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For my mum
If you would stay, I could go on. If you would hold me forever, I could go on. If  I could just glimps you, out of the corner of my eye, I could go on. But you cannot say, I can't go on. You cannot hold me, but I have to go on. For with out me, you will be...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-09 04:29:00
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Blanc Noir
See me. Feel me. Blanc twice, Noir always? ubiquity and nothingness. my paradigm is an an anacronism. touch me. want me, I need that now. Listen. Senseless, uninspired. you just don't know, couched in my dispare ... combusted in poles Blanc, noir dread!...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-08 09:04:15
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sometimes I think...
There was a girl, and she dreamed of all she would become. And I say would, because we all makes choices and our dreams we will have a role in the formation of our future.  the places she would go, the feelings she would experience, the smells sensations and tastes  the world would...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-08 08:48:35
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Poem 3
drifting...waning...waxing the velvet centre of our time swinging...singing...lullaby bursting...streaming...growing The Goddess of our waking hours rising...singing...surrounding behind and above and below and inside intwined and emerging from within and without the...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-07 03:29:00
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Job Interview
I went for a job interview today, I have only ever attended one interview before, so I was very nervous, the problem was I apparently was not very good at hiding my nerves. The interviewer seemed really positive but now I am so worried about what she thinks about me that I can't relax. The worst...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-07 03:17:42
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There she was
Last night I watched this really interesting program on television about internet, and children. It was crazy, I mean the internet first rose to a level of recognition in around what? 1996, I really started to use it when I was in year 8 and 9 so 96 / 97 but it has changed and develped so much...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-03 06:05:00
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Mish Mash
I just dont know what to do with myself! But hopefully some day I will, optomism that is the order of the day!
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-02 17:15:00
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Sycophantic rage
...yeh the title actually has nothing to do with what I am writing about today. I just like the word sycophantic, it has pscho connotations. I love a bit of psychosis. Anyway back to my problem. I am having alot of trouble writing at moment which is rather a large problem as that is the...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-04-02 16:35:00
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Crap, Buggar sh*t
I have almost finished this reading  I have to do for uni, and I had a break an hour ago, and I still have not got back to it. I am reading about the cultural field of Literature and Art, the piece is written by a famous French social theorist Peirre Bourdieu, it facinating stuff but dense...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-27 00:25:11
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Quote: Richard Sennett
What is happening to western society? "The social guarantees of the welfare states of an earlier era are breaking down, new capitalism itself has become economically flexible, highly mobile and corporate structures are less determinate in form and structure" (R Sennett, 1997)...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-27 00:02:41
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Soaring above the storm
  The willow and the moss. Suddenly, in stasis, like her stream. It is still, it is still. With wings of freedom upon her back, she cast those eye's upon her velvet prize. Up. Crashing down and leaping back, she crossed the void. And then, the end?...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-16 06:54:27
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All you need is love
I am just listening to The Beatles classic "All you need is love". I highly recommend this song, It always cheers me up. You do not need to love someone romanitically to be unlifted my this number. My heart just lifts a bit, and I feel hope.  And even just the smallest amount of hope can...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-11 01:36:16
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Benedict Anderson (1983) "Yet void as these tombs are of identifiable moratal remains or immortal souls, they are nonetheless saturated with ghostly national imaginings"
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-11 01:32:18
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Beth Orton
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-05 00:09:58
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Quote: Huge MacKay 2007
You're appalled by bullying? Speak up, every time. You weep over homelessness, disadvantage and poverty? Ring up any of the charities responding to these problems and ask what you can do. (They might need you to drive a minibus, peell spuds, sort clothes or serve meals for a few hours a...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-03 18:37:56
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Nationalism
Nationalism grew from the marriage of state and culture ( Ernest Gellner, 1995) . What does this mean for us? Well, this marks the beginings for the concept of nationhood, national identity and but also a new form of social exclusion.  Nationalism is a modern form of social...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-03-03 17:25:45
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Musing
Today, I look outside my window. I promise myself, today will be better. A New day. So I sit down in front of my computer ready to work hard, ready to make a difference. I am almost there, so close to getting it right. If I could just make those final steps and then I can move on. On...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-02-28 19:44:26
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Prozac Nation
"Depression, Like adolescence, springs at least in part from a feeling of not being quiet connected, of being at some in-between stage, of being stuck in the middle, of not quiet able to claim an identity" Elizabeth Wurtzel (1995) This is a quote from the book prozac nation, this book...
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-02-27 01:13:50
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Quote: Talmud
"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are"
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-02-27 01:03:22
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Also
I would just like to say that "Tomorrow is another day, but don't forget what you have learned from today"
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Posted by: gilbertseyes on 2008-02-27 00:54:50
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