Well.. It has been a long time since I have written anything here hasn't it? And I would love to write something here of some importance or substance. But I actually don't have much to say.

School has been going as you'd expect. Not very exiting, yet keeping me busy enough to stop me from doing a lot of things that do (like lazy days on the couch watching poor day time TV and Seinfeld DVDs).

Fairyfloss is sounding good again, and we have our fans back. Makes me very happy, because my fragile ego was starting to feel quite unwanted and useless. Shine is coming up soon, so I can't wait for that. Should be awesome.

Um... I dunno... I'm sure there is more news... But I can't think of any now...

Anyhoo
Peace

Well, the holidays are almost over. One more day. And so with a heavy heart, I wish goodbye to the wonderful 8 weeks that have just passed. While it may not always have been great, it did have its down moments, the general mood of the 8 weeks was damn good.
I had heaps of time to just relax, see friends, watch cricket, Seinfeld, play guitar and just do whatever my mood took me. But now it ends, I have to be at places at places I don’t want to be when I don’t want to be there, I have to do work I don’t want to do, and when I do things I actually want to do I will be constantly feeling guilty because I know that I should be doing work that I haven’t done.
But, surly it’s not all down from here. Surly there are positive things to look forward to this year. In fact, according to my pattern this year should be a good year. So what are these good things? What do I have to look forward to this year? Those are very interesting questions, and as it just so happens, I prepared a list!

Kool Skool – This is always a highlight, for 3 years now I have been involved and it just keeps getting better (except for the stupid awards night last year where Notre got royally screwed). So hopefully this year I will be as involved as I was last year (anyone that wants me to play for them, I will be happy to).

Production – Again, always a highlight. Guaranteed to create unnaturally high levels of stress, but always gives you many fantastic memories. A great way to just get together with people and have really fun days in the middle of winter. This year should be even better as we have suddenly become senior students. It only feels like yesterday that I was the really young guitarist way out of my depth in my first production. I didn’t know anyone involved, they were all older than me and I didn’t understand anything going on. But now we are the ones with parts, we are the ones who know what’s going on and can recite word for word Murphy’s post dress rehearsal speech. I can feel it being a good year for production too.

Sports Days – While I don’t really like sport that much, these days are always good; Particually swimming. Remember the past couple of swimming carnivals where we were just sitting around, in the shade, playing guitars, listening to iPods, talking shit. These were great days. And this year I hope is no different.

Change – Normally change is my mortal enemy, but this year I can feel us getting along.

Weekends – While after eight weeks of non-stop holidays you may scoff at the idea of a pitiful 2 day break ( I know I do), once we get back to school these days seem to become more and more valuable. Much can be done on these beautiful two days, and I am looking forward to what can be achieved on these wonderful days.

Gigs – And there are some good ones coming up! Live at the pool, Shine festival, Push Start finals and there are bound to be more!

Everyday – While there are bound to be very, very, very shit days. And there are bound to be a lot of them, there is also a chance that everyday could turn out not to be one of those days, in fact they might be really, really good. So why not look forward to everyday, it may just be one of the good ones.

Federal Election – So, I may be the only one who really cares about this, but I have a good feeling about this one! Rudd definitely inspires a certain sense of optimism. Something I think our country needs. But who knows, but whatever happens it will be interesting.

Parties – Yes, I can feel quite a lot of them happening this year! And who knows, I may actually have a good time at one.

New Music – A new year, a new soundtrack. What music will be the soundtrack to my 2007? Who knows, we will just have to wait and see.

Summer Holidays – And if all else fails, they are only 10 months away.

Happy New Year! It’s been quite a while since I have written a blog like this, so I figured I should update all who are interested now that it the 2007.

It has been holidays for quite a while now, as I’m sure most of you have doubtlessly noticed. I haven’t really done anything these Holidays, which is quite disappointing considering how I had many a plan.

First thing of interest to happen to me was I Can’t Believe It’s Not Man-Bat’s first rehearsal/jam. Vito, Beksy, Simon and I got together to have a jam and created some very cool noises. There was actually one jam that ended up creating a very cool and not at all funny riff/song. Beksy’s had was actually bleeding all over the drum kit at the end of the song. Aren’t we so hardcore?

Things were very quiet after that, there were mutterings of an old Fairyfloss (As in Beksy and Rohan) jam, but that looks highly unlikely because from what I can tell, not much has changed between us in a year.

Christmas day was spent at my Nan’s house in Mooroopna. All of mum’s family was there. Quite a good day, spent most of the day shooting pool and talking shit with my cousin who just got back from his 3 month pub crawl across Europe. It was great to catch up with him again.

And now for the past week I have been in Canberra with my dad’s family. It wasn’t a bad week, not as bad as it could have been. They allowed me to just float at my own holiday rhythm while I was there, so that was good.

I got back to Shepparton yesterday, just in time for Pete’s New Years gathering. Which was a great night, so thanks heaps for that one Pete. Stayed the night, and hung around most of today there as well. It was really good.

As for the rest of the holidays; I would like to have the Rider reunion that we have been talking up for a while, so let’s hope that it happens. I would also like to have some more jams with Man-Bat.

Apparently the Kiwi’s are having a party, so I will probably be going to that.

I am also having a joint B’Day party with Josh. So that should be awesome. The date has finally been set for the 27^th of January, it is the day after Darvo is having his party apparently, so I’m not to happy about the timing, but it’s all we had. If all the members are available (which they damn well better be!) The Shadow Puppets, Fairyfloss, Man-Bat (Maybe) and Fluro (Maybe!) will be playing at the party too. There will be no alcohol (the only way we can have it), but we can make up for that with a pool and bands.

Not much else to report here, enjoy the rest of your holidays.

Peace Out

There has been much talk recently on the ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign. And I thought I should share some thoughts I have been having on this issue recently.

First, what is happening in many parts of the world is a gross injustice, and I doubt that anyone would argue that something needs to be done to stop it. In fact I think most people want to do something to bring justice to the world and lift these people who are living in extreme poverty out of it. The same could have been said 20 years ago when Live Aid was held though, and 20 years later we are still beating out the same message, why?

Despite all of the talk and effort nothing has really changed. Still a child dies every 3 seconds of causes that are entirely preventable. We all agree that this is wrong yet nothing drastic happens. We hold mass protest concerts, yet it still doesn’t kick start a Government into action.

My answer is that we are perhaps all too relaxed and comfortable, perhaps we all do want this to change but not as much as we want a new phone, a bigger home, a bigger TV, a faster computer. Maybe this is something we all want, but maybe it’s just not on the top of our priority list.

I think governments know this, I think that they work to this. They know that your vote (if you can vote) is more likely to be swayed by interest rates then what they are promising to give to making poverty history. I think that we need to make this more of a mainstream issue, it needs to become a political issue; something that politicians know will change people’s votes. As John Lennon once said: “If everyone demanded peace instead of a new television, then there’d be peace”.

How can we do this? I don’t know… We could hold protests, we could write letters, but these have been done. What could we do to force action on this issue more then what we have already done? This is a question that we need to answer somehow if we want this issue to be treated as seriously as it should be.

Hello again … I have decided to post a blog of song lines again because I’m just in the mood to post a thoughtful blog, and there are a lot of lyrics that I like to get through.
This, Part II of my lyrics series has the lyrics that just missed out or were (I don’t know how) forgotten about in Part I. Again they focus on the moments between the moments, those tiny moments in time that just capture exactly how you felt right then, in that fleeting second, like photos that capture an image of a fleeting moment, lyrics can do just the same.
Lyrics never cease to amaze me in the way that they are so universal, they touch everyone in so many ways. The same line or even entire song can mean so many different things to so many people. It is this power that I think gives lyrics so much importance. Lyrics make music, which is generally such a distant and big thing, so personal. And that is what makes it so wonderful, so elegant and so inclusive; it is such a personal thing. No one can take what lyrics give you away from you. It is your own thing to hold close, it is no one else’s, yet at the same time it belongs to everyone. What else can do that?
Music is a wonderful thing, nothing is so universal but so personal as music. It brings people together even when they don’t realize it.
When writing out this list, I found it very hard not to comment on each lyric; justify why I liked it so much, what it means to me and why it touched me. There is still part of me that wants to put a comment next to every lyric, but I feel it’s best I don’t. You will probably get something different from these lyrics then I do, in fact I’m sure you will. You can read each lyric and take from it what you want to; they are yours as much as they are mine. Most lines here will probably mean nothing to you, but there might be one here that changes your life. I hope you enjoy these little snapshots of emotional terrain that I have been in at one time or another and hope you find just a fraction of the beauty I find in them.

If I told you a secret
You won't tell a soul
Will you hold it and
Keep it alive
Love Will Come Through – Travis

I’m not saying it’s your fault
Although you could have done more
Naive – The Kooks

We shared some information
We might not recover from
Will I watch your convictions
Melt like ice cubes in an ocean?
Mine’s Not A High Horse – The Shins

Some are like water
Some are like the heat
Some are the melody
Some are the beat
Forever Young – Alphavile

Well it's not like it hurts that much anyway
Attention – The Academy Is…

You said you read me like a book
But the pages are all torn and frayed
I’m Not Okay (I Promise) – My Chemical Romance

I’m a headcase if I don’t keep moving
And my head hurts if I don’t sit still
It’s an itch that I’ll never stop scratching
It’s a hole that I’ll never quite fill
Insomnia – Electric President

We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found? The same old fears
How I wish you were here
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

It’s no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help
The Fly – U2

But you've got too much to wear on your sleeves
It has too much to do with me
And secretly I want bury in the yard
The grey remains of a friendship scarred
Kissing The Lipless – The Shins

There exists a melody that just might change your mind
I Saw It On Your Keyboard - Hellogoodbye

And the bright-eyed choke on ambition
Insomnia – Electric President

Tender is my heart you know
I'm screwing up my life
Oh Lord I need to find
Someone who can heal my mind
Tender – Blur

On my life I'll try today
There’s so much I've felt I should say, but
Even if your heart would listen
I doubt I could explain
If you don't don't know, why'd you say so?
Would you mean this, please if it happens?
If you don’t know, Why would you say so?
Won’t you get your story straight
If You Don’t, Don’t – Jimmy Eat World

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way
Secret Meeting – The National

You’ll change your mind come Monday
And turn your back on me
Cautioners – Jimmy Eat World

‘Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
Let Go – Frou Frou

You're hiding from me now
There's something in the way that you're talking
The words don't sound right
But I hear them all moving inside you
Fall At Your Feet – Crowded House

I was the first to have spoken
And I said just about
All of the things you shouldn't say
So maybe you loved me but now
Maybe you don't
And maybe you'll call me
Maybe you won't
You Were The Last High – The Dandy Warholes

So what's so wrong?
Why the face so long?
Are you changing?
And where you been to that you no longer remember?
Luv – Travis

Just finished work... fun

Listening to Coldplay... melencholy

Typing a blog... pointless

Talking to people... depressing

Looking at Family First's website... very depressing

 

AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR FIELDING

 

Dear Mr. 1.8%,

Fuck off!

Regards,

Reasonable people everywhere

 

I have very little to say... Just posting because I need attention...

Peace Out!

I just realized that I haven’t posted anything on the state election yet. Quite surprising considering how much people love reading my pointless political rants.

Things that I learned from the 2006 Victorian state elections:

·          When a centre-left party (ALP) preferences a conservative right party (Fundamentalist Family First) ahead of a progressive left party (Greens) the world is now over and we may as well all pack up and go home.

·          The ALP scare campaign that dragged in Peter Garret (Who is now dead to me) against the Greens (based on complete lies and willing ignorance) worked! Kinda. The Greens vote didn’t go up, however instead of being driven back to the ALP (like they wanted) they were driven to Fundamentalist First, a fantastic result for a supposedly progressive party. Thank you ALP, you drove up the Conservative Christian Fundamentalist Party’s vote and dragged down the progressive left’s. And now the ALP drifts further to the right.

·          The Herald Sun is not worthy of your arse.

·          The Country Alliance is comedy gold. This was the add they were running that outlined why the Greens are so BAD!: The Greens will "extend the prohibition on high country cattle grazing"; "end industrial scale logging of old growth and mixed age forests"; "introduce an inheritance tax"; "end recreational hunting". Maybe I’m just a confused hippie, but how the hell are any of these things bad?

·          The ALP won, which I guess is the better result, but when you have a choice between 2 conservative parties, what’s the point? The Liberals actually had more progressive policies in many areas. Shame it would never happen even if they had won.

·          No change in Shepparton (my sincere condolences Steve, 2 horse race, you were the better choice)

·          Overall, the Greens have a long road to the Federal election and it starts now. Better get your arse into gear guys if you want to knock Family First off then. And you do because they are nut jobs!

Well, I am one happy young lad at the moment. Yesterday I saw U2!

At 8.00 yesterday Flav, Josh and I left from Shepparton and started the drive to Melbourne. We arrived at the Telstra Dome at about 10.30, we bought the newspapers, a magazine and then jumped in the line. We were in the 2nd section of the line and half way though the day we were told that we would be in the front section of the floor. So that made us very happy. After lying in the sun for 4 hours in our newspaper hats we checked our bags and started to get ready for the line to move. We could hear U2 sound checking and could even kinda see them, so we were getting more and more exited. The Edge sounded amazing, really huge guitar sounds. The band played One Tree Hill in sound check, and that sounded amazing, but unfortunately wasn’t played in the concert.

U2 finished their soundcheck at about 6 and the gates opened very soon after. It was quite hectic getting in, but we got a really great place right next to one of the B stages our in the crowd and we had a really great view of the main stage as well. When we walked in the excitement really hit just seeing the enormity of the stage. It just towered over all of us and looked amazing. We sat down and looked after our spot while we waited for the opening act, Kanye West, to come on. He eventually did, he wasn’t amazing and every song sounded the same, but we danced out of politeness, but all we really cared about was U2. I do give him credit though, he performed very well, and his string section was amazing.

But once he walked off, the crowed began to liven up waiting for the main act, the stage began to be set up for U2, The Edges effect cabinet is about the size of our car. It is huge!

Then, the big moment arrived, ‘Wake Up’ by The Arcade Fire began to play, signalling to those in the know that U2 were about to take the stage. As a point of interest, download that song, it is incredible. Anyway, the lights then went down, and the opening sequence began, The Edge was the first to hit the stage, then Larry and Adam. They were playing ‘City of Blinding Lights’, it was sounding huge, and the dim lighting and fog added to the anticipation. Then the song took off and the huge light curtain sprung into life. Bono took the stage and the crowd went quite nuts (I was already going nuts because The Edge was there). The lighting looked amazing. After COBL, Vertigo took off, more great lighting, The Edge’s guitar sounded great, and Adam Clayton looked particularly cool during this song, but he looked cool all night. ‘Elevation’ and ‘I Will Follow’ finished the opening section of newer loud songs.

They then played ‘New Years Day’ which was awesome, followed by ‘Beautiful Day’, in which Bono announced “A few months ago, at Live 8, we were standing on stage with Paul McCartney…… Paul McFuckingCartney!” Who knew that Bono still gets start struck.

After a solid version of ‘Stuck in a Moment’, the band played ‘Angel of Harlem’, this is where we got our first trip down to the B Stage by The Edge and then Bono followed him. They were so close; we could almost touch them. Bono stayed on the B Stage for a really great version of ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own’, very touching. The stage looked great as well, some really nice vision on the light curtains.

Then they rocked out again with ‘Love and Peace or Else’, which was amazing… the guitar solo at the end was awesome and Bono and Larry on drums was very cool, then ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’ completed the angry protest section. Then they played ‘Miss Sarajevo’ to bring it down to a more reflective look at war, this was amazing, but when Bono say the opera section, originally sang by Pavarotti, the thing just took off. Bono was amazing in this song.

‘Pride’ was as solid and the guitar was really cool, but the crowd took off when they played ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’, so much energy in the performance the crowd couldn’t help but to respond, so much energy in the crowd the band took it to the next level, it really was a great moment where the band and the crowd were just feeding off each other. At the end of it you could actually see Bono blown away, the crowed wouldn’t stop cheering, and he was standing right in front of us when he just jumped in the air and pumped his fist. He then stood still looked around the crowd and told us ‘Melbourne’s crazy’. They then closed the main set with ‘One’, it was a really great version and Bono got everyone to pull out their mobile phones and light up the stadium, it did look amazing.

The band walked off the stage and the crowd started singing the refrain from ‘40’ “How long must we sing this song”… The light screen then started flashing stuff from ‘Zoo TV’ which was really cool. Then the band took the stage again for the first encore where they played a couple of songs from Achtung Baby; ‘The Fly and Mysterious Ways… Oh, they were so cool! Particularly Mysterious Ways, very fun. They closed the first encore with ‘With or Without You’, it was beautiful, particularly the last section, the whole crowd was screaming and it just was amazing.

They walked of stage again, then the chant of ‘We want more’ was started (by me), and we got more. 2nd encore opened with ‘The Saints Are Coming’ and ‘Desire’, Saints was good, but Desire seemed quite weak to me, but still good obviously. They then closed with ‘Kite’, probably the best moment of the night. It was a really beautiful performance, when the guitar solo started I did get chills, then when Bono backed by the whole crowd belted out the Bridge: “I’m a man/not a child/a man who sees/the shadow behind your eyes”… Words do not describe that moment. Then as Edge soloed again Bono let a kite go and as we watched it fly off into the night they finished the song off to huge cheers as they band came to the front of the stage to take the final bow, “Goodnight Melbourne….. Now go to bed”, said Bono as they walked of the stage and the house lights came up.

It was an amazing night, and I really couldn’t have hoped for anything more (except for perhaps a version of ‘Walk On’). To make the night even better, I think it was being filmed because of the presence of a crane camera over the crowd and my thoughts were confirmed by u2tours.com. So I could have a really great souvenir of that gig.

I have also added a bunch of low quality photos I took with my phone, see how close we are!

Well… Not much to say today… Just felt that I should blog.. maybe it’s time for some more questions… maybe that random, anonymous commenter could ask a question. A good idea would we “What happened to my brain?” or “What would life be like if I could process thought?”… but these are nearly suggestions… Come up with your own… Mr/Ms “…”, if you can.

As for the rest of you… anything you want to ask me… now is the time.

I wish I had something to say, but I really don’t. Well nothing new anyway. Life’s a bitch, this is true, but I think I’ve said that a few too many times already.

Peace out

For quite a while now I have been keeping a list of song lyrics that I like. These lyrics make the list because they have touched me in one way or another. I am not normally a lyric person, I prefer much more to listen to the music, but sometimes a single line in the song can mean so much to me. I find that lyrics work best when they catch a small moment, songs that tell stories don’t do it for me. Songs that catch that small moment, just an emotion or thought at one point in time are the best, which is why I think this list is good. As Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie said of his songs ‘They are about the moments between the moments’. So these are just single lines or verses that catch a mood, thought or emotion, often in the moment between the moments. I hope you get something out of this list of lyrics. There are only a few of them, because the whole list is huge, it grew much quicker and larger then I expected it to.
Please enjoy, if you have anything you want to know about them, just ask me, but I think most speak for themselves.

So brown eyes, I'll hold you near,
'Cause you're thee only song I want to hear.
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere.
Soul Meets Body – Death Cab For Cutie

So you lost your trust
And you never should have
See You Soon – Coldplay

There's blood in my mouth 'cause I've been biting my tongue all week
I keep on talkin' trash but I never say anything
And the talkin' leads to touchin'
And the touchin' leads to sex
And then there is no mystery left
Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley

Did you want me to change?
Well I changed for good
And I want you to know that you'll always get your way
Shiver – Coldplay

So this is the New Year
And I have no resolutions
For self assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions
New Year – Death Cab For Cutie

I'm losing you and it’s effortless
Over My Head – The Fray

Leave your things behind
Cause it's all going off without you
Must Be Dreaming – Frou Frou

If this is how I feel
Then nothing now is true
Nothing now can ever be taken away from you
Sinking in the past
Things that shouldn't last
Just put to bed and stand beside me, stand beside me
So Alive – Ryan Adams

Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Love Is Blindness – U2 (But check out the Sixpence None The Richer cover)

Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea
Easy/Lucky/Free – Bright Eyes

We're cut adrift
But still floating
I'm only hanging on
To watch you go down,
My love
So Cruel – U2

And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout I'll only hear you
Stay (Faraway, So Close) – U2

You're dangerous 'cause you're honest
You're dangerous, you don't know what you want
Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot
For any spirit to haunt
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses – U2

To the deepest part of the human heart
The fear of death expands
Until we crack the code we have always known
But could never understand
Arc Of Time – Bright Eyes

Do You Realize? That everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize – The Flaming Lips

Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself?
Letterbomb – Green Day

I’ve got a heart full of ruber bands
That keep getting caught on things
Another White Dash – Butterfly Boucher

Wait, But I won’t say that I’m sorry
Watch, as I burn my bridges down
No Room to Bleed – Ben Lee

Ya’ll don’t know what it’s like
Being male middle class and white
Rockin’ the Suburbs – Ben Folds

Love is just a lazy generalization
Used for a hundred different feelings
In as many situations
Happiness Is Just a Chemical - Darren Hanlon

You don’t need to find answers
For questions never asked of you
Two More Years – Bloc Party

Wasn’t I cool?
Kites – Grimace

I built you a home in my heart
From rotten wood; it decayed from the start
Crooked Teeth – Death Cab For Cutie

More of the same today
But I will turn the other way
Cause I don’t wanna blow my chances
Still each day I watch the clock
You’re just one big writers block
Can’t think straight ‘till I know the answers
Little Miss 21st Century – Ryan Meeking

Hello people… How are we all going?

Some Fairyfloss news first up. We had our first band practice in ages yesterday. We learnt one new song that is sounding really cool; hope to refine it a bit more next week. We also jammed on one of James’ songs and also came up with a Hip-Hop song that we wish to get to the masses one day, shit it was cool.

In other news I started at Coles today *raises fist in ironic triumph*, I have only worked 3 hours there but I hate the place already.

School… What to say about that place? I really don’t know. Not a cool place, really!

Um… news… I can’t think of anything else I really want to post. I am thinking of posting a blog of song lines that I like… But I still don’t have enough to justify a blog yet, so maybe next time.

Peace out

Well… Today while I was at my job interview for Sanity (went well by the way) and busting to go to the toilet I was thinking “What are the worst times to be busting to go to the toilet?” So I compiled a list.

The worst times to need to go to the loo…

·          On an plane
·          On a bus
·          In any form of transport really
·          In Class
·          While talking to unicorn
·          While on stage
·          At a job interview
·          When the closest thing to a toilet is a tin
·          Now
·          When somebody else is in the toilet
·          When you are lying in bed at 5.00am and you don’t want to move
·          At the movies
·          When the squirrels are watching you!

On Friday we had the Kool Skools awards night. Travelled down to Melbourne after school and went to the art centre.

Once we got there Glen found me and showed me the Best Of (which was free this year!) which had Fluro’s song on it, so well done guys.

Um… once inside had had a look at the nomination booklet and Notre had the following nominations:

Segue for Best Ballad
Darrelle for Best Cover
Belinda for best Original Jazz
Daniel for Best Hip/Hop Track
Javeltron! for Best Commercial/Pop Track
Rachael for Best Female Vocal
Glen for Best Male Vocal
Fairyfloss for Best Pop Rock Track

So quite a few nominations, the night started off well enough, we even picked up one of the first awards, Best Cover was won by Darrelle’s version of Dumb Things.

However as the night went on it was disappointment after disappointment for Notre Dame.

We didn’t pick up a single other award for the whole night and not even a nomination for Koolest Skool. So that really blows.

I have lots of ideas for why Notre didn’t pick up more awards, but none of them involve us not deserving it. However I will admit that the competition did step up a gear this year, I was sitting there wondering where all the shit bands went, but I still think Notre deserved more awards. But I won’t start bitching about it here; I just thought I would share with you the results.

Peace out kids

As school kicks off for the last time this year I must wonder where the year went. This year seems to have gone so fast. It feels like only yesterday that I was gearing up for production. And only the day before that I was showing up to school ready a year filled with promise, hope and expectation. It’s all gone so quickly, but yet when I look back only a few months things look almost totally unrecognisable. So many things have changed so drastically this year, but it still feels all so familiar.

No doubt that this term will disappear as quickly as it came and we will be heading to the holidays, also makes me wonder what we will be leaving in only a few weeks. What will inevitably change this term? Will things be as unrecognisable at the end of this term as they were last term? And why am I writing this?

I guess my head’s been all over the place recently, but it’s not all bad. I have got a gold mine of emotions to write about, so song writing has become very easy and now I have built up quite a good set of new songs.

There are so many reasons my head is like this. As I said to Emma when she asked me what was wrong, “Everything and nothing”, it is stupid and cliché, but it really is what it’s like.

Sorry about this and the last blog for those of you who really couldn’t care what I ‘feel’ and would rather know what I ‘think’, I promise I will be back to writing interesting blogs with a point again soon.

Oh, and why is Kool Skools taking so long to get here? This is so annoying!

EDIT: I also have some Fairyfloss news, but to save me typing it twice check out the Fairyfloss space. And add us to messenger so you will always know when it's been updated, fairyflosstheband@hotmail.com

With the school holidays drawing to a close, and so many things on my mind I thought I would just share some musings that I've been having recently, just some random thoughts:

· A human mind is so complex. Why? Because it needs to be to understand the complexities of other human minds. This means that the human mind is only going to become more complex as it gets better at understanding other complex minds. Think about it, it's a vicious cycle.

· Life is a bitch.

· Opening yourself up is hard, but needs to be done to make any progress.

· Progress is not always good because sometimes things progress in a direction you would rather they didn't. However no matter which direction things head in, you're always happy to know where things are going, as it sure beats uncertainty.

· Why do people yell at footballers on the TV?

· "We won, we won" "No, they won, you watched"

· "Everything will always work out"

· No matter how hard you try, how good you are or how much you give, there will always be someone better then you.

· Why can't my brain come with an off switch or a mute button?

· When it comes down to head vs. heart, you always seem to go with the heart. But why do the two disagree so often? But sometimes they do agree, but how is that when they finally reach a consensus it is still wrong.

· Why is it that there are so few 'happy' songs on my iPod?

· I have written 5 songs these holidays. 2 of them are very good. It is very easy when you have stuff to write about.

· Missed opportunities will drive you insane. Try as hard as you can not to think about them.

· Why is it that the best opportunities come at the worst possible times? I mean really! And then when it is a good time the opportunity’s gone and is probably never coming back.

· You always have a choice when stuff isn’t happening your way. Even if you can’t make stuff happen your way you still have a choice about how you react. It’s never good to burn a bridge.

· Triangles Suck!

· Good friendships are worth everything!

Just a few thoughts that have been tossed around my mind over the past few days, dunno, some of you might find them interesting or insightful. I don’t think anyone will, but you might.

Ah Flavia… The war.
"Was there any real reason for the beginning of the Iraq War, and, if so, is it still justified?"

Well, I am of the opinion that war is never a good idea. Ever! But let’s have a look at this particular war.
What were the reasons for going to war in Iraq?

·          They had WMDs
·          They were a global threat
·          To fight the threat of Islamic terrorism
·          To liberate Iraq from a violent dictator
·          To catch Osama*

Let’s address each of these points individually shall we?

They had WMDs
Well, put simply: No, they didn’t. This was a lie; they did not have huge stashes of nuclear bombs at the time of war. There have been massive searches for them, and they can’t find any. Next!

They were a global threat
Well, with what. The WMDs? The really big bombs that weren’t there? No, I don’t think so. Next!

To fight the threat of Islamic terrorism
This is an interesting point, because surly anyone with half a brain who thinks about it for more then half a second will understand it’s a huge load of crap. But still it seems like the most widely used and most accepted reason for going to war.
Why do people want to commit acts of terror against the United States and its allies? Because they hate America! Now what is the best way to stop terror? By invading their country! That’s a brilliant idea!
Now finally in the past couple of days there has been some research released that says that the Iraq war has in fact INCREASED the threat of terrorism, and contempt for the western world. Now who would have thought!

To liberate Iraq from a violent dictator
To sit here and defend Saddam Hussein would be stupid. He was a violent dictator, and not a good guy. So this was a reasonably valid reason. Although, looking back, Iraq is less safe and more violent now then it was at the time of invasion. Why? Well now Iraq has become a magnet for extremist groups and now there is a violent power struggle that is bordering of civil war. So now there are people trying to kill each other, and the international troops. So the debate over whether Iraq is a better place now or before could go on forever, so I won’t enter into it here.

To catch Osama
Okay, if you are stupid enough to believe that, then, well… You should be taken off your current diet of Herald Sun and Channel 9 news and placed on a strict diet of Broadsheet and ABC immediately. He was not in Iraq and I don’t think he ever was. He was (apparently) in Afghanistan. But now he’s dead (apparently), so none of it really matters

In conclusion, at the time there was no justification for our war on Iraq. The debate over whether our troops should now stay there is another, actually complex one, so I will leave that one for another day

*This was not an official reason, but it was implied by the ‘media’**
**Fox News and other Right wing ‘news’*** sources
***I use the word loosely