Monday, 3 December 2012

Mayan Myth or Mayhem



                                                   Mayan Myth or Mayhem 







Conspiracy come, conspiracies go
It would only be me crazy enough to try and put into perspective a conversation that has invaded our dinner parties in the last month, that is apart from what country would be best to evacuate to if SA goes topsy turvy.  It’s that bloody wave that everybody is talking about and the movie ‘2012’ last Sunday didn't help one little bit, ok so you are a none-believer and while your mate is stocking up with tinned food in a cave on the top of the Helderberg, you have a moment while booking for the West Coast, ‘perhaps the Drakensberg would be nice’?  I hear them shouting from the pulpit, ‘nobody knows the time or date of the final judgement day’. So what is conspiracy, a man deduced perspective with no legitimate scientific fact to back it up, really? We all know that UFO sightings have increased by sixty percent in the last two years and I mean NATO jets chasing these infernal creature around the globe, filmed by hundreds, even children, god knows thanks to Blackberry we all have a good camera in our pocket. So why haven’t these Aliens ever come down to meet us, I think it was Calvin & Hobbes that quoted "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us," and I tend to agree, it wasn’t that long ago that we burned babies in ovens, blew up cities, wall up nations and burn our forests, and next destroy our underground rivers in the Karoo?
The latest underwater photography of a large Platheosaurus in Lake Windermere- Eire or the countless photographs of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland are old hat, notwithstanding that the Japanese have actually pulled the remains of that prehistoric sea creature out of the water and the Chinese have thousands of eyewitness accounts and photographs of a similar creature that actually attacked fishing boats. But wait a minute that’s impossible didn't science teach us that comets rained down on earth and killed all the dinosaurs, accept the crocodiles and Coelacanth? Ok so Julian Assange, the Wiki-leak ‘terrorist’ releases photographs of a prehistoric Mammoth grazing in a Russian reserve, NATO jets chasing UFO’s, a prehistoric ostrich running wild and countless other X Factor secrets that Big Brother prefers to be under lock and key. Then ofcourse grandiose Big Brother recruiting thousand of IT wiz kids to plant misinformation on any profound discovery like the remains of a mermaid washed up on a Thai beach after the Tsunami. Oh yes the ‘Moonwalk’, well we were there, planted our flag and decided never to go back, by now with our advanced technology would have allowed us a manned space station, but let’s rather explore Mars?
The Mayan Calendar
Right lets get serious, we now all expecting a wave to wash our sins away, holiday homes included, and my favourite Belgium Waffle shop on the Strand beachfront. Ever since I can remember seers and prophetic Christians have spoke of dreams of a wave wiping out the shoreline towns and we all assumed a metaphoric vision. Firstly lets not underestimate the Mayans who were certainly ahead of their time even though blood sacrifices were very much part of their culture, but then again it was BC and so were many other Cultural tribes . The Mayan preferred human sacrifice and Christians certainly have a connection, was it not the blood of Jesus that holds eternal redemption and forgiveness. The Mayans were not verbatim prophets and never intended to be even though writings such as ‘Two large birds will destroy a city in the North’ seem to point fingers at the 9/11 disaster. The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilisation based in the pre-Colombian Americas (2000 BC to AD 250), The Mayans calculated that from 1999 we have 13 years to realize the changes in our conscious attitude, to stray from the path of self-destruction and instead move onto a path that opens our consciousness to integrate us with all that exists. To the Maya, time was cyclical opposed to lineal time. My old man (R.IP.Aubrey Noone) always said solar flares will one day leave us helpless and considering that this world runs by satellite it makes sense, even our music we now download, so hang onto your LPS and cd’s? The Mayans believe the Sun will receive a 'spark' of light which will cause it to shine more intensely, (solar flares) which will change the Sun's magnetic field causing a displacement in the earth’s rotation. Because of this movement, they predicted that great catastrophes would be produced. It is after this, the Mayans say, we will be ready to go through the door transforming our civilization from one based on fear to a vibration much higher in harmony, all sounds very ‘new age’ cool to me.
Contrary to perception the Mayans never disappeared but certainly the Spanish conquistadors destroyed many, millions of people speak Mayan languages today. So in hindsight the Mayans did not predict a wave will destroy this world in one day, they believed this is the end of a third failed world as we know it, nobody is going to argue with that? The first I assume before the flood, the second did not go too well under the law, so Jesus arrived and we hanged him on the cross. The third World (excuse the pun) we have certainly messed up, so something has to give and looks like old mother earth is starting to get really angry. The Mayans ended their calendar on the 21st, Dec 2012 and I assume the next world is about to dawn? Certainly climate changes are getting seriously radical and ‘Hurricane Sandie’ was just one part of a bigger rupture. The Mayans were trying to tell us to change our ways not just in actions on this planet, but our consciousness and attitude. At the end of the day we all have to look inwards or as the ‘Good Book’ says ‘salvation, an on-going process that we have to work out with fear and trembling’. Bob Dylan said, ‘get out of the kitchen if you can’t lend a hand’ so unlike Nostradamus and many other prophets, this is really a cyclic interpretation that something global may give way on the 21st So fellow man it ain’t the end but the beginning of the end and if you like me who believes unseen battles rage between angels and demigods and we are more frequently experiencing the vibration of that or simply that the earth’s plates are shifting, no harm in storing the grain houses lest ‘Mad Max 3’ with Charlise Theron riding a dune buggy through the grass of Kuilsrivier becomes a real time thing.     

      

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Marvel Comics Corgi Collection


The Monkees Mobile 



                                           Green Hornet with Bruce Lee before he was famous 



                                  Yellow Submarine / Bat-mobile & Bond's Aston Martin 




                                                                      Moth Man 



                                                           Joker-mobile and Penguin

                                            
                                                         The Man From Uncle & The Saint                


                                             
                                                                      Fools & Horses 


                                                                          Beatles Cab 

   
                                                                        Two Tone

   
                                                                   Laurel & Hardy 


                                                                 Spider man Helicopter 

 
                                                                 Beetle Bailey 


                                                               1957     Bat-mobile 



Monday, 26 November 2012

Rorkes Drift Model

The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, and continued into the following day, 23 January. just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the garrison against an intense assault by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The massive, but piecemeal, Zulu attacks on Rorke's Drift came very close to defeating the tiny garrison but were ultimately repelled. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours. (Please note that it was largely a Welsh /Irish contingent based at Rorke's Drift, under the British army and the defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana also included 800 boers who were labeled as 2nd/3rd Natal Native Contingent incorrectly stated 350.   This was before the Boer War, the above corrections were given to Wikipedia by myself   .


                                                        Officers Sword from Isandlwana


                Martin Henri Rifle (Isandlwana / Rorke's Drift) , fires only one shot but was able to pass through two Zulus and wound the third. The metal inlay gets so hot that most of the soldiers had third degree burns from days of firing  
















Monday, 12 November 2012

No More Mr Nice Guy


'No more Mr Nice Guy' I have officially declared war on all rapcrap & techno songs , why ? because the spirit leads me and I have God on my side, quote Dylan and my gut feel. 

Call me retro loudly proudly, brandishing a sword from 1879, sold to me by a Zulu family, originally taken from the battle of Isandlwana, sitting on my faithful 1948 Willy's jeep bought from Guy Wood & Victoria Spencer . Those with a perky eye will notice my Manfred Mann Earthband T-shirt. You can't actually hear it but in the background amidst the twitter of sugar-birds and honey-birds, the  Electric Prunes is blaring from my sound system. The sword is drawn against drum- machines and computerized sequence rhythms . 

New Years Eve from 10pm till 2am I will bring in the sound of the sixties, picked from my private collection 
and it promises to be quite a party , so keep that chammies in the fridge.  








Sunday, 11 November 2012

A poem about Vampires from my book 'Forty Two for The Chosen Few', foreword by actor Brad Pitt and Tom Rapp





A Thirst Never Quenched (Ode to the last vampires)

In the last days our eyes heavy and craving linger over the shallow sewage that spikes the drain and pain of the nation. Our lot was sown with the plagues that rained Egypt, our dreams banished and caste adrift to the jagged shore of the Baltic, to the haggard folklore of the demonic.

Seven months we were tossed from wave to wave, seven curses were laid to hand and still our ship could see no land. Our skin parched with salt we hid from the sun like heathens on the run, these were the days of fertility when dirge and fang grew infinity. 

For some it was a legend that grew out of a castle where Islam lay impaled, the folly and quest of the Holy Grail, yet here we are, thrown from ship to shore, like a beggars whore clawing the deck in our bloody gore. Only six of us left, weak and unfed, for each other we bled, no word was said.

At last our boat found solid ground, a land too remote to be found
Dark forests shadowed the beaches where sullen witches waited to meet us. Into the hallowed gallows of Poland we entered, by moon speed we relented, for our fangs we vented  

Five thousand moons have passed our way and still the wolf doth bay as we prey on the flesh of another day. With the last remaining few we feed on the residue and hope to breathe the night dew.

Even today we hunt by the light of the moth, by the slight of the cloth, but no eye sees us. We are the flicker in flame of serial killers blame, a legend too ghastly and a tale too vastly  



Monday, 5 November 2012

Shiloh's rare photo gallery of his favourite guitarists

                                                                                Robin Trower of Procol Harum
                                                                        
               Steve Hilage of Khan and Gong
         
Harvey Mandel of Canned Heat and Rolling Stones

                                                                            Mike Bloomfield of the Electric Flag
                                        
Glen Duhnig of Jade Warrior

Roy Buchanan

      
Shawn Phillips

Todd Rundgren
Roy Harper

Norman Barratt  of Gravy Train
Badfinger

Fotheringgay
Keith Emerson

Ken Hensley


Whitsuntide Easter


Bruce Cockburn


Tim Blake of Gong and Hawkwind


Jack Bruce


Dave Arbus of East Of Eden

Van Der Graaf Generator


Randy Holden of Blue Cheer


Hedgehoppers Anonymous 

Joe Moretti on guitar with Vince Eager 
Grobschnitt
Electric Prunes 

Paul Brett of Sage

Grassroots


Electric Prunes
Iron Butterfly
Keef Hartely Band
Pentangle
                                                                              Paul Revere & the Raiders

Quicksilver Messenger Service
          
                                      
                                                                Four fingered Phil Keaggy Glass Harp

                                      
                                                                                                 Curved Air