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Video Retrospective #27 - Onward Traveller

Video retrospective - #27 Onward Traveler. Today, this is for C in memory of R & for TL, in memory of a good man.

Ever forward

Onward traveler

Fortunes favour

Hold you to her breast

still will you venture

Never ending

Past the circle

As the East into

the west

ancient doorways

star lit causeways

arch the vault

above your head

where you’ll find me

Ever after

Waiting in the hope to hear once more

the sound of your footsteps

on the path

that leads you to my door

Go on seeking

Onward traveler

grace of morning

Bright shall be your guide

Breadth of heavens

Lay before you

Stake your claim

To the purpose you must find

Windlashed shores

and mountains ranging

great deeps

Resound beneath your feet

worlds await you

teemed with wonders

of all the joys and perils you will know

love that I bear for you

will follow you wherever

you may go

Godspeed weary

Onward traveler

May the angels

sing you to your rest

Walked with bravery

Held determined

yet surrendered

to that greater gentleness

Halls of heroes

of myth and legend

Welcome you to

their shining fields

Arms of friends long

Un-remembered

Shall take you to a place

upon your throne

and all’s the stuff of stardust

But the knowing

That you’re coming home

You’re coming home

3am uploads

3am and I am uploading a single. Thanks to Mr Lynch, fresh out of mastering this evening.
Quick image, some uploading. Away we go.
Business as usual at 3am.

There's a joke going around that 2020 is a 'heck of a decade' and I'd agree.

In Jan we were on fire.

In Feb we were in Memphis.

By March the world had shut down.

I've lost a few good friends this year. Still thinking on the recent loss of our mate TL.

It's 3am and I am uploading a new finished song.

It's 3am and the show goes on.

Marking the passing of friend of the band, Tommy Lee

Damn.
I am staggered to learn our great mate Tommy Lee has passed away. I'm kind of shattered.

For those who think we're famous enough to know 'big name band' Tommy Lee, no he's fine (i hope).

Our Tommy Lee was a musician and sound engineer who once drove 13 hours just to come and do sound for us at a low rent bar cos he loved us. These things are precious.

Vale Tommy Lee, gone to the great gig in the sky.

"Friend of the band' is a term we use for those who have gone above and beyond the love of a musical act. It has been reserved for those who have 'been there' for us.

It's as high a commendation as we can fashion from our respect and love in return.

Tommy Lee, where-ever you are, we were made the richer for your presence, we are diminished in your loss and sustained by your memory. Thank you and godspeed.

mjeb video retrospective #25 - Cheap Hotel

#25 in the MJEb video retrospective! Cheap videoclip? Cheap Hotel!

Planes reappear in the skies, traffic returns but COVID lurks

On the days where the flight path directs traffic overhead, you feel part of the machine.

Thunder in clear air skies, in cab-ranks of planes snaking in and out of Sydney in long lines of commerce, travel and excitement.

Their absence has brought other birds to my skies, Rosella's to the birdbath outside my window.

The Blue around the distance buildings that little brighter, as if a painting of the world had been cleaned. I'll miss the non-deadly changes this thing has wrought. the slow down.

The month of days at the speed of a sunday christmas morning.

And as New South Wales goes back to work, back to jostling for a car park, back to tailgating in traffic and parking and walking with the diffident air of those who are entitled to their space and yours, I'll miss the civillity of solitude.

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After the poetic bit, a few more gigs on the books are gonna be canned as COVID is still a factor. Yargh.

Also, separately, sending Big Healing vibes to Page.

Also Also: Videoclip thing.

Also Also Also: FFY pending for single release. Hmm. Artwork I guess?

Also Also Also Also: No Downtime this week, Fox is On The Run (heh see what I did..i ...oh nvm)

Also Also Also Also: www.paypal.me/stormcellarband to contribute to us doing what we're doing :)