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78/100
I passed DELF.
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"Fantasies of Sinful Screens"
Explored the parallel universe of the Chinese cyberrealm today. There's this thing known as Youku which seems to be an analogue to YouTube, and god, I could find Portishead ( Read more... ) -
I don't feel like reading TIME any more.
Berlusconi surviving the no-confidence motion felt like a slap on my face. After TIME announced its Person of the Year I wanted to enact one on somebody's.
Life these days is like the Rub' al-Khali - the days have become so literally empty that I can now make time for meaningful activities such as learning to sing Amy Winehouse's Tears Dry on Their ( Read more... ) -
Afterlife
Do you believe in life after DELF?
Today I went to the garden outside the Science Centre and jumped on the trampoline so hard one of my sandals split in two.
And I played a line of Die Zauberflote on an open-air xylophone thingy by ear. And the passers-by must have pitied this talented young man in such tattered footwear.
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House: Origins
How Dr. House became the decrepit-looking being that he was:
"The video was banned from Top of The Pops because it was considered too violent." -- Wikipedia
Perhaps Kate Bush was not the only one to have written songs about imaginary scientific misadventures, but no-one I have heard so far does it with the kind of clarity, the kind of sheer noir, ( Read more... ) -
Haircut, in Profaned Times
The electric razor droned drowsily away as I carelessly watched clumps of my hair avalanche off the white cloth I was covered in. I recalled how I used to think of myself as resembling a snow-blanketed mountain, and the clumps of hair as tobaggonists - but that was years ago, two to be exact - when I was last alone with the barber, and got to ( Read more... ) -
La Panique
Quel dommage! J'ai manquée une émission sur l'histoire des pays africains depuis leur independance sur TV5 hier soir. Et quand je l'ai réalisé aujourd'hui, j'ai crié tellement que mes voisins ont pu m'entendre ( Read more... ) -
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I want to run a nightclub.
Night of the weekActivityProvisions/LogisticsMondayAfter-dinner communal dervish whirlingWhite cloth, coffeeTuesdayGamelan/Kulintang/Piphat nightHead/finger ornaments for Thai danceWednesdayChinese opera techno-remix--ThursdayCocteau Twins/Deftones/MBV and the likeShoes to gaze atFridayBulgarian folk dances with ( Read more... ) -
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Now I behold an endless boulevard before me, one that traverses night and day, and stretches into the months and years to come. Silvery rows of linden trees line the avenue by day; while by night a succession of toy-like trams, like caterpillar lanterns with little people inside, recede slowly along the rain-washed tracks into the intoxicating ( Read more... )
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