Corbid Ravenous

The selkie girl has wide brown eyes and soft fine hair She seldom speaks but her eyes hold oceans She basks on sulit rocks sheds her skin to try on another and is caught Spends years of halfhearted bliss Before coming to claim it again Slips it on and it fits so well Makes her … Read more

My sovereign strength has left me yet again And so I stand Lost and yearning Pleading my case to an empty courtroom Offering alibis which fall on deaf ears I am not beautiful I am just reflected light And in the absence of illumination the token at my throat glints dully like the blade of … Read more

words are all she’s got all those big words tumbling about in a tiny girl’s head the oldest child you’ll ever know she ages backwards should’ve seen her years ago when she was ancient and not so self important and had such a promising future instead she has pretty girls with pretty eyes rebellious angels … Read more

The shell of me was salvaged from near ruin pieced together strung with wires and bolted upright The soul of me is still in pieces rotting within Bits of it fleeing on occasion The heart of me is treacherous and uncertain and should never be trusted

She never means to lure them to their doom enticing young sailors to their shipwrecked and watery graves She simply sings out of loneliness As she cannot swim and has no boat to carry her away She calls out with a voice pure and lovely a song haunting and ancient and full of promise She … Read more

Imprisoned at home with two sick children in Disney channel purgatory for the second day running. Clawing at the walls longing to escape. Desperately in need of adult conversation,but no one’s reachable today… Oh well, at least they’re cute sick children. I shall cuddle with them and in the meantime take comfort in this Young … Read more

Apparently Guy Fawkes Day is the cause of much fireworks idiocy in Britain,Australia and other former denizens of the British Empire. And we thought we had the market cornered on fireworks idiocy here in the U.S. http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,233588-1-7,00.html

1)Dire Straits “Brothers In Arms” – First of all, I just love that including this track allows me to have a cd that opens with the sound of thunder (someday I’ll have to put “Riders On the Storm” on a mix for that very reason…). Also, I know this is technically not a Celtic band, … Read more

Ok,how self important am I that I distribute a mix CD to friends and then feel important enough to do a commentary? Self important enough to have this many seperate blogs,I guess…

Interesting little documentary about the making of a film that,alas, was not to be. Moment worth waiting for: the look of unbelievable despair on director Terry Gilliam’s face as he’s told “I’m sorry but we just can’t make this movie. Not the movie you want to make.” So sad.