Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1381: Orthopaedic Craunch

Monday; the day where the week begins, unless you believe the week begins on Sunday, in which case, Monday; the day where the week reaches its second day of the week.

That sentence was pretty weak, all things considered.

So anyway, I’m sitting on a chair and perhaps I am on a ship of stars, and I wonder as to how long the floating device of the given route will contour all the contractions within the context of salient actions. Perhaps the twisted nozzle will see what does not find itself comfortable on a given breeze, but the tundra calls silly words into an orthopaedic craunch machine.

Whether I wander fro and forward is immaterial when it comes to the plains of planes made of… doughnuts… but that is no reason to reject the circle as it happens upon whimsical seriousness in a suit that says “Ah, I’m a suit”. You don’t want to know about that anyway; it serves no purpose. But perhaps it doesn’t.

If the arms were to gargle the effervescent chimeric reaction that leads to the platitudes plateauing, then would you not also look upon despair and say to yourself, “Blessed”? Would you not find yourself shaking fists with the beef? And where is it anyway?

Never in the history of never has there ever been an ever, though time passes orthogonally in these situations, you must understand. You must also understand that the laptop’s keyboard is flapping about and it’s quite annoying. So long as there’s no wind or rain within this cradled shelter of comfort, I should be fine, but until that happens, I won’t know, and so I think about the liquid that sits next to me and I look at its alluring embrace as it says to be “Stan“, and I think about allowing its cool liquid state to pour into my throat and then into whatever lies beyond, and I wonder if this really is the true path, or if the oranges that await my return are going to be made and passing, or if I really am the hero of my own story.

Then again, if I weren’t so beholden to whatever it is that twists the knife into a cart, then perhaps the questions would never form. Perhaps that is what needs to be pondered, but if the leaves line the walls and the screen turns dark, is the couch really green, or is it more just an imagination of a table that stands at a distance, not used for its intended purpose, and fading into a blurriness that I’m trying to imagine, but cannot quite do so due to whichever restrictions have been placed between itself and I.

Surely there must be other ways, and surely the red and white and brown and green will remain distinct, and then I’ll see where someone’s jumper finally reaches its breaking point and transforms into a suit of skin that looks like a jumper, but there’s no telling with those marmosets.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:42:02

Fun bit of pointless writing. Just words thrown together with little sense.

Written at work.

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Hills on a Clear Day

Same area as seen here.

I think that I may have shot this a little too flatly. I do like that there’s a sense of space and massiveness here, and also a sort of smallness. An oldness too.

I hope you enjoy.

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Akari Kaida and Yoshino Aoki: A Light

One listen.

I was a bit hesitant at first. Told myself to just write and got on with it, and the below came out. I think it could be better, but overall this gets across an idea of how the song sounds and travels well enough.

Akira Kaida (海田 明里) and Yoshino Aoki’s (青木佳乃) “A Light” is from Breath of Fire III Sound Collection, the soundtrack for Breath of Fire III. My understanding is that the song (and the rest of the soundtrack) was first included on Breath of Fire Original Soundtrack Special Box, a collection of all the music (as far as I’m aware) used for the Breath of Fire Series. There is a soundtrack album called Breath of Fire III: Original Soundtrack that was released at some point around the time of Breath of Fire III‘s release but it is a selection of songs from the game rather than the whole soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

Coming into view, a bright and vague hum seems to spread and fill the entirety of the space. Some light percussion rises and falls upon it, inhaling and exhaling. Woodwind flickers in and wafts along, and that hum also rises and falls in this moment.

It all stops and then starts again, and there’s something peaceful, perhaps. There’s something off about it too; there’s something tense in these sounds… something melancholic, but it all carries a tune and it permeates, and stops once more, and the song ends.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1380: Tired and Nauseous

Tired and nauseous, but nauseous due to necessary change, but not sure how much that change is required. I know it’s not right now, but maybe it is.

Glasses. It’s not that exciting.

But it’s cold and I don’t like the cold right now as I want to finish this bit of writing before this song ends and this song runs for about six minutes. Not really something I should be announcing, but I am, and so… yeah.

Long day, tired, fatigued, all of those things. Trying to keep on going and getting there, but slowly. It takes time. It takes time to get to where I want to be and it takes time to do what I want to do. But it all takes time.

You need a lot of time and never have enough of it, and that’s why you try and chip away at these things where you can, or at least that’s what I try to do. I try to make use of the time that I have and I don’t use it well, and it floats on away and I find myself dreaming as though I were a bird going where I feel I must, looking, searching, doing whatever it is that birds do.

Shitting on cars.

Perhaps one day I won’t need glasses, and this is all some sort of trickery that I’ve allowed myself to believe, but it’s change and it’s time and it’s time I don’t want to be spending, but I must as I need to do things. I need to get things done and soon I will, but it’s going to take time. Maybe it will be longer than soon. Maybe it’ll take more time than I anticipated. Who knows.

Actually, I don’t know how long I anticipated, but it’s not this. I was hoping I’d adapt in a few hours, but that is not to be. As such, things continue on. Adaptation is a process. Time is something I have, but not enough of, or rather I’d prefer to spend less time on this change. I want it to happen sooner rather than later, but that’s not to be and so I just have to keep on going and tolerating the illness that I am provided with until my brain can accept and adapt to the change. It’ll get there eventually, or it won’t. I don’t know.

What would be a good change is my hands warming up a bit faster than they are. If they do that, then I’ll be a happy chappy. Until then, however, I have to deal with the cold and the nauseating glasses experience. I’ll have to deal with that and continue on, and woe is me and all that other stuff.

Song’s finishing and I’m not even done going on about what it is that I’m trying to convey, which, admittedly, is not much of anything about anything, really. Change happens and time takes time, and that’s all I have for this evening.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:34:81

I wasn’t intending to write about the new glasses experience, but I did.
Dragged it out a bit too much though, I think.

Written at home.

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View Above the Grass

Another photo of a view in the morning.
Not sure if I’m happy with this result, but I think it’s kind of conceptually interesting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Left and Forward

Here’s a photo of two members of Monster Zoku Onsomb! as seen supporting Regurgitator last month.

I’m pretty sure it was last month they were in Sydney. Anyway.

This didn’t come out as well as I’d hoped, hence the result below. On one hand I wanted to try and work with what the original image lacked; on the other, I wanted to try a stronger contrast. I think the below is the best result, but I don’t think it made it to the Culture Eater gallery.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Willebrant: Sands VII (New Beginning)

One listen. Threw myself into this and just wrote. There was some active thinking, but it didn’t overtake everything the way it usually does.

I think this is a bit messy, but I also think I get a good idea of the song across. I think I captured at least one aspect of it quite well.

Willebrant’s “Sands VII (New Beginning) is from Desert Songs.

I hope you enjoy.

Fading into view, and shining and bright, and perhaps hopeful. Growing larger, seemingly flat but also wavy. Seemingly trying to get to a sate of flatness, but unable to.

Another sound appears, draws long and drifts. Fades away, comes back and appears higher up, and disappears and comes back lower, and it continues to change with each reappearance.

Other sounds come and go with some subtlety, and it all seems dreamy and fertile, in a sense. A richness comes and goes, and it’s hopeful; it’s almost uplifting. At the same time there’s something arid and stark, and it’s not all hopeful; there’s a lingering sense of trying to achieve a balance between all the elements.

Something like a weighted breeze comes in and the sounds continue their motion and transformation, and it’s slow, but it is changing. The sounds shift as the landscape changes, and across a great distance something appears, but it fades with the sounds as the song ends.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1379: Flat Tyre Driver

I was gonna write about music this morning, but I’m listening to something I’ve already written about and don’t feel like interrupting it, so now I’ve got to find words and all that stuff.

So on the way to work on this fine morning of mornings, I saw a thing that happened. What happened was there was this car and it had a flat tyre and it was driving along, or rather the person driving it was driving along, but you know. Anyway…

So this person was driving along with a flat tyre, and I think they were looking for a spot where they could pull over safely and within the confines of the law, or something. There was someone who went to try and overtake them which, I guess fair enough. Anyway, they couldn’t.

The person with the flat tyre was in the right lane and the person trying to overtake was in the left. The person in the left lane had to slow right down and get behind the flat tyre driver due to the amount of cars parked in the left lane making it unsafe to overtake. Flat tyre person was driving under the speed limit for obvious reasons and the flat tyre was making that weird flapping slapping sound flat tyres make when driving, and I started laughing.

It’s not a funny situation; having a flat tyre is annoying and can be a lot of work, but the whole thing seemed funny. Seeing this person try to overtake and being unable to whilst the tyre was making its noise was just funny to me.

I think I’ve made my point.

So what do I say now? I still have a number of words to write and, to be honest, I thought writing about  this would fill up the whole space but I was wrong about that. I could ruminate on how humour does and does not work, and how we develop and shape what we do and do not appreciate, but I don’t know. I don’t feel I’m functional enough to talk about that kind of thing right now. I think I’ve spent too much time crapping on and not enough time exploring the whys of what it is that I crap on about, but I had a laugh this morning and that was nice, in a sense.

Not for the driver with the flat tyre, of course.

Yesterday there was this person driving along in the afternoon and they had only their fog lights on, and it wasn’t foggy, and that was odd. I’m used to people driving with their high beams on, and I’m also used to people driving with lights that are, essentially, overkill on standard settings, but I can;’t remember the last time I saw someone driving with just their fog lights on.

I wonder what I’ll see today. I know I’ll see a lot of documents, and I’ll probably see other things. Maybe some more stuff related to driving. Who knows?

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 09:14:29

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1378: Another Last Minute Writing

Why do I always do this stuff at some point that could be considered the last minute? I need to start work soon and once more I’ve procrastinated my way into laziness and now rushing to relax in order to relax to rush and get done with the getting done with the writing before I kick off another day of doing the thing and doing it scrumptiously.

I think that, perhaps, I need to work better on my time management, but that won’t happen unless I really apply myself and that is not happening because it’s just not, okay? And that’s fine, and I can deal, but I don’t want to deal. I want to wheel and roll away from it all so as to express some sort of fanciful fancy in a fancy manner.

Well, I think I’ve said all there is to say, really. What else is there? That is succinct in ways that cannot even be perceived unless you’re facing the nth dimension top-wise and conical in relation to the antonym of the synonym that is least synonymous with the position taken.

Perhaps what I’m really doing is buying the time that I have and trying to drag it out, and all those things, but I don’t know. Sometimes I really don’t know, but today I just don’t know. That’s not great, but what can I do? I’ve a whole day ahead of me and a whole nothingness to dig through, and when I dig I’ll fill it with the stuff that I need to do and get on with, and I’ll get there and get on with it and I’ll find a way to make sure that the day isn’t just a nothing day. It won’t be empty; it start empty.

I’m not going to read over that paragraph. I know it is a bit of a nonsense one.

So I sit here and I wait, and I wait some more, and I bide my time. I wait for work to start, and I wait for an outcome, and I don’t know where that outcome will go, but I do wait for it. I spend my time waiting, but I don’t just wait. I do other things and try to get to the end of it all in one piece. Maybe it will be two pieces, but I know that the conclusion of that waiting will be a lifting of a heavy weight I’ve chosen to carry for far too long, and that will lead to positive change, I hope.

Might not, but it might, and that’s the best I can hope for, but I need to wait, and I need to not procrastinate, and I need to stop doing these bits of rambling at the last minute. Need to give myself a bit more breathing time and space, and I need to jump into action shortly. It’s not the best way to operate, and so I need to turn that around. I’ll do that eventually.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:09:12

Some of this I like and some of this I don’t. I do think it flows quite well overall, but… yeah. I hit a bit of a bump early on. Not sure if I recovered.

Written at work.

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Underworld: Molehill

One listen.

This could be better. I feel like I was trying to write a review where I was trying to discern what the song is about, and I don’t think that worked here as I didn’t really go anywhere.

Underworld’s “Molehill” is from their project, DRIFT, and is included on DRIFT Episode 2: ATOM and DRIFT Series 1 – Complete.

I hope you enjoy.

Gentle and grandiose; waking up to something as the vocals rise up with all the instrumentation. They roll and flow and express the wide openness of possibility, and seem to soar slowly.

It’s a calm before action, in a sense. It’s harmonious expression and the building of drama in a stationary form, and maybe it’s a bit less than that. The sounds don’t change, but they follow melody fine; they follow what they themselves are creating, and maybe it’s all humble.

It’s possible that this is all more in line with imagination, and it’s imagining all that is underneath. It’s wondering what happens below. It’s nice and calm, in a sense, but it does have that budding energy.

As small as it is, it is large. It continues to explore, or reaffirm, or pull back, and it asks questions as much as it doesn’t.

Eventually most grows quiet and reveals guitar, or at least stringed sounds playing with a fragile playfulness. The vocals sit in a distance, almost as though they are in a large room nearby. They are clear, but still seem to drift as something indistinct.

Sound returns and holds on a form, and all flows as a lullaby, and moves toward a great release, but it never happens. The sounds pull back once more, a final vocal line comes out and those strings are left to fade away as the song ends.

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