One Thousand Word Challenge 187: There are Better Things for me to do

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Giving it another go as my hands are warmer right now and so that might just mean that I will be able to do to it again. I think. I do not actually know as to what it means, but I can only hope and in hoping there is the chance for success, so long as I see it to the end and see to it that I make sure that I stay committed to the task at hand.

You see, there are many things and seeing that there are may things, I have chosen one of the things. I am talking about the doing of things, of course, but this is the thing that I have chosen to do. Sure, I could do some editing as that is required. I could also do some reading which is also required. I could also work on reviews that I need to work on, but I have chosen this. I have chosen to do this at this particular juncture in time and I don’t know if I will get to the end in one piece but I imagine I will. I also imagine that it does not matter too much as once more I am being dramatic about something that there is no need to be dramatic about. Such is the way of things I suppose.

So anyway, it is the evening and I am mashing the keyboard a lot harder than I need to, but that is what I am currently doing and so I continue on. I need to beat the timer this time. Well, I don’t, but I would like to. I have a strong desire to be faster than the timer and so I keep on going and I keep on typing and I keep trying to get my thoughts about the action of racing the timer down in a way that expresses some sort of coherency, but there is no telling until the whole thing is over.

There is jazz playing in the background and perhaps it is the perfect kind of jazz for what I am doing right now. It is nice and it flows well and it has a sense of energy to it, but also a sense of calm, if that make sense. Maybe I just find it highly inviting and that makes me think that it has more calm in it than it really does. I do have to admit that it certainly has a liveliness and it certainly has some sort of power in it and it is welcoming in ways that imply that it is welcoming and so on and so forth.

I think I got stuck there for a moment and so I will continue to race on. There is a goal that I am trying to reach and trying to reach it is what I will continue to do and so in continuing to try and reach that goal I will continue to try and reach that goal.

There still is a while to go.

And so I continue to race on in the hopes that I will make this in under eight minutes. There are thoughts that continue to run through my head and I keep racing to try and get them down but nothing is coming out. Such is the way of things in this bit of writing. Maybe I should slow down but right now I do not want to. I want to try and reach what it is that I am trying to reach. I might get there; I might not. Whoever, what I will do is get all of this down in a timely manner, as they say. However, what applies here is hard to tell and so I keep on going and I try to keep on going at an accelerated pace.

I think I can do it, but I need to keep on going. I need to try and get as many words down as I possibly can. Should try using shorter words and I think I mostly am, but there is no telling as to what will come next.

Sometimes writing like this is really an awful experience. It hurts the hands and it leads to very little being said. However, it is good practise and I need to keep that in mind. I need to keep the pace and I need to try and keep on going. It still is a form of exercise and it still is a form of skill development. I am still learning and developing and perhaps I am also improving in a way. However, I should be more careful. I don’t want to hurt myself and I don’t want to make it harder for me to write.

So I keep on going and I keep on trying and I try to get to the end of all of this in the hopes that I get there with a goal completed, and maybe I will. Maybe I will get there. Maybe I will not. However, I will keep on trying as that is what I want to do at the present moment.

Now is the hard part as there is a minute left and so I need to try and get as many words as I can down but I do not think that I can do it. However, I tried and trying is the main thing and so I will keep on trying. I will try to get there and I will keep on trying until I get to the end. That is the point of this and so I keep on going and I keep on trying and almost there. I have almost made it, but I will miss the mark this time, but perhaps next time I won’t.

I really do not want to read back on all of this as I know it is a mess of thoughts but I will have to. However, that is something for later and not now.

The time it took to write one thousand words: 08:32:56

This probably wasn’t the best thing for me to do. I’m glad I did it but I think I should’ve spent the time doing other things.

Written at home.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1130: Concentration is Key

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

So I sit here and all that other stuff and I don’t want to go on about that right now. Attempting to get this written in under four minutes and so concentration is key. Will I get there? I do not know. However, I know that today I won’t as I am already slowing down and that is not a good thing. I need to go faster and not slower. However, slowing is what I am doing and so this is already cursed. Maybe that is too strong a word to use here but that is how it feels and so I will carry on and be dramatic and all of those other things that I will go on about and so on an so forth.

Then again, there is always hope and there is always determination. I am determined to get to the end of this at the very least but I need to pick up the speed so I can get there. This is strenuous and stressful but I feel driven and that is a good thing. However, I should feel driven about the right things and this probably is not the right thing to feel driven about. Still, I’m pushing through my sluggish hands and the cold is making them sluggish and I am pushing through and perhaps that is extraordinary, if only due to the sheer laziness that I have grappled with over the past few weeks and months.

I will just keep on pushing through and hoping for the best and all that other stuff. I hope there isn’t much spelling that I need to fix but I don’t know at this present moment. I’m so on focus when it comes to looking at the keyboard and I don’t know if any of this is coming through clearly, but its more of an exercise than anything else really and so none of that matters right how. What matters is getting to the end and hoping I get to the end in one piece. I don’t think I will but I might and I keep on going and hoping and all those other things.

Still, with all of that being said, so long as I stay focused I can get there. I can get somewhere and that somewhere is the end of this and at the end of this there will be the sense of accomplishment regardless of if I get under four minutes or not. That’s okay and then I will move toward whatever else it is that I will crap on about for the day, assuming that I crap on about anything else at all. There is a good chance that I will, but there also is a good chance that I won’t.

What am I saying here? I do not know, but I imagine that it involves things and it involving things is something that I always do, but that is for another day as right now getting to the end matters more.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 04:26:11

This was rough to write due to my hands being pretty cold.
Not good writing but it served a purpose and I’m somewhat okay with the result.

Written at home.

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Across the Way

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This is a view from a spot in the La Perouse area.
From this vantage point it almost looks like a quiet day on the water.

I was trying to capture a certain something when I took this photo and I tried to further that in processing. It was more the look rather than any form of meaning but I do like how there’s a certain feeling to this.

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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Mars Kumari: Funeral Day

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This was really easy to write and I’m glad as I feel this reads decently.
I’m certain it could be much better, but this still feels like an improvement.

Mars Kumari’s “Funeral Day” featuring Nina Spheres is from MARS KUMARI TYPE BEAT.

I hope you enjoy.

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An series looms at a distance, or at least it seems eerie. Slowly it comes into view, almost as though a fog clearing but not enough to make out if some things are voices and if so, what they are saying.

A layer of sadness comes in and slowly sounds carry that sadness and process it through mourning. Heaviness wells up and fades away, giving way to new form and new shape as sounds draw out and prolong, moving away to disappear.

A beat comes in and occasionally staggers whilst ambience sits low in the background, there and almost part of the process but disconnected. The beat compresses and seems to also fade away, much like everything else but it comes back and continues its stagger before the fade takes over.

Sentiment lingers and loops and repeats and much of the sounds remain soft and hold both a cold and warm feel. Eventually a slight pause comes in and the staggering beat returns once more, almost as a contrast against the muted and low sounds that slowly move about what little space is afforded to them.

The ambience returns, but it seems different, and the beat fades out, leaving it some space. However, before anything else suddenly the song ends,.

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Train Travels Forward

Posted on July 26, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I hadn’t taken a photo of a train in a while when I took this photo last month.
It was a quick shot in a series of quick shots and a lot of it had to be cut due to my not paying enough attention to the light. Oh well.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-ninth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
The theme for this one is “Surreal“.

This one is a bit of a reach as this photo doesn’t capture what I’m about to talk about well enough; I feel that there’s a sense of surrealism when you look at a train from a certain angle such as the below and see how it follows tracks because at points it looks much longer than it is and oddly curved. It looks more like it is sort of stretching along the tracks.

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 guest-hosted by Tracy of Reflections of an Untidy Mind. The next is also guest-hosted and the theme has been announced in advance:

July 30 – Sarah Wilkie, who hosts Travel with Me (Three Favourite Images)

I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re enjoyable and allow room for interpretation of the theme without straying too far. If you don’t participate, then I recommend that you at least check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1129: Fill the Space

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I should be doing other things. I really should. I should be going for a walk and basking in the sun and I should be embracing what little warmth there is left in the day.

It has been a long day and I’ve probably done a lot to make it long. Now colours creep across the sky and soon the sky will grow dark as night descends upon this little place, though it doesn’t descend so much as it fades in.

An evening of hours stretches out and layers itself forward and it is up to me to walk the path that is now created and so on and so forth, but I don’t know if I can but I will and all that other junk.

What a day.

It was long and it was tiring, but that isn’t really something to complain about. There are far, far worse things out there and I got to here and so that is its own small victory. There is always tomorrow, but I need to get enough sleep and all that other stuff and I need to get on with getting on and find the way forward in order to go backward so that when I am looking sideways I know the ways that lead to the sides and all those other things that I need to know in order to know, you know?

I think that in saying all of that I can successfully proclaim that I’ve said a lot to say very little and so the rambling will continue. It will continue and it will fill the space. There will be nothing but rambling and the rambling will coalesce and hopefully there will be something with substance at the end of it all. I cannot guarantee a thing, of course, but I do try and trying is what I do and so doing the trying is what I will try to do.

I think that in saying all of that I need to think of all the other things and then fold them over each other so that I can create layers. Layers of nothing still produce layers of something and through that the true meaning of understanding will be understood and the way forward will finally be revealed and I’ll know that the glowing orb that lays at the end of this path of hours will be little more than an object and it was never about receiving the object but the journey. It was all about the journey and what I learned and how I changed, and I changed in a way that I could ever return from and so in knowing that I can no longer feel comfortable with what it was that I had and that which was around me and so, whilst shedding tears I walk off into a distance to try and find that which I will find as a place that I can accept as a place I may once more find comfort.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:17:28

This came forward really easily. It just kind of rolled out.
Not good writing, however.

Written at home.

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Joe Hisaishi: Wave Cruising

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This was over two listens.
Had some difficulty getting going at the start and the song seemed to keep getting ahead of me which probably means I should’ve kept my sentences brief. I’m okay with the result but I feel this is one where shorter would’ve been much better.

I tried to capture the song’s progressing and I think I got some of it here. Doesn’t say much but I guess it would make sense if listening to the song.

Joe Hisaishi’s (久石譲) “Wave Cruising” is from the soundtrack for A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海).

I hope you enjoy.

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A beat strikes out rapidly and steadily whilst descending. Soon something akin to bass joins in and thumps away before taking off. Keys and something akin to strings seem to frame and mark points of some sort of intensity but it quickly peels away and soon all is gliding over the waves. It is fast and energetic and almost freeing in a sense.

Sound seems to move through the rhythm and melody on its lonesome with a sense of weight but also with a sense of the cool. However, it soon disappears and something more playful comes in, fluttering in bits. It too seems on its own but it continues a changing thread of feeling.

A quick snare hit and suddenly the beat changes slight shape whilst other sounds trail off part, but it is brief and soon the familiar returns. That original sound carrying the sense of cool returns and meets piano, finding some sort of contrast and harmony.

The beat finds itself alone for a moment. There is space and there is some sort of tension. A few strikes on keys, however and soon it all picks back up. That cool continues on and it feels welcoming and comforting, much like a breeze and it continues on dancing with piano. There is some confidence and determination and all keep on racing onward toward a sudden stop at the song’s end.

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Joe Hisaishi: Island Song

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I wrote about this song last night and I found the result to be more lacking than usual so I decided to see if I could do better today. The result is similar but it reads better I feel. There’s a bit more in it that allows the writing to move forward, though it’s still really rough.

Joe Hisaishi’s (久石譲) “Island Song” is from the soundtrack for A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海).

I hope you enjoy.

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Gentle sounds roll in and lap at a shoreline. Peace and shade form in a bright scene and the slowly percussion moves in. The percussion is gentle, as are the smooth strings and the percussive strings.

Woodwind floats and glides along the rhythm and the melody and all seems in a state of harmony. There is room for relaxation and a sense of calm. Piano keys come in and shimmer on the surface, remaining delicate and careful and precise and help keep things feeling scenic and at ease. A hint of joy and contentment seeps through and there is fun and some energy there, but it is harmonious.

The sounds rise and fall, moving gently and carefully. They almost seem to caress and hold a form of the idyllic and it all remains easy and smooth. It all remains gentle as sounds move and flow and do little to change shape, for there is no need.

Soon the sounds find a final point, they keys sound off with a slight conclusion and strings draw out as the song ends.

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Concrete Underside

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I don’t actually know if the main material here is concrete.
It could be a mix of things.

Anyway, this is more underside of Gladesville Bridge. I took this photo as at the time I thought the intersecting was interesting. Still do but I feel I could’ve done a much better job of capturing this part of the bridge.

Oh well.

I hope you enjoy.

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Gladesville Bridge Stretches Away

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Yet another photo of this part of Gladesville Bridge.

This was taken at the start of this month. I think I was trying to mostly make the bridge look long, which it kind of is and is not.

I think I succeeded.

I hope you enjoy.

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