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Mordred’s Lullaby, oddly fitting for Nuada. I just love the mythical theme, between Camelot and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army’s elves/fae.

Anyone else think that Prince Nuada would have made one hell of a breakdancer?

My parents are both agnostics. They never tried to force any beliefs on me whatsoever and I am so grateful for that. My dad used to teach at a Catholic secondary school (but only for about a year), and he said the things the children, even eleven-year-olds, were told about hell were horrifying. My grandma is a non-religious theist who is happy to tolerate pretty much everyone, regardless of religion (or lack thereof), skin colour, nationality, gender or sexual orientation. This is why if I have children I will never force religion on them. I will allow them to make their own decisions about belief when they grow up, and if they choose to be religious I won’t think less of them because when you’re a parent you should love your children no matter what. But I will fight tooth and nail to make sure my little boy or girl’s mind is not polluted by the kind of religious nonsense I see being crammed down young, innocent, impressionable children’s throats day after day the same way my parents refused to brainwash and indoctrinate me.

I am now obsessed with the Founding Fathers of America thanks to this video. The last minute always cracks me up.

Oh Slash.

How could they give the BAFTA for best leading actress to Meryl Streep when the one who clearly deserved it was Tilda Swinton? Her performance in We Need to Talk About Kevin was absolutely incredible. Either Gary Oldman or Michael Fassbender should have won best leading actor. Oh well. At least Martin Scorsese and John Hurt won something.

So…I’m going to see A Dangerous Method with my MUM next week. My goddamn mother.

This should be interesting [translation: OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO DIE].

1. Dangerous!

2. Mastodon

3. Billy Talent

4. Rise Against

5. Rammstein

6. The Pogues

7. The Kinks

8. Bad Religion

9. Royal Republic

10. Cream

I’m an atheist, yes, but I’m also a naturalistic pantheist. The usage of the word ‘theist’ in the second half of that phrase may be confusing, but it actually makes perfect sense.

A naturalistic pantheist is a person who feels a sense of belonging and reverence to not just nature but the universe at large. It respects the scientific method and teaches that we should respect nature. Richard Dawkins once called it ‘sexed-up atheism’, which is fairly accurate. I suppose my personal beliefs are a weird cross-section of atheism, humanism and naturalistic pantheism: god probably doesn’t exist, and we should spend our time looking out for other humans as well as nature.

Peace. - DJ Red Alert

Anyway, yeah, men I would go straight for. I’m not attracted to them, but they’re still pretty hot, and if I was straight I would be attracted to them, so yeah. (Since my computer is playing up, you’ll probably have to do all the hard work of looking up pictures yourself. Sorry.)

1. Brann Dailor (drummer in Mastodon)
2. David Wenham (Faramir in Lord of the Rings, Dilios in 300)
3. Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in LoTR, Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method)
4. Michael Fassbender (Bobby Sands in Hunger, Connor in Fish Tank)
5. Serge Pizzorno (guitarist in Kasabian)

To those who took their time and effort to respond:

I am not an elitist. I did not explicitly say ‘to be an anarchist you must be an atheist’, although looking back, I realise that the way I worded it pretty much sent that message. I set out meaning to register my confusion at what I PERSONALLY believe to be a rather paradoxical belief system, but unfortunately I went riding off on my pet steed tangent. I can only thank you for not screaming ‘OMG UR GOIN 2 HELL U STUPID ATHEIST!!!11111111111!’ at me. If only there were more religious people like you in the world and less of that kind. I also realise my usage of the phrase ‘real anarchists’ was unbelievably stupid. That was probably the worst bit. I apologise sincerely.

- DJ Red Alert