Band on the Run? Poet on the pyre!

Goth world is a bad place......jingle bells my ****

Steve's gone awol. Mark and Ade don't wanna bother. Looks like the band's into a forced period of rest. www.myspace.com/defianceofgod

Feel dumb. Feel numb. Feel blind. Feel Deaf. Feel sick. Feel like an empty chest with all my treasures thrown to the four corners of the winds.

Guess I've been hoping for a change. A change of spirit. I want to see things differently. To believe in the power of good.

But no matter how hard I look - I'm just not seeing any proof. Or am I? Patrick Jones has been on the TV today. Seems like Christian voice were hounding him out of yet another reading at Borders in Cardiff. Shame since from the mails he's sent me - looks like Defiance Of God have an open invite to appear on a CD he's making. But all the ***t he's getting - through Poetry. I mean - come ON! What's going on in the world? Seems like no-one wants to hear the truth any more. Just a sanitised consumer safe version that certainly won't offend anyone, but means, and I mean means Sweet NOTHING>

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Chinese Democracy - Patrick Jones

Gonna dive right in with some weird ***t. Read a book yesterday - Fuse - by a Welsh poet, playwright, Patrick Jones - there's a connection to Manic Street Preachers - Patrick is Nicky Wire's brother and sometime collaborator with the manics. His writing - Patrick's was really angry very now and highly polemic. Just like my own in Defiance of God. www.myspace.com/defianceofgod

Anyway - today I hear via the web that this guy - Patrick Jones was scheduled to do a reading of his new book at Waterstones in Cardiff and it's cancelled - cause some right wing Christian fundamentalists had objected to the subject matter. Anti War - pro life - anti religion. Like are we living in Berlin 39 or what. Freedom of Speech - it's gone. He's a writer a poet a playwright, surely his mission is to enlighten and inform - and this is Wales - not the mid West of American. The Hayes in Cardiff, Waterstones - where Bill Bryson and Terry Pratchet have signed copies of their books. It's madness - a Welsh creative mind censored by the religous right wing! Dunnoh. I just lose any faith in humanity when stuff like this happens.

Guns N Roses are about to return with Chinese Democracy their first new disc in 15 years - looks like we have a chinese democrary here in Wales.

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