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Witter(Sub A -Level standard)

Posted by shelflife on July 12, 2009 at 7:50pm
Witter(Sub-A level standard)P.P.PPolitician Press PolicePolice Press PoliticianPress Police PoliticianPolitician Police PressPolice Politician PressBasil BrushI am the inanimate treasured to animate your lifeI've got a machine to do it 4 meBecause I won't do it anymoreI have become a creature of bad habitLook you've made your Mother cry and cry and cryI block all available updatesI am sorry but I simply cannot recommend himIf you claim to trust my judgment and I am not trying to protect himYou will not ask himGoing through the motionsI do not(cannot afford to) believe in fate anymoreThats true, Move onSweet, cool, to be honest, No biggieLeased territory,Transparency on a legal basisAddictedEvictedI live inside this songAnd I can never leaveI wanted to be and recieve total loveLike the Tesco you always think you needDo I cling and hope it will all be alright inside bubble theoryOr exclamate myself like a wild dog without remorse and no thought of greedWell its a bit of both reallyI am the soothing sexy saxaphoneTo an eighties movie soundtrackLove is six months topsMoney is foreverI am the trojan horse inside all things niceThe fervour is fadingAll things that gripe sabotagedBack to the edge of no amazementDecide, Realise, Deny, ReplySynergy Simbosis OsmosisNow and ForeverMultitaskingBending in the windPatsyUtterBoil in the BagWe don't need to search anymoreNow we are just trying to block it all outCompareComing togetherCritically importantA cost too high to bearDump on other peopleCommitmentsCentral message agendaConstituency Ramblers drain my seratoninToning my figuresA Bulemic who chewsBut won't swallowDoesn't pukeJust masecates(hic! hic!) and spits it softly outRearranging in drips and drabsThen get someone with a busted flush of cool to do a funky remix of the original on the turntable plate.BrinkGrand schemeFacist DreamSchizophrenia revealing too much of the truthTry something different to feed the machineLike Shut Up and pay off your mortgageMake the most of your two weeks offProvide a Sprog or twoAnd You'll be free of meBreaking NewsFractured Bone & BloodChange or dieRefresh the pageGot to be Summertime all the time for YouThoughts in a cageAnother opinion saying the same thingPoorer lung capacity in pollution hotspotsTerms and Conditions ApplySee in store for detailsHave a GoSuicide bombers on the Main Street of DisneylandLife imitating art badlyI am not giving up without a fightHave a Go HeroYou're absolutely Box OfficeAlluding IllusionYou are are all figments of my imagination and this a dreamMy ego is sooooo bigI have to ignore you so I don't crush YouCrying with a boo hoo hoo at all those left behindDiscarding all links recievedAll for the sake of a problem planThat over ranI'm over ranRun over it againI got fascinated by black holesThey turned me into an assholeSo I moved and hid in a sleepy townWhere the black holes can't find meAnd in order to 4get the frownThat beat the box in my headFreed up, reslake the thirst,This time grit the road aheadTurn back with a learned lessonMasks thrown awayThe flesh, the real, the preciousI call on You to run another dayThe days of vague transcienceMust come to an endGot to hold on to people and start to treat them like real friendsNo more dog eat dogNo more vendettas to stoke the fireLife is hard enoughWithout You making it tougherPinning idiosyncracies of hypocrises on a wallPissing up the wallPiss it up the wallSpecifically,TerrificallyPiling on the pressureAssociationDeviationCantankerousConvicted ConvictionA streamlined expenseIn order to condenseWrap and clapPick and PackMy message to YouSpyderThe West's on a detox planIts mind is willingBut its heart has no intentionIf it could,Of kicking the canLong haul,sleazy, casual disregardHave I really got to be a hard nosed bastard to get anywhere?We used to party till the break of dawn(Hello Nasty)But now all those days have goneTempered by Babies and cash flowResponsibility with the Devil in TowYou know your TVBut do you know meIn a groundswell of public supportJust be a fanThe pieces are in fluxThe kaleidoscope has been shakenFantasist, Apathetic ActivistMy friend has a 2nd(Main) Job as a prostituteThat enables her to make ends meetAnd create the spare time for the places and things she likes to see and doPyroclastic FlowSo hold your nerve boy(EVEN IF IT REALLY BURNS)In the Pyroclastic FlowYou make me take your hand to dance(EVEN THOUGH IT REALLY HURTS)In the grey Ashen faced snowOf the stupefying(MY SKIN IS FRYING)Mounting Mound of BodiesWhose really countingAs my movements slip and slowQuarantineNew lives and new familiesRisk assessmentVersion of eventsStem the tideGreater EmphasisDeserve better home comfortsRemoved, pickled and bottled from harms wayDifficultFor all the positivity you holdI have a negativeFor all the negatives you throwI remain PositiveWhile everyone worksI like to dossWhen everyone partiesWork is my bossWhile You sleepI creep around2pm on a sunny dayAnd I am snoring soundOne Man'sA state of mindThats the stake of a kindOne man's job is another man's holidayOne man's holiday is another man's jobRegulationSegregationApprasialSeverence PayE.U. We are coming for You/WhoWeather ProspectsAverage for the time of yearFollowing on behind a band of rainNorth,South/East,West DivideMore on the websiteThats it from meA very Goodnight
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NO SOLUTIONS ONLY PROBLEMS/ Santiago Report

Posted by Lady Newell & Friends on July 12, 2009 at 12:20am
A las 8 AM, una mañana fresca y radiante, pocas horas después de terminado el aftershowparty, estaba viajando en un tren antiguo por la ruta del vino. El vagón salido de un western, estaba atestado de borrachos venidos de todas partes del mundo. A medida que las azafatas escandían las bebidas, las copas rápidamente se iban vaciando. Observaba embelesada la tonalidad de los vinos rosados y caía en éxtasis con el aroma del Cabernet Sauvignon. Se brindaba en diferentes idiomas y todos, en dulce montón, no cesábamos de alabar el carácter de los vinos chilenos. La degustación de los blancos había sido fastuosa y a esas alturas del viaje, algunos pasajeros se tambaleaban y otros reían y cantaban. Abrí la ventanilla y me puse a mirar el magnífico paisaje andino. Ráfagas heladas bajaban por los ventisqueros desde la cordillera y por momentos se olía el mar cercano. El tren se internó a través de un valle de viñedos y rosales. Y mientras alucinaba, viendo como mi copa se iba impregnando con destellos rubíes, paladeaba la suntuosa textura del tinto Carménère, una cepa extinguida durante siglos, y que ahora recuperada, constituye e l vino insignia de Chile. Viendo los picos nevados me acordé de mi amiga Coolcinty que escucha Down is the New Up cuando escala el Aconcagua. A mí, la verdad es que el coraje no me da para tanto. Prefiero deleitarme con Carménère, mientras recuerdo los fabulosos shows en Santiago. Imagino que a Thom y a Ed les encantaría estar aquí emborrándose. Me recosté exhausta en la butaca, los días anteriores habían sido demasiado intensos / jajahah ¡! hiperventilados como dirían los chilenos/. Algunos seguramente opinarán que estoy totalmente loca y que ya es hora de que la corte con el fanatismo (verdaderamente tomarse un avión hacia el fin del mundo para ver un par de shows, suena un tanto excesivo ¿no?) Pero bueno ! quien me quita lo bailado ¡!! Además, para ser sinceros yo estaba necesitando una sobredosis de Radiohead. Bebí otra copa de Carménère, me sentía absolutamente embriagada y feliz. Abrí la laptop y me puse a borronear las primeras líneas de mi amazing adventure ¡! Finalmente, lo titulé NO SOLUTIONS ONLY PROBLEMS y está dedicado a todos mis friends de Waste, Youtube, Lady Newell & Friends y www. radioheadchile.com, specially, sin cuya compañía y ayuda jamás hubiera logrado escribir este Santiago Report. Quienes gusten leerlo y ver los videos les dejo el link (only for fans ¡!!) http://www.ladynewellfriends.blogspot.com/ Besitos Lady Newell
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The Great American Bubble Machine - How Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression

Posted by SubSickAlien on July 11, 2009 at 11:44pm

Matt Taibbi takes on "the Wall Street Bubble Mafia" — investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi's piece is "an hysterical compilation of conspiracy theories" and a spokesman adding, "We reject the assertion that we are inflators of bubbles and profiteers in busts, and we are painfully conscious of the importance in being a force for good." Taibbi shot back: "Goldman has its alumni pushing its views from the pulpit of the U.S. Treasury, the NYSE, the World Bank, and numerous other important posts; it also has former players fronting major TV shows. They have the ear of the president if they want it." Here, now, are excerpts from Matt Taibbi's piece and video of Taibbi exploring the key issues.IThe first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.Any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political patronage. Finally, when it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again, riding in to rescue us all by lending us back our own money at interest, selling themselves as men above greed, just a bunch of really smart guys keeping the wheels greased. They've been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920s — and now they're preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet.IIThe basic scam in the Internet Age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. Companies that weren't much more than pot-fueled ideas scrawled on napkins by up-too-late bong-smokers were taken public via IPOs, hyped in the media and sold to the public for megamillions. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out 50-story windows and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.It sounds obvious now, but what the average investor didn't know at the time was that the banks had changed the rules of the game, making the deals look better than they actually were. They did this by setting up what was, in reality, a two-tiered investment system — one for the insiders who knew the real numbers, and another for the lay investor who was invited to chase soaring prices the banks themselves knew were irrational. While Goldman's later pattern would be to capitalize on changes in the regulatory environment, its key innovation in the Internet years was to abandon its own industry's standards of quality control.Goldman's role in the sweeping global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace. Here again, the basic trick was a decline in underwriting standards, although in this case the standards weren't in IPOs but in mortgages. By now almost everyone knows that for decades mortgage dealers insisted that home buyers be able to produce a down payment of 10 percent or more, show a steady income and good credit rating, and possess a real first and last name. Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, they suddenly threw all that shit out the window and started writing mortgages on the backs of napkins to cocktail waitresses and ex-cons carrying five bucks and a Snickers bar.And what caused the huge spike in oil prices? Take a wild guess. Obviously Goldman had help — there were other players in the physical-commodities market — but the root cause had almost everything to do with the behavior of a few powerful actors determined to turn the once-solid market into a speculative casino. Goldman did it by persuading pension funds and other large institutional investors to invest in oil futures — agreeing to buy oil at a certain price on a fixed date. The push transformed oil from a physical commodity, rigidly subject to supply and demand, into something to bet on, like a stock. Between 2003 and 2008, the amount of speculative money in commodities grew from $13 billion to $317 billion, an increase of 2,300 percent. By 2008, a barrel of oil was traded 27 times, on average, before it was actually delivered and consumed.IIIThe history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled-dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. By now, most of us know the major players. As George Bush's last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street. Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup — which in turn got a $300 billion taxpayer bailout from Paulson. There's John Thain, the asshole chief of Merrill Lynch who bought an $87,000 area rug for his office as his company was imploding; a former Goldman banker, Thain enjoyed a multibillion-dollar handout from Paulson, who used billions in taxpayer funds to help Bank of America rescue Thain's sorry company. And Robert Steel, the former Goldmanite head of Wachovia, scored himself and his fellow executives $225 million in golden-parachute payments as his bank was self-destructing. There's Joshua Bolten, Bush's chief of staff during the bailout, and Mark Patterson, the current Treasury chief of staff, who was a Goldman lobbyist just a year ago, and Ed Liddy, the former Goldman director whom Paulson put in charge of bailed-out insurance giant AIG, which forked over $13 billion to Goldman after Liddy came on board. The heads of the Canadian and Italian national banks are Goldman alums, as is the head of the World Bank, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, the last two heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — which, incidentally, is now in charge of overseeing Goldman.But then, something happened. It's hard to say what it was exactly; it might have been the fact that Goldman's co-chairman in the early Nineties, Robert Rubin, followed Bill Clinton to the White House, where he directed the National Economic Council and eventually became Treasury secretary. While the American media fell in love with the story line of a pair of baby-boomer, Sixties-child, Fleetwood Mac yuppies nesting in the White House, it also nursed an undisguised crush on Rubin, who was hyped as without a doubt the smartest person ever to walk the face of the Earth, with Newton, Einstein, Mozart and Kant running far behind.Rubin was the prototypical Goldman banker. He was probably born in a $4,000 suit, he had a face that seemed permanently frozen just short of an apology for being so much smarter than you, and he exuded a Spock-like, emotion-neutral exterior; the only human feeling you could imagine him experiencing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach. It became almost a national cliché that whatever Rubin thought was best for the economy — a phenomenon that reached its apex in 1999, when Rubin appeared on the cover of Time with his Treasury deputy, Larry Summers, and Fed chief Alan Greenspan under the headline the committee to save the world. And "what Rubin thought," mostly, was that the American economy, and in particular the financial markets, were over-regulated and needed to be set free. During his tenure at Treasury, the Clinton White House made a series of moves that would have drastic consequences for the global economy — beginning with Rubin's complete and total failure to regulate his old firm during its first mad dash for obscene short-term profits.IVAfter the oil bubble collapsed last fall, there was no new bubble to keep things humming — this time, the money seems to be really gone, like worldwide-depression gone. So the financial safari has moved elsewhere, and the big game in the hunt has become the only remaining pool of dumb, unguarded capital left to feed upon: taxpayer money. Here, in the biggest bailout in history, is where Goldman Sachs really started to flex its muscle.It began in September of last year, when then-Treasury secretary Paulson made a momentous series of decisions. Although he had already engineered a rescue of Bear Stearns a few months before and helped bail out quasi-private lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Paulson elected to let Lehman Brothers — one of Goldman's last real competitors — collapse without intervention. ("Goldman's superhero status was left intact," says market analyst Eric Salzman, "and an investment-banking competitor, Lehman, goes away.") The very next day, Paulson greenlighted a massive, $85 billion bailout of AIG, which promptly turned around and repaid $13 billion it owed to Goldman. Thanks to the rescue effort, the bank ended up getting paid in full for its bad bets: By contrast, retired auto workers awaiting the Chrysler bailout will be lucky to receive 50 cents for every dollar they are owed.Immediately after the AIG bailout, Paulson announced his federal bailout for the financial industry, a $700 billion plan called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and put a heretofore unknown 35-year-old Goldman banker named Neel Kashkari in charge of administering the funds. In order to qualify for bailout monies, Goldman announced that it would convert from an investment bank to a bank-holding company, a move that allows it access not only to $10 billion in TARP funds, but to a whole galaxy of less conspicuous, publicly backed funding — most notably, lending from the discount window of the Federal Reserve. By the end of March, the Fed will have lent or guaranteed at least $8.7 trillion under a series of new bailout programs — and thanks to an obscure law allowing the Fed to block most congressional audits, both the amounts and the recipients of the monies remain almost entirely secret.Converting to a bank-holding company has other benefits as well: Goldman's primary supervisor is now the New York Fed, whose chairman at the time of its announcement was Stephen Friedman, a former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs. Friedman was technically in violation of Federal Reserve policy by remaining on the board of Goldman even as he was supposedly regulating the bank; in order to rectify the problem, he applied for, and got, a conflict-of-interest waiver from the government. Friedman was also supposed to divest himself of his Goldman stock after Goldman became a bank-holding company, but thanks to the waiver, he was allowed to go out and buy 52,000 additional shares in his old bank, leaving him $3 million richer. Friedman stepped down in May, but the man now in charge of supervising Goldman — New York Fed president William Dudley — is yet another former Goldmanite.The collective message of all of this — the AIG bailout, the swift approval for its bank-holding conversion, the TARP funds — is that when it comes to Goldman Sachs, there isn't a free market at all. The government might let other players on the market die, but it simply will not allow Goldman to fail under any circumstances. Its edge in the market has suddenly become an open declaration of supreme privilege. "In the past it was an implicit advantage," says Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and former official at the International Monetary Fund, who compares the bailout to the crony capitalism he has seen in Third World countries. "Now it's more of an explicit advantage."VFast-forward to today. It's early June in Washington, D.C. Barack Obama, a popular young politician whose leading private campaign donor was an investment bank called Goldman Sachs — its employees paid some $981,000 to his campaign — sits in the White House. Having seamlessly navigated the political minefield of the bailout era, Goldman is once again back to its old business, scouting out loopholes in a new government-created market with the aid of a new set of alumni occupying key government jobs.Gone are Hank Paulson and Neel Kashkari; in their place are Treasury chief of staff Mark Patterson and CFTC chief Gary Gensler, both former Goldmanites. (Gensler was the firm's co-head of finance.) And instead of credit derivatives or oil futures or mortgage-backed CDOs, the new game in town, the next bubble, is in carbon credits — a booming trillion- dollar market that barely even exists yet, but will if the Democratic Party that it gave $4,452,585 to in the last election manages to push into existence a groundbreaking new commodities bubble, disguised as an "environmental plan," called cap-and-trade. The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won't even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance.Written by Matt TaibbiFrom Rolling Stone Issue 1082-1083July 9 - 23, 2009Watch Matt Taibbi's reaction to Goldman Sach's excuse
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Radiohead to appear on Bowie tribute album???

Posted by Radiohead Brasil on July 10, 2009 at 9:40pm

"Radiohead have reportedly agreed to contribute a song to a new David Bowie tribute album.The group are rumoured to be submitting a track for the compilation Ashes To Ashes, which will also feature Carla Bruni, Charlotte Gainsbourg and '80s outfit Japan.The record is expected to be released next year to raise money for War Child, a charity that supports children in war zones.Earlier this week, acts including N-Dubz, Pixie Lott, Tinchy Stryder and The Noisettes teamed up to record 'I Got Soul' for the organisation."By David Balls, Music ReporterThursday, July 9 2009, 18:58DIGITALSPY.CO.UK
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Radiohead manager launches new record label

Posted by Radiohead Brasil on July 10, 2009 at 9:00pm

"Brian Message helps oversee artist-friendly label PolyphonicRadiohead manager Brian Message has launched a new record label, Polyphonic, which will allow artists to keep their copyright.Although specifics details have not been released, the new company's policies look set to place emphasis on the digital distribution of music and may see release plans similar to Radiohead's 2007 album 'In Rainbows', which fans could choose how much to pay for when downloading it.Polyphonic is a joint venture between Message's company ATC and management firms MAMA Group and Nettwerk Music Group, reports the Telegraph.Artists are likely to get a 50 per cent share of profits, with their share increasing with success.Outlining the principles of the label, Adam Driscoll, co-chief executive of MAMA Group, explained: "We will do whatever is most effective to get an artist noticed. Giving an album away for free may get one million people listening to a new artist."It is yet to be announced which acts will be working with Polyphonic."NME.COM First For Music Newshttp://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/45856More...Radiohead manager teams up with Mama Group to launch record label

MAMA Group, the AIM-listed artist management firm, and Radiohead's manager Brian Message are taking on the music majors by launching a record label through which artists retain their copyright and digital delivery of music is key.Founded with an initial financial commitment of more than $20m (£12.2m) for its first year of operation, new label Polyphonic will partner artists and their managers to provide them with capital to operate their businesses without going to a traditional music label.Radiohead famously launched In Rainbows as a digital download that customers could order for whatever price they saw fit.The new label – a partnership between ATC, of which Brian Message is a partner, MAMA Group and Vancouver-based artist management firm Nettwerk Music Group, plans to look at innovative digital releases like this for both new and established artists.Adam Driscoll, the co-chief executive of MAMA Group, said: "We will do whatever is most effective to get an artist noticed. Giving an album away for free may get one million people listening to a new artist."For new artists, Mr Driscoll said Polyphonic would probably offer a 50/50 profit sharing deal, but established artists would retain a bigger share.MAMA Group, which has a market capitalisation of £38.4m, will provide most of the initial $20m of funding . The venture will seek additional funding going forward, with private equity groups expected to be targeted when credit markets recover.By Amanda AndrewsPublished: 9:50PM BST 04 Jul 2009 -TELEGRAPH.CO.UKhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/5743310/Radiohead-manager-teams-up-with-Mama-Group-to-launch-record-label.html
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le escena del camino

Posted by katerine jiménez ortiz on July 8, 2009 at 4:24am
la escena del camino, es una constante en mis cabilaciones que aparecen a consecuencia de los dias " recreativos", basta con su estallido y una melodia y la voz de Thom para echar a correr mi mente que va maquinando soñandoo formulando dintintas escenas, recortes de peliculas, caminando siempre caminando, , nadie detenie la desicion de mi andar en esos instantes, me dentgegoo solo adarle un matiz, a ver que tal van los que me siguen, pero sin parar de pensar, escucho a ratoos como ecos lejanos sus voces, solo me hablan sus sonrisas, y se que esta todo perfecto que somos tres, dos, o a veces 4 seres que comparten que disfrutan, pese a toda la mierda que nos obligamos a desenterrar, ahi estamos, ahi va la camara pasandoo por mi lado , ahi nos enfocaa,y solo a nosotros.
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EIMIC record almost finished ~~ EX~PO live in Toronto

Posted by dean marino on July 7, 2009 at 3:16pm
Jay (my co-producer) and I are more than half-done the final mixes for EIMIC's second LP. I've already mixed four songs (leaving only one for me) and Jay may only have 1 or 2 songs left to mix. We split the mixing work this time, 50/50. Last record was entirely mixed by me and it proved too much. This time around I had too many commitments with my 3 bands and couldn't be there to oversee every aspect of the production. So this time, I mixed ony 5 songs: Here are their working titles:Moving FragmentsPa Ra Pa PamAir StripGentle SilenceWade InJay has already mixed 4 songs, so the album is nearly 80-90% finished. The EIMIC boys are picky though, and I wouldn't doubt that one or two songs get treated to an entirely new mix before the process is over. Our mastering date is booked (Friday July 10th) with Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel (Broken Social, every Canadian record or note, etc.).Also,My musical project, EX~PO will play one live show in Toronto (August 6th @ Holy Joes) before retreating back into the studio to make the second LP, which I hope to release sometime in early 2010.Back to work . . .D.
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Thank you Helen@waste

Posted by Rachel on July 7, 2009 at 1:33pm

Moved houses in May, forgot waste ticket order was still running under old address. Helen sorted it out, and just in time as it seems!

I haz a graetful <3

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Things Change

Posted by PrttyBrd on July 6, 2009 at 3:09pm
Counting on the everydayThe eye is caught by a lost soulFamiliarity is strong, but the eyes go emptyCalling for attention goes unnoticedReaching out, your hand passes right throughAs if an apparition, seemingly solid yet made of mistThere is nothing to grasp ontoSo the once familiar passes by unable to find its wayNot really searching for it, the soul continues to wanderWatching as its surroundings seem to swallow it all at onceWanting to follow and fix what you are not sure is even brokenStopped by nothing in particular, that first step is never takenWondering if your paths will cross again
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Heat Wave

Posted by Rachel on July 3, 2009 at 5:30pm

Glastonbury pictures upload will have to wait, my poor old computer is suffering terribly. Ice packs, fan, tried everything. I'm afraid it's going to die on me altogether if I push it too hard.

I did manage to put up a few pics on my page, the one's of British Sea Power are with courtesy of my friend Laura (thank you for your good camera! :wub: ).

one last one for the road (click continue):

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Memories

Posted by PrttyBrd on July 3, 2009 at 4:32pm
Treasured moments lost in timeRelived in dreams or nightmaresTo wake with a longing long since passedTo sleep and be swept away to what was once forgottenPrevious happiness is remembered as holyNo anger, no sadness, no discontentIt is, after all, a dream of what wasImperfection is reality as it was back thenDreams sift out the ugly and unpleasantAll that is left is the sparkle of diamond dustTwinkling stars of a happy heartIt is not wise to judge today by yesterdayOr tomorrow by todayThe good is to be wrapped up and kept warmThe tarnished should be left to melt into nothingEach smile stored in a safe place to be called upon as neededToday's treasured moments are tomorrow's dreams
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Ozomatli - Bristol UK

Posted by Helen D on July 2, 2009 at 6:59pm

Ozomatli who hail from Los Angeles played a hot, hot set to a hot crowd in The Fiddlers in Bristol.The unlikely sounding mix of Urban Latin American crossed with Hip Hop was electrifying and despite the heat we all danced and sang the night away - well till about eleven O'clock. I've seen Ozomatli play in larger venues, but there is something extra when the venue is more intimate.Great music - Well worth checking out because if you haven't heard them before you can't imagine what they sound like. They are a band that want to bring music to the people and they regularly walk down into the audience to play at the end of the night. Fantastic. Oooh my aching feet...
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Wait and See

Posted by PrttyBrd on July 2, 2009 at 2:32pm
Everything is gray lined in hues of sunsetBeauty and hope are strong but unable to conquer, yetWait and see, wait and seeDisconcerting nothingnessWaiting to see if hope will winHoping that gray doesn't darkenClouds ebb and flow in a sunny stormIndeterminable outcomesChange of plansCourses of outcomeNo options left to exploreWait and see is what to doRelax, is an order that cannot be followedPreparing for the worst is frighteningHoping for the best is more soThe "what-ifs" are intolerableOne can only do what one doesWhat else can be expected
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