Hello, anyone who might read this. A friend of mine, the eccentric but tragically flawed Dr. M von Vogelhausen, is currently reviewing items he doesn't own on Amazon... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pdp/pro… and he writes a blog about the world as he perceives it... http://drmvonvogelhausen.wordpress… And I happen to know that he would love you (whoever you currently are) to visit, read, and perhaps even comment. Keep it real!
these are, after a recent post on thewhyfive, the next 20 songs on shuffle.
1. Another woman - Moby 2. Idioteque - Radiohead 3. Like spinning plates - Radiohead 4. Nessun dorma - Pavarotti 5. Clickety clack - Alela Diane 6. Stay - Shakespear's Sister 7. Lose control - James 8. Stronger than dirt - Tom McRae 9. Fairwell to the fairground - White Lies 10. White spyder - Smashing Pumpkins 11. Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode 12. Join our club - St. Etienne 13. Uncle Jonny - The Killers 14. The heart asks pleasure first - Michael Nyman 15. The only moment we were alone - Explosions In The Sky 16. Space weaver - Lisa Gerrard 17. You don't know her name - Maps 18. Battle without honour or humanity - Tomoyasu Hotei 19. Intergalactic radio station - Vangelis 20. Special K - Placebo
1. look in the mirror. 2. look again. was that... 3. make hollandaise sauce. 4. consider the lily. 5. be true to someone else, but not yourself. 6. count the bubbles in your glass. 7. build a model of hope. 8. finish that thing. no, not that one. that one. yes. 9. unpick the stitching from an apron. 10. think about the end of the straight story. 11. avoid 90210. 12. measure the distance between where you end and i begin. 13. learn to live with your fear. 14. clean a mango. 15. sing the content of a formal disciplinary letter from work. 16. don't think about beer. too late. 17. do both as i say and as i do, especially when they differ. 18. follow everything green with your eyes and everything red with your whole head. 19. pretend to be yourself. 20. preempt canned laughter.
If humanity were to become extinct, do you think another animal species would evolve to take our place? What lessons do you think they'd learn from our successes and failures?
it would be the lemurs. they would learn nothing from us as they are notoriously single-minded, and would instead throw themselves immediately into a programme of public works in honour of the great Tractorhorn, their legendary forbear.
I would probably come to hate just one album over and over again. If not then I might choose a CD of the voices of my friends and family speaking, if I was alone on some kind of remote planet: because if I wasn't stranded then I'd pick a silent CD and spend my time with my friends going out and listening to live music when the mood took me. Without CDs you would hear music in other things, like the wind/rain/fire.
If it had to be a music CD, then it would probably be ( ) by Sigur Ros.
What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit?
sorry for the silence, i've been living, in the sense of just getting by; and these last two days i've been nanowriming. 3421 words so far, some nice menace going on at the mo.
spent 20 minutes considering cooking a jacket potato, talked about free time in French, literature, homesickness and grammar in Spanish, talked about the two sides of Shakira, stained my shirt with pickle, drank no end of tea, felt both too hot and too cold, forgot my mobile phone, produced a poster about haikus (haiku?) and didn't get a quarter of anything done.
I prefer a tent because when it rains i can hear that fury and know that i am protected; when it is cold i can last the night and the day will be so much warmer.
