This is an imaginary story.

Aren't they all?

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[info]growlingsoulpup
 You were wrong.

Wrong about everything, about the person you thought she was. 

Wrong to let your walls down after all this time.

Lesson learned, my friend. Never, ever, let down your guard again. This is what happens. 
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Writer's Block: Like a rolling stone
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Which musicians of the last two decades have had the most lasting impact on music as we know it today?

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Are you kidding me?!

Turn on the radio and listen to the rock bands on the airwaves today.

Coldplay, One Republic, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Angels and Airwaves, Keane...what do these bands have in common? Answer: they should all be paying royalties to U2. 
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Writer's Block: Goodness gracious
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Have you even had a moment, an hour, or a day that renewed your faith in the fundamental goodness of humankind?

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Every time I listen to music that moves me. 
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Writer's Block: I'm with the band
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If you could be a member of any musical group, past or present, which group would you choose and why?

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Wow. U2 definitely. (I know, predictable, right?) But they're the band for me. Thing about U2 though is that it'd just feel so odd to imagine yourself replacing one of the members...because more than any other band, U2 are all about the interaction between the personalities of Bono, Larry, Adam and Edge than between instruments. Still I'd love to be a part of what they're doing. To have stayed the biggest band in the world for 3 decades is no mean feat. To be still producing amazing music like on No Line On The Horizon...well what can you say.
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Psalm 6
[info]growlingsoulpup
 Please, God, no more yelling, no more trips to the woodshed.    Treat me nice for a change; I'm so starved for affection. Can't you see I'm black-and-blue, beat up badly in bones and soul? God, how long will it take for you to let up? Break in, God, and break up this fight; if you love me at all, get me out of here.  I'm no good to you dead, am I? I can't sing in your choir if I'm buried in some tomb! I'm tired of all this—so tired. My bed has been floating forty days and nights on the flood of my tears. My mattress is soaked, soggy with tears. The sockets of my eyes are black holes; nearly blind, I squint and grope.

Get out of here, you Devil's crew: at last God has heard my sobs. My requests have all been granted, my prayers are answered.   Cowards, my enemies disappear. Disgraced, they turn tail and run. 
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FML.
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Off my Dad's Facebook. Andy is my Dad, Albert is his friend.

Albert Lee: Wow! Finally I get to see your family photo. You are almost like me; surrounded by the wife and daughters. Guess you are glad that you have a son but I am very contented to be the only thorn amongst the roses!


Andy Wee:Huh Sir?  I only have 1 daughter and 2 sons,


Andy Wee(After checking picture): O Lord, my son looks like a girl.
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Old Uncle Dancing with King Kong Jane?!
[info]growlingsoulpup
This uncle is LEGENDARY!






It's kinda sad that nobody else was dancing though, haha. Colin looks rather bemused LOL.
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This Be The Verse.
[info]growlingsoulpup
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
  They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
  And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
  By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
  And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
  It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.




Philip Larkin.
 

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Rachael+Ling=Gorgeous Music
[info]growlingsoulpup
I can't believe I didn't notice this video until now. Rachael Teo and Ling Kai doing a cover of Lies! from the movie Once. Positively breathtaking: the harmonies kinda get lost in the middle but it's still so good.



And of course watching this video made me want to go listen to this one again. Sorry, but I can never get enough of Larkin Step. Who can?





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Writer's Block: Youthful Transgressions
[info]growlingsoulpup

What mistake made in your youth do you most regret now?

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Funny as it seems, my greatest mistake in all these years of living was never learning to let myself make mistakes; instead, always taking the tried-and-tested route. If I could repeat my four years of secondary school again, I would embrace the host of opportunities for friendship and experience that I had spurned. Even if they turned out to be mistakes, they would be mistakes I'd gladly make.

Oh, and also, I would not make the mistake of having such an insufferable messianic complex again.

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