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Book love – updated

25 Friday Nov 2011

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Oscar Wilde, Paris, photos

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Earlier this year a friend and I started a book club. There are only six of us and we don’t always have everyone present at our get togethers, but we talk books and movies and work and life and we drink wine, always wine, and we eat yummy things.

Last month we read ‘The Picture Of Dorian Grey’ by Oscar Wilde. Except I didn’t finish it. Shhhh. I had a block. I started it while sitting in the car waiting for the clock to tick over before work and when the five pages I read in that time didn’t really grab me, I found it very hard to go back to it. And so I didn’t. And read five other books instead. Oops.

We did get together earlier this week though to watch the 1997 biopic ‘Wilde’, starring Stephen Fry. It was quite lovely and sad and funny. Mr Wilde was just ridiculously insightful and witty and clever and hilarious.

This quote appeared in the movie

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness

And this afternoon I’ve been enjoying these also

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I visited his grave when I was in Paris a couple of years ago. It was covered in lipstick kisses. These are regularly removed from the headstone by maintenance staff I believe… only to be immediately replaced by more. I love this.

UPDATE: Oh no! Glad I visited when I did – no more lipstick kisses!

Perfect match

29 Sunday Mar 2009

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stargraphic

The psychedelic musical stylings of The Flaming Lips go perfectly with this graphic I feel.

Fight Test – The Flaming Lips

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/flaming_lips_-fight_test1.mp3

Yeah, I’m aware it’s an obvious song choice

28 Saturday Mar 2009

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france

For those of you who, like me, wondered what ‘boulangerie’ means, it’s got something to do with a bakery. I thought I better check just in case it was a rude word or something, and was the reason for the little girl’s cheeky grin. You need to be careful of these things.

La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/edith-piaf-la-vie-en-rose.mp3

The ultimate treehouse

24 Tuesday Mar 2009

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mp3, Music, photos

Treehouse

Quiet Houses – Fleet Foxes

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/05-quiet_houses_ff.mp3

Wow. Just wow.

18 Wednesday Mar 2009

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mp3, Music, photos

Aeroplane

My obsession with ffffound continues. Go on, get obsessed too.

    Paper Aeroplane – Angus & Julia Stone

    https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/04-paper-aeroplane.mp3

    The Airplane Song – Scouting For Girls

    https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/04-scouting_for_girls-the_airplane_song.mp3

    Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian

    https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/07-piazza-new-york-catcher.m4a

Baleful stare

18 Wednesday Mar 2009

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Baleful Stare

That’s a baleful stare if ever I’ve seen one. Lighten up, lovey.

Black Cow

Different cow. Same stare.

Jersey

It’s a phenomenon.

If Looks Could Kill – Camera Obscura

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/camera-obscura-if-looks-could-kill.mp3

Scatter in the sky

24 Tuesday Feb 2009

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mp3, Music, photos

Open Sky

I can’t think of a better song to go with these shots. Violin, cello, piano. Bliss.

Sunset_fence

San Solomon – Balmorhea

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/02-san-solomon.mp3

Balmorhea’s album All Is Wild All Is Silent is due for release March 10.

These 40+ days are only good for one thing

27 Tuesday Jan 2009

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Pink clouds

Tree sky

Orange Sky – Alexi Murdoch

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/11_orange_sky.mp3

Sunsets – Powderfinger

https://itallstarted.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/05-sunsets.m4a

Nothing Is Scarier Than A Clown

03 Sunday Feb 2008

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clowns, funny, Grand National, Len Wade, Marc Riley, mp3, Music, photos, The Beat, The Kinks, The Triffids

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Unless it’s a whole swag of em… 

Was randomly surfing the net and came across the above picture. Is anyone else freaked out by it? I don’t know what it is but clowns are scary! I certainly don’t know where they got their reputation as child friendly entertainers.

Check out the guys in the picture above. The only one that’s smiling is the guy sitting on the ground in front of the ‘I’m A Little Teapot’ clown. And that smile says sinister things – no balloon animals and squirty flowers from this bunch.

I can handle the red nose and big clown mouth, but the ones that freak me out the most are the ones with the weepy eyes – see that guy sitting fifth from the left in the front row? He’s got the weepy diamond eye thing going on, and not even the fact he’s wearing some strange headband reminiscent of David Beckham (a man who often looks like a clown without even trying) is enough to scare away the fact that this picture truly horrifies me.

So in order to negate these uncomfortable feelings, here are some clown songs that don’t scare me. Oh, apart from ‘Ha Ha The Clown’, which was released on a record called ‘Down By The Station’ in the 1960s. Luckily, children’s music has moved on since then. Thank goodness for The Wiggles, I say (but the sooner High 5 give it up, the better).

Everybody’s Clown – Len Wade

Tears of a Clown – The Beat

Death of a Clown – The Kinks

Joker and Clown – Grand National

Clown Prince – The Triffids

Jumper Clown – Marc Riley

Ha Ha The Clown – Down By The Station

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