TORN away by Sunday class.

Vulture Street

Look I’m not going to lie, I’d love to be a culture vulture. This is mainly a shallow attempt to appear more interesting by surrounding myself with interesting people & attending interesting events. Interesting.

Whilst I’m building my ‘art’ base, Ill keep up with the old music. I always try to listen to ‘hip’ music & two of ‘hypist’ I’ve heard this week are Tilahun Gessesse & Dinah Washington. If these isn’t one of the best songs you’ve ever heard then I won’t talk to you again.

See how cool I am? Wow, what an ‘interesting’ kid. F*#king Art mate, I’m all about it

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