DON'T STOP TO SURRENDER...

COME AROUND TO MY WAY OF THINKING...

...it's only walking distance

"SWALLOW THE AIR"

"I remember what my mum had said to me once about worries. She said when we worry, when something is pulling us down, we should take a walk. A good walk, she said, a long walk. Rhythm tangles behind you, scurries up ahead, and somehow in between, something makes sense. One foot is your heart and one foot is your mind. Together, they can make your worries easy, clearer. 'Just walk,' she'd say, 'just gotta walk.'

I suppose in the end she couldn't find her feet.

And with the crying inside me, that I could not make out, of words or voice, I began to walk.

Listen, Issy had said.

I listened. And the voices would come out, emerging from button grasses, bark shavings and water. Mother. Brother. Anger. Fear. All soaked in sorrow. Intricate words like Joyce's photo tree of faces. Day doused them yellow, but night crawled the dark moons, hiding the light. And answers.

Each day I asked the voices, why I'm here? What I'm doing?

They did not answer. But I kept asking anyway, to make sure that it was ok. Still they did not tell."

-from "Swallow the Air" by Tara June Winch

DUM DUM GIRLS "DON'T TALK TO ME" (GG ALLIN COVER)

Dum Dum Girls- "Don't Talk To Me" (GG Allin cover) from the great pumpkin on Vimeo.

"Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people."

- Doris Egan

This quote popped up on my igoogle page a couple of days ago and really pissed me off. And though it is no longer my cup of tea, some of the most intelligent, rational people I know are "religious" (if that's the word to describe people who have a faith). Growing up around the church I've encountered more than my fair share of religious craziness, but please, tarring everyone with the same brush? So childish whoever you are Doris Egan.

How I get by...

Karen O and the Kids;

coffee & cigarettes;

Katie Eary Spring 2010;

driving home from town full of Guiness listening to Bob Marley's Greatest Hits;

Blonde Ambition (brought to you by Deborah Harry);

The Phoenix Pub

Saturday night's alright...

&c

In one month I will turn 27.

The days roll by like thunder
Like a storm that's never breaking,
All my time and space compressed
In the low pressure of the proceedings,
And they beat against the sides of my life,
Like fists against the sides of my life,
And the roads all lead behind me,
So I wrap the wheel around me
and I go out.