The year is ending in a few months

It’s bad enough with all the usual "Christmas" commercialism malarkey (TV-mas?) but now we’ve got the "Best Of The Century" lists. All "they" can do is make lists, not change any shit in the world! Me? I’m off to a gig of course. I won’t be a 21st Century Chick tho. Nah, I’m 20th Century forever!

Funny how nobody has mentioned that we are living in Armageddon in the media. Perhaps if they did it would shock people out of the apathy that lets it happen. Fancy being at war over history? the humans are self-culling, planet wide, over something that can never be changed. Thank Mother Earth for having an parallel universe, even if it is a bit Cloud Cuckoo Land to escape to.

Global warming and it’s disastrous results, a repulsive greed for and love of money, unfit world mis-leaders, poverty, bigotry, rising fascism, starvation, a record number of natural disasters and human tragedies. The aliens are well and truly in charge (i.e. those that the words "humane", "humanity" and therefore "human" have nothing in common with). The humans are well and truly not in control of their own destiny. The ones that think about it all too much become depressed at the futility of it all, the ones that rail against apathy receive cynical sneers, the rest are apathetic. I sometimes get down, I sometimes rant, I sometimes get out of my box and there are some things in this world that can make me forget all about real life completely for a while.

Attention is steered from what is really happening, rapidly, right under our noses, by Greed TV; Who wants to be a millionaire? Even the BBC runs long adverts in the disguise of a show about picking six numbers for the lottery. Fuck off. The people aren’t as stupid as the Market Researchers think. Or are they? Nah, none of my mates are, we are all very aware of what is going on. If people like us who can get out of our skulls regularly then blast them with loud music can think straight enough to know we’ve all bet set up and sold out, there is hope for the human spirit.

Planet Earth’s 21st Century values stink already.

Lucky I’m not mad on Sport. Greed TV has made thousands of people pay to be able to watch it now. You used to get it for the price of a TV license, now they want even more money. Soon we will have to pay to watch "acting" as the TV channels force us to go digital (or watch "docu-soaps", do the ordinary people whose lives they film get paid as much as actors would?) - why can’t we have the new technology as a matter of course? Money money money...yeuch!

Music helps me escape from all this shit. Rock N Roll on Planet Water is my parallel universe. I zoom around it’s galaxies having adventures like an alternative Indiana Jones. There is another side to Planet Earth that isn’t obsessed by barriers, war, hatred, greed, corruption, I call that Planet Water. Most of the humans could live happily where they wanted to on Planet Water (exactly HOW can you OWN a piece of a planet?) but the aliens won’t let them.

My friends all live there too. They care about people, about each other. They may not be society’s idea of model citizens but they know that there are more important things in life than the childish crap about wanting the biggest house/car etc How about knowing where your next meal is coming from and where your next shelter will be. We are all shapes and sizes and just one colour, human coloured!

Too many avoidable evils exist at the end of the most horrific century in Planet Earth’s existence. It isn’t going to get any better, it is visibly getting worse very quickly.

Planet Water is preferable. My friends and I want to make sure that their family and friends are happy and well, we wish that the people we depend on to look after our world weren’t scum.

We also want to know where the party is, how we can get completely off our heads, have a berserk night/week out and what time the band is on (this last item of information is of particular use to those that are actually in the band!).

Even our rock and roll is governed by the Ministry Of Music Information. My particular tastes in bands aren’t all allowed exposure, but me and mates stick two fingers up to that ‘cos at least we’ve witnessed some legendary experiences without any seal of approval! what a life!

I’m an old fashioned girl. Always will be. My favourite human traits are honesty, decency, love, sharing, laughter and a sense of humour. I like to think that everybody is a potential friend, and have many friends, some of them complete strangers. We’ve crossed each others passed talked, laughed, maybe even hugged, I never see them again but we are richer for it. I love random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty that can possess a human soul. Manners, honour, morals trust, old fashioned, dated values that a person raised by their Grandmother can see disappearing. I’m proud to be an uncool old fashioned type. I remain a 20th Century girl forever. I’m not serious that often, but I’m serious about the world I live in, so escapism to other planets is done with serious intent!

I think I might quite possibly be one of the happiest people on the entire planet some of the time. I know for a fact that I have definitely been one of the most unhappy people on the planet some of the time but when a sense of perspective washed over me, it eased the pain. Again, music has been the soundtrack of my nobody-from-nowhere’s autobiography.

To be crazy about music. What a strange thing apparently. "You mean you travelled 100 miles to see a gig???!!!". Oh at least (grins). Then, of course, to be obsessed by bands is a certain indication of being "sad". Anybody who has ever read a dictionary or been lifted by a musical recording or live performance will notice the irony of being called "sad" by such a person. Ha haa!

Anyway, fuck Planet Armageddon-Earth, sod the shitty 21st century and let’s rock!