At the moment, it's all about Hellen van Meene and Stina NordenstamI seem to have developed quite a fixation with Hellen van Meene's pictures; a willowly bridge of the magical and the ordinary? She makes corporeality seem so beautiful! I have the girl with her head in the sink on my desktop ( Read more... )

I dreamt about sharks last night. I might keep a tally at some point, to see just HOW reoccuring they are. They seem to pop up at least once a month... I should be scientific about such assertions mind ( Read more... )

New Kate Bush album next month. I'm so pleased the newspapers seem as excited as me!

Actually, this month and next seems good for new music... looks like new Fiona Apple and Depeche Mode too. And here I sit with some inheritance money *smiles*

"To vent this cry I must first exhaust myself ( Read more... )

Goodness... I create such rubbish!

"The imagination of the waking consciousness is a civilized republic, kept in order only by the voice of the magistrate; the imagination of the dreaming consciousness is the same republic, delivered up to anarchy' it should be said, however, that passions are themsleves frequent offences against the authority of the law-giver, even when his powers ( Read more... )

Roger and Angelica (Odilon Redon)

"He took a magnifying glass to the tiny figure of Angelica who seemed more than a story, who seemed the heart of a mystery, chained to her rock and waiting death or rescue." -
'Angelica's Grotto', Russell Hoban

The past week has consisted of ( Read more... )

Ock, it is so humid in this office... the climate inside these weird plastic panneled walls is so unpredictable; it can be sunny outside and cold in here, or it can be vice versa, or even sunny outside AND sunny inside. Geez. I have to head for home in a moment or two as we have people popping over to ivew the room we have for let. I shall be a ( Read more... )

Joss brought this to my attention, and, I'm sorry to say but my first thought was "eek, no!" I felt that way when I heard they were doing a 'live' remake of "The Last Unicorn" (I'm not entirely sure what's happened to that actually...). You see, these stories that are so precious and dear to my little heart seem worth defending, and that worry that ( Read more... )