Huh - what?
Well.
Yesterday, I woke up, naked as usual. And I listened to In Rainbows, whilst lying in bed.
The whole morning (when I was supposed to be being productive) was devoted to ‘pleasures of the flesh’.
Not how it sounds. Honest.
Basically, I just lazed around naked listening to music.
I, and I don’t often believe this, am [...]
12 January 2008
Categories: Body, Mind, Sexy, Weird . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
Anyway, I was reminded of the Imp of the Perverse, both the concept and the Poe story, by my recent excursion to London. Basically, whenever I’m on a tube platform, I get really nervous, because I can always see myself jumping onto the rails. I just imagine it, or throwing someone nearby onto them. Or [...]
14 December 2007
Categories: Essay, Freud, Perverse, Poe, Psychopathic, Scary, Uncanny, Weird . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: No Comments
Trawling the xkcd archives is an inspirational way to waste time when you should be doing a million other things.
Made me think. Which I shouldn’t be doing right now. I should be writing, having a bath or going to see Sahil. I will do all of these things, but first this.
That first panel is just [...]
16 November 2007
Categories: Better, Change, Hope Life, Inspirational, Motivation, Weird, Werid, xkcd . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 5 Comments
So, Busdriver’s been inspiring me, but more below than above. I just thought you might want to know why I called the post that.
Also, would anyone who wants to help my creative composting pass comments on yesterday’s post, as I need help.
I also need to know how the hell I can research the spiritual/political aspects [...]
22 October 2007
Categories: Conflusion, Confused, Creativity, Imagination, Music, Ramble, Rant, Shoddy Conclusions, Weird . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: No Comments
So yeah. For a little background, there’s some reading I did at Uni called the ‘Uncanniness of the Everyday’ (Stanley Cavell maybe? NOt great referencing here…I’m using a memory from a time I was probably smoking quite a lot of weed whilst attempting to grasp complex theories of existence….oh to be at Uni again…although to [...]
11 May 2007
Categories: Idiot, Standing, Uncanny, Walking, Weird . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 4 Comments
So, I’ve not posted a video before, but I could think of no better way of making you look at this. It’s amazing. I love her voice so much. Look for Baby Bloodheart also. Then buy her album ‘The Lovely’ as it is incredible in its entirety. Also visit her micebase for an excellent cover [...]
3 April 2007
Categories: Accidental Records, Beauty, Electonica, Film, Heartbreak, Incredible, Love, Mara Carlyle, Music, Voice, Weird, Weirdness . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 2 Comments
I’ve just had a rather strange and awakening experience.
I’m currently reading The Divine Invasion, more of my ongoing obsession with Dick you see.
Anyway, I’m astonished by how much of a rollercoaster ride it’s been already. Normally when I read something by Dick I start of fascinated, and become increasingly so until I reach a point [...]
1 April 2007
Categories: Bath, Books, Diary?, Experience, Music, Phillip K Dick, Radio, Reading, SF, Sci-Fi, Thoughts, Waves, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Wonderful, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 2 Comments
Music has been treating me grand recently.
After a less than satisfying set on Saturday (not enough people there that early, and only about fifteen to twenty minutes of the set really worked….the ending was rushed, I thought it was getting better but I tried to squeeze too many songs into the end of my set…they [...]
23 February 2007
Categories: Critique, Culture, Do Make Say Think, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Ellis Island Sound, Emotion, Emotional, Empathy, Everything, Folk, Folktronica, Freedom, Genre, Imagery, Imagination, Lost Myself, Mild Mania, Music, Music Theory, Perception, Pigeonholes, Post Folk, Post Rock, Rant, Rock, Self Indulgent, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Waves, Weird, Wonderful . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 4 Comments
So, indeed, I did watch the Science of Sleep the night before last. I enjoyed it massively, in fact it was an incredibly personally affective film for me. A little nerve-wracking almost, for all the naive silliness that goes on. I’ll explain in a moment.
First off let me mention that the french title is shown [...]
21 February 2007
Categories: Blurs, Boundaries, Creativity, Critique, Curioisity, Diary?, Dreams, Elegaic, Emotional, Emotions, Everything, Experience, Fantasy, Fear, Film, Fucked up, Gah, Heart, Honest, How to think, Identity, Imagination, Incoherent, Learning, Madness, Mania, Me, Memories, Mental, Michel Gondry, Mild Mania, Mind, Observations, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Schizophrenia, Security, Self, Silliness, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, The Science of Sleep, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Tired, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Wonderful, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 4 Comments
So, this has been doing the rounds. Archie said he wanted to see what other men would do with it. I’m not necessarily typical but I kinda want to oblige.
Update: Justin did one. I like it. Different, more in the present maybe. I like it.
Here goes:
I am from a large town that claims to be [...]
17 February 2007
Categories: Abnormality, Experience, Heart, Honest, I am from, Me, Mild Mania, Mind, Mood swings, Motivation, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Thoughts, Weird, Werid, Writing, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 8 Comments
So. I’m at work, and I wasn’t planning on blogging today. I was hoping to write a couple of thousand words on the old novel. That’s right…I’ve finally had the burst of ideas I’ve been waiting for and I’m ready to carry on and make my way towards the ending that I’ve been wanting to [...]
7 February 2007
Categories: Action, Action Films, Apocalypse, Frost Troll, How to write, I am an Artist, Idiot, Literature, Nanowrimo, Novel, Ramble, Storytelling, Strange, Swings and Roundabouts, Vikings, Weird, Writer's Block, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
So, in my previous article on The Squid and the Whale, I commented on the fact that intellectualising stuff can make emotional experiences more troublesome, stressful, painful and more difficult to react to.
I think I actually succeeded in entirely detaching myself from the fact that it’s been a problem I’ve had for ages. It [...]
4 February 2007
Categories: Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Broken, Detachment, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Everything, Experience, Fear, Fucked up, Gah, How to think, Identity, Idiots, Incoherent, Intellectual, Investigation, Language, Learning, Logic, Lost Myself, Mania, Meaning, Memories, Mental, Mild Mania, Mind, Mood swings, Multiple Personality Disorder, Music, Nonsense, Observations, Pain, Paranoia, Perception, Personal, Philosophy, Problems, Psychology, Radiohead, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Security, Self, Self Indulgent, Self-Hate, Self-Identity, Self-Recrimination, Squid, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Terror, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Whale, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 8 Comments
hair everywhere said 10 minutes ago:I haven’t been up to much these days. Such is life. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me these days, but I don’t care.
That was it. It cropped up in my ‘My comments’ page. It was underneath a conversation I’d had ages ago about gerrymandering, and proportional [...]
3 February 2007
Categories: Blogging, Critique, Culture, Curioisity, Everything, Feminism, Gender Identity, Idiot, Incoherent, Inequality, Le Petit Mort, Learning, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Morality, Nudity, Offensive, Orgasm, Personal, Politics, Porn, Rant, Reality, Self-Hate, Sex, Sexism, Spam, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Time Bomb, Wanker, Weird, Werid, Wordpress, gender . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 14 Comments
So.
I’ve just noticed as I listen to the music I currently hear pouring into my ears, that there is a common theme between the music, and the reason why I love the film I watched last night so much.
People…the way people talk and communicate… the importance and power of the tiniest moments and things.
This may [...]
2 February 2007
Categories: Books, Critique, Culture, Electronica, Elegaic, Emotional, Energy, Everything, Family, Film, Food, Heartbreaking, Hip Hop, Hope, Humour, Imagination, Importance, Incoherent, Insignificance, Learning, Literature, Lovely, Music, Observations, Pain, Perception, Personal, Ramble, Reality, Simplicity, Squid, Swings and Roundabouts, The Books, The Squid and the Whale, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Whale, Writing, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: No Comments
I don’t really have much to say today. I’ve been being contemplative, but don’t really want to explain to all of you the intricacies of my problems, mostly because they all involve other people and that can cause trouble.
I guess I’ve just been distracted. I’m getting more sleep than last week but still feel run [...]
26 January 2007
Categories: Bored, Diary?, Memories, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Personal, Ramble, Self Indulgent, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Weird, Werid, boredom . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments