Friends

Where would we be without them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYDvQ1HH-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWEBE0F1FQ

Buona notte

'Good night' in Hindi is apparently 'shubh ratri '

Don't know why exactly, but it reminded me of this.

I worked in Libya for a year, when 'ghibli's' (winds from the south, from the Sahara) would rock the Landrovers with hot sand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAiq1M0nn9k

Anglo-saxon

You
Tube
Blog
Spot
Face
Book

D

You can't start a fire,
you can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
even if we're just dancing in the dark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_x1uUP_-hM

Facebook

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Military intelligence

Sunny day

Pushing 60 and he's still waiting on a sunny day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtfGkwiTK7E

Obamarism

Obama introduces 'prolonged preventative detention' for people suspected of going to commit crimes, and as this is against the constitution he is going to introduce a 'new legal framework' so that no-one can accuse him of not following the 'rule of law':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13738

Tears

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All of the time
and every day
I miss you girl
in every way

This pain of mine
it won't go away
What can I do?
What can I say?

If I saw you now
the weight of the years
would drag me down
in a pool of my tears

We shared our love
we should've shared our fears
I'm drowning girl
in a pool of my tears

(Am, G)

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And it's so hard

to let you go

It's so hard

I still love you so

What you got

I don't know

but I got you

in my soul

Lie lie la lie ...

Fishing for compliments

Great sailing today - we took out both the dinghies and chased white horses across Isshiki bay, past Bird Island and down towards Akiya, where the sudden realisation that we were sailing over rocks forced a quick change of direction, back towards Morito and the tori on Najima. Nearly had a flying fish in the boat.

Thence to my favourite restaurant for a splendid suzuki teishoku. On leaving I am told by the waitress/cook that my ability to eat fish with chopsticks is sugoi jouzu, better than many Japanese. Rick suggests spinning for mackerel, from the dinghy, which I will do on Sunday.

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The photo is the Last Sunset of 2006, Najima Tori, with the Izu Peninsula beyond, taken from Endeavour, my first New Year in Japan - may there be many more.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSVXjrteyM4&feature=PlayList&p=5162E5827766167B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8lhqnCus_E&feature=PlayList&p=D9DF998672B5F93E&index=22

A lot of it about

Do you know of a better?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYPSZiE0OAs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo&feature=related

Rock poets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzc0Ea_XKqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVL-csTISk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HxZKa4NwGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYPSZiE0OAs

Waste

And we shall play a game of chess,

Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.




From 'The Waste Land', by T S Eliot


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCKyX9BvEg&feature=related

Apples

Simlan hills

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=7510#

http://www.raahi.com/travel-blog/in-tea-country-123.html

African tribes

http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/02/artphotogallery/portfolios/tribes_36.html

A minor

All of the time
and every day
I miss you girl
in every way

This pain of mine
it won't go away
What can I do?
What can I say?

I miss you girl
in every way

(Am, E, G)

Homage to Rumsfeld

Full moon on the water
Lights and lighthouses glimmer and flash
distant and close
across the bay
through our warm night space

The pacific swells roll like lovers
up the beach
then ripple back
spent, like lovers
feathered, they head back to the sea

Some of us know next to nothing
Just the drama and the news

Some know enough to know
they know nothing
They love their open minds

Some suppose they know it all
They have all the answers
and fear the unknown