I start out on this road, call it
love or emptiness. I only know what's

not here: resentment seeds, back-
scratching greed, worrying about out-

come, fear of people. When a bird gets
free, it doesn't go back for remnants

left on the bottom of the cage! Close
by, I'm rain. Far off, a cloud of fire.

I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease.
Branches tremble; the roots are still.

I am a universe in a handful of dirt,
whole when totally demolished. Talk

about choices does not apply to me.
While intelligence considers options,

I am somewhere lost in the wind.

-Rumi

You dont become ecstatic and you are not plunged into violent grief...
You live like a happy rock in the midst of the ocean; you are fixed
while everything about you is in turbulent motion. You are fixed, in
a reality which permits the thought that nothing is fixed, that even
the happiest and mightiest rock will one day be utterly dissolved and
liquid as the ocean from which it was born.

-Henry Miller

(courtesy of Renee)

I made a new years resolution this year to see more live music. This is the happiest resolution that I've ever made and is going to be the most fun to fulfill.

I'm going to keep a list here of what I see. So far:
Dynamic Thrills
Dubdoubt
Panjea (well the half of them that weren't stranded in the middle of australia somewhere)
Blue King Brown
Skin
Afro Dizzi Act
Neighbourhood groove collective (who were much too sleepy for my liking)
White Stripes
The subways
Kings of Leon
Franz Ferdinand
Hilltop hoods
Iggy pop
The grates
Sleater-kinney
Sarah blasko
Wolf & cub
airbourne
LABJACD
St Andrews Fall
Tom Cooney
Josh Pyke
Polyvinyl
Each revolving door
Transport
The Bird
The Herd
Faker
Little Birdy
Paul Mac
Emma Dean
Pendulum

Oh and here is my personal gig guide of where I'll most likely be over the next month or so:

4/2 Kafka @ The Zoo
9/2 Josh Pyke @ Troubadour
17/2 Transport @ The Rev
18/2 The Bird @ The Zoo
23/2 The Herd @ The Zoo (after Aimee's birthday dinner at Garuva (!) if there is time)
26/2 Jazz on a Sunday Vibe @ The Zoo
17/3 Dynamic Thrills @ the zoo
18/3 Sophie Koh @ Troubadour
25/3 Fat Freddy's Drop @ the zoo
15/4 Sigur Ros @ Tivoli Cabaret and Bar
18/4 The Mountain Goats @ The Zoo