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2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

@ Molly-Rose. @Hitch Fan. @ Raccoon Society,
Hey Hitch Fan & Raccoon Society, Hey Molly-Rose :)
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I perused a quote about reason and faith, here, so just wanted to leave a quick insight. Times still ticking. So, get ready, like the countdown goes, remember get your dose of Caffeine and ample supply ready, time is here and now, handy keys to the DeLorean, ready, count it down .... 4,3... is seven,2,1... twenty-one go!
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Bringing in “reason” as a debatable perspective is an arbitrary moot inception of hanging on over a cliff after getting caught in suspended animation. In earnest, I’d rather crony up with a like-minded anarchist that befuddles the imposition-ers of faith is somehow equatable to ever be torn asunder by absence of reason as a supposed and dull exploitive of why not to have faith or presumes faith constraints reason. How tired and bored is that perspective, faith is sans reason, etcetera, as how tired and uninspired the word medley of “how tired and uninspired” is in a sentence. Truly, think, open-mindedly, if you are going to stand to incept reason into the mixture.
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Faith is not constraint of reason. Human expectations are the constraint of reason. When you expect an outcome, expecting defies the natural progression of reason and the possibilities of reason, cause and natural common-sense by reason. Esp if an expectation is only geared or rendered for a specific outcome that is meant to propagate a furnished idea – that is what constraints reason and undermines reason. Faith itself is not a constraint in and of itself.

Faith scrutinizes reason in the same manner that reason scrutinizes faith. Even if you are construing my comments in a sense of Biblical faith, (my own affections on Faith is, faith is faith, regardless of own individual’s personal sentiments) it should be applied to bare it as a pertinent truth of your conscience, if it is in tune with your own accordance of Faith. The insight is similar of a notion and passage Mat Devine shared in a previous entry, from the Bible in 1 Thessalonians “"Test all things and cling to that which is good." 1 Thes. 5:2
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The insight is, by mere contemplative states of the least of reality that is truly, utterly, ever known or knowable is dependent upon the realization those that follow the limited intelligence of humanity are no different or variable than those who believe in an infinite power or being. Except, that, the latter ones are not contained w/ limits of other people’s interpretations as to what the individual(s) believe or have faith in believing. In other words, of course, there is an open defiance of censorship. As the effect of censorship in many formulations is non-productive or progressive, plus attempts to suppress individuality and environmental compatibility and functionality. Individuals have an innate right and will, to believe / have faith in what sets their own life in accord with how they truly feel and be able to live according to a sound in-tact own conscience. The utopic is it ought to be a morally/ethically approach that is not projecting undue negative renderances into another person’s life. Give and take , choose battles, our world is further everyday from a utopia considering the majority has shunned itself to ignoring the dystopic qualties that are here right now and that media at large has veiled in elaborate dunce cap shrouding that dystopic societies are in the future although the dystopic future written about as Fiction is actually happening now. If you need hot lead dead giveaway tell-tale, read the Hunger Games. Reality shows and a corresponding match like Survivor and the way our governments handle it citizens and slowly revolve into revolutions is starkly illuminating in contrast to what science and governments would sooner have you believing recently. Citric awakening happens, just like heads up 7-up, goes round by round like kisses on the forehead of what you’re willing to fight for and go to battle.
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Morning tune ready for the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs
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Personally, I think, plus, prefer, to be limitless w/ willingly choosing to have faith in an infinite that harkens possibilities that exuberate all realities and endless potential for the greater good and bless those who are willing with talents that incorporate into their environments rather than something that devoids humanity of its own existence and destroying itself within by the contraptions of limiting itself like is so often seen and has already been duly established by the acts of science and people having a follow mentality to the state of science and scientists own propulsions of ideas and constructed basis’s that are feasibly assembled for mass production to the herd mentality that those of lower I.Q’s or sheer follow mentality will gobble up without having to test and proof it and prove that the theory itself or basis of scientific belief is sketchy. Esp taking into vantage perspective, equal opportunity intelligent licensures that can compute the information readily on-hand and disseminated to be shredded apart by the citizens sans academic luxury degrees handling inspecting statistics, quantities and exacts, in other words, the scientific misnomers blatantly compiled as derivations alleged to be fact sans exact intricate intra-acted ways of actually testing and provable.
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Thus this ///.... “"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me." ~ Christopher Hitchen ...////
The quoted sentiment is also a mentality that ought be evenly distributed and thus applied to science in the same rigor of scrutiny; otherwise, science in a whole would be an easily reasonable standing on reason sham completely. People whom fully put their faith (be earnest and real, that that’s what is happening) into science, as a bunch of atheists often do blindly, are, again, as I wrote briefly to “Fellow Heathen” no different than the people they claim they are different from whom have faith including certain atheists that are attempting to devalue those individuals whom believe faith in God or deity/deities, et al. So, let’s prevent the ostracization by some ethos that eludes incorporating the fragility of the argument done towards only shunning the hypocrisy of its actions in statement, as is clear with the ///....“Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”...//// bit of the quote. Anyone with a brain embedded permeating reason plus own foresight is able to tear it tinker tape red, pulling apart the fallibility of the application of exclusion. So, well, let’s say it for what it is, for those who may get a bit riled or bewildered by the notion that that Hitchens quote has to be able to stand soundly to its own accord and then some to win over anything in such a debatable topic of query. Which whoever posted it aka the person behind “Hitch Fan” left it to, what is surmised as an attempted permissive gainer for something it isn’t rather than be seen for what it is. It is what it is; so let it stand to be, and let it be what it is.

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So, what to do, what to do…carry a smile, just smile at all times, esp. smitten. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrbAUjBbvU&ob=av2e
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Charles Kingsley, said, ///....“And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand—the habit of mind which theologians call—and rightly—faith in God.”...////
If you consider the application of – ///....“we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand”...//// – you would sooner or later come to deriving the conclusion, if you apply it to theologians that it would then need fairly be dispersed to be applied to scientists and science’s schematics, as well.
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Since, yes, a bunch did catch the flip-syde subtleties and am no longer so-so much M.I.A on-the-grid stats as prior (except at a backwards C//S, let those bones right ;) and sticking true and loyal to odes n’ codes Patrick Henry stylistic lovers “Give me Liberty or Give me death” stance of a prose writer and a bit of an unconventionalist, by art and its unconfined nature, I’d rather par up with movers and doers and standers, with the following quotes. As, this vantage scope of the playing field is where and why art comes into play and tests the grounds. Art endures. Art offers the companionship of the formidable connections of now, urgency and longevity. Legacy – such a regale atoning attenuation intonation inflection to the word while delivering an infliction to naysayers. Cruxly, appropos, regardless, if all there is, is this, every day, every time, I’d rather know within all is aligned in my soul anytime death knocks. Just, must gotta have something to share and faith upon for all those marvelous and wonder-filled death feats after-all. Nil sin Numine.
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Maybe humanities’ expectations need to be readjusted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw
“Skepticism Is The Beginning Of Faith.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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///....“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”...//// ~ Blaise Pascal
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///....“I heard once of an American who so defined faith, "that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue." For one, I follow that man. He meant that WE SHALL HAVE AN OPEN MIND, AND NOT LET A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH CHECK THE RUSH OF THE BIG TRUTH, like a small rock does a railway truck. WE GET THE SMALL TRUTH first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, BUT ALL THE SAME WE MUST NOT LET HIM THINK HIMSELF ALL THE TRUTH IN THE UNIVERSE.”...//// ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula
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///....“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other...except through faith.”...////~ Stephen King
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///....“That in such righteousness /// To them by faith imputed they may find ///
Justification towards God, and peace /// Of conscience.”...//// ~ John Milton
Ciao.
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NL7, hi-5alive! on January 25, 2012 at 04:11 PM
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Mat I recently started my GCSEs and I'm stressing out so much. I've only had two exams so far and they were Maths and History. I have to resit my maths because I didn't get a C and I think I have failed my history exam.
I learned today that you have to get at least a C in Maths, English and Science to be able to get into sixth form and I started crying because I don't think I'll be able to get into sixth form now. But to be able to do what I want when I'm older I'll need to go.

Becky on January 24, 2012 at 03:59 PM
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Hey Mat! I think you might find this interesting.. Especially the lack of information we've gotten about ACTA.

http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/01/things-you-need-to-know-about-acta.html

hanners on January 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM
20 QUESTIONS- Lightning Round PART II: My Breakup with Snooki, Marriage, Music, Public Puking and more...

Mat, what do you think a cure for shyness and when you can't say things right around people you like is ?

Valerie on January 21, 2012 at 01:15 AM
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Dear Mat,
I am 16 and I've been invited to my mum's best friend's birthday do in April. She's having it in a posh Hotel and Lodge in the countryside and it sounds great! It's strictly 18+ but I've been told I'm allowed to go which is great!
The catch? I have no idea what to wear. It's advised that girls wear address and, after prom, there is no chance in hell that I will be caught wearing a dress! It made me feel so uncomfortable. So, I need your advice. What should I wear? I don't exactly have a lot of money to spend and I don't want to go looking like someone I'm not. Have you any ideas? Oh, I forgot to mention, it's a masquerade so any thoughts on what type of mask I should go for? Thanks Mat, see you in March.

Hannah

Hannah on January 20, 2012 at 04:27 PM

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Back Home in the CHI.

Posted on February 27, 2009 at 08:58 AM

Back home from NYC. Bi-polar appetite for tunes lately. Listening relentlessly to Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley (1995) and Afterlife by Avenged Sevenfold (2008). The guitar solo in Afterlife is literally beyond my comprehension. -also on repeat is Kiss Them For Me by Siouxsie, who I dream about pursuing for a KH duet- other then that, it’s just NPR and Youtube vids of snowmobile crashes and bear attacks and things.

our friend Kat Von D came through town for a book signing, and the next day I gave her and her sis a short walking tour of the city, which was cool. Dan, greg, jonny and i might jet out east to Bam’s next week for her B-day party, which I can imagine being equally wonderful and seriously dangerous. My liver is quivering in anticipation.

I was spending time on my Crackberry unsubscribing from email lists when I came across this little piece of digital gold that some German site called Dank Haus sent to me:

WTF! i wonder if i could hire them just to hang out in my kitchen and “keep the energy high" for a couple hours a day while i work. "Hey, Prinz Bobby, it's mat again. um, my energy is getting low? yeah, i'm gonna need you to drop by in your fuckin Klu Klux Dreamcoat and stir shit up a little."

here’s a t-shirt I just designed in defiance of fashion week.

two pieces given to me by Wirrow, my favorite new young artist from england

this is the scariest thing i own

My piano

View from my window. -and that's the perma-cloud that puts my spirit in a headlock every day

view from my window at night.

B&W raccoon print from a NYC bar

And finally, as a token of my appreciation to the loyal raccoon readers, I give you 2 riotous Remixes of my hero, Christian Bale’s, on-set meltdown.

If these don’t make you laugh, then we must differ so greatly on such a fundamental level that we probably couldn’t ever be friends. ever.

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Escape To NYC. Let's get ugly one time.

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 02:18 PM

As loyal, patient readers to this inconsistent blog will tell you, when Papa Raccoon goes AWOL for a while, I usually return bearing strange tales and intrigue from some ill begotten adventure-

you should that, here in the studio, as I type, I smirk. Firstly, cos it’s getting impossible to contain my excitement for the new KH tracks, and also because I'm wearing what I believe to be the most majestic shirt ever to cover my gangly bones. ¾ sleeves and extra thick cotton that I think is woven with asbestos. I defy anyone to put a price on fashion that makes u gag and laugh at the same time. drink it in

Speaking of fashion and getting ugly, the escape artist in me struck again, and jumped a prop plane to NYC for a change of scenery and a prime opportunity for irresponsible gallivanting.

Turned out to be the start of Fashion Week, and within a few hours of landing, I was sitting at a Charlotte Ronson runway show, across from Lohan, who looked sharp and who’s swarm of paparazzi I found to be literally terrifying. Barracudas. The clothes were great- she chose a 30's/40's G.I. military bigband/swing theme that i liked. Heres a pic of sean lennon and some models off to the side

-reconnected with old cronies and crashed in the St Marks area, a place that holds a great deal of nostalgia for me. When we were 14, my best friend and i used to step over heroin addicts on these very corners to buy Ramones records and Smiths posters and things. then we’d jump the subway to Chinatown for fireworks and throwing stars, and to try like hell to convince some clerk to sell us porn. kids. Nun chucks and explosives, no problem. Hash in Washington Square Park if we wanted it, ours. Magazines with nude photos? Not until you’re 18. "Get out of my store you little punks."

Had a few prohibition-era cocktails at a speakeasy called PDT, which is sequestered in an unmarked Japanese takeout shack. Enter the concealed antique phone booth in the corner, say the right thing into the receiver, and the rear wall opens to reveal a hidden bar, where a little geisha girl ushers you to your booth. Ours had a dead raccoon over it, which for some reason at the time, I took as a good sign.

note proper drunken hunchback form. -dont know why i'm dressed like Rob Lowe from St. Elmo's Fire

When your toxified body spills out to a new york city morning where the sidewalks spin, and the magnetic poles in your brain have been reversed, there are certain things you don’t want to see. Like a dog taking a shit, or the garbage from a Korean butcher, or this church sign.

I mean really, get creepier. Fuuuck. Want to go in and pray? No thanks I’d rather watch Deer Hunter by myself again

Flight home: I find I have written B G D E in large letters on my hand, which must be a chord progression to explore when I land. Also at some point i'd scribed the word FRAUD on my arm, which I recall was both a good idea for a clothing company as well as a statement of fact. Sifting through my tuxedo pockets I found another note written to myself on paper for once instead of skin. It seems that, while semi-obliterated, I must have come up with some new additions to my growing list of imagined ‘worst band names of all time.’

The Midnight Snaxx

Ricky Loves Cock (this i noticed had been carved into a wooden tabletop at a pizza place on Bleecker st.)

New Kids On The To Kill A Mockingbird Block

-and apparently a ballad entitled You Can Be My Fag Hag I Will Be Your Beard

That note was accompanied by this Mark Twain quote, torn from a magazine:

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

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All Quiet On the Midwestern Front

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 06:01 PM

Drinking: 2005 Mitolo jester Shiraz

Watching: Man on Wire

Listening to: M83, NPR All Things Considered

The official title of this photo perfectly summarizes my mood right now: Vacant and Awaiting Demolition.

I’m looking at the buildings outside my window just hissing in the frost. How could you not fall into torpor in a climate like this... It’s subhuman. I need a spark of inspiration. -maybe another red-eye ghetto sojourn to the tropics is just what the doctor ordered.

Speaking of prescriptions, I came across a review for Bigger Faster Stronger, a documentary on steroid use in America, and it made me wonder: with full awareness of the catastrophic side effects, does anyone use steroids recreationally? –like, not to work out, but more to… go out? Or hang out? Does anyone get juiced and then meet up with friends for pizza? I imagine if anyone has the answers, it’s probably this guy:

Speaking of degenerates, I’ve gotten a few emails lately from girls asking for relationship advice on various matters, and I have a new theory (based on a scrape I got into in Manchester) that may help to simplify things.

I happen to believe that science will one day prove that there are only two kinds of men in this world;

1. those who headbutt

2. those who don’t

headbutting is basically the most barbaric thing you could ever elect to do in your lifetime. Just the thought of it makes me gag. so ladies, ask your man if it's his style to use his head like a fucking coconut, and chances are, no matter how well he’s dressed, (provided he isn’t a top secret jujitsu expert for Mi6) he’s total white trash.

Also, do any raccoons out there have any intel on St. Trinian’s? you know there's always a special place in my heart for gothy private school kids, but I’m in the dark here. http://www.sttriniansmovie.co.uk/

framed British WWII poster i want

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How to Become an Archvillain

Posted on February 3, 2009 at 11:10 AM

This is the Purple Pieman from Strawberry Shortcake. That’s who I look like when I grow a mustache. i have no idea why his dick is giving the thumbs up like that.

This is Dick Dastardly.

...and this is Snidely Whiplash

As you can see, the Victorian gentleman villain was a popular archetype in many 80’s cartoons, which is why everyone my age has grown up equating mustaches with sinister intentions.

This is not a hit. Not at all.

The few friends I’ve seen in public have all reacted similarly. -scrunching their faces like they've just received horrible news or ate a sour patch kid or something. Then they take me aside to explain how disappointed they are, like I personally offended them and ruined their night out.

if i could get my hands on an antique Russian Cossack uniform, maybe I could pull off a stately 19^thcentury baron or something, like Count Vronsky from Anna Karenina, but until then, it’s just 21^st century Chicago creep. All I need is a black van with no windows and I'll be the complete embodiment of everything good kids were raised to avoid.

Jonny Depp grows a soul patch and smoothly morphs from ‘Irresistible American Heartthrob’ to ‘Irresistible French Bohemian Heartthrob with Mystique’. I forget to shave for a couple weeks and I’m a pie man with a rape truck.