Everything is going to be OK

Or is it? Walter is a hopelessly depressed man.

It might not have hit the cinema like other big films but it makes you think and feel, and you will empathise with one of the topics, characters or all of them. As is the case for me.

"This is a picture of Walter Black, who had to become a beaver, who had to become a father, so that one day this might just be a picture of Walter Black." (The Beaver, 2011)

Lost in Time and Space

I have witnessed a lot of leaf fall in my transient lifestyle, the smell of the leaves in the Autumn - returns. Where have they all gone? From kids playing in them to grown ups mulching them, where have all the leaves gone, where has the time gone? I used to do that, play. Because we won't be here for long, why don't we do more with our time that's got our feet strapped under the pc desk. Can't we live on like the compost and geology we stand on? Nobody cares and nobody dares to care. What are we...Where are we...why are we... locked in our little worlds, as ant workers to the grind, foraging for others, failing for ourselves.

Beautiful People

Beautiful People are every where whether in music, ghost or place.

Beautiful People are found in Beautiful places (normally?) How stereo typed.
They are Everywhere.

Chris Brown's version

Reculver - Castle Remnants, last weekend.




Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells, this weekend.


River Stour, Sandwich, Kent, last weekend.


Canterbury February 2007, post winter suddenly it was warm and sunny!

The Day of God - Sunday

I accidentally said this and realised it was a mix up on a Bible story yesterday.

An eye for an eye,
A tooth for a tooth,
A plank of wood,
For the spec in my eye.

I have to question if I should have swapped 'my' for 'your' in the last sentence.

Naturally Obscure

Eternal Sunshine of a Photographers Mind,

What? You ask. That's not what the film title is.

Extra Terrestrial Living Spaces

The Life and Times of...

Photon Composers

Multi Tacetted Unbenign Constructors of the Superfluous

No, I don't think that last one works somehow.
How does a multiple person or instrument not taking part be malignant and construct something for what is beyond or no longer necessary. Hmm, help.

For something that is provided or once loved can continue if the,

"Academic Excursions in to the mystery of human behaviour, disciplined by the practical application of his own deductions" (Le Carre, Call for the Dead)

enables the past and present to join together.

The flamboyant cheese could not be resisted, but in the end the mice had made eliptical shapes of disproportionate sizes, leaving a Jenga puzzle conundrum.

I had to unload the random phrases somewhere.
Huh, "the multi tacetted unbenign constructors of the superfluous", what ever next.

Gold Standards

You tell me what to do,
yet you don't like it.

My work is my life,
like you expect it.

The kitty is empty,
but you're still calling.

Your gold standard,
is not mine.

So why do you expect me to work at your level
when I don't understand,
nor have the time.

The noise is too much,
you work with it as such,
but it's always there,
just when I'm there.

Phoning, toning,
always moaning, roaming and dam well homing,
I still don't get,
the rest of it.

Business done,
you've had your fun,
now I have a long list to run.

Nothing personal,
just get it done,
goodbye.

*

My gold standard,
is an act of perfectionism,
but it's never going to be
your perfectionism.

The outcome is required,
the time is over,
but overtime is what's required,
even still the end result,
must be defined.

Gold standards, long days,
hard work are just not good enough.
One hundred and ten percent given all the time,
but no time to think,
because the time to think has been governed,
by the need to do everything at top speed,
where thinking is a virtue,
and doing is a need,
where time is lack
and burning out,
just like the energy to get back on track.

Music and Words: Musically Repetitive

When I mentioned I'd be doing Repetitive Music stuff, I didn't realise just how annoying it was going to be. (More fool me, I knew it was going to be annoying when I started out) I may not actually link you to anything for even the first then again, if you don't here it then I can't make you forever remember dreading it.

I'm sure somewhere someone likes this, because for what I can tell they've become relatively successful person and the music is being used in adverts even if it's been remixed by ANR. So whose seen the BT Ads? This track might help Rachel Goodrich Light Bulb (ANR)
Now forgive me, because whilst it's actually quietly catchy, I decided to hunt down the original, well I think it's the original, appears somebody decided to make a competition for best video. Whole other story, ja. Now do you see what I mean, it's one of those pieces of music which glues to your head, making you wish you never heard it, everytime you here it you'll either remember the exact thing it relates too or the place you were, erh...nothing worse.

Claire Maguire: Ain't Nobody

Without being too contrived "here is my escape". Well that's what she says. Thankfully rest assured that big boot is coming down to the ground to relinquish us and let our hair down.
Something much more emotional is going on here, I found two if not three worlds coliding in one when I saw this. Photograph similarities to other band videos (see the black sails in Pink Floyd's High Hopes), illusions of still shots with surreal to scary plausabilities just lingering on the chair and the "Anonymous" looking guy stood over a dark mountain range. Still, the heart felt urge to go out and join her in the middle of nowhere reigns on



with a wonderful flash of lightning through the clip.







But of course the underlying factor being the Breakage version is just a pain in you head, thump de thump de thump thump. Acting like you want a headache, you will have a headache from this one.

Although in fairness, Faithless Insomnia could be seen like that too - I'm sure I saw a german film once with this track used in it, because all I ever remember from that movie is this weird drug fuelled party, strobe lighting, fluorescent shafts, dark corners and drunken people. Well that's at least what springs to mind, "I can't get no sleep." (I'm not surprised.)

Now you might wonder how I jump to Paula Seling for this, she was on Eurovision a couple of years back and whilst she didn't win, it was a good piece. Lena won it for Germany that year with Satellite but Paula stayed in mind far longer with Playing With Fire. Satellite is both annoying and enjoyable because it's upbeat but so is Playing with Fire until you find Paula and Ovi added some harmonies and more real instrumental pieces with the Piano making it better. For todays music is so electronically created.

So I'll leave you with Musically distracting, musically emotional and realistic to the human ear. We should all be wanting music that's not so glued to the mainstream, lead by our noses, even if the synthesier sounds are better than they were years ago.
I Feel Free Paula Seling, certainly a good mix of everything we've touched on today. Let the sun go down and the last of the days heat lift, BBQ smells in the background and friends all around with the possibibities of the future opening up around you as you stand up high, viewing the beautiful scenery for miles around - even if it's in the city.

Everyone has a piece of music which takes them straight back to a moment they had. Make it an enjoyable one.