I had a restless night. It ended with me cooking at 1:30 in the morning and asking Mr Eightball a question; the question. I’m sure I’ve asked him before but I can never remember the answer, a simple case of subjective amnesia ( Read more... )

I finally got to see Harvey the other day. You know the film, James Stewart and a 6 foot tall rabbit that you never see. And the film is all the better for not seeing Harvey. Afterwards it struck me that somewhere in Hollywood the following conversation has been had ( Read more... )

I didn’t get the job. Not much else to say really.

I had this growing up in Canada and sold it before moving back to Britian. It's enough to make you cry.

Elizabeth Wurtzel talks about the appeal of just hitting rock bottom and checking into an institution, letting someone else deal with you. It has a certain appeal in a naïve romantic way ( Read more... )

The answer is simple. There should be a law that when you go on holiday with friends, you all take a camera and several rolls of film. Everyone goes picture taking crazy. Pictures of each other. Pictures of places. Pictures of the ordinary. Pictures of the bizarre ( Read more... )

The past is but a chain around ones neck dragging them down. Suffocating you in a cacophony of promises and lies and sincere I love yous of what ifs and maybes. The past is only a second old and it has already stripped me of my desires. I’m jettisoning it and by extension you or will be after the requiem. Everything needs a requiem.

//A couple ( Read more... )

Is it me or does Charles Laughton as Claudius in I, Claudius look like the distant cousin of the Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Now where were we… ah yes the sixteen year old coming up and telling you what to do. What would you do? Tell him/her to fuck off, give them a clip to the back of the head, or pay no attention to them because what the hell does a kid know about life. And here in lies the problem. This sixteen year old is you. At that age you start to make the ( Read more... )

What would you do if a 16 year old came up to you and told you what you should be doing with your life? Told you this is how it was going to be.

Bear with me on this. It is going somewhere and depending on what books you have read you may already know where it is heading.