tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36868032024-03-13T04:36:26.162+00:00FAMILY OF BREATHRussell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comBlogger4211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-44250250757540724942011-09-19T09:04:00.001+01:002011-09-19T09:19:28.658+01:00Growing up among the Tory voting mind setI've just noticed the BBC news site has an article on Sandhurst, the Military Academy. It reminds me that in the early to mid 1970s, aged 11 to 16, I attended a military boarding school in Dover. The Duke Of York's Royal Military School. And I remember my mum was always hoping or assuming I'd go on to Sandhurst afterwards.
The grown-ups of my childhood were, I believe, mostly Tory voting workingRussell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-8997341016372040262011-05-17T01:58:00.002+01:002011-05-17T02:06:22.927+01:00YEAR ZERO... in the first 6 months of 2000 I was experiencing a fair number of days taking doses of LSD ... and that also became the last period in my life so far that I ever used it too ... Albert Hofmann I think expressed the view that "LSD My Problem Child" should be experienced sparingly and thoughtfully, not too casually ...
... one of those very first few Lysergic inspired days of 2000 were filmed Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-49439583497531060602011-05-12T19:47:00.002+01:002011-05-13T19:52:15.372+01:00the 51st stateIt's my 51st birthday today. I am now older than my dad. He was a few months short of his 51st when he died back in 1970. (I'm also way older than my older brother, he was only 32 when he od'd on heroin in 1985).
It has been an interesting personal year. Good and bad, but ultimately pretty good. Most of the bad stuff contributed to an overall interesting learning experience.
In May last year Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-60284854619287731052011-04-30T13:34:00.002+01:002011-04-30T14:35:56.238+01:00being and time... My fundamental beliefs are not rooted in any one religion and not in marxism etc neither ... I swim with Mary Poppins, the Doctor, The Invisibles and The Authority etc.
... there have been moments in my life when other people's JudgementsAccusationsAssumptions about me are so way way off the mark :) like (back in the late 1980s/start of the 90s) when the freshly deposed founders of ACT-UP Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-66135386558106644512011-04-11T22:02:00.000+01:002011-04-11T22:02:14.552+01:00entrainment and conformity.. as an outsider, primarily viewing america through it's fictions, all the telly and movie cultural colonisation I've grown up with my whole life, and I'm nearly 51, it seems to me that america's youth are put through an AWFUL LOT of hierarchical (conformity inducing) hoops and rituals.
All that prom night stuff for starters etc,
and FLAGS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS for fucks sake. What a nightmareRussell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-36747107976408382022011-04-07T13:34:00.001+01:002011-04-07T13:43:31.218+01:00Of all the activists I've encountered over the decades ...... the armchair AND the genuinely active varieties of activists all included, there's a recurring type, who are so blatantly stuck in some hellishly pessimistic 20th century gloom; like they're still stuck in the depressed period of the central character from Groundhog Day.
I tend to think of these types as the Two eMs - Misery and Meglomania; their beliefs are rooted in a VERY old fashioned,Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-6895132759219053452011-04-02T05:46:00.000+01:002011-04-02T05:46:20.380+01:00Mister Higgs coming soon to Channel Zero... NEW FUMETTI ...
http://www.23hq.com/russell-higgs/photo/6613765Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-11368552112999447792011-03-14T09:15:00.000+00:002011-03-14T09:15:33.382+00:00ad hominem... yesterday morning (Sunday) I discovered a comment that was actually written a couple of weeks ago in the Hackney Citizen; in it I'm accused of being a pseudo-anarchist-control-freak.
What an insult.
Pseudo-anarchist-control-freaks are so very last century.
If you have to label me, then you could at least make the effort to catch up. I'm an anarcho-transhumanist-fairy sweetie.Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-53948299929128164552011-03-09T14:48:00.000+00:002011-03-09T14:48:42.484+00:00meanwhile on page 11... http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1444721&page=11
... including ex police officer "Deep Purple" who has now twice attempted to recontextualise me as that old simplistic sitcom stereotype - Wolfie Smith. I replied that this says more about his own mind than having anything to do with me. And that one simply has to google me to see that I am something far more original and Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-43489376235660905492011-03-08T01:11:00.000+00:002011-03-08T01:11:38.837+00:00power... over on Digitalspy, forum member Keiō Line said: "While I initially dismissed the suggestion on the first page that you are simply attention seeking, under the condition known as "persecution chic", I am being drawn to this as an explanation of your action and attitude."
... http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1444721&page=8
... To which I replied as Biomorph04: "Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-2380403245458521422011-03-03T19:51:00.003+00:002011-03-06T00:00:03.511+00:00Being prevented from taking photos outside a train station in London 3rd Mar 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tscA6LIjqwRussell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-74771253861815017572011-03-03T11:44:00.002+00:002011-03-03T11:44:24.891+00:00TED"Dear Russell, Thank you for entering TED’s inaugural Ads Worth Spreading initiative. We deeply appreciate your interest in this effort and though we were not able to award your work this year, we are honored by your participation."Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-53525597910395813222011-02-27T11:09:00.002+00:002011-02-27T11:56:04.819+00:00THAT FUCKING SWASTIKA... I notice that pesky nazi swastika video, which has dogged my most popular YouTube video for an entire year, is now more prominent than ever. Now it pops up at the end as the "next featured video" despite no longer appearing in the right hand column.
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0O6OWUL3k ...
... last year I asked the Guggenheim if they'd have a word with Google and get the swastika Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-39631776212991377082011-02-19T18:37:00.002+00:002011-02-19T18:37:57.875+00:00LUCID... NEW free MP3 ...
... Citizen Higgs "LUCID" ...
... http://www.last.fm/music/Citizen+Higgs/_/LUCID ...Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-53267179075454869302011-02-08T00:01:00.001+00:002011-02-08T00:01:06.283+00:00HOMO LUDENSRussell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-20783157941695788342011-01-31T15:04:00.001+00:002011-01-31T16:07:58.350+00:00that Berlin wall moment ...... I remember when the Berlin wall came down and someone from East Berlin said to the western TV person "it's NOT A ONE WAY STREET. YOU THE WEST HAVE THINGS AND SKILLS TO LEARN FROM US IN THE EAST AND FROM OUR EXPERIENCES LIVING UNDER TOTAL REGIMES."
... the example of a SKILL that this man from the east could teach us, was, he said, the skill of extracting information about what is going on Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-77317866886025823612011-01-31T11:50:00.005+00:002011-01-31T13:50:03.073+00:00my step-dad... I think my step-dad died sometime around xmas. But not one relative has actually contacted me to tell me anything. I know no details. I learned he was dead via an email from my aunt's NEIGHBOURS, saying "sorry to hear about Alan." They assumed SOMEONE FROM THE FAMILY would have contacted me about it. THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO CONTACT ME HERE IN THE 21st CENTURY.
... fortunately I had Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-86390374637369682782011-01-31T01:33:00.000+00:002011-01-31T01:33:38.885+00:00BEING JUDGED.. to the man in the face2face world who yesterday seemed to have arrived at some bizarre negative judgment about me AND who seems to have run away scared ... if you're reading this ... I don't know if you know that I'm currently celibate and that my celibacy isn't something I plan to give up lightly ... plus, I thought all these months we were forming a *friendship* first ... were you only Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-50065739779740539312011-01-31T01:31:00.000+00:002011-01-31T01:31:21.010+00:00shop... in a shop yesterday, at the cash till, the shop assistant clocked my large self portrait badge and firstly asked if it was me. Then she asked "are you a clown?". I replied that I was a sort of clown, "I'm an artist". And she said "It's BEAUTIFUL." And she insisted that the woman in the Q behind me take a look. "Isn't that BEAUTIFUL" she said :)
... I assumed the woman behind just wanted me Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-32358239664418189382011-01-31T01:29:00.001+00:002011-01-31T01:29:19.353+00:00the end... I went to the theater last week. Am glad I went, I learnt stuff etc, but I didn't FEEL anything. In fact I found it a bit too theatrical. But the audience seemed to love it and at the end they mostly all stood up while applauding. And I didn't stand. I thought, I really *didn't* feel anything and so if I stood up it would be just because of a feeling of peer pressure and it'd be dishonest of Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-56735557575759258762011-01-25T19:24:00.000+00:002011-01-25T19:24:22.274+00:00bEy0nd thE plAnEt 0f thE ApEs....NEWS UPDATE ... I've been thinking a LOT about what's important and what do I want re being LIVE and HOSTING a social event blah blah blah .... and I've decided that bEy0nd thE plAnEt 0f thE ApEs needs to be *really* stretchy and amorphous. NOT just an evening in a bar.
... Therefore THE very NEXT bEy0nd will NOT be this Thursday downstairs at Olive ... It will instead begin as a daylight Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-6835370647648073252011-01-23T21:35:00.007+00:002011-01-24T19:53:50.408+00:00LIVE... http://duckie.co.uk/ ...
A culture's power structure depends largely on how we look and how we are looked at.
UNDRESSING:Russell Higgs Live Onstage @ Duckie 22Jan2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5382096784/
... VIDEO ... 17 December 2000: Russell Higgs @ Downing Street
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKTneEC2gc
... PHOTO ALBUM ... The Unclothed Human Appearance In Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-62158835731111751432011-01-14T00:47:00.002+00:002011-01-14T00:47:54.268+00:00Emporium... LARGE 3.5 inch BADGES ... 10 pack
... http://www.cafepress.co.uk/higgsemporium2.401171056 ...Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-86512993612602062202011-01-14T00:07:00.000+00:002011-01-14T00:07:22.334+00:00temporary flickr censorship... I see flickr's dastardly restrictions are tighter and pettier than I'd first assumed and you need to be *signed-in* to flickr to see my pics.
meanwhile and with that in mind, here's my new kitty powered fumetti ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/5352848648/Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686803.post-13018855170222122542011-01-03T03:31:00.000+00:002011-01-03T03:31:15.093+00:00make up make up never never break up.. It always fascinates me that so many men are attracted to people who daily cover their faces with paint.
And it is also interesting that the people who lead the way in mainstream acceptance of artificiality (cosmetic surgery etc) are women.
... personally I'm just not *sexually* attracted to faces with make-up on and therefore I find it a genuinely curious thing that so many men are Russell Shaw Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14507411410026543614noreply@blogger.com