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Some impressions of Lucian Freud - Portrait
Note: For want of better terms in the following if I talk about something being painted flatly, I mean something like being painted with invisible brushstrokes, and by something being painted roughly I mean using visible brushstrokes, or impasto effects - something like painterliness.
A short while ago I saw Lucian Freud Portraits with Tanya at the ( Read more... ) -
clearing my phone
humid evening
i read by lamplight
on the pages
a shadow flutters
the lone moth
not noticed:
my carefully casual attempts
to ignore you -
So now I'm back from outer space
For the first time in 5 years I don't live in Southampton ( Read more... ) -
Dreamwidth
I've got a code going spare, anyone want it, or know anyone who does?
I've not done anything other than sign up, because I don't want to spend time setting it up properly yet. -
Prague!
The lovely wildeabandon took me to Prague! This was 27th-30th March, but I've been busy doing nothing ( Read more... ) -
What superpower would you choose?
Someone was talking about driving through fog, and either I misheard them or they misspoke, but I heard them talk about "invisibility of one metre". At first it sounded like a superuseless superpower. But after a while it seemed that being able to hide yourself from those you're closest to would be quite useful. -
Anti-trans politics from Oxfordshire PCT - request for action
Cut and pasted from the lovely wildeabandonSo Oxfordshire PCT have a policy that being diagnosed with gender identity disorder isn't sufficient to qualify for a funding for treatment - there have to be "extreme circumstances", like, say, being suicidally depressed. Unfortunately, being suicidally depressed is a state of mental health which renders one ( Read more... ) -
Revolutionary Road
Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty; I watched those films back in '99, and fell in love with cinema. I feel somewhat shamed by inclusion of The Matrix being in that list of formative films. Any pleasure I get from watching scenes I loved in The Matrix is now tainted by the knowledge that what I thought was great in them, grew into something ( Read more... )
