All right. I feel human again.

Well, I read A Clockwork Orange all of today. ( ... hail, horrors, hail ... )

The If meme, nicked from the_grynne.

(  ... free my will ... )

Ahhhhhhhhh man.

Just back from Rock 'n' Roll with sheba_finesse.

The only way it could have been better is if the character of Jan was played by my favourite theatrical actor or, y'know, Rufus Sewell. And if I knew fuck all about Czech history before purchasing the program.

Other than those two failings, it was pretty much perfection. Gah.

( they'll never put me in their bag. )

Nicked from dorukaiWhat we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and ( Read more... )

Argh jesus, I just finished Sam de Brito's book, The Lost BoysJesus fucking Christ. I have this overwhelming need to knuckle my eyes and not-cry for a long long while ( Read more... )

Just cracked 50K.

Wordcount wise, I mean.

Got an early mark today which was great because I did want to write. So either put me in a long hearing where I can tune off or send me home so I can write. But I got to fondle the new Nick Cave and Bad Seeds album, Dig Lazarus Dig, counting the hours til I can buy it on Wednesday, catch up on some ( Read more... )

I bought Ilium by Dan Simmons yonks ago. Couldn't get into it on first go cos I think I was craving a different sort of lit at the time. On second try, holy mother of god, did it suck me right in. I was even getting irritated with the hearing that kept interrupting my reading. *snort*

It was pretty marvellous. ( a wholly different kind of Schliemann, wot? )

So, um, is it a good thing or a bad thing that one day of William Burroughs results in one incredibly explicit erotic dream?

I think I'm a little afraid of my subconscious at the moment...

You see the priests were nothing but word and image, an old film rolling on and on with dead actors ... a blue fluid of heavy cold silence as word dust fell ( Read more... )

Nicked from daisydumont.

( ... shadows move across my room in waves of lace ... )

Sod's law decrees that the moment I lose interest and forget to think about him, Caramel Stoner emails me. With absolutely nothing profound to say. But there you have it, opened a channel of communication. And my reaction? Actually, no reaction. Just blank bemusement. Oyyyy. Feckit.Over the past week, I've been grabbing totally random books out of ( Read more... )