January 2011
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Weird, weird time..
In case anyone wondered/forgot/never experienced - looking for both a flat and a job twice within 6 months sucks big time.
Found a place I like, but as this is how things go in a busy student city, the fact that you want it, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll get it.
As for the job - I try to not think about it too much. It’s becoming so stressful that I’m apparently...
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Human Planet - Arctic →
The opening was low so for a moment there I thought “No, no way” but the actual stuff is great. Fascinating lives, gorgeous views. iPlayer is usefull sometimes
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Damien Rice - Accidental Babies
”..do you...
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themusiclibrary:
Winter Winds - Mumford &...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird →
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“A soul is a troublesome posesion and when man developed it he lost the Garden of...”
– W.S.Maugham “Red” in The trembling of a leaf
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there are gods in Alabama...
” I was like the man who almost burns up in a fire. Months later, he’s still jumping at the sight of matches, and everyone else is bored with it. They want to be able to have a smoke in peace, but uh, can’t lighy up here. Mr. Trauma won’t like it.”
“Gods in Alabama” Joshilyn Jackson
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“We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.”
– “Lighthousekeeping” Jeanette Winterson
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“I am moved by senility
ugliness getting more beautiful
clasping hackneyed...”
– 26/09/2008 Canterbury
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Consenting Adults: purchase →
i posit that intimacy is not indicated by penetration even though that is is what usually symbolizes unity, but instead by what it is which provides the purchase. While looking down at you, biceps tensed in support, our bodies in contact in only two places, it is actually the other one, the hand…
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time...”
– Jim Henson (via kari-shma)
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The Black Swan
I was really waiting for that one to come out in the UK. And Aronofskys new film The Black Swan, is in my eyes, a masterpiece.
Gorgeous costumes and characterization, brilliant performance in both acting and dancing by Natalie Portman and as always wonderful music by Clint Mansell.
Is that a thriller about competition between ballerinas and doing almost anything to get the dreamed-off role of...
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“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place...”
– Judith Thurman (via iheartloons)
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fuckyeahmusicalscores:
Pour Toujours- Philippe...
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“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
via daydreamingatnight
(via quote-book)
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Falling Into the Event Horizon of a Black Hole: a... →
zeropointnine:
I don’t understand this stuff. But it sounds cool.
fuckyeahspace:
A reddit user by the name RobotRollCall posted this great story today in the comments of a discussion about event horizons. It tells a second-person narrative of what happens as someone falls into a black hole. Read up!
Imagine, just for a moment, that you are aboard a spaceship equipped…
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“I need words and print… I need print like an addict. I could live without it,...”
– Margaret Drabble (via prettybooks)
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