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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
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11:02 am
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If anyone wants 15% off books this weekend there is a nice voucher here. And you can pop into Borders over the road to pick over the carcass and possibly get Chris Evans' autobiography or the new Jordan book at a 75% discount...
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| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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12:39 pm
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born
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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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12:55 pm
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I will be in bar 55 in camden on sunday from 4pm for chilled-out birthday drinks. Got no credit to text everyone and not feeling über enthusiastic about it altho the sun is shining and I am in a far better mood today, but would be cool to see people.
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| Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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3:42 pm
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pour encourager les autres (and to cheer me up), here are some things I feel lacking in my life of a birthday hint type flavour:
cakes from the hummingbird bakery
body shop vitamin E face cream
body shop almond intensive hand cream (the one that comes in a pot not a tube)
some random cds of good bands
lush bath balls
random cake decorating stuff
a book by neal stephenson
the new hillary mantel ('tis a hardback)
pants
a daisy-shaped cake pan (one can be found here)
a super-duper food processor
love
glitter
a non-hideous key-ring
trainers
earrings
Please note people who do not bring me a birthday present will continue to receive love nonetheless.
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| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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12:34 pm - 3 things that annoyed me this morning:
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Switched on the radio, they were playing the new placebo song. Listened for a bit, thinking 'actually, this is ok'. Then I thought about it and realised that this is their 6th album and they are still pumping out exactly the same tunes they started with, but without any of the edgy, angsty feeling that made them good. As Shawn Keaveny put it 'the never-ending whine'. Exactly.
Then he played toploader.
Then the news that apparently 'all women should be taking folic acid' because there has been an increase in spina bifida in scotland. Note, not 'if you are likely in any way shape or form to have a baby you should take folic acid', no, it's 'all women' because we cannot be trusted to know our own minds about our sneaky, sneaky bodies, and clearly adding it to breakfast cereals and bread without asking us isn't working, so never mind if it might give you cancer, better start taking it just in case or you will be a Bad Woman.
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| Friday, August 28th, 2009
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2:34 pm
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Mmmmmm delicious vegan lunch from delicious veggie cafe.... except... there are gherkins in my potatoes!!!
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| Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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3:27 pm
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optical express just sent me an email, in the guise of '10 top tips for looking good', what is actually a thinly-veiled advert for cosmetic surgery. Words can not express how irate this makes me.
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| Thursday, August 20th, 2009
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6:56 pm
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suppose I should write a bit about Sziget...
Budapest was hot hot hot and sticky despite everyone claiming it was going to rain. Not my ideal weather for a festival since about 25 degrees is the top of my comfort zone and I get grumpy when I'm hot. Hits included Lily Allen (somewhat surprisingly), Prodigy (natch), and Manics (they played little baby nothing ♥). Saw quite a cool French folksy musician called Emily Loiseau who I suspect is the next Madeleine Peyroux. Also stumbled upon a Hungarian outfit called Heaven Street Seven who were good enough to make me miss the end of the Offspring. Maximo park were kind of limp, Placebo mainly played their new album which was a bit of a let down (& nothing off the first album) and neither of the 2 bands I saw on the metal stage (Satyricon & Deathstars)impressed me much. So much for the music.
Andy and Mel reminded me slightly of my parents, Andy the easy going but obtuse dad, Mel the nagging yet consistently right mother - guess that makes me the sulking teenager throwing a strop and making my parents hold my stuff while I run off to do stupid things? sounds worryingly accurate! Definitely good holidaying companions tho, and was cool too see Chris as well, if only to have someone to jump about down the front at gigs with :-)
Not sure how I feel about going to such a big festival and not camping. Have decided I pretty much don't like big festivals, all too commercial and hard to get close enough to see any of the bands and just inescapable people everywhere. And the mess, and the toilets. Feel like I missed out by not camping though, even though we didn't have any limit on when we needed to leave I feel like if I had been camping I would have wandered around more after the bands seeing random stuff and talking to random people. And drunk more. And the heat and the fact that towards the end I was getting ill made me feel a bit tired and lame the whole time.
This makes it sound like I didn't have a very good time, which is in fact not the truth, was definitely worth it for the manics alone! Also enjoyed wandering round Budapest, I feel like there's a lot more there that I haven't seen and would definietly be up for going back. I'll add it to my long long list of future trips...
Looking forward to my Paris/Venice trip now, not quite sure how I managed to swing quite so much travelling this year, especially with my finances in their current state! Looks like I'll be going to Paris by myself but tbh I'm not too phased by that, hopefully I can meet some people in the hostel and it at least allows me a lot more freedom to do what i want to do. That said if anyone wants to come don't think eurostar has gone up too much as yet - 9th september-16th september!
Off to the theatre tonight, by myself after the debacle I had with the last lot of tickets. It's some kind of Spanish theatre company reworking the story of red riding hood in the same series as the Macbeth thing so we will see how it pans out.
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| Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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10:35 pm
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It was so much easier to do laundry when all my clothes were black :-(
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| Thursday, July 30th, 2009
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3:11 pm
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you know when you go to the pub with a friend, and you just sit there drinking and chatting and getting drunker and drunker until you don't really know what you are talking about any more, but it is the best idea ever, anyway, and then when you leave you have to sort of hold on to each other to stand up and laugh a lot and they are your favourite person in the whole world and the whole journey home is a bit hazy and you spend the whole of the next day too tired and feeling a bit ill?
That, that is what I want to do right now.
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| Monday, July 27th, 2009
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8:37 pm
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| Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
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1:55 pm
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Two requests:
Firstly, I need someone to cut my hair because it looks like crap, I am poor and also have a mild phobia of hairdressers. Otherwise I might have to resort to doing it myself...
Secondly, I need someone with a largeish car to help me move some stuff back to my parent's, since my mother has decided that 2 weeks before I move is a great time to take a 2 week holiday with the car in scotland. Could ask Mr Stew but he's away for the next week and only has a nissan micra which I doubt very much is going to fit my mattress in it.
I wish people would realise that when they consistently don't reply to my messages, don't trouble to hide the fact that they can't be bothered to see me, or arrange to do things and then cancel at the last minute, this makes me think I must be a horrible person. It takes so little effort to not make me feel like crap, so get some sodding empathy, k?
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| Monday, July 20th, 2009
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7:50 pm
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Back from Latitude, it really really rocked and I saw so much random shit I never expected to see. ( cut for rambling )
Probably won't go back to the flat tonight. Ben will probably glare at me, and in my head it has already stopped being home.
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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11:16 am
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Doctor Lady: "So you're moving back to your parent's house... and you don't have a boyfriend. And you don't really have a career... I can see why you might be depressed."
Thanks, lady. She also told me to join weight watchers.
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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3:16 pm
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Things I am invited to tomorrow: Not 1, not 2 but 3 barbecues, a picnic (assuming tom is still having it which seems doubtful) and 2 club nights (the somewhat appallingly titled 'eargasm' and a congolese/rock night(!)). Could people not have tried to spread out their invitations a bit more evenly and possibly fill up my otherwise dull summer?
I forsee being hot and tired and letting people down in my not-too-distant future...
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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4:41 pm
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Born green we were
to this flawed garden,
but in speckled thickets, warted as a toad,
spitefully skulks our warden,
fixing his snare
which hauls down buck, cock, trout, till all most fair
is tricked to faulter in split blood.
Now our whole task's to hack
some angel-shape worth wearing
from his crabbed midden where all's wrought so awry
that no straight inquiring
could unlock
shrewd catch silting our each bright act back
to unmade mud cloaked by sour sky.
Sweet salts warped stem
of weeds we tackle towards way's rank ending;
scorched by red sun
we heft globed flint, racked in veins' barbed bindings;
brave love, dream
not of staunching such strict flame, but come,
lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.
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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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8:59 am
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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2:20 pm - not a review but a request for reviews
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hello, was wondering what people thought of Pride, Prejudice & Zombies. Was immediately put off by the apparent tackiness of it but I am hearing good things. Worthwhile?
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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4:10 pm
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What covent garden really needs is one of those lemonade stalls with the big rotating vats and the plastic lemons floating in there to fool people into thinking it might have once been near some lemons. I think there's a gap in the market here, anyone want to do me a start-up loan?
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| Monday, April 27th, 2009
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2:21 pm
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