January 2009
25 posts
Complexities
She is red, green, blue and black. She is cherry and vanilla and butterscotch and chocolate. She is earth, wind, water and fire. She is spring. She is summer. She is autumn. She is winter.
She is all of those and she is none. She is battling them all and accepting of nothing. She is looking to be one. She is everything. And she is nothing.
What would you do?
If you walked like I walk, would you make the same choices I have?
If you sang like I sing, would your voice crack at the same lines?
If you danced like I dance, would you too dream of dancing in the rain?
If you wept like I weep, would you too want me near?
If you broke like I break, would you understand why you are?
If you loved like I love, would your heart break every time I have to...
An admission
It comes in rhythm, it comes in rhyme. It descends without warning. It arrives after planning to the last second. It leaves you up, and it leaves you down. But it leaves you. Always.
It keeps you breathless, it takes your breath away. It soars all around your head, chanting incantations in your ear, drilling its desire into your soul. It reminds you that you are alive, it tells you that you...
I have been indexed!
My first search engine visitor arrived today! From Norway, using the term “tumblroll code”. I doubt I will warrant a second visit (otherwise, hello!), and I don’t think I was very helpful! Unless the theme I’m using provided enough information.
But nevertheless, I am excited! And wondering what other search terms will bring lovely visitors in. Especially if i start...
More Addictive Addictions
I’m sitting here, on the toilet (don’t worry, the lid is down), and typing this on my iPod with a cigarette in my hand. (I really hope my gran’s not reading… oh wait, she wouldn’t know how to use a computer, phew). The reason I smoke in the bathroom (or the kitchen, but I can’t sit in there) is that there is an extractor fan, and I still labour under the...
“He is peppermint bliss on the tongue, forming curlicues of roses and daggers
...”
– Anon (MR)
“I’ll be the corpse in your bathtub
Useless
I’ll be as stiff as a...”
– Elbow - Newborn
Addictive Addictions
Part one of a series of posts… I’ll get to my point eventually.
Addictions are no good, are they? Certainly not the things I’m addicted to anyway. During the end of 2007 and all through 2008 I went a bit mad buying new shoes and clothes. I became a bit addicted to it, you might say. In fact I was trying to work out just how many things I’d bought while I was walking home...
“Two pools of icy dawn dusk. He gazed at every crease and crinkle. And he knew...”
– Anon (MR)
The best things in life...
…are expensive. Or so I just found out, looking for something I really wanted. I could have had the cheap and nasty version, or I could have really splashed out and gotten something that I just know would be good. Or, sometimes, you just get lucky and find almost what you were after originally. Let’s hope it’s good.
So recently one man said “when you can’t...
Can't blog?
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This post was brought to you by an addled brain. Thank you and goodnight.
Moving Pictures
I like movies. I really do. But I find that I don’t follow the same kind of obsession over films by genre, director or actor as I do over books by genre or author.
Hmmm, thinking about that last sentence, it’s not strictly true. I do adore Pixar movies, Wes Anderson films (The Royal Tenebaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited) and anything with cute...
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What to write?
4/5 days in. Total. Mind. Block. Just a couple of days ago I was saying how many ideas for blog posts I had swimming around my head, germinating nicely (mixing metaphors, anyone?). And now, well I’ve not that long posted a LOLcat FFS.
Work continues to be worklike, even though I’m walking around in a post-holiday slump. Well not slump as much as slumber. There are plenty of things...
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Personal Soundtrack
This post was brought to you by the inner soundtrack of “Bulletproof… I wish I was” by Radiohead. On repeat. Oh and the letter M. and the number 7.
I love listening to music. Wow, a revelation right there, eh? I love listening to music and lyrics so much I often find myself mouthing the words. At work. Which probably looks pretty odd, but could be worse. I could be actually...
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“And laying there in the dead of night, as her skin breathes next to cool cotton,...”
– Anon (MR)
Temporary Measures
This blog is a stopgap.
Let me expand slightly.
I started this blog on a bit of a whim. I knew I wanted to blog, but I had visions of my own website, paid for, hosted, crafted by my own fair hands. But the goddess of whimsy whispered in my ear, saying “you want to start today, you really do”. And so here I am. I am by my own actions, a blogger (albeit not a very good one).
So I...
CBB.... OMG
So it’s that time of year again, when 11 crazee slebs get locked in a big house and are forced to find the antidote to the lethal gas that is being pumped through the air conditioning with gruesome and bloody results. Ok, so I might be getting confused with the plotline from Saw, but it has a certain kind of appeal that Celebrity Big Brother lacks, dontyathink?
This year there are 3...
Goals
Hello, don’t mind the dust as I let this little piece of interwebland settle (and probably change it a good few times before I’m happy wih it).
I thought i’d start by writing down some resolutions goals I’d like to reach by the end of this year. Totally random list for sure, but just stuff i’ve had in my head the past couple of days.
read all of the fiction books on...