Sometimes – okay, a lot of the times – I have several monologues going on in my head. More often than not, they stem from some political topic of the day/week/Parliamentary term. So much to the point that the inner monologue doesn’t shut up at night, keeping me up later than I’d like to be and impacting my ability to get up proper in the morning. Or maybe I just hate weekdays.
But whenever it comes to speaking out loud or typing all my thoughts down in some space I happen to have, everything either goes blank or runs together into one big mosh-mash of frustration. And I don’t like to be negative all that much. I had one day at the start of this week where lots of odd little annoyances added together and made me feel like shit because I took everything to heart too much.
Besides, it doesn’t really matter what one person’s political viewpoint is. Well I suppose it does matter when it comes to everyone sharing the same or similar views and having to decide the fate of the country for the next few years at least. But every other time – you know, the times when anyone with access to a social media account feels the need to preach at the shapeless mass of literally everyone else who’s too busy doing the same thing to even listen – it’s fucking stupid.
My viewpoint isn’t right, just like everyone else’s. It’s an opinion. That’s all we are, a collection of walking opinions about what should be the best way to go about a plethora of societal aspects. (What do you suppose is the collective noun for a group of opinions anyway? A happening? A figment? Anyway…)
The problem is that, because we all have our own point of view, in our own minds, we’re correct. We understand our own reasoning and it baffles us that other people don’t see it the way we believe they’re supposed to. Through my eyes (and mouth), avocado is the worst foodstuff one could ingest. To others, it’s a veritable toast topping. It baffles me how so many people can be so wrong about this. That’s a non-political analogy by the way. The point is, just because I know I’m right in my head, other people may not think I’m right in their heads.
Ideally, everyone needs to understand this instead of assuming that because they have a mouthpiece to the world, they are suddenly responsible for sharing their one true worldview for the betterment of mankind. Let’s face it, nobody’s listening anyway. They’re too busy using their own mouthpiece to deliver their right answers to a world of people, again, wrapped up in their own truth that they’re not listening.
But anyway, that’s just my view. It’s not gospel.
A bit LCD Soundsystem-y, in fact so much so that I initially thought it was the song “Tribulations” on first listen. This track has lodged itself in my consciousness with its bleeps and bloops and repetitive a-la-la-la. By no means a bad thing.
I haven’t been familiar with Tunng up until this came along and now I believe they may be one to ‘add to the list’ of artists to delve further into. A certain -pedia tells me they’re big in folk and electronical noises, raising my interest further. Now if only the predictive keyboard technology afforded to me would stop correcting the name to ‘Tuning’ this might be a lot easier.
Tunng – Dark Heart
Jamie Walsh 
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