In June 2008, Germany beat Portugal 3-2 in a knockout soccer match. The winning goal was scored by a German who simultaneously pushed a Portuguese aside as he scored but was not called for a foul.
Germany-Portugal was like a battle between the head and the heart, the part that rejoices when the birds sing versus [...]
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A short parody about justice
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So much standing here
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is a performance I did last week in front of my uni class and lecturers, an audience of about a hundred. My best mate here in Wodonga played a bass guitar as a backing tune and I sang the chorus bit (the rest I did as spoken-word, with gestures). It felt good, cause I’d generally made a [...]
Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beer, filthy angel fairies with cigarettes and dirty socks, hippos, jams, lack, love, party, transformers on July 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Love is saved? I don’t know, but I think I’ve moved on to a world where people don’t emo out over unattainable things from years ago. I went to a mini-‘party’ on Friday, and didn’t end up brushing my teeth or changing my clothes or going home again until one o’clock on a Sunday afternoon [...]
Planet 2000
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How’s your world these days? I wonder about the world sometimes, the countries that have spent two hundred years meshing with each other and are fast losing power to the fat-cat corporations, China excepted. Here’s how I see the puzzle:
United States: They spent 170 years building themselves up, sixty more being an empire, but what [...]
Ana Cecilia, or kind things people have said to me
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve lost my mojo with this blog, and seemingly my audience too, slim as it was. Maybe I just said everything I needed to say, and need to go through new things to be able to say any more. But there is one night that I still need to talk about: Peru, and Ana Cecilia… [...]
2004
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about America lately. Not the America that’s on TV, or the political America, but my own personal one, the one that I’m kind of intrigued by but certainly don’t want to get too close to. My impression of America is not the pristine one that I saw so many times as a [...]
Mali of my heart
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Given the tumbleweeds that drift through this blog these days, I’m abandoning all pretence of being relevant and will just write about what is in my head, what I think about, and I might even hit the snooze button soon. This piece is a rambling, rolling fantasy and if it sounds like demented dream, that’s [...]
The Tribulation of Black Americans
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Black people seem to be a people apart in America. Black America is an almost completely separate society with its own code of conduct and behaviour, its own dress sense and almost its own dialect of the English language. It also seems to be a much derided and despised group that at a glance would [...]
On how it is
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We only have so many credits in the eyes of other people, and each time we complain about something we lose a few. It’s best to save our arguments for things that really matter to us, because then people say: “Oh, he/she never complains, so if he’s complaining now something must really be fucked up.” [...]
Paraguay, Hijo de hombre
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I long for Paraguay as much as I long to breathe. The existence of that country is one more thing that is there in my mind, perhaps an ambition, perhaps a place, perhaps the representation of a dream or a representation of the concept itself of simply wanting, perhaps simply the sound of a word.
It [...]
