December 2009
11 posts
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A Lifetime of 'Summer'
A friend was telling me recently that after watching ‘500 Days of Summer’ she wanted to be ‘quirky’. ‘Quirkiness’ has also recently become ‘cool. I find this very disconcerting because I have always been ‘quirky’, and for the majority of the time (when it hasn’t been considered ‘cool’) it can be very lonely. Noone has ever...
Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
A Query
‘Pavement’ are an American band. Why aren’t they called ‘Sidewalk’?
Dec 29th
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Travelling Becomes Difficult
When you are staying somewhere for more than two days and feel it absolutely necessary to bring three J.D Salinger books and the E.E.Cummings anthology with you. I know that I need these at some point, but they are heavy.
Dec 28th
Dec 27th
Two Types of Girls?
Girls who suit red lipstick and girls who don’t. Girls who laugh and girls who giggle. Girls who like romantic comedies and girls who don’t. Girls who always say no, and girls who sometimes say yes. Girls who are in love with music, and feel it in their bones, and girls who listen to whatever they hear on the radio/at a club. Girls who can walk in high heels and girls who can’t. ...
Dec 27th
Dec 27th
Small Things I Missed About Home
1. Food being readily available. 2. DVD box set marathons with my brother (30 Rock, The Office (USA), 3rd Rock From the Sun, The Thick of It, Arrested Development) 3. Sleeping in til 11  4. The Daily Show
Dec 27th
Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light
From 30 September 2009 The boy beside me in my English lecture yesterday wrote “Dillan Thomas.” When I relayed this humorous anecdote to a friend later in the day, it reminded me of the scene in ‘Lost in Translation’ when Scarlett Johansson’s husband tells her to stop being a smart ass when she laughs at a girl using Evelyn Waugh as a psuedo name.  Kelly: But...
Dec 26th
My Favourite Christmas Present:
Dec 26th