January 2011
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Hercules Moments →
Hercules Moments is a music blog run by Eoin Smith. He has himself a music column in our local evening paper. I’m writing reviews for this site now. The link is to my first, a review of the new single by Ensemble.
FRUSTRATION
So. I’m having an incredibly bad morning, but there have been enough decent things going on that I thought maybe a PROS and CONS list would balance me out. Let us find out!
PROS
Been invited to write reviews for a music blog run by a chap who has a column in a local paper. This is me getting back into music after stopping my radio show on the student station.
Frightened Rabbit tonight,...
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Listening to music while writing
What do you listen to when you write creatively? I can’t listen to anything with lyrics, I think most people would agree with me there. I can write in the quiet, sometimes it is necessary especially with poetry as the rhythms in the music can upset the rhythms of the poem when you read it aloud to make sure it is working they way you want it. Sometimes when you are searching for a rhythm you...
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DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 TRAILER →
accioronaldweasley:
OH MY FUCKING GODDDDDDDD!!
Hahaha, you are such a bastard. I consider myself ‘had’!
I’m sure most people are not spending their mornings trying to think of adjectives for sheep’s eyes. I do.
This is why I drink.
thetenureitch:
I’m pretty sure I still have too much alcohol in my system to be allowed behind the wheel of a car in an hour and twenty minutes.
This happened to me once. I had decided to tell the instructor I was feeling dizzy and didn’t feel safe driving, but he called me a half hour before the lesson to cancel. This was good as I was sure the dizzy thing wouldn’t wash when you...
My poetry tumblr →
I’ve tried this already, but I think I’m going to keep this one. If you like poetry, please follow and let me know what you think about the work.
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Why secondhand bookstores smell good
powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of...
HAIRY SLOTHER: THE SLOTH THAT LIVED
wwiao:
BUT WHO’S YOUR FAV SLOTH IS THE QUESTION!
SLOTHMIONE SLOTH-JER. OH GOD.
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