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<span lang="EN-US">It was a sweaty day, the clouds had
scattered. The air shimmered and the concrete inched away. The leaves waved in
sorry resignation, yearning for salvation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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backyard adorned only with washing line twine and faded Chinese lanterns, the
tomato tree had provided a burst of something beautiful. A red against grey,
cool even in this messy heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but they’d persevere until she would push him away and reach into the glass jar
with cool fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-74001582795265294532014-05-29T21:51:00.002+10:002014-05-29T21:51:40.050+10:00smudges<div class="MsoNormal">
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Her grandparents had brown hair and sunned faces. They
collected dolls from around the world: sad eyes leering and staring. They festered
dust, but were too precious to abandon. Her grandmother, the enthused
collector, had a backyard filled with glass figurines. They glinted in the
sunlight and made soft sighs when they fell in the wind. Sighing and swaying,
the fragile figures were almost real when the sun fell on them a certain way.
She liked to squint at them so that the crimson paint bled and smudged and
sparkled crazily. She liked that her grandmother would let her play with them,
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-36132608338531153042014-04-04T20:20:00.000+11:002014-04-04T20:20:08.397+11:00" so I jump up, do a headstand first to pump blood back into the hairy brain, take a shower in the hall, new T-shirt and socks and underwear, pack vigorously, hoist the rucksack and run out throwing the key on the desk and hit the cold street and walk fast to the nearest little grocery store to buy two days of food, stick it in the rucksack, hike thru lost alleys of Russian sorrow where bums sit head on knees in foggy doorways in the goopy eerie city night. "<br />
<i>big sur, jack kerouac </i>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-16797284979934698662014-03-04T22:33:00.001+11:002014-03-04T22:33:32.313+11:00Documentary (road and truth) Documentary as <i>a creative treatment of actuality. </i>It is a subjective filmmaking; a creation with a necessary agenda.<br />
<br />
Documentary (and, perhaps, all filmmaking), necessarily <i>deals with the unfinished business of one's own life. </i>This is to say, my film will be reflective of my personal experience: and will contain themes essential to my self. I am interested in creating film about journey and transition and change, and I think that this can be attributed, in part, to the journey [of my youth]. I want to reflect upon this event, and I want to know how <i>journey</i> has affected others, as well.<br />
I recently indulged in a spate of 'road' genre media: I read <i>On The Road</i>, watched <i>Wolf Creek</i>, and listened back to an interview I conducted with a friend who drove his postie bike from Melbourne to Perth (and home again). The allure of the road, the freedom, the boredom and the peace. I loved the style of prose in On the Road: I feel that it allowed the reader to 'feel' the experience (immersion).<br />
I have never driven across a sprawling country. I like silence and I like solitary. I like to meander through hot towns. My back gets sweaty in the car; the cooling is broken and the air is stagnant against the black interior. Sweat pools, drips and slowly saturates.<br />
<br />
Steve said, documentary often contains paradoxical truths (this is the nature of the form).<br />
<i>Documentary truth</i> is such that nobody could make it up.<br />
"No one can recreate what happened here"<br />
We discussed the notion that, in documentary film, people are '<i>performing themselves</i>' - it is necessary that human behaviour will be changed by the presence of a camera. While it is possible to 'acclimatise' the subject to the presence and glare of the lens, it is a distinction from the norm, a disruption to an otherwise unrecorded life. Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-3591263497957345342014-02-23T12:39:00.000+11:002014-02-23T12:41:09.385+11:00Summertime passed:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.814107 144.96327999999994-38.6164245 143.67238649999993 -37.0117895 146.25417349999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-34135481402299451362014-02-17T21:55:00.001+11:002014-02-17T21:55:52.843+11:00Death (and all of his cruel friends) <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death (and all of his cruel friends) ::</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
They ask, they plead : </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> why do bad things happen to good people? Why? ? ? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Nobody can say, nobody can know, the world works without regard for our feelings, a steamroller on consequence. Things they happen, and such is life, as Ned Kelly intoned. How prophetic was he, the brave man in tin, fearless and lawless. He is a legend here, he is a hero here, he was a lawbreaker. Our Heath played Our Ned : it was a match that a sunburnt Straya embraced. We were proud of Our mottled history; our Heath! But then, do you remember when our Heath died? Where were you when Our Heath died? The beautiful talented golden man, ripped from a hopeful country, from a family and friends. But why why? Such waste, they cry in the streets, painting macabre joker grins, stretched and mocking in the occasion. Had he lived too much? Did God want His golden sunbrushed boy back? It doesn't make sense, none of it makes sense, nobody can make reasonings of it all. The strands of reason are flailing loose, whipped around by the hurricane of grief. Nobody can understand, because there is no sense to be had. It is impossible, but try please try, this is what makes us human, this is what keeps our hearts beating and our veins pumping in a predictable pulse</span>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-48631782655781926852013-12-26T16:15:00.001+11:002013-12-26T16:15:35.233+11:00Boxer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-38706935361580792422013-12-09T15:25:00.002+11:002013-12-09T15:25:31.064+11:00How Does It Feel?raining rain dripping and dropping drooping slowly calm gentle<br />
a soothing tattoo in the background of the daytime<br />
the nighttime, the white sky, the no-time<br />
the envelope of the sky folds cautious, embracing<br />
the moisture in the air hugging with clammy hands,<br />
sticky persistent.<br />
drops streak down dirty windows<br />
slow motion, time slow.<br />
time slow now, this here<br />
summer of Life,<br />
An Eternal Summer.<br />
How Does It Feel?<br />
how can you know,<br />
how can i know?<br />
the future<br />
The Future:<br />
beckons waves gestures caresses encourages greets welcomes cheers chats hassles laughs giggles gasps cries, feels apprehension in<br />
w a v e s<br />
w a s h i n g over like hypnotism in the nighttimes.<br />
young and enamoured with possibility<br />
or impossibility.<br />
daunting, daunted by mountains, or ever-stretching desert disappearing into hazy sunset,<br />
a hazy time, ambiguous and wild,<br />
wild youth wild life, free in knowledge, restricted by fear and<br />
spiked doubt,<br />
misgivings, a cold hand on a shaking heart.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-34521797355490194932013-12-03T20:58:00.001+11:002013-12-03T20:58:12.721+11:00Beppu, Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-80801501092221392542013-11-01T17:06:00.001+11:002013-11-01T17:06:21.135+11:00dragons<div class="MsoNormal">
The bell clanged at 2:30 with measured precision. Pre-teens
in starched shirts and sky blue dresses filed obediently out of the classrooms.
Their schoolbags, emblazoned with three trees and an obelisk, lined up with
similar discipline, waiting to be removed from their hooks and escorted into
waiting vehicles. It was a clear day, the sky was as blue as it could be and
the clouds were scattered irregularly.</div>
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The flame tree was in full bloom when Glynis dropped her
home that day. The cars in the street were lined up attentively. The tarmac was
crowded and cramped. She saw familiar cars, displaced in the sunshine and
glare. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What were they doing here? She thought and wondered. Her mind was young
and without foreboding. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The family was perched on the bed like anxious anxious
parrots. Her jungle curtains looked mocking and sad and drawn. They sat her
down like a child, and she was a child and she had never felt sadder and more
exposed when she heard what they said <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>when
the words came out of her mother’s mouth with all the dignity she could muster.
She said<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>your
grandmother has been murdered, and the words burned like fire like ice like
heartbreak. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The other people there, they soothed and hushed and patted
and touched to ease the cruelty. Her grandmother her beautiful pen-pal
grandmother her grandmother with snapdragons that guarded her house, waving and
flailing and<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>useless<o:p></o:p></div>
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They went to the cruel city for the funeral, and the hadedahs
cawed cawed in the background and the snapdragons stood still, too futile. The
house was filled with sad people and covered mirrors and Aunts too young to be
mourning too old to be wailing. The adults sorted through dusty Things and
accepted the bagels with a grace that belied the feelings within. She found a
yellow pocket torch in the room best for hadedah watching and it seemed
significant. The birds cawed a wailing song and the Rabbi intoned solemn
meaningless words and she slipped the small torch into her pocket, away from the
carnage. <o:p></o:p></div>
Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-8997510725504509952013-10-31T20:35:00.002+11:002013-10-31T20:35:34.440+11:00Hallows. The sun sets later now, in this imitation of Summer. The mornings are grey without foreboding, but with dampened enthusiasm. The skies are heavy bated-breath, weighted and waiting. Waiting for what? a Sign from the day, a welcoming or a thrusting away. Today the clouds scattered into the ether, away without reproach, fleeing a scene.<br />
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Today was chaos then peace. A wave of action and sloth. The sun shone in surprise. I read my book in the glare, blinded momentarily by the whiteness of the page. Dog and girl, they lay sprawled in the sun like ragdolls. The leaves rustled, but the air was still. Time whispered away. The afternoon passed without event. The dog and the girl, they were content in the contained idyll<br />
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The streets are awash and awake with children in costume, children in disguise. There are witches and warlocks, demons and ghouls, parading in dappled light. Harried parents and enthusiastic youth buoyed by sugar sugar and unbridled excitement. My mother and my dog linger in the doorway, eager to greet the adventuring visitors. My mother dishes out praise and confectionary with a liberal hand. The stoic devils break facade and squeal at the boisterous pup.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-80745809097855487472013-10-30T10:28:00.000+11:002013-10-31T17:52:30.170+11:00wist the old people are curious, cautious, wistful. Their faces mist back to the days of old, to happier days, simpler days. To times of debauchery and freedom. They say, with small creases of muted passion: you have all the time, you can do whatever you wish.<br />
Their eyes flicker back to a youth within reach, to a time so familiar but too foreign. They remember how time crept like a smooth fox. gradual gradual.<br />
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Can you tell me?<br />
Getting old? Is that the question?<br />
It's just, I don't know what it's like<br />
The thing is. Thing is, you hardly notice. It happens so slowly. You look different in the mirror, but inside you feel pretty much the same. You're just a kid with an old man's body, that's how it feels. Same for everyone, I guess.<br />
<i>Eyrie, Tim Winton</i><br />
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I like talking about the ambiguity of future with mildly-prying elders. They say, we can't believe you are so old, we can't believe it at all. Their eyelashes are sometimes stubby, naked, fluttering fast in still stale air. I can't believe it either, I say, I feel like high school was yesterday, just yesterday.<br />
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And oh I hate abiding to cliches, although they may function as useful communication devices. I do feel like a cliche, swimming in the big world without armbands. I am excited and poised, frightened and nervous.<br />
Not sure what is to come, not sure, unsure. Time feels different. The hands race-not-walk around the face of time, jerking into motion with guileless speed.<br />
They're just doing their job.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-37618418557446679752013-10-01T19:43:00.002+10:002013-10-01T19:44:31.586+10:00mother.<br />
The yellow painted tablecloth is filthy and is covered by grubby plastic sheeting. Newspapers ringed with coffee stains and curled rice are scattered across the tabletop. The radio hums pleasantly, and the dog barks at the onset of daytime.<br />
She sits close to the table, idly flicking through an old newspaper. She spoons crunchy cereal into her mouth, eyes flicking downwards with wary attention. It is sultana bran (with extra added fibre), chosen for its consistency, flavour, and out of a life-long habit. The brown flakes are drowned in watery UHT milk. The black sultanas bob to the surface, and she chases them with her spoon.<br />
It is morning, and her face is tired and gentle. The soft creases crowing by her eyes yawn slowly. Her skin is smooth with the idea of wrinkles slowly approaching. She is not too old, yet. Her hair would be grey but it is the auburn-brown of her childhood and her hair-dye. It is bushy and uncontained and her curls fling about in the air. Her eyes are small and dark, inherited from her mother, and passed down to me.<br />
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My mom grew up in Worcester, in the Karoo area of the Western Cape, in South Africa. It was a small town with a reptile park, tall trees, some sense of familiarity, and dust. On weekends, kids piled into bakkies of hay and drank homebrew. The youth were gap-toothed and lithe, and spoke quickly in makeshift Afrikaans. <br />
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She had two blonde brothers and a neat, straight-backed mother. Her father was the town doctor, and a respected and powerful man. He was a freemason with a moustache and utmost precision, and he delivered babies for payments in vegetables and gratitude. In the Summer, my mom and her brothers splashed in the cold water of the swimming pool outside and drank in the nectar of rotting cumquat and syringa. <br />
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Her brothers were Intellectual Types, involved in the Struggle, with aspirations of Bar exams and Democracy. While the landscape was rife with political fervor, she knew from an early age that she wanted to be an art teacher. Creativity and artistic notions nestled inside her, and she yearned for something more inspired than the quasi-intellect of her local Höerskool. <br />
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It was Thursday night, and CSI droned pleasantly in the background. Mom, Dad and eldest daughter played Scrabble in the lounge-room. The phone rang in the dullness and shattered our smooth reverie. It was Granny her mother with lucid clarity, <br />
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The house is burning down. <br />
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There is a fire. <br />
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The destruction was too complete; the house was gutted by the fire, and then by the reckless bravado of the firefighters. Smokey the Dog saved my grandparents, but couldn’t stop the blaze.<br />
It was a shocking and sudden farewell to her Childhood Home: to the meandering house with sometimes-stained-glass windows and big oak doors and the flicking fireplace. To the Garden that was a jungle of apple trees and naartjies and cumquats and matted twisted vines. To me the house smelt agreeably like Old Person and gentle dust, but to my mom, it smelt like a whole lifetime.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-86106688241336058832013-09-16T22:25:00.000+10:002013-09-16T22:25:06.037+10:00Rainy Daze. It's raining today in Melbourne, a restless travelling drizzle, drenching and disrupting. The ducks are out in force, splashing in the bubbling gutters, feathers slick with moisture and glee. Snails emerge from their hidey-holes with suppressed happiness. The damp is exciting but it is perilous too, the callous crunch of the human boots presents danger and certain-death. The rain is grey-not-blue and this city looks dull in the wet, muted. The colour runs in rivulets and tributaries next to fearless trams and cowering pedestrians. Neon signs punctuate the gloom. The tattoo of droplets to tarmac is soothing from a distance, a predictable beat and soothing Creation.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-37329306127470750542013-09-09T20:45:00.003+10:002013-09-10T08:58:26.327+10:00Long-legged freedom.<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 9.6pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 15.75pt;">Democracy is a
teenager in South Africa. The ghosts of apartheid linger, and they are not
going anywhere fast. Driving from Cape Town airport to my grandparents’ house
made me cry. The roads were so familiar and the smell of the city brought back
the memories of long ago. I’d forgotten about the townships and we drove down the N2 past the corrugated iron homes stitched together with street signs and
dampened cardboard. Small skinny children play on the roadside with soccer
balls and goats. There are often fires in the townships that raze down shacks
and disfigure lives and bodies. The shacks are replaced by government housing
that looks like a prison: they are brown brick buildings, tall and plain. The
beggars on the street corners peddle beaded keyrings, jokes and souvenirs from
Africa. Sometimes they have babies swathed in linen swung across their backs
and sometimes they hobble on crutches and only one leg. On the beach, fanned by
cruel Atlantic waves and the sea breeze, hawkers sell ice-creams from bright
blue coolboxes and sunglasses from within their coats. Their voices carry
across the sand, echoing like the call of the gulls. </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 15.75pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: inherit;">“Roomys roomys
vars lekker roomys”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: inherit;">The bronzed
beautiful people basking in the sun ignore the calls of the wild. Families eat
snoek and slap-chips with sand and salt on a picnic blanket. The pavements are
dirty and smell of sour-sweet urine and the sea. Roadside bars and open-plan restaurants
stare from across the street. My grandmother is a celebrity at the Pick N Pay.
The bakerywoman greets her every Friday with a white loaf and a plaited loaf
and a “good morning Mrs K”. Her hairnet is pale blue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: inherit;">The divide
between the rich and the poor is wide. The rich erect high fences that buzz
with electricity and fear. The poor yearn for Madiba’s promise to come true.
The warm nights are disturbed by the sounds of wailing sirens and breaking glass.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.75pt;">South African
people are laid-back and like to sink Castle Lagers in the sun. South African
people speak with a thick accent, guttural and brusque, with blunted vowels. South
African people are a mixture of all people: they are black, white and coloured,
rich and poor, free and imprisoned by the ghost of apartheid. In spite of
flawed circumstance, they are fiercely patriotic. Citizens of the Rainbow
Nation are resilient and proud and strut amongst the danger because
circumstance demands that they must. Many leave, but more stay. It is a
beautiful place with fresh air and wild danger and cheap beer and sweet
koeksisters. </span></div>
Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-43974342609985205182013-09-06T20:11:00.001+10:002013-09-06T20:15:31.848+10:00Friday morning. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On cold nights in winter, sometimes we go to dingy cool pubs and do trivia and eat burgers and parmas and poutine and drink cider and carlton to stave off the cold.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-83036809883969010172013-08-30T21:51:00.001+10:002013-09-05T17:17:38.222+10:00Excitement and inspirationI feel excited and inspired, nervous and alive. The world is awash with possibility, it lurks omnipresent in every thing. University times are drawing to a close: a daunting and impossible thought. Time is a sprinter, leaping forth at the gunshot. I am an adult but I feel like a young child often, helpless and overwhelmed, and sometimes I yearn for the naivette childhood affords. These are fearful times.<br />
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The last week has been very inspirational, and has made me burst with enthusiasm for what I can achieve.<br />
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Last week I saw the beautiful and young and wonderous Tavi Gevinson speak. She is 17 and so talented and so wise. She had this real ability to speak truth, to speak with an enviable eloquence and poise. She spoke about fandom and love and passion and making journals filled with Taylor Swift lyrics and scrawl. She was frank and so great. She talked about feelings. And she made me feel too: she filled me with hope and dreams and passion. (And afterwards I went out for Don Dons and everything was great with the world).<br />
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And then I had a second Tavi encounter the following day, at Rookie Day. A day for under-20s (while I do kinda slot into that category, I was volunteering for the Writer's Festival), it featured inspirational women, crafts and wild bohemian dancing. The speakers were empowered and motivated and passionate women and they made me want to move mountains. We made moodboards and devoured old magazines like hungry children. And then we danced in the dark to (more) Taylor Swift and I almost wanted to cry at the very majesty of the whole beautiful occasion. My heart was hurting from the happiness and the beaming.<br />
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Today at university we had an industry forum with cool and amazing people from the film industry. Corrie Chen, Richard Lowenstein and Rhys Graham. (<a href="http://thebuoyarchives.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2013-07-16T13:44:00%2B10:00&max-results=100">Rhys Graham has a beautiful blog</a>). I left buzzing with sugar and life-zest and a desire to create some fiction-film. They made so much sense. </div>
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I feel very filled with inspiration, and it does seem that the world is my oyster (even though I am not a seafood fan). There is so much possibility, and I think that this is what is so daunting. I do not know what to do, what to write, what to create. I know that the key is to create, and much of the education comes by creation, but I am afraid to take that initial step. I am going to try to push myself and remain motivated and create work that is representative of something of me. I have six more weeks of university left and then a stretch of time with undecided content. This is both thrilling and very terrifying. It is terrifying because the path I will follow is not yet decided, I do not know, nobody knows. There is much journey for me to yet endure, so much world and experience. </div>
<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-7176523490768151222013-08-22T21:31:00.000+10:002013-08-22T21:31:01.673+10:00human hot water bottle for tender<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-27398820297350315562013-08-16T18:56:00.000+10:002013-09-09T22:58:43.951+10:00Disco. <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<u>Disco. <o:p></o:p></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
The rain caresses my ears cruelly.
I feel fear. The thunder clashes and screeches and roars. It is unrelenting and
it shall never tire. The thunder is enraged at something greater than me, and I
cannot control the fury. The sky is pulsing like an aggravated vein on a
swollen neck: it is a disco for the raindrops. I have not felt so in awe of the
world before. I watched Jurassic Park too recently and I know that tonight may
be an apocalypse too. Dinosaurs may emerge from the vortex beyond and into the
holiday house. The windows are weak and token against the force of a reptilian
claw. The lightning ebbs and flows and hesitantly reveals a scaly surface
nestled amongst the trees. It is present and then absent. The dinosaurs are
stirring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<u>The Burning Bush</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
The flame tree was in full bloom
when Glynis dropped her home that day. It was deadly. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
(God was watching). <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
Moses and his staff were futile
today. The burning bush was irrepressible and it shook red seeds and embers of
despair onto the pavement. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
The syringa tree hovered in an
umbrella arch. The boughs draped down onto the rusted jungle-gym. The tree was
an alien here. When the wind blew, it shook its heavy branches and the syringa
berries fell. Her sister once ate a cocktail of dirt and grass and millipedes
and syringa berry. Her innocence saved her from the poison. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
She was an anxious child. She was
too fearful. Her imagination would craft death and destruction with a wry
touch. She would peer like an elderly damaged soul through the lace and through
the curtains. The flame tree leered.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
Where was the Corolla the familiar
hum of the engine the ascent of the roof-racks the squeak-squeak of the opening
gate the footsteps? <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
Her stomach curdled and chopped. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<u>I don’t believe in dragons.<o:p></o:p></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
My grandmother had blue eyes. Her
hair was an eternal brown, stained dark with dye and care. She had kind
crinkles in the right places. Wrinkles were beginning to form, but were shooed
by rigorous application of a collection of creams. She lived next door to Joan,
who once gave me a Mickey Mouse bowl and spoon collection. Little was
remembered about Joan, but she was smaller and more wrinkled than my
grandmother, and had hair the colour of soft moonlight.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
My grandmother was a collector but
not a hoarder. She had a white picket fence and God was her neighbour.<br />
<br /></div>
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Her snapdragons snarled in their
rectangular cages. Their mouths snapped and sneezed without intent. They were
trapped by the dark soil: forced but futile sentries. They laughed silently at
danger but cowered when it came too close. The snapdragons were beautiful and
flawed and were stained red and crimson. <o:p></o:p></div>
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a small and fresh lamb enraptured with joy and spring<br />
prancing in meadows of buzzing daisies. The lamb was born recently and it has a soft muzzle as it bleats against you for food and comfort. It is unaware of the precariousness of its existence in the world and the fleeting nature (of its naivete).<br />
You wish you could take the lamb home so you can save it from a certain fate. Perhaps it could curl at the foot of your bed, like the small and shaggy puppy that you never owned. It would bleat plaintively and helplessly in the morning for food and the cut grass you would throw at the dirty white would smell like air and summer days.<br />
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and he was crying too. It made her heart hurt, this happiness/sadness feeling.
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and she braced herself for the wave of feelings that she knew would wash over
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emotions. When she saw her grandparents looking so much older and smaller, what
could she do what could she say? And when she saw her favourite aunt and her
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family surrounded her like warmth and she felt her heart burst of too much
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work and understood that life is not as infinite as you might always imagine. The
very shortness of life scared her and that fear came in bursts that knocked the
air out of her lungs and made tears spring to her eyes. This same fear made her
anxious about achievement and existence and existential matters. This same fear
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shredders and why they were even invented, but now she did. She understood now
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was too important. She wondered who had created the idea or the concept of
time, and if they had come to hate themselves for it. Time passing made her
anxious, maybe if the concept of time did not exist she would exist more
freely, without any grasp of it passing or of her limited duration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948061540443916931.post-58271823268220555182013-06-05T19:38:00.001+10:002013-06-17T13:14:31.522+10:00Burning upShe was anxious but now she was calm<br />
Her heart throbbed to a curious beat, she had heard her uncle also had irregular heartbeat.<br />
But she didn't want to be a hypochondriac, they are lame. She didn't want to be one of them.<br />
Her hands were smooth although she didn't moisturise. They were small hands sometimes nimble, often not. She couldn't play the piano but she had once captivated an elderly lady with her cello playing. Her father, he had sung in his high school choir. And so had she, but she wasn't good enough.<br />
Her hands were trembling slightly slowly irregularly. Her head was warm and then hot and her eyelids felt weighed down, drooping. She always remembered when Jerry propped Tom's eyelids up with matchsticks. When she was a young child she had had a double-video of Tom and Jerry. She watched it many times and thought it was very funny, although there was not often much narrative progression.<br />
When she was younger, in those days of Tom and Jerry, she liked to read Enid Blyton. She loved all her books. She liked to read the Famous Five book that her dad had won in primary school. It might life seem mighty big. It made her a bit sad to think that maybe kids these days didn't read much Enid Blyton, because maybe there were racist or sexist or something-ist undertones. Bet those people who say that didn't read the Magical Faraway Tree and imagine themselves in wonderful crazy lands with talking saucepans.<br />
It was embarassing for her to admit, but she used to believe in the Care Bears. Maybe it was some sort of false hope. She was not naive (or she didn't think she was), but she found herself somewhat convinced of the existence of the fluffy colourful friendly bears. Maybe she just hoped they were real. She also cried when she watched Brother Bear. It was an excellent film that she saw at the movies with her friend called Sarah. She remembered, the soundtrack was by Phil Collins, that great balding man. He sang with a passion that resonated through her young soul and made tears peak in the corner of her green eyes.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14679738504052118993noreply@blogger.com0