EvOluTion - MoNkEy BuSinEss

Watching the original Planet of the Apes 1968 version ( not the shit remake) has got me thinking!

In the 150 years since Charles Darwin popularised the idea of evolution, fossil hunters have identified between a dozen and 20 species of hominid, which have been grouped into five families.The journey from the last common ancestor of chimps and humans resembles a voyage through a maze, full of paths that look promising but turn out to be dead-ends, or paths that separate only to perhaps merge again later. The dozen or so known hominids are scattered throughout the maze.

So what's the story so far? A common ancestor of chimps, gorillas and humans probably lived eight or nine million years ago. Gorillas went their own separate way, followed by chimps - mankind's closest living relatives. The split with chimps used to be thought to have taken place about five million years ago, new findings may push this back to six million years ago.

"Early hominid evolution was very complex. Nature was conducting experiments in how to be human. All but one 'failed' and that one gave rise to later humans."

So basically there was cross breeding going on for a few million years before we evolved to be humans!!MMMM? It always freaks me out when you go to a zoo etc...and watch the chimps with their tiny 'human' like hands playing with food. I think, 'fook I used to be a chimp', albeit a few million years ago. ;-D
A chimps life seems ok, swing around in the trees, eat some food, shag, throw shit at passers by!!! Where did the human race go wrong? Why have we made life so complicated?

You have got to ask yourself sometimes 'where is the human race going?'

Will evolution reverse in the future so we become chimps again? Would the country be better run by chimps? Has the human race evolved as much as it can and what are we going to evolve into in the future? What if there was a nuclear war and the human race was wiped out, how would evolution occur again and what would be the results? Somewhere in the Universe there has to be something better than man?Was evolution a success when you look at the state of the world and the human race?

The only conclusion I can reach, is that something drastic needs to happen/change soon or we are heading for some sort of endgame!

Laugh now but one day we'll be in charge!!!! Mwah mwah :-D

LoVe MuSiC HaTe RaCiSm - GiG

Not getting too excited but looks like I could be playing a major part in organising a gig in support of Love Music Hate Racism in November!! Two main bands playing could be Imperial Leisure and Little Comet!!The wheels are in motion!!! V V V excited!! :-Dx

NottingHaM MaRATHON ReLay - Everyman Charity

Team now sorted for the event;

1st leg Chris - 31 mins
2nd leg Me - 32 mins
3rd leg Junior - 40 mins
4th leg Stuart - 35 mins
5th leg Keith - 33 mins

Total projected time - 2hrs 51

No alcohol for at least a day!! Looking forward to it! It should be a fun day...we have raised about £300 so far for EVERYMAN charity. But, I would really like to win the event!!! :-D
Don't be a spanner check your nuts!!!!!!

TiMe AnD LoNeLiNess - eLEaNOR riGby by DouGlas CoupLanD

"I wish modern science would invent a drug that causes time to feel much longer, the way it felt when you were a child. What a great drug. A year would feel like a year, not ten minutes. Your adulthood would feel long and full instead of like some out-of control carnival ride. Who would want a drug like this? Older people, I'd guess-people whose sense of passing time has hit the acceleration pedal.

And I guess they ought to invent a drug capable of the opposite effect. Again, there'd be no immediate sensation, but after a year of the drug you'd say, Wow! Has it been a year already?It feels just like yesterday. Who'd take that drug? Me when I'm lonely. And prisoners with life sentences."
Here's a third notion: what if you had to choose just one of these drugs? which one would you choose?
I would like to be able to choose either when I wanted to..e.g. I hate waiting so I speed up things... When you go on Holiday and it is over so quickly, I would slow it down to make it seem longer! :-D

I guess that alcohol is the closet thing we have to a drug that makes time fly. It makes time fly in the short term, and in the long term it obliterates memory-which is, of course, a way of erasing time!

The reason I love reading Douglas Coupland is because he always, without fail, makes you think of the world we live in. Eleanor Rigby is a story which concerns adult loneliness. An increasing issue in our society today. This is because, "The particular stresses of modern life tend to make people particularly vulnerable to loneliness. Changes in employment practice, a rising divorce rate, and the fact that people can more easily move away, have caused many to suffer the ache of loneliness. A considerable number of people in all age groups now live alone." (Mind 09)

I particularly remember how my Grandad was when my Grandma died. I ended up moving in with him for nearly 2 years before I went to university. I had only been gone 2 months when my mother was advised that he should go into sheltered accomodation. I felt awful but there was nothing I could do. He couldn't cope with being on his own. Even though I was barely in the house, he knew I would be there at some point during the day/night to talk to. The thought that there are people out there who don't talk to people for days on end makes me feel very sad indeed. The move to sheltered accomodation worked well. He had other grumpy old people to talk to.He lived there for nearly 5 years before passing away. I still miss the old git!! :-Dx

The story Behind Elanor Rigby

Like many of McCartney's songs, the melody and first line of the song came to him as he was playing around on his piano. The name that came to him, though, was not Eleanor Rigby but Miss Daisy Hawkins. In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song:

"I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head... Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church. I don't know why. I couldn't think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad's a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name McKenzie."

He originally imagined Daisy as a young girl, but anyone who cleaned up in churches would probably be older. If she were older, she might have missed not only the wedding she cleans up after but also her own. Gradually, McCartney developed the theme of the loneliness of old age, morphing his song from the story of a young girl to a elderly woman whose loneliness is worsened by having to clean up after happy couples.

Eleanor rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father mckenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

HoW mAnY Selfs Do We Have?

"If our subconcious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep inside ourselves. It'd be just another feature on our face, like a nose."

How many Identities do we have? or how many selfs?

Your public self
Your private self
Your secret self
Your dark self

We spend so much time in our live's pretending..(our public self) do we really know who we are?Who we want to be? Who we should be? Who we shouldn't be? Who the fuck are we?Just puppets working for a wage and buying into the capitalist dream of owning as much as we can? The more we have makes us more successful? Or does it? Money = Happiness? No money = Unhappiness? The best things in life are free? Money means that I can have what I want? I like asking questions but I wish I had some answers!!! :-Dx

IgNorE tHe IgNoraNt - tHE CRIBS

 

I think the new Cribs album is a 'grower' rather than an 'instant hit' of an album. The songs are more rhythmic and mellow in comparison to Men's Needs which contained more jagged angry anthemic tunes.I have only listened to it about 4 or 5 times but the Johnny Marr's influence is obvious. Just take a listen to the first single taken from the album 'Cheat on Me' and the 'melodic Smithesque' guitar sound is evident.

The Cribs have been one of my favourite bands of the last few years, ever since I heard the track Another Number on Steve Lamacq in 2004.  They have developed as a band over the last three albums with a distinctive sound all of their own. The Wakefield twang in 'Hari Kari' makes me smile. I am not sure that the fans they gained from their last album will enjoy this as much as it isn't as instantaneous but persevere as sometimes the best albums are the ones you need to listen to for a while before loving them. Fave tracks so far, Last Years Snow,City of Bugs and Nothing. Definitely an 8/10 album, maybe a 9!defo a 9 :-Dx

They are also a great live band and I am going to see them tonight in Camden at a tiny venue called the Barfly, it holds about 200 people!!  Advertised as;

The Cribs Play the London Barfly

The Cribs will play a very special and very intimate gig at London's Barfly on the 6th of September to celebrate the release of 'Ignore The Ignorant'.

I haven't been this excited about a gig in ages. I might actually get to meet Johnny Marr... :-D