patches of blue sky

A few of my favourite things include packets of jelly babies, listening to passing trains, bourbon and photographs. A few years ago I spent a day routing around the garage to drop a suitcase at my feet and it to split open which was full of old black and white photos of my family. They all stared back and smiled at the camera without the knowledge and history which surrounds all of them.

I have a wry smile about it all but I realise that for every picture a story told, the pains, the problems and all the other things which we quickly forget are never caught. I remember them and tie my own stories around it, but I know that when I'm gone the photos mean nothing. Maybe they will end up on someone's wall as a calender of old immigrant families. I try to rewind into the past and I quietly rack my brains, finally remember it was 10 years ago and I’m playing Famicom with my uncle. I don’t remember anything else, just playing Famicom for the first time in my life thinking why I never had one at home in England. I never had that in a picture.

We fast forward into the present and the opposite is true of the world now. We are under a deluge of cheap pictures streamed from peoples digital cameras and mobile phones. They take so many pictures in an effort to capture the moment of all the happiness, the emotion, even the sadness. And really it’s the same, it captures nothing, people smiling inanely, drunken moments of people pulling faces. I wonder how we will all feel this generation for all the millions upon millions of bytes of photographic data, when they look back on it all. I'm as guilty as anyone of it so maybe this is the future or maybe I’m just playing at being nostalgic.

Those pictures from the past were something, I hope to bring you some new pictures without the drunken escapades over the next few weeks my beautiful eggs.

I looked through the window pane and could only think of one person.
If someone gave you a boarding pass like this, would you let them fly?

musik

• Titanic Vandalism- The Go Team!
• Crosstown Traffic- Jimi Hendrix
• A Thousand Apologies- Lost Prophets
• Revol- Manic Street Preachers
• How Could I Just Kill A Man- Rage Against The Machine
• Knights of Cydonia- Muse
• 風の谷のナウシカ- 君をのせて
• 夢中人- 王菲

kino

• Chungking Express- Wong Kar Wai

vershieden

• Learning White Boards do indeed fight back,
• Navy nurses that can't do slings.
• Goetz for being a drunken loon with the policeman's helmet.
• Finding random curry houses with Mr Baker even when he should be playing football.
• Drinking with Oldlady and seeing him dance in front of me.
• Jay revealing his geekdom very slowly.
• Plane tickets with a boarding pass like this.