10. a song that makes you fall asleepnot because he's terrible or anything, but i actually used to listen to his album on my headphones to fall asleep (and also so i wont hear the action from my housemate's room next door :s)he does have a most calming voice. ...
8. a song that you know all the words toof all the songs by the beatles, this is one of my absolute favourites; and in my pursuit of a proper video for it, i found this really cool one on youtube of all of them in india (possible benares?) with the maharishi.i love. ...
7. a song that reminds you of a certain eventthis song and others from the stars of 70s CDs reminds me of every single family holiday i've taken with the family. even now, everytime i hear a clarence wijewardena or annesly malewana song in my horrible van, i forget that i'm a grown up, and i'm still this child who ...
it's slap bang in the middle of exams and i'm knee deep in assignments - so no time better than the present to start (technically) blogging again. nadia has started playing the 30 day song challenge so i thought i would too. only instead of on facebook i'm going to do it right here.so day 1: my favourite song.i don't ...
many things can be said about nigel de silva.he was:a funny man, totally OTT, compassionate, fighting for his right to be who he really was, treated negatively for being positive, a lonely man.he was all of this (and much more)may he achieve the peace in death that he was denied of in life.rest in peace, nigel. i'm grateful to have ...
some great first lines from some of the greatest books ever writtenthe idea really came to me the day i got my false teethso this, said kay to herself, is the sort of person you've become: a person whose clocks and wrist watches ...
in another (long overdue) installment of other peoples work, Mary Oliver, whose work i only got to know last year (yes, i is philistine - apparently she and this poem are quite renown among the literati) had the ability to raise the tiny hairs on the back of my neck with this ...
a couple months ago, i got a letter from my friend sophie, bemoaning yet another incidence of conservative fiscal idiocy winning over ordinary common sense/humanity.for a long time now, ever since i was able to discern good from bad, i have been a fan of the UK film council, the UK's leading ...
(almost) spontaneous combustionsmall vehicles spinning out of controldeep canyons missing raging riversgeography forever alteredwalls crumbling around toppled regimesconsequences of several lifetimes of inactionblurry faces on lacquered horsebackmerry-go-rounds spinning chaosquestion:would life exist withoutsmall explosions in the sky? ...
google reader says i'm more active during work hours.this is technically true. i can't concentrate if i'm not distracted every now and again.but today, i wish i was somewhere else.
