DAVE BALFE

Student of Fine Art Printmaking in NCAD
Currently studying at KHiB in Bergen, Norway
Contact: davebalfe@gmail.com
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Music:
The Blind
Young Shields
The Branch Becomes
Mothers & Fathers
Good Grief
LUST LOST
COP ON
END TIME JOY
love interests
going home to meet myself
I turned 21 today. My Mam gave me some post this morning that I think came yesterday. I opened each one to reveal some very lovely and overly generous cards from family. The last envelope I opened however, was a different story. There was a piece of bandage in it and as I took it out I thought that it would be a joke about me going a whole year without actually breaking a bone (not that I avoided crutches). The actual content of the bandage was completely different though. Neatly written lyrics from the absolute banger that is Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag. “I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby, come with me Friday don’t say maybe.” There’s an image of it above. Anyway, I have no idea who this was from and I am ruining my mind trying to figure it out. I was so interested by it that I couldn’t help but record a ridiculous super fun cover version of Teenage Dirtbag this morning, which you can hear and download below. It was so much fun having the laugh doing that. Being 21 is weird, but shit like this makes the sort of milestones I usually hate really nice. Reveal yourself. Well, reveal yourself if you’d like to, because I think it’d be super nice to know but if you don’t want to reveal yourself that’s pretty cool too. It’s nice to keep guessing. Either way. You’ve entertained Mam and I a lot today, so thanks. xo

I turned 21 today.

My Mam gave me some post this morning that I think came yesterday. I opened each one to reveal some very lovely and overly generous cards from family. The last envelope I opened however, was a different story.

There was a piece of bandage in it and as I took it out I thought that it would be a joke about me going a whole year without actually breaking a bone (not that I avoided crutches). The actual content of the bandage was completely different though. Neatly written lyrics from the absolute banger that is Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag.

“I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby,
come with me Friday don’t say maybe.”

There’s an image of it above. Anyway, I have no idea who this was from and I am ruining my mind trying to figure it out. I was so interested by it that I couldn’t help but record a ridiculous super fun cover version of Teenage Dirtbag this morning, which you can hear and download below. It was so much fun having the laugh doing that.

Being 21 is weird, but shit like this makes the sort of milestones I usually hate really nice. Reveal yourself. Well, reveal yourself if you’d like to, because I think it’d be super nice to know but if you don’t want to reveal yourself that’s pretty cool too. It’s nice to keep guessing. Either way. You’ve entertained Mam and I a lot today, so thanks. xo




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