...then bang!

• 2011-12-19

  fireflies & bloodshot eyes.

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  Ostensibly, I’m out to prove something to myself.
  In reality, I’m out to make a mockery of you.

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  It’s with my heavy heart and sleight of hand that I sink into the quicksands of despair.

  Fragile bones and diamond eyes; Send me the pauper, for a deed done proper.

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  i will put my pen to paper and write you a letter.

  the longest words of nothingness.

  send it across the oceans.

  into your heart of emptiness.

• 2011-11-12

  

  This is my new house. I am looking forward to getting out of college and having a fresh start. Way closer to vegan restaurants and cafes too!

• 2011-11-11

  Depressed and uneasy. Have I made the right choice? I don’t know. Maybe I should just graduate and get a job. That might be easier than aiming for marks I won’t achieve this semester.

  Oh Shit, all this Orwell is making me the most pessimistic person in the world. Need to do something that will make me happy… But I can’t until after exams… But even then I have 6 weeks full-time data entry work to do.

  I do realise my problems are insignificant, that the plight of many around the world far outweighs my cosy, middle-class, university educated existence.

  We will always find things about our lives that are hard.. Once I finish this essay an exam I may be free from it, but like everyone else out there I’ll find something new to complain about.

• 2011-11-02

  

  Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

  Taken in October 2010 when my parents were visiting me. We took a drive into the Rocky Mountains…the scenery is breathtaking.

  I miss Canada.

• 2011-10-04

  

  Green means ‘Go’!

  Photo by Gary Sissons - Frankston Weekly

• 2011-09-24

  Reality

  Sometimes we need to escape reality, even if just for a while.
  
  I don’t think it’s healthy to be stuck in a frame of mind which has been subscribed to you by institutions, the system, and what ought and what ought not to be. If no one was ever able to escape reality we wouldn’t have culture; we wouldn’t have music, or art, or human rights. No one would say “no, fuck this, this isn’t right” and the world wouldn’t change.

  But then why is escaping reality seen as something that ought not to be done? Why can’t we question? Why is it seen as irresponsible to reflect on the world, to not just accept things as they are? Just grow up, learn to adapt to it, after all…you have no choice - you have to face it one day.

  I say that it is irresponsible to accept ‘reality’. Why can’t, for example, the Palestinians have legitimate claim to statehood? Because it is not a realistic geo-political strategy for the West? Fuck you, and your fucked up system of states, of economics, of prejudice.

  To those that say “it’s just the way things are”….no, it has been made like this. To say that is to subscribe to the metaphysical - an overarching power that controls how the world works and what we can and can’t do. You’re born in the Horn of Africa? Stiff shit…that’s what this way of thinking entails.

  People always tell you to “think outside of the box”…but only as long as this ‘box’ is within another, larger box. And as soon as you go too far outside, begin to slash away at all the bullshit that’s holding us in you will find that it becomes harder and harder - more layers are applied to the box; social exclusion is a handy one. Let’s make this person feel alone with their ‘crazy’ ideas about humanity….they’ll be alone, and they’ll go insane because nobody will listen to them - after all, everyone is comfortable if everybody is a sheep amongst the flock.

  But we all know what happens to sheep…well we should, they are slaughtered. And you will hear people say: “they are killed humanely.” But I cannot, even for a second, allow myself to accept a sentence which contains both the words ‘killed’ and ‘humanely’ because killing is not humane. If killing a human is wrong then killing a non-human is not humane.

  For too long we have accepted things as the way they are. Things do change though, and it is only when people manage to escape reality, to disagree with the norm and say “fuck you” to what is considered ‘normal’.

  Don’t be normal.

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  lo-fi to make you fly high

• 2011-09-19

  

  Sometimes it’s hard being a vegan-environmentalist snowboarder…but at least I’m not alone.

  photo from: http://snowboardgreen.blogspot.com/

• 2010-12-09

  I fell in love with a girl who looked like you.

• 2010-12-06

  

  find your line

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  appreciate nature

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  mix your dreams with reality