February 2010
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Books read so far this year...
W. H. Auden Collected Poems Alan Bennett Diaries 1980-1990 Alan Bennett Untold Stories - The Diaries Part 2 Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett The Habit of Art John Betjeman Betjeman’s England Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything John le Carré Call for the Dead John le Carré A Murder of Quality John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré The Looking...
“No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried...”
– Robert Byrne (via wordpainting)
More from http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/
(703): swear to god, just saw some chick dressed in a full chicken costume buying eggs and telling the cashier that she "just wants her babies back."
(202): buy whatever she's on. a lot of it.
“(401): Renamed my iPod as ‘the titantic’ so when I plug it in...”
– One of my favourites from http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/
It’s George Harrison’s birthday today....
“You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church....”
– W.H. Auden speaking in Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art.
“This is Formula 1. It is not the Wootton-under-Edge Marrow-Growing Competition.”
– Joe Saward on one of the drawbacks of Stefan GP’s plan to enter the sport.
Currently Reading
A Single Man Christoper Isherwood
Selected Poems W.H. Auden
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
J.G. Thirlwell (39)
Philip Glass (39)
Paul Simon (23)
Lawrence Arabia (21)
The Velvet Underground (21)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (31)
Philip Glass (26)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (14)
Jonny Greenwood (11)
Paul Simon (11)
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Q: How many marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. The seeds of the revolution are in the light bulb itself.
Mother: [watching David Dimbleby] so is Richard his father?
Me: Yes.
Mother: And Jonathan his brother?
Me: Yes.
Mother: So what relation is Dickie?
Me: ...Attenborough?
Mother: Oh yes, they're not related are they.
“Happy the man and happy he alone,
Who in all honesty can call today his own,...”
– Neil Hannon paraphrasing John Dryden imitating Horace in the Divine Comedy song ‘The Booklovers’
Tom Petty cover.
“You know you’re running late when you find yourself eating a sandwich in...”
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Charlotte Gainsbourg (54)
John Frusciante (36)
TV on the Radio (23)
J.G. Thirlwell (21)
Vampire Weekend (20)
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“THE spoon is clean!”
– is actually what she said.
“Oh no! The spoon is dirty!”
– Ammy laments the problem of owning singular cutlery, before falling over.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) →
Charlotte Gainsbourg (57)
Pixies (44)
Pulp (41)
Serge Gainsbourg (39)
David Bowie (34)
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