Four Favourites
June 3, 2021 7:54 am Leave your thoughts
Randomly choose any four pictures stored in your phone’s “FAVOURITES” folder and explain.
Deceased Raven
I was walking home and I saw a dead Raven on the side of the road.
It was perfect. No visible injuries or decay, maggots, ants or anything. It looked like it had become tired and fallen out of the sky right before I saw it. It looked like it was sunbaking and just chilln. The feathers were very surprising – a great shade of navy blue with an almost-metallic sheen. When we see these birds, we say they have black feathers. Maybe some do and some are blue? I thought it was very pretty and I wished it was still alive. There is art in almost everything. And I have no problems expressing that I enjoy its many forms. The good thing is that now I’m older my mum has realised I always have been and probably always will be offbeat and a little strange. She’s gone from asking why I have to be so morbid etc to just a simple,
“You didn’t touch it, did you?”
No, mum, I didn’t.
Va vooom!
This was a little less than a year before the Coof hit and the world went crazy. I like this picture because it shows I was singing to a decent-sized audience, I was happy, dressed up, and working with some talented people. It was a fun time. It had been a little while since I was in some sort of stage show at that point (about 3-4 years.) Being involved in a production with a large cast/many performers was fun. This was a sort of variety show and the theme was “Songs from Movies.” There was a large group of people spread across groups, working on their respective parts and the group numbers where we all performed together. I liked the spectrum of ages across the cast and the friends I made. I was challenged by some people and I was challenged by songs that I didn’t gel with. To deliver a song that you don’t identify with, but still perform technically and with feeling/enthusiasm, is not hard for me anymore but, depending on my moods or other things going on in life, it can use a lot of focus. One of my favourite parts was being in the chorus for “This is Me” (The Greatest Showman soundtrack) and the Blues Brothers medley. I fucked up steps every night but it was so much fun. The hardest part was the steps that were made up to get us to the real stuff. I grew up singing that soundtrack and the easiest part were the lyrics and the parts in Shake Your Tail Feather” where the actual dance moves occurred eg:
“”Do the twist
Do the fly
Do the swim
And do the bird
Well do the duck
Aaah, and do the monkey
Hey hey, watusi
And a what about the food
Do the mashed potato
What about the boogaloo
Oh, the bony marony
Come on let’s do the twist”
There is nothing that I know like standing in a group singing and it just comes together...your voices, the vibe, all of it – and you have a great rehearsal, you feel energised, accomplished, excited …and something you can’t put your finger on like there was a muse or something else unseen in the room. There was even one part during a song (I was usually in a group with 2 other girls for some songs) where the melody/harmony split and it gave me goosebumps every time and made it difficult not to laugh because it sounded amazing and I was contributing to this thing! Every time I performed it – rehearsing or live on stage- I had to really concentrate on delivering the notes because I’d just want to giggle.
The brothers I chose.
I’ve known these guys for 20 years and “grew up” with them. We weren’t kids when we met but we were close enough, experiencing life, going to goth clubs and supporting local bands together, having fun when life was getting everyone down, going to dinner and sending each other inappropriate jokes in poorly-run chatrooms on the internet. This picture is from a BBQ we had in April this year. It had been a long time since we all did anything together as the three of them moved to the other side of the country, one at a time and then back and forth over the last few years. One had lived there for ten years, sporadically visiting, until recently. He told us he returned for good because his city had become even more frustrating. The Coof virtue signals and police state rules, snap lockdowns, by a tyrannical state government who only catered to an overly-vocal minority had finally done his head in.
I was a little surprised by their maturity on this occasion, there were still jokes and messing around…but I barely did anything. They cooked it, prepared all the food, divided things out and cleaned up. I wanted the day to last longer but, as adults, we all had other things we needed to attend later and left after a few hours. We’ve done a few more dinners and catch ups since. I can’t wait for the next one, these guys are always hilarious.
Mei Smells
I play Overwatch. A lot. Still. One of the online friends I’ve made over the years shares the same views as me on a character in the game. I know she has fans, but to me, she has always looked like she stinks. She wears thick coats because she is travelling the world and going to freezing regions. I currently live in Australia, seeing anyone dressed like that makes me feel stifled because I’m sitting here getting 46 degree CELSIUS days sometimes. The look on her face annoys me, and I know the voice actor did a good job saying the lines in a language that wasn’t her first etc etc etc but I can’t stand her lame lines! Whenever she is selected as a character, my friend and I groan because that means we have to hear and see her for the next 20 mins.
I was going through a crappy time and my friend lives on the other side of the country in a different time zone (about 3 hours ahead at that stage.) He likes taking care of his garden and made me a present. It was taken at the end of 2019 and is still one of my favourites. 😀
Btw, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, this is Mei: 
Feel free to show me your random 4 favourites!
TLDR:
*I showed 4 random pictures and gave the story behind them! You should do this too!
*Life is the special occasion and so are your random pictures 🙂
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