the choc-top experience.

Poem: Oh my-a, my-a, its July-a, how does your garden grow? -a joseph original.

Half of the year? Where, has it gone?!

I'm pretty sure ive done nothing wrong. ive lied, laughed, lived, cried, kissed, loved, fought, sung, danced, drank, smiled, been taken, changed, made comments, blogged (hehe), argued, contemplated, and now reflected.. amongst other things, i'm sure.

Anyway, it was my pops birthday on Sunday/today.. He is a 61 year old, with a full head of black hair. God bless my genes! Despite my hiccup-baldspot, i know the destiny for my scalp! Happy Birthday Father!

We went out for dinner on Sunday for La Birthday, had a feast at La Porchetta; went through the motions of eating my food, and any leftovers.

Now for dessert... being the untamed stallion that i am, i went against the flow of ordering a desert at LaPorchetta, and went to Hoyts over to next door and bought myself a Vanilla Choc-Top!

She smiled and said to me "Enjoy your movie!".. I strutted away from the cinema, looked back and said "Babe, The choc-top's all i'm after!" .. didn't actually happen. but i was thinking along those lines..

The point of this story is..

Life is like a box of choc...tops!

You can either be carefree, or careless, when you indulge yourself in its simple pleasures... Let me explain..

To be careless, is: To be a total moron and eat your choc-top without restraint and without boundary. Then once the movie is finished you'll find yourself in a total mess. Chocolate stained clothes. and ice cream where you least expect.

Or you can take precautionary measures beforehand, and be carefree... Plan out the course of action and reap the benefits. Your goal to watch the entire movie, at the same time as enjoying your Choc-top. You'll always come out on top, relatively unscathed, and pleasantly rewarded.

the 80-year drive home

Got home relatively late last night, foolishly went on a frenzy of editing & uploading photos from my close friends 21st. Happy Birthday to you my dear (if you're reading this). Hope you had a great night!

On the drive home, was running out of petrol.. and here's the photo evidence. Had my camera in the car.. and everything i do these days, will coincide with me thinking if this is blog worth material.

On the left,, is my fill up on the pump. It makes me sad. That is all. That is usually a weekly thing. Boo on petrol! LOL. Bought a Ribena drink, softened the blow of the fuel prices, and all was relatively well after that :)

I read on a friend's Facebook nick over the week past, about being different. It goes something like this... "Everyone is trying so hard to be different when in fact everyone is the same for wanting to be different". It left me in a, "That's deep" kinda moment.. And it got me thinking slightly.. here was what i came up with:

Personally, i don't think being different is so bad.. wanting to be different from everyone else and not conforming with the rest of the world, are two totally different things. wanting to be different to make yourself known, is clearly not the same as stepping out and standing up for what you believe in. wanting to be 'different', i think, is an expression of individuality.. and if "not caring about what other people think", makes you flick your hair back and scoff... then there is clearly much to learn.

I can do it this way, or i can go down the lesser known, arts student, soul searching way...

This post just reminded me of a poem by Robert Frost, "The Road not Taken" (or The Road Less Travelled.) How untimely. I first heard this in a film, Dead Poet Society. Though it features Robin Williams, it's not as humorous as you might first think.. quite a thought provoking film. I highly recommend it, to anyone AND everyone! :) Anyway, here's the poem.. Enjoy!

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet, knowing how way leads onto way

I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence

Two roads diverged in a wood

And I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference.

sleepless in the studio.

gosh.. this totally blows. i had not managed to get one wink of sleep tonight.. and i highly doubt i will be getting it til later this evening..

My Studior (prononced similar to boudoir..)

/stu-dwär; the place where you make love with your music

Uh... A couple of nights back, i had another sleepless night, so i decided on rearranging my studio/domain/graphics suite to better suit my mood.. if you're curious to what gear im currently using, please feel free to ask me, i shall spare the details for the majority that may not care (as much) :)

i find music and songwriting to be very theraputic. music in general, is awesome.. songwriting is another aspect to me that i've come to love. i've developed a genuine appreciation for great lyrics and, in turn, great composition/s of music.

i hold in high regard musicians who are always striving to develop their natural god-given ability. i believe that there are certain things that come more naturally, intuitively, instinctively...its in your hands to develop these talents and no-one else can make you do it. its pretty much there for the taking. its either a) you use it... or b) you lose it..

i guess the question you gotta ask yourself is: what are you gonna do about it?

awkward analogy: picture yourself as an egg.. in a carton of 12... would you rather be the one being cooked and used to its potential or rot away in the carton, and prolong the risk of damage. i personally would like to be digested and consumed, as god intended.. mm.. eggs..

food analogy was a result of me wanting sausage and eggs on toast from maccas at the airport. :) lol 6am.. i shall go there now! ciao! have a fantastic day!

-josiah