I’ve recently acquired some new music, which is good, because I’m quite bored of the 15GB of music I already have and have listened to for the last few years.
M83 - So far I really like this one, though I generally do not enjoy electronic music, EVER, some of the songs on the album Saturdays = Youth (2008), are amazing. I have yet to listen to the other 5 albums I have of theirs. Mind you, I already don’t like some tracks on this album, at all, though that’s usually the case for me anyway. I like some, I hate some.
Two of my favourites are, You, Appearing and Skin of the Night. These are only the songs, not videos, although Skin of the Night has some nice black and white photography to go along with it.
Some other good artists of note: Andrew Bird and Elvis Perkins, though if you don’t like ‘indie’ music, you’ll probably not enjoy either of them.
I have yet to listen to the rest which include: Camera Obscura, Lacuna Coil, MGMT, and Sarah Blasko (though I’ve listened to a few songs of hers before so I kind of know what to expect).
I’m always looking for new stuff, the more the merrier, and contrary to popular belief I like more than just ‘indie shit’.
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And this is why a week or two ago I decided to really avoid caffeine…because it works…too well. No soda, no coffee, no energy drinks (which has been particularly horrible for work) and chocolate, though that one’s a bit hard >.>. It’s actually helped my anxiety a tremendous amount, avoiding it, which is not surprising. Though now…I’ve had about 1/3 of a 600ml bottle of coke and I feel like I need to get up and do something or go for a run, no joke. I don’t want to wake my flatmate up, seeing as it is almost half past 2 in the morning, and too bad I hate running and would probably get mugged at this hour where I live. I want to sleep but I have too much damn energy.
Sometimes sleeping seems like such a horrible waste of time when I could do something else, something productive…or slightly productive. Caffeine causes me to think about everything, and things I need to get done, or should do. Very annoying.
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I don’t know how much more I can stand really. I think the problem is because my hair is a million different lengths at the moment still. The front is almost twice as long as the back.
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Clearly…I am not allowed to be well. I’ve had a fever since yesterday, my whole body hurts-especially my neck, and I just feel generally shite. I woke up at 1 am, and haven’t been able to sleep since, just staring uncomfortably into the darkness praying for some damn sleep, anything to make the discomfort stop. I laid there thinking, wow…I’ve been sick for almost 3 weeks solid now, its really depressing after a while, and then you think - “Am I ever going to get better, seriously.”. While most of the symptoms of my chest infection eased, they never totally went away, now I have no idea what is wrong. All I know is I don’t get fevers often when I am sick, so this is definitely not good. I should be in bed but I just get too hot and can’t get comfortable. Pretty sure I’ll pass out sometime later today.
I honestly can’t afford to be sick, literally can’t. So this whole thing just really sucks.
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So I’m still choking my lungs out and contemplating filling that prescription for the antibiotics, ONLY because I have to go back to work Monday and I really just want to be well before the weekend is over, I can’t afford to take anymore time off with this damn thing. Next week’s pay is already going to be almost non-existent. Right now I’m not sure if I am more worried about that or this damn cold getting worse.
In other, unrelated things, I’m shifting all the contents of my domain to a new one, mainly because I’m sick of the name and I need something fresh to start with that might inspire me to actually be more creative when I have the time.
I still plan on doing something this weekend, when I can find some time where I’m not coughing my face off and feeling generally blah. Maybe tomorrow? I already dug out some canvas’. That’s a start right?
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I’ve got the rest of the week off work it seems, via doctor’s instructions due to illness. While it’s nice to be forced to have time off, I wish I was well and at work because I know once I feel better getting back into the routine of work always sucks, and, as much as I like to stay home, being at work is probably better.
I keep telling myself this is a perfect time to do something creative, because I actually have some ideas floating around in my head for the first time in over a year that I actually want to use, maybe. I miss drawing and painting, and everything else I used to do. Now all I do is work, it is somewhat depressing, especially since I have a crap job and crap pay. It’s something but…I’m fairly sure I could do better, and should work on things outside of work to maybe prove that.
So perhaps there will be an update here with something pretty next time.
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So…I sort of cooked the bacon a little too long, but it still tasted damn good. I haven’t had a cooked meal in…well…months probably. I rely on instant junk that I can throw in the microwave, because I’m a) lazy and b) usually too tired to be bothered actually cooking after work. It was a good meal.
Lately I’ve been working so much I feel like I haven’t really had time to stop and think. I’ve been pulling 45-48 hour weeks at work so when I come home, all I look forward to is zoning out in front of my laptop. I somehow managed to acquire 3 days off this week though, and it’s been pretty nice, very relaxing. Which means that tomorrow, Sunday, work will be hard to get back into, but…I will as I always do.
I haven’t done much these past 3 days, and that’s exactly what I intended. Though I did get a fair few important things done that I’ve been meaning to do for a few months now. It’s rather hard sometimes when you only get one week day off to do them.
I’m going to try and get some reading done and maybe some other things…if I don’t fall asleep while reading. >.>
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Surrealism is by far my favourite form/genre/style of art. Surrealism, however, doesn’t just pertain to art; it also comes in the form of film, prose, music and probably various other means in which one could express themselves.
Surrealism, as stated in the manifesto by the french writer, André Breton in 1924:
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
At uni I studied art history (1800-present day) for half a semester. I absolutely loved it. I even enjoyed writing the essays disgustingly enough…which I funnily found today while going through my laptop.
I’ve uploaded it in case anyone cares to bore themselves to death with some art history written by me. The essay is from 2005.
…there’s probably some mistakes in there too.
My favourite Surrealist artist is Frida Kahlo.
Her painting, The Two Frida’s (1939), is probably my favourite out of all her works.
Some other artists of interest are:
Max Ernst, a german/french surrealist, who I mentioned in the essay thingy.
René Magritte and of course Salvidor Dalí.
Hopefully no one’s in a coma by now. ^^
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