If music be

"This music is simply an extension of the basic human need to establish meaningful connections with others."

martin b. sleeman, the morning after girls

Yep.....

Love Hurts

kapow!

I stole this from The Mess Hall's art work.

What a band. Amazing art and great video's.....

Not to mention the most ground stomping live sets.

Hilarious blogs too.

What a band.

The Kir Fact

There is a phrase used by my work colleagues both past and present, the Kir Fact. A phrase coined by my brother in law who has the irritating habit of coming up with nick names for me. The Kir Fact, however, that’s one I’ve become one with and embraced.

The Kir Fact is something that I, Kir (obviously) state with utter conviction and authority as though it were fact. Though there will be an element of truth or a string of reality in there its more than likely that the important part is erroneous or often times completely fictional. Now despite much debate, I as the author of all kir facts, can assure you these fictional facts are not lies, certainly not deliberate lies, I just have a tendency to forget names, places and dates but I grasp concepts and ideas. I get the meaning and forget the details, thus delivering an abridged version of the story, for example “the Arctic Monkeys sold more albums than the Beatles” this is clearly NOT true, the concept though is delivered, i.e. the Arctic Monkeys sold a shit load of albums. I’ll have read something somewhere like the Arctic Monkeys sold more albums in their first week of release than the Beatles did in blah blah blah, it’s the concept of loads of albums that I grasped and yet the blah blah blah bit that just totally dissipates between my ears.

It’s the blah blah blah bits that are important apparently, I’m increasingly surprised by exactly how important. Everybody wants the bloody details. I am far happier with the concepts.

An alternative version of the Kir Fact is the nonsensical seceter (made that word up too but you know the word I mean right?) for example:

Question “Kir are your hands cold?”

Answer “Yeah, lazy spleen.”

Makes no sense at all to the person posing the question does it? Makes perfect sense to me, both my naturopath and my Chinese doctor have diagnosed me with a lazy spleen (of all the organs to be lax, I ask you?) and this makes my digestion and circulation sluggish, resulting in cold extremities. But heck, who can be bothered explaining all that and as if the person posing the question won’t think I’m nuts anyway having both a naturopath and a Chinese doctor that I take seriously, that’s before I’ve even explained that the Chinese Dr is French.

I used to take offense to the “Um is that a Kir fact?” question, I felt misunderstood, unheard, not taken seriously, doubted, but now I am one with the reality that I am all of the above and for good reason, but does that make me want to change and be different? Not likely, I like the way I see the world without all the blah blahs, plus it adds humor when you exaggerate.