Archive for June, 2007
An Open Letter to Prince
Dearest Prince,
First of all, let me point out the obvious. You are clearly the sexiest motherfucker in town. You increase the raw sexiness available in the world so much that I expect your death (assuming your raw sexual magnetism cannot sustain you for all eternity) to create a sexy deficit so immense that birth rates [...]
The Fountain – I actually felt like I was surrounded in beautiful golden light
Well, not quite, but this film did put me into an almost blissful state. Just warm and happy and at ease with the world. Smiles galore and a feeling like the air was flowing clearer around me.
So yeah, I guess I liked it.
It is indeed fairly baffling. I think I got more of the [...]
The Argument
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
-William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake – A Memorable Fancy
Gimme Some Sass – Gender Funk
So, be warned, this may not be my most forward thinking post, but I’ve been thinking about the contradictions inherent in myself recently, and thought writing about them, whilst posting some relevant videos might be something I could do on a Sunday. Apologies if I offend.
Anyway, here’s my confession. I absolutely adore sassy, sexually [...]
Battles – Mirrored
I am liking this a lot. First listen and there’s something really magic about the energy here. Second track (‘Atlas’) sounds almost like Adam and the ants at it’s root. Something in the rhythm that’s really simple and march like. Add a nice rich heap of bass and guitar and strange noises (are those gnomes [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Caribou – Yeti
So, this is a song that essentially pulls a tasty rabbit out of a hat halfway through…actually, it’s quite close to the end but it’s magic anyway. Like it completes everything just near the end, makes the whole make much more sense, and makes you re-evalutate the past (the immediate past that is, the bit [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )On being like a Bus
I’ve been very busy you see, and certain projects are falling by the way side. Script frenzy has stalled, I keep on breaking dates to watch the end of firefly, and this digital cave is getting mossy.
I haven’t been writing, but I have been reading (being about ten years behind the fashionable literati, I’m currently [...]
In, Ex Plicker, Ball
I don’t really get me.
Right now I have every reason to be miserable, lack of sleep, long day at work (in media res) to be followed by another, desks to move and people to get over (lots of trouble, can’t talk about it…bugger), and a lovely sunny day outside that I get to take no [...]
Izza Real ‘Ardcore – Me and My Music
So, I spend a lot of time trying to drown my sorrows (and joys) in music. Lots of time.
I know things about the music I listen to that man (and woman) was never meant to know. Well, not all the music, but I spend a lot of time reading and looking things up.
I don’t just [...]
Take a Picture – On Objects and Souls
Careful everybody, this could be a bit of a bumpy ride.
I’ve been reading up on the objectification in porn arguments again. Some interesting and potentially controversial points show up here, and lead me to here.
So there’s a lot of talk about objectification here. A couple of things that stand out to me are the following:
‘Objectification [...]
Air Brained
I went for a brief bit of an adventure yesterday. Well, strictly speaking it was just a picnic in a park in town I’ve never been to before.
It was absolutely beautiful and the most relaxing and centring thing I’ve done for a long time. Lovely food (steamed butternut squash and asparagus, caramelised onion humous, bread, [...]
Gheppy Froo Bay – Closer to Death
Wooo.
Birthday me.
It’s the morning, it’s sunny, I’ve got to go to work and I’ve got an enormous cup of tea and a mild headache.
Happy birthday to me.
Birthday’s are weird, I love them and hate them. I don’t make a big deal but I kinda get sad if nobody else does. But then, at the same [...]
It’s Your Damn Fault – The Cult of the Individual
Meanwhile, dominant society prefers to understand such oppressive harm as aesthetic taste, entertainment, or freedom–and not deal with the harm of it at all, except, perhaps, in psychotherapy or on talk show which will never deal with the harm as structural, political, and institutionalized.
- Over Her Dead Body – Julian Real
First up, Meanwhile is a [...]
