Crackers!
I'm one of your backers
And they're all just slackers
because they lack you
Crackers!
I want to shake my maraccas
In front of some clackers
And that just won't do
In case you wern't paying attention, Crackers is an obscure cartoon character who looks a bit like a little pink dog and is of indeterminate gender. Crackers is a mind-worm and when you've used some heavy-duty mind-altering drugs, like psylocibin mushrooms you can get quite vulnerable to them.
However that's just an unfortunate side effect of using these substances. What you're really after is escape from your day to day perception and personality to engage your brain in free-form thought. Like... What if we humans, our lives and all the things we percieve as real are analogous to the mushrooms themselves and are just visible fruiting bodies that are actually connected together beneath our perception by a network of transparent strands that together form a single organism.
It's a bit gaia isn't it? If so maybe we are the Gaian brain becoming bloated and destructive like our giant-brained descendents described in Olaf Stapledon's FIRST AND LAST MEN. Eep.
So yeh. Do that. It's well wicked innit.
The strange title of this post is my long-held mishearing of one of the opening lines of the 1980s classic 'Vienna' by Ultravox. I eventually got round to thinking that more likely it's a Dog rather than a Duck with the man in the picture frame, so mystic and soulful. In fact I've just looked it up and apparently it's actually:
The man in the dark in a picture frame,
So mystic and soulful.
I'm frankly gutted.
Well done to the Spaniels winning that world cup there last night! They so deserved to beat those dirty cheating dutch types. I hate them! Even if they like their gear and think Koos is a reasonable and normal name. OK I quite like them.
The revolution's coming, y'hear?
