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i can't see the sense in you leaving
Went to see Lily Allen at the zodiac carling academy 02 Academy. I started to think - maybe it was because the sound was so bad - I started to think about Sleeper. Not the real Sleeper, so much as the idea of Sleeper, or the ideal of Sleeper. Here was a girl, a personality, all topical lyrics and bolshy pronouncements, surprisingly charming and ( Read more... ) -
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DEAR ANDREW WK,
EVERY RECORD EVER MADE WAS MADE ONLY TO BE COVERED BY YOU.
YRS FAITHFULLY
C
gakuen tengoku (ysi) (original on youtube) -
You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller.
Happy new etc! I hope y'all had excellent holiday times: myself I spent christmas with the family; post-christmas in the countryside incl visit to bexhill-on-sea's insanely beautiful pavillion; and the evening of new year's (and most of the next day) with atommickbrane, playing Zelda, drinking gin, eating toasted cheese, making pasteis de nata, watching select ( Read more... ) -
kwik kwiz
By the daughter of Toshinari, from a fifteen-poem sequence at the poetry competition on love at Minase ( Read more... ) -
weisst du nicht was du kannst?
Let's see if I can post while people are still at work for once ( Read more... ) -
a correct compassion
All right, let's talk poetry: one of my tutors the other day mentioned Adelaide Crapsey, a woman cursed with an unfortunate name but an amazing gift for metre, who invented the 'cinquain', a syllabic english metre supposed to be a little bit analogous to the tanka. She's one of those stately morbid American poets, early twentieth century, north ( Read more... ) -
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DEMOCRACY I LOVE YOU -
mokushi kushimo shimoku kumoshi moshiku shikumo
In lieu of work, i have spent the afternoon ( Read more... ) -
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I have a problem with this neojaponisme art piece called 'six mysterious tools': it is that someone who works in design really should not be calling a plumbbob 'mysterious'. Or a bradawl for that matter! Clearly this is a man who has never put up a set of shelves. Ideally, I feel, it should be called 'two well-known tools and four mysterious ones ( Read more... ) -
you supply the roses and i'll supply the wine
Actual facts: I really want to go to this. Edwardian-looking baby Dutch geniuses play Beethoven! how do their little hands even manage the chords?? here they are playing some mozart, how... slightly too appropriate for travelling underage talents ( Read more... )