February 2012
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I wrote a poem about bees, I think I'm...
I am little bee
Buzz Buz
Flying around happily
Buzz buzz
Until curiosity gets the best of me
Buzz Buzz
I’m caught in a blind
Buzz Buzz
I can’t find my way out
Buzz Buzz
Slowly it gets cold
Buzz Buzz
I can see the light
Buzz…
I almost die
Bu…buzz…
Until suddenly a concerned hand scoops me up, places me in the green grass, I can feel the sun
Buzz Buzz
I fly back to my home and join my family...
January 2012
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via debonairs)
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“That’s the problem with being born in New York…You’ve got no...”
– Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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Currently reading: The Radleys
By Matt Haig
A quirky, charming, touching story about a British middle class family with a secret…thrilling!
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Film Review: Shame
By Kirstie Millar
4/5 stars
Out Friday January 13th, 2012
‘Shame’ is the bleak and harrowing account of a sex addict. Directed by Steve McQueen and written by Abi Morgan, we are told the story of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), an attractive professional living and working in New York City.
As soon as the film begins we are introduced to Brandon’s lifestyle and the flat in which he lives....
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami; Norwegian Wood
[I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth posting again.]
(via wordpainting)
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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Witty, dry, sharp and intelligent in a smart arse kind of way, The Marriage Plot is cringeworthy, touching, heartfelt and laugh out loud funny. Eugenides has perfectly, honestly and humorously captured what it feels like to be on the brink of adulthood, while not really knowing what the fuck to do, where to go, or who to be. This is the honest, entertaining and thought provoking story of...
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A Mother's Love
Child born into forbidding night,
Ripped and torn he strove for light.
Lost and lonely he came to be,
Quietly pondering what thoughts of God could be.
Mother now empty, left cold, torn and blue,
Lost all sense of purpose as his life became new.
Left old and wandering under nights taunting hue,
Her emptiness now rotting into mornings cold dew.
Death came knocking, waiting at her door,
...
December 2011
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I Still Believe in Santa...
Well, its Christmas time and I can’t say I’m feeling too great about it. I still have about one million things left to buy but the thought of risking life and limb on the High Street after spending all day working in a shop anyway doesn’t exactly appeal.
By the way, this is coming from me; the person who believed in Santa until she was 13. To make it worse I was only told that...
November 2011
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Musicians and their interview face
While watching an indie band being interviewed by Xfm I was once again disappointed to see their demeanour. I’m tired of bored looking, skinny boys with dishelevled hair looking as if they don’t give a fuck. They do! They give lots of it!
I’ve interviewed quiet a few musicians and bands in the past, and its always the exact same. And its boring. These people, who are suppose to...
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I've been up since 5 so I can go into work early...
sean-hardy asked: isnt it good Norwegian wood?
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Home
Quietly a house stood, waiting a line.
Its walls held the sound of laughter,
Its floorboards were still warm from treading feet.
Empty windows gleamed in the afternoon sun,
Grass grew silently, silky, long and green.
A book lay open, patiently waiting to be read, to share its unspoken secrets,
But for now its owner was away, her thoughts preoccupied with her living world.
Echoing laughter...
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TV review: The Hour
An academic wearing a trench coat and hat walks down a dark, foggy London street. He’s being followed, attacked, murdered. A hysterical debutant is crying murder, but who to? Well to a young, rebellious journalist who begins to get his teeth into the story. Suddenly the girls dead, an apparent suicide, but he knows there is more to it, but already he knows too much. This is The Hour, well...
“He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why...
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Articulate book review (well, not really)
I’m currently reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and I think its a strong contender for the Kirstie Millar Favourite Book Award, Its really really good.
Her husbands crazy though, and so is the house keeper Danvers. I think his ex wife was also possibly a crazy bitch. Come to think of it the main characters is sort of becoming a crazy bitch herself. And Manderley is its own character...
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Thoughts On Retail
Working in retail allows you to meet some interesting characters. Working in a book shop allows you to sell interesting characters. While the selling of humans is frowned upon, the selling of books is not, which is fortunate for me, because if it was then I would be unemployed.
I am not a people person. I would actually say I often go out of my way to avoid conversing with others. Unfortunately...
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
– Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)
October 2011
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Wattpad.com a great place to share stories! →
Someone has just recommended this site to me, a great online creative hub, a place to read, write and share stories! Its fantastic, so thought I’d share.
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A Walk and a Whisper.
I felt the earth tug, saw its blank ghostly stare,
I was lost, as I wondered if there was any good in the air.
Time took my hand, told me it was the end.
The trees gently whispered, promised to be a friend.
I felt their wisdom, felt the years they had seen.
Alone as I was, I thought of what could have been.
Weak as I was, a part of me lay dying,
Alone on the ground, wasting away and sighing.
The...
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I really like tea.
Except Earl Grey, that shit is whack.
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Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft and The Ghost Stories...
Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft and The Ghost Stories of MR James arrived today! I’m looking forward to reading them both and hopefully gaining inspiration for my new photography brief and short story I am working on. While I’ve just realised that it’s a bit cheesy to be reading horror just as Halloween is approaching, it is a coincidence. Growing up in America I always had a really...
Some thoughts on 1Q84
booksandstories:
220 pages into 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami and it’s incredible. Reading this book, as with Murukami’s other works I’m filled with a sense of constant deja vu and nostalgia for feelings and occurrences that I’m not even sure whether I’ve encountered. Amazing.
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Not enough people are excited about/buying 1Q84!
Book 3 was released today, and while the covers are slightly different I do think people will find it difficult to distinguish between the two on the shelf, which is a shame as it may stop them from realising they are two different books!
Anyway enough about the cover, its whats inside that matters! And if Murakami’s other works are anything to go by, it is going to be spellbinding and...
Its really nice to see your script coming together...
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“To read for an hour or so at night is to enter a magic realm in which people are...”
– The Torchlight List, Jim Flynn (via judijone)
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I felt quite bad for Julian Barnes
because of what happened when he won The Man Booker Prize. But then I remembered that he was given a cheque for £50,000 and…well, won The Man Booker Prize. Then I just feel bad for me.
The Sense of an Ending looks very good though.
The Trials and Tribulations of writing Horror...
I want to keep writing my short story, but I’m worried that I’ll write something scary and not be able to sleep tonight. Woe is me.
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“The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be...”
– Philip Larkin, from “The Mower” (via the-final-sentence)
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I watched Gilmore Girls this morning...
I really made me want to move back to America, and/or be Rory Gilmore.
Today I went into Oxfam and bought The Woman In Black, which I’ve been meaning to read for ages. The radio drama on BBC Radio 4 was very good and actually quite scary. It’s sort of embarrassing to be scared by a Radio 4 drama, but hey that’s obviously the kind of person I am. I’m not ashamed, well not too much.
I then managed to interview two of the woman who worked in the...
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My current "To Read" list...
One Day by David Nicholls
First Lady of Fleet Street: A Biography of Rachel Beer by Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev
The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
The 100 Words that Make the English by Tony Thorne
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
The Unconsoled by Kazou Ishiguro
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A Short History of Vampires →
BBC Radio 4 Extra explores Vampires and our current obsession with them. Starting off with the best vampire story of them all, Dracula.
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Things that annoy me: Part 1. I work in a...
I wont tell you which one. I deal with the public, a lot. And to be honest I’d be lying if I said I liked people, because most of the time they just piss me off.
Sure most people I see are very lovely and nice and appreciative, not even just at work, but in my daily goings about through life, a lot of the people I see are nice. But its the few that aren’t that make me angry, that...
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Things That Annoy Me
A lot of things annoy me. A lot. I feel everything very strongly and take a lot of things to heart. I know this isn’t good but I do it anyway. At this rate I’m planning on having a whopping stomach ulcer by the time I’m 25. So I’ve decided to share my anguish with the world, or the people who look at this blog at least, by writing about them.
For those interested here are...
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Creative Writing Degree?
Think I’m just going to go for it, fuq da police.
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A beginners views on Essex.
I have just recently began the first year of my degree, studying on a film course in Havering, Essex.
I’m new to Essex and I came with an open mind, but what I’ve discovered so far is yes, a lot of the girls do actually dress like that and a lot of the boys really seem to enjoy sporting a severe side parting. I can’t help but thinking, ow that must hurt. Tanning salons are for...
I've been gone for a while...
And I haven’t posted anything for a long time now, well 4 months to be more precise. Maybe you have been wondering where I was, maybe you thought I was dead, maybe you didn’t think anything. To be honest you probably didn’t even notice.
Well I’m back and I’m planning on writing a lot more and more frequently. So keep an eye out if you’re interested.
Here is a...
May 2011
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I hate when parent’s won’t allow their children to watch films because an animal could possibly die in it or the ending is too sad. Get over yourselves!! I’m not saying sit your three year old in front of the TV and stick on the Exorcist, but Water for Elephants? WOW. Death is a part of life, get over it. Your kids wont thank you.
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Woody Allen's top five books. →
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I watched A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers...
Confusing, touching, intriguing and very Jewish. What more could you want?
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TV Review: Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
Lily Allen quits music. Lilly Allen talks about opening a dress shop. Lily Allen buys a lot of dresses with her sister. Lily Allen rows with her sister. Lily Allen and sister smoke a lot of cigarettes. Lily Allen visits a bank. Lily Allen can’t find a shop. Lily Allen finds a shop. Lily Allen takes dog to a therapist. Lily Allen opens shop. The show ends. This is Lily Allen’s new TV...
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“No one should be silence and everyone deserves the truth. That’s what journalism...”
– President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (via producermatthew)