stooopid LJ decided to quit supporting their old S1 styles, so i had to upgrade and lost most of my customized layout which i liked and was used to ( Read more... )

from a random amazon review of Paolo Nutini's second album that amused me:
"If the world was a happier place this would be classic album, but since most people seem to only rate music which is bleak and full of woes about the world I fear this won't get the recognition it deserves. If this album doesn't put a smile on your face then you are not ( Read more... )

"Crisis is a productive state. One must simply get rid of the after-taste of catastrophe."

~ Max Frisch

for many reasons i'm really enjoying reading David Abraham's 'Long Price' cycle..

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Junot Diaz says:
"Daniel Abraham is one of the reasons the fantasy genre continues to haunt my dreams. Abraham is fiercely talented, disturbingly human, breathtakingly original and even on his bad days kicks all sorts of literary ass ( Read more... )

a couple of quotes from the last months that i don't want to lose, so..

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"Do you think... can you love someone and not trust them?"
"We're born to odd lives," he said, sounding suddenly older and more sorrowful. "If we waited for people we trusted, I think we might never love anyone."

~ Daniel Abraham, 'A Shadow in Summer'

looking at the photos a friend of mine has on Panoramio, i recently thought about what makes a good shot ( Read more... )