Esnsnon 13-10-09

(Ik zou een stuk citeren uit de muziek die ik op het moment luister, maar ik ben bang dat ik er geen hout van versta. Ik luister wat Slavische liturgie en ik vermoed dat het Latijn is. Het is best aardig, een beetje gregoriaans maar ritmischer van tijd tot tijd. Geen kwaad koortje, moet ik zeggen. Niet aan te raden aan andere mensen natuurlijk, ga gerust normale muziek luisteren.)

Good morning, or as one of my professors said while passing me on the stairs: Good afternoon. (paraphrased) I think the man is a couple of hours ahead of me.

Currently, I am engaged in a self-study about the effects of sleep deprivation. I've slept little over four hours last night, due to my total self-negligence (I could swear I mis-spelled that). I woke up at half past six, forced myself out of bed and into the train, consuming large amounts of sugar and foodstuffs halfway. I need to sustain myself to twelve o' clock in the evening in the very least, while spending quite some time mentally active. I need to be a smart-ass in college, a attentative musician, caring, charming and sweet. All that costs quite a great amount of energy and if I use too much I'll instead turn into an arrogant bastard in college, I'll screw up beautiful musical masterpieces and I'll be a horrid person to be around, cynical and grumpy. That would get in the way of all the things I'm trying to achieve today. I've already used twice the proper daily amount of sugar, drunk some coffee and took half naps whenever possible, but it mainly creates more physical energy, getting me hyperactive. I'm still getting quite tired in my head, the second-worst part to get tired when you're me. I need my head, and I need it in a good condition. That condition won't improve when I'm thinking at full speed all day long, damn it. If only I could stop thinking. That's not in the way of "Oh, I wish I could stop thinking about you, blink blink, I'd like to thank the Academy and God, and like, stuff," but more in the way of "I'd like my brain to stop overclocking, my cooling isn't very sophisticated." Unfortunately, my brain builds up stockpiles of verbal bile quite easily. For instance:

People are stupid. Yuck. I don't know how far your general education has progressed, but let me state clearly, and hopefully for once and for all, what Apocalypse means. And NO it is NOT the end of the world. Yes, it is indeed a Bible book too, but the Bible has no exclusive rights to the use of the word. If people call something 'the Apocalypse' they are most likely trying to refer to all kinds of bad shit that is described in a part of the Christian Bible, the last part specifically. Nothing about the word Apocalypse has anything to do with the destruction of the world or the end of times. Just take a look at the word Apocalypse. You can split it in two parts, apo and calypse. Perhaps you understand it now, perhaps not. I'll make it a bit easier. What does calypse mean? It's derived from the word Calypso. And don't you dare thinking of Pirates of the Caribbean first! (Those damned clowns at Disney, randomly scanning a wikipedia page about mythology and stealing two or three names to vomit them out on a script page again, completely out of context, spreading false and dumb ideas amongst the equally dumb masses... Someone ought to send them to the Locker. The Odyssee, anyone? Dear Zeus, smite...) Calypso is being used as a name occasionally, yes. It's also a Greek word meaning secret. Now, is there yet anyone not getting the point? Apo-Calypso means, quite literally: de-secretizing, de-hiding. Or, with an easier word: Revelation. Epiphany. Apocalypse is the Greek name for the Revelation of Johannes. (Not John, you English morons. By the way, it's not King Herod either, or Marc or Matthew or Luke, it's Homeros and not Homer, Ovidius and not Ovid. Use Livius instead of Livy, and for gods' sake, Jacob instead of James. It can't be that hard.) Sure, the Revelation in the Bible describes a lot of doom and despair (more of a planned demolition anyway) but Apocalypse can refer to any kind of revelation. I have several Apocalypses every week! There have been millions of Revelations. If you are talking about the end of the world, please just use Armageddon or doomsday or something. Like, totally.
Ugh. I hate people.

Hugo Maat.

Ps: The four riders of the Apocalypse are correctly named though, and according to Johannes they will appear just before the end of times, but they are not called that way because they bring about doom and destruction.
Pps: While the English blokes are at it, why not just abolish the jury system, accept the euro and drive on the right* side of the road from now on?

*No, right isn't left.