November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
Another note. →
Making a note. →
August 2011
3 posts
The Beach Boys, Queen and the Ramones all recorded albums in the building across the road from my flat. The Clash once presided over a riot in there. Jimi Hendrix burnt a guitar for the first time ever on that stage. It’s played host to punk rock festivals, film premieres and unlicenced boxing matches. Now it’s a fucking Brazilian Pentecostal church.
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
February 2011
11 posts
My dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know, Who broke my heart for her When the wild thought, That she denies And has forgot, Set all her blood astir And glittered in her eyes. - W.B. Yeats
January 2011
8 posts
ἔσχατος/ἐσχάτη/ἔσχατον
Lawnmowers.
Double Standards
It’s interesting to see everyone on Question Time is in an uproar about ageism, but rather than the fact that it is becoming far more difficult for young people to get a job in this country or the fact that children are expected to pay for the financial irresponsibility of their parents and grandparents, they’re upset about a woman who lost her job presenting fucking Countryfile....
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
4 posts
All I really want to do is say fuck Lady Gaga.
October 2010
7 posts
What?
This story is absolutely insane. A family of thirteen leaps from a second-storey window to escape “the devil”: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20101024-299489/Baby-dies-as-family-jump-from-flat-to-escape-devil
Tom Jones’ “Sex Bomb” truly belongs to the pre-9/11 world.
“Genius round the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs...”
– Herman Melville.
September 2010
4 posts
There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. Heavenly hurt it gives us; We can find no scar, But internal difference Where the meanings are. None may teach it anything, ‘Tis the seal, despair,- An imperial affliction Sent us of the air. When it comes, the landscape listens, Shadows hold their breath; When it goes, ‘t...
“Crime does not pay. You must have a sponsor.”
– Alfred Hitchcock.
“The television is like the toaster. You press the button and the same thing pops...”
– Alfred Hitchcock.
August 2010
18 posts
'Canoe'
Well, I am thinking this may be my last summer, but cannot lose even a part of pleasure in the old-fashioned art of idleness. I cannot stand aghast at whatever doom hovers in the background; while grass and buildings and the somnolent river. who know they are allowed to last forever, exchange between the whole subdued sound of this hot time. What sudden fearful fate can deter my shade wandering...
