All credit to Seth Rosen — Original video (no seizures/music) can be found here: http://vimeo.com/13725496

song: Excision – Know You

Since this video was unjustly banned from youtube (they ignore parady fair use exemptions, apparantly), I fair-used it up some more with some fancy music and video effects. :)

They ended up banning it again but I won my fair use claim… :)

I’ve also started making videos for the TVPMusicProject. This is my first contribution. The song is… hectic, to say the least, and I tried to make a video to match. :)

song: TVP Planet Earth – Czar Gomez
video: Aaron Moritz (http://youtube.com/saydaysago2008)

fuck them and their bowing to the corporatocracy,

they also removed all copies of mia’s video “born free”, because it contains graphic depictions of the truth. luckily, on the internet, once youtube has fully descended into corporate whoredom, there will always be a replacement waiting. so here’s mia’s video, on vimeo.

information cannot be stopped.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

and yeah, I’m gonna keep using their service to upload my videos, because it’s convenient and useful, and I’m comfortable only in the fact that I am using what they offer against them.

So. If I wait for a holiday, could it stop my fear? Because that’s what they tell us. Sure you work 5-7 days a week until you’re too tired to do much else but watch tv, or, if you’re really ambitious, get drunk and party. As long as you aren’t thinking critically and openly challenging the system, well, your life is just as it should be.  Maybe not perfect, but hey, you get two weeks paid vacation, right? Can’t be all bad. We’re only asking for 96% of the weeks of the year, 71-85% of the days of the week, and 65% of your waking hours each day. And that’s not even counting all those paid holiday’s days you get. Almost one every month! What the FUCK are you complaining about, people?

We give you two weeks to travel, unwind, relax. Forget the stresses of the work day, the ones that eat at your soul and crumble your desire to do anything truly productive. It’s not our fault that by the time your vacation rolls around you’re too tired to be creative or inventive or even think. Maybe you aren’t drinking enough caffeine or eating enough addictive, high-calorie meals from McDonalds and Burger King.

Maybe the problem is you. Maybe you’re just lazy. It’s not the system that makes you that way, you were born lazy and you should be grateful we allow you to work for money, or you wouldn’t be motivated to do anything and society would collapse. We don’t dampen the intrinsic creative and inventive drive of the human spirit, human beings are lazy. The fact that 50% of people in the United States volunteer their time for free to various charities doesn’t mean anything. If we weren’t here to hold out the carrot you people would never walk.

Control over the people is responsible for all progress.

So take your break, your vacation, your weekend and enjoy it. If it doesn’t quite seem to be enough, well, that’s obviously a problem with you. Maybe you should go see a shrink, because you might be maladjusted to the human labour market.

“God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables — slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”

Ok first I have to get into what I think causes homosexuality. There is no gay gene, at least not that anyone’s found yet. Just like there’s no criminal gene and there’s no nice gene, behaviour does not seem to stem, in general, from the genetic level. The best they’ve found are some dna markers that seem to correlate with homosexuality, sometimes. All that means is that more gay people have this marker or gene or whatever than straight people. But not all of us have it, and not everyone who has it is gay. I don’t understand why some gay people keep hoping for this genetic basis like it will somehow validate our existence. I guess maybe they think it’ll shut up those maniacs who want to cure homosexuality. The proper argument to use there is not that it can’t be changed because it’s genetic, it’s that there’s no reason it should be changed.

So back to the original point. Since it’s not like females are genetically somehow more open to experimentation. It’s completely societal. And it’s not even like it’s been a constant in every society throughout history. In fact most of these examples support the idea that same sex behaviour is mostly environmental. The most commonly known example is that in Ancient Greece, most men of any type of stature had a male lover. It was just something every guy did, usually in addition to his wife. ‘Male Azande warriors in the northern Congo routinely took on young male lovers between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with household tasks and participated in intercrural sex [[thigh fucking...hahahah]]’. For native americans, “Two-Spirit” individuals were shamans, in fact they were usually considered to have powers greater than regular shamans, and had regular sex with “normal” male tribe members. Homosexuality was an ‘integral’ part of buddhist monastic life and the samurai tradition in Japan. Every Roman Emperor (except for one) had male lovers. A few cultures in Papua New Guinea even went as far as to consider heterosexuality at all a sin. Though I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around how that worked.
*All this info raped from wikipedia.

So my point is that more guys would experiment (hopefully with me) if we didn’t live in such a repressed fucking bullshit Christian society. Because apparently when everyone else is doing it almost every single guy in a society is ready to get down with a dude or two.

While I’m sounding bitter I just want to add that I wish gay guys would stop internalizing these offensive fucking stereotypes that they show on Will & Grace and Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Well, more like I wish the stereotypes weren’t there to internalize. I could go on about this but I’m at risk of offending some of my own people (I think it’s dumb we are even grouped together based on having one behavioural trait in common) and I don’t want to do that because us gay people have it rough enough.