tantamount

November 10, 2008

There's something about being a painter and creating extraordinary light.
I truly envy that.
It's achievable while using charcoal but even the whitest of whites - not that white exists - takes on a greyish tone. Pisses me right off.
I think i'm going to try and combine the two but seeing as i'm a hopeless painter, disaster could ensue.
Curse Alex Kanevsky and his ethereal light.

Apparently, the only way to placate - awesome word - me in Edinburgh, is to leave me in Fopp. I'll have no money by the end of it but at least i'll be cheery and not at the point of mass murder.
I wish i was more in liking of the city but there's too many people and they annoy me!
So yes, Fopp is my asylum. If only they would reopen it in Dundee, i would be a very happy bunny. I miss the world cinema section!
I did however, completely forget to replace this sucker. An album i was saving from my birthday, over two months ago, only to discover it in this state! I've never seen an untouched cd so damaged. Gutted.

"You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image."

- Francis Bacon

"I think it was Carl Jung who said one of the best ways to address reality and truth is fantasy, you know? Because the important truth cannot be addressed menially, by normal drama. The reason why we carve gargoyles and angels is because we cannot explain what we feel other than through those figures. It's intrinsic to the human endeavour to have these creatures be part of your life."

- Guillermo del Toro



efterklang - redrop

the poet and the beat

November 05, 2008

Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

My favourite song on the album.

Some rough work.

My iPod keeps freezing at unfortunate times. Like now. Crappity crap crap day.




















city and colour - cowgirl in the sand (cover version)

golden slumbers

November 04, 2008

Shakespeare and Company, is an independent bookstore located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris's Left Bank. Shakespeare and Company serves as a bookstore and also a lending library, specializing in English-language literature. The upstairs also serves as a makeshift dormitory for travellers, known as "tumbleweeds," who earn their keep by working in the shop for a couple of hours each day.

Heaven.



lavender diamond - oh no

thanatos

November 02, 2008

I very much love this drawing by Sam Green. It's unsettling and beautifully drawn.

Songs of the moment:

St. Augustine - Band of Horses
Inside A Boy - My Brightest Diamond
For Emma (acoustic) - Bon Iver
People Get Ready - Jeff Beck ft. Rod Stewart
Kids - MGMT
Middle Distance Runner - Sea Wolf
Mighty Storm - The Duhks
Hate - Cat Power
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Seventeen Years - Ratatat
Little Bird - Annie Lenox
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Just A Little Bit Of You - Jackson 5
Too Late - M83

novem

ed byrne


5 minutes 53

don't read dostoevsky

November 01, 2008


Fantastical man.

Some ideas. I'm trying to create a pulse. Sod knows how you do that but i'm trying. I don't think the eyes are honest enough.

I eventually finished Hangover Square, yet another book i'm left completely confounded by. Not because it was crap but because i can't figure out if it was crap or ineffectual or even worse, dull but thinking of itself as having something very important to say and making the reader feel stupid for not quite getting it! I loathe books like that. Either way, i'm disappointed, i held such high hopes for it. I'm now reading Crime and Punishment, i feel quite ashamed for not reading it until now. Literary cretin =]

















the duhks - mighty storm

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