Birthday
DemonSpawn
Date:
18/02/2005
Hey hey! To all our avid fans, I'm
pleased to inform you that we have finally been approached by the
Central Intelligence Agency belonging to good ol' George, and asked
nicely to shut down our operations in exchange for pornographically
large sums of dollars. Of course, we said yes straight away, and
sold. The guy from McDonalds came to our offices, along with his evil
side-kick, the Easter Bunny, and took away all our files, and left a
few large suitcases full of cash. So now, we're off to Jamaica, where
we can relax on the beach, watching the cricket, drinking dark rum
and smoking spliffs all day and night.
Nah, only kidding! We don't go in for
the sell-out thing. And besides, I really enjoy this site way too
much.
What I really wanted to tell you was that we have a special celebration upon us – the event of the anniversary of Coolmac's birth, which occurred at some stage in the annals of history. We'll be celebrating all weekend, here and there, and all birthday wishes are welcome.
As you may have guessed, Coolmac hates
making a big deal of his birthday, so this is going to cause huge
amounts of shit. But I believe that there are some people who make
such a positive impact, or in Coolmac's case, just such a substantial
goddamn impact, with their mere presence, that the day they came into
the world deserves to be celebrated. For example, Jimi Hendrix,
Slash, Madiba, Sylvia Plath, Stephen King, and Crowley, to name a
fraction. You may have noticed I didn't mention Jesus, and that's
because everyone knows his birthday wasn't on 25 December, and that
whole thing was established for political and financial rather than
celebratory reasons.
Anyway, why should only one person's
'birthday' be celebrated by everyone? Each person in this world is
just as important as the next, and all deserve to be celebrated
equally. Even the tsotsi's in the squatter camp in Chesterville.
So next time you look around and get
the chance to interact with people, think about how much shit people
all over the world go through to celebrate Christmas: the fuckin'
shopping centres are enough to send me running the other way; the
prices they charge for arbitrary gifts; the terminally full parking
lots; whining kids; the list goes on. Then think about the fact that
it's all blind dogma, nothing more.
Then think about someone who has made
an impact in your own world, and what you did for them, to celebrate
their existence.
That's my bead of wisdom for today, kiddies! Now I'm off to go drink with Coolmac, and hopefully I'll get him so wasted he'll forget the down-down I made him last year...
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