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So I made a little video to promote an art show fellow comic Trav Nash and I are putting on upstairs at a great French cafe and music venue La Niche on Smith Street Fitzroy. Trav sold several paintings on opening night, I also moved units as they "say" in the "business". Lots of comedy buddies came along, activists and just plain normal folk. We're having a closing night party on the 12th of December. Should be awesome, since I now am expert at schmoozing.        Guess who doesn't know how to place photos on a bliggety blog? Jesus, that's just sad. I'm a comic an artist and an activist, so the last piece made before showtime was made while I kept one eye on the streets of G20 Brisbane through Twitter.      I spend most days glued to social and activist media while making sculpture, so it's great to get this show out there, sell pieces and have no idea how to place photos on this age properly.  I've be

On November 13 I put my art out there for the first time in years. When I say Out There I mean in a little room above a cafe called La Niche in Collingwood, on Smith St. And I'm sharing the show with fellow comic Trav Nash, who paints. We've been mates since I started doing comedy in his room, also on Smith St, the Death Star Canteen, downstairs at a good bar called Caz Reitops. I like the idea of two stand up comics putting on an art show. I hope we keep doing that, it's an angle. Over the weekend I had a minor breakthrough when I found a little lamp on my scrounging travels. The sculptures are Big Balls and Small Balls and the Small Balls were looking pretty shaky until I sat one on a lamp. Turns out my balls look good lit up from underneath. I'm sorry, but I've got to make this memorable at any cost. That's marketing. I've always scrounged, I used to make chairs out of recycled parts, including asbestos brake pads for arm chairs. That wasn't m

Gough Whitlam died today. The important difference between this event and his dismissal from the Prime Ministership in the Australian 1970's? There was no CIA involvement. I was a child in the 1970's. When I was old enough to ask, "What happened? How did that happen?" My elders told me they half expected at the time something like a civil war to break out. People were devastated, they were enraged, they were also electrified. The United States of America, to put it bluntly, includes Australia as a remote colony, an outpost. When Gough Whitlam threatened Pine Gap the CIA had to get involved. Pine Gap, located in remote Australia, is a key asset to United States air and space superiority. Many Australians are excited to be part of an Imperial power structure. Many powerful Australians are over the moon at the opportunity to be included in US games of global domination. Whether conspiracy, madness or just weakness, many Australians were quite happy for the US to take

It seems to me people are going to simply cower by their entertainment units hoping the Coming Darkness by some amazing stroke of luck just never happens. Very experienced activists are telling me they see no hope for the future. None. Well there is one, but the mass of people seem extremely militant about not taking action, they are hanging onto their fucking denial like the expert bullshitters domesticated people are. Settle down, don't be like that, because when I generalise about people it's amazing. You see at every protest that threatens to actually take over so much as a single street the same fucking people trying to calm things down. We're too calm. We're comatose. We are going to open-ended war and that will result not just in terror attacks, we already see ASIO let off the leash. How bad does it have to get? 800 fucking cops came up with one plastic sword that was used to spread terror about beheading plots in Australia. 800 cops and all they've done is

Activists who were assaulted by SAS people at Swan Island last week are thinking about taking legal action. Good idea, because more than a few people have made it clear they believe anything a soldier does immediately becomes okay. Gotta love War Magic, where concepts like Loyalty mutate into irreversible brain damage. That shit needs to make an appearance in court where we can all get a good long look at it and cut it out with our mind lasers. Civil society needs to make decisions about who we're going to be is what I'm saying. swan-island-protestors-seek-legal-action I like the legal system. I don't like handcuffs and jails, but I simply adore that powerful institutions can be made to face the music. I hope the case goes ahead and the SAS is exposed for what it is. I think people already know, but also live in denial. It suits a lot of folks to live like that. Well, fuck that shit.  Does any human suck harder than the one who won't face what it's own decisions

Yeah, good, so now every snapperhead has been given the green light to yell at muslim women, or any woman with a scarf on her head or fabric near her face, or any woman who may or may not have been a woman or planning to be a woman. Anyway, the really exciting part is that these snapperhead fucks so far are mostly men, big men, men driving utes, men who are man men from mantown getting their man on in the manliest manner possible. No wait, there was that one vicious assault  by a woman. While it's tempting to make this all about bogans and particularly manbogans, the fact is this outbreak is driven by very educated people, well paid people, people with careers, people with a lot to gain, powerful people in media and government and intelligence and the military. The drones in the street should be fought to a standstill, but at the end of the day they're just following orders. It's not enough to hate them (though do, why not, fuck 'em) because the whole system thrives

Been thinking about the negative side of conspiracy theories again. Let's define that as a case of joining the dots, which is good, but filling in the blanks, which is bad. It's very exciting to think you can see a pattern, but why do it? Why not wait it out? If you are on such an important mission, why not get all your ducks in a row? Conspiracy theories are exciting, but nowhere near as powerful as learning to live with uncertainty. This is triggered by reading this: http://www.metafilter.com/143387/The-insane-conspiracy-theories-of-Naomi-Wolf I went through a conspiracy theory phase and was saved by Robert Anton Wilson, who introduced me to useful thinking tools. I recommend Quantum Psychology and Cosmic Trigger. He seems to be a hippy, but he's not, he's dead. No one killed him though, he died of old age because people trying to tell you the truth are often no threat whatsoever to the powers that be. Yes, there are conspiracies, but they're often opport

Last night a female friend who is a woman was waiting for a train like a human being when ticket inspectors approached, fucked with her peace of mind, handcuffed her for commenting on this and called her a bitch and a slut for mentioning that shit seemed to be getting out of hand rather quickly. Melbourne's public transport is now a fear lottery due to the baffling behaviour of the Myki commuter mugging system and the sudden appearances of revenue bandits in and out of uniform. I have taken to drawing rude words and pictures on my card, like so.      Australians talk a lot of shit about being easygoing but the fact is most of us are just lackadaisical with our own freedoms. Why bother finding out if you're free or not when you can look the other way? There's always something far more interesting to see. Our freedoms are disappearing but it's often seen as hysterical to mention this because of the freedoms we do have.        I had an interesting momen

My last two blog entries may have seemed hysterical but I have been rescued by Australia's finest killers, the SAS, who yesterday went to fucking town on peaceful activists, cutting their clothes off with knives, assaulting them in various terrifying ways and verbaling them with menace. This happened as part of Operation Straya, where the dumbest among us are encouraged to go into full wild dog mode if anyone with a differing opinion pops up a quizzical head. Activists walked onto the base at Swan Island where SAS killing machines are trained and instead of ceasing operations because, y'know, civilian protesters, these champs used the concerned citizens as target practice, running through their interrogation routines like it was rightwingcunt Christmas. It went like this These sociopaths- and they are, the shit they did yesterday makes me very comfortable passing judgement- will be heading over to fight ISIS and you can guarantee they will be cutting off heads first chanc

I'm having a bit of trouble with social media because I keep wanting to tell people to die of cancer. This is because I want many, many Australians to die of cancer. Today. Painfully. While I watch. Well, I wouldn't be strictly watching because my eyes would be rolled back into my head as I experienced an hour-long orgasm as hate left my system in a crippling wave of ecstasy. The next AFP top cop says this wave of terror is like no other and he's right: the terrorists are all born Australian know nothings, the type who love to hate an outsider because it's the perfect crime. Look at me defending my family, I am a good person and it is merely coincidence that I get to indulge my worst urges. I want to come on their faces. I have urges too. And you're right, it's not sexual, it's about establishing dominance. I am so afraid of these people that I'm a mess of power fantasies. I get it. The idea is to hit the nation like a log until it's split int

How confusing. I spend most days trying to make sense of the world, sometimes I even look at mainstream news despite it being owned by the 1%. You have to read between the lines. Protesters clash with police? That means cops attacked people without warning. In Hong Kong there is a massive sit-in occurring, made more massive since cops teargassed and pepper-sprayed citizens just before warning them. I think that's the correct order of events. I do know cops' usual order of business when presented with protesters is to treat those people like scum who must be crushed. Cops see themselves as the defenders of order. When protesters hit the streets cops tend to freak out because they are presented with a threat to their monopoly. Not all individual cops are like this, but it's a good generalisation. I've seen cops, under the cover of being the true and only defenders of democracy, violently assaulting women in a very obvious display of Crusaderitis. They honestly bel

Following the  ‪#‎ auspol‬  stream on twitter I am exposed to the kind of Ebola with a face who make being an Aussie such an unpaid position. These people and their hatred of every single Muslim are welcome to go somewhere not multicultural. Maybe Japan. It's a shame stupid people are so territorial. They are the first to jizz their bile all over the facts, which are: Muslims are like anybody else except for one crucial difference, they actually have some culture. Neckflag Aussie snapperheads have an inch-deep "lifestyle" because this country threw out anything that wasn't the long dark night of the consumer soul a long time ago. As an artist and thinker, talking with many, many Aussies is an exercise in hiding my intelligence so they don't have to feel resentful and take it out in me. An anti-intellectual fuckmall like this is perfect for imposing our own version of Sharia, which is for instance ever more invasive "security" on public transport, making

This is one of the things I'm doing now. I may return to blogging, who knows? I'm too busy and important to keep track of my unfolding brilliance. https://soundcloud.com/sean-bedlam/two-bearded-ladies-episode-1    

So, ah, yeah, I fuckin wake up to my girlfriend tossing an envelope at me, very nicely by the way, she didn’t throw it at my head, shrieking, “Get up ya lazy fuck!” No, she flipped it through the air and it landed lovingly, this luscious letter from the Law, John Law, the cops, the Man, the fucking Victoria Police, who really are just doing their job. There was a time when I was angry at the police, but after a certain series of incidents failed to elicit an outcry from Melbourne’s population of People Who Are Concerned About Everything, it became clear to me that the cops really do think they are doing the right thing when they’re doing the wrong thing.  The incidents were crystal moments in time that will be forever in my memory and on my hard drives, because I did video the police as they went about their holy mission of sexually assaulting female protesters on the Tunnel Picket. I started to get a bit screwy in the head about that shit and did not know, lost in the desert

The Australian Government policy of re-destroying people who've been destroyed continued over the weekend with the news a boatload of humans is out there somewhere floating, as is Scott Morrison's lost fuckheaded soul. What a world! Maybe civilisation is a bad idea if it creates people who behave like domesticated animal arseholes. Maybe cities and nations are just concentration camps where we are free to roam only to check the locks and the perimeter fence like the prison guards we are under our casual hair. Australia started as a jail, so our tendencies as a nation are noted and no mystery, but the jail approach to modern life is worldwide. I'm over it. I can read books. I know other ways exist. I know civilisation has ground people down for what? 6000 years? And the cheerleaders and apologists? They benefit from the way things are! I don't know if you've ever grabbed a coffee on Lygon Street then slipped into the Nova to watch a foreign fillum, but on an autumn

So I'm listening to a science show on the radio and the science people start talking about rhesus monkeys being shown coloured squares on a screen to test some ideas and the science radio people start joking around about monkeys wearing little hats and playing cards and I'm thinking, "Hang on, are these monkeys in a lab? Are they captives? What's so fucking funny here?" The ideas being tested related to the idea of a "hot streak" in sport and the science people were tickled pink at the idea of monkeys playing sport and this reminded me of the recent wave of bacon talk on the interwebs. Remember that? Large numbers of people started going on about bacon and it was getting kind of creepy? Like, what kind of point are you people making here? I mean, I like bacon too but I don't go on and on about it because of the unsettling facts of where it comes from. These scientists were coming out with one joke after another about monkeys doing unlikely things

Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey, Julie Bishop, Scott Morrison, George Brandis, yeah, that’ll do for now. One reckons Strayans have the right to be bigots, which is a very interesting interpretation of being an arsehole, another seems to get a huge charge from being tough on asylum seekers, god knows what inner turmoil that prick has to deal with. One has completely given up on the idea of Government giving something back to society, one is the proof that women in positions of power are just as fucked as the dudes and one is a total meathead while also being the Prime Minister. We are so rooted and there is a part of me that looks very fondly on the idea of no longer giving a shit. The forces of evil are so powerful, they are in charge and they are evil precisely because they really believe they know what’s best. Do you know what’s best? I don’t and I’m not about to agree that these powerful expert leaders perhaps know something I don’t because they don’t believe climate change is real, wh

Yesterday my number 1 activist buddy Sam Castro delivered 14 gigantic minutes of story about where we are at, where we need to be and what our enemies will do to us if we don't start acting like we are at war.

The 2014 Australian Federal Budget has quite rightly been met with howls of despair: People with mental illnesses will kill themselves. Old people will be fast tracked to the scrap heap. So they’re deaded too. I don’t even know what’s going to happen to the young unemployed but it looks like a fate worse than death. Limbo? Purgatory? What is it with Christian politicians and punishing sinners, I mean, the poor?  Anyone whose life sucks now is going to experience industrial scale suckage. The tractor beam of suck lowering it’s hate orifice over the nation right now is going to vacuum up joy and shit it back as depression. Well done, normal people, you were reasonable, you didn’t go down to their level and they quickly took over. That’s showing them!  At least this is only going to affect people we usually cross the road to avoid. I don’t know about you guys, but my ability to pretend I can’t see a disabled person is like ninja assassin invisibility. I’m a thing of beauty as I

This is a rant, take it with a grain of salt because maybe it's all ego: It’s easy to call Obama a murderer because that is what he is, but if that’s true, what are you? Do you vote? Do you not vote? Either way, whether you are part of the system or delusionally committed to being outside the system, you are part of the problem, because there is no outside to this system. Are you a person? A human? Cool, you’re involved. It might feel good to imagine you would never kill a man or sign off on a drone attack, but to do so is an amazing divorce from the realities of the world you live in, Mr. BringOurGirlsBack. You were born into a world you did not create and you do not get to simply opt out of your DNA, your heritage, what you are and what you will inevitably be if you do not stop talking bullshit. Please don’t be bullshit, we are inexhaustibly, exhaustingly supplied with the substance, it’s source unknowable, but the knowledge there is always more where that came from is as

The other night students interrupted the live broadcast of Q and A, a panel show moderated by one of those little boys you see on a historical water fountain, Tony Jones. The audience is permitted to ask questions of the panel and it’s all a bunch of skull-imploding bullshit with very little bearing on anything other than my fucking nerves. I stopped watching months and months ago to lower the risk of my window shattering outwards as a TV sailed into the street. This show is infuriating in it’s smug denial of any person or thing outside the world of people Tony Jones could lunch with comfortably. I don’t want to make this a Tony Jones hate fest, he’s got a job to do and that is to act as a gate keeper of democracy. This was made very clear when the protesters made only one person angry: Tony. The politicians on the panel betrayed no stress or sense of outrage, only Tony was put off, derailed, angered and told the protesters they weren’t doing their cause any good. Why is that the

So I was writing and this came out. It's just a bit of fun.  "Choking clouds of morons shit themselves into my life and it’s all my fault because I’m on the internet. I’m hooked. Driving, you see billboards, this is the price you pay for being able to visit your friends. The internet has that advertising in your face and it also has millions of benighted spastics desperate to ruin your time. Christ, please Christ return and Christ the fuck out of these shitheads. You say I am superior with a poor attitude but I beg you to consider the possibility of your own unrecognized fuckwittedness. Are you perhaps a hardened, stinking blockage in some poor enlightened motherfucker’s life? Does some champion with the soul of a lion find the treacly blackness of your pettiness an enemy that cannot be defeated in battle? Are you the dead body blocking the exit? Does a motherfucker need to burn all your shit down before you glimpse the possibility of your soul-deep retardedness? 

Now that I've got that off my chest let's focus on what a cunt that Perth guy was the other night. Wow. It just goes to show you learn so much watching standup, things like how not to be a fuckhead (don't be one) and tips like don't have a go at the audience, hang shit on the room or tell lots of jokes about your dick and sex with faux self-deprecation clearly acting as a trojan horse for picking up a root live on stage. I bet this prick has read The Game, the kind of tragically overconfident arse who "charms" underconfident women. "But he's so strong and he likes me!" Dudes feeding off damaged chicks. The great thing is I can enjoy the retarded behaviour of the young at my age and none of it gets on me. I walk through this world knowing my place, humbly accepting my own brilliance. You do have to be a little bit in love with yourself or you won't survive, you'll be crushed. If you are a little bit in love with yourself you

Attorney General George Brandis has unloaded the possibly unflushable nugget that Australians have a right to be bigots.   This is going to be a hard one to kill because so many Australians have so much to gain from   hanging onto their shitty opinion that anyone with a different opinion is not to be tolerated. Bigotry, the  intolerance  of any view other than one's own, a source of strength, a reward for it's own soullessness, the ultimate prize of the peabrained arsehole, that cretinous pustule-man most suited to denuding this land of it's forests and cracking it open for it's hidden gems and deadly fuels.                                                             The arsehole has reigned supreme across this fucking land for 200 years, ploughing a furrow and planting seeds of hate that are only now blossoming to choke the descendants of the very people who invaded. We are reaping the benefits of centuries of tiptoeing around arseholes, we settled for a lar

Looking at breaking Manus Island news one observes that Australia inhabits a moral universe where it's probably okay to correctively molest children. What kind of message are we sending to the children? Think of the children! We need to protect the children. We need to lock up refugee children until they go mad from being raped and alone. We need to fap to the bad news of refugees being hacked with machetes. We have so many needs. But who is this "We"? Us. I absolutely identify with the Australia of mad cruelty, I can't not, it's what we are and all the self esteem practice in the world won't change it. We shouldn't be finding a way to let ourselves off the hook, we should twist on it hard and good. People are getting the literal chop and you want to make sense of your emotions? Fuck. Off. We're a nation of fucking arseholes. Face it, love it, use it. This is where we blow it time and again, in trying to do good, we get caught up in the trappings o

The latest seems to be Manus Island detention was overrun by concerned citizens hacking at refugees with machetes. In a moment of confusion, in the course of attempting to escape the machetes, the refugees lost their bearings and found themselves outside the detention centre. They had forgotten their place as scapegoats and had instead focused on their own skin, which mates just don't do to a country. They clearly have not been punished enough and let's hope we can continue to do so. I don't want to say I'm a hundred percent sure that happened but I think I feel like I've had a hundred percent of what I can take of this fucking shit. If it didn't happen let's hear what did happen, Government. What's that? Silence and bullshit? Ok, we'll assume the worst then.  That some detainees may be economic refugees not really deserving of asylum is a handy out for anyone not wanting to feel awkward about machetes raining down on people we put in a dan