THEY ALWAYS LOOK LIKE MEN

Pablo Picasso made a lot of very cool art, but his "daughter" Paloma looked androgynous. Why do the daughters of celebs so often look look like men? What deals do the famous make? And why do so few people ever look, or even bother to ask what is really going on?

NZ POLITICAL CLOWN GALLERY

With another meaningless NZ "election" coming up on November 7 2026 this blog needed a new gallery to share a bunch of images of thieving globalist puppets.

Personally I think most of them should be jailed for treason. They are a bunch of worthless lying maggots. Here are some images that capture the NZ political landscape.

See a bunch more clown pictures HERE

REMEMBERING IAN CURTIS

 Recently I posted a link to a video of Joy Division playing their song "Transmission" on a friends Facebook timeline - I described it as "The tightest performance of all time" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc

Later that day I was passing through Newtown, past the Ian Curtis memorial. I took a snapshot from the bus.

That monument has been there for most of my life, and it's one of the few monuments that have always really meant something to me. I'm sometimes a bit stunned when people don't know who Ian Curtis was.

 

 

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

It even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both - one of Peter Saville's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair.

The quantum leap from the earliest thrashy singles to Unknown Pleasures can be heard through every note, with Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production - emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub - as much a hallmark as the music itself. Songs fade in behind furtive noises of motion and activity, glass breaks with the force and clarity of doom, and minimal keyboard lines add to an air of looming disaster - something, somehow, seems to wait or lurk beyond the edge of hearing.

But even though this is Hannett's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. Bernard Sumner redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, Peter Hook's instantly recognizable bass work was at once warm and forbidding, and Stephen Morris' drumming smacked through the speakers above all else. Ian Curtis synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect, only connect - as "Candidate" plaintively states, "I tried to get to you/You treat me like this."

Pick any song: the nervous death dance of "She's Lost Control"; the harrowing call for release "New Dawn Fades," all four members in perfect sync; the romance in hell of "Shadowplay"; "Insight" and its nervous drive toward some sort of apocalypse. All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever.  

 

A MONTH OFF

Holy cow another month has shot by at breakneck speed

Arriving at the half million hits count was monumental in an insignificant little blogger gets his day in the sun sort of way, but every once in a while I feel the need to have a month off blogging and all social media use.

September is going to be my month off. If I have an urge to write anything profound I'll postpone it’s publication by a month.

What this break will do as much as anything is reveal how addicted I am to looking at crap online.

Like a moth to a flame I keep looking at rubbish on Youtube and Facebook, even though I'm well aware that it’s not doing me any good.

My September challenge is to stop looking at YouTube and Facebook, to stop using Wifi, and to stop doing any blog posts. I want to replace those activities with more productive things (I have quite a list!). Hopefully by October 1 will have established a more productive and efficient approach to my computer and internet use

Bakson

PS - I did manage to mostly tear myself away from looking at crap online, and certainly I did no posts on my blog throughout September. This screenshot below is what my September posts looked like on September 30 - at that point there was only this one!

For reasons I don't understand but suspect are due to the complex machinations of algorithms and AI, when I do no posts for a month the hits drop off markedly. 

So to counter that, in October I plan to move some old posts forward to September and make it look like September was business as usual with around 25 posts. But it wasn't, because I will have buggered off for a month and then retrospectively faked regular posting...

 

PPS. The difference in hits between August and September was quite remarkable - no posts did indeed lead to a massive drop in hits.

 

 

HALF A MILL

It's been eight years since I had a blog that was pumping, so I'm getting a buzz out of seeing my SIFT blog suddenly take off and start getting thousands of hits each day

I haven't really been doing anything different on it so there is no obvious reason why it would.

Truth is I've just been plugging along posting pretty much the same sort of content at about the same pace for the past three years so I have no idea why the hits have suddenly taken off again over the past few months, but it's cool to see.

It may not last long, so I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

OK I do have three theories. First the boring one :

#1 GRADUAL ORGANIC GROWTH

Maybe over time my blog has slowly built up a following, and it took three years, but now it has finally picked up some momentum.

The second idea is more interesting, because it even dabbles in a conspiracy theory.


#2 OPERATION CHAOS Mk11

 

For the past few hundred years most social programming has been fairly simple.

Just tell the clueless masses a bunch of utter bullshit which makes them easier to control and exploit.

That approach mainly involves hiding anything that's true and filling their heads with crap.

If anyone was saying things like "Germ theory is bullshit" or "The first lady is a tranny", then that stuff needed to be censored and covered up quickly.

But since late 2024 Operation Chaos Mk.II has been in full swing and the aim is to create as much confusion and uncertainty as possible.

All of a sudden the objective is no longer to stick to the official narrative and censor any non approved content. The objective now is to promote the official narratives (which are all utter bullshit) while at the same time actively promoting some actual truth, because that combination causes total confusion.

If that is what is now going on, the agenda is no longer to try to bury the truth, on the contrary, it's to boost the living shot out of it.

So in these days of chaos it's quite possible that Israeli deep state corporations like Google are actively promoting some true content as well as all the bullshit.

As recently as 2024 I used to have to rotate four different Facebook accounts because they were constantly being suspended, but now I can pretty much post anything I want and it generally all goes uncensored.

Maybe that is what's now happening with my blog posts too.

That idea is kind of cool, because the third idea is a bit of a mood Killer.

 

#3 DEAD INTERNET THEORY


Maybe it's true that the internet is gradually dying because all the actual people are being replaced with AI. 

In fact that's clearly happening on platforms like YouTube where all the hits and comments, along with most of the content, is very obviously AI

What if Google Analytics is just tricking me into thinking I'm getting thousands of hits every day, when in reality I'm getting bugger all real hits and they are all just fake AI like the hits on a Taylor Swift video.

A half baked conclusion

There is no way to know for sure, but #2, the Operation Chaos theory, is
the most entertaining one for me so I'll run with that for now.

None of those three theories is exactly awesome, as either I'm popular because I'm a boring old fart who has been plugging away for years, or the deep state is using me as a puppet, or the entire internet is completely fucked.

Nevermind, it's too bad, half a million hits is a milestone and I'm going to celebrate it even if I'm a boring old puppet whose primary communication platform is fucked.