June 2008
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“With a friend at your side no road seems too long”
– A Japanese proverb, according to the birthday card I just bought for a friend of mine.
She’s the ex-girlfriend with the eating issues, which I think I mentioned here a while ago. I find it quite difficult to be as supportive as I should be of her, as she lives miles away, and it’s been...
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I think it was on the seventh time that I was sick over the side of the boat that I realised I wasn’t cut out for sailing.
I was so ill. Couldn’t keep anything down for longer than about 4 minutes, and by the end I was just bringing up pure bile. Really, truly unpleasant. I haven’t felt that ill and desperate to die in a long time.
The annoying thing is that I was really...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Air
Static-X
Rasputina
Moloko
Rage Against the Machine
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
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Righty, I’m off for the weekend. Hope nothing of note happens in my absence.
My money’s on Peter calling it a day, and Tumblr crumbling in his absence. He is the glue.
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It’s weird being on a computer with a virgin Windows XP install and Firefox with no extensions. I forget just how heavily customised my computers at work and home really are. I use a few Firefox extensions to make my life a touch easier, but it’s the bookmarks toolbar that I’m really missing.
“You mean I have to actually remember the website address, rather than just...
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When lyrics sites start including instrumental... →
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Sunrise tomorrow is around 4.55am. I will be out of bed at approximately 2.30am.
I say “bed”, but what I actually mean is “sleeping bag on the deck of a yacht”. Let me explain.
I’m off to the Isle of Wight this afternoon with some guys and girls from my company, including the boss, for a yachting race tomorrow. Yep, a yachting race. My boss is very much into his...
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“SUCK A DICK. ONE OF OUR LARGEST CULTURAL PROBLEMS IS FINDING NEW MUSIC? SUCK A...”
– caragh, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
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“You gotta let ‘em know that this is the 80’s
And we can get all the...”
– Flavor Flav has all the best lyrics in Public Enemy songs. This is from the end of Public Enemy Number One.
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My dinner this evening consisted of a yoghurt and some chocolate coins. If my mum read this, she’d have kittens.
I just haven’t been hungry in the evenings recently, weirdly. Usually, I eat like a horse. A really, really hungry horse. Or a hungry hippo. That was a great game.
Clinic - Come Into Our Room
This is the track...
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So we got to Wimbledon, but the queue was at least an hour to get in, and we’d only see about an hour’s play when we finally entered the gates. We went home.
And my girl Hantuchova got knocked out, so it’ll be another year until she’s back here. [SAD FACE] I’ll have to make do with watching the rest of the tour on TV.
More importantly, there’s football on...
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you know when people ask you if you are okay a little too much? and you are okay. Well you were okay. But because they kept asking you if you are okay, over and over again that actually puts you in a bad mood.Thanks, now I’m not okay.
malty
Damn, I’m in trouble. I constantly (and I mean constantly) ask the girlfriend if she’s alright. All the time. And always get the...
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Death Penalty →
foodinmouth has written a long ol’ post about the death penalty being ruled unconstitutional in the case of child rape in the US. It seems that some states introduced this a few years back, though no-one has yet been sentenced in this manner.
foodinmouth argues vehemently that the death penalty is a good thing in this situation, and that it the time on death row should actually be reduced,...
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My morning routine is becoming increasingly boring and repetitive:
Wake up, hit snooze at least once, eventually fall out of bed and rub the sleep out of my eyes
Walk zombie-like to the bathroom, scratch my balls and shower. For aaaaages. I love the shower. Every other day, shave.
Amble back to my room, check the time and then get in a mad rush to dress, deoderise and pack my bag.
Run...
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I’m thinking of starting a communal sports Tumblr, for no other reason that I think about sport so much and have oodles of opinions, but don’t want them to take up too much space on my own blog.
I was thinking of co-opting the Olympic motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius” as the name and URL. I would’ve gone for balls.tumblr.com, but that was already taken, if only...
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“The key to Danish anti-depression is to have low expectations. They get really...”
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The Secret Is Out! Happiest Nation In The World Discloses Everything | Alex Shalman.com (via furryrabbits and trappedintime)
I think we’re underestimating the effects of Danish Pastries. It’s amazing how good I feel after one of those, so if the country is almost swimming in them...
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Just found this little snippet of conversation...
Me: If I could remember how this conversation started, I would blog this.
Girlfriend: It's a good job you don't then.
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“That was not enough of the classics”
– Overheard on the way out of the Radiohead gig yesterday.
I think that just about sums up my view of the gig too. For me, there was too much material from the last two albums and not enough of the back catalogue.
Unfortunately for Radiohead, the more recent material isn’t, in general,...
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Statistic
This post on Testumblrone from three months ago has had 21,615 pageviews in the last 30 days.
Maybe I should pay a little more attention to that site. And get gooneruk back, too.
topherchris
I still see a decent number of hits coming from that post. Not quite 21,000 though…
I think Testumblrone died a death pretty quick for me. I need to get some writing done for that...
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I had a dream about Tumblr last night…
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Now this is my favorite part. A very attractive man whom I think was gooneruk (from looking through the list of peeps I follow) approached me for some small talk. He wasn’t from England in the dream, he was New York all the way. After, seriously, one minute of talking, he said, “So do you want to go have sex or are you cool.” I...
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Sainsbury’s new Mozzarella, roasted peppers & salami wrap in a soft tomato wrap is pretty damn good. Recommended.
Because these are the kind of things that I feel you need to know.
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“Woo! [Friend]’s come through with free vip ticket to radiohead 2nite. So...”
– Text from the girlfriend.
She always has to outdo me, damn her! I was in the crowd with the plebs.
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Man, sitting on the train with no book and no iPod is as boring as hell. I left them with my bag in the office yesterday afternoon because I couldn’t be arsed taking them to the Radiohead gig.
On the plus side, I get to travel to work this morning in jeans and trainers, as my trousers/shoes are also still in the office. I could get used to this casual commuting.
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T-Minus 3 hours and 45 minutes until I go see Radiohead. Fucking ay.
Not sure if I blogged about this before, but I managed to score a couple of tickets for one of their two London open-air gigs this week. Not cheap, at £50 a pop, but never mind. I’ve never seen Radiohead live, even though they’re one of my favourite bands, so right now I can’t wait!
I was originally going to...
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I’ve got We Need to Talk About Kevin on the go at the moment, and feel a little underwhelmed, to be honest. I usually don’t like to form an opinion of a book until I’ve finished it, but this one is already disappointing me.
It’s not so much the format (letters from a woman to her estranged/divorced husband) as the content. Each letter follows the same structure: a recent...
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Everything on the Internet is True! →
Fark Headline: Remember the pictures of that “lost” Amazon tribe last month? Yeah, they were a bit of a hoax.
*unreleased picture of the tribe requesting SATC post by topherchris not included.
Via yourdp
Dammit, thought it might be too good to be true. At least the publicity stunt has had the desired effect of bringing the tribe’s plight to the attention of the masses. Maybe...
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LEN - Steal My Sunshine
I’m in a summery...
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Nine Inch Nails - 14 Ghosts II
One of the...
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I’ve started reading Catch-22 and I’m pretty slow-going at it — it’s funny sometimes but other times the book just depresses me horribly and I don’t know if it’s supposed to do that or not. I don’t want to sound like a feminist or anything annoying like that but every woman in the novel so far is basically just a cum dumpster for all the men, and it really...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Digitalism
Justice
Rob Dougan
RZA
Mos Def
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
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Righty, I’m off to Switzerland for a few days. See you all on the other side.
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Business lunches are a funny thing. I was out yesterday on one with my boss and immediate superior, meeting a Korean guy whose company has relocated him over here.
I quite like going out for this kind of thing, but prefer it when I know the other guy(s) already. I’d only spoken to this one on Yahoo a couple of times, but apparently he was very keen to meet me and our company. God knows...
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Wow, BA’s online check-in thingy is great. So quick and easy!
For being a relatively geeky and web-savvy person, I’m a little behind on this whole web check-in process. Usually because I fly on the cheap airlines and they charge you to do so…
I’m off to Switzerland tomorrow for this work thing, which is basically a 48-hour get together for the industry. Boozey, no...
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