Saturday 19 March 2011

Friday 11 March 2011

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

A truly amazing book. I found the first volume pretty slow going and almost gave up on it but it was definitely worth sticking with. Once you get sucked in it's hard to get out.
I still have flashbacks.
Ladies of Grace Adieu is also excellent.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Know why I love living here?

Because I can drive home from town and wonder whether my car would ever get charged by the stags I'm currently driving past.
Doubt it, they seemed pretty happy in the sun. What a morning to be off.

Wuthering Heights

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.  What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?  My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself.  If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.—My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees.  My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.  Nelly, I am Heathcliff!  He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Download the whole book here [link]

Monday 7 March 2011

Maga

Author of one of my favourite tumblrs. Helped inspire me to do something with this thing after sitting on it for two years.
Go take a look - Magalomania

Those Eyes

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La Haine



Bob Marley - Burnin' and a lootin'
Fantastic song and one of the best films ever.

Thursday 3 March 2011

Red

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knee socks and the like...

they just....do things to me.
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Banksy




People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy


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