ARRRRFRICA

"Careful Jenny, it's a jungle out there," warned Andy.

Now, y'see, you should be a-laughing at that, with Andy and Jenny, but you're not. Y'see, y'see, Andy and Jenny are forin folk. They live in Arrrrfrica, and it really is a jungle out there. Are you laughing now? You damn well better be. Andy and Jenny aren't laughing anymore though; Andy says the same thing every day, and it's becoming a little wearisome. He only persists out of habit - some say stagnation. They'll split up soon, Jenny'll get killed by the jungle, or more accurately its contents, and Andy'll kill himself out of guilt. It's what people in Arrrrfrica do - haven't you seen films? But let's not be selfish: this isn't about them, it's about you. Why didn't you laugh at Andy's jungle joke? It's not as if you've heard it every single fucking day of your mundane existence like Jenny. No no no, the reason you didn't laugh is because of the Westernisation of the names of Andy and Jenny. Fucking Westerners.

'Tis a sad sad thing, this Westernisation, nay Anglicisation of the whole world, innit? Achilly, je suis not so freakin sure. Maintaining your own insular existence as one group pitted against another is umm... like, wrong or something. But then again, having everyone the same, being, like, English, American or something is sucky too. Oh it's all too freakin complicated. If only I cared more, then I could find an answer, impress it upon you, and then we could all laugh at Andy's jungle joke.

Anyway, who said Germany was the centre of the world? Hitler, probably. Western Europe, Eastern Europe, blah blah blah. So how come bits of Africa aren't counted as being Western, and all of South America? How come Australasia is deemed Western? Sounds too freakin elitist to me. Let's smash the system like Jimmy Hoffa woulda wanted. Jeez, why can't we all just hang out together in the UN or summat like that. Wouldn't that be fun? I'd certainly dig it: all those translators. Translators are experts with their tongues. Fuckin excellent. Oooh baby, yeah, the UN just gets me sooooo horny. ...Mind you, so does pornography, so it might be that I'm constantly horny, and the UN doesn't have any power over the strength of my erection.

From wet dreams to dreams. Andy, a real person, a real acquaintance of mine, a genuine person in my life, unlike all the evil cult leaders of the West and East (a.o.t me and Atom Egoyan of the North and South), unlike the naked people, unlike the dead people. Jenny doesn't exist, of course; she's really a cat. Andy does. He told me his dream (although he's really a woman), and I immediately thought of all this. I guess it says as much about overloading on sugar as his psub-conscious. So here goes, I guess. As I'm sure you're aware, I don't care if you understand or not. Pretend to understand in order that you may ingratiate yourself with me. Gawan, y'know you wanna.

So, there's like this crazed killer coming after Andy (who is really a woman, but who really is Arrrrfrican; some of my best friends are forin), and he (she) somehow manages to take his (the killer, who is someone she knows, but not someone you know, so we'll step aside that psub-conscious bit. And anyway, Freud's got a lady's pubes for an eyebrow) two handguns and a shotgun off him, and shoot him. Self defence, doncha know. He dies slowly, and with very little pain. Every time she (Andy, who is really a woman, remember?) thinks it's safe to put the guns down, wait for the cops to come, and plead self defence, he (the killer. She(Andy)'s not sure why he (the killer) is who he is in her (Andy's) dream. But that's none of your concern, so we'll ignore that once again) manages to get hold of the guns, and threaten her existence once more. She (Andy. Why can't you pick up on who's who? Retard) has to shoot him once more. No blood, and still he doesn't die.

This is all a film, of course. It's a dream. Dreams are films, and films are dreams. It helps to view from afar. I have dreamt books before, as, I suppose, people pre-Baird did from time to time. Before those devil-pictures, however, most people just dreamt of jiggly whores. Anyhoo, flashback to the attempted killer planning his evil deed. He's sitting across from her (Andy), cos they know each other, and he's playing with a spirograph, but instead of letting the pen and cogs do their work, he writes nines. Don't ask me how, it wasn't my dream. Don't ask Andy (who is really a woman), she suspends disbelief in her dreams, apparently. He looks up, sees Andy (the woman), and writes a seven instead.

Now here's my point, and hopefully Andy's too. As meaningless, impossible to understand, and thus really fucking cool, this plan for death is, the point is this. What is more freakin Western than a freakin spirograph? Ok, so it's not much of a point, and it's muddled, and ill-conceived, but it's a freakin point nonetheless. Remove the spirograph from existence, and everyone of you reading this would have giggled slightly. I think. Flawed logic, perhaps, but I guess that's what makes it all oh so funny.