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Monthly Archives: May 2011
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Still a romantic at heart, I firmly believe in love. I found this fine gem Anne Campbell penned and loved it so much I had to share: You are the trip I did not take; You are the pearls I could not buy; … Continue reading
I like to burn sh*t…
My grandmother died last year at ninety-nine and half – she would have been a hundred this Wednesday had she lived. She was an amazingly gentle woman with dignified blue eyes like forget-me-knots, who wrote letters, baked heavenly lemon meringue pie … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes..., Relationships and other disasters
Tagged crime, forget-me-knots, good-bye, grandmother, illegal, Jozi, lemon meringue pie, poem, pyre, pyromaniacs, sashimi, sushi, viking, wake
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the 2nd double disc: Death and Destruction
Yup. They’re done. The last tracks to mark the end – lyrics from the first song took up near permanent residence on my Facebook status in the dying weeks. Music’s cathartic, ain’t it? Fasten your seatbelts - not much happy music to be found here: … Continue reading
Posted in What's on the decks...
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once up on a pony…
… a long long time ago, Scarlet arrived in the Big Apple, bright eyed and bushy-tailed (like every other madly motivated, high octane, crazy stupid marketing mogul under 30). And like any good South African shipped abroad with a supressed desire to write, … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from limbo
Tagged Berlitz, Big Apple, Business Class, cabs, Cape Town, Central Park, Century 21, Durban, George Washington Bridge, Godiva, Ground Zero, Haagen Daz, Harlem, Henry Hudson highway, HP, London, Manhattan, Montvale, nervous breakdown, New York, NYPD, packing, parking, South African, Statue of Liberty, Upper East Side, US, Wall Street, West Coast
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…totally punk rock!
Huh? What is? Well, according to Joey Comeau: being in love. And, jaundiced as I may be, I’d have to agree. It is. Totally. Punk rock. Rock on… So, who you ask, is Joey? He’s a totally punk rock Canadian writer who was … Continue reading
Posted in Be inspired!, Lines and rhymes..., What's read...
Tagged a softer world, A Softer World: Truth & Beauty Bombs, apolitical pyromaniac, bitter breakup, burn, buttons, clever, dark, disturbing, dreamy, Emily Horne, Eternal Sunshine For A Spotless Mind, freaky, funny, Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography, love, punk rock, romantic, shirt, store, whimsical
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new morning…
Yesterday was about as bad as the nightmares the night before. Those wolves are waging a right royal old dog fight inside me: I feel raging oceans of anger and sweeping tides of sadness. Anger at Dax for the double … Continue reading
falling out of trees…
Today sees me returning to the Hout Bay house to pack boxes. I’ve been putting this off: the mere thought exhausts me. And makes me feel inutterably sad. Which makes me feel exhausted (see the nasty loop?) But. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes..., Relationships and other disasters
Tagged breakup, Dax, Hiroshima, Jim Morrison, koala bears, Loki, love, move-out, words, writing
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