I've outgrown this livejournal and I don't intend to get a new one. I'm contactable via pathisi@gmail.com. Otherwise... so long and thanks for all the fish!

I am looking at the updates on CNN.com and it doesn't look so good for the Republicans. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

...there has been a lot of movie-watching, book-reading and minimum out-going. Saturday morning, the house is empty. Cold water and rain fall in fat, voluptuous drops. I open the windows wide so the wind pushes away the collective stench of cigarette smoke (it has lined my clothes and walls). I wake up at 7AM after spending an hour last night ( Read more... )

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the ( Read more... )

I want to start a book club. I wanted to join one in February and emailed the National Library Board about it. They forwarded my email to another address, which said hello etc and when I asked about the details, they never got back to me.

So I am going to start a book club. As most book clubs go, this one, too, will convene regularly (say once a ( Read more... )

50 greatest fictional villains according to the UK Telegraph. So it seems, unsurprisingly, that a good handful of memorable fictional characters are villains. Iago, Patrick Bateman, O'Brien, The Joker, Mr. Hyde, Hannibal Lecter, Milton's Satan - I've had obsessive crushes on the everyone except O'Brien. Also, notice there are no females. Again, ( Read more... )

Sometimes I see the transience but mostly hope surrounds. Ironic how idealism will one day be what kills everything. It's like Orwell's doublethink: I learn and I don't; my cycles go round and round the bush and I keep finding lessons to learn to forget soon enough but I still remember.

Another day, another existentialist crisis. Where is this (life ( Read more... )

Today I am going to kill something. Anything.

I have had enough of being ignored and today

I am going to play God. It is an ordinary day,

a sort of grey with boredom stirring in the streets

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There is nothing interesting I can say any longer. Drunk? Check. Music? Check. Awkward? Cgeck. Same? Semi-check. My hair is longer, though. I miss my locks.

Death Note starts out quite nicely. The plot is uncomplex, the motivations are simple and clear. Although there is an occasional hint of government bodies interfering, it does not go completely out of hand. It is a psychological thriller, not at all a horror story, with deeply introspective, far-sighted and intelligent characters (it would be wise ( Read more... )