By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying. — Dorothy Parker
@rchers @narchists. The Archers are real – there is no cast. I believe, I believe.
« »Fuck mockneys, fuck wiggas, fuck new lads, fuck the Nathan Barleys trying to be “street”, fuck Damon Albarn AND fuck Noel Gallagher and his “I’ve worked on a building site so my soul is fundamentally purer than yours”, fuck everyone who builds this straw man of the “chattering classes” in order to knock down education, rationality, gentleness, gentility and all the other values that plenty of the middle-classes still adhere to. — Dr. Deadmeat (also known as Joe Muggs, and also as Knid) tearing shit up on his LiveJournal.
« »SHEMAGH WRAP INSTRUCTIONS for one of my possible halloween costumes.
« »Here he comes to save the day! Not having used a mouse since the 1990s, it now seems to me that only someone with an extra arm could use one happily… I suspect mine will go back to the shop within a week.
« »So having the correct German haircut would be a really good enhancement to one’s Heer impression.. The things you find when looking for a photograph to show the barber. See also.
« »I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. — Borges
« »One of “three projects investigating what constitutes the self… the relationship between self-perception (a passive concept of the self) and active construction of identity” with regard to Flickr.
« »noma @ glasgow implodes, originally uploaded by biotron.
Off to see him again tonight. Gives good drone.
# drone, glasgow, guitar, live, music
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends — Francis Bacon
« »Royalty, originally uploaded by Finiky.
Ducks are such smug gits. (I’m just testing posting from Flickr, in case that wasn’t obvious.)
« »Originally uploaded by mimbrava. Proof that the Intelligent Designer was actually quite high on the job.
# flowers, nature, passion, photo
Tom Coates on the BBC Annotatable Audio project. Which is terribly, terribly exciting.
« »Magistrate convicted for giving wife Rolex he found in Tesco’s Using records from his supermarket loyalty card, police were able to prove that he had visited the Tesco store in Poole, Dorset, within two hours of the watch’s real owner on January 16, 2002.
« »Photojournalist Robbie Cooper captured images of gamers and their real-life selves. Here are their stories.
# games, identity, photo, photography
There are so many new artists making so much art in so many different ways now, that no one can possibly make sense of it all. Because there is more art being made, there is ever more mediocrity. You must go with your instincts and keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. — Adrian Searle on how he fell in love with ‘modern’ art, The Guardian.
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