February 2012
115 posts
midwesternmiscreant replied to your post: oh great, sxsw is coming up again
get on that jet plane, bro.
provide me with coins and i shall not disappoint.
song for syria
Skies once filled with joy But now you’re just trying to survive: Where a child clutching her family’s rare loaf Is just a moving target for a sniper’s spies. As the government rains death from on high You scream at why the world stands idly by? Try to remind yourself what laughter sounds like As mortars refuse to let peace join the night. And makeshift medical efforts...
oh great, sxsw is coming up again
every year graciously reminding me that IM NOT THERE.
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“I wrote my name in your book,
only god knows why,
and I bet you that he...”
– marling, goodbye england
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writing practice, 10 minutes
i’ve decided to try an exercise in writing. you give yourself a set time limit, and just write without thinking, editing or worrying about spelling / grammar / mistakes in the alloted time. i’m going to post the products of these on here just to serve as a record.
I roamed this place like it was an open prison that at once made me joyous and unforgivingly sad. So much emotion and...
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i'm not sure if julianna barwick is a genius or if...
this album (the magic place) is really making me work for it
http://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/the-magic-place
12pillows replied to your post: cardiff - liverpool
maaate, it’s cold out :O
sadly liverpool won on penalties
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cardiff - liverpool
before this game, i promised i would streak around our road if cardiff won.
cardiff scored first, but liverpool got one back with 20 mins left.
as i write, we have 30 minutes extra time to play. as my gay housemate james said, “i’ve been waiting 6 months for this”.
COME ON CARDIFF
my bass capabilities have just caused my tennis...
GO YOU little bose speaker sounddock! i think i’ll give it and myself a tick in life
there's an artist/musician called 'tweet' now?
oh deear.
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feeling a bit of trance tonight- it’s been too long my old love
edit: empty house. full volume!
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(dreaming of) saving up coins
but i cannot decide what i would rather buy?
a canon 550D
or a road-race dreambike i’ve discovered in a thrift shop
both are about the same sort of price. my goodness.
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Nietzsche
i once went out with a girl
and quite by accident she changed my philosophy.
she lived in the woods, and her parents built her house, she rejected fashion for fashion’s sake, she worked fucking hard and she believed in her principles.
she could play instruments, and busked for the simple joy of it. she would love her times at folk clubs and run through overgrown trails for the sheer love of the wilderness. she...
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the lion's roar
somehow, every time I listen to it it manages to sound better and better.
so sad the Leeds show is sold out:(
I’m sick of this constant alone, and yet it’s all I seem to seek
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12pillows replied to your post: yesterday
I’m so jealous! I hope I’m fit enough in the summer to do stuff like this. I’m really looking forward to the weather being better, so I can go back to having lunch on the canal :) I live near the train station so I used to do it all the time.
yeah, i loved it when the sun came out, it just makes it that bit more enjoyable. skipton or...
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yesterday
at around half 10 in the morning, I decided to go for a bike ride. i had no idea where, just to go somewhere. i packed my polaroid and put on some sunglasses, and left for town, where i picked up bananas and some water. i had the rest of the day free, so my mind began to drift to something large scale.
i found myself in the tourist information centre and bike shops asking for cycle maps of the...
satya nag champa incense, laura marling, a gingerbread duck and tea.
decidedly a good way to spend an evening, especially after spending my afternoon cycling further than marathon distance.
no pancakes for olibob
“He [Rick Santorum] is a staunch opponent of abortion, even in the case of rape....”
– John Oliver on Rick Santorum, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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attention seekers (sans internet)
this is all about real life attention seekers.
people who cannot be around others without making sounds to draw thoughts to them. sounds that are largely unthought but always conspicuous. a veritable ‘listen to me’ that doesn’t care even if what you have to listen to provides anything of value or not.
who always talk loudly, and run a mile to be in the centre of a conversation...
“First I’ll build a sword
Get some words to explain
It’s a plan,...”
– jenny lewis and the watson twins, the big guns
this woman knows what’s what
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yorkshire 3 peaks
let me tell you now that thinsulate snow gloves are in no way, manner or speaking waterproof. they will be beaten by a light drizzle, let alone 50mph winds and torrential downpours.
it is with this watery theme in mind that i write to record yesterday amid the three yorkshire peaks of pen-y-ghent, ingleborough and whernside. after a 5am alarm, and deciding to walk to the train station instead of...
[DL] Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself [2012]...
tidy
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doing the yorkshire 3 peaks challenge tomorrow
and i cannot bloody wait. get me up at 5am and get me up those hills
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“Well I never pray
But tonight I’m on my knees yeah
I need to hear some...”
– the verve, bitter sweet symphony
just written a little song
*i love my bike we have so much fun together but not nearly enough not nearly enough*
lalalalalala
this was after i fell off and broke the gears but then my manfriend helped me fix the gears and left me to scoot around covered in mud and oil
joyous occasions
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i wish i could make notes on songs in my library
disclaimer- i use itunes. i do so because it facilitates my ipod, and i’m lucky enough that my laptop is a good spec and can deal with the memory and processor heavy bullshit itunes likes to be.
i know i have the option to assign comments per mp3, but i want something more visible and obvious.
currently i 5 star anything i like, and if i give something 3 stars, well, hmm, that must be a...