this one doesn't seem to have taken off like the last one; i think i had less people to talk about stuff with back then, and so it worked out that i was telling no one in particular, and that was good enough.
now, obviously, it seems pretty shit, and i'm much happier that several friendships have come to a point where i'm happy to talk about everything and nothing, and both will be ok.
first time i've used that scanner in a while. have you ever started a comic journal? i did it a lot a while ago, got quite a rhythm going, before i just stopped, drawing something every few weeks if i remembered, and then not at all. i'm sick of dripping out like that. i've got a few ideas to start a new one, but not just with writing (like this one) or comics (like the other one), but with both, and some photos as well. maybe i'll go out right now and get an awesome book to put it all in.
of course, before creativity must come materialism.
i'm enjoying a lot of simple guitar music at the moment - the kind of songs that could be created at anytime and live forever with their beauty. i'm also listening to a lot of efterklang, too, and that free weird weeds EP. as free EPs go, it's right up there, and there's one song that is really making me smile everytime i hear it, called 'sweet thing'. it's just a simple fingerpicking affair with really strong vocals, the kind that you would be happy to sing along to on the top of a big sunny hill, or a foggy mountain. it was also the inspiration to make another mixtape, and there can be no higher praise than that. i'll post a mixtape i was particularly proud of later in the day or tomorrow or something, it starts with a beautiful creak of a ship at sea - or, at least, that's what i always thought it was. it's probably just some floorboards in a house...but think of it as a boat, and it sets the whole compilation up a lot better. i would say the whole tape has that atmosphere of a creaky boat, lost at sea.
efterklang - bright (from the springer EP - i recently got 'tripper', but i need some time with that.
weird weeds - sweet thing
(link to the whole free weird weeds EP)
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Ha, wow, i really put my foot in it there. Van Morrison is someone who i've always liked when I heard, but for some reason I never looked into him - I've heard about the brilliance of Astral Weeks, but never bought it.
Suppose it's a bit like karma...
Make your way over to England sometime, you're welcome to stay in our huge student house in Norwich.
Have fun,
mike x
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