all i want

I want to f l y.


I want to put on my blue, suede shoes and dance.

I want to run around with sparklers.

I want forty-one.

I want to lie in the sun and daydream.

I want to bake cupcakes and l i c k the bowl.

I want to read all the books hidden under my bed.

I want to go on picnics and pick flowers.

I want borrow Bresson’s camera.

I want to p l a y mario kart.

I want people to burst in to spontaneous song in the street.

I want to star gaze.

I want to listen to music all day.

I want to steal Donne’s words, Wilde’s wit and Camus’ clarity.

I want to sip tea and recite poetry.

I want a single day of perfect understanding.

I want to wear my pyjamas all day.

I want to sing in the r a i n.

I want to hide notes in babushka dolls.

I want to find love letters in antique desks.

I want to do cartwheels down grassy hills.

I want to be ambitious.

I want to be content.

I want to write poems about blue birds and nothing in particular.

I want to crack a crème brulé.

I want to click my heels together three times.

I want o n e more hour in every day.

middle distance runner

Well I'm so sad tonight
And the words won't come out right
It's been a long day on the track
And its stamina that I lack

So won't you run to me tonight?
Tonight we could pretend that we're just lovers
But I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Well my heart is beating hard
And I'm off with a shot at the start
And my legs tremble from strain
But by the finish line I'll drain

So won't you run to me tonight?
Tonight let's not talk about next summer
Cause I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Well I'm so proud tonight
Of the woman you've become
And I'm just too tired to fight
So my darling, I'll succumb

But you'll have to run to me tonight
Tonight I will love you forever
But I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Sea Wolf

listen.

http://www.myspace.com/seawolf

roll over beethoven

I'm bored. I should be doing my history IA, but I just can't bring myself to do it right now. So I'll do something a bit mindless instead.

~ Choose a singer/band/group
~ Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group
~ Tag 6 more people (let them know they've been tagged)

Those who wish to procrastinate are automatically tagged.

And I choose The Beatles. By the way, a prize to the first person to correctly count the number of The Beatles titles in this blog.

1. Are you male or female?
I am the Walrus

2. Describe yourself.
Oh! Darling

3. What do people feel when they're around you?
I Want to Tell You

4. How would you describe your previous relationship?
I’ll Cry Instead

5. Describe your current relationship.
Ain’t Nothing Shakin’

6. Where would you want to be now?
Strawberry Fields

7. How do you feel about love?
All You Need is Love

8. What's your life like?
Take Out Some Insurance on me Baby

9. What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
I Wish I could Shimmy Like my Sister Kate

10. Say something wise.
One and One is Two

The Beatles wrotes some very strange songs, with even more bizzare titles. I'm upset that I wasn't able to use;

~ Baby, Let's Play House
~ Leave my Kitten Alone
~ Lend me Your Comb
~ Maxwell's Silver Hammer
~ Run For Your Life
&
~ Ps. I Love You

But alas ... 'The End'

camera

Life seems simpler through the lens of a camera.

"Photography is an instantaneous operation, both sensory and intellectual -- an expression of the world in visual terms, and also a perpetual quest and interrogation. It is at one and the same time the recognition of a fact in a fraction of a second and the rigorous arrangement of the forms visually perceived which give to that fact expression and significance."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment

Cartier-Bresson

... and as I sat, with nothing on my mind, a little bird appeared before me and whispered: aren't you glad I'm your blank space?

cheer up boys (your make up is running)

Rules for life:

'I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.

I have also told them not to work for companies which make masscre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.'

Kurt Vonnegut
~ Slaughterhouse 5

'Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.'

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
~ Letter to George Bernard Shaw

'Don't touch shit even with gloves on. The gloves get shittier, the shit doesn't get glovier.'

Gustave Flaubert

'Hitler sucks... You know what else sucks? A vaccumn.'

Ben

'The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.'

Will Rogers
~ Illiterate Digest

'To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.'

Oscar Wilde
~ An Ideal Husband

'A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Essays 'Friendship'

'A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.'

Emily Dickinson
~ A Word is Dead

'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.'

Sophocles
~ Oedipus at Colonus

I don't know about you, but quotes cheer me up. Cheer up everyone.

Smile.

i'm walking on sunshine

I love that people live near me. It would take me all my fingers and toes (and perhaps yours too) to list them all. In any case, I'm not usually hurting for company. Today was a random wandering day with Sunni and our cameras. Sunni had two so she lent me hers when my battery decided to give up on me.

It was a fairly un-photogenic day, so not many natural photos were taken. So I resorted to Sunni, gnomes, Sunni, benches, flowers and Sunni. Enjoy.


There's this one house I absolutely adore. I walk past it on the way to school most days, and the front garden is packed with figurines.

Some suss-looking froggies.

looks like she's eating it (and if you look closely you can see the rain)

the only truly artisitc photo I took

I felt a bit silly taking a picture of these two, but I liked the fact they were sharing an umbrella (and i'm attracted to 'rain gear'; little yellow padington raincoats, bumboots, umbrellas etc. etc.)

ad for landscapers, but I want to use it in an art project ... somehow.

yeah, you really wouldn't get it.

a bit dazed and confused.

I call this collection 'Happy Sunni Photos'