Sunday: my essay and reading both stand happily completed, my Greek verbs are sticking in my head, the world seems to be working once more. There are moments of perfection in one’s life, in one’s work, perhaps even in one’s soul whatever that may be. There’s a beauty to language, something similar to the beauty [...]
Archive for February, 2012
That’s The Kind Of Perfection I Want To Be
Posted in My Head on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Love, Beauty, and Other Forms of Waffle.
Posted in Meaningless Rambling on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You know ontological claims as to the nature of love are all very well and good, but I’m still left trying to figure out whether or not you’re just on the fast track to God if you start talking in terms of the sublime. This isn’t going to be very philosophical because I’ve already bashed out [...]
Poetry Festival
Posted in Comedy on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here is some very serious, heartfelt poetry. Don’t you dare laugh at this or belittle it in anyway because this took me fifteen minutes of my time to put together. You know what I could have been doing with those fifteen minutes? Yes, exactly! So you just watch it. Dave An ode to our Prime [...]
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Posted in Fuck Knows on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The city planners laid this town to rest; we got our police running their blue lights right across the deserted streets while somewhere the postman gets up to drag himself into the sorting office for another day of uniform putting to rest the anarchy of our urban souls. We sleep if we can to put [...]
I’m Not A Misanthrope But…
Posted in rant on February 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It all hinges on what you call yourself really; social critic isn’t a difficult job when all is said and done because what do you do other than sit back and launch a few trite observations on the world you’ve come to know and love? Maybe there’s an age thing in this, maybe not, but [...]
Why Lisa? Why? Why? Why?
Posted in Film on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of Tommy Wiseau’s visit to Oxford, and to help me get over the shock of seeing him in the Balliol back quad; here’s a little review I put together on his opus magnum: The Room My first inkling of the life changing event that would be watching The Room was during an extended [...]
Love Ain’t Enough
Posted in Poetry on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Go fix it up my dear, the future we all fear, rests somewhere in between the heartache, and the politics of keeping it real. Don’t disappoint me now, but you know just how, these waves of hatred fill your heart, and drown it out. Live beneath a dying sun, in a world built for one, [...]
Nightfall
Posted in Move Along on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The lamp lights threw deceptive shadows, but now we are outside as the snow falls silently around us. She looks at me with something approaching confusion and I, I feel alive in a few senses numb in others. It is as though I am scattered ashes, some of which still glow, embers of previous flames, [...]
The Cynic’s Guide to Early Warning Systems
Posted in rant on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Okay we’ll start the rant early and give it some form of direction; what the hell is it with people that do this whole “ohhh, ohhhhhhh (volume rising) ohhhhhhhhh (volume reaches crescendo level) whoooooooooooooo!”? For once I’m not talking about sex, but if I was with a girl and she started doing that I might [...]
Anarchy!
Posted in Comedy on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This was something I knocked together in a coffee break; I included Dan in it simply because he’s a friend, but I wouldn’t mind doing something similar with someone who doesn’t mind making a tit of himself on stage…Jim? The Incredibly Careless Brothers In Darwin Awards. (enter Esquire and Careless) Careless: Good evening Ladies and [...]
