Tuesday, November 22, 2011

me

my real name is robert. so, if you looked for charlie, it's me. i have time to type tonight, so i will for awhile. beginning, this is usually called roots. the pun is i've had a few. i have many beginnings but maybe one end, and death is not one of them for i have died  many times. the one beginning i will start with is the dreaming, though also this is many

now it's 12;15am  , the name charlie clag eartha is an old school yard name , the creator of which is unknown , maybe it's one of 3 people around 1973. my use of  the term is more of necessity, i needed a name for a duplicate page , originally to be called carbon copy, that name was taken . the mind boggled for a name cc stuck in the mind, and a thought remembered charlie clag eartha. that's were charlie came from , anything thing after that is pure coincidence  

i made my first utube vid, only took 3 hours to upload. only cause i'm bored with computer land. getting back to charlie, the picture (avatar) is from the first superman comic, i'm not really a superman fan, but i did grow up watching george reeves, and the rumours of his death. how, it came about . was my first intro to pc internet world, from the job provider scheme, at that time, 2005, i used old macs although i had a windows 95 for doing stuff not internet though, anyways, enjoying the fast machines and net speed of the job providers, i done some speedy google searchers, when i was young i had a few marvel comics like ironman, hulk, sub mariner , and thor plus other stuff. on the way to the j.p., i had time to kill, so i went to an op shop , checked out some mags and such for the train trip. not brand echh (not brand x).

3jan12,
i just continue, if it seems like twoddle, not making much sense, then good. not brand ecch was a parody comic, a lampoon of the above mentioned. some class friends had one and i never. that day at the op shop i got one , some 40 years later. so, at the job place i checked for not brand ecthed, or something, never could get that last word. i found them, there was about 10 or so, from stan lee. dont get me wrong i'm not a comic guy, the reason comics won over books is mainly i'm a lazy reader, typer, writer. i just go to sleep after a page or three. comics with less text were my faves, anything with lots of reading was put on the too hard basket , till something easy came along.




4jan12
so much for the not brand  echh comic, it was mostly heavy worded, i started to read it but gave up. 38 years and couldn't be bothered, a bit like today. at the job place , i done a few goggle searches for old stuff that was on my memory, that i was interested in , like some old bands and things. part of the job activity  place was making an email, done my first email there. by pure coincidence i checked out johnlydon.com , the big story there was a party in l.a. , some money thing . spoken word event and on the bill was stan lee, amazing.  i dont know what it is with that band , there are very many coincidences. i decided to look for a few old comics, like boofhead and other stuff, one was the first superman comic. i found it , read a bit but the woman came along and said you should be job hunting. i decide to bring a usb stick and get the comic next visit, so that's where the picture came from , although it was some time before i actually used it, a few years. but i think it has a great effect as an avatar thingy .

6jan12
this seems to be turning into a comic fest, rather than about me, i suppose i'll make future changes if i feel like it. comics, probably my first exposure was from papers & mags, some were read others weren't , eg; the phantom , mandrake etc, why, they continued , and always missed bits. so, peanuts and those sort were read. a few faves were rigby in the daily mirror and boofhead, these pretty much ended early 70's. rigby was a political type thing, current event. the main thing was finding the boy and the dog, drawn separately hidden in the picture. i have a book of some in it, you can probably find some on line, if i research it, i'll do a link. the other well loved one was boofhead, i also had a book with a collection of boofhead dating back until the time of print, probably 1969-70, (this) , i also had this new from the paper shop but regretfully  threw it some years later,it was like them  wizard of id,  farside things you see but a4 size, mine was well read, they were just dopey toons, probably if i still had it , it would be unread like the rigby one, and this blog.
the first boofhead comic was on ebay for $99

7jan12
most definitely not much comic activity after here maybe the odd mad or speedway mag, a british bikie mag called chopper, no playboys although there was man which was quite popular and the australian post mainly bikini chicks and gags. there was a slight interest in the mid to late 70's with the so called underground stuff like freak bros, crumb and the like, these were rather expensive here and by that time you'd probably buy records or clothes or trinketry . i did however buy a high times it had rotten on the cover the first one i bought. i remember coming home on the bus and hiding it from the old ladies, cause i didn't want to be associated with that crowd. to tell you the truth, i thought he was possessed. except for a few mens things, thats pretty much my comic world till the 80's which i'll tell bloggery later.

15jan12
when i think back to the 80s, actually 1980 there was a few mens things with okay articles in them , one was called oui which is yes in french, this particular one had an interview with john lennon , he was actually listening to the sex pistols pretty vacant when the interview was on, saying he had to do a bit of catch up cause he had been reclusive during that period. also, was the swindle premier, which had taken some time and things to be completed, and even also again was a list of things , sort or hot and not, and one was boring and who was on it the sex pistols. as for comics i found a little corner comic shop on Castlereagh st in the city, i got them r.crumb blues cards and a few early weirdos  , like 1 & 2 around 81 or something. they weren't really comics, sort of, more arty compared to earlier work.


16jan12
probably 1980 had a lot happening, when i really look back and think about it. compared to the 90's even 2000's , lots more choice of the other, now it's pretty much this or that with no real choice. the john lennon story in that oui mag really spoke to me, at that time i was in a similar situation as far as the music thing was, not comparing myself too, but through just not buying or having enough. at that time , around march, april 80 i'd been in work a few months and brought a stereo, i dont know why, then came buying records, what records?. i had stuff like dylan , alice cooper , jjcale , country joe etc pretty much not quite top ten. i had the plastic ono band, white album, double blue 66-70hits , although i only had a few, these were well played. at the time of the oui interview no one i knew was listening to them albums like me, that was old hat, lennon was long gone john even then, maybe the new album was out but no one was listening to the old stuff, maybe imagine or xmas at xmas. when i say no one i mean the media around here anyways, there was probably the odd beatle nut somewhere, hey that sounds familar. yeah we all know now. it was really strange that at the time of that interview i was also listening to the sex pistols.

19jan12
still stuck on 1980, and i saw my first real overseas act in sydney, mainly distance and finance, stopped me beforehand . i'd been told by friends if you really like a band you should see them live, that advice stuck but was never really acted upon. i had chances to see stuff like jethro tull , all that sort of stuff. although locally i did see joe cocker and melanie safka around 78 or 79. in 1980 i sure did make up for it. the boomtown rats was the first, i was impressed by the piano player, definitely the rat. the bands i seen that year would have sold out any featival, the ramones, the cure, the vapors (may have been one hit wonders, but they were good live band), xtc, heaps of support type  bands and local and industry things. a good, bad & ugly year.

24jan12
i'm sure 1980 will came back in this blog, as will comics. as for me , physically born fifties , grow up in the 60's, experimented in the 70's , runamuck in the 80's , something not much in the 90's , looked back & learnt in 21 century and scorned through out , i think i'm rock n' roll as much as anything. as bout as much as i can remember in the fifties, was wrestling on a tv you had to put money in, that's it. pretty much everything after that is the 1960s. there's good and bad stuff. my best memory,(59or60) is sitting in the gutter squashing hot tar bubbles on the road like bubble wrap, i loved that. ... as for comments, i'm sick to death of having to read this, to do that, with everything to do with computers, it's not written or done in a concise fashion, little f..ing labels hidden away in some spot on the screen , while stupid f...ing ads ars given priority, f it no comments here cause the page is impossible to f..ing load.

19july2015
i read this , that last little rant is about, being self educated when it comes to figuring out computers. i didn't quite get it when i read it on this date. i now realise, it's about having to read this and that to work out modern technologies, which we've had to do. the comments were given me a problem for some reason
 
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why  i said that is, i've had over 10,000 views on this blog. i've had a few scroungy questions earlier about where's the passwords, far cough.  all i can say if you want something, at least comment , good or bad, doesn't matter. just come and scrounge, you are not me, and i don't want to know you.  

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