December 2009
2 posts
Bloody students →
Putting your cat in the washing machine and forgetting about it is never a good idea.
An update...
Since I last posted I’ve: - Moved to London, like a lot of graduates who have nowt to do
- Had two jobs (a barman again, then an admin/registrations monkey for a transport conferences company)
- Still not moved out of my auntie’s (moving is a slow process)
- Fell down some tube stairs knackering my knee up for around a week
- Read a lot of Milan Kundera & Vonnegut
- Enjoyed...
August 2009
2 posts
Moving
…Soon anyway. I just need to get my life in gear, and hope that one job springs forward and grabs me. Or I just move anyway and wing it. I quite like that idea, on the one hand its good to have security on the other… its excitement isn’t it?
July 2009
3 posts
Valedictorious
Michael Jackon’s death is a bizarre sort. Watching the… fanfare? mourn-fest? griefpalooza? of his valedictorian, you can’t help thinking that despite the many brilliant songs, some good deeds and avoiding all speculation about his private/personal life, this is all a bit too much. Creating a senate proposal to make MJ an ‘American legend’? Rev. Al Sharpton (the...
Fun times, uni times 2006-2009
I think I’ll miss it a lot.
Check the pipedown minimix - 62 songs in around 6... →
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
1 post
iDaft Punk! →
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t steal this off Kanye West’s blog. It’s a bit of a new addiction, I just like how he likes everything. Apart from things which complain about him. And how he always types in capital letters. And seems to do nothing whatsoever. What a man.
My favorite Kanye lyric, incidentally, is “I’m gon’ play this Vandross / You gon’...
January 2009
2 posts
Listen to "Fish Bowl". Right now. →
This is Meadowlands, the solo stuff of Will from Dartz. I’ve posted this before, but there’s some new recordings up now, and they’re bloody lovely.
December 2008
3 posts
WatchFlying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish. Really cool video/song - also a bit disturbing. Not very work-safe.
November 2008
2 posts
October 2008
6 posts
“Tuesday - I walked a little way with W & him, W went to the Tarn afterwards...”
– Dorothy ‘Excitement’ Wordsworth on William ‘Piles’ Wordsworth
Harry Redknapp has no sense of smell, after being involved in a car crash in 1990. Wikipedia tells me exciting things.
the best way to spend state money... suing god →
Essay...
I haven’t written a single thing for my essay yet. Or finished my research. I still need to: - Kick out some bostin intertextual theory
- Dismiss Seamus Heaney in a badass way
- Re-friend myself with modernist tradition
- Read about Shelley’s relationship with Ireland
- Look at some Dante
- Read about Juvenalian Satire
Jeeeezus Christ.
2 Earl Grey & Fruit Toast
It’s sunny, it’s chilly. This part of autumn is really nice actually.
Last week of shifts before going back to York, I’m already reading up on 18th century lesbians just for the craic…
September 2008
5 posts
Under cold stars come And feel everywhere The tiny crevices Made long Long before you or I Were born When we were just ideas Picking around for years In channels of blood Flowing in and out of the brain. We knew each other then, But I never knew your name.
Burn The Jukebox now has CD Decks. →
WatchA Minor Threat reunion! Ach, Ian Mackaye looks old now… oh no, actually, that’s just Sir Ben Kingsley. What?!
Do you remember? La la la la la, September...
I read an article in the Guardian last Thursday where the sound of Mike Skinner’s new album was likened to Proust’s involuntary memory theory/approach. That’s a bit over-the-top and wankery, but applying the teacup approach to music is actually quite interesting… I’ve been attempting to learn/improve my skills on bass over the last week, and came across a few notes...
August 2008
7 posts
Oh, and a list of books that I bought from Oxfam,...
I went to the Lakes earlier this week. It was a really good few days, but one of the surprises was buying these books at Oxfam Kendal…
- Flaubert - Madame Bovary + Essays - 99p
- Flaubert - Madame Bovary French - 99p (I actually need this for next term, as true of the above!)
- Yeats - Selected Prose & Letters - 99p (I actually need this for my current essay!)
- Orwell - Animal Farm...
Long Shift & Lesbian Pop
After working a 13 hour shift, here are some thoughts/observations:
> Firstly, I’m going to rant about that ‘I Kissed A Girl’ song. Right, this song is really popular mostly because of it’s form of socially-acceptable controversy. Wow, casual lesbianism is an accepted thing and we don’t live in the dark ages anymore (well, at least the liberal ‘modern’...
1998...
Searching for a spare notebook in my house today, I found loads of poems/doodles which I wrote when I was 10, back in ‘98 (as the ‘AKY WOZ ERE 9T8’ on the front cover of one such notebook leads me to believe). These poems were pretty cute, about aliens, colours, world peace and one about the millenium bug eating people (unless they loved their family or something like that). But...
July 2008
10 posts
The Dark Knight succeeds moreso on the ‘balance’ between ‘good’ and ‘evil’ than upon the previous Batman premise of ‘good beating evil’. This is in spite of its general bias to the one side on a moral ground, as it also realises within its own art that the power shift which the benevolant protagonist constantly strives for would upset its own...
Append:
After watching Wall-E for a second time last night, I noticed something I missed in my review the first time round: the robot asylum and its inhabitants represent alienation between worker and work done, and ultimately, class frustration (for instance, the tennis machine is constantly programmed to hit balls, and his malfunction causes him to do this task at rapid speed thus potentially injuring...
“Slaughter is not freedom, death is not freedom, and defeat is not freedom!”
– The Black Panther Ph.D (he got it in physics from Oxford University apparantly…)
I've never liked comics much, but wow... →
In 1966, before the founding of the Black Panther party, Stan Lee and co made the character ‘The Black Panther’, who had recently arrived in NYC to hook up with the likes of X-Men, Avengers etc, after growing up as leader of his nation Wakanda (which is the most advanced of Marvel’s collection of fictional African nations - which I also knew nothing about before…)....
Rage Against The Machine
In Wall-E, humans have become bloated, fat, emotionally neutral beings, who have lost their ability to walk and are served upon by robot chairs, robot cleaners, robot teachers etc. These humans are suggested as being only a fragmentary section of society (under/working classes are non-existant, ominously replaced by a robot underclass), who are rich enough to afford a life in one of the...
Meadowlands - Corrected link! (re: Teesside does... →
“Canoe man ‘begged to come home’”
– http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7509176.stm. Why? Seaton is a proper shithole, did he really want to go back on the 2p machines and whack-a-mole that much?
Back to work...
Today’s function is 150 screaming, trampolining 10 year olds, who want postmix fast fast fast. And maybe the odd orange juice, if they’re feeling crazy. Woopee…
Then onto 200 screaming, karaoke-ing 15 (“*sigh* can I see some ID please?”)-70 year olds, who want vodka/fosters fast fast fast. And maybe the odd eyeball ripped out, if they’re feeling crazy.
“How many times have Status Quo been on Top Of The Pops?”
– Eighty-fucking-seven. Fuck you, pub quiz tie-breaker!
June 2008
6 posts
This is what I did today, instead of planning my...
David Davis
The Tories campaigning for civil rights? What the fuck? Wasn’t it the Heath government who supported Internment in Northern Ireland in the 70s? You can’t go detaining 2000 people without trial for several years, and then, 30 years later, distance yourself from legislation which does the same thing but with a time limit of 42 days, can you? All the Tories are doing here is...
Mighty Returns
The French book sits. It just sits. Why won’t you grammar me? Ey?
Anyway, other than French revision, Friday will see the first (and maybe, for the time being, one of the last) alnegator practises in aaages. After that, we’ve got 2 more scheduled before Woodstock, so maybe we’ll kick out a few surprises. Who knows? Personally, I want to do a cover of Prince - Diamonds and...
Manorpalooozar... (and Jennipalooza...)
Best weekend in ages. 300+ people, lovely weather, 2 BBQs, 13ish bands, loads of DJs, no less than 7 Teessiders, a [shambolic, but fun] alnegator set, draught wheat/chilli beer, Vogues, floor pizza, loads of dubstep, IDM, motown, dnb, and 90s house classics… wicked! Shame I’m still knackered though!