Bocuma: Overcoming

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I had a bit of difficulty starting this one off. It became easier as the song went on and I think I was due to easing into the song, so to speak. Not a great writing; I feel I was too descriptive of what was happening with the song. I think that in part was due to expecting something else for some reason. I’ve heard this a few times over the past few days so I’m not sure why I was expecting something different.

Bocuma’s “Overcoming” is from The Day of Purple Dawning.

I hope you enjoy.

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A beat seems to pulse with scatterings of percussion. Voices make appearances here and there, almost as memories appearing as fragments. The percussion slightly adds to itself and changes whilst remaining as it was; soon gentle, almost thin waves of synth come on and carry a sense of the melancholic as much as they carry a sense of accepting and moving.

The voices remain and maybe they loop. They are as specific as they are vague and the synth seems to push up and against them whilst the beat continues on with its beating and pulsing.

A brief space as the synth seems to fade away into nothingness, but it comes back and it reaches out. The voices remain and the synth keeps on reaching, stretching to look for its new way to move forward, and its unease comes forward for a moment. It then carries certainty, but that certainty fades away, along with the beat, leaving fragments of conversation at the song’s end.

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Wreck on the Rocks

Posted on October 10, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

More of this boat.
The first shot was taken around the same time as the linked photo. The other two were taken on a different day.

I think these three photos each have a slightly different feel to them and show part of the wreck well enough. I like the third one the most, however, as I feel that it has the best balance of lighting and colour and the framing works better in that one than the others.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-twentieth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “One Subject Three Ways”.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Guest host

This one is hosted by Patti. Leya hosts the next one.

I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re open enough to allow for a fair bit of thinking about approach and closed enough to keep focus on meeting the theme of each one. If you don’t participate, you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1171: Need to Announce the Requirement to Pretend

Posted on October 10, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Here I am, once more at the end of another day.

Well, it hasn’t ended; it’s just late into the afternoon but that doesn’t sound as poetic or dramatic, though “end of another day” doesn’t either, so I don’t know where I’m going with this but you’re just going to have to pretend that I do know where I’m going with this and also you’re going to have to pretend that all of this is either, deep, meaningful, or both and neither at the same time.

You’re going to have to pretend a lot of things, or you’re not going to have to. It is yet to be decided but I’m sure that once it is decided there will be an announcement.

The announcement needs to be handled with finesse and so it also needs to be handled with some sort of other thing that it needs to be handled with of which I’m not sure. There needs to be a lack of celebration and merriment; it all needs to be firmly of itself and that way something can happen which will then lead to something else and it just continues to lead on into a series of mishaps, though some of them might be fun. Some might not, however, and so… yeah. Anyway, there will be an announcement on what will need to be done and following on from that announcement there will be a series of things that can be extrapolated from the information that would then be known and so everything will proceed in whatever direction it is required to proceed in.

I think that in saying all of this I need to remember that if the wrong information is provided then the wrong results will come forward and then I won’t know what to do as I will be revealed as someone that I cannot pretend to be, but then again that would always be known, but you may have to pretend to not know and so the revelation will come as a surprise. It might lead to some sort of defeat, but in that defeat shall come success as I’ll discover my true self and then I will no longer be able to be defeated… except for when I will be able to be defeated. However, if that does indeed happen, then any time where I am able to be defeated is yet to be determined.

I guess from there there will be a series of successes and those successes will lead to more successes and then those will lead to even more successes and all of everything will be so successful that I won’t know what to do with myself, but I guess I shouldn’t be worrying about that too much as there’s an announcement that needs to be made and I need to make it sooner rather than later, but instead of that I’ll just pretend you all already know if you need to pretend or not. It’s a bit easier that way.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:17:01

Not great writing but this was fun to write. I was worried about going into one of those “Dunno what to write” tangents again but I didn’t, so… yeah.

Written at home.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1170: Wasting Time Rambling

Posted on October 9, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

A week of going slow and taking it easy but there remains much to be done. Didn’t pan out as I had planned but I’m still here and so in still being here I can still do things and in being able to keep on doing things I can keep on doing things.

I think that I need to try and ramble out better introductions.

The sky has cleared though the rain is expected to return. For now I revel in being able to see the sky and hope that the rain remains at bay for a short while. There is work that needs to be done outside as well as inside and so I need to get that stuff done that is out there sooner rather than later and I don’t know where I am going with this so I think I’ll stop.

Sometimes it is easy to lose yourself among a series of things and a vortex of procrastination and so I need to be more careful about how I’m using the day. I need to show a little more control over the actions of the self so I don’t end up cramming everything into a very short moment in time as that is not what I want to be doing. There’s so much day to be squandered but I could fill it with the things and I’ve said this so many times and so I need to stop saying it as saying it over and over again is yet to solve anything and so I need to actually get on with the getting on, but maybe that will not be happening today. Maybe today I will let myself be slack a little longer and then I’ll panic and try and cram as much as possible within an hour and so that will set the whole thing out.

I think that this is saying nothing and maybe I’m just trying to say something even though I’ve got nothing to say. Maybe the words I write have been hollow and meaningless for as long as I’ve been writing them and really all they do is consume length on a limited thread. The clouds keep on drifting by but these words fill the space that I have and I leave them here. They do nothing other than clutter and in that there is no expression other than a clear need to move on and actually express something that I’ve not expressed as clearly as I have the banality of grand posturing. Perhaps I see that whilst I change I am not going anywhere and slowly I become the background that I wanted to so desperately avoid for so long, and even though I fight it I subconsciously welcome it and blend into a crowd as another face that goes nowhere other than wherever the amorphous mass spreads out for short periods of time.

Of course that all too could be meaningless rambling but I’m not getting into that right now.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:03:54

May have become something interesting toward the end, but the writing ended too soon for it to really take off, though it like was not going to go anywhere.

Written at home.

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Clifftop Platform

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

When I took this photo I probably should’ve gone for a different angle as the platform is barely visible.

I don’t know why there was a platform here. I’m sure I could find out if I looked into it but I don’t want to as I’d prefer to be left thinking about this. Makes it more mysterious and magical in a way, or at least allows me to consider it as mysterious and magical.

I hope you enjoy.

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Boz

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I don’t know who Boz is or was or is, but I know that I like how this looks a little gloomy. I’m pretty sure the clouds weren’t as ominous as they look here but it works for the overall atmosphere, which seems to be a little gloomy. Maybe a bit grim.

I hope you enjoy.

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Rain Moves Through The Megalong

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Another recent photo I took whilst on the way home from a recent trip to Bathurst.
I thought I’d shared more photos of The Megalong Valley outside of these two (and this one which isn’t so much about the valley, but it counts), but apparently I hadn’t.

I like how this photo turned out as the rain almost seems like a thin wall moving through the area. It’s also nice how there’s this stretch of sunlight coming through as it adds to the beauty of the scene.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-nineteenth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Treasure Hunt”.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Guest host

This one is hosted by Tina. Patti hosts the next one.

I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re open enough to allow for a fair bit of thinking about approach and closed enough to keep focus on meeting the theme of each one. If you don’t participate, you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Bare and Broken

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I saw this tree whilst driving home from Bathurst.

Tried to capture it with a bit of space and ended up with a photo that feels a bit grim, I think. Of course I’m just attaching that to this image, but that’s how it feels to me.

I wonder as to how the tree ended up like this but I have no answers. I’m guessing it has to do with people cutting it back, though maybe it was dying and parts of it have fallen off over time. I don’t know but I can guess.

I do like the space in this shot as it adds to the mood. As the sky was mostly overcast it helps to draw attention to the tree whilst also isolating it in space. It’s a tree surrounded by severe emptiness.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.
I suggest checking out Leanne’s photography, as well as checking out what other people submit.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1169: Tight on Time. Time to Ramble

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Time is a bit tighter than I thought it would, but had I taken more action throughout the day I’d be in less of a predicament. Soon there will be recording and it is recording in which I need to engage in as I’ve been putting it off for far too long. This will of course be followed by more procrastination but sometimes you just procrastinate and when you do that things still happen and things will still happen, but I’ve got to be more of an active participant in those things.

Maybe it’s not the best idea to rush ahead with doing things right now and maybe I should be preparing but that is just what I do. Of course I could do things differently but I won’t and so this will continue and as it continues I will continue to do the thing that I always do. Such is the way of things that I allow to happen and I’ll probably keep allowing them to happen for some reason.

Maybe I shouldn’t be writing about this as it offers nothing. Of course it’s good to think about but unless I take action, all I’m doing is spinning the wheels whilst keeping them off the ground.

Sometimes spinning is a thing that happens but I’m not here to spin things; I’m just here to crap on into a void filled with detailed nothingness and I keep on going on and that’s the way it all goes. Such is the way of things, or something. Maybe there is no way of things and really all I’m doing is trying to find some sort of anchor point in a reality filled with chaos and nothingness so as to be able to better justify my actions or lack thereof. Maybe there is nothing at all to go on about and so I should stop doing what I’m doing and actually do something and then go from there, but… well, as all things that seem to be cyclical, this is cyclical and I’m sure that I’ll get on with the getting on soon enough.

I think about how, two months ago I was getting a fair bit more done but I also was doing a lot of walking. I’ve heard it said that exercise is good for productivity and maybe it is, but maybe what really is good for productivity is being healthy where possible. It probably is but I don’t actually know as that’s not something I studied and I doubt I ever will, but I still will do my best to be better, but that’s not important right now. What is important is making sure that this month is a busy one. There is a lot to do and I need to start doing it for if I don’t I won’t get enough done and it’ll be another month of things piling up for no reason.

Anyway, with all of that said I guess I should actually wrap this rambling up.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:32:39

Not the worst writing I’ve done and not the best.

Written at home.

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Susumu Yokota: Saku

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This is a song I’d not listened to before. Thought it would make for interesting writing.
I think that, whilst I captured a sense of the song I ended up being more cautious in my writing than I should have.

Susumu Yokota’s “Saku” is from Sakura.

I hope you enjoy.

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Warm, gentle and maybe even a little soft. Slowly sounds fade in and a slight run of keys move up whilst the opening continues its entry to prominence. More keys look for space and slightly draw out on their single presses.

Something else begins to fade in, looking to have a meeting become a bigger gathering. It slides down and up and back and forth. Something flashing also finds its way in and stays more in the background, and slowly all the sounds coalesce into something whole whilst others appear here and there.

Peaceful and almost inward-looking and for a moment there is a sense of stillness. All is there and motionless, but it is only a brief moment and soon sounds start moving away. It all starts to strip down and it seems that there is a nakedness. The motion is bare and it is vulnerable and it stands there, unwilling to hesitate and be anything other than itself.

Here is a single moment once more frozen. It stays and there seems a slight watching in the distance, but it is faint and it is not the moment for anything other than that opening warm, gentle and maybe even a little soft sound. It stays and lingers as it fades away at the song’s end.

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