Gaining Ground.

I wrote this short thing ages ago. I can't remember why I wrote it or for what reason but I am just going to write it down on this blog post anyway. Yeah I know... I'm being a bit "lah dee dah" perhaps... whatever.

Gaining Ground.

1.
Humanity has created civilisation since the beginning of prehistory.

2.
Dead cities makes rubble, makes dirt and on that new systems are built upon.

3.
Each Empire of History is a step on Babels side in the hope that we might touch Heaven.

4.
Next one up is transcendence beyond our instincts, touching the stars, defying the nature of indifference, the mathematical inevitability that shapes our actions.

5.
I wonder how animal we look to them as we climb pouring libations to be blessed, measuring how far we have fallen, born to ascend.

6.
Knowing that the gate of Instinct is locked against access to the Mount of Assembly we climb artificially to rest in the Eternal Garden that we glimpse only when we sleep.

Over and Out.
ED.

Thoughts And The Monthly Record.

"To these "rational" scientists imagination equated daydreaming and was therefore unnecessary. Just like a grumpy school teacher who tells off a school boy for staring out of a window, science shouted at us to pay attention without actually realising what powers imagination had. Science was brilliant at saying what was happening now, but what of the future? Inventions and human development are 99 percent the work of dreamers and imaginative people."

After spending my time doing 'stuff' and various other necessities and pastimes I have decided to keep a 'thought book.' You know those thoughts that just bubble up when you have nothing better to do, thoughts that you may think are ridiculous and not worth much attention or development... well I have decided to record down as many thoughts as I can for a month or so. Each page that I write thoughts on I will fold in half so I won't be able to see anything on the paper... and then after the month has gone I can look back on the thoughts I have written down and see what happens.

I will write down anything that comes to mind, as long as I am able to record them down at the time that I think them or if I remember them...

...And then I will write down some of these thoughts in a month on this blog.


Over and Out.
ED.

Arthur Machen.

                               This will be framed on my wall in the very near future.

Over and Out.
ED.

New Years And The Great Push Into 2013.

After all of the various Christmas celebrations and the events of the year, it is a time that we change the end number of the year to a three instead of a two.

It is usual to make resolutions so that you can make next year better than the last but instead of doing that I merely tend to sum it up by thinking, "Let it be a good one." Instead of making resolutions I look at parts of my life and change and tweak things when I feel parts need a good M.O.T.

Here is some of my GENUINE well wishing to you... unless you're a frickin' Nazi (was that joke?... meh).

Happy New Year. May the Constants be just as happiness- inducing than the Changes. May you eat tasty food and drink good liquid... may you meet good people... and may you have your life improved and enhanced through everything that you experience in this new fraction of your life.

The picture below represents you stepping into the archway of the new year and shizz.

Happy New Year!

Over and Out.
ED.

My New Label.

A few weeks ago I was with my family and two other family friends, sitting around a table eating. For some reason we were talking about the type of people that we all were. Were each of us conventional, unconventional, traditional, liberal, sentimental, forward thinking... whatever. One of the so called family friends asked about the type of person that I was. There was a pause and after a thought or two my Mum came to the conclusion that,

"Ed is Ed."

Was I that hard to pin down? I was fine just being an Ed... but it got me trying to find the most accurate label possible that would show the world what I was.

Of course no one is fully anything... but what was the label that described me most effectively?

... But finally it struck me...

All the events that have occurred to me in my life have been leading me to the grand realisation... that I am a bohemian and always have been.

I've been called the 'bohemian' by a few people in my life so that will be a good enough representation of me to the general public.

How does this affect me?... not at all. I'll still live the same way that I have been living since birth but the label will do me.



Over and Out.
ED.

Finding Out About Sharon Van Etten.

This is a good way to discover music.

Bare with me on this story by the way... here I go anyway...


I was asleep and dreaming this morning, not long before I normally get up. In my dream all I remember was a man dressed warmly, surrounded by snow that had a line of tyre tracks running through it. The man pointed to the tyre tracks and said,

"Get the Etten."


I woke up and the first thing that came into my mind was,

'Holy crap, my dreams are trying to tell me something. Write that damn word down and research it. NOW!.'

I don't know why I thought this but I decided to go along with this unconscious urge by researching the word 'Etten'.

Here is what I found,

• Etten is a town in the Netherlands.
• There is a place called Etten- Leur that is famous for peat (?)
• Some place in Middle- Earth with the letters E.T.T.E and N in it.

... And a singer called Sharon Van Etten. 

Researched her for a bit and liked the sound. 

Wikipedia said this,

"Her songs are heartfelt without being overly earnest; her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her elegant voice is wrapped in enough rasp and sorrow to keep from sounding too pure or confident."

Sounds good to me. 

The first song I heard was 'Serpents' and thought it was amazing. I've been listening to her for ages now. 

Thanks for the recommendation snow pointing man in my dream... recommend some Trip- hop, Metal and a bit of folk as well next time. 

Over and Out.

ED.

Anthony Knows How It Goes Down.

"For a firm- rooted believer in such immeasurable ideas as these, which he punctuated with brisk application of the poker to the brave sparkle and glow of the fire, Anthony has a very pleasant appreciation of the measurable and the finite, and nobody in whom I have acquaintance has so keen a zest for life and its enjoyments as he.
He had given us this evening an admirable dinner, had passed around a port beyond praise, and had illuminated the jolly hours with the light of his infectious optimism...
'I adore life,' he said. 'I find it the most entrancing plaything. It's a delightful game, and as you know very well, the only conceivable way to play a game is to play it extremely seriously. If you say to yourself, "It's only a game", you cease to take the slightest interest in it. You have to know it's only a game, and behave as if it was the one object of existence. I should like it to go on for many years yet..."

Taken from 'In the Tube' by E.F Benson

Over and Out.
ED.