on Distractions and Distortions

"Give your evidence," the King repeated angrily, "or I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not."
~Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

When she smiles, she smiles very pretty. Always lovely to watch and I enjoy myself immensely.

Sunday was a nice Sunday, out in the sea just a few miles off the coast of Jakarta, the water was calm and tempered even if there was a gathering storm getting darker and darker above the city.

I wasn’t sure how I was feeling so I had a few books though in the end I didn’t get to read much of anything. It was too hard to concentrate. I hate the Blackberry, too. The iPod I love and I’m growing attached to it. It’s a 64GB one so I could put almost all my music there and even some reading too.

I was vegging on the deck, the sun was kind and the smell of the bay not too bad and the iPod found me John Coltrane, playing Too Young To Go Steady just as the boat swayed left and right in just about the right pace. I was probably stoned, too. I named it Travis.

I’ve been trying to write something for the last few weeks. Random notes and thoughts though I was posting somewhat less than usual. The lot of what I wrote is probably not for public consumption and would take some heavy editing to make it corrigible to most. I find it very frustrating.

Alice also I find very distracting. When she smiles, she smiles very pretty.

I’m reading a lot of the news these days and they have all been very boring and tiring. The domestic news is a mad jumble of things and the international news I’ve skipped almost entirely. Except that there’s a Madonna interview in the Rolling Stones so I bought that.

Madonna said she didn’t know where San Pedro is. She said she might have been “on the way to the studio and seen an exit ramp for San Pedro.”

I was chatting with Rob the other day. He was suggesting that Antasari Azhar fucked it up over a chick. Indonesian anti-corruption czar allegedly ordered a hit on a CEO after an affair gone wrong. Rob said that many great men have fallen for more stupid reasons whenever girls were involved.

Indonesians have no tradition for assassination. People disappear all the time, but public assassination is almost unheard of. Firearms are illegal so public, mafia-style hit are certainly very rare. The most well known of such hit was probably Tommy Soeharto’s - a Supreme Justice in July, 2001. Both were carried by thugs on a motorbike, shots to the head through the passenger seat window with a backup team slowing the car down and made time for the getaway. Tommy was sentenced for 15 years. Antasari is most likely going down for more.

He was the prosecutor in Tommy’s case and I thought that was kinda peculiar.

I was going to look it up but I haven’t because I couldn’t be bothered doing anything on Sunday.

The Verses the White Rabbit Read

'They told me you had been to her,
And mentioned me to him:
She gave me a good character,
But said I could not swim.


He sent them word I had not gone
(We know it to be true):
If she should push the matter on,
What would become of you?


I gave her one, they gave him two,
You gave us three or more;
They all returned from him to you,
Though they were mine before.


If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts to you to set them free,
Exactly as we were.


My notion was that you had been
(Before she had this fit)
An obstacle that came between
Him, and ourselves, and it.


Don't let him know she liked them best,
For this must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest,
Between yourself and me.'

~These were the verses the White Rabbit read, from Who Stole the Tarts
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

on an iPod, Last.Fm and Tom Petty

I now have an iPod touch - a brand new 64GB version. A little Fairy girl got it for me. Was pretty weird, you know the whole iPod thingy but i don't think of these stuff much nowadays and just started playing with it.

I have been on Last.fm for a number of years. I've the scrobbler installed on my Vista machine, and i listen to music from my laptop for most of the day when i'm working outside. Until recently, the music at home was streamed on a separate box - and this one plays different set of playlists. At home, for example, i listen to a lot of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The last two days i changed the setup so now the music at home will always be from one machine - and scrobles the iPod too.

Last.fm now totally listens to everything i'm listening to.

I feel violated.


PS: the iPod is totally fun. 

on a Napkin

hoping
expecting
wanting
wishing
waiting.