April 2012
4 posts
“I thought more about putting some kind of radio thing on my site. My new idea is...”
– hehe. That was me in April 2005. We don’t notice the little “dreams” that actually happen sometimes ‘cos we’re busy doing them :)
“No one has a right to make you feel guilty about what you deserve. I know that...”
– Courtney Love to Kurt Cobain, apparently. I’m not sure from where but I was reading Poppy Z. Brite’s Courtney Love book at the time. Finding all sorts in this old blog :) I liked this. I was crazy back then but I miss parts of it…
Made me laugh…
I just found this fragment of poetry in this old 2002 blog archive I’ve been slowly reading through. There’s a lot of nonsense, frankly maniacal poetry in here, but this one I thought was actually good just ‘cos of the last line lol.
have you ever been concerned of being led down dawson’s creek by a pointless cult or commune (god of which, of course, can’t speak)?...
Memories
Been going through old blogs today… a whole 2002 archive I’m pretty sure I didn’t think existed anymore. So many memories, I’ve posted some to Twitter, mentioned some on Facebook, some in IMs lol, the more you’re connected to me the more you’ll follow. This was just a whole entry that was too long for Twitter that made me feel better about what happened in AFLS,...
March 2012
2 posts
1 tag
“…a holdover from my Hollywood fantasies in which on opening nights black-tied...”
– I love Stephen Sondheim (from his book “Finishing the Hat”, chapter on “Company”… seeing the Neil Patrick Harris version at the cinema tonight…)
December 2011
1 post
“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only...”
– Stanley Kubrick
November 2011
2 posts
“Part of the grotesqueness of the problem is that there are three basic ways in...”
– Stanley Kubrick talking to Joseph Heller about Dr Strangelove, but it strikes me this quote kinda unites ALL his films which I’ve been watching this past month. TASCHEN’s Stanley Kubrick Archives are amazing…
“This film is often described as anti-war… it is no such thing… it is about...”
– Gary Giddins’ commentary on the Paths of Glory blu-ray… uhh… that’s not anti-war?
September 2011
1 post
aWake - 9/11 poem
Posted a screenshot of this as a twitpic but at my end at least it seems to have disappeared, and it’s probably best posted as text anyway. Also it requires more set up than was available to me posting on Twitter. I don’t know how to feel about this poem, I seem to either love it or hate it every time I come across it, I can see the good and bad sides of it, which overall leads me to...
August 2011
1 post
“All these hippies wandering about thinking the world was going to be different...”
– Pete Townshend speaking of Woodstock in this awesome book… ouch… (sidenote: I think I’m gonna start using this more… as a Tumblr should be used, i.e., for stuff like this lol… sorry about the bulky design - a bad idea from over a year ago… I will simplify it…)
April 2011
1 post
Podcasts!
It occurred to me I’ve never listed the podcasts I listen to anywhere… I review the movies I watch on Ambival.net, you can see what music I listen to at Last.fm, I talk about the TV I’m watching plenty on Twitter, but even there I only occasionally comment on podcasts and radio which are taking up an increasing amount of my time in the past year or so… so here’s a list… I...
February 2011
1 post
Nevermind
January 2011
1 post
New Year Questionnaire 2010
Is it that time again lol?
1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?
Not much! Though that’s kind of a first in itself for quite a few years lol… umm… also, turned 30?
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I’m sure I must’ve had them last New Year’s Eve but I don’t really remember. I stuck to most of the...
September 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
What Did I Say?
I don’t post a lot here anymore, I know, but one thing I did think it would be good for is those times I have something that’s Too Long For Twitter, and this is one of those times. If you follow me on Twitter these past few days you may have noticed some vague dramatics that mightn’t have made a lot of sense. Let me just say, before anyone suggests it, that I’m not posting...
February 2010
8 posts
Counting Down to 30: The 2000s, Part 1
Okay so if 1999 was “the first year of the rest of my life”, then I had no clue what the past decade would be like. We come to what sparked this whole countdown, what I hope will be a more complete recap of what the 2000s were to me than I’ve given so far. I think about where I was as the century turned and it’s almost as wild as when we sit around sometimes at home and...
Archive: Paris 2001
This is to accompany the next entry which I’ll post in the next hour or so, so don’t read it yet :-P I am just posting this directly cut and pasted from the text file I kept over the trip… which I guess was probably on my old Psion organiser lol! So apologies for any TMI, nonsense or whatever, y’know :) I’ve added as many pics as I could salvage… this was pre-digital and...
“I don’t know what the hell I’m doing when I’m writing....”
– Billy Joel… yet another amazing quote from this Rolling Stone book I’ve been working through.
“Some people drink lots of sake and never leave the basement; some people spend...”
– lol from the RPM challenge “welcome to February!” e-mail… actually, I’m kind of all three, if you replace sake with beer and yoga with “other stuff masquerading as deep thought” :-P
“Yes the scariest children’s character is the witch in Hansel & Gretel....”
– OMFG Jimmy Carr LOL.
January 2010
6 posts
Counting Down to 30: 1999
Okay, for me this was kind of a “first year of the rest of my life” which is why I’m giving it an entry of its own. I’ve only a week to fill in the 2000s but I figure their being more recent means they should be easier to cover :)
I’d started college at the end of 1998 - a degree in American Studies - and working one night a week at the local supermarket. I really...
“It is has always amused me that those who instinctively dislike Apple for being...”
– Stephen Fry … sorry, no “counting down to 30” post today … maybe tomorrow :)
Counting Down to 30: 1993-98
(sorry, big gap between entries again - anyway, I have been finding so many random things doing this I’m now viewing the entries so far as just a coat hanger which I’ll return to and add to in the future - maybe it’s just me, but piecing so much time together is kinda fun and why not do it in public? hehe)
Okay I kind of touched on things at the end of my time at the second...
Counting Down to 30: 1987-92
Okay, I neglected this a little too long but it turns out this is actually quite a good 5 year chunk to cover in one go. I thought of just one thing I forgot from the last entry and that was, in the midst of all the fictional crushes lol, my first kinda sorta “real” girlfriend, of which there have been so few (and all have only ever been “kinda sorta” lol) that I might as...
Counting Down to 30: 1985-6
So, I didn’t get around to doing ‘85 yesterday as planned lol… I’ll just do my best to stay on track.
I may have missed something out at the end of the last one: I thought I started school in ‘85 but my mum tells me it was probably ‘84. This was my school for the 80s:
(“sports day”: probably out of the current year range, but the best pic I have of the...
Counting Down to 30: 1980-4
I keep finding myself thinking I haven’t really recapped the last decade, despite a few lists and things here and there, nearly as thoroughly as I really wanted to, but it struck me that maybe rather than just focus on those years, as I have one of those freaky landmark birthdays coming up, it might be interesting to try and do a recap of all the years I’ve been on the planet....
December 2009
1 post
New Year Survey
I hadn’t forgotten my tumblr, honest!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Catacombs of Paris and Montparnasse Tower within the same day… highly recommended, it’s the tourist equivalent of resurrection. Also, e-mailed “Steve Jobs” @apple.com and got a freakin’ result LOL.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for...
July 2009
3 posts
June 2009
4 posts
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...
May 2009
3 posts
April 2009
4 posts
On SL Music
It’s not often I find myself compelled to harness all my “writing skills” to spill out some words almost against my will but I got an IM in Second Life last night during a show that I really felt needed an answer and I’d like to share that answer ‘cos I think it needs to be discussed and the solution seems kinda obvious to me. Someone claiming to be a student studying...
This American Life - "Somewhere Out There"
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It’s been a while since I even listened to This American Life let alone ranted or raved about it here and what an episode to return to. As they often do, they started off kind of annoying me. Then it grew on me again. Then, 30 minutes into this show or thereabouts, the “Tom Girls” story. I don’t wanna tell you what it’s about or get too much into my thoughts on it,...
“TOY STORY 3… They showed a piece of artwork from Toy Story 3 that I hadn’t seen...”
– Ain’t It Cool - I think I should start collecting tissues now.
March 2009
9 posts
