A Case Study of Diminishing Literary Prowess (original) (raw)

Busting in on my dreams, making me see things I don't wanna see...	[Apr. 25th, 2008\|02:00 am]RiCh
After spending so much time trying to fend off living vicariously, I've decided that in certain circumstances, it's the best thing to do. There is much to be said for the liberty of speaking without the shackles of semantics.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_More and more, the island was becoming an exact model of his head… Identifying the island with himself, he gazed at the cars in the breaker’s yard, at the wire-mesh fence, and the concrete caisson behind him. These places of pain and ordeal were now confused with pieces of his body. … I am the island._J.G. Ballard-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To be held by his mind,To stagger back through the empty streetsTo tumble through his head.To leave a man for dead.
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Busting in on my dreams, making me see things I don't wanna see...

[Apr. 25th, 2008|02:00 am]RiCh

After spending so much time trying to fend off living vicariously, I've decided that in certain circumstances, it's the best thing to do. There is much to be said for the liberty of speaking without the shackles of semantics.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_More and more, the island was becoming an exact model of his head… Identifying the island with himself, he gazed at the cars in the breaker’s yard, at the wire-mesh fence, and the concrete caisson behind him. These places of pain and ordeal were now confused with pieces of his body. … I am the island._J.G. Ballard-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To be held by his mind,To stagger back through the empty streetsTo tumble through his head.To leave a man for dead.

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(no subject)	[Apr. 16th, 2008\|05:34 pm]RiCh
It's about time I did a music update!I don't think that musically things have been this exciting since I first started playing guitar. Brief overview:Caldeira: The album is nearly done, unbelievably. Three years after we started it, it's actually nearly finished. Jen, the singer lass, is a revelation. To take lyrics that were pretty personal and convert them as well as she has done is a bit special. And the fact that Pink Floyd's producer is doing the honours for us is totally amazing. I can't believe it all, really. Rich & Fruity: All pretty good here. We have a great understanding musically and we're getting our own stuff written. I'm looking forward to gigging it.'The Band': All progressing well enough here. All we need is to get our own material started and to tighten up the covers we're doing.Exciting stuff, pretty much. Here's to the future!
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It's about time I did a music update!I don't think that musically things have been this exciting since I first started playing guitar. Brief overview:Caldeira: The album is nearly done, unbelievably. Three years after we started it, it's actually nearly finished. Jen, the singer lass, is a revelation. To take lyrics that were pretty personal and convert them as well as she has done is a bit special. And the fact that Pink Floyd's producer is doing the honours for us is totally amazing. I can't believe it all, really. Rich & Fruity: All pretty good here. We have a great understanding musically and we're getting our own stuff written. I'm looking forward to gigging it.'The Band': All progressing well enough here. All we need is to get our own material started and to tighten up the covers we're doing.Exciting stuff, pretty much. Here's to the future!

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(no subject)	[Mar. 3rd, 2008\|10:53 pm]RiCh
Today is one of those days where you're too exhausted to keep being angry. Too exasperated to quite grasp the all encompassing stupidity, selfishness and arrogance that surrounds you. To understand how people survive in their little bubbles.nayanam galad-ashru-dharaya vadanam gadgada-ruddhaya gira pulakair nichitam vapuh kada tava nama-grahane bhavishyati
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(no subject)	[Feb. 3rd, 2008\|12:58 am]RiCh
Tool are almost too good. I'm mentally exhausted just listening to the guitar parts at the beginning of Wings for Marie. How do you get a guitar to sound like that?
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(no subject)	[Jan. 7th, 2008\|07:56 pm]RiCh
I know that I should probably hold back until Friday, but things seem so... hollow at the moment. You know it's bad when you turn the TV on and there are two separate shows that are discussing grieving. Yikes. Must be the time of year, or something.Also, I never noticed the irony in this line until just now: Can you picture what we'll be? So limitless and free Desperately in need of some stranger's hand.I like it. Time to clean the flat. Fun.
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[Jan. 7th, 2008|07:56 pm]RiCh

I know that I should probably hold back until Friday, but things seem so... hollow at the moment. You know it's bad when you turn the TV on and there are two separate shows that are discussing grieving. Yikes. Must be the time of year, or something.Also, I never noticed the irony in this line until just now: Can you picture what we'll be? So limitless and free Desperately in need of some stranger's hand.I like it. Time to clean the flat. Fun.

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(no subject)	[Jan. 7th, 2008\|01:29 am]RiCh
I need to:- Stop listening to Million Dead- Stop drinking cider- Stop thinking- Go to bed and sleepI want to:- Crank it up and rock out- Drink more cider- Go to bed
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Karma owes me.	[Dec. 31st, 2007\|07:57 pm]RiCh
I usually think that 'round-up' type things are pretty lame, but I guess I had better sign this year off. Or write it off. One of the two.So, 2007 eh? It's had its ups and downs. I think the best days this year coincided with the best weather, which is a wonderful example of pathetic fallacy. They were some fantastic times, really, and I'm grateful for those.In spite of this, I think the downs outweigh the ups, sadly. Some pretty horrendous things have happened in the past 12 months, most of which are common knowledge, and I'll be glad to leave it behind. If nothing else, it's been a learning curve.How far have I come? I think I've lost some of the desire to wander that I had before, and it's good to be settled and know where I can call home for the next couple of years. In a similar way, I've grown up a lot, got a little wiser. I also think I've cemented some great friendships and I've thoroughly enjoyed what I'm doing at Uni. However, I've made some pretty naive and some really rather costly mistakes, some of which are un-fucking-believable on reflection and safe to say, I won't be making them again. I can't.Roll on 2008 :) Happy new year!
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Karma owes me.

[Dec. 31st, 2007|07:57 pm]RiCh

I usually think that 'round-up' type things are pretty lame, but I guess I had better sign this year off. Or write it off. One of the two.So, 2007 eh? It's had its ups and downs. I think the best days this year coincided with the best weather, which is a wonderful example of pathetic fallacy. They were some fantastic times, really, and I'm grateful for those.In spite of this, I think the downs outweigh the ups, sadly. Some pretty horrendous things have happened in the past 12 months, most of which are common knowledge, and I'll be glad to leave it behind. If nothing else, it's been a learning curve.How far have I come? I think I've lost some of the desire to wander that I had before, and it's good to be settled and know where I can call home for the next couple of years. In a similar way, I've grown up a lot, got a little wiser. I also think I've cemented some great friendships and I've thoroughly enjoyed what I'm doing at Uni. However, I've made some pretty naive and some really rather costly mistakes, some of which are un-fucking-believable on reflection and safe to say, I won't be making them again. I can't.Roll on 2008 :) Happy new year!

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If you don't like this song, you may well be a complete tool.	[Dec. 24th, 2007\|02:17 pm]RiCh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uLZcaRXcUWithout question my favourite Christmas song, and thankfully, it isn't overplayed to death by music channels and radio morons. Such musicianship! However, I'm finding myself listening to a lot of Frank Turner at the moment. He was absolutely shit hot the other night at Pure Groove.. still a little confused by the Smirnoff Ice thing, but the music was fantastic. Looking forward to the new album!In my heart of hearts, I love Christmas. The quite insufferable and inane commercialism I can do without, but being at home for Christmas is ace. Even though it's a little bit weird this year. Hmm.I hope all you LJ folk are having a great Christmas!
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If you don't like this song, you may well be a complete tool.

[Dec. 24th, 2007|02:17 pm]RiCh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uLZcaRXcUWithout question my favourite Christmas song, and thankfully, it isn't overplayed to death by music channels and radio morons. Such musicianship! However, I'm finding myself listening to a lot of Frank Turner at the moment. He was absolutely shit hot the other night at Pure Groove.. still a little confused by the Smirnoff Ice thing, but the music was fantastic. Looking forward to the new album!In my heart of hearts, I love Christmas. The quite insufferable and inane commercialism I can do without, but being at home for Christmas is ace. Even though it's a little bit weird this year. Hmm.I hope all you LJ folk are having a great Christmas!

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The fruitless search for the third way.	[Dec. 16th, 2007\|05:34 pm]RiCh
The past few weeks have been really, profoundly weird, and pretty much the logical conclusion of all kinds of things. At least it's all out of the way now.Off home tomorrow morning, and it couldn't come too soon. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while.
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(no subject)	[Nov. 29th, 2007\|10:25 pm]RiCh
Everything's a bit weird at the moment. Oppressive. When you're not inside and suffering from cabin fever, you're outside and being pushed down by the rain and pulled at by what you feel you should be doing.Yet at the same time, there's a vacuous emptiness to everything. Like everything that needs doing is just maintaining the status quo. Prolonging the agony, for want of a better expression. So I'm trying to push forward and get somewhere quickly, and yet desperately trying to freeze time as well.And in spite of everything I need to think about, I can only go around in the same pointless circle of thoughts that will always prove frustratingly futile irrespective of how many times I think about it.The strangest thing is the feeling that I've written this entry before.
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[Nov. 29th, 2007|10:25 pm]RiCh

Everything's a bit weird at the moment. Oppressive. When you're not inside and suffering from cabin fever, you're outside and being pushed down by the rain and pulled at by what you feel you should be doing.Yet at the same time, there's a vacuous emptiness to everything. Like everything that needs doing is just maintaining the status quo. Prolonging the agony, for want of a better expression. So I'm trying to push forward and get somewhere quickly, and yet desperately trying to freeze time as well.And in spite of everything I need to think about, I can only go around in the same pointless circle of thoughts that will always prove frustratingly futile irrespective of how many times I think about it.The strangest thing is the feeling that I've written this entry before.

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