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Ringing The Bells And Digging Our Own Graves

2008-10-04 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
It's bollocks. We are agreed. Utter pretentious nonsense. Self-indulgent waffle, supported by a cushion of who-you-know and money, signifying nothing. We lift our glasses, united in our comfortable contempt. We raise our flag. We have standards. We are capable of better And then the uncomfortable truth. How, exactly, will we achieve this? What...
 
Tags: utter pretentious nonsense, comfortable contempt, uncomfortable truth, self-indulgent waffle, devil, tower, conceit, flag, glasses
 
 
 
 
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Digging Our Own Graves

2008-10-04 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
It's bollocks. We are agreed. Utter pretentious nonsense. Self-indulgent waffle, supported by a cushion of who-you-know and money, signifying nothing. We lift our glasses, united in our comfortable contempt. We raise our flag. We have standards. We are capable of better And then the uncomfortable truth. How, exactly, will we achieve this? What...
 
Tags: utter pretentious nonsense, comfortable contempt, uncomfortable truth, self-indulgent waffle, devil, tower, conceit, flag, glasses
 
 
 
 
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Dwarf Star Origami III

2008-09-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
You will not know me, I make this my mission. A silver-haired cat, spitting and scratching, claiming escape. Obsidian intensity... an opaque window, trickster, elusive, fleet All is flow. The rivers are rising. I paddle a boat upstream, small but unsinkable. There are no maps, just the insistent refusal of the source, driving me backwards as I...
 
Tags: boat upstream, insistent refusal, opaque window, obsidian intensity, source, maps, elusive, mission, backwards
 
 
 
 
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Dwarf Star Origami II

2008-09-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
I've become a jewel with many faces, a pretty cage that hides the beast within. A facade of kaleidoscopic beams and whirls, concealing a blur of smoke, mirrors and scales I'm a lost boy walking the walls of a man-shaped room, muttering and jabbering in a language that fits its own purpose. Always talking in riddles, hoping that no one gets the joke
 
Tags: kaleidoscopic beams, pretty cage, lost boy, purpose, whirls, hides, joke, walls, mirrors
 
 
 
 
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Dwarf Star Origami I

2008-09-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
He finished me off with a mercury draught. A mercy killing in a private room: one brother caned and the other more than able. And then he went mad with unbearable sorrow I've been away, I've been bad company, I've been in another place. I've been playing with cards, wandering the land. I've been dead, but I dug my way up through the grass and...
 
Tags: unbearable sorrow, brother caned, bad company, mercury draught, mercy, grass, mad, land, dead
 
 
 
 
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Dwarf Star Origami IV

2008-09-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
I will fold myself eight times in, then eight times further inward. You will not see, you will not find me. Imploding under the weight of time, past layering upon present This flatness makes a pretty shape, if you know how to twist it right. Turn too hard and everything smashes together: exhausted, brilliant, numbered in days
 
Tags: pretty shape, times, fold, smashes, twist, time, days, brilliant, weight
 
 
 
 
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Sentry

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2008-08-29 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
...bandoned for decades But still watching the sea There's a dead sheep within Two piles of decay Skin and guts on one side The skeleton on the other Why didn't the Farmer help it Asks Emer with a serious face Too young not to question How He tends to His flock I don't know, I say gently Wondering silently when I die Which part of me will fall...
 
Tags: dead sheep, skin, skeleton, guts, sea, decades, emer, decay, die
 
 
 
 
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Lounge On The Farm Festival 2008

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2008-08-02 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
...music and food in a relaxed environment The reality more than matched the promise. I don't think I've ever felt so chilled out at a large-scale music event like this. In fact, frankly, I was a bit too relaxed and spent much time lounging around, inspired by the festival's title, without getting off my arse to actually see many bands. But...
 
Tags: festival, music festivals, music, large-scale music event, scale, time, past twelve months, past, months
 
 
 
 
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The Brothers Cup: Northfleet Youth Centre, 27 July 2008

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2008-08-02 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
...music", with the tacit understanding that "his music" is a little bit odd and generally something best avoided. I suppose that when most of them know that my favourite teenage band was fronted by two men in dresses performing amongst decapitated pigs' heads, they assume that I've moved on to something even more hardcore. At least it deflects...
 
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Cindytalk: The 12 Bar, 30 June 2008

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2008-07-28 00:00:00 by Editor in Hydragenic
 
...musical backdrop of considerable subtlety and power In fact, the music was something of a surprise. If there's any long-term trend to Cindytalk's output, it seems to be one of de-structuring and dissolution. However, the band performance was remarkably melodic and song-oriented, amongst the expansive, ambient electronica of the backing...
 
Tags: cindytalk, band, four-piece band performance, comparable band names, band performance, enigmatic cindytalk, cindytalk web site, laptop set, set