February 2012
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“How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Slaughterhouse 5
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January 2012
42 posts
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Has it occurred to anyone else that Explosions in the Sky’s entire career relies on stretching out the 45 second intro to Pavement’s Grounded for ten years?
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identifying-with-fruit replied to your post: half a box of tea in 2 weeks.
switch to tea leaves.
bradjunswick replied to your post: half a box of tea in 2 weeks.
wang is right. leaves are cheap and the little single-use pouches you can get are even cheaper.
this is not a bad plan, but my vice is Yorkshire Tea, and it’s only two pence cheaper per 100g loose than in bags. maybe i have...
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half a box of tea in 2 weeks.
this habit is proving to be unsustainable.
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“Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one...”
– Italo Calvino (Hidden Cities 2, Invisible Cities)
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examinethose asked: i love how like everything where you live starts with 'royal'
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inevitablefragments replied to your video: Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck
I’ll play yr wood.
gracious, you are too bold sir! (<3)
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“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead...”
– Italo Calvino (Cities & the Dead 2, Invisible Cities)
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officially tumblr'ing from the hood
u get me fam?
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inevitablefragments replied to your post: i’m giving a presentation tomorrow…
Open with my Zaha comic.
i look at that comic every night before bed and laugh. every time. every. time.
ohlittlecloud replied to your post: i’m giving a presentation tomorrow…
Everything will be okay. I like deconstructivism. What is the presentation?
it’s for a job interview. they’ve asked for a 5 min presentation on technical issues in a construction project, and i’m doing the (ever cliché) Sydney Opera House (we’re not allowed visual cues, so i wanted to choose...
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i’m giving a presentation tomorrow, and some of the names/words included are as follows:
Ove Arup
Jørn Utzon
deconstructivist
prestressed post-tensioned
and then somehow lots of technical alliteration and abstract bit-bobs.
what could possibly go wrong?
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“Doesn’t the internet get a bit crowded? Isn’t the sky rather full...”
– my mother, ladies and gentlemen (re: technology)
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You know how Max Richter’s The Blue Notebooks is punctuated by Tilda Swinton reading from Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks? I would love to have those recording sessions in my possession for when i start to panic and my heart feels as though it’s on fire. She has such a soothing voice.
For the time being, i make do with BBC Radio 4, which is a wonder unto itself.
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“11 hours? There’s only so much gnomes I can take.”
– my mother, ladies and gentlemen (re: my extended Lord of the Rings marathon)