Cathcart Zen on politics, rock music.

Warren Ellis is insane; funny. I've decided to simply follow him blindly. Easier, that.

Warren Ellis » The Politics Of Cathcart Zen:

"“Politics,” declaimed Cathcart Zen from the battlements, “is the art of doing it to them before they do it to you... They’re all the same. No-one stands for election because they want to make the lives of strangers better. They’re all fucking Nixon — they just hide it better.

...Nixon understood that political power was only ever about screwing the other guy before he found a way to screw you. Voting is about nothing but installing the guy who’s more likely to screw the people you hate before they elect the guy who’s more likely to screw you. The whole point of a two-party system is to polarise entire countries into behaving like football fans. Dulls the thinking. Crushes original thinking. Anti-evolution. Creates herd mentalities. Not me.”"

Warren Ellis » The Rock Of Cathcart Zen:

"“Get this gutless shit out of my ears,” Cathcart Zen growled, smashing the radio with a roasted horse leg.

“Get this gutless shit out of my ears,” Cathcart Zen growled, smashing the radio with a roasted horse leg.

“But it’s popular,” whined Metz, the chef.

“So’s anal sex with schoolgirls. Doesn’t mean I have to listen to it while I eat. Fucking hippies and Seventies queens everywhere. In 1967 John Cale and I would drink a bathtub full of whisky and meth — each — and then go out into Manhattan, hunt hippies, and open up umbrellas in their cocks. This worthless, polite fucking noise offends me. Rock and roll is about sex and anger and declaring that you are alive, not making your fucking grandmother smile while she knits condoms with the Pope’s face on the side. It’s the hymns for the church of booze and pills and cigarettes and orgasms I’m talking about, not some walking colostomy bag in a bad hat singing through his nose about how he’s a waste of a good womb. It’s about being an epic fucking human being..."