Monday, November 8, 2010

The Sweetest Thing

The Sweetest Thing - Camera Obscura

I'm going on a date tonight
to try and fall out of love with you
I know, I know this is a crime
but I don't know what else to do

My love you're in a magazine
My love you're doing fine, you're on TV
You pull my heart out and then you run away
From Chicago to Cleveland, you leave me pain
You leave me pain

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother to hear you sing
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother

On the bus radio, "fifty ways to leave your lover alone"
I laughed at the irony
but life is stupid, the irony all lost on me
It got lost on me

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother to hear you sing
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother

You challenged me to write a love song
Here it is, i think I got it wrong
I focused on the negative
The pain was too much to write and sing
Oh, it was not a nice incentive

When you're lucid, you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother to hear you sing
When you're lucid you're the sweetest thing
I would trade my mother


But she don't know just how far I'd go
Would I walk for a hundred miles
for an instant northern smile.
Watch here:

Sunday, November 7, 2010

7 things

  1. If you are sick, it will only get worse if you continue to go to gym. just take a break.
  2. If you really need to gate-crash a puppy party - you can always make your own dog.
  3. Sometimes you have to learn to say NO.
  4. Cleaning out your junk drawer is cathartic.
  5. Your state of body most definitely influences your state of mind.
  6. One step towards reaching your dreams is to know and accept your limitations.
  7. English is a strange language. We have phrases like "keep your ear to the ground" "a cut above the rest" "a different kettle of fish" and "a bed of roses" oh poor ESL students... sigh..

Saturday, November 6, 2010

oh english. we love you.

There were two reasons why I have not posted a decent cartoon in a while. The first being deathly-sick-flu and the second being that i am literally up-to-my-eyeballs in pink, black and silver for a wedding guestbook/thank-you notes/table-numbers/church programs that I'm busy doing for a friend.
You may think that this is figuratively/metaphorically speaking, but to anyone who has entered the mess-zone of my apartment - will know that this is actually quite literal.
(point in case - this is a small section. i am too embarrassed to show the rest)
anyway being 'up-to-my-eyeballs' in wedding-ness made me think about our wonderful english language and how confusing it must be to anyone trying to learn it...
(bear with me - it isn't my finest work. but i'm still sick. the comatose-blind-snail-brain-thing) i hope you can spot all the wonderful english-isms.

(that's all i have the brain capacity for today. maybe the kettles and pots will make a return sometime when i'm not 
man-down, bed-ridden, sick-as-a-dog.

Friday, November 5, 2010

DO NOT mess with me

I havent posted a proper cartoon in a while - there are two reasons for this. the first is i am swamped with wedding projects and "favour" projects on the go. (more about that when i have more time) and the other is that i have been really sick the last few days :( I think its the changing of the weather. (i heart winter, NO. no, i do NOT) Yesterday it reached a pinacle.
last scraps of South African vitamins almost all finished, tissues carried everywhere, brain foggy, heavy and cloudy, throat as if a galaxy of zombies have decided it's a good stratch-ground. (actually i have no idea what the collective noun of zombie is - but im too sick *sniff-sniff* too look it up.)

BRAIN FUNCTIONING DIAGRAM:


CURRENT BRAIN FUNCTIONING DURING CURRENT DEATHLY SICKNESS:

Let's just say I have NOT been in the mood for teaching:

(Disclaimer: no students were harmed in the making of this cartoon. they were good. they think im crazy. we had a good time :) )

take your vitamins.

(and also big thanks to Kurt who gave me some Korean tablets to take. I'm still not exactly certain on the directions and its all in Korean.... I may die... but if it takes away the nesting zombies then i say bottoms up! :)

I could do with some of these...

found via weheartit

indulge...

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Cat lady.





(side note to mother and father: nothing against the family name...i mean, aint nothing like a good army knife... i'm just saying.)