mind adventures

a fringe theatre company set up in sri lanka in 1999.

Archive for April, 2006

What is it good for?

absolutely nothing.

there's been a lot of venting. suddenly we're all feeling powerless again. roads are closing again; checkpoints are up again. I belonged to that group of peple who theorised that the Ceasefire, however brittle, would afford the whole country the luxury of realising how great peace can be.

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Looking Through My Earphones: ‘Errol’s Story III’

III

I pointed my brand new, midnight blu Versace with chrome studs, inflatable pockets & turbo boost zip towards home, the time on my Creative Zen Portable Media Centre reading half past the Morning Show – I was caught in the thick of Prime Time. The morning commercials drove recklessly sporting fresh-faced kids with attitudes & milk mustaches, forcing me to channel-hop blearily.

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Looking Through My Earphones: ‘Errol’s Story II’

II

 

I wuz drivin my brand new midnight blu Versace with chrome studs inflatable pockets and turbo boost zip, past big billboards advertising the latest cure for civil war, government, global recession & currency meltdown, past drive-ins offering faith healings delivered in 30 seconds flat or money back. Junk food!

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Looking Through My Earphones: ‘Errol’s Story’

written by masii. performed by sean amarasekera.

- Errol’s Story -

I

I wuz drivin my brand new midnight blu Versace with chrome studs, inflatable pockets & turbo boost zip, groovin to the sounds on my shock proof, shatter proof, UV resistant Vuarnet glasses, when out of the corner of my iPod, I see this dude leap across my brand new midnight blu Versace with chrome studs inflatable pockets and turbo boost zip, going ‘oi, oi, oi’.

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change of plan

i hate it when a plan doesn’t come together. i usually stick to my guns and forge ahead, regardless – and always manage to make it work. there is no ‘what if’ in these situations in terms of uncertainty. however, now i be singing a different tune, man.

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