BirdsFlyBackwards

Hey guys,

Annual absence note from me. Currently working on getting out and broadening my horizons in terms of my photography. I have been very inactive and have been passing this off with friends and family with some bullshit excuses that shouldn't be let fly. Hopefully once I force myself out of my comfort one we can get cracking again!

To fill you all in, I passed second year of college so I am about to start the third year of my quest in obtaining a BSc. in Geology from University College Cork, Ireland. SO far so good, fascinating subjects, amazing field trips, great people, huge expense! Money's a killer. But that's a story for another day.

For the upcoming academic year I am also the Auditor of the UCC Live Music Society. We had a very exciting year last year where we moved forward on some new ideas from previous years and left a solid foundation for future events to prosper on. The year got off to a great start when we had two UCC bands, Rabbits Love Liquorice and Emerson play in the Amphitheatre during Fresher's Fest and not long after our presence on campus early on was rewarded with a record EGM attendance of 60+ people, in a room built for 20!
For the upcoming year, we want to focus more on putting on high quality workshops to help improve knowledge of how to run live music events, sound engineering, music journalism and more! We will also be collaborating with some new venues this year to change things up from what has been a pretty predictable past few years, as well as having more of a campus presence. Plans have already kicked off and I'm really, really excited about some of the things we're doing, if anyone's interested I'll keep you guys up to date with this, as we are also going to have more of a social media presence which should help!

Thanks for reading folks,

Keep safe,

Jake

Hey guys.

Wow, what an underwhelming amount of activity form me in recent times, huh? I apologise for my extended absence. I have been so busy with college at the minute, writing this is in itself a great example of my excellent procrastinating skills.
So for the last year or so I have been organising and promoting gigs around Cork City, Ireland, slowly getting my name out there a bit. All is going very well, such good fun, but its very time-consuming and stressful. I have also been working closely with the University College Cork Photography Society, helping them with their day to day runnings and events. We're improving ourselves every week and getting a bit of a buzz going.
SO with all this stuff going on I seem to have forgot that I can actually take photographs. I'm going to start making more of an effort because I do miss it, I've also just bought a new camera, extra motivation!

I hope you can be a bit patient with me, while I have been away you all seem to have gotten so much more talented and I can see I have a lot of catching up to do!

Thanks for reading.
Peace,

Jake

Well hello there!
First off:
If I ever get round to opening my own airline it shall work by this principle: "We don't trust any of you motherfuckers, and that's why when you get on board, we hand each of you a gun. If you pull it out first, you're the terrorist. If you pull it out second, you're EVERYONE ELSE. Good luck, first guy."


So, how are you guys? I haven't posted anything in a while, partly because I'm too lazy, partly because I have nothing to interest you people with!

So, a few changes have happened over the last few weeks: a relationship of two years ended (hence the mood status down there), band member changes, little things like that. But on the bright side, I'm starting my work at the Indiependence Music and Arts Festival in a couple of weeks which I can't wait for. Its going to be great working on the site this year, there's going to be a massive step-up in the site and everything this year, it will be amazing. I encourage everyone to look into the festival because this year is going to be absolutely spectacular, I ensure you!

indiependencefestival.com/

Acts to look out for: And So I Watch You From Afar, Editors, Whipping Boy, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Therapy?, The Riptide Movement, etc. The list is endless.

I do have a special shout out for Zombie Computer however.  This fantastic trio burst on to the Irish music scene last July at a Battle of the Bands competition in my home town and since then their rise in popularity is the stuff of every musician's wet dreams.. Playing one of the top festivals in Europe, signing to Psychonavigation Records, beginning work on an album, 'Indian Summer', which has just been released and shooting a video for their first single 'Get Over You' in New York.
This band has to be checked out, you won't regret it.

www.zombiecomputermusic.com/


So I shall bid you a fond farewell and leave you with some words,

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get what you do want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of Life and Death.
But change is a law, and amount of pretending will alter that reality.


Goodbye and good luck.
Signing out,
Jake

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I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in

My shadow
Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.

I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to
Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.

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SO things kinda suck at the moment, and I'm really struggling with stuff that's going on.  A friend of mine was killed in a car accident last night which is just horrible... I'm in a total mess over it, but hey, we must all keep our heads up, right? It's just so hard to comprehend that this person is gone from my life now. I will never see them again. I just can't get my head around it...

R.I.P. Ruth. You will never be forgotten, and always missed.


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I've also started writing again, and I've maybe jumped into the deep-end a bit with this one...
I have an idea for a rather ambitious novel made up of short stories. I've already written three stories from the twelve I plan to put in there and I think it could work out.
However, I find myself struggling slightly at the moment. Hopefully it won't last long and the words will start flowing once again. Hopefully. If it all comes together I will be so delighted because I'm very proud of this idea and it has really re-ignited my love of writing. I don't want to lose it again..

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I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise for the lack of quality in recent photographs. I have found myself in the rather unfortunate situation of having no camera so I've been using my shitty little phone camera. A real pity and I apologize, dA, and you, the people who actually take the time to look at my stuff, deserve better than what I have been putting up.´

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I hope all of you are doing well.
Be happy, folks.

Jake

Emotions are a natural part of living. No one is immune to feeling emotions. Unless you can confront his thoughts and feelings, you will never achieve peace. Emotions, then, are not to be overcome or denied, but rather understood and dealt with.

We are all human. Humans have emotions, are ignorant, passionate, we make mistakes. In fact, more to the point, we ARE the mistake. But biggest of all, we represent chaos.
People look for some higher meaning to life in religions, I don't understand that. Do you think a cat, or a woodlouse of all creatures think to themselves, "there is a reason I am here"?
Of course they don't. We are all animals. What gives people the right to think they are above others is beyond me. These people are just cowards and do not deserve the freedom of speech to pollute the world with lies and fairy-tales. This corruption of the human mind is the single biggest cause of death in the world today. It's an absolute joke.

We are nature's biggest mistake, in so so so many ways. I can't wait until the planet eventually gets rid of us.



On a brighter note, I'm having a good day.
How are you?