Cliffs Among The Rain

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I thought I’d shared a photo of this specific bit of The Blue Mountains before, but I’m unable to find it right now. If I do I’ll update and link it to here.

A bit of rain in this photo which makes sense as it was raining. Creates a fog-like appearance which I like.

In parts against the cliffs it almost looks like the rain is getting concentrated. Maybe it’s more mist at those points; maybe it’s a trick of the light. I don’t know why some of the rain appears that way, but it’s nice.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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Weathered Wood

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I was trying to get a particular angle when I took this photo. It didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped but I still like the result. There’s a sense of distance, though these bits of wood are close together. There’s also a nice balance in colour, I feel.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1177: Awake for too Long, but not so Long That I Cannot Ramble

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

It is not yet eight in the morning and I already feel as though I have been awake for far too long. To be fair, I woke up before five this morning and I have not been able to get back to sleep, so I guess that is why I feel I have been awake for far too long. It’s not the worst thing in the world though so it doesn’t matter too much.

I went for a walk and on that walk I walked through some light rain. I was listening to music whilst I walked and I thought about the rain and how it seemed so dramatic despite just going for a walk. There was nothing major about it; just things seemed to line up in a way that led to me thinking about something which makes me think about how we assign meaning to things for various reasons.

I could say it’s all meaningless but it isn’t. A series of coincidences still can mean something on a personal level and that can (and often does) matters more than breaking things down and pointing out how these don’t necessarily mean anything but someone is assigning meaning to them, and really there is a time and place to discuss that kind of technical wankery so I’m not going to go into that right now as I don’t want to, to be honest.

Anyway, it rained a little and I was listening to music and I thought about the value of assigning meaning to things, though I actually didn’t think about that but more about how what I was experiencing lined up and I could perceive it as dramatic, and I kept on walking and walking along and saw some of my suburb in a bit of shitty weather. It was a nice walk but now I’m here and I’m feeling as though once more time is slowing down and I’m just here to experience what is going on. I’m here to take advantage of what time I have before I need to start doing the thing that involves work and getting paid.

The day puts itself in front of me and I’m looking forward to what is coming, though at the same time I’m also looking forward to the day of work being over. It’s one of those “A lot to do, a lot will get in the way of doing” days but I’m here. I’m ready to be really tired before the day of work is over and I’m ready to try and get to the end of it whilst feeling awake enough to get stuff done.

I’m also looking forward to a lot of things but those things will come at a later date and are rather immaterial at the moment.

I think that what with this being awake for too long happening today, I should take it as some sort of sign that some sort of fate awaits me in some sort of rather mysterious manner.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:07:52

Slower than I hoped and this was a bit of a struggle. I think I was trying to go for the mundane but it didn’t quite pan out.

Written at home.

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Small Under Clouds

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This was taken a few weeks ago.

Not too sure what I can say about this photo. Large clouds hang in the sky and they make all underneath appear small. Perhaps that is in part due to the clouds not being entirely in the frame. Maybe it’s the silhouetting and framing. Not sure.

I think these scene feels like something growing quiet and that probably has to do with the sunset.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1176: Pretty Close

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Alright, here we go. It is another evening and once more I am doing this far, far too late, so what I’m gonna do is aim for under four minutes. Not sure if I will make it and it’s probably a bad idea to do at this present moment in time, but I’m still going to do it as I think I can, but maybe I cannot right now, but I’m sure that I can some time in the future.

It is warm and that is a good thing. Makes it a bit easier to churn out a load of crap in a short amount of time. Just had dinner and so I’m feeling satiated to some extent which also makes it a little easier to get all of this done. If I can get it all done, then I can get more done too and if I can get more done then I can get a lot done. I need to get this done first, however.

Well, I don’t need to get this done at all. This is something that I have no need to do, but I am still doing it for some reason. This offers nothing outside of some ability to congratulate myself for doing something, and you can bet that I will be really smug about it for all of three seconds, though that is a generous amount of time as I doubt I’ll be smug at all.

Who is to say, really?

So anyway, I think that I need to stay on the task and keep on racing ahead as I have very little time, but I can get this done and then I can do a few other things. I’ve already said that but I am already struggling and so now is the time to struggle with all of the might I have, for even if I am struggling, I can still get on with the getting on and I can get to then top of whatever it is that I need to get to the top of. Once I’ve done that I will do something else and then I will do some other things and I think I will have a bit of a sleep later on as I am also quite tired and in a dire need of rest which cannot come soon enough, though of course it will come exactly when it comes and that is something I have some control over.

In that regard I guess I should be thankful and so I will be thankful, but before that I will get this finished and this needs to be finished and I’m right near the end so I need to keep on going as fast as I can and I think That I will make it, but I need to pay attention as I might not and if I don’t, at least I tried. Should’ve done some other things but I didn’t and now I’m here and that is fine.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 04:00:31

Technically I finished this in under four minutes but I didn’t stop the timer in time and I’m okay with that as it doesn’t matter.

The result isn’t that great. Reads poorly.

Written at home.

 

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Jesu: Morning Light

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I don’t quite think I captured the song well with this one. Some of the description is, in a sense, accurate, but I think that in parts I wrote something that feels a little different. Maybe. Not sure.

Jesu’s “Morning Light” is from Opiate Sun.

I hope you enjoy.

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A low hum, then guitars roar calmly. Waves of distortion wash on over whilst percussion strikes out at specific moments. It is slow and careful, but also sharp and striking. It rolls on forward with the guitar, and vocals find themselves drawing out, almost floating on above and through the sound. They seem to be come from somewhere else entirely, and they move along with the guitar and percussion as they continue to move around and over.

The vocals stop and the percussion picks up whilst the guitar pulls back a little. A bit of thrust reveals itself and soon more guitar sound finds its way in, moving under, through and over the rhythm. It seems to glide and move around from somewhere else, looking around and finding itself in a joyous and maybe dreamlike position as a sky shifts and changes.

Soon the additional guitar fades away and the remaining sounds change direction, and start moving along with a greater pace. They appear to be racing toward something, though it seems almost vague what they are racing toward. They are reaching for something climactic; perhaps a moment that will summarise everything neatly.

The additional guitar comes back and it underscores the rhythmic drive of the music. It shifts slightly but remains focused, much like the rest of the sounds. It pushes on and with the rest of the sounds it finds its final moment.

The percussion pulls away and the guitars draw out as they rest at the song’s end.

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Bangalow Palm Fronds

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I took this photo last month and I like the framing as well as the contrast between fronds, but I’ve been hesitant to share this one and I’m not sure why. Maybe in part I feel I could’ve done a better job with the photo.

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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Andy Summers: Journey Through Blue Regions

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Two listens for this one.

I tried to let myself be loose with what I wrote and, even though there were times when I think I was thinking too much, I think the result works. I was just expressing what I was getting from the song and so this does little to describe it, but the writing reads well enough. It came from the song and so in a sense it’s representative of what the song was doing.

Andy Summers’ “Journey Through Blue Regions” is from The Golden Wire.

I hope you enjoy.

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Guitar loops and leads to looking inward. A landscape unfolds and it reveals itself as a beautiful place that must be moved through. Moving through it is easy, but it continually shifts. It refuses to allow anything to remain familiar.

Perhaps there is a peace that needs to be reached and in that peace the truth of what is seen will be revealed. Maybe there is nothing changing at all but it seems that way and all that it really shows is a reflection. Maybe it is trying to reach out and make some sort of connection and allow the path to remain clear.

Perhaps there is turmoil that is preventing a moment of calm and that turmoil must be dealt with first, and perhaps moving through a landscape doesn’t matter in the slightest as what is important is resolution and acceptance.

Whatever it is that matters, it is calling out and its call is inescapable. It grips and it pulls in and it reveals some sort of beauty and grace, but before it reveals all the song ends.

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Pinched Break

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Some wave action and I feel that the main wave in this photo looks a little odd due to the rock platform it’s washing over.

There’s some nice texture stuff in this one, as well as colouring I think.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1175: Muscle Strain Leads to Rambling

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

It is another day and it is another time where I am sitting here. The day passes on by and I try to take care of the muscle I strained whilst taking off a jacket.

It really is one of those days.

Now to be honest I’m not sure if that really has any relevance to the state of the day but we sure do like to claim that days are some sort of themselves. However, that is entirely irrelevant to what I am about to write, but of course relevancy is relative in this particular instance and so what I’m really saying is that there are many ways to get from here to where I need to be and it is up to me to work out what the best way forward happens to be, if there is really any best way forward and not just a series of decisions that will lead to another series of decisions and so on and so forth, where all decisions have equal weighting and chance of outcome, though I imagine that some might be worse than others.

If I worry too much about making a decision and remain indecisive, then maybe that also constitutes making a decision, though through the act of being indecisive, or something. I don’t know; this is not something I’ve spent much time thinking about and I imagine that, had I done so in the first place, Is till wouldn’t have anything that could be certain or conclusive as there needs to be the gaining of knowledge through various means so as to be able to think more deeply and, perhaps at the same time, wider about the subject in question, whatever that happens to be in this particular moment of time and at this particular juncture. Then again, maybe all of this is all the same thing and really what I’m trying to work out is what decision I’ll actively make so as to go forward in the day, as even though the day moves forward I’m not really doing much movement myself and so I’m kind of just sitting here, trying to work things out and not really getting anything done other than ruminating on things that need not be ruminated upon right this moment, though maybe they do and I am trying to deny that through the means of denying that in a way that allows for the denial to manifest as a physical form and then take over everything in a manner that expresses some proactive assertiveness, thus freeing me from my own hesitation surrounding making an affirmative decision as there is something else making the decision for me.

Of curse I could just get on with whatever it is that I need to get on with, but that is nowhere near as fun, or as tedious and tiresome as not doing so and so I think that instead of any of that I’ll just finish off this lengthy sentence and then do nothing.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:48:98

This was really fun. Pointless, rambling and goes mostly nowhere, or does it? Does it even matter? In any event I felt that this was a good run, if at least in terms of speed.

Written at home.

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