Measure Your Life in Love

My point exactly. This is the only moment you need to examine to...

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:26:17 +0000

My point exactly. This is the only moment you need to examine to realise how completely impotent the entire film is. Shame it’s right at the end so you know anyone who knows what you’re talking about has already wasted 3 hours of their life :/

This is my meditative stimulus for this evening. Reblogging so I...

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:04:30 +0000

This is my meditative stimulus for this evening. Reblogging so I don’t misplace it like all my other STumblrEALS. ;)

Ellie: Can I hold your hand?Carl: No.Ellie: But why?Carl:...

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:08:11 +0000

Ellie: Can I hold your hand?
Carl: No.
Ellie: But why?
Carl: Because it’ll hurt when you let go.

FML. MUSTWATCHTHISAGAIN.

Fucking brilliant.

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:38:16 +0000

Fucking brilliant.

fuckyeahgiantpanda: Fu Long at the Vienna Zoo on April 18,...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:27:12 +0000

fuckyeahgiantpanda:

Fu Long at the Vienna Zoo on April 18, 2008.

© Hélène van Dijk.

My Panda’s gonna be exactly like this.

niggnoggg:

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:14:16 +0000

niggnoggg:

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that..."

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:26:22 +0000

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”

- Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

Ignoring all the important things...

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:22:59 +0000

And over-analysing my opinions of music, I’ve realised there are three things I genuinely love when WATCHING a performance (the distinction between iTunes and (fake)smoke-filled stages, strobes and sweat).

The first is that feeling you get maybe once every 3 years, when you’re hearing something so good and so fresh that you know that if everyone in the world would actually give the time of day to new frontiers, this band deserve to be bigger than the Beatles. This has happened to me perhaps once, though in truth I’m not sure it’s happened at all. I can talk about it like some talk about love, or the deprived talk about orgasms: it’s definitely out there; I’ve definitely had glimpses of it, I just haven’t been doing the right thing in the right place at the right time.

The second is something which happened tonight and set me on this train of thought. When a band not only revives your love for a genre you’ve seen no development in, and have all-but written off but for nostalgic drives and cover songs, but then also feels like it’s grasped that genre even better than you have, and done cooler things with it too.

The third is something too deep for a tumblr post at 1:20am (give it two more hours ;) ), but it’s when a band can remind you of, or increase your awareness of the scale of things. Which things matter, which things used to matter, and what’s going to matter tomorrow. I love bands that make me dream; I’ll come to every show you ever play if you can give me that feeling with consistency. -DMB, I’ll be seeing you in 2012. Have a lovely break :)

fuckyeahgiantpanda: Tai Shan and his keeper Brian at the...

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:06:08 +0000

fuckyeahgiantpanda:

Tai Shan and his keeper Brian at the National Zoo on July 1, 2006.

By Somesai.

Dude more or less has my beard, and now he’s stolen my panda. Imma get all up in his grill.

Photo

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:32:41 +0000

hungoverowls: “On a scale from zero to hungover, I am...

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:20:57 +0000

hungoverowls:

“On a scale from zero to hungover, I am dead.”

Essentially just for Sarah Doe :)

True dat.

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:53:28 +0000

True dat.

Q&A: gethenbaker asked:From another musician, I couldn’t agree more with...

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:09:24 +0000

Q&A: gethenbaker asked:From another musician, I couldn’t agree more with...:

inourownprettywaysanswers:

:) thank you hubby. You’re support has always been unwavering and I am so grateful x

You’re eternally welcome, wifey(?) ;)

inourownprettywaysanswers:

I agree with you on everything but McFly ahaha :)

You’ll learn :)

Talk about betrayal…

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:46:53 +0000

Talk about betrayal…

Dumbledore's (Inked) Army

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:11:11 +0000

There’s probably lots I could be updating you on right now, but as I’ve just spent about an hour sorting through Harry Potter tattoo after Harry Potter tattoo on my dashboard, I thought I’d share with you something you may not have expected.

I LOVE HARRY POTTER. Everything about it. It’s perfect. Except the books, but hey, you can’t have your cake and eat it too (wait… Yeah you can… It’s called LotR…)… I thoroughly prefer the HP universe though, and will be seeing the film tomorrow morning (maybe twice ;) ). For me, it’s not a childhood obsession. I hated it. Couldn’t even make myself finish the first book. Liked the first film, and the second, but not much more than liked. But then I got shown a new way of exploring and understanding it, and it just made me really content. Cheers for that :)

Anyway, I will eventually have a Harry Potter tattoo in order to teach my kids about immersion in a concept, and its value to their lives. But before that, I need to get around to having my first one, which as some of you know is something I’m -really- good at avoiding. I thought I’d put an end to that now. I know what I want, I know where I want it (and have a backup place just incase). So here’s the open challenge to any of you. Come with me, let’s get us some tattoos! If you’ll come, I’ll be peer-pressured just enough to do it ;) Let’s go!

photojojo: Jason Lee: a dad with inspiring photo ideas and two...

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:11:17 +0000

photojojo:

Jason Lee: a dad with inspiring photo ideas and two rad little kids.

via -brokenlover

Inspiration for primary school PE?

I seem to have accidentally gotten back into Tumblr...

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:59:42 +0000

Strange as I have less time than ever and yet I’m now making time to write this. I should be writing my performance diary at the moment.

Firstly, I apologise to any and all concerned for my extended absence; my life is ridiculous and I never have time for such frivolity as talking to myself and pretending like people are reading (who’m I kidding. That’s all I do to all you Skype contacts really, isn’t it?)…

I apologise to anyone who has put melodramatic posts up in the last few months in the desperate hope of scoring my attention and affection. I was not here and I have missed them. You may now put them back up and I shall read and respond, of course ;)

Thirdly, I thought I should fill you in on my life so far.

Wait for it…

NOTHING has happened.

No, seriously.

NOTHING.

I might get married, but beyond that. NOTHING.

Okay, so aside from my discontented rant, I somehow seem to work a 60 hour week between work and university and yet I don’t feel like I’m making progress or money. Have just reduced my hours to try and favour a bit of progress over a bit of money - hoping to find a better work/practise balance.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t yield and kind of work+practise/life balance, so I’ve yet to find time to do any of the things I want to do, like visiting my favourites. I want them to know though, that though I’m probably more out of character than ever around them, it is essentially completely down to missing them and finding myself irrationally jealous of new friends, lives, and the fact that they get to see eachother more than they see me. I thought I’d throw that out publically as there’s some people I think I’ve shut down conversations with and generally mistreated for attempting to converse on the subject. I’m just unhappy with it. ~~I want them back.~~ I want to be with them.

A little bit telling there as to my opinion on my place in Bath right now, but there’s a couple of points I’m looking forward to. Attempting to organise some African drumming workshops with DHI in Bath which should be awesome fun. Also trying to sort out a bit of primary school music teaching in Bristol - more on this when it becomes apparent. I’d really like to be back into the swing of teaching; I miss it.

I’ll leave you to it now; have fun :)

It’s so so important that you guys not only appreciate the...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:30:41 +0100

It’s so so important that you guys not only appreciate the wonderful photography here, but click through and watch the linked video that inspired it. I think I’ll write more on it later, but suffice it to say that despite being in an absolutely ecstatic mood right now, it made me cry the moment I realised what was going on, and then what happens after… Really want to write on it now, but so little practise time left. Big post later this evening or something.

Thanks Alexa for such a beautiful photo, and also for sharing such emotive inspiration behind it.

inourownprettyways:

When will you learn you are mine?

Click though on the picture to find out what this shots about x

Oh dad,

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:23:19 +0100

thebrightstar:

Thank you for buying Netflix, now I have Scrubs and the L word readily available to watch at all times.

FUCK YES!

Scrubs>L word

You might need to open this post individually to see the .gif...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:51:00 +0100

You might need to open this post individually to see the .gif play, but this is a somewhat less pretty version of what I used to have on my wall. I can’t remember the exact numbers, but if the Great Orion Nebula (the one that contains the horsehead + flame nebulas) - if you’ve seen only one astrophoto, it’s probably of this - fills a full HD tv, VY Canis Majoris becomes less than 1/50th of a pixel or some ridiculous shit like that.

Some time I’ll look up the numbers and