25 Oct 2012

Quote of the night

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Korzybski


23 Oct 2012

AITU







As previously reported - from the Art in the Underbelly Exhibition - here is David Lemm's art coupled with mine. From the forthcoming booklet of the show.


SG_PJ





19 Oct 2012

She walked in between two thoughts;




The glass case over the cookies looked like one huge breast
A disproportionately bulbous nipple-handle atop it
And
When was I going to turn into that crazy old man
That all around me would find wonderfully eccentric?

I heard the click clack that
Always makes your head turn
And there she was for the first time in, well
The devil only knows how many years

But here now
Yet not the same
Someone I knew who’d been once so
Disarming and light of heart and head
Now looked down at her shoes as though the weight of the room
Was
Too much for her to remain in any one spot
For longer than a few seconds

I stood back and watched as opportunities passed
Her
By
As she ignored - or pretended to ignore
The smiles and eye contact
There was no fear to her but rather apathy

Then looking up she caught my eye and in an instant I was lost again
Swimming in what she used to be
What she could have been
(anything anywhere to everyone)

Her head fell back down just as quickly
She stared towards the floor
Shamed by something
A choice she never made
Or one she did
To be removed, distant, steely yet alive

I felt guilty for reminding her of all those things -
Ordered my coffee and left without a word
Who am I to regret the passing of yet another good one

One who decided to throw it all in for no other reason than
The rest of us just aren’t worth the damn trouble.






12 Oct 2012

'Are you lost yet?'




 

Here's the setlist from Radiohead at the O2 on 9th October. I'm not going to review the show because honestly, it would take too long to find the right words. Suffice to say, now REM are gone, these guys are the closest thing we have to Wyld Stallyns. Bloody awful venue though...

Lotus Flower, Airbag, Bloom, The Daily Mail, Myxomatosis, Bodysnatchers, The Gloaming, Separator, Videotape, Nude, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Reckoner, There There, The National Anthem, Feral, Paranoid Android.

Give Up the Ghost, I Might Be Wrong, Planet Telex, Morning Mr. Magpie, Street Spirit (Fade Out).

Staircase, Everything In Its Right Place, (True Love Waits intro) Idioteque. 









Quote of the day

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.   Noam Chomsky