Slope be damned indeed

Sometimes you just have to turn and give two fingers to things like slippery slopes. Sometimes you just have to live.
Last night I lay in bed and listened to loud rock music on my iPod. It’s been so long since I did that! I had to laugh at myself, because about three times during every [...]

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A song and a poem

I just discovered this song, it’s beautiful. Mmmmm, snuggly winter music. Must try the rest of the album now…
Listen online here.
And I just wrote this. Poetry has been a long time coming, I’ve missed it.
Don’t knock me off my perch
I’m fragile up here
Confident and calm
The slightest word will send me flying
Back into the depths
This is [...]

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Lyrics are all I can come up with today

The stars are bright tonight
And I am walking nowhere
Guess I will be alright
Desire gets you nowhere
And you are always right
I thought you were so perfect
Take you as you were
Have you as you were
Take you as you were
I love you just the way you are
I love you just the way you are
I´ll take you just the [...]

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They make my heart melt

Radiohead’s new album; one song stands out and catches at my throat making it swell ’til I can’t speak. I know this feeling so well.

I’m the next act
Waiting in the wings
I’m an animal
Trapped in your hot car
I am all the days
That you choose to ignore
You are all I need
You are all I need
I’m in the [...]

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My Name

If you haven’t already heard of Lhasa De Sela and her 2nd album The Living Road, I’d advise you to go and have a listen. I borrowed it from the library last year, but it’s rather got neglected since. Yesterday evening on the train back from Cornwall, one of her songs came on as the [...]

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Moving On and Passing By

Just two quotey things today, because I can only unshuffle my mind long enough to extract meaning from things other people say.
Leaving home and living on my own is looking like a real, fresh possibility for the first time ever. Doing things for the first time ever… sometimes that works out for me and I [...]

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Today is already yesterday

I meant to go to bed, but then I realised I hadn’t taken my 365 picture, and then I remembered I had to listen to a Nouvelle Vague song one more time before I went to sleep. And when I played it, my day came back to me, and I thought I should at least [...]

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Wedding Belles

Last night on Channel 4. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it, but I really did. It had heart, man. Or should that be, hen. By the end of the two hours I was thinking in a Scottish accent. I especially liked Michelle Gomez, formerly of Green Wing fame. It was beautiful at the end because [...]

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There’s no love no money no thrill anymore

Clearing out old memories and I’m there again…
Jagged Little Pill, so battered the writing on the cassette is worn away. The summer I turned 14 I played it so much it broke and had to be mended with sellotape. After that it always skipped from Not The Doctor to Wake Up and when I listen [...]

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Strumming my pain with his fingers etc

A little while a go I thought it might be interesting to play one of my ex boyfriends blues songs on my iTunes. Listened experimentally and it wasn’t so bad. Bit wistful, kind feelings, some sad ones. I miss him.
Now I’m listening to the CD that he used to put on all the time when [...]

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