Driven partly by pressure from incessant literary prize shortlists, more than one in three consumers in London and the south-east admit having bought a book "solely to look intelligent", the YouGov survey says.
It finds one in every eight young people confessing to choosing a book "simply to be seen with the latest shortlisted title".
Everyone knows that Thomas Pynchon's books wouldn't even... Read More
The last few days I've been having some dynamite artistic ideas, that I'm looking forward to implementing soon. Whenever I'm not challenging myself, I tend to stagnate. Like a shark, or I suppose, the Littlest Hobo, or even Johnny Cash, I've always got to keep moving forward or nothing good comes of things.
I had the fortune to see a few shows lately (Telefauna, Dorian... Read More
Occasionally I get lost in things.. really lost. It hasn't happened since I read House of Leaves, and that was in 2001 I think.
During these times the universe becomes nebulous and everything seems to phase out.. and I'm unclear about whether everything becomes strange or rather just is in a very corporally monumental fashion.
It's quite peaceful in its way, with a palpable... Read More
Normally I'm kind of a grump about these kind of things and refuse in a friendly fashion, but since Faye is a sweetheart, I'm making an acception to participating in a silly internet meme wherein I must divulge 20 interesting facts about myself.
Let us see.
1. As a boy I owned a pony. He was grey and his name was Rocky. He bucked me... Read More
One of the greatest things to do in the fair city of Montreal is to bar crawl down the Main (St. Laurent) in search of all the best things life has to offer. One of which is beer.. a lot of beer.
Sometimes I'm of a mind that we've run out of momentous deeds, that any great speech suffused with meaning and raw emotion will only fall upon deafened uncaring ears. If this is true, that the ability to think and rise and stir is lost, then greatness is like a drained corpse upon which is feeding the bloated leeches of the spectacle.
I just noticed that the Gulf Island Film and Television School where I took a brief film course, has put my short film "the Future is Now" up in the "Classic Super-8" section their website.
Each section is intended to represent some of the best work that the school has produced in that field. Just the booster shot in the arm I need to get... Read More
Sometimes it's fun when a 16 hour party reminds you that you can be suave, funny, and stylish.. as well as have a remarkable capacity to knock back the intoxicants.
Karnivale and I also went to go see the Opera de Montreal production of Bellini's Norma - although the set design wasn't to my liking, the performances were superb.. definitely the best soprano I've ever... Read More
I think we may have to agree to disagree, cus Orson (like all the other O names I can think of offhand - Oliver, Otto, Orloff) is not hot at all.
Now, there are some Russian names that I omitted cus I wasn't sure if I found them hot or not, since they sounded a little girly, but even those are better than Orson. Mmm, Russians.
Damn your fucking work
Damn your fucking work
Damn your fucking work
I wanna be a Youngblood
Once again, I'm feeling young and fast and well.
There's something to be said for action, something indeed. There's a quiet freedom to fearlessly acting on your impulses, letting chance ride, and working with a gamble.
So instead of going to work today, I quit.. and had a... Read More
haha, well I guess it could be applied to most religions that have a big almighty god. Versus any religion that doesn't really have a god or more than one.
and you?
sweetie, email me your address, and you'll have them before christmas!