which forum? it doesn't look like anyone's around.

he sat down with the weight of a lake and said 'i think it's time you leaarnt to feel the difference between friends and famine'

somewhere without the amber waves he leads me with a smile and a bad smell. take the cold and attractive hand, the brushed metal arm of the laws of life >getting down so down ain't so low no more< buried in another built ( Read more... )

and people get this thick pasty look on their faces
like they're expecting you to ask too much
to spill the beans
getting uncomfortable at the thought of being uncomfortable.
i just want to connect, but i've caught you with your shield half way up.
emergency emergency an emerging malfunction.

is he getting a grip on the intriguing complexity of the situation?

delicately exploring each of the possibilities and weighing up the consequences against each other?

or is he waiting until he forgets enough of the details. because although the decision then becomes easy, it is invariably wrong.

you could have had both but you stayed back you wouldn't make a choice and somewhere out there a friend is doing fine without you would you mind if i took the time to tell you a little truth about the real world it's something that you might have heard of if you look away everyone disappears.

there will be 3-5 other people in the bar when my idly wandering hands on the piano keys finally begin to play a proper melody. conversation for the patrons gets difficult because the music keeps distracting trains of thought. sentences die off, and restart, and restart. it's humid and raining outside, and busy. an acoustic bubble expands outwards ( Read more... )

yay! it took much longer than i'd expected / planned / hoped for, but i can finally say song #1 is finished. i've delivered it to the geet (a belated birthday present) and she seems to like it. with the pressure of finishing this first song relieved, i can now go back to playing around with new ideas and distilling some new songs from them. of ( Read more... )

progress has been slow since the last post. the trip to melbourne plus real estate hunting left me very little time up in the music room. but as always happens when i go away on holiday, i've been dying to get back and start everything up again ( Read more... )

where to start? i auditioned, but they decided to go with the girl, instead of me. i think this was due to a few factors, but primarily i was uncomfortable with the format they used to audition me. over the course of two hours, i was given a lyrics sheet and asked to sing along as they played. that was pretty difficult since i hadn't heard their ( Read more... )

on tuesday night, paul and i talked about disbanding the upstairs debacle. this is the group we've been having weekly rehearsal with for about 5 months or so, consisting of paul (guitar), jimmy (guitar), stefan (drums), and me (vox and keys). we were named by aidos, who is a bastard. the problem was that it was only weekly in theory - the full band ( Read more... )