RSS Feed“Left all my kinder parts rusting and peeling
We’re all doctors trading sadness for numbness
Grass looks much greener but it’s green-painted cement
The mayor’s machines are there cleaning the pavement
You can’t make dirt clean so we’ll just lemon-scent it”
— Modest Mouse - Medication
I feel like I should tell you that I’m very excited about the 11th Doctor.
“Bennett seems to be showing alarming signs of irony. I have always found that irony among the lower orders is the first sign of an awakening social consciousness. It remains to be seen whether it will grow into an armed seizure of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or spend itself in liberal journalism.”
— Tom Stoppard (Travesties, 1974)
Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - fuck yeah science!
Lily Allen says she doesn't mind fans buying her burned CDs
*facepalm*
So, Lily, you’re upset that people download your music because they want to listen to it but can’t pay for it, but you absolutely don’t mind people who sell illegal copies, profit on the back of the artists, the record company and the fans? Way to go.
“If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for £4 I haven’t a problem with that as long as the person buying it places some kind of value on my music”
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I love you, Sam Rockwell!
“You understand, we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
— Tom Stoppard (R&G Are Dead)
Joy Division (Grant Gee, 2007)
“I love what the first three pages of The Graveyard Book do to people’s heads,” said Gaiman. “I love reading the upset reviews from people who read those first few pages and say, ‘Oh my God, it’s like a slasher movie with all the murders and blood’ and I think, ‘No, you did that. I just had a man walking round with a knife and you killed all those people in your head. It says more about you than anything I wrote on the page.’”
— Neil Gaiman (via)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Terry Gilliam
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
Don’t Look Now - Nicolas Roeg (1973)
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