The New Year

Courtesy of Death Cab for Cutie....
So this is the new year and I don't feel any different
The clanking of crystal and explosions off in the distance
So this is the new year and I have no resolutions
It's self-assigned penance for problems with easy solutions
So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As 30 dialogues bleed into one
I wish the world was flat like the old days
So I could travel just by folding the map
No more airplanes or speed-trains or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back


Hey everyone--Happy 2007--best wishes for the new year!!!

Merry Christmas one and all!

Here's wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas. Let's hope all of us have been good little boys and girls this year, no one wants to wake up Christmas morning to find a lump of coal in their stocking.

I'm headed down to Southern California for the holiday and then back up to San Francisco for Joey's Rockin' New Years Eve party, not to be confused with Dick Clark's Rockin New years Eve, as there will be no ball dropping at midnight, there may however be a girl down!

Everyone have a very merry one and a happy new year!

Join the Revolution

Alright folks I've finally gotten on Myspace, mainly I was just too lazy before to get it together but finally it's done, so check out my profile at:

http://www.myspace.com/travelingdre

Also if any of you are on there add me as a friend..I a few!

Chile Bound

Since I'm meant to move to Chile in the next few months lots of people have been suggesting some great reading material for me to check out before I leave. The first thing I'm gonna be checking out is a trilogy by Eduardo Galeano called Memory of Fire, which is a history of Latin America starting from the around the 15th century and going through the mid-1980's. I reckon that will pretty much get me up to speed on my history lessons for the region. While looking for these books I saw that Galeano had a recent book called Voices of Time, it's written as small vignettes, very beautiful ones at that, anyways here's one of them..

The Voyage
Oriol Vall, who works with newborns at a hospital in Barcelona, says that the first human gesture is the embrace. After coming into the world, at the beginning of their days, babies wave their arms as if seeking someone.

Other doctors, who work with people who have already lived their lives, say that the aged, at the end of their days, die trying to raise their arms.

And that's it, that's all, no matter how hard we strive or how many words we pile on. Everything comes down to this: between two flutterings, with no more explanation, the voyage occurs.

The Christmas Spirit

So I officially got into the Christmas spirit the other night when I went to my little sister's Christmas Choir concert. She's in the San Francisco Girl's Chorus and they put on a great show at Davies Symphony Hall. Since I didn't know until pretty much the last minute that I'd even be able to go I ended up sitting way up on the second tier by myself, but at least I had binoculars. I thought I'd be like in the movies where I could scan the crowd with my binoculars the whole time the show was one, spying on people. Anyhow it was too dark in there for all that and eventually I just got a headache from all that scanning...guess that's what I get for being nosy.

Back Jack

I'm back in San Francisco for a couple of months and have been enjoying it so far, even though it's currently raining which makes me miss sunny Australia it's been nice to catch up with friends and family here and check up on all my old haunts. Everything is so manic here because of the holidays--Christmas parties, concerts, etc. have been taking up my time so I've just resigned myself to the fact that I won't get a good night's sleep until after New Years..something to look forward to indeed!