October 2008
Sink Ships from Cardinology by Ryan Adams and the...
“Can’t decide which lame crappy thing to do tonight”
– Dawn pretty much sums up halloween
“We’ve done some great work…. or rather, you’ve done some great...”
– Me just now in an email to Garfield’s head writer
“This is not a time for apathy. Care. Get everyone you know to vote on Tuesday....”
– Marco - How we need to win
“Never judge a book by its movie.”
– J. W. Eagan
I’m gonna meet Neil Gaiman in a hour. Well… it’s a book signing, so it’ll be me and probably a thousand other people but hey ho I’m still looking forward to it.
OS Fanaticism
I don’t understand it. I’ve used the current batch of operating systems intensively and they’re all pretty much as stable and usable as each other by now (except maybe linux, that needs a bit more work before it will be non-techie friendly). But more importantly they all bore me as much as each other, I mean they’re just operating systems, they’re just the bones of...
Then there’s the five-disc box set that’s currently in the works. Scheduled for release in early ’08, the still unnamed collection will offer myriad unreleased gems spanning Adams’ tenure at Lost Highway (from 2001’s Gold to the present). Though no official decision has been made on a tracklist, Adams says the box will likely include material from five “lost” albums he recorded between his...
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →
Pete Yorn
Ryan Adams
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bright Eyes
Conor Oberst
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Cable DVR really does kick ass.
Lots of G-G stuff happening at the moment. The book will be released next Tuesday, my free copies are on the way, can’t wait to see them.
Crap joke of the day
Two Mexicans are lost in the desert. They see a tree in the distance. As they get nearer they see its draped with rasher upon rasher of juicy bacon. “Hey Pepe”, says the first man. “Ees a bacon tree, we’re saved!” Then he runs to the tree but is gunned down in a hail of bullets. “What happened?” shouts Pepe. With his last breath, his friend shouts “Run amigo, ees not a bacon tree. Ees a ham...
“When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people...”
– Robert Pirsig
Someone replaced my bones with charcoal, filled my joints with flint and swapped my chest for a smoldering pile of hot embers. I have nothing else to say as I am in a ventolin, antibiotic & steroid induced haze of vapid introspection.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →
Pete Yorn
Röyksopp
Ryan Adams
Beck
Deep Dish
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
ConceptDraw Mind Mapping Software Free →
If you’re interested in Mind Mapping this is great software and it’s free for a limited time.
Friday. Once again, that moving feeling of watching crew and cast try and bring my nonsense to life. - Graham Linehan
What an amazing feeling/experience that must be.
I think I’ll start a new tumblelog called: Ugly Facebook Babies. …Just don’t tell any of my friends.
Dead Man Walking John McCain was harping on about Ireland’s corporation tax rate (which he loves) again last night - shame he keeps getting the figures wrong. (via The Chancer)
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman
