One of the reasons I like the Guardian book review section at the weekend is the weekly peek into the private writing rooms of famous authors.  Since I love to snoop around people's lives (lj / shopping baskets / commute reads / cd racks) and occassionally feel the need to quit every job I'm in and write the next great novel, these are right up my ( Read more... )

I just got involved in a bidding war on ebay, which has resulted in me paying over the odds for a second-hand book I could have bought new for the same price.  Why?  I guess the fact that someone else was willing to pay more for it made it worth more, in my stupid brain.

Jesus wept.


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So, _bandini, your LiveJournal reveals...


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Back from Holiday, was wonderful. Both relaxing and not relaxing-at-all, in the best possible ways. Following on from last year's "Summer Holiday Condensed Into Sufjan Song-Title" extravaganza, I have expanded this year's holiday exploits into an entire album. Possibly by Sufjan Stevens too, why not lets follow the pattern ( Read more... )

Gym intro. The shithouse with the giant shoulders and a head bigger than any head should ever be gave me a tour of the sweaty premises to the dulcet sounds of MTVBase or whatever the hell that RACKET was and tried to sweet-talk/pressure me into handing over some cash right there and then, thanks. Alarmingly, he looked like a blond Gerard Way, ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I went to pick up my sister's birthday present from the post office.
I returned home with 14 books, 12 mini-muffins and no present.

The past few weeks in dazzling summary:

ATP !!!Intensly surreal experience of watching Low/Nick Cave/Cat Power in a giant tent with a Pizza Hut/Burger King background ( Read more... )

crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out of my skin crawling out ( Read more... )

Home alone ( Read more... )