hippie, stoner, musician, technology, science, film and philosophy geek
Introversion (I), Intuition (N), Feeling (F), Perception (P)
Instagram: tc_drum
Grew up on a farm in South Africa riding horses and bikes. Competed in show jumping and endurance racing on horses. Built a computer at 6 from a pile of scrapped computers that were dumped on the farm. Learnt how to drive a car at 8. Started playing the drums at 14. Moved 8 times since the farm life.
Studied sound engineering after school because I was in a band and we were recording our music already, didn't know what job I wanted to pursue. Played in many bands (mainly heavy metal) throughout my musical journey, released an album with my own band of which 2 of the members were my best friends.
All the bands eventually died out so now I'm making my own music.
Only started discovering what I wanted out of life when I was 22.
Last 3 years I've been working for my own business creating promo videos and working as a freelance video editor on Upwork,
also started playing guitar.
Mostly work at home editing - On the days I don't have work I go hiking or driving to random places (mainly in nature) to take photos or hike.
Travel and film documentaries is the dream.
I also make my own YouTube videos
Latest YouTube video: https://youtu.be/6FkFN2EjAEw
Would like to connect with interesting people, share experiences and ideas.
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Some of my poems and favorite band lyrics:
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ride the wave
another day
time is pain
contradiction
fight to stay
find a way
forgotten all
you have to say
on purpose
no other way
black it out
scratch it out
a mask on
we're okay
distractions
hollow actions
blurry sight
deja vu
fight or flight
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And it was just us
Sitting in town on a weeknight
Staring at the sky
Speaking of the people we want to be
And now it's just me
Sitting in town on a weeknight
Staring at the sky
As the world passes violently
Replace my fear with hope
Cloud my dreams with smoke
Somewhere in my mind
I am fine
Sitting in town on a weeknight
Replace my fear with hope
Lace my weed with coke
Somewhere in my mind
I am fine
Sitting in town on a weeknight
With you
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-*-*a mind that is me *-*-
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Help me escape, help me break free,
Why can’t I see the world that you see?
This existential curse keeps me from being,
at peace with myself, always fleeing,
from situations that could never be worse,
than sitting in the same room since my birth,
until my death, take a deep breath.
Listen, focus, just for a while.
Then I might see that I’m always in denial.
What is this prison, a world of doubt?
Constructed by me, to never get out.
Is it time to surrender? Will this go on forever?
How did I get here and when did it start?
So, I follow the signs, a cosmic agenda,
Maybe they’re real or just ghosts in disguise.
Maybe I’m crazy and not all that wise.
But I’m dying to find something to keep busy,
Running in circles until I’m all dizzy.
My thoughts like chains holding me back,
Try to escape, try to attack,
Myself and this skin and this thing that is me.
Help me find a reason to be.
Need to find eyes that are new,
try escape this morbid point of view.
If I can see the spark in your eye, your spark might see me.
Then just maybe you and I were meant to be.
But, maybe I should help myself break free.
I need to do it, I need to fight.
I don’t have much time to get this right.
But I know it’s too late, a gun to my head.
It’s all over, trigger pull, I’m dead.
And now a room with no walls,
I can see, this mind.
This mind that is me.
It’s always been me.
This flesh prison is gone.
I am finally free!
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You're gravity.
Like magic
you see.
Can't fight these feelings,
they're dreams.
But you're
waiting on
someone else,
not me.
Hope it's not for
eternity.
Let me show you how,
free we could be.
Cos time ain't
nothing to me.
When we're
sharing reality.
I couldn't tell you how.
Just let me show you now,
how happy.
We could,
Be..
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More than spicy
your mind enticing.
Your poison
injecting.
Just what I need.
Too soon to say,
but you're all
I've dreamed.
Awakened inside me,
spark in a
black scene.
thinking of you,
reality flows free.
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Time's my mistress, my star-crossed lover
Tell me right now, "get my s**t together"
Maybe I'm naive, a little undone
But I'll just laugh as I stare at the sun
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Looking through the dark for the answers
As we search for the cause to our cancer
It spreads through our minds like a plague
Looking up at the stars hoping there is something more
It terrifies us to feel a termination of our consciousness
The mystery continues, hundreds of feet below the ground
A treasure that cannot be found.
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Do you wanna start a cult with me?
I'm not vibrating like I ought to be
I need a purpose, I can't keep surfing
Through this existential misery
Now we're gonna need some real estate
But if I choose my words carefully
Think I could fool you that I'm the guru?
Wait, how do you spell epiphany?
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Hope is strange, sometimes it leads you on
There's no exception when you're halfway gone
The second chance flash of light that brought me to my knees
A burning vision etched in memories
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