13/04/2011
I can’t quite remember who coined the term “Echoes” to describe those odd, sometimes puzzling or even spooky coincidences we sometimes experience.
You know what I mean. You meet a random person at a party who turns out to be your second cousin. You and your new romance discover that you were both following the same band on tour the same year.
—apparent non sequitur change of subject—
I’ve told you about my girlfriend Kaja. She’s an artist. Traditional; She paints pictures.
Me. I’m no artist. I used to do some illustration work though. I was never any good at finishing stuff unless it was paid work, but I did try to express some feelings now and then. Usually with crude and crass symbolism.
—another apparent non sequitur that actually reveals the punchline—
2005 wasn’t a real good year for Kaja. She was going through some pretty ugly personal problems and was troubled with anxiety and depression.
It was a pretty crappy year for me too. In fact, it marked a personal low for me. Never before, and thankfully; Never after have I felt so depressed.
So Kaja, visual girl, painted a painting that represented her feelings.
It’s pretty telling. A girl (the artist) crouched over in defeat with spikes driven into her back. “What is more noble…” She is trapped between light and dark. Roadkill between two states of being.
When I saw this in her portfolio, some 6 years later, I immediately started going through my old archived folders. Turns out that in that same year, before depression turned me completely incapacitated I made this (obviously unfinished) illustration:
That is all…
23/03/2011
It was not my intention to turn this blog into some mock re-enactment of the bipolar curve, but…
shit…
It’s on me again.
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10/02/2011
This is a shortie. I just want to tell you a couple of things pretty quickly.
1. One microgram is one millionth of a gram.
2. One microgram of certain stuff may make an enormous fucking difference in your brain.
3. Happiness is chemistry.
4. As is unhappiness.
6. These are some stats.
7. That’s all for now. I’m good. Thanks for asking. I hope you’re doing alright as well.
22/01/2010
Let me get the cheesy redundant joke done right off the bat:
On top of my list of things to get done is to finish Dave Allens Getting Things Done.
How droll. What fun.
On top of the personal hit list of Andy Kim of The Potion Factory I’m willing to bet a few shillings you’ll find “Finish The Hit List Touch”, the fabled iPhone companion app to The Hit List Mac. I’m not sure that’s sound prioritizing though. I think perhaps he should bump up “Reconsider customer communication strategies” to number 1.
If you’re unacquainted with the app, its history and the state of things today, let me offer a brief summary.
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31/12/2009
Throughout the year I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about some of the personal stuff that has been going on lately. There’s been a lot of it. Every time I wrote a post however I decided it was too revelatory, too emo, too whiny or too something else. This is a personal post, and it’s probably too “something”, but I decided to go ahead and post it anyway in the spirit of “not letting shit go unsaid just because you can’t decide on all the words.”
I was twittering the other day about how the noughties have been a pretty eventful decade for me on a personal level, building up to a crescendo and culminating in a pretty spectacular oh-nine.
I feel it’s worth writing a post about. Whether it’s worth reading a post about it I leave to the discretion of the reader.
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