Blog: Fallen Not Broken

Ah, terra transmontana Que não tens um cantor a tua altura! Um Marao inspirado um Doiro inquieto, Um plaino aberto De carne e osso Capaz de recriar noutra verdade Esta grandeza austera, Onde as pedras parecem ter vontade, E nenhuma vontade desespera Miguel Torga

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... so may the best unofficial anthem win. :) 'No World Cup song', FA confirms

I exist. And I have as much a right to my existence, as any other person. My soul is sacred. Every life has value.

A persecution complex is a term within psychological discourse afforded to an array of complex behaviours that specifically deal with the perception of being persecuted for various possible reasons, imagined or real. Persecutory delusions, also known as querulant delusions, are the most common type of delusions. The affected person believes they are being persecuted. Specifically, they have been defined as containing two central elements: 1. The individual thinks that harm is occurring, or is going to occur, 2. The individual thinks that the persecutor has the intention to [...]

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Tough of the track, With the wind, And the rain that's beating down on your back. Your heart's beating loud And goes on getting louder And goes on even more till the sound Is ringing in your head, With every step you tread, And every breath you take, Determination makes You run, Never stop, Gotta win, gotta run till you drop, Keep the pace, Hold the race, Your mind is getting clearer, You're over halfway there but the miles Just never seem to end As if you're in a dream, Not getting anywhere. It seems so futile. Chorus: [...]

My heart, is faulty. It has a genetic fault. Sometimes, especially at night, I can feel it. My heart flutters... for a moment, it stops. It is like a heart attack, a very small one. The heart stops, for a moment, and then it starts again. Someday, this could kill me. However, it is not a definite death sentence. It is only a maybe, a possibility. I will probably live a normal life. But someday, I may not wake up. And this will be what killed me. When I feel it, time stops. I [...]

Just one huge step, in the longer fight. At New Years, a very drunk man came up to our table and said "is this table full of a bunch of poufs?" And I asked him "what's wrong with gay people? Do you hate them?" My tablemates, clearly, had dealt with this before, and they had much better quips with which to defuse the situation. And eventually the drunk man, faced with a table of very large men, went away. And none of us got beaten up, although it might have gone that way. How [...]

Epiphany (holiday), a Christian holiday on January 6 celebrating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus. Epiphany (feeling), the sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something.

Laub - Deintewegen LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem Lennie Tristano - Intuition Leonard Bernstein - Candide Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 Low - Drums And Guns Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum Mastodon - Crack The Skye Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth... Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Murcof - The Versailles Sessions My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Nina Nastasia - Road To Ruin Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna Oliver Nelson - Blues And The Abstract Truth Om - Pilgrimage Panda Bear - Person Pitch Patti Smith - Horses Philip [...]

Aesop Rock - Labor Days Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity Bill Evans Trio - Sunday At The Village Vanguard Black Mountain - Black Mountain Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I'm Satisfied Blondie - Parallel Lines Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town Can - Soon Over Babaluma Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein Carole King - Tapestry Charley Patton - The Very Best Of Chromatics - Night Drive Chuck Berry - The Definitive Collection Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Cleveland Orchestra) Coldplay - Parachutes Cole Porter - Anything [...]

You're smiling wryly there. I am, yeah... I got an email from the BBC today. Oh??? Why's that then? Remember when I applied for all those jobs a few months ago? Well, of all the CVs I sent, these are the people who are now emailing me back. They want to interview me, they liked my skills. And how do you feel about that? Well, on the one hand, enormously pleased. The BBC get hundreds of CVs, and I do mean that quite literally. To get asked to interview for [...]

By Laura Imbruglia I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend from Filipe Marques on Vimeo .

I put a few more albums in there, because they were just too good. You can read the update here .

...and this year I will be gorgeous. :)

This is not just any pub, it's a special pub. It's a local, but it is... extra. It's a strange little pub. It's in Finsbury Park, but it's nowhere near the Tube station. It's in an isolated little corner. It's completely anonymous. As far as I know, Amy Winehouse has never vomited there. But it's a real one-off, this pub. It does not attract football fans, or lager louts, or yoot with stolen mobile phones. It's attended by locals, and everyone really does know everyone there. It attracts artists, and intellectuals, and music fans, and teachers. [...]

... is of one of our companions, upon a conversation with our Italian tablemate, labeling Berlusconi a fascist. "He's a fascist!" he kept repeating, over and over, insensible to the Italian's suggestions that Berlusconi was merely a monster, unwise, but not a fascist. "It's time for us to go," said his friend, helping him into his coat. "I knew it was time earlier, when he was talking about his ballbreaking encounter with Shere Hite."

I've been rediscovering my love of the short-form music video over the past year. When I was younger, I took a video production course and I imagined that someday I might become a video producer. It never came to pass, but the love persists! Here's a few of my favourite views over the past year. Mastodon - Oblivion Over the top. Just like a good video for a metal band should be. :) The Guild - Do You Wanna Date My Avatar Pure silliness. Dirty [...]

Last year was a hard year for such a long time this year is gonna be ours. Akron/Family - Last Year