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Disturbing situation [May. 5th, 2008|09:38 am]
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I happen to have, at the moment, a very broken computer which means less time and less privacy whenever I enter the realms of the internet. However, I attempt to fix the computer of mine and wether the outcome is okay or awful a new computer will be bought because I am tired of being stuck with the definition of tochnological instability. 

Oh, by the way: "Join the light side, we have WOOKIES". Y'know where you heard it first.

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Food made home [Apr. 22nd, 2008|09:47 pm]
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Stuff used in everything together:

Spelt pasta
bell pepper
lentils
rutabaga
shrimps
parsnip
carrots
cabbage
beans
broccoli
onion

.... Yeah
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You can call it whatever you want [Apr. 20th, 2008|07:47 pm]
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I actually happen to have a few thoughts on the "food crisis".

*. Haven't there often been some sort of shortage of food all over the world with starving people in most developing countries? I guess this has more to do with decision of distribution rather than there being too little food available. Whereas the amount of food coming out several of acres of countries there are some going directly to the slow production of cattle or similar "food products". Instead, the amount of meat production should be decreased and the amount of whole protein crops production - such as quinoa and buckwheat - should be increased. Don't believe an old scientific report from 1914 just because it is done on laboratory rats.

* A good problem of malnutrition of the world could be turned if we went back to organic farming. This would, of course, mean a different type of farming in general, but it would also solve the unemployment problem of the modern world which haven't been solved in many development countries with the addition of industries.

* Spend less resources on producing "fuel crops".

* Consider what people really need instead of growing drug plants, tobacco plants, using resources to produce a giant sortiment of alcohol or cookies or candies and instead give people what they really need. Several potential acres of arable land is used for something more decadent than feeding the world's population.

* As I mentioned earlier the production of meat should be decreased, about to the half of it's current production. The fish of the world should be left for at least four years each to regrow; then a system of only fishing certain spieces within a cycle of four years til' the next "harvest" - and more seasonal dependant - should be developed and deployed in order to prevent overfishing.

* The cities contain several good spots for farming: The roofs, the parks, etc, etc. This would also lessen the amount of alienation often inherited in most city-dwellers by means of a communitydriven project of caring for the rooftop gardens etc etc. This would also mean that the amount of cars and transportation of cities should be reduced to as little as possible.

* A largely in the west unexplored source for food: Insects. Entomophagy have it's advantages over the occasional meat-production. Even if the idea in our society is seen as something disgusting we might note that our diets would be seen as disgusting by other people of the world. This does require, though, that we return to organic farming with companion plants and crop rotation in order to not ruin the insects with pesticides. A biodiversity of a crop field will prove as effective, but less decadent, as the current industrialized farming.

* People's private gardens hold many potential resources for growing plants for food. Wether or not they will decide to grow in their own gardens or not is the decision of theirs, of course. It is, however, better to use all available soil as possible rather than just letting everything we eat be made from another country. Some of us might be post-industrial but that doesn't mean that we are, or should be, post-farmers!

I'd like to note that I am no expert in this cause, nor do I have the "exact statistics" of either idea or alternative to compare with. This is beyond just the food resources problem. The way we treat our precious arable land at the moment is too decadent and too short term. Many problems of the modern world would be solved if we just changed our society to grow less on the paper (as economy wants it to do) and be growing more things instead. It is a utopia, some might say, but at least a sensible and nicer utopia than a barren earth devoid of any arable land, biodiversity or the likes just because we wanted to keep with chemical farming, the usual distribution of products, etc, etc. We won't just need change the way we see food, but also eachother.

Now: Discuss!
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All you can see is unlove [Apr. 19th, 2008|02:31 pm]
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As Don Claude, the faux-french from le cellar, I happen to get surprised every now and then. The surprises come from people's reaction on the net on either my music, my blogging or, as in this case, on of my video's.



The video is for the song Micke hatar Stellan of the album Failed Design released in early 2006. My first "chart hit". The song, and video, have also become one of the first things most people seem to encounter on the net. Earlier this week I investigated the amount of links under the option "statistics" at Youtube to see if anyone linked to the movie from somewhere unknown. Some of the links where gone, passworded or broken. But one happend to come from a Facebook group.

Over at facebook a group created in the honour of "hating everyone and everything" had the movie embedded by the group's moderator. His comment on my blurry and amateurishly made non-budget music video is "GOT DAMN I HATE THIS SONG" while another member have added his charming comment saying "got damn that sucks". What they don't know, however, is that I am once and forever flattered that they hate - or unlove, as I like to call it - my video, my song, well, indeed my artistery in this sparse moment.

For the first time I am feeling like a real star. They act typical critics of the net with their straightforward and honest comments on my proudest moment in life. Thus they make me almost cry, not because they unlove me, but because I feel celebrated. My music appeal and unappeal to people, it is not just something people can like, they can hate it too. Hate and love connected in an entirely wonderful unlove. These two critics have done what I've dreamt of for so long, they have embedded my video somewhere I can watch it be hated, spit at, unloved in the best sense ever from two shorthaired and tight-shirt-wearing guys who are into the glorious unhated sport of soccer. They even unhate the same soccerteam.

As I said, this is the truest moment of artistery in the age of the internet age. When people you don't know anything about and who don't even know you but your video and music say a small and unloving little comment displaying their most and direct feelings. We all love direct comments that never cite what it is that makes someone hate something. Let us all stop being meximalists! In with minimalism again! Let it be post-minimalism even! One word describing how we feel and let it not be the word "good". Good is bad, and bad is wrong, and wrong leads to eternal damnation AND HOT BURNING FIRE!

So, with this new launch in my career I can finally try and estimate that my artistery will be worldwideweblike by the end of the next five years. All thanks to two unloving souls who decided to bring my video and song in the light of their unlove.

Hopefully we will all stay unloving friends for the rest of our lifes. With their unchockly application filled and unhorribly arranged facebook profiles I see no other future for us. Hooray for uncelebrating!
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