The Nooks and Crannies

Yes, I realise it has been quite a while since I blogged my thoughts on the little nooks and crannies of everyday living but what can I say? I have had prior engagements with University and Work. So let's get right into it?

The past few weeks I have been experiencing small discoveries along my journeys to the city. These thoughts and theories are just a few things that I felt stood out from the usual grind of 'the boring' or 'the mandatory'; which could be uni work or work-work. The first nook I guess would take place when I walk to the train station. Usually it wouldn't be rushed, I wouldn't take into consideration much more than music and obviously what's going on around me, being the cars going at a million miles an hour and Tame Impala. Blissfully blowing melodies of psychedelic riffs and lyrics that sprout intertwined messages of past-loves and 'being yourself'. It's great. While this was going on, a butterfly flew across my path and fluttered its wings to say hello. While this was happening, I thought about how rare and unique it is to see a butterfly. Common butterflies only live for a few days and their main purpose is of course to find a partner. So when you think about it, if you take into consideration how many butterflies you see in a year and think about how many you think others would see, there must be so many of them! It really puts things into perspective when things like this catch your eye. 

Another experience of travelling to the train was a rainy, puddle-splashing day that we've seen too many of this Spring/Summer. It was one of those mornings where you have to get up, regardless of what the body and of course what you want to do. In the fluster to get up and get dressed, I didn't take notice of the time and had to rush for the train, in order to be on time. One of the things I was thinking about was umbrellas. It's a rainy day, its necessary to have one, if you don't then well, you'd look just as good as the drowned, decayed rat that floats in the gutter, near the path to Cannon Hill train station. I was desperately trying to open it and take advantage of its one purpose in life, which is to make me dry. After the tug-o-war battle I had, it finally saw it my way and worked to the full extent. After a few golden steps of victory, the wind flew my way and performed one of those unforgivable gusts that inverted my umbrella from right-side-up to...broken as fuck I think the expression is. The umbrella has to be one of those inventions that have just lost their cool along the way. Their flimsy design and ability to keep us dry have always been the same, for so long. Despite using the $2 umbrella from Crazy-Clarks or the $100 Myer one my dad allows me to use on those odd-occasions where I won't need it, I'm quite sure that it isn't a money thing. Their one of those inventions that have been lost or not updated to what I would categorize as an invention of today. This list would go on to include others like vending machines, the design of chairs and I dunno maybe the updating of surf boards?

To be honest with you, a jet-powered surfboard isn't really that pointless. Don't get me wrong, it does sound ridiculous, but if you think about it, ridiculous is the new black in regards to things that are cool. Ridiculous has to be the new facebook. But yeah, say you're out in the Pacific carving this sick, superfly, dope pipeline and a shark creeps up on you and is going to devour you like the Robert Shaw wannabe, that you are. On a normal board, you'd be like "Bummer, I'm dead," but on a jet powered board, it would be like, "laters sharky!" If your not so keen on the board, think of the cinematic possibilities that the jet-powered surfboard would come up with. Can you imagine the cool ads and promotions for this fantastic adventure? They'd make the best chase scenes, they'd make the hoverboard sequence from Back To The Future II look like a big pile of shit. So yeah, it would be great if they were commercially available. But, they would probably almost certainly kill hundreds if not thousands of people a year. It's a risky invention but I think one that is definitely sound in what it wants to achieve. Of course, these people who enter the afterlife after dying from the jet-powered surfboard, would die knowing, they had the most awesome death possible.

So in summary, I think too much. But funnily enough it drives me to write these blogs that hopefully entertain you for a few moments. If you don't know where the banner image is from, I suggest you see the movie The Breakfast Club and educate up. You may be more familiar with Not Another Teen Movie, if so then you may enjoy that much more. 




Nick-Face