Geoff Allen's Journal, May 2003

My Journal

[ May 1st, 2003 '

Re-visited this page again ...

Today's mantra: "Suddenly I'm not a crazy bastard anymore ..."

From today's emails ... click :)

Any Simpsons fans out there? - click

[ May 2, 2003 '

From yesterday ... click

Heard a funny clean joke this morning ... click :)

Something else interesting that I got in my email today

This as well in my inbox just now ...

Yet anudder interesting search

Found it amongst these posts ... click :)

In a 'funny' mood posted some offthetopofmyhead comments to this page ... I wonder if they'll be published ... something about opinions & sleep tight & things always seem darker at night & something else I don't readily recall ...

Some interesting sounds - click

[ May 3, 2003 '

- tothby riddle singing hat

A few more mantras into our ever-growing collection - look for 'dollar by dollar' ... :)

But here's an oldie ... "This is plenty & the mind is empty."

Today's alternate mantra: "In every madman there is a misunderstood genius, whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him." - Click here 4 more

www.cocopops.com.au

Extraordinarily vivid dreams last night ... in one, I was somehow back in Queen Victoria's time (I think) & I was at some fancy shmancy royal occasion complaining loudly about the oppression of the masses (by the select few) & causing quite a disturbance ... then I said something like "Don't worry. I'm like the man who stands & throws pebbles at a cstle ... I don't really expect it to fall ..." (plus loads of detail that escapes me now that I'm awake ...)

Yes, I've been having some incredibly vivid & detailed dreams lately ... maybe it's the meds ...

More puns ... click here

Or maybe hear

A search for one of today's mantras - click

On reflection, from yesterday, perhaps 'Whoever is without sin, let him cast the first stone' may have been better ... :) ... and it IS perfect advice ... the fact that it is very rarely acted upon doesn't stop it being perfect advice ...

[ May 4, 2003 '

www.soulofacitizen.org

Today's mantra: click :)

From yesterday ... seems Mr Artaud has a few quotes listed at the bartleby site - click & down the bottom is 'Next' & 'Previous' ... looks like about 30 quotes in all ... (not all are about Vincent)

Just heard an interesting piece of trivia - apparently the ancient Greeks wore white to bed to ensure pleasant dreams ... I wonder if it worked ... or how much of the placebo effect was involved ... like those dream catchers ...

Some interesting quotes ... click

More humour - click

Saw an interesting flick last night on the tube ... 'Blast from the past' ... some memorable quotes ... lemme see if any are recorded in cyberspace ...

Here's one review

From today's emails etc ... click

Here's one quote from the movie ...

There was also something about everything being a miracle & until recently he hadn't realised it ... click

Meditate on this ... click

... or ... these ...

[ May 5, 2003 '

Another (huuuge) quotes page - click

www.kennyscardiology.com.au

In this morning's emails ... click

Oh yes, also this page - warning - this page contains material that may offend ...

[ May 6, 2003 '

From yesterday ... click :)

www.optillusions.com

Not a whole lot of online time today - glorious sunny spell yet again ... possibly the last warm blast before winter sets in ...

Just saw a story about the Ig Nobel Prizes ... and an Aussie scientist who's won one for investigating belly-button fluff :)

Was reminded (fro some reason) of this quote from a recently-read book ...

[ May 7, 2003 '

Here's that belly-button research ...

Interesting lyrics - click

www.madblast.com

Also in today's emails ... click

Ironic book title ... click :)

Interesting quote - click :)

Today's mantra: "Could we have our local mornings. Could we ever local all our mornings."

... or 'don't tell me that it's all in doubt' ... {to the tune of I'll never fall in love again, which I recently heard - the Elvis Costello version thereof} ...

[ May 8, 2003 '

From yesterday ... that popular science page - the random link looks interesting ... seti ... turing ... baraka ... click

Should checkout this article next time I happen to be online ...

Today's mantra: "People love to say something & then they usually say something else."

Also from yesterday's meanderinks ... click

Quote of the day: "The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."
- Adlai E. Stevenson {American lawyer & politician, but we won't hold that against her}

... or possibly this one - 'For some reason, Bon Jovi's Livin' On a Prayer has been running through my head for approximately a week and a half. Two more days and I'm calling an exorcist' - click here 4 more such thoughts

Nice little jaunt down to Mt Martha for a stroll along the cliffs & along the beach a bit ... couldn't help thinking about that quote from Isaac Newton ... lemme see if I can locate it ... click

A few other things popped into my thoughts throughout the day ... like the last verse from this little song ...

... then there was this oldie ...

Speaking of memorable lyrics, I saw a special last night and apparently this album has some stuff you might not ordinarily expect from an artist like Kylie ...

Lemme see ... what else was there ... oh yes, I will shortly be adding more to these excerpts - I'm only about a third throught the book but highly recoomend it ... really gets you thinking ...

Today's mantra: "Life is granular & sometimes the grains rub together ..."

Oh yes, also saw a couple of books by Graeme Base as I browsed a couple of bookshops in Frankston ...

[ May 9, 2003 '

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy." -- Richard Feynman

Interesting ep of Frasier last night ... click

Writer's block :)

Today's mantra:
"People don't even like their money. The money makes them act quite funny."

[ May 10 & 11, 2003 '

No online time on Saturday ... so now it's Mother's Day ... and here's wishing all you Mum's a happy day whatever you're doin & wherever you are ...

From the emails etc -

Big red

George's resume

Looks like Mr Leunig is back from his hiatus ... click

With the Matrix sequel released this week ... they screened the original last night ... it just is NOT the same experience on a telly screen with adverts inserted every ten mins or so ... should include a couple of the quotes I'd forgotten - the splinter in the mind - how do you define real - knowing the path & walking it ... click

Smileys - click

Today's mantra: "Local in the mornings. That's local & that's normal."

Oh yes, I was also thinking about the advice listed on this page yesterday ...

Looking at that Matrix 5 site ... the raves about the book make you keen to get your hot little hans on it ... click

[ May 12, 2003 '

Busy little day ... opened up a book with the following verse in it - click

For some reason, I found myself thinkin about some of the stuff in this file as i ambled home from a spot of grocery shopping ...

Friendship Book

Doublday catalog - click

Had a couple of interestin books ... like this

... as well as this one

What else ... oh yes, a few lines from this poem ... like screaming in the street ... :)

Also caught a bit of the Dr Phil show ... yes the mystery of how we become what we are ... internal dialogues ... and how negative it can become ...

Another vital website ... www.timtam.com.au

Lemme see ... waht else did we do ... well, looks like another week of sunny weather, when we so desperately need precipitation ...

Oh yes, I had some incredibly vivid dreams again last night ... one involved me meditating whilst standing on my head ... in another I was having some earnest 'discussions' on some hot topic or other ... the details fade so quickly once I return to reality ...

Some excellent gibberish sessions yeatserday avo & evening ... woke up a bit drained ...

11, 20, 25, 26, 27, 34, 43, 55, 72, 75 ... Good Luck ...

Feel good pages

www.nvo.com/isleepless/poemsrhymes/

- Kenneth Koch

"Don't don't don't tell me I'm crazy. Don't don't don't tell me I'm normal."

Belated mother's day quote ... click ... found mainly via this site

[ May 13, 2003 '

Speaking of the matrix movie(s) ... click

More dreams last night but as (nearly) always the details fade too quickly to be recorded ... :)

Interesting search :)

www.drbecky.com

Today's mantra: "One day a man woke up & he wanted to know 12 things about his life ... :)"

I must remember 2 upload this - life is always normal ...

Nice to see Micallef back on screen last night - that will mean precious little to people not livin in Oz ... click

Comedian Yellow Pages - click - all Aussies ...

Quote of the day: "You have taken denial to a higher art form" (on the Dr Phil show again)

... and from the preview of tomorrow's show ... "When you're angry, that's the time you're playing the victim the most."

[ May 14, 2003 '

In my emails ... news of an altered link - click

What WILL they think of next ... click :)

Continuing yesterday's theme ... heard this little proverb - on a comedy sketch show of all places ...

Also this quote from Shakespeare ...

www.childrensparties.com.au

Oh yes, chalk up another quirky coinkidink ... I was thinking about some of the stuff in this ... then later in the day I'm doing a spot of cleaning & found a printout of it I hadn't read in yonks ...

www.2for50.com.au

www.biggestmorningtea.com.au