February 2009
116 posts
I blew a speaker in my car today. So that sucked.
He was a motivational...
– Doug Stanhope
Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should...
– Kurt Vonnegut.
You Should Have Seen This →
Word Count.
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I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed...
– Jack London on how not to do it.
Hemingway on the writing process.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know...
RAC Mix Free Download. →
Tracklisting:
01 – Intro 02 – Justice Vs Simian – We Are Your Friends (RAC Mashup) 03 – Yuksek – Tonight (RAC Mix) (Preview) 04 – Shinichi Osawa – Electro 411 05 – Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (Danger’s Racing Club Remix) 06 – Cut Copy – Far Away 07 – Vangelis – Blade Runner (RAC Edit) 08 – M83 – You, Appearing 09 – Anoraak – Nightdrive With You 10 – Daft Punk – Television Rules The...
When my ten-year-old showed me an exercise book with words like c***sucker...
– Mother of a pupil at Little Shelford Church of England Primary School near Cambridge, who were asked to list offensive words.
Capello's Language Difficulties.
Fabio Capello has admitted he can’t understand the accents of some of his northern players. He’s lucky Newcastle are under-performing (are shit) and that none of the players are ‘forcing their way’ into the England squad.
Even the English can’t understand a word the Geordies say.
U2 Album Leak.
Someone has leaked U2’s album a week early - their own record label. I think someone is for the chop after the Australian wing of Universal put up high quality digital versions of the album on the website Getmusic.au two weeks before the album was due to be released.
I can’t help but laugh - welcome to the new world Bono! Are U2 going to do a Metalica and have a hissy fit, or will...
My God, no! I hope I’ve made that clear. Cheever remarked that he could always...
– Raymond Carver in answer to the question: “Did you ever feel that alcohol was in any way an inspiration? I’m thinking of your poem “Vodka,” published in Esquire.”
It’s weird and depressing - the realisation that
there’s nothing...
– Popbitch