FRAGRANCE REVIEW: KINSKI BY ESCENTRIC MOLECULES- A SCENT FOR THE COMFORTABLY WEIRD

Released: 2011
House: Escentric Molecules
Fragrantica page: http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Kinski/Kinski-14192.html



Top Notes: Cannabis, Juniper, Castoreum, Black Currant
Heart Notes: Oceanic notes, Magnolia, Vetiver
Base notes: Animalic notes, Woody notes, Patchouli



I’m a little bit weird. Not because I want/try to be weird, and not because I have a particular chemical imbalance or psychological condition that affects my mental reasoning or social behaviour, because I don’t.

I am weird because I am noticeably different to the people that I grew up with. It’s as simple as that.

I have never felt any desire to join, and this not wanting to join has made me ‘weird’ from the very beginning, whether I realised it or not. I didn’t even have to do anything. Being weird is not about what you do, it’s about what you don’t do, and by doing nothing, I marked myself for life.

And now as a different version of the same person that I always was, and still outside, I’m into scents, and what scent encapsulates outsiderness, difference, separation, better than Kinski? It’s an anti-social scent, but not really, like myself, it’s rough, but really quite sweet. I sampled it in a department store, and was instantly repelled at the awkwardness of the scent.

This isn’t perfume, is it? I thought that perfume was supposed to be soft, charming, alluring, and romantic, not a harsh, dirty, earthy, sweaty, dry, animalic? I can’t wear this, can I? What would people say? And that’s the point. Here’s what they will say.

In my world, they will say nothing, because that is what they always say. So, I douse myself in Kinski, enjoy it, because I like it, I really do, and what people think, it doesn’t matter, because I do not matter to them, so why waste my time in concern for how they will react?

I wear Kinski for myself. I wear it because my individuality is not a circle and the scent helps me to connect with that awkward sense of alone for life individuality that I value more than anything else in the world. It’s little old me, in a bottle, awkward and alone, harsh, yet sweet, and happy to be alone, as looking around me, there’s nothing out there that’s really worth joining, or belonging to, is there?

Kinski is a scent for the comfortably weird, for those that happily refuse to assimilate within one of the little groups of stranger circles. You wear it because it allures you, to yourself. It makes you appreciate yourself.

The world grinds people up, taking them inside, and moulding them into the collective. It’s how the world works, it’s how humanity works, and it’s how we kill ourselves for the greater good of what will never exist. Outside, they walk, back and forth, to their circles of ruinous routine, but you don’t have to pick a side and join the wilfully blinded throng. Let them walk by. They are walking, but they are not going anywhere. Enjoy Kinski, luxuriate within the isolated sense of fiercely independent weirdness, it’s all you need, it’s all that anybody needs.


Longevity: 8/10
Sillage: 8/10
Overall rating: 10/10

Comic review- Doc Savage: The Spider’s Web #1- And the award for the stupidest comic book of 2015 goes to……..this one.

Writer: Chris Roberson
Artist: Cezar Razek
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Released: 2nd December 2015



Here’s the plot: 1935, America, and an evil inventor/industrialist has a portable weapon that melts people, and entire buildings. He attempts to sell it to the US Government, but (unbelievably) they are not interested.

So, rather than selling it to foreign governments, or to the numerous independently wealthy private individuals who would no doubt pay him billions for such a weapon, he comes up with a devious plan to change the US government’s mind and to get them interested in it.

Here’s his plan. Melt a couple of cops, evaporate a warehouse, frame the Germans, get the US government to perceive a German threat, and then they’ll come running back to you to buy your portable WMD. Will it work or will the heroic Doc Savage foil his evil plan to, err, sell a weapon to the US government, the very people that (in the real world) would be more than happy to buy it off of him?

If you want to find out what happens next, buy this book. If, however, you find this entire plot to be completely, unbelievably stupid, then don’t.

What on earth is going on here? Are we supposed to believe that the US government (In 1935) would NOT be interested in a powerful (portable) weapon that can dissolve people and entire buildings into a puddle of goo? And are we also supposed to believe that having found out about this technology that they would leave the inventor alone to do whatever he likes with it? Wouldn’t this be a serious national security issue? Didn’t the US invade Iraq because they THOUGHT that they had WMD’s? Okay, I know that was a lie, but the point stands.

There is no way in Hell that the US government of 1935 (or any other time in world history) would find out about a devastating weapon of mass destruction, and then do absolutely nothing about it other than politely say no when given first refusal.

How the Donald Duck am I supposed to take any of this seriously. The whole thing is completely preposterous. There’s suspension of disbelief, but suspension of the intellect as well?

Chris Roberson, you’re asking too much of your readers. Your story is nonsense, and I have to call you out on it. When the fundamental core of your narrative makes ZERO LOGICAL SENSE how the heck am I supposed to engage with it?

I’ll answer that. I can’t. It’s absolutely impossible to engage with something sooooooo mindnumbingly stoooopid. Aggggghhhhh, my head hurts now. Somebody give me some brain juice please, my intellect is literally pouring out of my ear holes.



Rating: 0/10 (I can’t even remember the last time that I read something as stupid as this comic book)

Feeding Time (How westen neoliberalism created an Islamic monster)

50-Word (comic) review: 2000AD-PROG 1959- Reflections on a world gone wrong

Writers and artists: Numerous
Publisher: Rebellion
Released: 2nd December 2015



2000AD, you really are spoiling me. What can I complain about when your stories are about Police brutality, political corruption, false justifications for war, resistance to tyrants and the ‘highest’ being questioned by the ‘lowest?’ This is how you get with the times. This is how you actually say something.


Rating: 10/10

Check out the following quotation from ‘Defoe//London Hanged’ by Pat Mills- 

‘By what authority are the highest in the land to be questioned by the lowest?’ 

Look at the front cover on this issue of 2000AD (by Cliff Robinson) where an unrepentant Judge Dredd is caught on a camera phone beating a civilian to death for the crime of talking back to him. 

Read ‘Bad Company//First Casualties’ a story where ex-soldiers find out that the war they risked their lived for was based on fear propaganda and lies. 

Something happened to 2000AD recently. I don’t know how or why, but something clicked, and rather than being lost in the silliness of identity politics (like US comic books) they started to reflect real world concerns within their narratives. 

When I read a typical DC, Marvel (and most of the 'indie' US books as well) I read nostalgia, style over substance, identity politics and the worship of collectivism and state authority. 

When I read 2000AD I read about individuality, resistance and the desire to be free from those that wish to enslave and control. PROG 1959 of 2000AD has three excellent stories: Dredd, Bad Company and Defoe. These three stories are UK stories. You will only get them in 2000AD. 

When people ask me- ‘Why should I bother reading 2000AD in 2015?’ I will point them to these three stories. If you care about the world around you, about what is happening now, then you will get a heck of a lot more insight from these stories than anything that you will read coming out of the almost completely worthless US comic book industry. 

For a story to excel, it has to reflect the times in which it is being written. We don’t live in the 1990’s anymore. The cold war is over. Things happened. They continue to happen all around us as I type these words. Comic books need to reflect these realities. We are not children, and we don’t need a ‘safe-space’ to protect us from harmful reality. 

When we get with reality, things change. Politicians cannot fob us off, as they always try to do, and they have to actually engage with the people that they are supposed to represent. 

That’s us, we are the people that are supposed to be in charge, not corporations, not banks, and not arms dealers. We get with reality and things start to change, so when I read 2000AD reflecting the real world of 2015 back into their narratives, that makes me very happy indeed.

Reality Cat is worried about: New Comic Book Day (A webcomic about new comic book day)

Marvel Comics: New releases-2nd December 2015


1: All New All Different Avengers #2 (Threat book with the separated superheroes needing to get together in order to beat the outside threat. Umm, sounds like a western style ‘intervention’ is needed. )

2: All New Inhumans #1 (Superhero girl has the task of helping people out after a comic book catastrophe. Does she work for a NGO? Hey perhaps she can help out in Syria or the Ukraine as well?)

3: All New X-Men (2015) #1 (Brave teenage heroes fight against the prejudices of society. What year is this again? Perhaps it’s set in Saudi Arabia?)

4: Daredevil (2015) #1 (Daredevil is a district attorney now. Hey, perhaps he can investigate some real criminals for a change and not just cartoon gangsters? Nah, just kidding. I know that’s not going to happen. It’s the Kingpin again isn’t it?)

5: Doctor Strange (2015) #3 (Issue #1 was like a 1990’s Constantine comic book, but with all of the non PC edge taking out of it. If you want something safe and with Doctor Strange acting like a playboy professor, then this is the book for you.)

6: Extraordinary X-Men (2015) #3 (More humanity versus the mutants guff again. Something new, please?)

7: Guardians Of Infinity #1 (Friendly characters go on chucklesome adventures around the galaxy. Quips, puns and one-liners guaranteed.)

8: Howard The Duck (2015) #2 (Howard the bloody Duck? What year is this again?)

9: Invincible Iron Man (2015) #4 (Tony Stark has relationship issues. Lucky old Tony.)

10: Miracleman #5 (Do you like the 1980’s? If so, this is the book for you.)

11: Nova (2015) #2 (Nova has to save the world from an earthquake cause by a monster. Fracking?)

12: Red Wolf (2015) #1 (It’s about a cop, in samurai get up. Next…)

13: Spidey #1 (Young Spiderman worries about girls. One for the pre-teens.)

14: Star Wars 2015 #13 (Princess Leia against Darth Vader. You go girl.)

15: Totally Awesome Hulk #1 (Asian Hulk, no really.)

16: Vision (2015) #2 (A book about the vision family. Sounds intensely uninteresting.)

BBC One Schedule 1-12-2015: The television guide (as it should be)

06:00- Breakfast: Framing the day for the masses with the latest brainwashing from bank funded public relations companies, presented by a stand-in mother and father figure cooing at you like kindly owls.

09:15- Fake Britain: The paranoia programming begins here. Watch how loveable, workingclass 'blokes' track down petty criminals selling fake watches and handbags in the highstreet, whilst ignoring all of the serious criminals in the corporate/government buildings around them.

10:00- Homes Under the Hammer: Mum and dad substitutes look at houses that you cannot afford.

11:00- Oxford Street Exposed: Authority worshipping documentary that follows the gods of the state (cops) as they investigate petty crimes and (like Fake Britain) ignore the corporate/governmental crime that is happening all around them.

11:45- Rip Off Britain: More paranoia programming, again looking at petty crime.

12:15- Bargain Hunt: Fake eccentrics wear silly jackets and bow ties in an attempt to impress lonely old ladies.

13:00- BBC News at One: National corporate/state propaganda, keeping the masses in fear and ignorance in order to maintain the status quo.

13:30- BBC Local News: As above, but with things to be scared about on a local level.

13:45- Doctors: Homosexuality/Cultural Marxism programming about handsome doctors and their fascinating private lives.

14:15- The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Australian drama about a television safe ‘eccentric’ doctor who spends his time investigating mysteries. Starring the bloke who used to be in Neighbours and is not Jason Donovan or Guy Pearce.

15:10- Escape to the Country: Another show about houses that you cannot afford.

16:15- Flog It: Another antique show featuring a fake eccentric in anachronistically quaint clothing.

17:15- Pointless: The name says it all. More harmless eccentricity, with a quiz show going on in the background featuring the banal, cardigan wearing public answering ‘pointless’ questions about safe subjects like bees, old movies and Mexican football teams.

18:00- BBC News at Six: Here’s what we want you to think at 6pm.

18:30- BBC Local News: Detailed information about that local murder, just to make you too terrified to leave your house tonight.

19:00- The One Show: Banality personified, presented by sexless/unthreatening mommy and daddy types talking to viewers like they are five-year-old children.

19:30- Eastenders: Cultural Marxism masquerading as drama, with random murders keeping the public in a constant state of anxiety and fear and with story-lines that push the neoliberal agenda of multiculturalism, homosexuality and everything else that is designed to destroy western civilisation. Essential viewing, if you hate yourself and want to see the western world burn.

19:57- BBC News and Regional News: More fear from the state, and some blatant lies and deception designed to make you think that their authority over you is legitimate, which it isn’t.

20:00- Holby City: Unbelievable hospital drama featuring attractive young people, and focussing on their relationship issues. Interspersed with gruesome murders, drug overdoses, car crashes and ladder based accidents. Expect your usual BBC dose of homosexuality and anti-family propaganda programming.

21:00- Capital: Politically correct drama programming about multicultural London stereotypes, based on a book described on Amazon as, ‘Weak stereotypes interrupted by flaky, identical characters that lack any substance, wrapped up in the complete absence of any engaging plot. Avoid.’

22:00- News at Ten: Oh God, does it never end?

22:30- Local News: Apparently not. Are you scared yet?

22:37- Weather: Random guesses about whether or not it’s going to rain tomorrow.

22:40- Imagine: Alan Yentob (former ‘Director of Drama, Entertainment and Children's Programming’ on the BBC during the Jimmy Saville child-rape era and chairman of fradulent, money-wasting charity ‘Kid’s Company’) is given legitimacy that he does not deserve. Here he interviews one of his old architect mates. A show for the drunk, dead, or family members of Mr. Yentob.

23:50- Possession: 2002 movie about eccentric English poets. Reviewed on the BBC website by Jamie Russell, where he describes it as, ‘Lacking the intelligence of an arthouse picture, or the classy sheen of a British production, "Possession" isn't possessed of anything other than over-wrought emotionalism and unintentional silliness.’


Goodnight, and thankyou for wasting your day on BBC One. Same s**t tomorrow? You betcha.

The Scum (The front page of a typical UK newspaper)