Quote of the night

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Korzybski

AITU

As previously reported - from the Art in the Underbelly Exhibition - here is David Lemm's art coupled with mine. From the forthcoming booklet of the show.

SG_PJ

She walked in between two thoughts;

The glass case over the cookies looked like one huge breast

A disproportionately bulbous nipple-handle atop it

And

When was I going to turn into that crazy old man

That all around me would find wonderfully eccentric?

I heard the click clack that

Always makes your head turn

And there she was for the first time in, well

The devil only knows how many years

But here now

Yet not the same

Someone I knew who’d been once so

Disarming and light of heart and head

Now looked down at her shoes as though the weight of the room

Was

Too much for her to remain in any one spot

For longer than a few seconds

I stood back and watched as opportunities passed

Her

By

As she ignored - or pretended to ignore

The smiles and eye contact

There was no fear to her but rather apathy

Then looking up she caught my eye and in an instant I was lost again

Swimming in what she used to be

What she could have been

(anything anywhere to everyone)

Her head fell back down just as quickly

She stared towards the floor

Shamed by something

A choice she never made

Or one she did

To be removed, distant, steely yet alive

I felt guilty for reminding her of all those things -

Ordered my coffee and left without a word

Who am I to regret the passing of yet another good one

One who decided to throw it all in for no other reason than

The rest of us just aren’t worth the damn trouble.

'Are you lost yet?'

 

Here's the setlist from Radiohead at the O2 on 9th October. I'm not going to review the show because honestly, it would take too long to find the right words. Suffice to say, now REM are gone, these guys are the closest thing we have to Wyld Stallyns. Bloody awful venue though...

Lotus Flower, Airbag, Bloom, The Daily Mail, Myxomatosis, Bodysnatchers, The Gloaming, Separator, Videotape, Nude, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Reckoner, There There, The National Anthem, Feral, Paranoid Android.

Give Up the Ghost, I Might Be Wrong, Planet Telex, Morning Mr. Magpie, Street Spirit (Fade Out).

Staircase, Everything In Its Right Place, (True Love Waits intro) Idioteque. 

Quote of the day

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.   Noam Chomsky