February 2009
Tom Waits
I first heard this song on the first ever Skateboard video I owned, Heroins ‘everything is going to be alright’ I loved it but i’ve never been able to find out who the artist was so after 8 years of searching I’ve FINALLY come across it haha :D and purely by chance as it happens it’s by my new found love Tom Waits and it’s called “Goin’ Out...
POWERTHIRST.
You need to watch these. Powerthirst 1 Powerthirst 2. x
More Love.
I don’t normally do posts like this but seriously, oh my god. This is Anna, she’s on bmezine.com x
Monkeys have a sense of moral awareness
Everyone knows it, but then again sometimes the simplest things are the ones you notice last. …”The animals were asked to perform a set of simple tasks and then rewarded with food or affection. The rewards were varied, seemingly at random. De Waal found the animals had an acute sense of fairness and objected strongly when others were rewarded more than themselves for the same task,...
Love.
My life is made up alternating phases of enjoyment for things, that’s how i stay interested. For example one month I’ll listen to nothing but hardcore, or wear nothing but baggy skaterish clothes, or read nothing but french literature etc etc. Last months was taken up by hardcore (because of Architects new release) and reading nothing but philosophy and greek poetry. I had to come to...
Happy Valentines Day
I hope you understand, You fixed my broken plan Happy Valentines Day. I should be spending it with the girl I love, but due to circumstances out of my control I can’t. Gutted. So please if you will, raise your glasses to young love. “Here’s to new beginnings you fucks” anyway, spent the day in this weird mood, may be part-comedown / part-haven’t slept /...
More snow :]
Went outside, took more pictures :]. Click to enlarge the pictures & comments would be great! I live in a brilliantly creepy place. x
How Our Brains Construct God
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.700-born-believers-how-your-brain-creates-god.html?full=true How our brain creates God under time of stress etc. Fascinating stuff Not in this article ( I don’t think so anyway) but still relevant is the fact that we get a dopamine kick out of sticking with the crowd, herd mentality isn’t just for safety you also feel happier because of...
Og De Souza - the skateboarder with no legs.
This is truly inspirational, Og De Souza has no legs but can’t use them so he skates with his hands. x
Follow what i'm reading!
Like Last Fm, but for books. Brilliant idea http://www.anobii.com/murdok/books they’re mine :] x
Thoughts.
I’ve been toying with some thoughts for a while, and I think they’ve finally come to fruition and i’ve got them sorted enough (for now) so that I can write some of them down. A number of different influences played their part but most strongly the writings of Hesse (Steppenwolf, that book really did change my view on things), Sartre’s existentialism (even though Nausea...
Art & Snow :]
It’s snowing today :D so no college :] heres a picture from outside the window i’m sitting next to :] Today is a beautiful day. On the Art side, recently i’ve been finishing a final piece for my ‘book interventions’ project. Sowing bin-bags together to create this beast If you want to know what it’s about then read ‘The Library Of Babel’ which I...
