here are some lovely things to look at to go along with the things to listen to I posted a short while ago.

some cool Indian illustrations

Art made from different coloured rice planted in rice paddies.




The Moon Fell On Me some beautiful, stark drawings and captions.

When I’m not doing this I’m actively doing something else. It’s been a long month full of excitement of various kinds. I started work on Monday. I had a shift Monday and Yesterday, and have one tomorrow. It’s a fun job thus far. I like the general nature of it. I’m working at a mental health facility. We’re a transitional facility for people in crisis. The idea is that we provide a place for people to get through whatever their current issue is, be it an active mania, a suicidal depression, or…

Radiohead Vs. Dave Brubeck - Five Step

Radiohead - Bangers + Mash

one great radiohead song, and a great mashup of Fifteen Step, by Radiohead, and Take Five, by the Dave Brubeck quartet.


Something good out of Kansas, who would have thought.


pretty awesome stuff. The pop crossover of all the guitar interplay I love



better than any band based on Harry Potter deserves to be.



It may be impossible to dislike the song Dying is fine, by Ra Ra Riot.

So awesome. The…

I’ve been wasting my days. Nights go late, and early mornings are a thing of the past. I’ve been biding time until my break comes. I don’t know what my break will be. I have all of these goals, and I can’t quite get all of them in order. It’s not a problem with indecisiveness. I can settle on a goal, and keep following it, but so far it seems that most of these decisions will be made more by the pattern of events than by my on will and desire.
Today and in days past my life often feels like a…

“BRAZIL’S PIRAHÃ TRIBE
Living without Numbers or Time

By Rafaela von Bredow

The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world — and also one of the most hotly debated by linguists.”

I heard about these guys a while ago, it’s very very interesting, and brings up some interesting problems for linguistics as a whole. If you’re remotely interesting, go and read this.

It’s so tiring existing in this life and timeframe I’ve ended up with. I’m happy with my life I suppose, but sometimes I feel like I don’t have time to do the things that really matter to me. I don’t like the way that school works. Grades don’t mean a whole lot to me, and the way time is structured doesn’t work as well for me. The weird mix of strict schedule and completely unstructured time is hard to parse. I’m not the sort of person who has my life on a schedule.
But that’s not where the…

I have piles of books everywhere. I had to steal milk crates to supplement my shelving. Even after that addition I still have books on my floor because I don’t have any space for them. I don’t have an excuse for the pile of clothing. I have a little alcove (about one metres by two metres) with my amps and guitars and basses. It’s a nice organisation I guess. I want to have a space where the living room can have my books and instruments, that way my room just has the books I’m working on reading…

It’s hard to get away from one’s moods. It would be radically difficult to write something happy right now. I’m feeling despondent. This melancholy has settled on me, and I’m not sure what to do. There isn’t much I can do.

I wish I could control all this. Of course I’ve gotten better at sorting out the world around me to improve moods, but there are some things I’m just not any good at yet. I’m still essentially alone. I’ve not gotten any better at turning basic connections into more…