December 2011
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“There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s work in the...”
– jonathan franzen, freedom
off to the country
+log fire
+bike available
+country walks
+good food
+cats are coming
+will probably see kate moss
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-nobody in village below the age of 40
-nothing in village except a closed pub
-no internet
-zero autonomy
-2 hour drive to get there
see y’all in a few days ~_~
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suburbia
been stuck inside all day at the cousins’ for boxing day; all i want to do is get outside and do something but there is literally nothing to do. they’ve even disconnected our branch of the northern line all the way to camden until new years.
garumpfh
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walking through dusty towns; the giant planes above hanging like disinterested flotsam in the pervading red haze.
oliverjash replied to your photo: i’ve no idea why people are going so hyperbolic…
Couldn’t agree more. They are nothing more than a brand.
maybe it’s due to the lack of education the majority of people have about headphone quality, seeing as so many are ‘happy’ with the standard apple headphones / non-earbud varieties.
i remember even years back when i had a poor...
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A Daily Mail scoop: I’m a nurse-killing Hitler in...
Jeremy Clarkson’s Sunday Times Column:
I do not think that public service workers who went on strike should be shot. But their union leaders should be left in a cave for a while
Have you ever had one of those nightmares where you can neither see nor feel the monster that’s attacking you?
But you know it’s there all right, and unless you can get away, it’s going to gobble you up, burn...
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GYM TIME :D
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http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/californication
apparently the rest of tumblr only just found out about californication s05. everyone reblogging the same series poster just now.
get with the game people of slow.
it’s like seeing posters on buses in london saying “new girl, new US show coming january”, where i’ve already seen 10 episodes…
snore.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
– George Santayana (via smilinginsidemybrain)
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so my brother had made his yearly list of christmas present desires which i obtained off the mother, and it was the usual bunch of crap: basically anything that was in the adverts this years. i’d decided to ignore it and buy something else: some very good quality tennis balls, because he’s growing into the sport and played me earlier this year, and got quite annoyed / doubly determined...
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my sister has just brought this guy home today, unbeknownst to me, who ended up staying for dinner. she didn’t have to say that they were an item, it was as obvious as it was awkward.
i know it’s a classic thing for siblings to be protective over each other, but this guy, i really don’t like. he’s your typical rich parent background kid, the sort who revels in their...
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colour theory
this is my new favourite toy on the internet (i refuse to use this word) that i found the other day, called ghostly discovery.
it’s a similar sort of concept to last.fm radio, but instead of genres or artist searches, you search by colours, relating to moods. these are, from red to violet: aggressive, frenetic, energetic, neutral, laid back, introspective and sad. you can also filter by...
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These things get under my skin: insearchofcharm:... →
thisgetsundermyskin:
foonyroo:
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The whole idea of New Years resolutions is stupid. ‘Next year is gonna be a new start, a new me’ blah blah blah..why wait til next year? Do something about it now. Live your life now. Enjoy life everyday because you never know when your time will be up.
I don’t agree...
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami (via ghostis)
disagree. so we can only think about something when we’ve read it first, and are unable to perform independent thought?
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To insult Monsieur le Frog is a vice anglaise -...
this is a copy/paste from the times website (as it’s subscription only, so i can’t link it) of an insightful and humorous article by ben macintyre about the longstanding lexical war between england and france. well worth a read, it made me laugh:
French is rich in words that express disdain for the English and vice versa. This is not a war of words – but in words Our economies may be...
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Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
impossible-soul replied to your post: mass repression
“dr congo is the worst. and i think it’s hard to mobilise the resources to do ‘something’ when not everyone agrees what the outcome should be. and we can’t colonise the globe and turn them into us, if they did we would need five planets to sustain everyone.”
DR of Congo is #187 and last on the UN human rights index. “not...
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mass repression
in the last couple of days, we’ve had the death of kim jong-il, and i’ve begun reading ‘the secret speech’ by tom rob smith, the second book of the soviet trilogy that began with the solid ‘child 44’.
rob smith’s novels graphically illustrate a land, both during and post stalin, that is based on staunch mistrust, denouncement and propaganda, not to forget...
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sister is listening to Christmas cover songs
no idea who the one guy singing is, but it sounds like the songify videos, especially double rainbow - the amount of autotune going on is ridiculous.
how can people listen to this sort of stuff? >_
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city, Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky all day. I land to stay here; And the windows flock open And the curtains fly out like doves And a past dries in a wind. Now let me lie down, under A wide-branched indifference, Shovel-faces like pennies Down the back of the mind, Find voices coined to An argot of motor-horns, And let...
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zomg zomg
californication s05e01 screener just dropped! it doesn’t even air until january 8th but i can watch it now!
so long suckerz \o/
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so apart from the odd social event i’ve permitted myself to go to to give a little bit more balance, these last few months have finally, and rightfully all been about me. it’s allowed me to get my life/health/happiness back in order, and i feel i’m coming back as a lot stronger person.
i’m slowly getting my old body back, i’m so much more positive in my frame of...
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back from the gym and all i want to do is listen to classic notorious b.i.g.
this is most unusual :0)
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i LOVE when my radiator goes SNABANG, 'cos i know...
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so people have this thing about tattoos
so firstly, the idea of a tattoo broadly appeals to me. a statement of my identity upon me, that i alone have approved, in a place that i have designated, yes yes sounds okay thus far.
but the thing is, i have a milieu of things i hold sacred to me. a lot of which is defined by the person and age i am at the time. of course i know what ideals i align with, but i’d rather have political,...