Looking through old binders of school stuff trying to throw away some of it... yeah right. I keep failing to throw things away and that's why I still have such gems as poetry class fun!! and a sheet of "newspaper front pages" drawn in grade ten (1994), with various predictions for my friends and myself including that I was going to marry George ( Read more... )

The cavalcade of edged weapons is fairly o_o in itself but the techno song, starting around the 2 minute mark, takes this WAY PAST THE NEXT LEVEL

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I FINALLY saw In The Loop (hallelujah UK DVD)

It was indeed 100% awesome!!!

Mimi Kennedy saying "I am not a monster" was seriously the best bit.

Got to try something in a different key
Take it from the top mister if you please
Yes I must, must, must, make a mental note


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The phone-avoiding day at work was AWESOME! STUFF GOT DONE ( Read more... )

* yes I had to pay an extortionate "broker's fee" aka orderer's stupidity tax but I got my smellies!! The Crazylibellule and the Poppies perfume sticks are cute (and obviously I can't resist something with Poppy in the name), Chère Louise smells grrreat, Litchi Blossom is very nice too although doesn't last as long. The tea scent from L'Aromarine ( Read more... )

Oh fuck, so great

In The Loop deleted scenes part 1 [there are three more parts WTF, my stomach is going to be hurting by the end of this]

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Edit: I'm now watching part 2 and the bit where Simon is going on at Toby about eating the danishes is fucking KILLING ME

Edit: Part 3: Sign shops have been invoked, bless

I was just thinking about this story the other day, one of my favourites from Silence by John Cage, in the stories section "Indeterminacy" (I must admit I haven't gotten around to reading the rest of the book yet):

George Mantor had an iris garden, which he improved each year by throwing out the commoner varieties. One day his attention was called ( Read more... )

from The Spin Doctor's Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour by Lance Price:

There was much hilarity earlier in the day at a truly embarrassing piece in the Sun about Alastair Campbell paying a visit to a showbiz party for Britney Spears, whom he never stops going on about. What made it worse was the dreadful picture the Sun printed of him, ( Read more... )

Bit late off the mark for this (and thank you Peter Green's Diary) but Oh Em gee!?!!, it's a reformed-for-charity Midnight Oil playing one of my favourite favourites...

1) Jim is now an old blues guy, haha

2) BEST DRUM SOLO EVER IN THE WORLD.

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