Say Farewell.....

'Say farewell to your fair-weather friends , and not a second to soon'

Morrissey 'No-one can hold a candle to you'

Morrissey- 'One day goodbye will be farewell' lyrics

'One day goodbye will be farewell'

Always be careful when you abuse the one you love hour or the day no-one can tell
But one day goodbye will be farewell
And you will never see the one you love again
You will never see the the one you love again

I have been thinking -what with- my final brain cell
How time grips you slyly in it's spell
And before you know goodbye will be farewell

And you will never see the one you love again
And the tiny children tell you that you smell
Well just look at me, a stubborn beast I've got nothing to sell
And when I die I want to go to hell

And that's when goodbye should be farewell
taa tah taa tah

One day goodbye will be farewell
So grab me while you still can - goodbye


Taken from the 'Live' version of the track - so no guarantee ppl that this is the final version to appear on 'Years of Refusal in Feb 09

Morrissey - Years of Refusal Album artwork?

Originator here the excellent site "Morrissey Solo"

Morrissey - Autobiography

Morrissey, has 'mentioned' on the Janice Long show (Radio 6 show in the UK) that he is currently writing/thinking of writing (delete as you wish) his autobiography that covers his music career, in an effort to maybe 'correct some truths'

"So much crap is written about me, it's hard to live with sometimes," he said. "It all gets burned down in history and becomes a part of your legacy."

If however 'Morrissey's true 'Legacy' sees the 'light of day' - well,..... we will see.........

A Woman in Berlin (2008)

A new film from Germany is aiming to open up old wounds over the 'allied liberation' of Berlin by the 'Red Army' in 1945.
A tale not familiar to modern ears - but a brutal truth hidden in the 'shadows' for nearly 70 years.

Bloc Party - Talons Lyrics

Talons (Acoustic Version) lyrics



And in the dark it comes for me
Malevolent and without thought
Uprooting trees, destroying cars
Cold and relentless, with arms outstretched

No boat nor brick
Nor crucifix can hold it back
For I've been wicked
I've been arrogant

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss (Silent about it)
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

Awaken from dreams of drunken car crashes
You saddened my friends and claimed all my lovers
I tried to stay still, so it will not see
It's talons rake the side of my face
When did you become such a slut? (A dirty slut)

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
It will feel like a kiss

And I didn't think I'd catch fire when I held my hand to the flame
And I didn't think they'd catch up as fast as we could have run
Fate came a knocking when I was looking the other way
A new disease came in the post for me today
For me today,for me today,for me today

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
Silent and velvet
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss


(Bloc Party 2008)

Note the 'Standard release of this single - is nothing at all in 'mood' like this version, in my opinion this is the superior release.

Films of note....

"Die welle" (The Wave)
A dictatorship experiment at school goes wrong ....echoes of 'Das Experiment' anyone?

"Gomorra" Guardian Film Review here
Even the trailer is hard to watch..... makes the Godfather mafia look like chivalrous Knights of old.....Trailer.

Thought

There is no hope anymore.....

Start Afresh

Everything starts afresh, friendships - even to an extent relationships.
For circumstances like the orbits of the planets change position over time.
Nothing is as it was, do not be frightened of that statement understand it for what it is, a declaration that time changes everything and you can no more change time than you can step back in time and change the events that led you to this point you are at now.

Stone

'Passion petrified like stone,all that remains is a frozen memory of past desires'

Nothing....

Nothing.... is anymore as it should be.

Existence now is the name of the game.

Mission Elapsed time

....19 Days.

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Verve - Love is Noise 'Promo Video'

Haunted

"Alternative futures haunt me....."

Photosinferno 2008

Explanation of context here

Morrissey & Thoughts.....

'There is something I wanted to tell you, It's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing

But then I, I look around, And I remember that I am alone, Alone. For evermore........'

Quoted from the track 'Come Back to Camden' off the Album 'You Are the Quarry' by Morrissey

NIN 'We're in this Together' Lyrics

We're in This Together

I've become impossible

holding on to when

when everything seemed to matter more

the two of us

all used and beaten up

watching fate as it flows

down the path we have chose

You and me

we're in this together now

none of them can stop us now

we will make it through somehow

You and me

if the world should break in two

until the very end of me

until the very end of you

Awake to the sound

as they peel apart the skin

they pick and they pull

trying to get their fingers in

well they've got to kill what we've found

well they've got to hate what they fear

well they've got to make it go away

well they've got to make it disappear

The farther I fall I'm beside you

as lost as I get I will find you

the deeper the wound I'm inside you

for ever and ever I am a part of...

You and me

we're in this together now

none of them can stop us now

we will make it through somehow

You and me

if the world should break in two

until the very end of me

until the very end of you

All that we were is gone we have to hold on

all that we were is gone we have to hold on

all that we were is gone we have to hold on

all that we were is gone

but we can hold on.....

You and me

we're in this together now

none of them can stop us now

we will make it through somehow

You and me

even after everything

you're the queen and I'm the king

nothing else means anything

Taken from the Album 'Fragile'

Music/Lyrics NIN/Trent Reznor 1999

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Verve 'Love is Noise' Lyrics

Love is Noise

Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles that are made in China?
Feel the bright prosaic malls
And the corridors that go on and on and on

Are we blind can we see?
We are one incomplete
Are we blind in the city?
Waiting Politely to be saved in

Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues I'm singing again, again, again, again, again

Will those feet in modern times
Understand this world's affliction?
Recognize the righteous anger
Understand this world's addiction

I was blind couldn't see
What was here in me
I was blind, insecure
Felt like the road's way too long, yeah

Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again, again, again, again, again


Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that your feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again, again

Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles made in China?
Will those feet in modern times
See the bright prosaic malls?
Will those feet in modern times
Recognize every buddha?
Will those feet in modern times
Pardon me from my sins?
Love is noise

Verve 2008

'Love is Noise' is released in the Uk on 4th of August 2008
Taken from the Album 'Forth' to be released in the UK on 25th August 2008.

Interesting thing about these lyrics is either I've got the wrong Verve 'video' for this tune or everybody else is just plagiarizing the wrong lyrics. Because the ones that are out there do not tie in with the 'Single' release ...unless those lyrics are for an extended/Album mix?

Random Quote....

"I still believe in God , But God no longer believes in me"

Taken from the 'Intro' of the Track 'Wasteland by The Mission (UK) from the album God's Own Medicine

Placebo 'Soulmates' Lyrics

Soulmates

The sea's evaporated,
Though it comes as no surprise
These clouds we're seeing,
They're explosions in the sky
It seems it's written,
But we can't read between the line

Hush, it's okay, dry your eye
Dry your eye
Soulmate dry your eye
Dry your eye
Soulmate dry your eye,
Soulmates never die

~This one world vision turns us into compromise~
What good's religion when it's each other we despise?
Damn the government damn their killing, damn their lies
~It's okay~

Dry your eyes
Soulmate dry your eyes
Dry your eyes
Soulmate dry your eyes,
cos' soulmates never die

Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die


Never die


Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die

Placebo

This was a B side to the single 'This Picture'

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Life Solution

 = The solution to all your problems!

If only Life was a simple to use as a Mac....I wish!

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Part of your Soul ?

A longtime ago ..well all things are relative when you reach my age to be honest....
I went to the Walker Art Gallery ,at the time it was to see a particular painting D.G. Rossetti had done concerning Dante seeing Beatrice by chance in the street.

However what I have 'walked through the rest of my life with' (held to my soul so to speak) is a piece by George Fredrick Watts entitled Hope.

I have no idea why this painting should have such a 'hold' over me, but it does and that's that really. I stopped in my tracks when I saw it, it is only small compared to the other paintings in the room- and yet it called out to me ...my eyes could not turn away, I sat riveted soaking up the atmosphere of this simple but effective beyond belief work of art and yes it was burned into my soul from that day on.

The whole art of the the pre-Raphaelites with it's victorian melodrama (for surely that is how it fits in the scheme of things) is a strong pull for those searching for emotional escape from a reality that is found 'wanting' of love,desire and virtue.
At a tender age I embraced it as an alternative to a cruel world. I realize now that The symbolism movement is more based on reality and removes the sweet 'fantasy' of Ophelia to replace it with 'Harder' images that need to be drilled down into so that the reality you achieve is not what you first saw- 'reading the painting' is maybe how this could be described.

Anyway I digress Art is art but in my mind It's a desire to portray the world as you see it - and not for anybody else to question, for it is your vision.

Photosinferno.

Leonard Cohen 'Avalanche' Lyrics

Avalanche

I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul
when I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.


You strike my side by accident
as you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
is neither starved nor cold;
he does not ask for your company,
not at the centre, the centre of the world.


When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
for this ugly hump at which you stare.


You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they're the crumbs I've left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound.


I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you've gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.


Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
don't love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure,
it is your turn, beloved,
it is your flesh that I wear.

Taken from the Album 'Songs of Love and Hate' 1971 Leonard Cohen

"They locked up a man
Who wanted to rule the world
The fools
They locked up the wrong man"

The Dark Knight....Batman reborn?

Well I've seen 'The Dark Knight' and to be honest it is fantastic....dark, marauding, malevolent and true to the 'Spirit of The Dark Knight comic.
Christian Bale wavers a bit in the film but Batman does not- he reigns supreme over the chaos that is Gotham City.
Supporting the Chaos theory full throttle is Heath Ledger as the Joker (complete with nods to the Arkham Asylum comic character)

You could say it is a tale of two cities...
One that wants to be reborn via Batman...so the caped crusader can hang up his cape once and for all - though we all know Heroes do not retire they die.
The joker on the other hand wants chaos for chaos sake, and therefore to bring the City to it's knees - so that it may face upto what it really is rather than what it believes it is or could be.

This film really is that deep in the way it plays out it's strands of the story - yea there's denied love, hope, fights, action and big bangs. However the way it is all weaved together is like a comic book every scene tells a story of the characters portrayal through the cities eyes... and it is played out against the backdrop of Gotham beautifully.

Ultimately that is why it works, the principal and minor characters are fighting for the soul of Gotham.

Channel 4 review here
Official movie site here

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Keane 'Try Again' Lyrics

Try Again

I fell asleep on a late night train
I missed my stop and I went round again
Why would I want to see you now?
To fix it up, make it up somehow

Baby I'll try again, try again
Baby I die every night, every time

What I was isn't what I am
I'd change back but I don't know if I can

Still I'll try, try again, try again
Baby I die every night, every time

But I was made the way I am
I'm not a stone; I'm just a man
Lay down your arms and I will lay down mine
Rip back the time that we've been wasting

God I wish you could see me now
You'd pick me up and you'd sort me out

Still I'll try, try again, try again
Baby I die every night, every time



From the Album 'Under the Iron Sea'

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NIN (Nine Inch Nails) The Slip Available in Shops

The Physical manifestation of The Slip is now becoming available in the shops worldwide.

Further info here

250,000 copies of the CD/DVD edition will be made available worldwide each individually numbered.

Each includes :

CD : The Slip Album

DVD : 5 Videos

24 Page booklet

and exclusive sticker pack.

No mention if the Multitrack files of the song are included on the DVD for Logic/Garageband etc.

Though they can be downloaded individually as torrents from the NIN remix site

The Album can be pre-ordered in the UK from here

Old Thoughts.....(July 2007)

Found this amongst my 'kipple' just now.....Interesting insight to my mind at that time.
(What a difference a year makes in your attitude to life)

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I don't want anything from anyone anymore, I've had enough of being misunderstood - misinformed and ridiculed by people with an IQ about seven circles beneath me...

All I've known, All I understand, I've fought for.

I've kicked against the pricks to get to this.

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Photosinferno July 2007

Red Light Company 'Ship Song' Lyrics

Ship Song

Darling we should break out

And I would help you with the cinematic strip lights

They're all blinding you

You can have my flashlight

Wouldn't let the birds keep picking at your breadcrumbs

Darling we should break out, I would miss you

But you know I've got a problem, and it spreads

It's like speak another language you can hear me

But it's covered in my fortune

We were on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh noo ohh ohh

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)ohh ohh noo

Darling we should break out, I would miss you

But you know I've got a problem, and it spreads

It's like speak another language you can hear me

But it's covered in my fortune

We were on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh noo ohh ohh

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)ohh ohh no

We were on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh ohh ohh noo

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)noo ohh ohh

We we're on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh ohh noo

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)noo ahh ohh

Morrissey 'Years of Refusal' Album *Update

Updated entry on 'Years of Refusal'

Coldplay 'Free Track Download' Death Will Never Conquer

Coldplay are giving away a free track via their Website .

Have to say i'm not surprised it's free wouldn't make a C side never mind a B side ah well at least it's free. Even if it is rather 'Pooh'.
Shame it's not the track 'How you see the world' - not sure if this is a new track or if it's just now seen the light via the Coldplay widget?

Anyway enjoy :)

Hockenheim GP 2008 'Awards'

Driver of the Day

Lewis Hamilton for just showing the other teams eg: Ferrari and BMW why McLaren are never a force to be discounted.

The improvements McLaren brought to Silverstone (but never got to really show due to the weather) and therefore unleashed on the Hockenheim grid stunned the chasing pack and made a mockery of both Ferrari and BMW - which in BMW's case was embrassing because they were racing in Germany! (Ouch!)

Muppet of the Day

Well I only have to use one photograph to show the driver and the muppet on the track at the same time. Felipe Massa for 'letting' Lewis Hamilton pass him like he was a back marker, this I do not expect from a Ferrari driver and the 'Tifosi' will not be to happy about that.I know for one I wasn't , and questions are already being asked about the 'quality' of the Ferrari drivers over recent races. Sorry Massa but you get the Muppet award.

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Countdown - We Have a Hold.

We Have a Hold .....at T minus 16 days 4 hours and 5 minutes ...
....and Holding.

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One Million in 72 Hours.....

..As opposed to One Million in 2256 hours (94 days) In the case of V1.
So I think that will be classified as a success then.

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Fate

'Stay true to Destiny's Path,
Fate will then weave around you'.

Photosinferno -2008

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Dead Can Dance 'In Power we entrust the love advocated' lyrics

Sail on silver wings

Through this storm

what fortune love may bring

back to my arms again

The love

Of a former golden age

I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take.

For, now that wheels are turning,

I find my faith deserting me...

This night is filled with cries of

dispossesed children in search of Paradise.

A sign of unresolve that,

envisioned, drives the pinwheel on-and-on.

I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take.

When memory bears witness to

the innocence, consumed in dying rage!

The way lies through our love;

there can be no other means to the end,

Or keys to my heart...

you will never find.

You will never find

(DCD).

The costliest mistake.....

Found this on the 'Have your say' part of the BBC website.
I feel most people will be able to relate to a 'couple' of the observations on life.

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Iphone 3G....

Well I've seen one in the flesh (today) in the O2 shop.
I think it is a nicer phone overall to look at compared to the Iphone V1, the plastic back does not feel tacky at all very similar feel to the Macbook plastic in-fact.
It's supposed to be 'bigger' but it does not feel or look like that in the hand.

The thing that is most appealing (as a V1 user) is the 'Apps store' but to do this you need to update to the V2.0 SDK, which is not an option for me at the moment due to mine being 'non official' shall we say. So a bit of a wait there methinks.

The 16GB version which is the only one at this moment available in white ...gotta be 'Apple' white ..... black is just so not cool or Apple.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best Mobile phone on the market, you can talk specifications of camera's/ MMS (like how often do you use it ..really!!) / blah blah blah ....but Apple have put the all the bit's together and made a smartphone that the end user can pick up and use without having to read the manual- the one that comes with the Iphone V1 is 8 pages long and most of that is pictures.

For anybody with a mac it is the defacto choice in fact only choice .....everything else is 'just a mobile phone'

If you have a Pc (Spit) I think it works just as well but can't really comment as I'd never have one even if it was free..well I would but I'd sell it and put the money towards buying a new mac lol

Oh and to finish on a note:
What I suspected has come true. Inline with Apples 'Let's improve something but while we are doing that lets take something away' ...There's no Dock in the box This will cost you £19.00 as a separate item.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake

I can't believe they are remaking this film.

One of the definite 'Atomic age' films of the 50's.

Probably end up being like the hash that was 'The war of the worlds' remake, no substance no style.....and no hope - seeing as it's got the 'actor' Keanu Reeves in it...says it all really.
And a really simple plot incase anybody has to actually think during the movie.
God I'm depressed about this idea already...and it doesn't come out till December...
It's all going to go "Klaatu barada nikto.

Check out the original film trailer here

Triumph over Adversity ? (You decide)

When it seems everything is not going your way, always remember there are two types of person in this world

Those that act upon events, or those that let events act upon them.

Just a thought for today of all days.

Movie Quote Time....

"I am trapped in a world in which I just do not belong"

Taken from George Pal's 1960 version of 'The Time Machine' based on the novel by H.G.Wells

Red Light Company 'First We Land' Lyrics

First We Land

Obstructions in this mind
Subtract just to find that it multiplies
So I wanted this time reach out
I wanted to
You wanted to
Distractions and dressed eyes
So cover up in time just to realize
I wanted to this time be found
I wanted to

Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
Only works when we kiss
Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
Only works when we kiss

Distractions to get by
Something I need it's a friend of mine
I wanted to this time reach out
I wanted to
You wanted to

Dead brakes in the cold lights
In a mess and it's me that I can't still hide
I wanted to this time be found
I wanted to

Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
It only works when we kiss
Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
It only works when we kiss

Brett Anderson New Album 'Wilderness' released today

The Brett Anderson website has details on his new Album "Wilderness' released today.

Track listing is as follows:
1- A different place
2- The Empress
3- Clowns
4- Chinese Whispers
5- Blessed
6- funeral Mantra
7- Back to You
8- Knife Edge
9- P.Marius

The main textures used on this album are according to sources Vocals Piano and Cello (allegedly no guitars)....so me for one can't wait to hear it and sink into it's depths.

British GP 2008 'Awards'

Driver of the Day

Rubens Barrichello - for yet again showing his mastery of the silverstone circuit in the wet (2002 anybody?).
A roll of the dice and Rubens was off up to ten seconds faster than anybody on the track due to the gamble of 'extreme' wet tyres...he took the chance and drove supremely to third place and the podium, while those around (ahem Ferrari!!) fell over each other in the conditions.

Muppet of the day
Well though it pains me to say this ...it's gotta be the Ferrari team - a good day out lads - if your aim is to make numpty's of yourselves in front of a worldwide audience.....

NIN Remix 'Lights in the Sky' from the Album 'The Slip'

Well this is the 7th mix I've done of NIN tracks, and now I've started to stay within the logic environment. Having moved on from the 'limitations' of Garageband - though cool loops for GB !!

This mix is notable for the fact I cut up the lyrics and took out all ref to the Title of the track , and rewrote the vocals for a different emotional feel.

Also three tracks from the album 'The Slip' were used in the mix (999,999/Corona Radiata and of course Lights in the sky.

The enjoyable thing about this mix was (as Opposed to 'Head Down (White Noise)') It actually took less than three days for the mix to come together, I'm sure I could have chopped up a bit more -and i may revisit that in the future- but the track just organically grew in my head and on the computer and the 'mix' was the tweaking that took the time on the last day.

Anyway hope you like it ...let me know.

Patience....is a virtue...

...so they say anyway.

A great 'friend' of mine once said some years ago:
"I have a dictionary with the word 'Patience' in...I've crossed it out because I do not do Patience...."

The Sisters of Mercy 'Marian (Version)' Lyrics

Marian (Version)

In a sea of faces,in a sea of doubt
In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom
In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down
If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home.....

I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the wake
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the

Marian

Marian, there's a weight above me
And the pressure is all too strong
To breathe deep
Breathe long and hard
To take the water down and go to sleep
To sink still further
Beneath the fatal wave
Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me

I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the waves
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...

Was ich kann und was ich konnte (What I can do and what I could do)
Weiss ich gar nicht mehr (I just don't know anymore)
Gib mir wieder etwas schoenes (Give me something beautiful again)
Zieh mich aus dem meer (Drag me from the sea)
Ich hoere dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Kannst du mich schreien hoeren (Can you hear me calling?)
Ich bin hier allein (I am here alone)
Ich hoere dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Ohne deine hilfe verliere ich mich in diesem ort(Without your help I am lost
in this place)

I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the waves
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian......

What does it all Mean ?

"Is the definition of existence, conscious thought?

Example: I exist but the question is why do I exist?
And to what purpose is my existence?
(Discuss)

Further topics within the remit of this discussion:
Sentience The Ability to perceive or feel subjectively
Sapience Can be defined as wisdom in this discussion

Thoughts upon:
"I exist but what does it matter?
I'm Doing the best that I can..."

(With thanks to I.Curtis for the inspiration )

The Future..

"Everything comes to he who waits...."

Photosinferno.

Keane "On a Day like today" Lyrics

"On a day like today"

On a day like today
I looked at you and I
Saw something in the way
You stared into the sky
I saw you
Were sick and tired of my wrong turns
If you only knew
The way I feel
I'd really love to tell you but I,

Could never seem to say the things I needed to
On a day like today no other words would do

I saw you
Were sick and tired of my wrong turns
If you only knew
The way I feel
I'd really love to tell you but I,

Can never find the words to say and I don't know why
I can't find the words to say and I don't know why
I can't find the words to say and I don't know why
I can't find the words to say and I don't know why

And I don't know why....
And I don't know why....
And I don't Know why....

I saw you...
Were sick and tired of my wrong turns
If you only knew
The way I feel
I'd really love to tell you but I.....
Can never find the words to say
And I don't know why
I can't find the words to say
And I don't know why....

Morrissey "Life is a Pigsty" lyrics

Life is A Pigsty

It´s the same old S.O.S.
But with brand new broken fortunes
And once again I turn to you
Once again I do I turn to you

It´s the same old S.O.S.
But with brand new broken fortunes
I´m the same underneath
But this you, you surely knew

Life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
Life, life is a pigsty
Life, life is a pigsty
Life, life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty

And if you don´t know this
Then what do you know?
Every second of my life I only live for you
And you can shoot me
And you can throw me off a train
I still maintain
I still maintain

Life, life is a pigsty
Life is a pigsty
And I´d been shifting gears all along my life
But I´m still the same underneath
This you surely knew

I can´t reach you
I can´t reach you
I can´t reach you anymore
Can you please stop time?
Can you stop the pain?
I feel too cold
And now I feel too warm again

Can you stop this pain?
Can you stop this pain?
Even now in the final hour of my life
I´m falling in love again
Again

Even now in the final hour of my life
I´m falling in love again
Again
Again
Again

I´m falling in love again
Again
Again
Again

Morrissey.

French GP 2008 'Awards'

Driver of the Day
Jarno Trulli - for holding it all together to take a podium, through the thick and thin - in his case 'wet and dry track conditions' with Kovalainen crawling all over the back of his gearbox in the last few laps.

Muppet of the Day
Well yet again Lewis Hamilton has got to be the front runner for this , when you pass a car on the 'track' you pass a car on the track ...not via the chicane ...that's what I do on the Playstation!

NIN Remix Added 'Head Down (WhiteNoise)'

Eventually finished this mix - had to compress the heck out of it in the end!
Not 100% happy with it , but had to let it go at some point.

NIN "Something I can Never Have" Lyrics

Sometimes we all think what would have happened if we had made different decision on 'life's journey' ...what would have happened? - would we still recognize the person we are now ...would we more importantly recognize that person we had become ?

At the core of us all, are our fears..and our hopes (Album title in there somewhere methinks)

I can remember a 'single' point in my existence when I decided on this journey I have taken ...and for that I am relieved... That at that moment 'I was strong enough' to realize that destiny had took me in her arms.


'Something I Can Never Have'

I still recall
The taste of your tears
Echoing your voice
Just like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you
Still wash ashore
Scraping through my head
'Till I don't want to sleep anymore

You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And I'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go away
You make this all go away

I just want something
I just want something
I can never have


You always were the one
To show me how
Back then
I couldn't do the things
That I can do now
This thing
Is slowly taking me apart
Grey would be the colour
If I had a heart

Come on tell me
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And I'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go away
You make this all go away

I just want something
I just want something
I can never have


In this place
It seems like such a shame
Though it all looks different now,
I know it's still the same
Everywhere I look
You're all I see
Just a fading fucking reminder
Of who I used to be

Come on tell me
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And I'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go away
You make it all go away

I just want something
I just want something
I can never have
I just want something
I can never have


Trent Reznor

The DEFINITIVE Iphone killer is released...

Existence but what does it Matter?

'Existence but what does it matter' ? - that's a quote in my head but not sure at this moment who said it ....

Everything that is 'deemed reality' is but sensations brought to you by your senses:
Touch/Smell/Hear/Vision.
But what if 'reality is inside your head' (another quote there I think) - what if that is the true reality of life?
After all is not how we react to life/people/ situations etc ...represented by how we deal' with these events within our 'consciousness' ?

Human psyche deals in basic needs as a 'pyramid'
(see "Maslow" Diagram above)

If however and this is just a thought while I write this - what happens if you do not complete all the steps in 'order' - can this be done? - I'm not sure and does this have an effect upon how you view life within your 'own reality' ?
Can it be done? ...or do you end up with a 'personal reality' based upon a false 'achievement' of that particular 'step'?

Coldplay 42 Lyrics

42

Those who are dead are not dead
They're just living in my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
Oh...

Time is so short and I'm sure
There must be something more

Those who are dead are not dead
They're just living in my head oh…And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
Oh…

Time is so short and I'm sure
There must be something more

Oooh....
(Instrumental Break)

You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to heaven but you made it close
You didn't get to heaven but you made it close

You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to heaven but you made it close
You didn't get to heaven but you
Oh oh
Oh oh…
Those who are dead are not dead
They're just living in my head
Oh...

Coldplay BBC Live Gig 18/06/08

Well I watched this live, after after being a bit disappointed with the sound quality to begin with -picture was cool because I was watching it on BBC HD - the sound and the band warmed up.

Was only on for 45mins but was a nice 'event' - if a bit middle class I thought.

contrary to the track listing posted by the BBC - Life in Technicolour was not transmitted , infact the gig was cut to just as the last bars of the song faded out, so you had to be there to hear that one I'm afraid.

The track listing actually transmitted is as follows:

Violet hill
Clocks
In my place
Viva la vida
42
Trouble
Lost!
Yellow
Fix you
Lovers in Japan

Stand out track - Lost!
Shouldn't have bothered track - Yellow

......'Maybe talk and not just speak'.

James Blunt - Same Mistake

So while I'm turning in my sheets
And once again, I cannot sleep
Walk out the door and up the street
Look at the stars beneath my feet
Remember rights that I did wrong
So here I go

Hello, hello

There is no place I cannot go
My mind is muddy but
My heart is heavy, does it show
I lose the track that loses me
So here I go

oo oooooo ooo ooo oo oooo...

And so I sent some men to fight,
And one came back at dead of night,
said "He'd seen my enemy"
said "he looked just like me"
So I set out to cut myself
And here I go

oo oooooo ooo ooo oo oooo...

I'm not calling for a second chance,
I'm screaming at the top of my voice,
Give me reason, but don't give me choice,
Cos I'll just make the same mistake again,

oo oooooo ooo ooo oo oooo...

And maybe someday we will meet
And maybe talk and not just speak
Don't buy the promises 'cause
There are no promises I keep,
and my reflection troubles me
so here I go

oo oooooo ooo ooo oo oooo...

I'm not calling for a second chance,
I'm screaming at the top of my voice,
Give me reason, but don't give me choice,
Cos I'll just make the same mistake (REPEAT) again

oo oooooo ooo ooo oo oooo...

So while I'm turning in my sheets

And once again, I cannot sleep

Walk out the door and up the street

Look at the stars

Look at the stars, fall down,

And I wonder where, did I go wrong.

Nothing Anymore.

"I'm so scared about the future. and I wanna to talk to you...oh I wanna talk to you"

Talk-Coldplay

Future Keyboard Designs

In the Latest issue of MacLife some really luscious pictures are inside of 'Optimus tactus Keyboard'

The Keyboard is OLED backlit , and what this means to us the end user is , that as each app you launch on your computer is brought to the front - eg you click on the screen to bring mail to the front - the keyboard then changes the keys so that mail commands are selected, eg: short cuts for forwarding mail adding attachments etc.

Then you then decide you want to edit some photos in photoshop - and voila the keyboard displays the commands and shortcuts for Photoshop.

The down side is the price - rumored to be in the range of $2000.

Ah well innovation coupled with style never comes cheap!

Backing up SMS/Text on the Iphone to your Mac Computer

Micromat have available as a beta release Syphone which enables you to back up your SMS/txt msgs from your Iphone to your computer as individual 'conversations'

Now this release has a 'couple' of problems :
1 - It crashes like no-ones business - and it's a pain to resurrect it from the 'dead'.
2 - If any of your incoming text msgs from the 'conversation' recipient have the country code eg+44 in-front it will strip them out of the conversation you pick to export, and then you end up with two 'separate conversations' even though on the Iphone they can be seen as 'one' complete 'normal conversation' - if you don't know what I mean you'll see when you try and download a 'conversation' - if you don't see it -you've not got the country code problem so that's cool :)


Now onto the 'crashing problem' in the forum on the Micromat site there is a lengthy explanation of how to resolve this issue - and it is a tad confusing and a bit 'gulp' like in it's detail tbh.
Well these two steps have worked for me :

Go into the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Syphone and delete the file named “SMSDaemon”.
Go into ~/Library/Preferences/ and delete the file named 'com.micromat.Syphone.plist'.
(~ is short for User Name)

Also I have not actually 'installed the app into my applications folder - I just run it off the DMG image - if you do install it your third step should be to delete it and re download it - so hence why I run it off the DMG image - easier and saves on bandwidth.

The Syphone App is free , However if you want a supported app for $40 try here: The Missing Sync for Iphone

Or this Donationware app MobileSyncBrowser which will cost you a 'beer or a meal' according to the developer.

Let me know how you get on :)

Boy A - Film UK

I watched this film last night on TV (4 on demand service).
An excellent drama and gripping at all the right moments , even though you knew what was going to happen quite early on in the story - well I did - It holds you and the acting is superb.

Throughly recommended to anyone who likes a 'real life' story.

Trailer QT

Mac OSX 'Snow Leopard' - No G3/4/5 chipset support?

Well as the dust settles from the WWDC 2008 the major story to emerge (after the iphone 3G I suppose) is 'Snow Leopard'

This operating system - no confirmed release date as yet (about a year has been mentioned) - will run only on Intel Chipsets So G3/G4/G5 users (aka me!) are eventually 'discarded'.

It was to be expected it has to be said , as these machines are getting a tad long in the tooth - and carbonising the OS all the time is probably getting harder, ah well that excuse for a new 'system' is getting stronger lol

On a serious note though - this is going to make alot of people very annoyed!!

Digit news story on this.

Macworld WWDC 2008 Live coverage

Macrumours will be covering the event. (link above)

Shame apple are not doing a 'live QT  stream' considering the amount of hype that this event has generated in the last few months.

The event starts 10:00PDT - which is 18:00 UK time.

Shame I'll be at work when it all kicks off !

The Canadian GP 2008 'Awards'

Driver of the Day
Robert Kubica - For not only his maiden GP win - but by doing it while everybody else was suffering from 'Montreal Madness' and losing their cool and the plot (see next award for example)

Muppet of the Day
Lewis Hamilton - for not listening to his driving instructor when traffic lights were explained to him!

Everything and nothing

Having a strange day today ...Thinking about in no particular order:

Iphone 3G

Coldplay new album - do I like it?

Morrissey - repetitive play of 'My Dearest Love'

F1 - Canadian GP - so so so annoyed I can't watch it live tonight due to work ...so I'll be up till 03:00am watching the recording.

The Future (and as Morrissey once said 'How soon is now and when exactly do you mean'?)

Am I hungry?

Did I get enough sleep ?

Responsibility.

Heroes Season 1 will I ever catch up ?

Is there enough culture in my life or am I just a fake intellectual ?


Apart from that not done alot today really.

Morrissey 'My Dearest Love' Lyrics

My Dearest Love

These tears I'm wailing
I spill not without reason
Remove them


My Dearest Love
Myyyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiiiiiii

Take me to the place I've been dreaming of
Where the grotesquely lonely meet grotesquely lonely and they whisper
Just very softly
Please be mine dearest love
Be mine dearest love
Be my dearest love
Be my dearest love

I have hung on hung on hung on
For one hundred years
For someone to shake me someone to wake me
If necessary someone to break me

My dearest love
My dearest love
My dearest love

My dearest love
My dearest love
My dearest love

On the night you went away.

Sometimes life 'swipes' you sideways - with a feeling you are not expecting- just had one of those tonight. Makes you realise sometimes that what comes out of your mouth is not only - not the truth to other people but maybe more surprisingly - not the truth to yourself.

Maybe this life does change your perceptions of what you once thought was 'intrinsic' to 'YOU' as you walk down the road of 'development experience' ?

Feeder 'Silent Cry' Lyrics

Silent Cry

Silence the cry stepping back further
Escape from the mind , my mind
Twisting inside looking for shelter
Find the divide in me

Oh my god what have I done , one step now the damage is done

It's silent without you
It burns through each and everyday
it takes my breathe away
So lonely without you there's no view
Colours just fade to grey
It takes my breathe away

I was so blind I should have seen it
Noticed the life my Life
I had to climb stepping up further
To find the divide in me

Oh my god what have I done , one step now the damage is done.

It's silent without you
It burns through each and everyday
It takes my breathe away
So lonely without you there's no view
Colours just fade to grey

It takes my breathe away


They all say much of us
But then you always knew
Just want to live our lives
We know your trying to
We put our faith in you
(incomprehensible)
To find new ways to care
Until this story ends

It takes my breathe away
It's silent without you
It burns through each and everyday
It takes my breathe away

oooohhh

It takes my Breathe away

BBC IPlayer Download content on Mac OSX

Well as some of you will have noticed, alot has been said about the BBC IPlayer (well here in the UK anyway!).

Well if your a Mac user - (and lets face it if your not - your a lost soul) you cannot download the content off BBC IPlayer for watching at a later date , you have to watch it 'live' streaming on your 'puter.

Well not anymore! With the aid of IPlayer Downloader you can download it to your Mac by inserting the URL of the program you have chosen off IPlayer to watch , and voila! it downloads the program to the destination of your choice - say desktop and you can then open the program in QT (Quicktime).
It can then be transfered to IPod/ Iphone or even Disc.
Oh and it's DRM free so it stays on 'puter for as long as you want it to. So none of this after 30 days or-whatever it is you can't play the file due DRM issues.

So pretty cool eh!

Morrissey new album 'Years of Refusal'

'True to You' have released information in regard to Morrissey's new Album entitled : 'Years of Refusal'.

It's slated for a 9th of September 2008 (UK) release and reported so far to be 12 tracks.

A Sort of partial track listing can be obtained :

'That's how people grow up'
'All you need is me'
'Something is squeezing my skull'
'I'm throwing my arms around paris'
'One day goodbye will be farewell'
'Mama lay softly on the riverbed' -Played at the O2 Wireless festival -4/07/08


Produced by Jerry Finn who helmed Production and Mixing on 'You are the Quarry'

Personally I thought the production on 'Ringleader of the Tormentors' was far more grandiose than the repetitive formulaic approach for 'You are the Quarry' - Maybe Tony Visconti was otherwise engaged.

Album can be pre-ordered here

Morrissey 'All You need is me' - New Single release.

This single was originally slated for a release date of 19th of May , but was delayed (no idea why)

It's available on 2 formats in 3 different 'guises'

1 CD Single
a All you need is me
b Children in Pieces - New Track

2 7'' *1
a All you need is me
b My Dearest love - New Track

3 7'' *2
a All you need is me
b Drive in Saturday ( Live at Orpheum Theatre Omaha Nebraska, 11th May 2007)

Now for the Morrissey concious of you - like me - the first thing you notice is if you don't get your hands on the 7''*1 you can't get hold of the Track 'My Dearest Love', so fingers crossed that when Itunes (UK) updates on Tuesday (3rd June) all tracks become available in a digital format.

Oh and btw the Single is only available for one week.

*update* Looks like Decca are not making this single available on Itunes (UK) - in relation to the b-Sides, so i'm a tad disappointed and annoyed about that to say the least!