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Kenna - Hell Bent
“Chapel Perilous, that vortex where cosmological speculations, coincidences, and paranoia seem to multiply and then collapse, compelling belief or lunacy, wisdom or agnosticism.” ~Robert Anton Wilson
When you start to watch the news you do start to notice these shifts in emphasis between the very dispassionate and the very emotional. I began to be fascinated with this word 'incident', the way it's used to almost distance some of these in most cases very traumatic events like homicide, kidnaps, child abuse, natural tragedies. The word 'incident' was used in a way to distance. So I started to pick out some of these stories from the news and write about them, almost in an attempt to put some emotional resent back in. I took a story about a religious cult in America, a story about a body being found in a river, I took the original incident which was a road accident that I experienced first hand and I began to write about these things from a more personal perspective. So that's where the original idea of The Incident came from.
Exactly! The whole thing about Occam's Razor for me is that it's like a prelude to The Blind House, which is the song about the religious cult. I've written a few songs over the years about my feelings about organised religion. Things like Halo and Sever on the Signify album. I'm not a fan of religion. I don't believe in God. I believe in human beings. I believe God is inside us. I believe in spirituality but I don't believe in worshipping. I've written many songs about this and the interesting thing about Occam's Razor is that if you apply it's principle to religion Occam's Razor basically says that whatever the most obvious, the most acceptable and the most logical explanation than that's the one you have to accept. There are many theories to explain something, you have to discard all the ones for which you'll say there's not enough evidence or it seems implausible and you accept the one that has the most scientific weight. If you apply that principle to the creation of the universe and why are human beings here, God and religion is about 50.000 on a list of plausible explanations. Darwinism and evolution is definitely the explanation that applies best to Occam's Razor. So for me it's just another theory that discards the whole idea, and as Richard Dawkins says if you believe in God you might as well believe in Santa Clause or the Spaghetti Monster.
Barefoot performance
For live shows Wilson plays with bare feet. This particular custom goes back to his early childhood, where he remembers: "I always had a problem wearing shoes and I've always gone around with bare feet"[21]. He also adds that another factor on performing barefoot is the advantage it gives in operating his diverse guitar pedals[22].
Wilson:
"I’ve stepped on nails, screws, drawing pins, stubbed my toe, I’ve come off stage with blood just coming out… I mean, I’ve had it all mate, but to be honest, nothing’s going to stop me."
Rock band Rage Against The Machine has won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one.
The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot.
Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to prevent another X Factor number one.
One retailer said it was a "truly remarkable outcome - possibly the greatest chart upset ever".
Speaking on the Radio 1 chart show, Zack de la Rocha from Rage said: "We are very, very ecstatic about being number one."
He added it was an "incredible organic grassroots campaign".
'Sterile pop'
"It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly," he said.
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