I Know It's Over...yet I Think I'm Going Back (Nostalgia to Fuel Future Fights)
This is a post to share some bits and pieces from my past, nice moments with friends (some of which I have not been able to see in the flesh for years now) and memorable images, songs, videos which evoke a lot of nostalgia for me.
My excellent friend Ronny, the skateboarding, rapping, architect first introduced me to the Smiths back when we were both teens. He downloaded me some songs of theirs at my house via kazaa i think.
He has Morrissey Lyrics tattooed on his back. I haven't seen him for more than 2 years now and I miss him.
Some photos I took of him thrashing out skating.
Fremantle, Western Australia. Skate Park at sunset, stunning stunning sunset.
Some More Stunning Sunsets - I have not recolourized these at all.
This is my friend Michael who is unwell at the moment. He plays the piano marvelously and always makes an effort to dress stylishly. I miss him too and am looking forward to giving him his Christmas Present when I see him next.
This is me, posing for my friends from Investigating Youtube to seek feedback regarding whether I looked spiffy enough for an upcoming job interview with a State Government department. Would have been around 2018 and in retrospect I am happy I did not get the job.
View from my computer desk, taken a few months ago.
This is a song I wrote around 2000 using FL Studio 4. I never got to finish it and listening back I hear potential but still hate the out of place phasing synthesizer near the middle of the track. The song would have sounded much more tight without it in my opinion.
This is me being silly, testing out my new mobile phone's voice recorder software - recorded 2018
20th November 2018
Back in 2019, there was a Strawberry contamination scare where random sharp objects were inserted into punnets of strawberries sold in supermarkets. This caused a nationwide panic which culminated in the Prime Minister Scott Morrison threatening to jail anyone who made light of the situation online. I thought my video made light of the situation so didn't want to run the risk of having our Prime Minister come after me.
He is a cunt now though and dealing with far worse problems than my strawberry - warberry parody, so here it is uploaded again for your entertainment.
This is an acoustic cover of I Know It's Over by the Smiths written by one of my oldest online friends. We met on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) around 1995 or so and he was the first online friend I met in real life, having to travel to Sydney via plane to do so. He did this cover as a birthday present for me.
I hope he is ok. As I don't use facebook anymore I have pretty much lost all contact with him. Last time we corresponded, he had been living in New Zealand I think. Godspeed -dazelnut and maybe one day we shall meet again.
-dazelnut - I Know It's Over (acoustic cover birthday present)
Another one of -dazelnut's original songs titled "cant fool love2"
-dazelnut - cant fool love2
| The Smiths - I Know It's Over #1 | The Smiths - I Know It's Over #2 | Dusty Springfield - Goin' Back |
|---|---|---|
| Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head And as I climb into an empty bed Oh well, enough said [Chorus] I know it's over - still I cling I don't know where else I can go Over... Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head See, the sea wants to take me The knife wants to slit me Do you think you can help me? Sad veiled bride, please be happy Handsome groom, give her room Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly Though she needs you more than she loves you [Chorus] And I know it's over - still I cling I don't know where else I can go Over and over and over and over Over and over... I know it's over, and it never really began But in my heart it was so real And you even spoke to me, and said: | "If you're so funny Then why are you on your own tonight? And if you're so clever Then why are you on your own tonight? If you're so very entertaining Then why are you on your own tonight? If you're so very good-looking Why do you sleep alone tonight? I know... 'cause tonight is just like any other night That's why you're on your own tonight With your triumphs and your charms While they're in each other's arms..." [Chorus 2] It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate It takes strength to be gentle and kind Over, over, over, over It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind Over, over Love is natural and real But not for you, my love Not tonight, my love Love is natural and real But not for such as you and I My love | I think I'm goin' back To the things I learned so well in my youth I think I'm returning to Those days when I was young enough to know the truth Now there are no games To only pass the time No more coloring books No Christmas bells to chime But thinking young and growing older is no sin And I can play the game of life to win I can recall a time, When I wasn't ashamed to reach out to a friend And now I think I've got A lot more than a skipping rope to lift Now there's more to do Than watch my sailboat glide And everyday can be my magic carpet ride And I can play hide and seek with my fears And live my days instead of counting my years Let everyone debate the true reality, I'd rather see the world the way it used to be A little bit of freedom's all we're lack So catch me if you can I'm goin' back |
| The Smiths - I Know It's Over (Live) [Official Audio] | Songfacts - I Know It's Over | Dusty Springfield - "Goin' Back" 2020 stereo mix. |
ABC Perth Radio - Reminiscing of Better Times & More Humanity In Our Media
When meandering along the same memory lane today, I remembered another symbolic embodiment of the lyric "It Takes Strength To Be Gentle and Kind:"
- ABC Radio 720AM Breakfast radio host Eoin Cameron - possibly the longest serving radio host in Australia (maybe up there in the world?) and definitely the most popular early morning radio show.
- His booming, sonorous voice emanating from the local airwaves over decades, a mirthful morning companion to many. Eoin Cameron on early morning radio slots was a cultural mainstay that most Perth & Western Australian households had varying degrees of familiarity to in their lives
- And for me I became reacquainted with his familiar, sagacious yet ponderous but devilish narrator in 2015-2016. I was basically living a new life where my morning routine was one of peak health and freedom - I was able to enjoy an immense 1900's era Miner's terrace cottage mostly to myself with a gorgeous concertina of bi-fold glass doors facing my backyard.
- Slinking through the glass doors each morning (especially from Spring to Summer) dawn greeted me. Tinted with promise of the day's heat, hinting through colours of sweat and swelter!
- In Summer especially I'm up much earlier.
- Eoin "Cammo" Cameron clocked onto his 5:00am ABC 720AM breakfast radio slot each morning.
- 5am in Summer, the hour is when a dark sky is ending and dawn's sun lightens to crimson, vermillion and red.
- Eastern sunrise stretching across the horizon, awakens with me and then hurries me.
- As I know by the time I'm on my pushbike pedaling to work I'll likely be burning
Assorted Links Providing Insight into the Great Eion Cameron's Biography and Career
Eoin Cameron's final STM interview - The Advertiser - 9 May 2016
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-27/eoin-cameron-obituary-deborah-leavitt/7547112?nw=0&r=Gallery
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-11/perth-broadcaster-eoin-cameron-to-retire/7068402
https://twitter.com/MarkMcGowanMP/status/746129956460081152
https://web.archive.org/web/20060103104801/http://www.abc.net.au/perth/stories/ec_st_article.htm
Conversations with Richard Fidler - Eoin Cameron's journey through life - Wednesday 10 June 2015
Eoin Cameron discusses his dark past - ABC Stateline WA - 28 September 2009
ABC radio man Eoin Cameron tells of child rape - PerthNow.com.au - 25 September 2009
Keep Speaking & Seeking: It Does Take Strength
Snap Protest - Wednesday 20th October 5pm - Dumas House - 2 Havelock St, WEST PERTH (WA Department of Premier & Cabinet)
AustraliaOne Party (A1) - COVID: Roundtable No.2 Courage and Wisdom - 10 October 2021
What a great selection of memories! I had to go listen to Morrissey, those lyrics are already in my head as it is, now it's been on repeat all day, thanks. 😂
I just died at the warberry clip, OMG, that's hilarious. You really ought to do more clips like that. Too funny!
Great post Gabe, loved all of it!
Thanks for the encouraging comment, helps spur me on sharing creativity and laughs.
You're welcome @aagabriel! Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff and bring on the laughs, always!
Lovely slice of your life!
Thank you for sharing
God Bless Australia & the World
Hold Strong - we're almost on the other side of full exposure
WWG1WGA
Bless ya heart <3
And yours dear one