My recent malaise has gone gastric so if the Universe finally heeds my pleas to just kill me, then this is the song I would like played at my funarel.

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.... for the living outloud projectThroughout my adolescence, whenever I thought of my life I divided it into Before and After Dad, and then in later years Before and After War just for variety. I felt divided and unhealable, in the wake of all those deaths and bombs. And I spent most of those years in grim survivor mode, battening down hatches ( Read more... )

A song that slays me every time (even though I don't understand the Romany lyrics)

Elo Hi -Canto Nero by Goran Bregovic (it's on Queen Margot soundrack)

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What is your favourite song?

Growing up, I knew my father was an amazing singer, and his voice and his shadow threaded themselves through the fabric of my childhood. His voice was a bass baritone, and never spoiled by his drink or his 40-a-day-cigs habit, even though the rest of his body caved in when he was 44. There were many ( Read more... )

I have been practicing with poi, with mixed results. I found some free online lessons and hints and tips but they were a bit confusing since they contained instructions such as *pretend you're scooping air forward* *keep your palms facing the sky* and so on which on the whole largely had me doing a T. Rex imitation. On the other hand, if they had ( Read more... )

Well I have been home for a whole three hours and the computer has worked fairly well and I haven't had any suicidal impulses which is something of a record ( Read more... )