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Jul 29
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Found this yesterday, one of my old sites - all I have is a screenshot. I’m having a mini-Wuthering Heights season this week in honour of Emily Brontë’s birthday tomorrow. All the movies I know of except for Luis Bunuel’s and the impossible-to-finds and some TV stuff too, a good bunch of which I’ve not seen yet. Reviews will appear hopefully tomorrow and Friday on Ambival.net but I’m live-tweeting as I’m watching too. Would’ve loved to have gone to Haworth this week but this is the next best thing. I’ll maybe go to Haworth later in the summer while the steam train’s still running etc.

Found this yesterday, one of my old sites - all I have is a screenshot. I’m having a mini-Wuthering Heights season this week in honour of Emily Brontë’s birthday tomorrow. All the movies I know of except for Luis Bunuel’s and the impossible-to-finds and some TV stuff too, a good bunch of which I’ve not seen yet. Reviews will appear hopefully tomorrow and Friday on Ambival.net but I’m live-tweeting as I’m watching too. Would’ve loved to have gone to Haworth this week but this is the next best thing. I’ll maybe go to Haworth later in the summer while the steam train’s still running etc.



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Jul 24
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I didn’t do one of these since the 100 mark, so in short this is one of my distractions this year so far lol. I made it to 250 at last on the Rolling Stone top 500 albums list. Since it’s my intention to do it by my birthday on the 6th Feb, I’m still just about keeping up. I managed to find the book on eBay since the last update too. Meh, it’s something to do lol. Large version here. The total time now runs to 10 days lol. Didn’t feel like quite that long. There are more than 250 pics ‘cos I made up Elton John’s Greatest Hits from existing albums.

I didn’t do one of these since the 100 mark, so in short this is one of my distractions this year so far lol. I made it to 250 at last on the Rolling Stone top 500 albums list. Since it’s my intention to do it by my birthday on the 6th Feb, I’m still just about keeping up. I managed to find the book on eBay since the last update too. Meh, it’s something to do lol. Large version here. The total time now runs to 10 days lol. Didn’t feel like quite that long. There are more than 250 pics ‘cos I made up Elton John’s Greatest Hits from existing albums.



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Jul 22
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MySpace.com Blogs - Trailer Park MySpace Blog … Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. I actually never doubted that this one would be worth seeing. This pic only makes me more excited for the remake. Can’t wait to see a more lit shot.

MySpace.com Blogs - Trailer Park MySpace Blog … Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. I actually never doubted that this one would be worth seeing. This pic only makes me more excited for the remake. Can’t wait to see a more lit shot.



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Jun 27
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This will be too long for a tweet but it’s not much. I’ve been thinking about Michael Jackson and how I feel about it, and how I feel about people’s responses to it, ever since Thursday night and I think I’ve boiled it down to the following. The media can mourn Michael Jackson the celebrity if it wants to - that’s their loss afterall. I’ve seen that c word thrown around a lot, mostly by way of somehow dismissing MJ’s death, refusing to grieve, itching to bring up his weirder qualities. The word celebrity has been destroyed this decade by wannabes and reality TV. I flatly refuse to use it to describe Michael Jackson. The world lost a true artist this week, perhaps one of its last, and that’s why I’m sad. Anyway he’s free from this world that thank god never truly got to tell him just quite how unwanted he was by some. He was too big and too much of a dreamer for this place. He loved children and did nothing wrong in a world where those two things aren’t allowed to lay together, especially if you’re a Celebrity. It is sad that he is gone but truly the thing I am thinking of most now is: he’s free.

This will be too long for a tweet but it’s not much. I’ve been thinking about Michael Jackson and how I feel about it, and how I feel about people’s responses to it, ever since Thursday night and I think I’ve boiled it down to the following.

The media can mourn Michael Jackson the celebrity if it wants to - that’s their loss afterall. I’ve seen that c word thrown around a lot, mostly by way of somehow dismissing MJ’s death, refusing to grieve, itching to bring up his weirder qualities. The word celebrity has been destroyed this decade by wannabes and reality TV. I flatly refuse to use it to describe Michael Jackson. The world lost a true artist this week, perhaps one of its last, and that’s why I’m sad.

Anyway he’s free from this world that thank god never truly got to tell him just quite how unwanted he was by some. He was too big and too much of a dreamer for this place. He loved children and did nothing wrong in a world where those two things aren’t allowed to lay together, especially if you’re a Celebrity. It is sad that he is gone but truly the thing I am thinking of most now is: he’s free.



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Jun 25
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Don’t use a credit card … sponsored by American Express …

Don’t use a credit card … sponsored by American Express …



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Jun 10
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hehe, that rocks. Yeh I couldn’t wait so I found 3.0 another way :) Sadly I can’t get the new hardware till the new year. Oh well.

hehe, that rocks. Yeh I couldn’t wait so I found 3.0 another way :) Sadly I can’t get the new hardware till the new year. Oh well.



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Jun 02
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Don't Rub It In, Morrissey ...

… I got more than my fill of Melanie tonight :)

“We Will Resume

“I am very pleased to confirm that we will resume at Luxembourg this coming Friday (5 June), absorbed and collected. I have been reconstructed by a Wiltshire hospital and I am as close to good health as I’m likely to get.

“I apologize to everyone caught up in the to-ing and fro-ing, but the disappointment of postponement is less than the disappointment of hearing me sing on one engine.

“I should stress that nothing has been canceled. The four London concerts are repositioned in July, and both Birmingham and the Royal Albert Hall are October fixtures. I’ve endured a titanic struggle against an intolerable virus lately, and although Hull, Hartlepool and Manchester were nights that comprised a whole life, the physical limits were reached. False notes crush the soul.

“Besides Luxembourg and beyond, I am excited about the October release of Swords, which is an 18-track compilation of b-side of singles from the last three albums. This will be a Polydor release.

“Thanks to everyone who bought ‘Years of Refusal’. We were the number one seller in the UK for the week of release, but, as with ‘You Are The Quarry’ and ‘Your Arsenal’, we were booted off the number one spot on the last hour of the final day. We cried.

“I would like to point out that some passable creature is using my name and sending sharply chiseled replies to people via Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. This person is not me. Not enough happens in my life that I would wish to share it with others. I do not scan these sites - or whatever they are - so I can only hope that whoever is posing as me is at least worth talking to. Beware of false imitations.

“Thanks for reading these unvarnished facts, and thanks for giving us some greatly enjoyable nights on the Refusal tour.

“Absolutely Yours,
Morrissey. “



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Jun 01
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My top 50 albums right now … finally got them all into iTunes at the same time. They fit onto my old 4GB iPod Nano too. Listening to the first 200 of Rolling Stone’s top 500 album list hasn’t done much to shift these :)

My top 50 albums right now … finally got them all into iTunes at the same time. They fit onto my old 4GB iPod Nano too. Listening to the first 200 of Rolling Stone’s top 500 album list hasn’t done much to shift these :)



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May 25
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baby art blog : child abuse chic

baby art blog : child abuse chic



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May 21
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I haven’t tumbl’d in ages I know lol, you’re probly best following me on Twitter for the day-to-day what I’m doing stuff, but I felt like checking in and this seems like a good excuse, my first scribble for album 3’s cover. All songs are at least part written and I’m determined to get it done at least within the year …

I haven’t tumbl’d in ages I know lol, you’re probly best following me on Twitter for the day-to-day what I’m doing stuff, but I felt like checking in and this seems like a good excuse, my first scribble for album 3’s cover. All songs are at least part written and I’m determined to get it done at least within the year …



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