The classics never loose their value...

They just take a new shine.

The last few days have been eventful to say the least. Being reunited with some old friends is always a good occasion. Noticing that you can feel pain again is priceless.

Edith Piaf
Mon manège à moi

Tu me fais tourner la tête
Mon manège à moi, c'est toi
Je suis toujours à la fête
Quand tu me tiens dans tes bras

Je ferais le tour du monde
Ça ne tournerait pas plus que ça
La terre n'est pas assez ronde
Pour m'étourdir autant que toi...

Ah! Ce qu'on est bien tous les deux
Quand on est ensemble nous deux
Quelle vie on a tous les deux
Quand on s'aime comme nous deux

On pourrait changer de planète
Tant que j'ai mon cœur près du tien
J'entends les flons-flons de la fête
Et la terre n'y est pour rien

Ah oui! Parlons-en de la terre
Pour qui elle se prend la terre?
Ma parole, y a qu'elle sur terre!!
Y a qu'elle pour faire tant de mystères!

Mais pour nous y a pas d'problèmes
Car c'est pour la vie qu'on s'aime
Et si y avait pas de vie, même,
Nous on s'aimerait quand même

Car...
Tu me fais tourner la tête
Mon manège à moi, c'est toi
Je suis toujours à la fête
Quand tu me tiens dans tes bras

Je ferais le tour du monde
Ça ne tournerait pas plus que ça
La terre n'est pas assez ronde...
Mon manège à moi, c'est toi!

A tiny little spark is all you need

I will just put the video and the lyrics of the song.
How I got to meet it is another story which may or not be told.

ROYKSOPP
Sparks

No matter gay or grim;
it's those tiny little sparks
daily life that makes me
forget my wounded heart

It doesn't matter when
it may rain or it may shine
blurred memories of us
come back from time to time

No matter gay or grim;
it's those tiny little sparks
daily life that makes me
forget my soaky heart

It doesn't matter when
it may rain or it may shine
you will always be here
stored inside my mind.

What can I say... it feels good to find this sort of gems.

The pains of growing up

Halfway to the bottom- Aqualung

You're either dipping your toe
Or you're drowning
You're either dipping your toe
Or you're drowning
Is it better never to start
Than to bear the pain
Of having to stop
Of having to stop

Halfway to the bottom
Instantly forgotten

I never thought it would come
So easy
I never thought it would go
So quickly
Is it safer never to love
Than to risk your heart
Having to lose
Having to lose

Halfway to the bottom
Instantly forgotten
I don't know
Which way to go

Is it wiser never to speak
Than to raise your voice
And never be heard
Never be heard
Never be heard

I made a decision 10 months ago to change everything. To throw my old self out of the window and out of the bits that I found when I hit the floor I am re-building, without re-inventing my new me. The decision was not carefully thought through and planned. But I am finally beginning to reach the point in which the lyrics of the above song do not apply anymore. And that feels good, very good. Its a few long days at work with several sad stories happening to people I care about. Now I have to start applying what I learn to other aspects.
Basis for this renaissance are some people I have met for which I should make more time. Just a few pints and a few glasses of "Rusty Nail" with them have gone a long way in that direction. What can I say, I am starting to stand up again. Falling at this point is compulsory, and indeed that already happened.

Is this life then?

I don't know but this video definitely did touch me.
The pursuit through hard work and pain of a moment of bliss.
Is that moment really worth it?

Really thousands of versions and related content out there... so browse around.

Existential time

Existential time, originally uploaded by Prozak is gone.

Whenever you expect it the least you meet people that are open, with whom you talk about things you do not normally talk about. The things that matter deep down. The sort of exchange that only happens amongst sufferers of a very unique condition: Insomnia. The picture was not from yesterday but from a while ago. I do no longer enjoy the company of this old fairy of mine. But I surely recognise its effects in my life, all those nights of endless thinking with not much new to discover have finally paid of. Insomnia has become an asset now that it is gone. Who would have thought so? Who would have told me back then that benefits would have been derived from that suffering? I am thankful to a person I met last night for teaching me this.

Lets hope we bump again into each others path. Ubuntu, its so true.

And then you find this sort of thing

Gender differences? Not really.

Holiday snaps

A lot of people have been asking to see holiday pics from my last few days in Spain.
And repeatedly have asked for them to be on the blog. This may not be the best pic ever but at least it will provide some calm to the people that inquired. If not ... well. Its life!!!