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Three Part Harmony – Different Songs Though
So this is a dias de los muertos post, in memory of a fine young lady whose died today last year. Tomorrow I picnic with her (weather permitting), and today and tomorrow I will spend thinking of her and others I have lost.
Dying young is clearly a tragedy, but it sometimes makes it easier to [...]
Poignant – G and the Velvet Underground
My friend G has decided to say goodbye to Brighton by staring intently into my wall.
A cheery surprise at my door, it quickly emerges that he has drunk a few pints, won some games of pool and taken about half a gram of horse tranquilliser. As we discuss, and go through, the process of coffee [...]
Some kind of ‘doing it Doggy Style’ joke would be a bit crass here, right?
Dog Love by Boris reproduced under a creative commons license.
Right, those of you following me on twitter will have an idea of this already. But I wanna expand my thoughts, and I ain’t been on here in a while, so it seemed only rightly that I follow this thought process out loud for a [...]
Our Dancing Skeletons
Blubbedy blub.
So, yesterday there was a charity thing that I DJed at in the Hobgoblin. The whole thing was in memory of the friend of mine who died November last year, raising money for the school on the island of Vanuatu that she was planning on volunteering on. Money was raised and fun was had. [...]
Journeys don’t end – Learnings and Wanderings
Okay, lots of things to try and agglomerate, and my heads a bit brokes by all this, so there may be confustion.
Also, can I briefly recommend Twitter, and particularly me on Twitter. I’m starting to get into this, and I’m infinitely better at updating that than this these days. Sure it’s zero attention span, but [...]
Wax Stag whack’s dag
(Statement of conflicts of interest: I know Rob Lee, he’s lovely, he is also Wax Stag).
So, first off, a caveat (there may be more later), The first time I heard that Rob was playing (about a year and a half ago) my tiny friend Fat Mark (not her real name) told me it took about [...]
Passing
Not much to say about this right now, but a friend died in her sleep last night. I don’t know the details, but somehow it felt rude not telling you. I’m working out how best to support her family, and be there for people who need it. I kinda hate the selfishness of being miserable [...]
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Right.
So I was talking to a friend the other day about beauty. It comes up a lot. I’ve also talked about it before…and I’m happy to say I’m here today to kinda disagree with a myself of a while back. This means I’m growing.
Anyway, this is gonna be one of those old school. Think about [...]
Mess
Getting drunker than I should’ve (not that drunk) led me to bump into a friend I don’t see enough of. I find out that another friend I don’t see enough of got sectioned at the weekend, and is showing no sign of improvement.
It’s early days but its scary, and forces me to re-evaluate my definitions [...]
It’ll be all Right
Going on a little holiday today. Jaunt down to Cornwall. Back on Sunday.
I’ve done a lot of camping lately, and this is more. I’m worried that it’s adding to my general run down state of my being (part of why I’ve not been posting), but yesterday a few little things cheered me up. A couple [...]
Movement
Little bit of housekeeping.
My e-mail address has moved. I don’t publish it here as standard (though you can always contact me using ‘poke the beast’ but those of you who know it already, it’s basically the same, only it’s googlemail.com instead of ntlworld.com .
Please continue to send me whatever you like. Right now the cupboard [...]
Wish me luck
Okay, so this morning, I dreamt a particularly metaphysical xkcd comic.
Basically, the title was steam train. In the main area was a blank rectangle, the size of the average comic strip. Drawn all around it were things like needle and thread, scissors and things. The mouse over alt-text was ‘Go on, you know you want [...]
Note to self
If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you’ll see what you’re after.
-Haruki Murakami – Dance, Dance, Dance
And combining ideas from the two literary obsessions of the last year or so, those words shall be pasted on a banner and hung up in my room.
Just finished the book, wonderful. I [...]
Wash my Soul
Just did some washing up and had to give up halfway through because I got too sad.
What is it about the mundane everyday tasks that occasionally just bring home the meaninglessness of everything.
Suddenly I felt trapped and surrounded by a hundred million things wrong with my life. A thousand happinesses that I’ve missed out on [...]
T’was ma birthday wernit
So, aside from an excuse to put on a miniskirt and a sequin garter (thanks rowan) and develop a majestic hangover (majestic seemed to be the word of the day, apparently) I actually spent alot of the day enoying the sun and getting inspired. Spent a lot of time that I should have been working [...]
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