Disgruntalism

Josh is back online

July 16th, 2010

Well to be honest I never really left, I just haven’t updated my blog for like 5 months. So, this is an apology to my millions of viewers I pretend I actually have. Basically I spend more time creating a new website than actually filling the damn thing with content. Well anyway, my new website has ditched the name Disgruntalism, although it sounded cool at the time I now realize that everyone I know cant actually pronounce the name or know what the hell it even means, so I am on a quest to find the best domain for me, www.joshy.net sounds cool, my tag name Joshynet has stuck with me for about 16 years so I doubt it will ware off like Disgruntalism did. Slight problem though, some bastard already has the bloody domain name! The only way I can get the domain name is if I hire a team of ninja’s to go to this persons house and forcefully acquire the rights to it. Which seems possible in my eyes. Or I might just wait till the domain name registrar runs out and I can purchase it myself!…As long as they don’t renew it.

I need to get used to blogging again, this post probably sounds rubbish, or maybe all my posts sound rubbish? Please do tell me where I am going wrong.

Scientology..lol?

February 28th, 2010

Get ready for a post full of quotes from external sources (mostly the greatly reliable Wikipedia..)
This is my take on Scientology. Because the whole idea of it makes me laugh. So what is scientology? apart from it being a Hollywood trend, religion full of lolwut’s, or possibly a Hoax by L.Ron Hubbard himself, it is actually a religion, the fastest growing religion in fact. Anyway, heres some funny beliefs and other such jargon Scientologists believe in.

Xenu, according to L.Ron Hubbard (the founder of scientology) is ‘the dictator of the “Galactic Confederacy” who, 75 million years ago, brought billions^[4]^[5] of his people to Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs’.. So similar to Noah only if Noah had violently killed all of his rescued animals. I dont see why Xenu had to be so drastic, and why is the stacked around volcanoes even necessary, did Xenu go out of his way just to find volcanoes to ’stack’ a bunch of humans like Jenga?

Scientologists are, in my opinion, embarrassed about this belief because it is so outlandish. They keep it secret, or try to, although like anything if the Internet gets involved, everything gets leaked in the end.

Another con that the Church of Scientology is involved in is that Xenu is ‘normally only revealed to members who have already contributed large amounts of money’, so after contributing a bunch of cash you get a little Xenu gift pack? (probably containing that guys hat, above).

Perhaps after realising how easily humans (or more precisely, Americans) are influenced, L.Ron Hubbard decided to make a stupid religion based on most of his Sci Fi books (quick cut and paste job) so that he could make a quick buck?

I may get smited by thee Xenu for this blasphemy, which should be funny.

‘A DC-8 aircraft in 2004. Hubbard described Xenu’s spacecraft as looking exactly like DC-8s without “fans” (meaning the engines)’, An aeroplane basically? Not very original, Xenu, being an ET could have came in something a bit more extravagant.

L.Ron Hubbard uses the term incident to describe important events leading up to the creation of our known universe (I think). But with incident names like these?

1 A History of Man Incidents

My favorite is the Bubble Gum Incident.

Looks to me like L.Ron Hubbard made the religion for the lolz, and people just took it seriously. Much like when Christianity was created. Some guy just wanted to sell some story’s, mostly referred to as the Bible, but people just took him/her too seriously. Perhaps over time story’s go from story > myth > legend > truth.

Meh.

Remember me

February 7th, 2010

I had a conversation with a good friend of mine about this subject. And that subject is the fear we all possess of being forgotten. It is why humans have the urge to sign their name on things, whether the things are created by themselves, or just senseless graffiti. Perhaps it is even why I created this blog, to have some sort of imprint on the world, to leave a footstep so that people may possibly look at it when I am gone. Brad Pitt who played Achilleas in the film Troy talks about the same subject, about being remembered, and Achilleas sure was remembered. Now I am not sure if Achilleas actually thought these things because I am just basing what I am saying on a film, but either way what he says is very meaningful.

‘I woz ere 09′

‘What we do in this life, echoes through eternity’ – Gladiator. Another quote from a film, but such a great quote, because it is true for everyone, no matter how little or how much you achieve in life. Your actions create a chain reaction of future actions, although these future consequences may be very small, they are still there, and never cease to exist. The most obvious footprint is having children, although unlike great artists who get remembered because they put their name on their creations, your name is forgotten after a few generations, how many people know about their great great great grand parents? These artists and are then immortalized within that painting or sculpture or whatever art medium they used, whereas ordinary people will still leave a footprint, but the footprint wont be signed.

This thought has made me want to be remembered, I have also realised that I am not scared of death, I just don’t want it to happen yet! I have so much to do still.

I now work for Anfield

February 6th, 2010

Being a skint student, I need a job. Recently I applied to work in Anfield (Liverpool FC stadium for those living under a rock). They got back to me pretty sharpish to my surprise. I had an interview on the 3rd of Febuary, and an induction on the 5th, and I start on the 6th. I start on the worst day possible, well the second worse. Liverpool v Everton, the worst would be v Manchester United. It will be pretty hectic because there will be ALOT of people, because Liverpool and Everton are both home teams.

I find it quite ironic that I work for one of the country’s main football teams stadiums and I don’t like or follow football one bit. I do appreciate the game, and understand what it means to some people, and I love the support that the teams get, and the pride of the fans. But football has never really grasped me like it has so many other people. For example, when they said its the Derby, I thought Liverpool was playing Derby.. It is lucky I didn’t say that in the interview else I may not have got the job. I decided to keep my mouth shut about football throughout the whole interview/induction process. The next hurdle is being confronted by thousands of possibly drunk scousers, half of whom may be slightly miffed at their team loosing, all demanding pies. And the worst thing is, they might talk about football with me. I may reply: ‘Cooking pies is my game lad’. They might give me the pitiful frown that a retard often gets.

I love this statue

First of all I had to attend an interview which was on the whole well organised apart from it being one hour behind schedule. Looking around the room I quickly see that there is a mixture of students, middle aged people, and many Asians. I also realised that I was dressed for a gig and not an interview. I had my black skinny jeans on, and a black polo shirt, but me being a skint student, these were my smartest clothes. I enjoyed looking at peoples nervous faces, biting fingernails, and tapping feet. This took my own mind of the situation for a while until they called my name. I basically got interview by Ben Miller. He seemed to like me, and didn’t ask that many questions, he just went through my application and sent me on my way, telling me that I had an induction the following Friday, which was more eventful.

Not me

Walking into the induction, it looked pretty daunting. Having to sit around a table with a bunch of people I’ve never met before, the first words that popped into my head was ‘group activity’. I nearly soiled myself. But it wasn’t, the dude just went over what we will be doing etc. But everything was going fine, and I was pretty confident until I shook the guy sitting next to me hand. I ACCIDENTLY did one of those camp, weak an soggy hand shakes and immediately thought …oh crap. For some reason this made me really shy! He just looked at me strangely and never talked to me again, no loss.

Apart from that hic up everything went well!

I will blog about my experiences with match day tomorrow night! If I survive.

Random creations

February 3rd, 2010

I am only ever hungry, or tired now that I am at University. Mostly tired though. And I know the reason why. I am now nocturnal. I wont bore you with my messed up sleeping pattern, but it is now 4am and I am wide awake. So I figure why not use this time instead of wasting it just lying in bed thinking about how many imaginary sheep can fit inside my head. Recently I have made a pen tidy (yes I know, I am a nerd) and the ultimate student piggy bank!

Would this be classed as art?

Guess which is which

The reason for these two creations is simple, I was previously using a empty glass for both the pens and the loose change, now I have an extra glass handy! How exciting!

Pretty groovy hey?

Well I like it. I will probably cut myself on the rigid edges of the can though. That’s the price to pay to dig into my savings. Its a piggy bank with its own security system!

I am actually questioning my sanity when I see things like this after I have created them. Not so much this, because this has a use, but when it comes to the strange artistic sculptures I make in a state of mixed boredom and insomnia, I do get worried about my well being. And I feel sorry for people who come inside my room, they must think, ‘OK this guy is nuts, BYE’. (especially with the three naked action men sitting on my desk)

I need to start blogging during the day, and more often, my next post will be more intelligent and meaningful!

Here is a random photo I took, hope you like it.

Art is emotion

January 22nd, 2010

Recently I realised first hand that art is emotion, and even if you start out to make something completely different, it may end up turning into a recent emotion that one has felt.

Here is mine:

The face is remaining silent, but the shadow is wanting to speak.

More rubbish art! (art made out of rubbish)

January 22nd, 2010

Yet another momentary lapse of madness. Why chuck your rubbish away when you can make something out of nothing!
Here is some toilet tubes stuck together! How awesome!

Pretty weird huh? I started out with a tree in mind, and out came this monstrosity!

Please send the men in white coats.

Lucid Dreaming is amazing!

January 10th, 2010

Everyone likes having conversations about dreams, and everyone has had a deep conversation about them with someone else. They have talked about their most terrifying nightmares to the weird dreams that just don’t make sense. This is going to be quite a long post all about dreaming, and its wonder.

Dreams are cool and all, but imagine your most amazing vivid dream and times it by a hundred, and that is a lucid dream. Lucid dreams are when you are aware that you are dreaming, and that you are slightly more conscious than when you are normal dreaming. And with this you are able to manipulate what happens within the dream. With experience comes a greater ability to manipulate, although I have had several lucid dreams (they started about a few days after Christmas) I can still only slightly control what happens within the dream, and sometimes the dream goes sour and turns into a lucid nightmare!

Whenever I lucid dream It feels like I have pins and needles all over my body, and I THINK my eyes are slightly open and letting some signals go into my brain and therefore into my dream, because I can see around the room, but the dream world is mixed with it. Like half dream half awake. For instance one lucid dream that turned into a nightmare. I was lying in my bed, the pins and needles started and it felt like I was sliding up and down my bed, and then these two twin children was standing to the side of my bed. And started to bite me! It hurt! And it felt so real.

I think the image of the twins originated from this image:

Which I saw on my Dad’s Blog. I was able to wake myself up, for it being a lucid dream, you can ‘pinch yourself and wake up’.

Waking up

The first time I woke up from one I didn’t know quite what had happened, It was in my Grandparents loft, which is said to be haunted!, So at first it felt as tho a ghost or whatever was nudging me. Although I don’t believe in that sort of thing, I fooled my brother for a while. Waking up feels like being thrown back into reality.

Inducing a lucid dream

The method that I use…or should say accidentally use is waking up early, and then slowly falling back to sleep. This some how causes lucid dreams to SOMETIMES happen, I think because you know your falling asleep and are about to dream, and drift of with that thought in your head, once the dream starts, the thought is still there. Stress can prevent lucid dreams from happening, you need to be relaxed.

Out of body experience

At first I didn’t believe in these, but now I do. Although not in a spiritual or paranormal way. It is when you feel as tho you are outside your body and looking down on it. This morning I had what I thought was the beginning of one. I rose up out of the bed and into an upright position, and started hovering towards the edge of the loft (near the spooky cupboard where the haunted theory originates from) this is when I freaked out and woke myself up! Perhaps I didn’t have time to turn around and look at me lying in bed.

I am not female.. But that is exactly what it felt like.

Quite strange eh?

I really reccomend trying to induce them, because they are amazing and can feel fantastic, it is hard to describe.

It feels like being alive, but slightly different.

Bored at Uni AGAIN

January 8th, 2010

There are many things you can do if you are bored. You just have to look carefully. For this instance I made a small collage of discarded leaflets (mainly all advertising club nights, three months old).

I also had some help from a special someone.

Isnt my scanner amazing?