Get out ya milk 'n' cookies, because it's Story Time with me and Paps. He has finished his popcorn and is waiting attentively in his red velvet sea, eager to hear my stories, which he mostly engineered himself.

Tonight we are (of course!) venturing into unknown territory discussing strange events, a famous medium, Paps' relationship to words, otherworldly employment, Wagner's preferred clothing and of course, the night air.

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Silk Pyjamas (2021)

Talking about Michael’s copy of The 48 Laws of Power, eating things as a sign of ecstatic respect for them and the sounds of impact that make us both laugh.

Image: photograph I took of a beautiful blue water bag (the subject of water fights is sheer coincidence) which in fact housed spring water from an aquifer that leads to New Zealand. The water takes 2000 years to get to the aquifer from New Zealand, meaning the water in this cask fell as rain while Jesus walked the earth. Very appropriate also given Michael was a big Jesus fan.

*My life is classified as 'BM' (before Michael) and 'AM' (after Michael), and also 'BR' (before reading*) and 'AR' (after reading). This is AM, BR. *Reading pertains to an incredible reading I received from a reputable medium, the story of which I tell here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhcTnZHe-G0 

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Eating Books & The Sounds of Impact (2020)

What would happen if Michael and I actually met.

"Fuck the bandaid." XD

(I once knew a philosopher who called my swearing "redundant".)

AM, BR.

Spontaneous Combustion (2020)

Gosh, this piece... So much truth it's almost unbearable (yes, even for me!). Thank God for the afterlife, eh? Otherwise I'd be in real trouble.

VAST

While he made Invincible, I was listening to Vast.
I’m sorry I ignored you, Michael.
Please forgive me.
Please forgive me...

Would he forgive me?
On the surface, yes.
But I reckon he’d be angry. His fans meant a lot to him. He lived for his fans in a way; he endured a lot for them. Touring and all this stuff he hated doing.
So I reckon he’d be angry.
Like “I put my heart and soul on a plate for the WORLD!! And you just flat out ignored me!
I mean, what does a guy have to DO?!?
I DIED! I *DIED*, and you didn’t care!!!”
Omg, I’m so sorry...
I’m so sorry.

And I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news too.
I was in the computer labs at uni.
There were lots of other people in there, all talking.
“Michael Jackson died” someone said.
And I thought “Oh; well that’s not too unexpected.”
(I can’t believe I’m admitting to this. But that’s what happened.)
I had that thought, then I got back to my work.
Facebook had just started up, so everyone was on there.
I mean, you can really see the degree to which I live in my own world.
To be so disconnected from even something like *that*. Oh man.

Little did I know that almost 9 years, to the day, he would enter my life, and kinda make up for all that lost time. Make me pay for my indiscretion, my inattention. "How DARE you not pay attention to ME?!! Some other guy instead of MOI!!!!”
See? Jordan Peterson is right: no-one gets away with anything.
If you ignore Michael Jackson, he will fuck you up.
He’ll get you back.
He’ll get you. He’ll hunt you down, find you, and get you.

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Vast (2020)

This is the story of my reading with internationally known and respected psychic medium, Sandra O'Hara in February of this year. It blew my mind, and it's still blowing my mind. Utterly. I cannot emphasise how much an experience like this changes everything.

Just like best-selling author Leslie Kean says in her book Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For An Afterlife -- the book in which I read about Sandra -- there's nothing like having a personal reading to validate all these seemingly wild propositions that just seem like the stuff of fantasy.

It was so nice to hear from Mike -- I won't downplay it. It was amazing validation that this thing I've felt with him has not just been my imagination. The way she described him and his behaviour, and even his voice -- was bang on. I'm still reeling. I get chills thinking about the things he did and relayed to me.

Sandra knew absolutely nothing about me going into the reading apart from my first name. I made sure of this. She knew nothing of my interests, talents, activities or history. A "Jimi" came through too, the only person by that name of significance to me being Hendrix. And I heard from my grandmother too -- someone I knew very little while she was alive. People reading this: I am catatonically blissful.

You can also watch this on YouTube on my channel Diana Lucina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhcTnZHe-G0

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The Reading (2021)

Decisions, decisions... Note: this piece is entertainment, and therefore, you know, anything goes. However, although it would be extremely hard, I would give up coffee for Michael. Then I'd find another stimulant. Hell, he's a pretty good one. It's so hard... "Anything is possible" he said, which necessarily includes giving up coffee. Miles Davis gave up heroin cold turkey, so I can do it too. I love you Mike and I don't want you to feel like you're competing with a fruit for a place at my table. ☕️ ♥️ ☕️

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Coffee Or Michael? (2021)

Spoken word version of my essay Hungarian Rhapsody (2021), which first appeared in the online magazine Eat, Darling, Eat on June 1st, 2021. 

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Hungarian Rhapsody (2021)

This is a totally improvised electric guitar track I recorded in late 2019. I love it; it's so calming. It's on my Spotify, and my Bandcamp. Made a li'l video for it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJf6nVH5oU&list=PLEGR4Fy7_gO29BPTtfqBvXrAm2wDpwfLz&index=7

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Take My Hand (2021)

This song I wrote several years ago when I was first learning from my jazz guitar teacher. I played the song often in various settings but just never got around to writing lyrics or a vocal melody for it. It's like the song was waiting. 

Then in 2018 something happened and the melody and lyrics came to me instantly. Not that there are many lyrics; they are impressionistic and don't really make sense, but it's the feeling of what I experienced that I wanted to get across.

© Diana Szabo 2018.

Instrument Of Nature (2018)

My latest song and release, A Boy Like You.

This was truly a gift from above; I was practising some other songs and all of a sudden I got the urge to sing the line: "If I ever saw a boy like you..." over some chords I'd been playing lately. The rest just wrote itself, in the moment. I was feeling and meaning the lyrics so much that I was almost crying in parts. It was raining heavily outside; you can hear the rain in the recording.

A Boy Like You

I'm a writer, actor, composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, visual artist and dancer. I love rhythm & blues, jazz, funk, disco, pop, classical and folk music. I write, perform and record my music myself.

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