THIS MUSIC VIDEO HAS BEEN A BIG INFLUENCE

 This music video has probably been influencing my own art for the past 32 years

 Back in the 90’s there was still lots of awesome music. I miss all that amazing music, because let's face it, almost all the music for the bast two decades has been utter bollocks..

Screamadelica

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ixEzKA4k0

There’s no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream — an impact that rivaled that of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the other 1991 release that changed rock. 

 

Prior to Screamadelica, Primal Scream were Stonesy classic rock revivalists with a penchant for Detroit rock. They retained those fascinations on Screamadelica — one listen to the Jimmy Miller-produced, Stephen Stills-rip “Movin’ on Up” proves that — but they burst everything wide open here, turning rock inside out by marrying it to a gleeful rainbow of modern dance textures. 

 

This is such a brilliant, gutsy innovative record, so unlike anything the Scream did before, that it’s little wonder that there’s been much debate behind who is actually responsible for its grooves, especially since Andrew Weatherall is credited with production with eight of the tracks, and it’s clearly in line with his work.

Even if Primal Scream took credit for Weatherall’s endeavors, that doesn’t erase the fact that they shepherded this album, providing the ideas and impetus for this dubtastic, elastic, psychedelic exercise in deep house and neo-psychedelic. 

 Like any dance music, this is tied to its era to a certain extent, but it transcends it due to its fierce imagination and how it doubles back on rock history, making the past present and vice versa. 

It was such a monumental step forward that Primal Scream stumbled before regaining their footing, but by that point, the innovations of Screamadelica had been absorbed by everyone from the underground to mainstream. 

There’s little chance that this record will be as revolutionary to first-time listeners, but after its initial spin, the genius in its construction will become apparent — and it’s that attention to detail that makes Screamadelica an album that transcends its time and influence. 

 

SPECIAL NUMBERS

Why do Freemasons and Satanists like to reveal their psyops by constantly including certain special numbers like 33?

  They do this thing of deliberately putting certain names, numbers, & symbols into everything they do - for example, 9, 11,  23, & 33 along with X...

 The number 9 - Satanists enjoy reversing, mirroring and inverting symbols, letters and numbers. When you turn the number “9” upside down you get “6” which makes up the number of the Beast (666)

 Some numbers, like 11, 9, and 6 are viewed as signs of Satan's presence. Also the number 7 carries connotations of spirituality and is linked to Satan's favorite color, purple. But I don't go there because purple is my favourite colour too and I was born on the 23rd. Whoops...  

Also watch out for checkered floors. Pretty much every Hollywood movie ever made has at least one scene with one of those, there are almost no exceptions. Most TV shows and many music videos do as well.

SUNDAY DEVOTION

 The hits on my www.sift.co.nz blog are varying up and down each day from lows of around 500, to highs of over 2000. Much as I like to try to work out the patterns of things, this has got me totally stumped. I'm starting to think it has bugger all to do with what I post and may be the result of larger forces beyond my understanding.

 
Sort of like religion. So is God is determining how many hits my blog gets?. I wonder if God likes lolpics? It's Sunday today, so as an act of religious devotion directed towards the deity of blogs, I'll post some spiritual lolpics. 

RANDOMS 2025 #50

 

I'M QUITING VIDEO

Having been feeling quite seedy for the past week or so, I've spent more time than usual lying around looking at stuff on my tablet and laptop.

I've already given up on all social media except for YouTube and Facebook, and I never use my phone for anything to do with the internet. So I'm not a typical phone connected online video addict.

I was stunned to learn that there are people actually paying US$13.99 a month for "YouTube Premium", presumably to avoid seeing ads. I never see any ads on YouTube, simply because I view it using Brave browser with U-Block origin ad blocker installed - it really isn't that difficult!

But there really do seem to be be numpties forking out NZ$300 a year because they are too clueless to find out how to block ads on YouTube. Mind boggling...

 
It only takes about 10 seconds to install an ad blocker...

Often the best way to quit an unhealthy addiction is to do it heaps and get totally sick of it. I don't remember videos being quite this diabolical, but like most things, they seem to have hit new lows in 2025. 

 

I'm at the point where if I hear the words "like" or "insane" only another 400 times I may go completely spastic.

 I generally find most of them totally unwatchable within about 30 seconds, and very seldom seem to find any really worth watching.

So although it may mean missing out on some helpful info, from now on I'm going to run a tighter ship, and pretty much avoid looking at videos. 

I already do that on Facebook anyway, but I'm pretty much going to stop looking at Youtube altogether because it's mostly totally lame and it rapidly becomes a mind numbing waste of time. 

I want to read well presented written information with pictures, and listening to tossers rambling on endlessly is a terrible way to try and absorb any information.

There are a bunch of things I'm already doing my all out best to totally avoid, such as AI, Microsoft, and Fudporn. Today I'm adding videos to my avoid list.