Allow yourself grace. Time is the death of us.

A friend of mine posted his Musical Recommendations in a recent blog post. These were albums he liked, loved, and couldn't live without. This made me consider my own collection. These are albums that I constantly find myself revisiting, whether for comfort, energy, inspiration, happiness, or... any reason really.

Clint Mansell - The Fountain

Darren ( Read more... )

I may have exaggerated, I get frustrated with Jungian theory and fantasy lit crit.

Discovered that reading other people's interpretations of fantasy and romance literature frustrates me. Looks like the next three years are gonna be fun. Now where did I put that £400?

All this fuss about Polanski. To be frank: he should serve the alloted prison sentence due his crime. Face the music. Because he is famous, he cannot be touched by the law? This is outrageous. An 'ordinary' perpetrator of this crime would face a media circus spewing filth in his direction and very little sympathy. I have no interest in his films ( Read more... )

Astonishingly brilliant article, ripe with venom for valid reasons. Don't read if you're a Royalist/Monarchist. Or perhaps do: to have a glimpse at the truth beneath the glittering crowns.

 I was going to write about how I have been feeling lately, and what a shit week I have had (although as Ian and I both commented, it didn't involve dead people, and I wasn't on fire). Instead, I created a new header for this journal o' mine using a peculiar poloraid programme that a livejournal friend mentioned. The photographs used, from left to ( Read more... )

Getting somewhere, doing things. Autumn often auspicious time for ability to work. Usually buggers off again, so not holding out hope ( Read more... )

For now, this is a summer of discontent. Of my own personal failures ( Read more... )

"We are all the same when staring into the face of death."

I wish people listened.