Watched a quite pleasing movie about an isolated buddhist pagoda floating in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere somewhere in Korea. The scenery was beautiful, and it was one of those almost entirely silent and still experiences ( Read more... )

Normally Canberra is so crisp, with sharp, well defined edges and a sense of purpose, if not meaning. But this morning a dreamy impressionist blur in a most unusual morning mist. Thick, heavy, wet, and so silent. A wide halo for every streetlight.

A long Easter weekend, so once again the only lonely souls to be spied in Canberra are those who drew the short straw and had to stay behind to maintain a facade of open retailers.

I'm ready to move on, but I'm sure I'll miss the solitude of this place once I'm somewhere new.

There's been a bunch of times over the past 4 years where it's felt like everything is crumbling around me, that everyone's lives are falling apart and I can only watch and listen in silence and try to say the right thing at the moment when all is darkest. I guess it's a tumultuous age to be ( Read more... )

So the thesis continues to come along in fits and spurts, a page here and there, ideas for further work there and here, all that sort of thing ( Read more... )

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As much as I liked 4:13 Dream, it doesn't actually take top honours for the year.

The National do, with Boxer. One of many truly excellent recommendations from a new friend, this album became a favourite largely on the back of the song Brainy. According to last.fm that was my most listened to track of the past 12 months, though it fails to take ( Read more... )

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Time to talk The Cure, 4:13 Dream!

It turns out that a large portion of the albums I've bought this year have in fact been bits of the same one. Starting in May, with 4 singles and then an EP of remixes, before the album eventually surfaced in late October. Unsurprisingly I've rather enjoyed it, although in the end I think having heard the ( Read more... )