Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Regurgitate the words you ate, then spit up all the sentences.
Take back every time you promised me anything.
My cocoon's torn open, I'm blooming and growing,
And your promises are unkept, you're where you've always been.

We're looping like a record that's out of things to say.

One way conversations are all you get when you talk to mirrors anyway.

Those lights on the horizon are our home, and they feel so far away.

When I sleep I dream forever, I feel so tethered when I wake.

The seed that split and grew us both was never meant to tear in two.
There's something wrong with the hymn sheet, still we sing the same tunes.
The spotlight we were born to share shines only on you.
I am awestruck, I am headfucked, I am contented and confused.

Sister of mine, what have you done to me? Broken your promises, borderline lied to me.
Sister of mine, I only bring honesty. I am jealous, I am sick. I am my enemy, I am full of envy.
It's not like I never told you all of my desires.
Remember that night you said my sparks could start off the biggest fires?

We used to be each other's open books.
Pages constantly being written and read as we lived, and we loved.
But we seem to have bled this 'family' dry, we're frail and fragile and brittle.
I think we've read each other far too much.
We've read each other far too much.
This story's done.

Burn our tales to start a funeral pyre.

Thursday, 12 February 2009

*this note comes to you in new and improved form, aka, it has been edited*

If anyone reads this and actually cares about my never-quite-there musical efforts, here are a bunch of titles that I plan to put to some instrumental songs that I might make, at some point, someday.

Welcome Home, Great Provider.
Lay Your Skin To The Ground.
Crucifixion Platform.
Smoking In The Cancer Ward.
Vancouver.
When I Sleep I Dream Of Forever.
Small/Far Away/Small.
Invisibility As Beauty.
3 A.M. Phonecall
And You Shall Go To The Stars!

Originally the sound I had in mind was a post-rock sort of thing, but recently a lot of electronic music has started to click with me, which coupled with the realism of getting a band together, has lead me to re-interpret my ideas. So, using my laptop, guitars, and almost anything I can get my hands on as long as it makes a sound I like, I'm going to try to make something, and I'm going to bear the following in mind and occasionally ask 'what would xxxx do?':

Godspeed You Black Emperor, Telefon Tel Aviv, Royksopp, M83, Russian Circles, Explosions In The Sky, Boards Of Canada, My Bloody Valentine.

Hopefully, updates will ensue..