'Waiting' and 'House by the Sea' by Melbourne artist Catherine Campbell via My Folk Lover
`Josefin the Writer' by duo Olney Clark from their self-titled LP to be released in February, 2010 on the Friendly Police UK Label. Video directed by Hanae Seida.
I was listening to an abc radio national program this week where a learned person was talking about memory. He maintained that humans have been designed to forget – in order to maintain relationships and to cope with painful life events. A good memory, he said, puts a person at a disadvantage. It’s hard for them to move on, to forgive, to function, when the past is so crystal clear. But if nobody had one of these ‘disabled’ brains, who would be the keepers of truth?
I couldn't find the Josefin lyrics anywhere - bit early I suppose - so have written down the words that I sing in my head. Some of them will be wrong! I'm away for the next couple of weeks with limited internet access but promise to catch up with all comments when I come home.
Josefin the writer
has books locked in her head.
She must release them
onto paper.
She has
she has me worried
of how her thoughts do go
but it’s not to name it
but left to mind
to turn like you’ve gone away.
Why do,
why do our bodies
tire so much faster than our minds do?
Where does thought go
when it swims away?
She is the place
I send my mind
when I need to see things
not as they are
but as I long for them to be.
Josefin.
Josefin the writer
is collecting information
on the mechanics of a memory.
Where will,
where will she find love?
Will it stay with you
or another
or where will she find
a reader like me?
She is the place
I send my mind
when I need to see things
not as they are
but as I long for them to be.
Josefin.
You are the place
I send my mind
when I need to see things
not as they are
but as I long for them to be.
Josefin.
Supposedly 'big hair' is back!
Photographs by Saima Altunkaya
And of course, books never go out of fashion.
by Jolis Paon
