Tuesday, 6 January 2026

RIP KBL


For 17 years a woman has systematically repeatedly destroyed my life at every opportunity, out of malice, spite and envy. She has told me to my face her motive is because she is jealous. 


A week ago she was found dead. I suspect it was another vodka and pharmaceutical overdose, two years after the last time she did that, which gave her a stroke and put her in a coma. 


I have tried for years to get her the help she has needed. She was clearly psychiatric. 


In part because she misrepresented my attempts to get her professional help through the system as male domination, misogyny and undermining her sense of being “a strong independant woman who don’t need no man”, the authorities attitude has been to accuse me of being the problem and to not support her. 


She has reported hallucinating ghosts of dead babies clawing their way out of the walls to get to her. She has clawed and smashed holes in her walls and doors in an attempt to frighten them off her. There are witnesses to this. 


I do not believe I was ever the problem. I believe drugs, alcohol, bad decisions and bad company had made a psychiatric problem much worse. 


I have taken her to hospital for emergency operations after she has been involved in drunk driving incidents. I have done everything I was able to support her. I long ago stopped giving her financial support because she spent it on street drugs and vodka. She stated repeatedly the reasons she hated me is because I won’t fund her self-destruction. 


She had me wrongfully arrested for crimes she had organised, for revenge and as a joke. She would show off about it to my face when nobody else was around. Her friends were involved in that.


I did make police reports about her for some incidents. They would never act on it. The police told me that as a vulnerable female they would protect her rather than warn her, even when it meant for example whitewashing evidence supporting my claims. Including video’s threats of violence, text evidence of attempted blackmail and threats of further false allegations and theft of property. I do believe it has to do with her being a police informant albeit a corrupt one. She took dealers out to protect other dealers. 


Being the target of that level of domestic abuse by somebody like that is something I have had no support for. 


The National Domestic Abuse Helpline told me they are for women only. The idea of female to male domestic abuse is not something the local system workers are able to compute. Eventually I was told to ‘try mens sheds’ whatever that is. I had to explain I am heterosexual; there is lgbt crime support. 


There is no support for men who are put through this intense level of ongoing hate crime. 


I entered 2026 with news of her death. It’s a shock to the system. I am free of it. I don’t know how to feel. It’s data to process. Emotionally I am still stunned. I actually feel like I want to cry. It’s like coming up for air after bursting your lungs with suffocation for so long. 


She split me up from one relationship by telling my girlfriend I had been accusing her of being a pedophile. I never did. 


She and her friends split me up from one relationship by getting me arrested for animal abuse which I did not do and when that did not work they told my girlfriend I had slept with one of them. I never did. 


She split me up from one relationship by telling social services I had tried to kill a child and social services backed her and told my girlfriend I was a danger to children. My girlfriend saw through it but her parents and friends did not, they pressured her into ending things. 


The woman did not want to be in a relationship with me herself. I asked her if the jealousy was because of that. She said no. Said it was that she wanted me to know what it feels like to be controlled, and to have my life destroyed. She explained it by saying; “smash the patriarchy.” “All men are bastards.” “Let you know how women feel.” 


This post is in memory of her. 


RIP 



Thursday, 27 November 2025

Got my Studio Back Together

 

Studio Notes - Spring-Summer-Autumn - 2025


November 2024 saw a Tower Card whap-splat my life 

the flying magic carpet being slipped out from beneath my dancing feet. 

Gulp. 

Falling hard and fast for six months.


Today I sit in the new studio, 

gleaming like the glisten thing, 

listening to sounds of sacred magic instruments, 

bagged and boxed ten years ago and more. 


Got my shit back together. 

Got my studio back together.

Previously it was an underground music studio 

in a flat in Zooport city for my sins. 

Now it's in the White Room. 


It's been 17 years. 

Two cycles of 7 and a half. 

The numbers form a theme, 

etching shapes in their wake, 

surfing the dream sea of infinite potential. 


Problem being, technology has evolved in that time 

I got a push-button digital dreamscape in a box 

The likes of which we used to talk about 

Does it make the old school gear obsolete? 

Productivity from using AI competes 

with a huge skill set honed only of experience 


Don't know what to do about it 

The philosophy of Samplists is easy

All sound is a valid source of inspiration 

To be copied & crafted 

Into a new context 

Different than the original creative intent 


It's actually a better world 

But hey, 

We have all been compromising with the interface 

For so long now

It's just another tool in the box

Shaping us as much as we hope to shape it 


28 AI albums later 

Getting it out of the system

Before returning to the slow old ways 

Of real sound 

Of real Human artistry 

For what it is

Does it still hold up and compete in the new world? 

Who is to judge? 


Perhaps it has become a thing of the doing, rather than the sharing

And perhaps it always was 

Despite the sharing being the purpose

Musicians are channels who music flows through 

From whatever it is before it becomes music 

To the emotions of the audience

If there even is one 


But hey

We do it anyway


Music is religion 

Truth is God 





Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Island Village Britain


There is a village on an island.

The village has a population of 100 people.


Its sewerage infrastructure can sustain 60 people at a push, preferably 40 people.

The loose average is it can support 50 people maximum.


The population of the village is currently two times more than the sewer system can support. 

There is a lot of pollution, clogging the rivers and the sea around the coast.


Previously the Sea around the coast had fisheries and beaches. 

Fishing brought food.

Tourism brought money into the economy. 

Now, it has much less of that.

And it smells.


People and ecology are already negatively affected from the polluted water being full of excrement. 

It is going to cost a lot more money to fix it all, than what the village collectively has. 


46 people are the Traditional National Imported Religion.

(This compares to 15 years ago when 60 of them were the Traditional National Imported Religion. 

Mostly the reduction is because the older generation are dying of age).


37 people are atheists, believing in no God or Spirituality at all. 


11 of the people are from a Foreign Misogynistic Dominator Religion, 

5 of them arriving in the past 5 years. 


5 people are all of the Other Foreign Moderate Religions combined. 


At least 1 of the people is Imported Neo-Pagan Religion, possibly more.


Only 3 of the 100 people are the original indigenous bloodline 

who originally were 100% of the population before all of the other groups of people moved in. 

Archeology shows they have been here between 10K-12K years.


Although that cultural and genetic replacement of the original population 

by foreign colonists began to happen 1500-2000 years ago, 

it accelerated exponentially toward modern times. 


Only 1 of those 3 half-practise the Indigenous Pagan Religion of the Original Ancestors. 



The village is called Britain. 





Statistic from UK ONS (Office of National Statistics) 2025



Wednesday, 10 September 2025

2025/9/9 Hermits Portal

 






I trust astrology. It was taught me how all energy is electromagnetic, all energy seeks to balance, and all planets and stars affect the person because their alignment at the moment of conception establishes a grid for that individual which affects they life path. It's a hard science when you understand it electromagnetically and that we are energetic beings. 

Anyway, today (10th Sept 25) I saw a video posted to YouTube yesterday on the 9/9/9 which is described as 'The Hermits Gate'. This obviously makes a lot of sense to me as for the past few days I have been contemplating my hermetic lifestyle. 


Yesterday I was driven by overwhelming intuition to upload some albums to BandCamp. 


Here are the links: 





















Sunday, 23 March 2025

Lyva Vamity

 

Lyva Vamity 

just dropped a debut album

It’s a beast 







A voice of the 21st-century reminding us people do still think, in terms of albums. This one is definitive. A statement of our times. 


A seasoned studied pro ecstatic with achieving goals most of us can’t even dream of, says it all for all of us better than we know. 


100% proof distillation, roots of South Wales Bristol music scene, rock jazz electro rap dub drum and bass.


Spinning our collective cultural references, deftly handled, making the impossible seem easy. 


Takes us “beyond hip-hop”


A voice of our generation. 

A generation piece. 


I intended to do a review for each track individually 

but I got caught up with it 

The album is a portal of high octane creativity. 

It tells it as it is. 

After this album, the world is reset 

into a different trajectory. 

It needs to be played

on a loop. 




~SnakeAppleTree



Monday, 11 November 2024

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Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Station to Station

Station to Station



The ArtStation and AI protest, 2 years later.


The digital art platform Artstation was launched in 2014. 

It’s stated goal is “to empower artists so they can be independent and successful.” 


In 2021 Epic games purchased Artstation which many digital artists were using as their showcase gallery to seek employment within the games and media industries.  


In December 2022 anti-AI art campaigners organised and spammed Artstation with the now famous No-AI logo in a protest against ‘stealing other peoples art’. Unfortunately for the protestors the No-AI logo itself is copyrighted material since 2007. Effectively the protestors have collectively stolen a piece of original design by replicating it identically and spamming Artstation and other platforms with it to make their statement. Individual members of the anti-AI movement decided that it was worth taking the risk of hypocrisy and legal theft by seizing private goods for the greater good of the protest. 


Fortunately for the protestors the owner of the infringed copyrighted No-AI logo has a sense of humour and understands how using art in this way has a historical precedent and is necessary for cultural reform. That this awareness goes beyond personal prejudices and opinions regardless of any legal situation during any given generation. The extent to understanding and appreciation of the power and value of not censoring art is evident in the education the copyright owner of the No-AI image provides for his own child. This is evidenced by having taken the child to the Art And Protest exhibition in the nations capitol, an exhibition which featured zero digital art. It did have a Banksy. 


The visit to the national gallery occurred simultaneously to an actual protest occurring between the trainstation, government headquarters and BBC headquarters. Although that particular protest was against the government endorsed syllabus of promoting and normalising pedophilia in state schools, not directly about art until some of the images and accompanying text printed in the schoolbooks are called into question. That is entirely another matter to the T&C of Artstation which prohibits such content but does not prohibit imagery generated by an AI. 


Artstation resolved the conflict by installing a ‘see AI content yes/no’ toggle on their website which is widely regarded as a form of commonsense compromise, an easy solution. While the platform did continue to come under criticism by the most hate driven of the protestors for not outright banning AI within their domain altogether, it did satisfy most people that AI content should be labelled as such, the onus for doing so reliant on the platform user, the uploader of the imagery which benefits Artstation by exonerating them from any involvement with third party misuse of the platform. Likewise, the artists retain full copyright of any work uploaded to Artstation. 


In 2024 I discovered Artstation Magazine website which is in addition to and a separate platform than Artstation. It is also owned by Epic games. The copyright on Artstation Magazine website says 2024. I have been unable to determine if it existed prior to this as the information ‘when did art station magazine start?' is not available on google so far as I have been able to ascertain. 


It features four main categories; 


Develop Art Skills. Career Opportunities. Discover inspiration (triple-A games showcase). Industry News. 


There is not an AI thing in sight. Artstation Magazine seems entirely devoted to ‘digital art pre-AI’ which means they are doing a lot to keep people in employment with skills which developed in the 25 years since the Millennium Y2K and which hardly much existed before then to the contemporary accepted standard, certainly not in the practicality of the style-houses which have emerged since the dawn of high-resolution digital art.  


My generation of art training came from artists who lived and trained before computers. I was trained in the traditional art techniques from the academy allegedly founded by Da Vinci. At the time there was no differentiation between 'machines which replace the painting-with-real-paint with buttons and a mouse or graphics tablets', and 'machines which replace the painting-with-real-paint with using buttons and text prompts'. It was all considered computer art, put in the same box. It is not 'painting' if no actual paint is involved. 


It is digital art. None of it is ‘real art’ to the understanding of the last living generation of real artists who determined collectively that computer art will be the death of traditional art skills. This is comparable in the same way graphic-tablet-and-mouse digital artists have determined that text-prompt digital artists will be the death of art or more specifically of their income stream. Which as time has showed, if the short space of two years is sufficient to measure it by, was incorrect. It was nothing more than panic-based fear-mongering and targeted hatred. 


When I look at platforms such as Artstation and see no evidence at all of any actual paint or charcoal, nor the skills required to create what continues to be described by the majority as ‘real art’, I wonder at the intensity by which digital artists employed by a thriving industry have in defending their own generations unique method of creating visual imagery against all others, past and future. 




Friday, 6 September 2024

TheLatestHype


Nobody starts as a Professional.


People start as Amateur, progress through Adept and toward Master.


What makes a person progress beyond Amateur? 


Skill. Study. Experience. 


What do you get if you allow a machine to replace the development of 

Skill, Study and Experience? 


You get: no further development. 

You remain amateur for ever. 


When the market is flooded by amateur efforts created by machines, 

there is a demand for a separate, traditionalist market 

for people who are Adepts and Masters.  



“It evens the playing field” 


Says the pro-AI-writer lobby. 

So would giving amphetamines and anabolic steroids to Olympic athletes. 

There is a reason it is disallowed. 



“It dehumanises and reduces Human potential.” 


Says the anti-AI-writer lobby. 



“What if it is all we are capable of after having been dumbed down?” 


Ask the observant social commentators.  


If giving up on doing what is necessary, to become Adept and Master, 

is considered all you are capable of; 

you have not faced and overcome the very struggle 

which is a part of what develops a writer from amateur to adept and adept to master. 



“But I want to write a book and I am not a professional writer.”


I want to win the Olympics but I have to concede it is not my natural purpose.


‘I Want’ does not equate to developing any ability to achieve a certain benchmark. 


‘Professional’ is a word which means ‘in exchange for money’. 


THAT IS ALL IT MEANS.


It has less to do with Ability or Quality than ‘Professionals’ will confess to.



And yes, it is very obvious when writing is created by an AI. We can tell. 


Now if you will excuse me, 

I have to go back to writing ’5318008’ upside down in my calculator 

to convince myself I am a professional mathematician. 





Here is some stuff about The Latest Hype ™ ;




https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/29933455931412-What-is-NaNoWriMo-s-position-on-Artificial-Intelligence-AI


In short: 

While you do have a right to make badly forged paintings if you are unethical, 

most of us do not want to look at that crap anyway. 




https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/29929627478804--I-can-t-believe-NaNoWriMo-is-endorsing-a-person-company-who-does


In short: 

It is not up to us what you write and we refuse to discriminate against anyone. 

Fair enough. Good call.




‘AI is coming for the amatuer novelists. Thats Fine.’ By Gold Beckerman: 


https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/09/ai-is-coming-for-the-amateur-novelists-thats-fine/679696/



CagesOfTheMind

Cages of the Mind 

for the people who don't get it



‘transhumanism’ is everybody 

who left the forests, 

went to the plains, 

ate the mushrooms

learned how to 

rub sticks together

to make fire, 


transhumans are the ones who are using cars, 

transhumans are clothes wearers and hunters, 

transhumans are dishonest to hide magic in books 

so unborn people can be influenced by their vile ego, 


transhumans are the ones who reach for the stars 

instead of staying in the sea to feed the sharks, 


transhumans brush their hair and clean their teeth with tools, 

transhumans are characterised by their use of tools 

to expand potential latent in the original amoebic seed, 


transhumans is a very new word for a very old thing, 

we used to call it adaptation to improve the human condition. 


This is not the loss of humanity. 

We are only as human in the new land as we were in the last land. 

The humanity is that which we contain and bring with us. 


Those who fear the changes 

we will experience as we enhance 

and expand our potential, 

those who stay watching shadows in caves, 

we respect those too 

but sooner or later we realise, 

those are the ones 

who are only alive 

because we keep them in zoos


the cages of the mind




For the record,

I do not advise people to get a chip in your head 

The people who associate that with transhumanism

are asking for SnowCrash


Thursday, 29 August 2024

Global Dreadlock


"Hair are our aerials, man. It is through them we receive messages from the cosmos." 

Danny, Withnail & I 


The Global Dreadlock is One Dreadlock. We are all connected.

I have got around to researching some evidence that Dreadlocks are not a uniquely African hairstyle reserved only for African people, but are in fact found all over the world in many different civilisations.  As far as archeological evidence goes to prove anything much at all, some of that even predates African use of dreadlocks. It also reveals how different peoples wear dreadlocks for different purposes.

I am asking you to think about all of our common ancestors who did not yet have the technology combs.



Blogger is not uploading any pictures for me at this time so I will have to put the links instead. 



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadlocks

https://www.noireonaturel.com/le-blog/hair/the-history-of-dreadlocks-a-journey-through-time-and-culture/

https://icareifyoulisten.com/2020/04/out-of-context-4-muddy-ownership-dreadlocks/

https://www.esquire.com/uk/style/grooming/a34465402/history-of-dreadlocks/

https://www.dreadlab.co.uk/pages/dreadlocks-history

https://lionlocs.com/blogs/dreadlocks/history-of-dreadlocks

dreadlocks-myths

https://lionlocs.com/blogs/dreadlocks/what-is-the-spiritual-meaning-of-dreadlocks

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/greece/articles/does-the-origin-of-dreadlocks-stem-from-ancient-greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians



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