They want someone to blame (The crowd calls for blood).

 

Music of the Masses

Someone must be to blame. 

Someone must pay the price.

A video poem by AJ Langford

Watch on YouTube HERE

or below

What are your thoughts? Do you agree?

I'm not sure how many more of these Video Poems I'll make. I make quick disposable videos for TikTok that get so many more views. These are hard to make. People just don't care about art. About quality. They want a quick hit. Seconds worth. 

I have a few 'in the bank' ready to go and many more voiceovers recorded but I'm not sure I'll turn those voiceovers into visuals. I can't upload them to TikTok either. Those voiceovers may never see the light of day. There's dozens. 

AI generated for this post. 
My idea but 'I didn't create it!'

So sick of seeing music videos on YouTube
that doesn't specify it's AI. These 'artists' are delibrately 
trying to mislead people. They're huge egos. Arseholes!

In any regard, there are eight more videos like these complete. Then I may retire them. We shall see. 


Thank you for watching. I do appreciate it, so much. Especially if you've been around for years. I started making Video Poetry in 2011. That's 15 years. Nothing lasts forever. And my work down through the decades has definitely been in 'periods'. The short films. The music videos. The video poems. The poetry. The short stories. The novels. Now it's fucking TikToks haha. Sign O The Times.

Here's one of those shitty disposable videos. Doctor Google. So easy to make. 

Until next time,

Peace

Anthony

For Books, more Videos and Free Downloads, please visit

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

Love out of Control - A Valentine's Day Special

 

The unrehearsed Dance of Love

A Valentine's Day Special

Hi,

How are you going? 

If youre not a romantic or beleive in Valentine's Day, this post is still for you. There's a video and a poem. The poem is not what you may think.

 

Some things can only be experienced for the first time. Even if we've done something similiar before. Even if we've been in prior relationships. New people, new dynamics to navigate. Nothing is ever truly the same twice.

Before the poem however, is this new TikTok I made. 

Watch 

One Thing that makes Life Worthwhile

 

HERE

The endless equation

 

Simplicity is our aim

Complexity is the game

That we ultimately navigate

With mixed results

In spite of

The easy entry procedure.

 

Peace and love

Is what we seek

Unravelled

In part

By our own emotional decisions

The perpetrators of our own undoing.

 

Now couple that

With the mis-stepped

Dance of Another

And it’s no mystery

As to why it

So often ends

In the far flung

Field of misery

From those

Initial, basic, wholesome yearnings.

 

 

1.2.24  8.15 pm

 

I'm an old romantic at heart. 

I'd like to think that Love conquers all. 

It's certainly a very strong, primal yearning that cannot be denied.

Happy Valentines Day

Love 

Anthony

She died here. Haunted?

 

She died, unnaturally 

Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, Rozelle

Sydney, New South Wales

Est. 1878.

Closed 2008

The short video tells her story

Watch On YouTube Shorts HERE

This is one of many buildings on the site.

Said to be the most haunted location in Sydney.

I will do another video here soon.

More Videos

More Videos, Short Films, FREE Downloads, Books and more at

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

Until next time.

Peace

Anthony

What people with Anxiety and Depression really need.

 

Suffering? You need this.

Watch YouTube Short HERE

How does that resonate for you?

Here's another little video I made.

How to protect your inner self.

Watch on YouTube Shorts HERE

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

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.

More Video Poems

How did this make you feel?

Has my work changed over the years?

I would really appreciate your opinion. On any of it! 

Thank you so much for sticking around. I appreciate you!

Peace

Anthony

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

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!

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

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

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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)

No. 8 

The Baxbys - In a Cage

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

American group and sisters - HAIM

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

Music has been my one saviour and passion throughout my life. 

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