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[334] Independence April 27th, 2006 – 2:20pm Posted in Thoughts No comments

Yesterday, John was rooting through the internet trying to find contact details for Amelia (the most far-flung member of the forum) and sent me a link to a profile page she’d set up on a contact site. A section of this questioned how important a number of concepts were to her – wealth, creativity, spontaneity and so on. The one I found most interesting was the concept of independence.

Amelia marked that her need for independence was about as important as anything to her. It sparked a train of thought which has filled the time I spend alone since. (In the past week this has shot up as I’ve begun walking to work again as well as walking back; the exercise is good (4.6 miles) and it’s nice to zone out for 40 minutes and think …read more.

[333] A reflection April 26th, 2006 – 11:36pm Posted in Thoughts 5 comments

Isn’t it curious that all the interesting voices fall silent when they’re happy? All we’re interested in is the recognition of one another’s sadness and when that’s lost, there’s nothing much left.

[331] Good morning Manchester April 24th, 2006 – 9:48am Posted in Thoughts 7 comments

Hello. I’m awake abnormally early and I don’t know what to do with myself, so I thought I’d take a picture of the birds whose tweeting woke me today:

Not the greatest picture, I know, but the best I could do in the few seconds they afford you before flying away to another man’s telephone line.

I’ve been feeling ill for the past few days and have been going to bed pretty early, hence today’s early rise. I don’t think I’ve been up at 7am since the last time I did an all-nighter at Dan’s and staggered down Duke’s Brow past all the nobodies on their way to work. It was pretty confusing when I first came to – it was a lot like waking up on a camping trip, when you can hear other people’s movements and whispered words bouncing across the grass. Uncle making a …read more.

[327] This time of year April 20th, 2006 – 6:31pm Posted in Thoughts 1 comment

Although I’m 25 this year and it’s been two years since I last went to uni, I find that my life still works by the academic calendar.

August: start something new
December: just get used to something new, then go home for Christmas
April: something new becomes something old; time to start planning for something new again
June: spend months preparing for something new

I’m a person who hates routine and thrives on something new on the horizon to look forward to, so following this pattern every year has never really been a problem. It’s just this time of year, Easter time, that grates. It’s the awkward point between settling into your new life (uni, work, home – whatever) and having to start thinking about setting up your new one. Spring weather kind of matches the feeling – one moment it’s overcast and confused, the next it’s bright and clear.

The past few Easters of my …read more.

[329] My friends’ workplaces: a roundup April 20th, 2006 – 5:13pm Posted in Daft No comments

A while ago, I posted wondering what my friends’ workplaces looked like. Here’s a roundup of what we’ve seen so far…

Steven deals with inane questions from students.
Emmy sees a computer and to one side a series of walls and chairs.
John spends most days subconsciously typing his thoughts onto screen.
Will is faced with a scene from a low-budget Hollywood film about hackers.
Charlotte has a little more freedom in her job serving cheese and raw meat.
Leigh goes to work in this room:

[328] Hacia Dos Veranos April 20th, 2006 – 4:23pm Posted in Good Things No comments

Through Gillian I came across a new band today, Hacia Dos Veranos. They’re an Argentinian group who describe themselves as an “instrumental rock trio whose intention is to portray, through music, moments and experiences from an oneiric and hallucinated way”. Anywho, I listened to their track Preludio and thought it was pretty damn good. You can listen to or download a copy through their MySpace page or see the creepily retro video for the track on Google Video.

[326] Easter – the truth April 18th, 2006 – 12:11pm Posted in Daft No comments

Courtesy of Chris:

The Passion of the Chris

[324] Nine albums that made my life April 12th, 2006 – 2:24pm Posted in Good Things 3 comments

The Stone Roses – The Complete Stone Roses
No other band psyches me up like these. I’ve chosen this collection as it’s one of the few (if not the only) to have Sally Cinnamon, which is my all-time top Roses track. Add on to that Mersey Paradise and Elephant Stone and you’ve got a great album. I moved on to these after my Oasis phase ended with their chain of good-but-just-not-as-good albums.

Jeff Buckley – Grace
A plain awesome album. His combination of voice and guitar blends perfectly on all except Hallelujah, a song so over-quoted …read more.

[323] Wikipedia quiz April 10th, 2006 – 2:51pm Posted in Daft 9 comments

(Stolen from Lona.)

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org
List three interesting events, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

So here’s what happened on May 10th throughout history…

Events

1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
2005 – A hand grenade ostensibly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

Births

1957 – Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
1899 – Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)

Death

1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial …read more.

[322] Teenage angst April 6th, 2006 – 1:43pm Posted in Daft, Thoughts No comments

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working through the old pages of my site, posting the entries I made over the past six years onto this blog. This has given me a reminder, for the first time in years, of all the things I went through in this period. Statistical analysis reveals that 80% of my posts were bollocks, 47% were greatly exaggerated and 64% were entirely attributable to teenage angst. How’s about these titles:

If I had life

You realise the feeling is for ever

Nothingness

And my personal favourite:

I wish I wasn’t so scared

I’ve been sat here rolling my eyes at myself all day, but it did remind me of the transience of feelings. All those things seemed so bad back then, but now they’re just memories blown away by time. Today’s problems come along to replace them, but nothing seems quite as bad when you’ve gone through a phase like …read more.

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