for june ...

and as it was with all things, we spoke in rhyme and riddle...not for fear of detection, for that had happened long ago, but rather that those who had secretly wished to be spoken to were... to know that these words were intended for them and theirs only...for lonely isles and windswept curses held the symbols transmuted and divined to hold within, to keep forever... only a warm heart and a knowing smile granting entrance to this mystery...

for every age held it's oracles and truth tellers, it's false bell ringers of alarm, and of course the hollow spectres of complacency...so in this we sing the true echoes sown of old cloth, born to stare so ravaged by all they see...because truth is madness and madness truth truly revealed, and to see is to always see too much...to bear witness to the false and right and relay backwards and forwards that which you know...love the constant signal that heals and promotes as our truth teller sleeps inside furious walls, thrice blessed and crimson cursed...his story is the same story, and as with all without ending...a boy and a girl, simple yes but eternal always...glass plays, the machines shakes voltage, and the gaze is drawn again and again in uncertain lines...one ray catches a june eye, our angel who has waited so long...frozen to witness, we can walk around and survey this moment as close to perfection as any that have ever been, to see the joy, the exalt, the arrogance...with it's sheer violence of embrace and release slowly offering teeth gritting awareness, the song ends, the lovers arc, and in this bliss there is hope, expectation, and yes, pure and indivisible love...

the girl, his love, the light that would transform any story into the moon and it's sister stars...she had no faith but that which destroys, and had only known herself in coarse mirrors, giving over and unto whatever moved her...opium eyed and gouge mouthed, she stalked a barren trail because she believed that all that was good had died long before she was named...she the reflection in glass, he in her that which he could not claim, her in him that which she so desperately needed, forever breaking...she had chased black holes of silence to find peace, and in turn that darkness swept into her a fever that was unshakable...their fates had intertwined long before they were lovers, their moment extending back before a time their eyes first met, and that bond was eternal, thru fire and chard to meet again and again until this moment, our apex and conclusion...

these lights rise to search the heavens, straining to be recognized in sanctity, purity, and insolence...to hopefully catch the gaze of a supreme intelligence, watching us quietly and nodding a silent approval...because it is with faith and faith only that one justifies the reach, with little to confirm but glimmer and awe, ritual and circumstance alike...

~bc

merry christmas my friends!!

may the spirit of giving fill your heart with compassion and guide you to a very special happy place ...
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:.mixtape.: december edition

hey, welcome to my new (monthly?) entry: :.mixtape.: these are some songs that i like a lot (okay, love) and highly recommend ... download 'em, pick up the album, whatever ... just hear this music!
feel free to give feedback by commenting, and your own suggestions are welcome ... okay, here we go:

The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth, by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Huddle Formation, by The Go! Team
This Modern Love, by Bloc Party
Disco Infiltrator, by LCD Soundsystem
Be Good To Them Always, by The Books
A King and a Queen, by Okkervil River
Wayward Song, by The Earlies

another innovative way to view the news ...

and this one was interesting as well

a $100 laptop for the developing world ...

... it seems that it is going to happen ... 15 million laptop computers distributed to developing countries for $100 each ... i know that there are bigger problems in the world, but it's nice to see technology (and, most importantly, information and power) being shared a little more equally ... here are some interesting articles about the project:

$100 laptop expected in late 2006
Published: November 16, 2005
--A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006.

Quanta to build the $100 laptop
Published: December 13, 2005
--Taiwan's Quanta, the biggest manufacturer of notebooks in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project.

back to Singledom ...

"Once you've been in love, meaningless sex with a stranger is like filling up on empty calories..."

Check out this article, by my good from Jenn at The Sun ...

finally! a cell phone for the dog ...

my investment advice: part i: getting started

assumptions: you have a regular income (finally?) and think you should probably be saving more of it ...

start by opening a second account at your bank ..for your savings. it's free (or relatively so), it only takes ten minutes to walk into your local branch and set up a new account, and it's the most simple way to start saving money ..: make it disappear from your sight!

make this new account an 'investment' account. ask for the simplest and cheapest investment account that your bank offers ... at least to start with. these accounts have many advantages over your regular chequing account: they pay you interest on your money (although rates are low right now), they are not accessible from your bank card (keeps you honest), and they leave open the option of investing your money and making it grow faster ...

while you are setting this up, you can also ask for automatic transfers from your chequing account to your new investment account. these transfers can be planned to coincide with your pay schedule ... for example, you can set an automatic transfer of $50, every-other thursday. this is a very effective way to save! by transferring some money out of sight before you even see it, the impact on your life is minimal and the potential benefits (whatever you are saving for) can be huge!

... coming in part ii: monthly purshase plans, and what to invest in ...

[my credentials: other than 8 years of experience investing my own money, i have my Bachelor of Commerce (Finance & Economics) from McGill]