Hair

I went to the Melbourne International film festival last night and saw a great – uh – “documentary” called The Yes Men Save the World. These two guys give seminars to important CEOs that take the neo-liberal philosophy behind the free market economy to a wholly new level. Brilliant film.
S, A and I [...]

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Donnie G. is Bleeding

Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni, finished playing at the National Theatre Saturday week ago. I caught the last night of the performance with Bella. Through wind and rain we made our way on the tram from Brunswick across the river to St Kilda for a night at the opera.

The performance was enchanting. The lyrics were in [...]

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The Director’s Cut

The mechanism of our ordinary knowledge is of a cinematographical kind.  Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.  Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the Secret Name.  This corresponds to my Director.  He directs the film of your life from conception to death.  The Secret [...]

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Slave Mentality

I work for a company that researches social issues for various government departments, universities and non-governmental organisations. The company conducts surveys over the telephone and the interviewers will call private numbers from time to to time using what is called, random digit dialling.
Random digit dialling involves simply entering the first six or eight numbers to [...]

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