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for now you've got to smarten up
BBC News 24 subtitling of the day: "I won't have him to boss me about then." became "I went had him to Bosnia - but then!"
Hungover like fuck. Had a boozy dinner with my mum in Covent Garden last night to celebrate her legally changing her name back to her maiden name (I have a different surname to my mum now, how weird is that?) then on to Old ( Read more... ) -
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There's no guarantee against infamy out there ...
SONDRE LERCHE. Live at the Scala tonight.
Full gushing to follow at a later date; right now I'm too exhausted.
For now I will just say that there is nothing about Sondre Lerche which is not perfect.
Happy independence day, Norway. Thank you for Sondre.
Oh, and I got mugged. But very politely.
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Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! ...
... on Jonathan Ross. Love it.
Here's one for the triumph of persistent memory: I opened my copy of John Donne today for the first time since 1999, and realised that I still remember "The Good-Morrow" word for word, despite never having learned it as such and the fact that I haven't so much as thought about that poem since I studied it for A-level.
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we did bogart and bacall, but now the spotlight's gone
First of all, further to yesterday's post, be reassured: the middle-class guilt is now back in force.
It's windy and wild in London tonight, kids. I'm glad of it. The disjunction between all that sunshine and my internal predicament was getting a little too much. And so I say with Gerald Manley Hopkins:
"What would the world be, once bereft
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we together make a limb
I met a very attractive man today. We drunk a bottle of whiskey in the sunshine in Green Park, and talked about Shakespeare and creature features.
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Conundrum ...
Pop quiz, asshole. It's 4:38 a.m., you have to be up at 6, and you aren't even close to getting to sleep.
What do you do? What do you do?
I knew I was never going to be on to a winner with this one. I mean, lately I've been going to sleep around 8 or 9 a.m. (unemployed and thus nocturnal). Today I'm supposed to be getting up before I usually go to ( Read more... ) -
welcome to the nancy tribe
London in summer! Is there any other time and place where it's so easy to be in a good mood? Admittedly all I'm doing right now is surfing t'internet from my bed, but I can see the sunshine out of my window, and it looks nice. Besides, my iTunes seems to be conspiring to make me somewhat over-excited and filled with an inappropriate jubilation - it ( Read more... ) -
it had to be done
OK, because everyone else is doing it and I can't sleep and it looks cool ... the IMDB movie meme!
Go on to IMDB, search for ten of your favourite movies, pick three of the keywords for each one, and then post the keywords so people can guess the movies. Come on, it's fun.
1) Scarecrow / Education / Child Suicide Jude
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out on the road today i saw a deadhead sticker on a cadillac
And now, my triumphant return to lj. Only not triumphant.
I have internet! No more slogging up to frickin' Crown Point every time I need to check my e-mail or apply for a job or transfer some money or, you know, exist in the world in some way. No more Bus Route Of Doom. No more seeing my dad every motherlovin' bloody day. Hoorah for t'internet.
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