Sleepless.

I wrote this as a comment to a mates blog but it wouldn't post for some bloody reason, so I decided I liked it enough to post it here...

I think that there are those of us destined to never sleep a whole night in our lives.
Sometimes it takes the extreme and complete mental and physical exhaustion to be able to sleep for longer than a couple hours a night, if at all, and even then we don't feel rested.
We sleep because the body will no longer function.
It is a shut down mechanism.
And to be honest, there are those of us that revel in it.
We draw from it.
We make our lives from it.
Clag.

Tribute to Damo, Andy and Josh.

I wrote this for an insert for my bands record, but it got scrapped from the artwork. Thought I'd post it.

Every single day the sun rises and the sun sets.
People go to work and you can see the looks on their faces as they drive past you in their cars.
They sip their coffee, check their phones and apply lipstick in the mirror at the traffic lights.
They live seemingly exciting lives while we stand aside and assess their mundane existence.
And the lights change.
And people go on with their lives.
What we do is different. This is how we’ve chosen to live.
Every single day we encounter people in our lives that move us to change.
One day she’ll be your wife.
One day he’ll be your brother-in-law.
One day they’ll be you’re best friend.
But one day they won’t be there.
The time we spend with each other is often taken for granted. Never thinking that ends come to those we treasure. Never knowing when that day will come.
So make sure they know that they’re loved.
Tell someone you care.
Buy someone a cup of coffee.
Eat lunch.
Share a cigarette.
Walk and hold hands.
Whatever you do, just be sure that you make it count.
Because every single day the sun rises and the sun sets.
But, one day the sun will only rise.
And then it’s too late.


Cheers.
Clag.

Introduction

It seems that everyone around me has started new blogs. Livejournal is fucking dead. Myspace blogs can suck pretty hard, so I decided to get in on the game. I am not here to post crap about how bad things are, I don't suffer from that anymore.

I live a wonderful and happy life. I have a good job, a beautiful and awesome wife, 2 rad dogs and a band that keeps me entertained. I'll post artwork, photos and shit like that. I have made the decision to make my life and household a drug free environment. For myself and for my family (and no, not "Family" like hardcore, but for when I have children).

I am terrible with punctuation and spelling and paragraphs, so it will often just be in point form or in big slabs.

Thats enough for now. Have a read. Maybe you'll like it. Maybe you'll find me boring. Oh Well.

Oh, and with the name, it is from a The Weakerthans song. It rings true: Make them remember me...

Clag.