Bring on the motherhugging fireworks, man! We're gonna go mad, college is out and the jobs are done, we've got our friends, we've got our sounds, we've got our own fuckin' ticket to paradise and we're gonna sail on the astral clouds and scream the lyrics to 'Tubthumping' all the way to the pearly gates of the New Age! Summer's up, baby, and we're young. We're calling the shots, we're dealing the cards. We're everything we shouldn't be and our heathen gods love us for it!
Drop out, tune in and just admit it... LIFE'S GOOD!
The next generation's idea of paradise is ready, baby. Hey, I'll see you there:
Don't worry, I really don't expect you to listen to all of these. Just my little suggestions for a good life :D
Well firstly, let's start with the Eels. They have three main styles... Beautiful:
Awesomely cheerful:
And just plain awesome:
Also, Jess and Des together managed to get me to get over my inherent distrust of all music I didn't personally discover and managed to get me into the Postal Service :D
Okay, nearly done, promise :D Then I'll blog properly. Just for you, hmmkay? :) Okay :) Well, I definitely don't expect you to listen to this last one; it's kinda not too pleasant. It's a kind of a bastard, hybrid, horrible, mutant amalgamation of metal and rave...
It's called Breakcore... I shouldn't like it... I do :) Shup :P
OKAY!
Now that that's all done, how are you my lovelies? Are you all good :D I hope so. Because I like to think that most people are happy in the world ^^ Much nicer that way, eh? You know that horrible breakcore I just gave you (And I kinda hope you didn't listen to) is still playing in my ears ^^ And done :D Back onto Eels.
My music taste is fucked.
And I looked up at the sky last night And I thought I saw a bomb And why wont you just tell me whats going on?
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Life is funny But not ha ha funny Peculiar I guess You think I got it going my way Then why am I such a fuckin mess?
Aaah, how I love my music. :)
Right :) Love you all ^^
I'm gonna run now, have all my cuddles and puddles :D
I am a ridiculous fan of Radiohead. I actually love them a very great deal.
Got that? Good :D
Now that this is established, behold:
This is the Radiohead rarities collection know as Towering Above the Rest. The fact that I have lived so far in ignorance is a testament to the fact that there is no justice in the world, but that is a moot point. The fact is I know about it now.
Twenty. Four. CDs. Of Radiohead.
I expect to have heard about a CD of this material. I expect to have heard of at best another CD of material.
Leaving twenty two albums a mystery. A great, delicious Radiohead-produced mystery.
I got so excited that I gave myself a headache. I think I broke something :D
Anyway, was my sisters birthday the other day. Just for the record she is great, despite everything :D I even wrote her a haiku on her birthday present:
Do you know who's great? My angry, crazy sister. Just don't tell her that.
She took it in good humour, surprisingly. Possibly because she was drunk:
And she also invited along a couple of bands to play for her 16th. Chiefly the Red Fishes and National Snack. In fact entirely the Red Fishes and National Snack. There wasn't anyone else. Anywho, both bands spent the weekend at my fathers with myself. It was a good laugh, they were well cool, bruv. Yeah.
Much merriment was had, and whilst Alex persisted in being away having fun and drugs (bastard) I equally persisted in getting wrecked and dressing in a mask, so we're mayhap a little even. Anywho, he doesn't check for scorpions under his pillow. I told him not to.
Is all good.
Anywho, following the bands it was Jack in the Green, so really it was just an awesome weekend.
Also, Jessmess got... WANKERED.
(I considered how to put it diplomatically, but seriously, how do you?)
I expect I shall pay dearly for that one, but ah well :D Many laughs were had, many memories were shared. A childhood friend showed his face after a long time, Ross, Isaac slutted it up and Jacob, Jess, Merlin and I dressed FABULOUSLY.
(Jess was a gold pirate. Merlin was... something. Me and Jacob were... other things)
Anywho, must be off :D
My love to all, and to all... some more love. Toodles :D:D:D
Bah bah, Lovies, Bah bah.
Kisses, the Kie xxx
(Remember, it's all great; you're alive and that's beautiful baby ^^)
Sitting cross legged, frozen locks of dread hair, dead stare, don't dare. Cut down all the vines and chains and locks and open every door, every window, let every beam through to fall, roll off the walls like fire gold and warming. Old bones dance on young floors, beds of grass and dew watered with tears of mirth and other things, something else besides what I've got to say in the desert where the sand doesn't quite touch the tips, wet the floor with precipitation, anticipation, eradication of an old ideal outmoded, outdated, outmanned, outgunned, outfunned. Write a new bible, a new code of laws, a new library for everyone to take their time in, lose their sighs in, get some rhymes in and breathe out every single sylabble which ever needed to crawl onto paper and lie still enough for the decades to pin it in place for future eyes to dance over. Like wheeling stars. Like growing vines. Like hands wringing, or like mine in yours. Like a struggle or an embrace. Maybe both. Maybe I want this now, maybe I want it later and maybe I haven't made up my mind as much as I think I have. Scribble out the last page and tear out the thoughts that made up the page; this is a new day, our day. Open your eyes so the sun will shine, smile so the wind will blow and know that nothing since or before will ever be strong enough to press down on this heaven we've made. In the shade.
Well, I kinda failed to blog for a bit because I have about as much sense of commitment as a ham sandwich.
I want a sandwich now.
Anywho, Jessmess was being so amazing and lovely and shizz that I was like "Yeah man, let's blog this bitch up!" So now I'm writing again. Now is possibly not the ideal blogging hour, one in the morning the day after easter after slipping in and out of sobriety like... well, let's leave that analogy to the imagination. Most things that can follow sucessfully on from that are somewhat dubious in nature.
So yeah, what have I been doing with myself lately..?
Well, not much special to be honest. The children have recieved a lot of attention lately, as they should :D But I've also been getting on with a lot of old friends who had somewhat faded over time, which is nice :) (For instance me and an ol' friend/enemy called Natasha just invented the wander-wank... for those calm nights when you've got nothing else to do ^^) I like remembering why you got on with people so well in the first place. I also discovered that I really love cherry blossom trees in particular and flowers in general. I've always known I liked them, but now I understand just how much I like them.
The nicest mental image ever: A cherry blossom forest.
"And it'll be like a pink rain... in slow motion."
Incidentally, I've lately got into a couple of new bands :) MGMT - dunno if you've heard of these guys, but this song is awesome, and the video rocks my socks :D
Check out the girl, ain't she just the smiliest person you ever met? You know, this blog is rapidly becoming kind of oriented to one particular person, so to veer away sharply from awesome stuff Jess has shown me, check out these two songs:
That was Divine Comedy's Gin Soaked Boy. Love it :D
That's Not Really Funny by the Eels, again a fucking amazing song :D
Right, well that'll do me, methinks. Except to say I'm gonna play a gig for my eighteenth in July and it's gonna be epic.
Bah bah, lovies, you're all amazing and so's ya FACE!
And by 'it' I mean writing poetry on their blogs XD Well, this'll show 'em, because as with all other art forms I approach poetry as if the key aim is to baffle my audience with cryptic metaphors.
Skin crawling over my bones, To find it's way home, Slide my features tectonic, Back into frames organic, Let leaves sprout between my skin, Bark for flesh, ever growing, Let me be Jack, who bears the green, Reborn each year, never seen, Let me leave behind rhyme's locks, Let me instead root music in the rocks, Let me be in the shaking breath, Let me die with summer's death, Let me draw deeply the air, Let me do away with every care, Cares thrown to the wind, no rhymes now to anchor, Let poesy throw chains unheeded, I shall not go to her call any longer, Like bees, Drawn to milk-dew honey, To the sky by dawn.
Maybe some free writing would do better... Bah, see you soon lovies.
I thought I'd finally get around to introducing you to a few of my friends, oh notable readers. I think today we shall meet The Children (also called The Unmentionables to those who feel too suspect referring to The Children XD) This nickname was attributed to the group by yours truly, not actually because of their age, themselves being between my own age and one individual three years younger, but because of my general role within the group, undoubtedly that of some kind of (really really bad) parental figure.
The one with the ponytail is Baz (Sebastian for those who like to wind him up) I've known him for quite a long time now, and this is the most flattering picture I could find of him. He doesn't photograph well XD Curly-haired-topless man is Merlin (real name, just so you know :P) he's wildly unpredictable, childish and in short terrific fun. I've known him for feckin' ages. He is also unusually strong... I suspect him to actually be a throwback to our larger simian ancestors. The one of female persuasion is Abbie, I have known her the least amount of time, but she's still cool and keeps me sane through the long hours of sitting around bored online. We've had some laughs, often at the expense of other people XD
They all look curiously young here... which is rather disconcerting... I guess that's why I call them the Children.
These two are Molly and Katie, Katie's the one with the dyed red hair... Molly's the unashamed ginger XD Molly is the sister of Jacob, an individual you will meet soon. She used to be quite aggressive, but she's sweet as pie these days ^^ She is also possessed of fantastic hearing and a kind of 'auto-rebel' feature XD Katie is a rather strange girl with a tendency towards ambling into conversations and making off-topic remarks. Still, she's got a heart of gold and she's always nice to have around ^^
Here's Molly again, but the girl with the blonde hair is Jess. She's Baz's twin and, like Baz, is incredibly skinny. She's rarely about, but she's always good to talk to when she is, and almost perfectly shares my music taste and humor. We've had some strange chats, some undecipherable chats but mostly we've had some awesome chats ^^ Unfortunately we have yet to perfect the method to merge into one super being, as well as discovering all the impracticalities thereof.
This one's Alex. Technically only half-children material, since he's a few months older than I. Alex is, much like Jacob, a kind of alternate me. Are nights out almost inevitably begin with us two and kind of accumulate the other children as we go, and unlike most of the other children we frequently just mess around without the others. Undoubtedly one of my best friends, we have enough in-jokes to sustain a full conversation. To anyone who doesn't already have a great life, I'd recommend him :D
And this one's Jacob. Undoubtedly an incredibly odd character, Jacob and I have known each other since early primary schools and have always been ridiculously close... not only could we converse entirely in in-jokes, we frequently do. Some casual acquaintance or another once asked if I was the Hyde to Jacob's Jekyll, which sparked an in-joke in and of itself. Definitely one of the best people I've ever met.
However, there are a couple of non-children that I think deserve extra mention... Meet Joe (Male) and Codie (Female)
Two of my other closest friends, bar Alex and Jacob. Joe is an absolutely fantastic individual. He asks nothing from anyone, and gives everything to everyone. Some of the best days of my life have been spent sitting around at his, and I wouldn't change him for the world. Codie is just amazing... she's more important to me than almost anything you could care to mention, sharing joint place only with these select few others, and these days I find it impossible to imagine life without a Codie :)
Anyway, now that I've finished my soppy-fest, I'd best let you get back to your lives (as if I am somehow preventing you from them XD) But just before I go, I found an acoustic version of There There... it's absolutely beautiful.
