Wednesday Aug 24, 2005

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Shuffled on iTunes this morning:

Serge Gainsbourg, 'Couleur caf'
Juliana Hatfield, 'Every Breath You Take'
Lambchop, 'The Producer'
Charles Schillings, 'No Communication, No Love (Devastating)'
The Magic Numbers, 'Don't Give Up the Fight'
Common, 'GO!'
Aphex Twin, 'Taking Control'
Jeanne Cherhal, 'Rural'
I-F, 'Space Invaders are Smoking Grass'
Godspeed You Black Emperor, '09-15-00 (II)'
Caitlin Cary, 'Rosemary Moore'
Lou Reed, 'Courtly Orangutans'
Morcheeba featuring Kurt Wagner, 'What New York Couples Fight About'
George Jones, 'Why Baby Why'
To Rococo Rot, 'Cars (Variant)'
Art Ensemble of Chicago, 'Sun Precondition Two/Theme from Sco'

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In Stratford upon Avon, birthplace of England's greatest poet, I have lunch with Kate and, as we watch the swans take off from the lake, I tell her about all the people I have been in love with this year; in other words, not her. Sorry Kate.
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Back home I have an enormous council tax bill. Even more enormous than the one I complained about on here a couple of weeks back.

I regret it all: accepting this job, buying the car, agreeing to rent this ridiculously expensive apartment... I should have moved to Australia when I had the chance.

Annika, whom I keep wanting to call Little Anni, like in The Phantom Menace, cheers me a little by sending me this.
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scheisskopf:
tHERE is no such thing as should've, would've, or could've, unfortunately.

Life is full of regrets.

"Why Baby Why" was a bit of a surprise-- "White LIghtnin" is one of my favs.

suicidedoggie:
Scotland - Isle of Tiree - Heanish, to be precise. It generally looks a lot like the West Coast of Ireland. What were your parents doing in Donegal, if I may ask?

I haven't read much quantum ontology - just a New Scientist article a month back. However I believe there's a growing lit in the area and a crossover into zen. I like that kind of stuff. I especially like that quantum mechanics has snuck in there, established itself as a scientific discourse and subverted (or is in the process of subverting) the dominant paradigm. And I think that cats are the perfect example of how mentally limited we are.

French cinema? I went through a big Truffaut phase when at school. (Ah, Fanny, how I fancied you.) A bit ashamed to say though that other than a couple of Tatou jobbies I haven't seen anything french since then, despite my Mum living there, my sister being married to a frenchman and my family being generally more than a bit frog. Le sigh. Oh, and I really like Levinas and turn my perfectly shaped nose up at Sartre. (But don't we all?) Are you phding, post-doctoring, fully fledged paid up lecturing or just lurking behind campus bushes with copies of Habermas and Levi-Strauss?

Ah, 'splains it re Juliana. I was livin' in the US at that time. There's almost a full decade of Brit culture that I am slowly catching up on - from Beckham to the Fast Show. Er. That's it.

Oo, got to do some work now... Later smile kiss

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