December 2010
13 posts
Brown hair zigzagged round her eyes
Beeswing ~Richard Thompson~ I was nineteen when I came to town They called it the summer of love They were burning babies, burning flags The hawks against the doves I took a job in the steamie Down on Caldrum Street I fell in love with a laundry girl Was working next to me She was a rare thing, fine as a Beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child, she was running...
Happy Christmas Everyone
White Wine in the Sun ~Tim Minchin~ For home is my head laying down on your shoulder http://emilybarker.bandcamp.com/track/breath White Wine In the Sun ~Tim Minchin~ I really like Christmas It’s sentimental I know, but I just really like it I am hardly religious I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest And, yes, I have all of the usual objections to...
Fence in the Snow
Taken at Elder Stubbs
Fence in the Snow
Taken at Elder Stubbs
The playground viewed from blessed height
Inverness by Shouting Distance Download now or listen on posterous Shouting Distance-Unknown-00-Inverness.mp3 (2928 KB) Sometimes my itunes throws up a song I downloaded a while ago and it catches me. There’s something about this that just works.I got it via metafilter and i think it’s by Tim Walters (http://doubtfulpalace.com/). You should...
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The playground viewed from blessed height
Inverness by Shouting Distance Download now or listen on posterous Shouting Distance-Unknown-00-Inverness.mp3 (2928 KB) Sometimes my itunes throws up a song I downloaded a while ago and it catches me. There’s something about this that just works.I got it via metafilter and i think it’s by Tim Walters (http://doubtfulpalace.com/). You should...
Everyday book (more quotes)
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ~Winston Churchill~ “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ~Phillip K. Dick~ “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean...
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
Working Class Hero ~John Lennon~ John Lennon, (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon Working Class Hero ~John Lennon~ As soon as you’re born they make you feel small, By giving you no time instead of it all, Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all, A working class hero is something to be, A working class hero is something to be. They hurt you...
Ducks keep going.
Because we have to keep trying and we have to look out for each other, even when the wind is strong. (and because someone I love sent it to me).
So remember, when you're feeling very small and...
The Galaxy Song ~Monty Python~ The Philospher’s Song ~Monty Python~ The Galaxy Song ~Monty Python~ Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can...
I hope this gets to you
I Hope this Gets to You ~The Daylights~ i’ve been searching, for a couple words. they could grow wings, fly like birds, course i know it sounds absurd but when you’re in love, all the lines get blurred do you remember, the thousand lights? as we danced like kids, as the traffic goes by, i can’t help it that you memorized, imagined the world, it feels smaller tonight. and i...
I think I may have an addiction