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Friday, December 23, 2011 - 10:59

Revolution!

When my brother was small he tried to incite a revolution. He was in primary school, aged about seven, and didn’t want to be there. He saw school as a prison. His justification for this was that he no choice but to go. If didn’t go he was in serious trouble. And not only that, when he was there he was treated as a slave. He was made to do things against his will. Study things that were of no interest. They would not let him play or draw. Those were the things that he really wanted to do. And not only that, the situation was so hypocritical. He was told that he lived in a free country. He was told that, Britain, unlike Russia or china was a free country. Well, being forced to go to school didn’t strike him as being very free. He was pissed off about it. He told the teachers his opinions. They dismissed his complaints. One day, in the school playground, he stood on a wall and told everyone how they were not free. But that it didn’t have to be that way. That if they banded together and walked out the teachers would not be able to stop them. After all, the oppressed kids were in the majority. The kids listened. My brother, carried away by his apparent oratory skills, said that they should go further than that,  and that they should burn the school. The kids agreed. So my brother stepped off of his soap box and led the kids across the playground. “Burn the school! Burn the school!” they chanted. They congregated outside the staff room window. “Burn the school! Burn the school!” they shouted. The teachers looked out of the windows bemused. The kids continued to chant. A teacher stepped out and faced them. A stern teacher, a scary teacher. One that knew how to shout. One that wore a shiny nylon shirt with sweat stained armpits. He folded his arms. He tapped his foot… and shouted. The revolution folded. The school did not burn. And the teachers went back to their fags and coffee. The status quo was preserved.

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Friday, December 23, 2011 - 10:17

Chatham dockyard - Grim, Grimey and Grey.

Ever since I was sixteen, when I started work at Chatham dockyard, my aesthetics have been warped towards the grim, grey and grimy. Nothing could beat a cold foggy day in that place. Steam puffing from cracks in the ground, deformed dockyard cats battling with diseased and rancid rats. Pneumatic hammers pounding the side of ships. I loved that place. The dockyard matey coughing his guts up and depositing his oysters. The tea huts, not of hell, but of refuge and hiding. Dirty white woollen coats piled in the corner for dossing. The deformed men who scuttled in the bilges whispering conspiracies from the corners of their mouth. My father hated this place. Chatham Jack hated this place. But who are they but disaffected sensitives? Art? I’ll give you art! A thousand tubes of oil paint and million brush strokes is not worth the rivets  rusting bastille bridge. Feel it, touch it. Pick the flaking paint, stiff and sharp from the half-round rivet head. Feel it get under your finger nail. The sharp pain. Your nail will bleed. Pain. That is the dockyard. The home of rope makers. The home of boilermakers. The home of sail makers.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 09:16

Middleclass Billy

Middle class Billy childishIs it me, or has anyone else noticed that Chatham’s greatest artist - Billy Childish - is becoming increasingly middleclass? His standard attire is now that of a 1920s – slightly eccentric – gentleman, when not so long ago, he was a 1900s working man, complete with dirty vest and hobnailed boots. Today, he looks  more like a member of the landed gentry. Maybe, because it’s  only the landed gentry who can now afford his paintings. Nice touch though, and I’m glad that the boy from Chatham is finally rolling in money - or at least seems to be. But I am tempted to shout, “Get back to your roots Billy!” But the thing is, he already has. The tea huts of hell never were his natural habitat. And deep in his soul he knew that the dockyard would have destroyed him. Good thing too I suppose. Last thing we grubby boilermakers wanted in our tea huts was a disaffected poet. Or poets of any kind. (Excepting shit house poets that is) No, he did the right thing. The dockyard would’ve have destroyed him, and Medway would have been all the worse for it. And who knows, now that Billy Childish is finally becoming respectable, he might be in line for Charlie Dickens’ job when he’s finally retired off. I can see it now. The Medway towns ‘Billy’ festival of 2159. Rochester High street thronged with costumed, moustachioed Billy’s. I wonder if he would approve?
 

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 08:49

Goat Sacrificed in Tunbridge Wells.

goatA man from Frindsbury once told me how he sacrificed a goat. Well he didn’t Exactly tell me, he wrote it down and sent it to me. A diatribe it was. A rant at life it was. Well this man, little, we shall call him, tethered a goat to a stake and plunged a knife into its neck. He did this in Tunbridge wells, a quaint Georgian town that was not used to this type of behaviour. And he did it in the back yard of a computer programming office whilst his colleagues stared rigidly into their monitors and wrestled with arrays and loops. They chose not to see what little had done. They chose to ignore the blood and gore. They chose to ignore the  warnings as little studied the secrets of the entrails. But when little went back to his computer he knew that there would be no tricky loops and arrays waiting for him. Because he had the spirit of the IT goat on his side.  And no Chatham mermen would bother him for the next month or two.  He was safe. For the time being.

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Monday, November 21, 2011 - 10:00

The Fourth German War

It amazed me that society had sunk so low. How could we have let the Germans do this to us, invade us and conquer the southern half of our country. I mean, it wasn't as if we didn't know... they gave us plenty of warning for fuck sake! Tuesday the seventeenth they said, Tuesday... if you don't capitulate, if you don't start acting like good Europeans you're gonna get some Teutonic boot! Well they didn't exactly say it like that, they didn't eff and blind, but the message was there. Very clear - very clear indeed. Wrapped in a cocoon of politically correct euro-babble... “Be good, or we're spank ya!”. And what did we do about it. Nothing! Well we complained, moaned, but... In actual fact we did nothing. And what happened when the seventeenth came? Well they they invaded didn't they. They put Jack boots on our sacred soil. We let our selves get beat. God know what Churchill would have said! I know what I said though. “Piss poor!” That's what I said. “Piss poor!”

And the thing is, what really got me, is that it was the Tories that let 'em do it! You'd a thought that they'd have fought back! But the Tories of today are very different animals to the ones of thirty years ago! They weren’t weakened a by all that oestrogen in the water. I mean, Maggie had balls of steel! And Tebbit... he was hard. He had bottle! Could you image Tebbit letting the krauts do this? No way! He'd a been cunting 'em off on the beaches! Cunting 'em off in the streets, cunting 'em off in Chatham high street! And d'ya know why Cameron ain't doing the same? I tell you why, cos he’s pussy whipped. Listened to to much Smiths when he was young, listened to to much radio four. If Cameron was a woman he'd be Jeremy Clarkson.

But the war....

I woke up on the Seventeenth, Tuesday, and the bleeding Luftwaffe was in the sky. Not the old Luftwaffe, not the Stukas and heinkels that you'd expect of them, but modern jet fighters with missiles and rockets. They roared over the sky and dropped soldiers. German soldiers with parachutes. And those soldiers didn't even have the politeness to wear a German helmets! They didn't even wear death head insignias! I hated them! Hated them as only a man from Strood can hate. And I watched then set up their beach heads and landing points. And this bleedin' kraut on a truck, behind a machine gun had the audacity to wave at me. He wasn't even being ironic! Not even sneering... “Fuck you!” I said. “Fuck you!” I shouted. And do you know, he looked at me as though I was the unreasonable one!

So how did they do it? How did the Germans after three tries, eventually stick it to us. How did the Germans, with their ban on nuclear weapons and their limited military might manage to invade Britain, a nuclear power with highly trained SAS soldiers. Why didn't we bomb their invasion fleet? Why didn't we fight back! I tell you why. Cos we're piss poor. Cos were worried that someone might get hurt if we didn't defended our borders. ”Times have changed said the modern politician. Although we're at war, we can't actually fight back. Somebody might get hurt! Somebody might sue!” Yeah, I thought, but you ain't too slow to ban smoking and drinking are you! Not to slow to deny the existence of interglacial weather patterns. And do you know what they did to defend against the Germans. Do you know what did to defend our shores. They gave the bankers bigger bonuses. They built a few more windmills and told us to insulate our lofts. And the girly-men of this country who drink oestrogen diluted water did just that. They stopped smoking, they stopped drinking and they denied their Darnley road roots. If all middle class men were women I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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