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Jan 31, 2012, 1:27 am
Ahinsaka “Home for Special Needs Children” is a short film written, filmed and produced for a good cause by Subhash Pinnapola. Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 1:07 am
A mound of sticks, stones and earthly matter,
Surrounding you, a breath of hubris, so pungent – inflammable.
Down to earth you have never been, you never willed.
You were no sanyasi.
You were thrown in to the sea.
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Jan 18, 2012, 9:42 am
This month we will be having yet another poetry jam, the same open-mic sort of thing. Anyone is welcome to bring their own words, their voices, guitars, harmonicas or even a book to read from. My work has opened up a lot of opportunities for me, and one of them has resulted in this event receiving i... Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2012, 4:37 pm
I have not eaten a proper meal in the past three days. Well that’s a lie. I have not cooked a proper meal in the past few days, and a day without food was all it took to get me back in the kitchen. All that is left in the freezer is fish and beef. Naturally, I went for the beef.
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Jan 12, 2012, 1:22 am
There once was a boy, lying down on the shore, sand in his hair and sand on his feet. Across from the shore was a house painted white, and on the horizon rose a wave, climbing to the heavens. It was as though gravity decided to take a day off, at least over the ocean, as the wave climbed never once ... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2012, 10:36 pm
I was introduced to this band over a year ago in Hikkaduwa. Either I stumbled onto it, or it was a friend who had me listen to them. And from the first listen, I was hooked. Singata Mystic Queen was the first sting, and then came Double Freedom. Fuck. One amazing album that is Long Distance Trip, th... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2012, 11:58 pm
I am my mother tongue before I am Muslim.Does the mother tongue precede the father of belief? I may not be well-versed in Tamil, but it means more to me than my religion. It is simply about what connects deeply enough. Prostrating in unison, I feel connected, yes. I feel submitted. Conversing in uni... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2011, 12:37 am
Now that you’ve digested my face, let’s talk about the food. Last week I had two old friends for lunch, they were delicious. I mean the food, obviously. Lunch was quite spontaneous. There were no noodles at home so I had to actually touch the rice, which I’ve avoided for a good month! Looked i... Comment - Like
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Dec 21, 2011, 10:38 am
Watching the lines move across the monitor with baited breath, as his lungs were giving way to the ether – the breath of the soul that is breathed with every man’s last – his sons and daughter gathered around the hospital bed. Nasser was returning from Colombo. They held his hands, pinching hi... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2011, 10:55 pm
You are the artiste, I – the magician.
You play with colour and shape,
as you trace the lines along my face.
Yet I may choose to disappear,
bend the rules that keep my here.
I tread the wire that suspends belief.
You find me here, yet lose yourself,
as colours give way to shapes that
melt ... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2011, 3:03 am
Unedited, only arranged. Taken with Natalie Soysa‘s Sony a230.
More organic here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stfallen/sets/72157627949121722/show/ Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 11:33 pm
These were compiled over the last few days, not quite sure where the inspiration came from. Started reading up on Metatron’s cube after revisiting The Mars Volta’s The Bedlam In Goliath. I swear that album does things to you. Used just Paint.net, layers, polar inversions, twists and turns for th... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2011, 10:33 am
An attempt at visual poetry. Words from earlier this year. More visuals here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stfallen/sets/72157627930205068/show/ Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 3:42 am
Ordinary bus ride. Noon sun
melts the skin off my back,
gently dripping
along the seat. Far from
inconspicuous couple seated
in front of me.
An old man enters, climbs aboard
one hand on the rail, the other
holding precarious strings attached
to boxes with holes punched through.
A coin turn... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 2:38 am
So this space has been closed for a while, like Samara being shut in the well as she tries to crawl up all creepy-like in the second Ring movie. *shudder*
And in the meanwhile I have been up to… well, not so much. But it’s been a pretty good not-so-much, I’m quite satisfied with being lazy. I... Comment - Like
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Mar 13, 2011, 7:19 pm
If I told You what I need is a space, not a place, would you set me aside or make room for waste. Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2011, 1:07 pm
So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now.
Embracing you, this reality here,
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful.
Wide eyed and hopefully wild.
We barely remember what came before this precious moment,
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay ... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2011, 3:24 am
source:http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/words2.htm and the internets.
The famous speech on 02/02/93 Stokholm at the Melody.
“We’ve got to regain knowledge again, and we’ve got to regain an understanding again, of who we are. Not just those chosen to fuel systems, but individuals who have th... Comment - Like
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Mar 8, 2011, 9:20 pm
Thousands of thousands came,
Leaving as they were,
Empty wallets on the floor.
These bubbles do not float,
They walk but not walk,
They speak but not speak,
For their very foundation is weak,
As it relies on their strength,
And their strength is their ignorance -
bliss – but not Bliss.
A... Comment - Like
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Mar 8, 2011, 9:11 pm
There is no distinction
Of right, of wrong.
Only conviction,
śraddhā,
And want. Comment - Like
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Mar 7, 2011, 9:29 am
When there is no need, no need will arise,
As I am not bound to you – but You. Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2011, 5:09 am
Why wake the living,
When what they choose
Is to sleep.
Then why wake at all.
If it’s a choice,
I want the cost. Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2011, 7:03 pm
“This world is only a mirage; whatever it has will perish one day. If you are wise you will not bow before this world even if this world kneels before you. Those who get tempted by this world shall perish and those who are indifferent to it, shall triumph. Love of this world is the root of all sin... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 12:11 am
Sometimes people
are just a tad
too strange.
Why do you say that?
Just a collective observation,
from what’s happened over the past few months.
Taking these individuals
for what they are at that moment
and putting them side by side
is like a carnival freakshow.
What makes them strange?
Their ... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2011, 3:20 am
One question that seems to come from anyone who gets to know me for a long enough period: why are you so anti-social? Well, look around. What the fuck would I want to have to do with all this? “Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground”, as Maynard said. All this neo-skull-bashing and ch... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2011, 6:01 pm
Sometimes words slip from my mind, slide down my tongue, and jump right off my lips.
And sometimes they were never meant to be heard.
Yet sometimes the heart has its own way of catapulting itself right where it needs to be.
I just don’t know where that is. Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2011, 6:07 am
So the Whackster’s dead?
All out of dread!
What then kneads the dough,
That moulds the innermost soul? Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2011, 6:31 am
I had no special plans for today, it was going to be just another day: wake up, smoke up, practice, jam, practice, eat, smoke up, eat etc. Woke up to the pleasant surprise of my brother walking into the room in the morning after a while. Took off with Susa to go by the Dehiwela beach-side to get som... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2011, 12:49 am
For once I have something I can actually offer on #musicmonday.
The first of many to come. Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2011, 4:45 am
There’s a lot I could write about, a lot I could tell you, but there’s very few words that would be able to express them. I’m not going to point the finger at language, but rather at communication, particularly how crippled ours seems to be. Don’t you find it strange that over the past 5 yea... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2011, 6:01 am
Surprise, surprise. We’ll be opening the show for The Dhas Brothers this Saturday at Mystic Melodies: The Ego’s Trip. As usual I’m letting you guys know, hoping some will come, so please, do come (: Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2011, 10:54 pm
Though I would fall under the same umbrella term, I don’t really enjoy associating with peers so much, and worse those younger than me. It’s not really about age, I don’t consider myself any better than anyone because I’m older, it’s just the way young people tend to look at things. Ther... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 4:03 am
Have you ever walked through the streets that run along the railway tracks at Dehiwela? The stretch that begins from the junction and goes on till Mt Lavinia, have you ever talked to those people and witnessed what their lives are like? I can’t say that I’ve spent enough time there to say too mu... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2011, 2:04 pm
“It’s all in your head… it’s just your mind messing with you”, I kind of hate hearing those lines. Probably because it’s a rather common response to experiences I share with people. I don’t know why I’m this open, it wouldn’t take 2 minutes for someone I’ve never met to know me a... Comment - Like
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Jan 8, 2011, 3:36 am
Eyes are always the finders, as much as the Soul may seek, it is the Eye that finds, that sees, that connects. Like a hook cast into water with no bait, no fish would approach it as it lacked any appeal. Only those as curious as a bait-less hook in the sea.
And then I felt the bite that came unan... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 2:59 pm
You know those little moments at which you wonder, what if? What if I said… What if I did… What if I don’t… What if I win… What if I fail… And you, depending on the kind of person you are, either deal with it by doing something or instead daydream an hour or so about it.
Well I can sham... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 11:39 pm
You know that instant at which you catch someone’s eye, and at that very moment you feel a connection that pulls you towards them, you have no idea where it’s going to go, but you go. I’ve been having a lot of those lately, and some of them have led to some amazing conversations, and some peop... Comment - Like
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Dec 23, 2010, 2:44 am
Suddenly everyone looks the same, talks the same, and eventually everyone makes you feel the same. Everyone of course refers to those outside the acquaintances you’ve made to escape the duplicity that permeates society. There’s a lot of things I hate, about people, about the way they think, pe... Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2010, 3:40 pm
Take this offering as your own offering of your awareness to that of others,
the collective awareness that holds our reality together.
Take this offering and let it consume you like a burning through the veins,
bursting through our collective consciousness, shattering this illusion.
And as the v... Comment - Like
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Dec 14, 2010, 2:16 pm
A shard of the looking glass
Creeps slowly between
Fingers laced
Red.
One
Looked through
The mirror’s face
And saw his own self.
But not the self he had come to know
Not the one that pretends, deceives and controls
But the one that is only one
And always returns to one
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Dec 13, 2010, 12:19 am
Why do I still remember
The night I became your mirror?
Portraying you in all your imperfections,
You were so quick to cover up.
Yet through my eyes you were perfect;
Perfect in all your imperfections, as the cliché goes.
Of what use is a human eye
If it cannot look through the heart?
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Dec 9, 2010, 10:47 pm
Ignore the voices in the background.
I let the guys do whatever they were doing while I played.
Just to capture the moment. Comment - Like
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