Emotional

Political Emotions – One Life

Posted on 2 December 2008. Filed under: Emotional, Herbert, Music, Politics |

New music at the weekend. I enjoyed the new Polar Bear and TV on the Radio albums, the new release of old Matmos is incredible and rich, Four Tet remixes are occasionally brilliant.
But none of them made me cry.
The Matthew Herbert Big Band Album on the other hand, made me cry.
This is a rarity.
Now, let [...]

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Comm You Knitty and May King Adiff Rents

Posted on 28 December 2007. Filed under: Catharsis, Community, Emotional, Mind, Music, Support |

So, talk of Quilts the other day.
Additional to yesterday’s Nick Drake fuelled downbeat thoughtfulness.
Anyway, the theme, maybe, is people. Groups, support and how we deal with things.
After I whinged yesterday, I watched the documentary about Drake, including interviews with his family, people who knew him etc.
After having been downified by the liner notes, something came [...]

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Hope Springs Infernal

Posted on 23 August 2007. Filed under: Emotional, Hope, Idiot, Personal, Shambala, Sun, life |

I wanted to breathe on beat
and go a fifth higher
than my physical voice was coined for.
I wanted to serve with hunger
but my gut split
and the hunger men poured into war.
-Sanddollars, by Why?
Why? I don’t know…I jsut really liked that lyric as I was preparing to write.
Sorry it’s been so long. I’ve been busy and stuck [...]

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Izza Real ‘Ardcore – Me and My Music

Posted on 11 June 2007. Filed under: Breakcore, Call to Arms, DJ, DJing, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotion, Emotional, Events, Me, Mixing, Muscial, Music, Personal, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Transcendent, Uncategorized |

So, I spend a lot of time trying to drown my sorrows (and joys) in music. Lots of time.
I know things about the music I listen to that man (and woman) was never meant to know. Well, not all the music, but I spend a lot of time reading and looking things up.
I don’t just [...]

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Ugly Little Goat Monster, Why you looking at me like that?

Posted on 23 May 2007. Filed under: Beauty, Beholder, Body, Body Image, Down, Emotional, Feeling Rough, Feminism, Goat Monster, Introspective, Looking forward, Objectification, Observations, People, Perception, Personal, Personal Growth, Photogenic, Security, Self Esteem, Self Image, Self Obsession, Self-Hate, Sexy, Ugly, life |

Sooo.
I’ve been planning a post about beauty for a while. Lots of different aspects of it. But then I started feeling Ugly. Real Ugly. I was lying in bed last night, very tired, just trying to experience my body from the inside (not like that). Feeling and sensing the limits of my body. Where my [...]

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Depressing Results from Online Quiz – Just What I Needed

Posted on 19 May 2007. Filed under: Abuse, Analysis, Apathetic Fallacy, Broken, Circles, Confusion, Damn Lies, Depressing, Detachment, Diary?, Emotion, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Entropy, Everything, Experience, Feeling Rough, Fire, Fucked up, Gah, Humanity, Identity, Incoherent, Insecurities, Insignificance, Insomnia, Introspective, Kipple, Lost, Lost Myself, Love, Mania, Me, Memories, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Personal, Personal Growth, Problems, Processes, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Relationships, Screwed up, Self Indulgent, Self Obsession, Self-Hate, Self-Recrimination, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, life |

Picked this up from HPS…what’s my ‘dating persona’?
Oh joy I’m:
The Manchild
Random Brutal Love Dreamer (RBLD)
    Hopeful. Awkward. Soft-headed. [...]

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Blue Sky Thinking

Posted on 7 March 2007. Filed under: Comics, Culture, Emotion, Emotional, Energy, Everything, Experience, Film, Imagery, Imagination, Learning, Looking forward, Mood swings, Observations, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Ramble, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, life |

Lots of Inspirational things have been driving my way in the last twenty four hours or so. Not least of all is a wonderfully thoughtful webcomic called Copper. Seemingly just about a clever dog and his wise young master and their path through life. I’ve never seen anything so cute that manages to be as [...]

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What the Folk are you on about? – Putting Musical Pigeons in their holes

Posted on 23 February 2007. Filed under: Critique, Culture, Do Make Say Think, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Ellis Island Sound, Emotion, Emotional, Empathy, Everything, Folk, Folktronica, Freedom, Genre, Imagery, Imagination, Lost Myself, Mild Mania, Music, Music Theory, Perception, Pigeonholes, Post Folk, Post Rock, Rant, Rock, Self Indulgent, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Waves, Weird, Wonderful |

Music has been treating me grand recently.
After a less than satisfying set on Saturday (not enough people there that early, and only about fifteen to twenty minutes of the set really worked….the ending was rushed, I thought it was getting better but I tried to squeeze too many songs into the end of my set…they [...]

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Perchance to Wake? – The Science of Sleep

Posted on 21 February 2007. Filed under: Blurs, Boundaries, Creativity, Critique, Curioisity, Diary?, Dreams, Elegaic, Emotional, Emotions, Everything, Experience, Fantasy, Fear, Film, Fucked up, Gah, Heart, Honest, How to think, Identity, Imagination, Incoherent, Learning, Madness, Mania, Me, Memories, Mental, Michel Gondry, Mild Mania, Mind, Observations, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Schizophrenia, Security, Self, Silliness, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, The Science of Sleep, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Tired, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Wonderful, life |

So, indeed, I did watch the Science of Sleep the night before last. I enjoyed it massively, in fact it was an incredibly personally affective film for me. A little nerve-wracking almost, for all the naive silliness that goes on. I’ll explain in a moment.
First off let me mention that the french title is shown [...]

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Conflusion

Posted on 10 February 2007. Filed under: Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Beer, Broken, Creativity, Culture, Curioisity, DJ, Day, Debate, Diary?, Dirty Snake, Dreams, Drill 'n' Bass, Drinking, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Energy, Events, Everything, Experience, Lovely, Lovely Strangers, Mania, Meaning, Media, Memories, Mental, Mild Mania, Mind, Music, Naive, Nonsense, Nostalgia, Observations, Optimism, Paranoia, Perception, Personal, Philosophy, Ramble, Reality, Sea, Self, Self Indulgent, Self-Identity, Silliness, Silly, Simplicity, Storytelling, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Weirdness, Werid, Wonderful |

So, it’s miles off from the full moon and everything’s gone a little weird.
I think I’m having fun. In principle at least.
I keep on not thinking about what I’m saying and just splurging random sentences based on things I can see or smell or am remembering. Poor Mr Subliminal had to put up with me [...]

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Intellectual Detachment – Emotions (are) for Idiots

Posted on 4 February 2007. Filed under: Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Broken, Detachment, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Everything, Experience, Fear, Fucked up, Gah, How to think, Identity, Idiots, Incoherent, Intellectual, Investigation, Language, Learning, Logic, Lost Myself, Mania, Meaning, Memories, Mental, Mild Mania, Mind, Mood swings, Multiple Personality Disorder, Music, Nonsense, Observations, Pain, Paranoia, Perception, Personal, Philosophy, Problems, Psychology, Radiohead, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Security, Self, Self Indulgent, Self-Hate, Self-Identity, Self-Recrimination, Squid, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Terror, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Whale, life |

So, in my previous article on The Squid and the Whale, I commented on the fact that intellectualising stuff can make emotional experiences more troublesome, stressful, painful and more difficult to react to.
I think I actually succeeded in entirely detaching myself from the fact that it’s been a problem I’ve had for ages. It [...]

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The Seriousness of the Everyday – Squids and Whales and Books

Posted on 2 February 2007. Filed under: Books, Critique, Culture, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Energy, Everything, Family, Film, Food, Heartbreaking, Hip Hop, Hope, Humour, Imagination, Importance, Incoherent, Insignificance, Learning, Literature, Lovely, Music, Observations, Pain, Perception, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Simplicity, Squid, Swings and Roundabouts, The Books, The Squid and the Whale, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Whale, Writing, life |

So.
I’ve just noticed as I listen to the music I currently hear pouring into my ears, that there is a common theme between the music, and the reason why I love the film I watched last night so much.
People…the way people talk and communicate… the importance and power of the tiniest moments and things.
This may [...]

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I’m Always Feeling Sinister

Posted on 25 January 2007. Filed under: Apathetic Fallacy, Belle and Sebastian, Emotional, Heartbreaking, Lovesick, Lyrics, Memories, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Music, Naive, Personal, Swings and Roundabouts |

So, I recently re-acquired Belle and Sebastian’s ‘classic’ album, ‘If You’re feeling Sinister‘. This is a good thing. I adore this album. There’s several reasons for this, but first a bit of history.
You see, I’ve never owned a copy of this album, but I’ve borrowed it from various people at various times in my life. [...]

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Yield To Total Elation

Posted on 13 January 2007. Filed under: Art, Artistry, Creativity, Drill 'n' Bass, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Everything, Experiment, Fun, Imagination, Incoherent, Internal Organs, Le Petit Mort, Lovely, Matmos, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Music, Nonsense, Observations, Optimism, Orgasm, Pain, Perception, Personal, Personal Growth, Poo, Propaganda, Ramble, Rant, Real-Time, Revolution, Scientific Endeavour, Storytelling, Thanks, Things that make me Smile, Track Review, Unconfined Joy, Vaguely Postmodern, Violence, Wonderful |

Indeed I will, I shall and I have been for the last hour.
The track (YTTE by Matmos) is only 9 minutes and seven seconds long. It is rare that I repeat a track this many times. But it’s just so damn good. Before I start talking about the music though..a bit of background.
Here’s what the [...]

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Day…Today…Indeed

Posted on 11 January 2007. Filed under: Art, Artistry, Brighton, Comics, Creativity, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Day, De Old and De New, Diary?, Dreams, Education, Electronica, Emotional, Environment, Everything, Evolution, Fashion, Friends, Fun, Games, History, I am an Artist, I'm a Hippy, Identity, Imagination, Incoherent, Investigation, Learning, Literature, Looking forward, Matmos, Media, Mild Mania, Money, Mood swings, Motivation, Music, Observations, Optimism, Perception, Personal, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Punk, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Stereotypes, Storytelling, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Talentless, Thanks, Things that make me Smile, Vaguely Postmodern, Want want want, Weird, Weirdness, Werid |

I had a day today. Not quite finished it yet, but I thought I’d jot some thoughts down as I’ve been quiet for a coupla days.
I got practically no sleep, with what I did get performed entirely in stops and starts. I need to figure out a good way of forcing myself to sleep…but forcing [...]

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