December 2011
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Things I want to do in 2012
Travel somewhere where I can see the milky way on the nightsky (if you know of a good place in Europe where this is possible, tell me)
Get into a good university after I graduate from this one (I hope I am not past the deadline for applications yet..oh god)
Hold a sloth
Regain my legendary alcohol tolerance
Use this tolerance to drink a lot
Conclude more statements with ‘and this is...
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Me: 'Men who hate women' is a fucking amazing title for a book, whereas 'the girl with the dragon tattoo' sounds like something you'd buy at ASDA
Chris: exactly
Me: 'Men who hate women' could also be the title of an anthology about great thinkers, writers and artists
Chris: Or the title of a surprisingly honest porn movie
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Me: I dreamt that we got really hammered and watched the scene in the 'lord of the flies' film where the fat kid gets smashed by a rock on endless repeat
My brother: that wasn't a dream, that actually happened
Me: that actually happened??!
My brother: Yes, we watched it in ultra slow-motion, frame by frame, over and over again
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Just had the idea of making a comic about a philosopher turned superhero who hates and battles postmodernists, under the pseudonym ‘THE TRUTH’. The cover of the first edition shows him punching Jean Baudrillard next to the caption ‘THE TRUTH HURTS’. Is someone good at drawing and can help me with that?
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themuntersmanifesto asked: I agree with that girl. Except you are maybe (probably) a narcissist (read: bailbailbailbailbail. Regardless, love.
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jamaisjamais asked: Just read, um, your entire blog. Think I might be in love with you. I'm sure you get this a lot, but -- thanks for existing. This is wonderful.
WARNING
My tumblr now has endless scrolling. That means that you get a dangerous amount of AWESOMENESS on one single page.
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Just found this review which I wrote last year on hostelworld for the worst hostel in florence:
These words in sombre colour I beheld written upon the summit of a gate: “Through me you go to the grief wracked hostel; Through me to everlasting pain you go; Through me you go and pass among lost souls, sharing a bed for lovers in midst a myriad of other beds. Here are shrieks, and...
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“Only a delusional ego-maniac thinks they need to “WIN” a...”
– Some internet guy, after losing a conversation against me
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Me: I just considered starting my essay and it stressed me out so much that I started sweating
Flatmate: yeah I just considered starting mine but then I remembered about...internet
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BNP chairman Nick Griffin made a video telling the... →
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“How many books have changed your life? When I first read ‘Lord of the...”
– my literature lecturer
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The Culmination of Separation
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In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
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The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as...
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