Animal Collective

When I started this thing I had planned on writing about music, films, television, books and the like.
That turned out well, didn’t it? But hey, it’s never too late to start.
Go out and buy Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective.
Go on. Now.
My Girls is my favourite track on the album, but WordPress won’t let me upload the mp3, so this rather [...]

God Hates Fags

So I’m thinking of giving up smoking.
I’ve been doing it on/off since my early teens and it’s getting a mite ridiculous. So far I’m not suffering any of the traditional ailments of it – no smoker’s cough, no lack of stamina (although I’m nowhere near as fit as I was when I was 16/17, but [...]

“A bombast circumstance”

…is part of a quote from Shakespeare’s Othello. Why have a blog if I can’t indulge my pretentious English-graduate impulses?
As a phrase in the modern tongue it’s essentially meaningless (so it suits this blog), but it rolls off the tongue beautifully. Go on, say it.
Told you.
x

Erm…

So, what to write about?
I like the idea of having a blog. It makes me feel like I’m “out there”. I have mentioned before that being a proper, published writer is a dream of mine, so having an opportunity to publish my proper writing is a notion I agree with. Even when it’s self-published through [...]

Oh what the hell…

So, three months later.
A combination of things resulted in me not only neglecting this blog, but actually forgetting its very existence. Who’d have thunk it?
Anyway, I’ll elaborate more in time. This is merely to tell those loyal readers out there that I’m still alive and all that. It’s Halloween too, which is nice.
I’ll probably edit [...]

Tick, tick, tick, tick, boom!

I just pulled off the second tick in as many weeks from my poor cat. If you have ever experienced these vile creatures before, you’ll have some idea about how slightly ill I’m feeling at the moment.
Is there a single more disgusting, parasitic and useless creature in existence? Why, of all the organisms inhabiting our [...]

Like in that film wot I saw…

So I’m sitting by a window on the top deck of a bus, it’s doing its thang somewhere in North London, while I’m minding me own business reading a magazine. Said bus comes to a halt at a request stop (these things happen). From my vantage point I see two figures waiting to climb aboard.
Imagine [...]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

*Geeky Post Alert*
If you are familiar with Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen, you’ll be as excited yet apprehensive as I am about the forthcoming film adaptation. Seeing that world and those characters on the big screen could be something special, no doubt about it. But can one film do such a labyrinth and epic piece [...]

Anonymity

An issue I lightly touched upon in my previous (only) post was that of internet/blog anonymity. For my own situation, I used the expression “semi-anonymous”, which I believe sums it up quite well. Unlike Belle, I don’t plan on posting information about myself that could potentially damage me or my family. Beyond your usual, bog-standard [...]