11. a song from your favourite bandi like loads of bands, including and not exclusive to the beatles, the strokes, franz ferdinand, but i think fair is fair, i decided i would put up one of my favourite songs by the band with the most songs on my computer. narrowly edging out the beatles, i give you (drumroll pleeeaaasee!)...also reminds ...
9. a song that makes you dance dance danceno greater song to get a party started, and incidentally, via the principles of 6 degrees of separation i am connected to alex turner by 3(make no mistake, i really am THAT uncool)
it's been a while and lots gone down. left one job, joined another - which isn't quite working out etc. life has been really hectic and unsettled and the last thing on my mind has been this blog. which is a shame because after a really long time i just thought of this and it made me really happy - ...
Incidentally, which I'm not doing. Since last time much has changed. Our wonderful house with its beautiful garden was sold and I've moved out to a dinky little annex in Dehiwala. Occasionally a monkey (grey langur) escapes from the zoo and comes visiting and my landlady has a vicious dog I (un)affectionately call Satan. I like being close everything but ...
I came across the following quote by Erich Fromm this morning, which I feel aptly describes the situation in the country at the moment."There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."Food for thought, no?(Just in case you'd like to know ...
Firefly is a 14 part western made in 2002, set in the final frontier: space. It is set approximately 500 years in to the future, where humans have conquered space and terraformed all the planets and moons they've come across to make them habitable. This situation has imbued the final frontier with a Wild Wild West atmosphere, where government is ...
these are some pictures from a 120 mm roll i shot last year that i gave up on because asshat developer man decided i was off my head when i told him it was square format, and proceeded to chop pictures up rectangular. the poor quality isn't all his fault tho, i have ridiculously shakey hands. i'm procrastinating at the ...
setting the stagedarkness fallsincense of lit matchesfor one night onlythe world stands stillbroken sounds ofbrass wind chimesheavy petting with the windone lit paper lantern at a timeeyes on the prizelight replaces conversation not that I mind.
i've heard back from the ms. lexia people about the short story competition i entered earlier this year and my entry wasn't selected. i got a letter last week telling me that all is not lost, that i can subscribe to ms lexia today and get this month's issue absolutely free. FREE! honestly, i don't mind, because i took the ...
I want to eat chocolate, chinese food and drink whiskey to lose weight I want to have an active social life with plenty of dates I want to be smart enough to know what you’re talking about straight away I want to be witty enough to be able to contribute in a big way I want to be able to ...
i watched this wonderful documentary called 'a history of god' based on the book (same name) by karen armstrong. i found it to be a balanced study of god as is presented to us through the doctrines of the monotheistic faiths. i also discovered the profound yet simple wisdom of the patriarchs of the greek orthodox church - something i've ...
after a ridiculously long and hard week – there is no greater joy than waking up at 5.30 in the morning and realizing that you can sleep for at least 3 hours more with no fear of the consequences. then like the cherry on top, well, i have the cherry on top. the greedy birds missed the first cherry of ...
every time i get sick and tired of this tropical lifei see something that reminds me of how much i would miss not living itthe frangipani bouquets high in their leafless treespungent mouthwatering smells of deep fried karawalawafting from the girls hostel down buller's lanechiffon sarisbright colours that don't look out of placeand other people that speak the same garbled ...
we've harvested our radishes! we made the leaves in to a gotukola-esq mallung (figured it would be ok, since it belongs to the brassica family and we eat cabbage + turnip leaves in mallungs) and it was delicious and peppery, definitely something i would feed people.as for the actual bulbs - let the pickling begin!
i watched a good PBS documentary on the life of the buddha online recently, if you're interested you can access it here.vesak is great. i love everything about it.i tried to make a vesak pandol but failed horribly because it just ...
