Quote of the Day – October 24 2014
“For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon
What I’m listening to… Astratte Soluzioni By Xtra Beat Circle
ASTRATTE SOLUZIONI is a cloudcast of 20 electronic tunes selected and mixed by LitZiu 
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The Government is Watching You F**k
From the article…
Are CCTV cameras actually secret sex cams?
This latest photographic series sees Willesee and his girlfriend Jasmine Dinjar recreating sexual acts in various public places while photographer Charlotte McCallum shoots from above using a ladder. The work is supposed to comment on the amount of CCTV cameras functioning in our streets…
Every weekend, Willesee says, […]
Quote of the Day – October 23 2014
“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
Robert Bresson
Simulacrum
From the article:
What’s the point of pumping school curricula choc-full of lessons about positive body image and the importance of diversity, if it’s undermined by the informal curriculum that comes with school life?
The messy business of actual childhood has been erased, and replaced by an idealised childhood — and an idealised child. The lesson here is that children […]
More Facebook Adventures…
3, 500 plus ‘friends’ later…
It’s created many great networking opps and, more importantly, the business opportunities offered to me reward my investment in time and effort there…
It’s been worthwhile.
Yet, I had to post this to stem the flood of ‘friend’ requests:
‘To the many people who send a friend request who have no mutual friends of […]
Quote of the Day – October 22 2014
“I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published. It made Twilight look like War and Peace.”
Salman Rushdie on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Had to add this after my previous post. And, yes I did read (or scan, more accurately) Fifty Shades. It took 20 mins on a train… was all it deserved.
;-)
Is this literature’s answer to 50 Shades of Grey?
With works such as Fight Club, Damned and Choke, Palahniuk is infamous for taking a sharp scalpel to whatever he’s thinking about at the moment. In this case, sex is on the docket…
Read more:http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/is-this-literatures-answer-to-50-shades-of-grey-20141020-118rz5.html#ixzz3Gq1MZSWr
Will be interesting to explore this one.
Amanda
Quote of the Day – October 21 2014
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
Quote of the Day – October 20 2014
In all our relationships with property, with people, and with ideas there is conflict, pain, struggle, misery; but in this one act there is complete cessation of all that. Naturally you want more of it because it gives you happiness, while all the rest leads you to misery, turmoil, conflict, confusion, antagonism, worry, destruction; therefore, […]