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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test
Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.
And for our American Indian spirit guides to communicate advice about career, romance and friendship.
ReplyDeleteAlong the same lines as reading your palms - lifeline, money line, etc.
ReplyDeleteI interpret my hands as my tools, I don't care how much money I should have or how long my life is. It's not that I don't care but
I guess the unknown doesn't scare me.
I never try to interpret my dreams. They're too disjointed to make sense of and usually inolve bits of what I've recently read, watched and seen. Mostly I forget them as soon as I wake up, just remembering that I did dream and it was either pleasing or disturbing.
ReplyDeleteYOU NOT EXPLAIN WHY IS CONSCIOUSS, YOU NOT KNOW DREAM
ReplyDeleteI like to think of it as my brain doing its own filing, at night, when I'm asleep:
ReplyDelete"Knickerless at the presentation podium filed under 'A' for Anxiety; John Cusack covered in Lindt 70% under 'N' for Never Gonna Happen and Annoying Chasey dreams where she never gets to where she needs to go be put under 'G' for Get Used to it....."
Ninj - While they ride around on pig-machines dropping M&Ms that crawl on your feet, yes.
ReplyDeleteShippy - We're lucky, I suppose - the unknown doesn't scare me either.
River - I remember all of my dreams. For years and years. Often I will dream situations before they happen and get deja vue from dreams. I think today's sentence is saying that this deja vue is a fairly explicable phenomenon in that your brain can put two and two together in the present and come up with four happening in the future without relying on supernatural forces to explain why you can, for example, live around an alcoholic brother with access to car keys and constantly dream about him dying in a fiery accident.
All your tiger - Welcome! I love your blog! If I haven't explained your consciousness or dreams, would you care to elucidate?
Kath - My dreams are split about 80/20 with epic sagas in massive complex places taking the lion's share and 'forgetting my pants' filling in the gaps.