bedlam updates

Back in 2005/2006 I started making videos with my phone, probably because I was so surprised that this new phone had a camera. I got right into it. They were meant to be a parody of my own anger at just about everything and they hit a nerve with some people so I kept making them. Through the Youtube "community" I was exposed to men who called themselves atheists and were into logic, reason and debate, all things I couldn't care less about. I'm into big ideas and fucking shit up, I'm not interested in scoring points against other online losers. Some of them were attracted to my videos, so I had fans and I didn't like what a lot of them were saying or how they said it and soon I was dissing my own audience and in no time the whole thing collapsed in on itself. I really enjoyed trying to make entertainment that had a point and a lot of the audience were great, but the irritating logic nerds were very hard to take. Also, I realised I wasn't just competing wi...

So David Lynch said a thing about Donald Trump, conspiracy media pus sac Alex Jones shared these words as if they represented support for Trump, clickbait normal media jumped on it and trigger happy champs immediately began with the hot takes about David Lynch the nasty out of touch old white man. Put aside what Lynch said for now, it doesn't even matter. Too many people are taking their cues from mentally ill conspiracy theorist/white supremacist niche moron media because mainstream media are so wedded to clickbait that they will happily amplify the lie that a popular artist kinda sorta supports fascism.  And mainstream media are now reporting on this stage of the out of control situation they helped create, but are being very careful to leave the clickbaitness intact. One thing mainstream media doesn't do is criticism of their incredibly dangerous business model. Another thing they do is make money. They will talk about anything surrounding what Lynch actually said, but no...

The thing about scanning a crowd for possible fascists is that all white people look a little bit like they could snap and go Full Nazi. I'm joking, but only a little bit. Today I was at Fed Square Melbourne, a privately owned public space that has replaced the City Square in our hearts as a confusingly designated gathering space where we may or may not have any human rights. Did you know Australian towns were designed to specifically not have town squares? This was so the people would have no obvious designated areas to commence insurrection. Bloody fair dinkum Aussie history is great stuff isn't it? If you add to this the fact that most Aussies are in superlove with cops, well, it's a recipe for militant apathy that is world class. Feel free to fact check all of that. I am an artist, I literally don't have time for facts. Despite these horrific truths(?) about the penal colony bone structure of this astonishingly average nation (that's a fact), people turned out...

Yesterday a cop threatened to pepper spray me in the face, so I was very rude to him. Friends, I'm afraid I told him that he was a fucking pig and that he could go fuck himself. Gosh, when a cop threatens me with violence I become quite spiritual, forget the uniform and as if the clouds have parted I see another human being who can eat loose brown shit directly from my splattering arsehole. In our fine city of Melbourne it's now illegal to wear a face covering, particularly at a protest, because the cops need full access to people's breathing holes and eyes for when it's spraying time. They are so concerned about public safety that they pulled their weight as one the of most powerful gangs in the state to change that law. This means protesting is now several times more intense and mentally draining. A cop could empty his hell spray down the front of your head at any moment with no warning. They are insane cowards and if I could shit on them so it goes in their mouth a...

At the end of last year my twitter account was nuked because I told a lot of people I deemed to be committed racists, one at a time, that they were a "shitcunt". This was a tremendous mistake because if you get into an argument with major online entities like Twitter they erase a chunk of your online existence. I tried explaining myself, but I wasn't talking to a person, I was talking to a system built by more shitcunts. So an account I'd been running for a decade, with all the connections I'd made with thousands of people, was no more. It was all my fault but my fault wasn't being a shitcunt, it was that I am a hero who takes risks. Fuck I'm amazing. Get fucked. A fucking hero. Fuck. You. Also, since April of last year until about a few weeks ago I have been obsessed with making my first solo show a goer, but after doing the show at four different festivals I was sick of it. Festivals, like major social media behemoths, suck a million business dicks but...