After spending so much time trying to fend off living vicariously, I've decided that in certain circumstances, it's the best thing to do. There is much to be said for the liberty of speaking without the shackles of semantics.

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More and more, the island was ( Read more... )

It's about time I did a music update!

I don't think that musically things have been this exciting since I first started playing guitar. Brief overview:

Caldeira: The album is nearly done, unbelievably. Three years after we started it, it's actually nearly finished. Jen, the singer lass, is a revelation. To take lyrics that were pretty personal and ( Read more... )

Today is one of those days where you're too exhausted to keep being angry. Too exasperated to quite grasp the all encompassing stupidity, selfishness and arrogance that surrounds you. To understand how people survive in their little bubbles.

nayanam galad-ashru-dharaya

vadanam gadgada-ruddhaya gira

pulakair nichitam vapuh kada
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Tool are almost too good. I'm mentally exhausted just listening to the guitar parts at the beginning of Wings for Marie. How do you get a guitar to sound like that?

I know that I should probably hold back until Friday, but things seem so... hollow at the moment. You know it's bad when you turn the TV on and there are two separate shows that are discussing grieving. Yikes. Must be the time of year, or something ( Read more... )

I need to:
- Stop listening to Million Dead
- Stop drinking cider
- Stop thinking
- Go to bed and sleep

I want to:
- Crank it up and rock out
- Drink more cider
- Go to bed

I usually think that 'round-up' type things are pretty lame, but I guess I had better sign this year off. Or write it off. One of the two ( Read more... )

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The past few weeks have been really, profoundly weird, and pretty much the logical conclusion of all kinds of things. At least it's all out of the way now.

Off home tomorrow morning, and it couldn't come too soon. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while.

Everything's a bit weird at the moment. Oppressive. When you're not inside and suffering from cabin fever, you're outside and being pushed down by the rain and pulled at by what you feel you should be doing.

Yet at the same time, there's a vacuous emptiness to everything. Like everything that needs doing is just maintaining the status quo. ( Read more... )