Repetitions upon a theme: sometimes I feel like I make the same LJ entry over and over again before I'm done getting this shit out of my system. Allons-y!

( Blammo: a Bowie entry )

UK people who are also into Bowie (I appreciate this may be a pretty small subset in my humble corner of the Internet), watch this and come back to !!! with me about it.

I mean, I know the opening sequence is seriously zany but
ABOUT DAVID BOWIE
NARRATED BY JARVIS COCKER

Seriously, this just gets it. I was feeling all sad about the passage of ( Read more... )

When we all got up and danced and sang along with the people on stage who love David Bowie so much they have made it their actual career to be him, though not exactly, I thought: this is the exact epitome of fandom. This is it: letting it sweep you away despite (because of!) the cheesiness, and knowing every single word to every goddamn song and ( Read more... )

Worst last day ever - they are always anticlimactic. Work done today: NOTHING. :( :( :( life is the worst, cry cry cry, I am the least prepared it is possible to be for this coming term, etc. Fuckkk.

I did read books though.

Ten Days In A Mad-House, by Nellie Bly.

( Journalistic expose of a lunatic asylum for women at the end of the nineteenth-century. Warning for discussion of abuse - quotation, at length, of passage containing abusive content inside. )

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