Suffering? You need this.
Watch YouTube Short HERE
How does that resonate for you?
All These Things We Leave Behind - Lost Video, Found after 14 years!
The Weight of Passing Things
Hi,
I made this video 14 years ago. I came across the location where I filmed it, which is now vacant. Still. As you can see in the video, the building had already been long abandoned in 2012.
So I thought of this video, went looking and realised I had never uploaded it. I was making a few videos then, and was the primary carer of my daughter who was only 16 months then. And so it's remained unseen all this time. The poem also, has never been published before.
Now, it's for you.
All These Things We Leave Behind
A Video Poem
Watch on YouTube HERE
What did you think?
Has my style changed at all?
Text below.
Never published until now.
All these things
9/1/12
All these things
Whose time has come to pass
Whether they were ready or not
Forever suddenly has an end
Infinity has become finite
The hinges have rusted
Concrete shattered
No one to pick up the pieces
Fragments forgotten
Easier to begin again
Than to reconnect.
Yesteryear with pages Torn
Bound by faded mustard covers
The walls are coming down
Exposing interiors
Revealing frailties.
The Edges are frayed
The beautiful now Withered
Prospering weeds
Obscuring the history
Of a world owned by youth
Now decaying and no longer meaningful
Their escapades lost to time
A broken cross on the earth
Before the demise has come to pass.
It’s just another symbol
Of the way we treat
Those who do not measure up anymore
The unsubstantial, the declining
And the vulnerable
And while you turn your cheek
To more pristine prospects
Remember
That your turn is coming.
From memory, this was a case of the video being shot first and the poem was written around it. It was all done at the same time, January, 2012.
How did this make you feel?
Has my work changed over the years?
How Triple J Rig the Hottest 100
How Triple J Rig the Hottest 100
I've been meaning to write about this for years, as it's been obvious since the birth of the Internet.
Finally, I put a short video together, less than 90 secs, such is the attention span of today. 😄
Watch It's Rigged! on YouTube.
What were your favourites?
Here's my Top Ten from their site but not my actual Top Ten as so many songs were missing.
These are all great though.
Check out My Best of 2025 Playlist on YouTube
So many great songs, missed by many!
Enjoy!
Love and Regret - An ongoing story
No introduction needed. It's clear what it represents.
Not only for where I'm at now, but for others who have been through similiar, contemplating it, or never to experience it.
I'm an emotional person. Perhaps too sensitive. But I don't shy away from that.
Love, regret and reality
Sitting alone
With my thoughts
Her
On Repeat
Imagined scenarios
(What you might be up to)
And possibilities of Us
Never to be.
I am the Composer
Of my own pain Orchestra
Caught in the sound cycle
Unable to down volume.
I don’t know how
To switch it off.
The most intense relationship
I’ve experienced
It almost killed me
My nervous system collapsed
I didn’t want to live
I couldn’t see a way out.
Yet now,
I bypass the damaging behaviours
And think solely
Of your many good traits
And your beauty
And your touch
The love we shared
Knowing
I’ll never hold you again.
It kills me.
Actioned by me
Believing,
Rightly
That there was no other option.
I gave it my all
And more
It brought me undone
Yet, I miss you
And wish against reality’s
Unflinching harshness
That there
Could have been
Another way.
4.1.26 11.50 pm
More Poetry
Top 20 Songs of 2025 - No. 10 - 1
Here they are, the Top Ten. Give them a listen and I'm sure you'll know some, if not all of these. Some really beautiful work here.
Top 20 Songs of 2025
No. 10
Haim - Down to be wrong
No. 9
SAINT MOTEL -
Room With A View (For the End of the World)
Room With A View (For the End of the World)
New band, only 500 subscribers. Give them a go!
No. 7
Men Without Hats - I ❤️ The 80s
From the band that brought you the classic Safety Dance comes a brilliant homage to the 80s!
No. 6
Ash - Which One Do You Want
Irish late 90's lad are back with a cracker!
No. 5
Sam Fender - Remember My Name
I edited a video using this song for my Grandmother who passed away in March.
It will always be a special song for me. It was special before that, that's why I chose it. Beautiful.
No. 4
Lewis Capaldi - Almost
I broke up with my partner a month ago and this song hit hard for me.
The lyrics are poignant, except I went one step further than 'almost'.
It was still heartbreak, a decision I did not want to make.
No. 3
The Temper Trap - Giving Up Air
Easily their best song since 2008's brilliant Sweet Disposition.
No. 2
Conan Gray - Vodka Cranberry
A beautiful gay ballad. Love is universal.
So is heartbreak.
No. 1
Ball Park Music - Please Dont Move To Melbourne
A great song and very Aussie, very Brisbane!
Many creatives move to Melbourne or Sydney, especially bands to make a career for themselves.
I liked it the first time I heard it but the more I listened throughout the year, it just got better and better, like a good wine.
I love the vibe too.
So great to have two Aussie songs in the Top 3.
No bias though. I just went with what I loved the most.
If you missed it; Numbers 20 - 1
Here's my extended Best of '25 Playlist
with 95 Videos
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| American group and sisters - HAIM |
Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer
Music has been my one saviour and passion throughout my life.
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| Aged three in the 70's at my grandparents place. |
May 2026 be a wonderful year for you.
May peace come to the world and to our lives.
Peace
Anthony
Top 20 Songs of 2025 - No. 20 - 11
Top 20 Songs of 2025
No. 20
IceCream Hands - Back on the Road
No. 19
Floodlights - The Light Won't Shine Forever
No. 17
Easy Bear - Ruin the Day
No. 16
Miami Horror - Glowin'
No. 15
Pulp - Spike Island
No. 14
Spacey Jane - Whateverrrr
No. 13
Holly Humberstone - Die Happy
No. 12
Middle Monster - No More Birthdays
No. 11
The Tullamarines - Lying
No. 10 - 1 Soon....
Bondi Beach Aftermath - A personal walk through
Bondi Tribute
The tragedy took place Sunday night. On Wednesday I felt I wanted to pay tribute.
Let the images tell the story. In order of how I experienced it. I wrote in a sympathy card. I thought it would last longer than flowers. Perhaps it will be kept. Merely one of thousands who wanted to pay their respects.
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| Beautiful Bondi - From the Southern end |
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| Very similiar bridge - This is the Southern one |
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| The Northern bridge, where the horror unfolded. |
I felt like I could do more. I spoke to some people, a young Jewish man who had just come from a funeral, police, Red Cross volunteers, thanking them and decided I could leave a message of hope.
Short Video at Bondi.
To all the victims
Sunday, 14th of December at 6.47 pm
The Best Worst Christmas Movie of All Time!
So Terrible it's utter genius.
Best Xmas movie ever!
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| You'll be laughing too, except at them, not with. (That's Pia Zadora in the middle) |
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| Even the blockhead Droppo can't beleive how bad the script is. (Ironically, one of the few actors to actually go on and have a career). |
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. 1964
(Also known as Santa Claus Versus the Martians)
I've watched it every year (at least once) for twenty years straight. Absolutely hilarious! Always finding something new to laugh at. A classic!
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| 'Oh me, on my!' Mrs Claus and the elves are 'frozen' by the Martians, just before Santa is kidnapped. The performance by Mrs Claus alone is worth watching. Her laughter is insane! |
The children of Mars are without humour or fun, programmed with too much tech (a premonition for today), and so a group of Martians decided to set off for Earth to kidnap Santa to bring some joy back home.
It is a kid's film so some of it is supposed to be funny but it's funny in all the wrong places. The humour is so terrible that it has to be seen to be beleived. Some terrible one liners. Shocking acting. Terrible sets and action (the polar bear and Robot are particularly bad), but the whole thing just has so many terrible moments that it's actually extremely entertaining. If you can laugh your way through a film, it's worth every second.
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| Torg, the scariest man in a cardboard box Robot ever depicted on screen! |
It's a staple film in our household and has been played every Christmas since first 'discovering' it on SBS around 2005. So that means I've seen it at least twenty times as some years we played it twice! I swear every time I watch it, I discover some other hilarious moment.
Short YouTube Trailer
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| Frighteningly realistic North Pole set, along with a frighteningly realistic robot! |
Do yourself a favour and make it a must watch. It's only 80 mins and is seriously some of the best entertainment you'll ever see. It's harmless of course so you can't hate on it but instead, find it endearing in its own unique, terrible way.
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| Ah, they'll never find us in the Radar Box! |
Worth noting it stars a young Pia Zadora who, twenty years later would be starring in some fairly bad risque films, like Butterfly (1981) and The Lonely Lady (1983) thanks to her rich husband who funded the films. Unlike her clothes in these films, her career never took off.
The entire film was shot in just 4 days at Michael Myerberg Studios, a converted aircraft hangar at Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York. It's now a shopping mall. Explains some of the terrible staging. 4 days is actually quite remarkable!
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| End Credits Theme Song, Also a Classic! Look at those inventive lyrics! |
Watch Santa & the Martians for FREE on YOUTUBE
It has a huge cult following.
You'll be in too, once you watch it!
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| "I'll blow-wave you to death, Santy!" Zoldar, the funniest villian ever. |
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