“I try to hang on to myself. I don’t believe in no-one else. And I’m shaking like a leaf, As I fall into the street” – Noel Gallagher. Sunday’s Inspiration: Why Can’t The Clocks Go Back 5 Years? ‘You’ll never change what’s been and gone’- Noel Gallagher. Around 2013, Sundays became a place for me…
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“Sunny days, oh where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong” – Fran Healy. I couldn’t quite believe it this week when somehow through my Facebook or Twitter feeds, I came across a 20 year old song by Scottish band Travis. The song, Why Does It Always Rain On Me? was released…
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“Saw a vagabond king wear a xylophone crown. Wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi. * and yes I know it’s styrofoam, but I prefer xylophone. Don’t dress it up as a dream life and don’t fake the usual excrement that “travel is the best thing ever like mate yeah…
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“Time flies” – Anon. On this exact Sunday evening, 156 weeks ago (3 years ago), I arrived by flight into Gdańsk in Poland. It was just another city on my journey, surely. Nothing special, nothing was about to change. Sunday 3rd July 2016. I had never been to Gdańsk before but it was my fourth time in…
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“I’m going to clear out my head. I’m going to get myself straight. I know it’s never to late to make a brand new start” – Paul Weller. A few days ago, I re-published the Don’t Stop Living Facebook Page. For good. It has been a huge week of change in my life. Sure, depression…
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“Freed from desire. Mind and senses purified, freed from desire” – Gala. So if you clicked this, you will probably (hopefully) be thinking that you want to live a life of freedom. You might want to escape the mundaneness of a 9-5 job, living in the same old city, not seeing the world and life…
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“Realise how lonely this is. Self-defeating, oh, fuck, yeah. Drowned in love and false kisses; a gathering of no meaning” – Richey James Edwards. The sparkle has gone. There is no denying it. A serious of events in my life have just given me a three-year and counting crisis. It’s inexplicable, it’s unexplainable, it’s non-explanationistic. Where…
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“I’m too busy raising cane. I’m back on the street again. I’m… back on the top again” – Van Morrison. We join fads. We cling to the popular. We need to belong and we need to be like everybody else, we want to be the same as everyone. It’s human nature. Nobody likes to be…
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“I know the roads on which your life will drive” – Noel Gallagher. OK so this “off the beaten track/eaten bap/wheaten craic” phrase is an over-used, a cliched term I’m not exactly fond of, but there’s not really too many ways to describe what I’m trying to promote here, so we’ll run with it. We’ll roll with…
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“I travelled round the world from year to year. But each one found me aimless; one more year the worse for wear” – Cold Chisel. So here it is. Another reflection post on another lazy hazy crazy Sunday afternoon. Nobody’s dream. Not yours. Non mine. Neh his. Niet hers. Never ours. Marc Overmars. The moon.…
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