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good friday 2010...

as you can see ive started a revamp of my blog page, it will be slow but will be worth the wait.
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freedom now

freedom now
a few years ago i read a book by this lovely lady...letters from burma...stories and corraspondence from a land i will never see in my life time,or not see in its real form...but still in my heart i hope...

good boy

good boy
top of oconnol street dublin

air vents

air vents
well i thought they looked nice...irish times building dublin

the new

the new
lansdowne road has landed, what a fantastic new stadium...

red brick

red brick
search the back streets and the beauty is everywhere...

lion kings

lion kings
dublin is beautiful if you just look up...

faceless

faceless
since ive lived in dublin this statue at the back of st. andrews has always haunted me, and still does...

grey skies

grey skies
dublin 2010

dublin bus???

dublin bus???
dublin 2010

old/new

old/new
dun laoghaire

old school house

old school house
dun laoghaire 2010

our wailing all

our wailing all
dun laoghaire church...

thought...

thought...

rail

rail

boatscape

boatscape
just down the road from my house, always lovely for an afternoon stroll...

dun laoghaire coastline

dun laoghaire coastline
on a sunny day...

white house

white house
something strange here...

the back door

the back door
or front???

bullock habour..

bullock habour..
the boats...

the seal...

the seal...
bullock harbour...

david bowie

david bowie
ziggy stardust

Grade Eight...

1977... the christian brothers put a question to the class of about 30 young boys...what do you want to be when you finish here at St. Columbans...the answers were pleasing, a doctor...a fireman...a writer...a lawyer, but thanks to the enlightnment of Maria Banks, our next door neighbour, my answer was David Bowie...there angry stares brought a grin to my face,they wanted the truth...

dali

dali
this person...dali...lived the daily life of a genius...his sleep...his digestion...his ecstasies...his nails...his colds...his blood...his life and death are essentially different from those of the rest mankind...he is dali...

dali in london

dali in london
on the thames

nick cave

nick cave
this is the cross beam stained crimson with blood of trickery and deceit...it is the holy support...this is the church of stone...fleshless...souless,and silent...many times my lips have chilled upon your walls,my feet frozen upon your floors...be damned,frigid edifice...leave this wretched company...

The Go betweens

The Go betweens

Monday nights in Brisbane...early 80's

being an apprentice chef at the beginng of the 1980s left me with the bordom of having monday nights off in brisbane, my friends either getting over there week ends, studying or just not wanting to go out i would spend alot of time just driving my yellow holden gemini round the city and suburbs of brisbane and it was then i fell in love with this band and there first two albums, Send me a Lullabye and Before Hollywood...my love for them never stopped over the years...

The Triffids

The Triffids

80's Pleasure...

dave was a fellow chef and friend of mine, sunday nights would be spent sitting in the rented house that he his girl friend and four other people called home...for a few months anyway...but one of those quiet sunday brisbane nights in the heat of january, while enjoying some of the local smoking pleasure daves mate put a song on the stereo...Rainning Pleasure... and at that moment i wanted to here more....@@it wasnt till 1985 that i saw the triffids live in london, the black swan shows...

w.s.burrows

w.s.burrows
i awoke from the sickness at the age of 45, calm and sane,and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the borrowed flesh common to all who survive.....the sickness...most survivors do not remember the delirium in detail...i apparently took detailed notes...

cohen..dublin 2008

cohen..dublin 2008

came so far for beauty....

came so far for beauty....
cohen tribute show,dublin...

waits...tree

waits...tree
street corner evangelists, pile drivers in manhanhattan,horses coming/trains coming, children when coming out of school, hungry crows, orchestra tuning up, saloon pianos in old westerns, rollercoasters, headlights hit by shotguns, ice melting, printing presses, ball game on a transistor radio, piano lessons from an apartment window, old cash registers/ca ching, muscle cars, tap dancers, beatboxing, fog horns, a busy restaurant kitchen, news rooms in old movies, elephants stampeding, bacon frying, marching bands, clarinet lessons, a zippo lighter, musical saw, seagulls, owls, mockingbirds, doves,.....the world's making music all the time...

michael stipe

michael stipe
hurrah, we are all free now
what noisy cats are we
girl and dog he bore his cross
along, low time ago,people talk to me...

hunter.s.

hunter.s.

james douglas morrison

james douglas morrison
journey we more into the nightmare...
june 30th. on the sun roof. he woke suddenly.at that instant a jet from the air base crawled in silence overhead. on the beach, children try to leap into its swift shadow.

jims grave...

jims grave...
paris...1985

u2 zooropa

u2 zooropa

antony

antony
first saw and heard antony at 'came so far for beauty' in dublin, then with the johnsons in belfast early 09....
yes ,so cripple pig was happy...screamed " i just complelety love you"...and theres no rhyme or reason...im changing like the seasons...Watch, i'll even cut off my finger......it will grow back like a starfish... i'll grow back like a starfish...
the above section are a few people...some may call them heroes ...that have had a major impact on my life...and still do...in there LITTLE ways...

Brisbane 1964, when i was born...

Brisbane 1964, when i was born...
the corner shop....near where i was born...

can we have this one...

can we have this one...
1964,my brothers and i...

off to the beach...

off to the beach...
my brothers and i...1967.

on the gold coast..

on the gold coast..
my first beach scene...

over here santa...

over here santa...
christmas, brisbane 1966

bribie island holiday

bribie island holiday
1968...

Brisbane 1972

Brisbane 1972
johs police state

Ghost Child...

Ghost Child...
can you see him....

brisbane

brisbane

seat reunion.07

seat reunion.07
some old dear friends..

the proposition...

the proposition...
written by n.e.cave...

the proposition d.f.f.

the proposition d.f.f.
john hurt and....

j. hillcoats "the road"

j. hillcoats "the road"
2010 s first big movie ...in my view

open heart surgery

open heart surgery
Back in 1998 i, as a middle aged man, was put into hospital and was operated on for my life long disabilaty of aortic valve constriction...not a fun time in my life,but an experience....in what i still ask myself...no there is no light at the end of the tunnel...

...bears in the attic

...bears in the attic
beware...

michael's graduation...

michael's graduation...
2009, rds dublin....

greetings from...

greetings from...
looks fine...doesnt it....

lompoc...

lompoc...
the town that time forgot...

carpark lompoc

carpark lompoc
the eyes follow you...

lompoc ca.

lompoc ca.
the real twin peaks...

lompoc treasures....

lompoc treasures....
the home of hundreds of indian arrow heads

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