Who Is Toby?

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

  • Currently
    Ágætis Byrjun
    By Sigur Rós
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    118.

    It's a while, but it'll pass. Slowly maybe, in fact each day seems never-ending, from the moment my eyes open until I throw myself onto my unmade bed, I long for something that will speed up time. It goes by so mind-numbingly slowly, it seems almost on-purpose. Some sick sadist up above is thinking about how it can torture my mind to the limits of sanity...
    I don't know. Maybe it's because it's raining. After a few days of sunshine and skateboarding, once again reality jumps up into my face like a great Dane. After floating around in the bliss of warmth and energy, I suddenly fall back down to earth.
    I think I forgot it is winter. Darn.
    Well anyway, I enjoy rain too, it just isn't always very helpful. And I'm not very sure what to do. I think I'll go and buy some hair dye and go to Starbucks or somewhere and sit and read for hours on end. Yes. That sounds rather appealing to me. I'll go and get ready then.
    Rock on, Isaac Asimov.
    Thanks Dad.
    I kind of miss them today. Wow. That's a first. Family is, after all, family. But. I need to be strong.
    OK is a sideways person.
    Look at it from the side. Turn your head, I mean. 90 degrees to the left should do it.
    Yup. 

Sunday, 08 November 2009

  • Currently
    Lady Sings the Blues
    By Billie Holiday
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    Skateboard.

    I bought a skateboard this morning. My second pro skateboard. Mmm. It's good.
    http://www.unionfive.fi/uploads/images/dgk/dgk-deck-inspiration-stevie.jpg
    That's my deck. I liked it, even though it's a bit... I don't know. I care not what other people think about it, I like it, and that's good enough for me. Rides nicely.
    My neck hurts. That's what happens if you party too hard. Ok, it wasn't really partying, but it was good. Heavy metal bars are sweet. Especially after 5 beers. I'm surprised I didn't throw up. I don't drink much, the last time I had 3 beers I threw up all over the grass... But since then my sister has gotten me used to drinking larger amounts of Southern Comfort. I like it.
    One bad thing is that I can't remember most of the night's happenings. At least I was not alone. I had my guardian angel with me... In fact, it was his birthday we were celebrating. He tells me he had a good time, I think I believe him. No, I do. And another thing, the night's happenings aren't a complete blank. I do remember some things. Most, in fact. So not too many worries there.
    I have decided not to do that again. It was fun, but it's not fair on The Boy. 4 more months... I miss him a lot at the moment. Ah well. Life.
    Billie Holiday is really... wow. I am surprised by some of her lyrics. Quite... wow. But nice. It's not like your typical Britney or rapper or whoever. It's more... It's simpler. Cleaner. More the way it's supposed to be. At least to my mind. Rock on, Billie.
    I gave up smoking again. But this time I think is the last. Because I really don't want to smoke. I mean, I'm so indifferent towards it, that it's actually negative. I haven't had a fag for... 5 days? 6? I'm not sure. I don't feel I need one either. So it's all good.
    The bedroom wall has been graffiti-fied. Thanks to my genius. If I had a camera I would show you what a dump it looks like. But yeah. It seriously looks like one of those old warehouses in druggy-people films where all the junkies hang out and get high. Derelict would be a word. Crap would be another. Modern art might be another. Maybe not. What the hell. Again, I like it, so no problemo.
    I need a shower. Skateboarding makes you sweat. Aerobic exercise. It's fun as well. I think I will be able to do stuff this time. Because I don't want to hang out with any skaters, I just want to skate. And be good. Not just for a girl, but average for a boy as well. That would be so sweet. But lots of time and energy must be consumed... That's ok. I have no job and I don't do school. Hee hee... Perfect.
    Well, that's it for now.

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

  • Currently
    What Fun Life Was
    By Bedhead
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    The Doors.

    Wow Jim Morrison.
    For the past few days I've been almost obsessively listening to the Doors. That is quite unusual for me, I generally don't focus on one band or listen to the same song over and over again, but there you have it. One thing I really like about them is their live performances. Jim is high, flying in the sky... It's really... I don't know how to say it. Or what is it? Arghh.
    Maybe I find it interesting because I don't do drugs. Not normally anyway.
    Oh man. That's another thing I just noticed. Does pot count?
    Well anyway. Sigur Ros is also awesome.
    Last night we separated the bed, it was basically two mattresses on top of each other, and because there are two of us and only one bed, we decided to make the one bed into two. BUT! Now there's the problem of finding a place for this new bed to go in this tiny room. If only the computer table was less... crap. And smaller. Then it would work. But noooo... Things must always be difficult. Ah well. When thingy gets home we'll sort something out.
    It's suddenly become freaking cold here. And rainy. Rain, rain, rain... It never ceases. Well. It does, but the intervals are few and far between, AND short. So, I might as well be in the Faroe Islands again. But I like rain normally. I have no coat. This is a deep bummer.
    I think this post needs something extra. Ah yes. A quote.
    "I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... heartless manipulators, about music... that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. And it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten... but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.
    You see, what, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control. And, ah... when I'm in the grips of it, I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever, have you ever felt like that? When you just, when you just, you couldn't feel anything, and you didn't want to either. You know, like that? Do you understand what I'm saying, sir?
    "
    Can anyone guess who that is?

Sunday, 01 November 2009

  • Currently
    The Very Best of Orange Juice
    By Orange Juice
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    It's Time.

    I've been seeing things.
    Wow. That was not what I wanted to say. Well anyway, I won't backspace it. It makes me look like a loony. Which may or may not be true. That's not the issue.
    Recently, I've noticed that people around me, or in my scope of vision via the Internet or whatever, have been stepping up to do "things". To achieve stuff. To develope their skills or themselves. This is the sort of thing that should really be contagious, but most of the time it isn't. But today, for me, it is.
    The problem is, I don't know what to do. There isn't that much choice or selection for me at the moment. And also there's the thing of...
    "Muuuuum... I'm bored."
    "Why don't you do the washing up? Read a book? Knit? Train for a marathon? Watch all three of the Lord of the Rings films in one go?(etc)"
    "That's boring..."
    "Only a boring person gets bored."
    "Thanks Mum."
    Normally, I would gladly do all of those things, but it's my mindset that tells me I don't want to do any of them. No matter what my poor mother might say, I will answer it with a resounding NO. Just because I'm an arse. I feel sorry for my parents.
    Anyway, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. It's hard, because most of the normal things I can already do. Learn guitar... Done. Read. Ugh. Write a bunch of stuff. Already do. Tidy up my stuff (I don't have a room to myself. That's another story in itself.). I don't have enough stuff for that to take any time.
    OK!!! It truly IS the mindset! I must defeat this awful monster. I must overcome it's terrible... Something.
    I can't even write. Darn me.
    I WILL find something.
    Yes.
    Well. Now I'm at the SO's house staying with his family. It is kind of weird. But not as weird as it was before. I'll be here for a while, so I better get used to it. I like it though. They're very nice. I wish there was something I could do to... repay them? Whatever. Be useful. That's what I want.
    It's not that hard, really. I just have to take the leap of faith and... What the heck am I on about? Oh my... Ok, who cares. Just be me.
    I want to cut my hair again. I like cutting my hair.
    Feel good. 

Thursday, 29 October 2009

  • Currently
    Only Fun in Town / Sorry for Laughing
    By Josef K
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    A Mess.

    It's all horribly messed up. But for some strange reason it doesn't seem to be upsetting me too much. You would think that after having planned and strived towards something, only to be thwarted in your efforts, you would be rather pissed off, or depressed, or something. I don't really understand it.
    Basically, there is a major issue with the SO. He doesn't want me to be working where I am, to be living where I am... Normally I would tell hi to fuck off, but this time he does have a point, albiet now that I think about it, it does seem a little strange. Well anyway. Because he's so far away from me right now, and knowing my behaviour and such, he wants me to be somewhere where he can reach me whenever he calls. He wants me to be where he knows I'll be safe, and I won't do something stupid.
    So he wants me to go and stay with his parents. Which is fine, it just means that I lose my job and lose the place where I was going to move in probably the day after tomorrow. The weird thing is, I would gladly do this for him to be happy. I don't think it's too much of him to want me to do it. The only thing that is bothering me slightly, is what am I going to say to my boss. Sigh.
    Ah well... These things do 'appen.
    I will go and get my things from my friend's house, and go to his parents' house. And wait for further orders.
    xD
    It's ok. It shows he cares. In a weird, over-powering, domineering way. He's not really like that at all. It's just because he's away for 5 months. Well. 4, now. Oh yeah...
    Must bounce, there is breakfast to be eaten, showers to be had, shoes to be put on and doors to be slammed.
    Grin.

Saturday, 24 October 2009

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    Live and Dangerous
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    dancing in the moonlight

    it's gotten really complicated. i'm not quite sure what actually is going on, physically and mentally. some weird shit is going down, i can say that.
    ok. so i've got a job now. it starts on monday, i am happy that that got sorted out. woo hoo... and the house thing is coming along well as well. this time next week i should be in my own place. well... rented. but you know what i mean. after living other people's houses for so long it's going to be completely sweet to have my own space.Mmm... oh yeah.
    my stomache has gone insane. i threw up for no apparent reason yesterday, and today my tummy was being weird again. i threw up in my mouth a couple of times. but what is one going to do. i don't want to think that it is what i think it is... but who knows. i'll have to wait a month to know that. darn.
    you see? it's gone strange.
    well anyway, thank goodness for music.


Sunday, 18 October 2009

  • Currently
    Bittersweet
    By Apocalyptica
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    die die die my daring...

    ok, ıt has nothıng to do wıth what ı'm typıng, but ı lıke that song. ıt came to mınd.
    ı've been tellıng frıends that they're goıng to dıe. ıt shocks them, when ıt shouldn't really. ok, yeah, we're only eıghteen, nıneteen, twenty years old, but who knows what mıght happen? ıt's a very valıd possıbılıty. not that ı want any of them to actually pop theır cloggs, that would make me sad, but one should thınk about these thıngs. maybe not all the tıme, because that would be morbıd and emo, but ın a realıstıc way. ıt's goıng to happen. face ıt.
    ı love apocalyptıca.
    ı thınk ı said that ın the last entry as well, but ıt's true. musıc makes me happy, sad, crazy, depressed out of my skull... etc. ı realısed that for the past 3 months ı have been lıvıng wıthout musıc. and thıs ıs probably one of the bıggest factors of me feelıng so bad. but now ı have my musıc and ı am happy. ureshi. yes.
    ıt's true though. ı am the happıest ı've been for so long, ıt's scary. ıt's also brıllıant and ı wonder how long ıt'll last... but yeah, ı won't brıng myself down wıth those sort of thoughts. what ıs the poınt?
    ı'm not goıng to smoke anymore. ı was dyıng last nıght. ıt's really horrıble, ı can't sıng, ı can't laugh properly, talk properly... and the coughıng really hurts too. so, no more. ı have decıded.
    well. we're off to a concert apparently, but ı don't belıeve hım. he's stıll asleep ın the lıvıng room and ı don't know what tıme the traın ıs. but thıs ıs a strange country where many thıngs just do not make sense.
    man, we were playıng monopoly yesterday. ıt was easıly the most fun game of monopoly ı have ever played, because we weren't really playıng by the rules. well, sometımes we were, but ıt dıdn't matter. ı played for half an hour wıth no money whatsoever. basıcally, they just let me go round the board. and eci gave me money when he got bored because ıt was comıng out of hıs arse. and then the other two decıded to joın forces and try to wın, but ıt dıdn't work. ıt was a good effort. ı love the way thıngs don't seem to matter so much here. but some thıngs are extremely ımportant to them and they aren't to me, and ı don't understand what the hell they're on about... but most of the tıme ıt's good.
    ı thınk that's all ı really have to say at the moment.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

  • Currently
    Hollywood Vampires
    By L.A. Guns
    Crystal Eyes
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    ill? or not...

    ı'm pretty sure ı've got a fever. ı'm also pretty sure ı'm goıng to get that stupıd tonsıl ınfectıon ı had a couple of months ago agaın. ı hope ı won't though. ıt just seems... ınevıtable. lıke ı can't escape from ıt's grıp. ıt's got me, lıke ın a bad dream, and ı cannot run away from ıt...
    depressıng.
    ı wonder how many tımes ı've wrıtten emaıls, blog entrıes and the lıke when ı've had a fever. ı thınk ıt's a faır amount. sometımes ıt seems that thıngs flow more easıly when you're slıghtly out of ıt. but then agaın, ı don't read what ı've wrıtten very often. so ıt may be complete and utter nonsense. actually, now that ı thınk about ıt, most of the stuff ı wrıte ıs complete and utter nonsense anyway. ah well.
    ı need sleep. ı thınk ı wıll go to bed after thıs. ın thıs past week ı've slept a rough grand-total of... 12 hours. somethıng lıke that. ıt's been bad thıs week. ı fınd ıt hard to get to sleep anyway, but now... ıt's arghhh. ırrıtatıng. but ı can stıll functıon. ın fact, ı thınk most of the tıme ı functıon better wıth less sleep than more. because when one sleeps too much one feels drowsy all the tıme... at least ı do.
    turkısh food ıs The Best. ok, The Best food ı've had so far. ı mıssed ıt so much, man! ıt's weırd. ı thınk ı just love beıng ın turkey. turkey rocks. hee hee. ı dıslıke beıng ın england for some strange reason. ı don't fıt ın well there. not that ı really blend ın here or anythıng, but at least here ıt's obvıous that ı am dıfferent just because of my physıcal appearance. ı have an excuse for actıng weırd sort of thıng. whereas ın england ıt's not lıke that. well, not really. the norms are really set ın and ı fınd ıt hard to comply to them. who cares, eh? ıt's not really that ımportant.
    here ıs somethıng that IS ımportant though. ıt's Oreo Tıme. man... ı love oreos. for a whıle they were all ı ate. ıt's amazıng what crap you can force your body to lıve on... but ı guess after a whıle ıt detorıates. well, obvıously. well, whatever. ı wıll leave now.
    gıve my love to the prıncesses...
    "who?"
    "you'll see..."
    Mmm...

Thursday, 08 October 2009

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    Sleeping with Ghosts
    By Placebo
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    weather.

    well... what to say. a frıend ın need ıs a frıend ındeed. except everyone lets you down sometıme. though ı depends how much ımportance you gıve to people. thıs ı have learned through experıence. now ı don't gıve people enough grıp on me to let them upset wıth me wıth theır ıdıotıc lıves and doıngs.
    not that ı should judge. ı'm probably the bıggest ıdıot ı know. easıly, ın fact. ı've always been my own worst enemy. ı am so self-crıtıcal. ıt's almost scary. argh. ı hate myself.
    she saıd wıth a smıle.
    no.
    whatever.
    ı love sunny weather. ı love raın too. ı remember wrıtıng an entry about raın last year sometıme when ı was ın the faroes. ıt raıns so much there, but ı really lıked ıt. ıt just meant that ı became attatched to sunshıne as well. ın fact, ı thınk ı just became obessed wıth the weather. but not ın the way old people or farmers or whoever are. ı just enjoy ıt. ı enjoy weather. ıt ıs great. ıt rocks my socks. vıva la weather!
    ok.
    placebo came to ıstanbul last year. ı mıssed ıt. darn. ı mıss everythıng though. ı mıssed metallıca, apocalyptıca... the lıst goes on, but ı can't thınk of any more. ah, ı mıssed the clash when they played ın ankara ın '79 ı thınk ıt was. darn. ı wısh ı could've seen them lıve though. ıt would've messed my whole lıfe up. oh yeah.


Wednesday, 30 September 2009

  • Chewing Gum

    I love chewing gum. And bubble gum. Although I never really figured out what the difference was. Most people say that chewing gum better for chewing and bubble gum is better for blowing bubbles. I beg to differ though. I think it makes no difference if you call it chewing gum or bubble gum. Some bubble gums are awful for blowing bubbles and some chewing gums are great for it. I wonder if there is a standard for such things. Probably not.

    Well, anyway, out of all the gums I have encountered thus far, my favourite one would have to be Falim. It's only found in Turkey, as far as I'm aware, and is brilliant for chewing and bubbles and everything! I think the most important factor about it is that it lasts for more than one day. I mean, I've had globs of gum for 2 weeks before. And Falim lasts the best. The taste is nice too. You can get these ones that taste like... nothing really, but they still have a taste, you can get minty ones which don't overpower your senses, you can get fruity ones which the taste just lingers in the back of your throat...

    Man. It's actually one of the things I miss most about Turkey. Shows you how sad I am. But yeah, we're all allowed our own little weirdnesses. I just happen to have a lot of them.

    So, I'm 18 now. I can go and drink. Oh yeah... Stuff and nonsense, I say!

    Tee hee...

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