February 2012
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SO EXCITED FOR TONIGHT. My friend (the one who is currently at uni in France) is home for a few days and she’s coming to stay at my flat! I haven’t seen her since August, my god I’ve missed her! Can’t wait to be drunk with Fliss, Emileh, Hannahhh and Tiff!
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Listening to The Beatles and looking at houses online for next year. All I think when I look through the photos is ‘I’d buy some new cushion covers’ or ‘needs a rug and a plant’. Why are student houses so grotty?
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Happy 2nd Birthday
to Touching From A Distance (formerly Breakfast in NYC)!
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week commencing 19th february 2012
I have been:
Listening to… Slow Club. The Postal Service. Oasis. Tribes. Bob Dylan. Catfish & The Bottlemen. Led Zeppelin. Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Doomsday.
Reading… Isabella Blow - Martina Rink. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt. Vogue UK Feb. Elle UK March. Vogue UK March.
Watching… Pearl Harbor. Trainspotting. Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.
Buying…...
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“Sterilization of patients with hereditary psychoses, most directly applicable to those with manic-depressive illness, was once practiced in parts of the United States, and large numbers of individuals with manic-depressive illness were systematically killed in German concentration camps. Even today many provinces in China enforce mandatory sterilization and abortion policies for those...
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“…of all the phrases in the english language, of all the endless...”
– Donnie Darko
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Irvine Welsh has written a prequel to Trainspotting, called Skagboys! Sooo excited to read about Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Tommy & Begbie in a Scottish accent once again!
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I just watched Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (circa 2006), and honestly found it fascinating. I really recommend it for an insight into bipolar disorder. Earlier today I ordered the book ‘Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature’ by David Nettle. Really looking forward to reading it!
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Potential dissertation topic:
The proposed link between creativity and mental illness. I would find this fascinating to research. Do you think this is a good area to write about?
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Flatmate is wearing a Bob Dylan t-shirt. If he’s ever listened to Dylan I will eat my own hair.
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week commencing 12th february 2012
I have been:
Listening to… Tribes. Lana Del Rey. Catfish & The Bottlemen. Tommy - The Who. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd. Bad Reputation - Thin Lizzy. Bob Dylan. David Bowie. Lou Reed. The Velvet Underground. Brand New. Two Door Cinema Club. Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters. The Who.
Reading… The Late Hector Kipling - David Thewlis. Veronika Decides To Die - Paulo Coelho.
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It's been a slow day.
1. Three favourite movies
Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The Virgin Suicides.
Lost In Translation.
2.Do you like drugs? Favourites?
My drug of choice will always be alcohol.
3. Name a sexual fantasy you have.
No.
4. Three celebrities to fuck, marry and kill.
Robert Plant, via 1970. Johnny Depp. Chris Brown.
5. Favourite quotation(s)?
Crisis is hilarious in hindsight.
6. Name...
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