Yesterday I walked past a shop with a sign in its window, “Buy your complete Halloween outfit here!” & realised I was almost insane with boredom. Everything we have as a society–everything we do–is completely fucking spineless & irrelevant. It’s a “world” with no connection to the world, held in place by the biggest military [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 29, 2009
meet tim & seth
Vacuum downstairs & bedroom
Wash kitchen floor
Air downstairs
Empty bedroom waste bin
Make bed
Move wash bag, clothes etc downstairs
Get chocolate croissants, Earl Grey etc
!!MEET TIM & SETH @ 5.45!!
Reading: Journey into Fear, Eric Ambler. Transcribing: notes made in the Radiography reception area, St Mary’s Roehampton. Wishing I’d been at: The Manchester Fiction Prize bash last Friday.
October 28, 2009
all good cognitive stuff
Quantised perception, perceptual acceleration (or not) in times of high adrenalin, etc, here. Also, a fact about phantom limb. Maybe the next stage is to induce the phantom limb experience in subjects who haven’t lost anything, thereby enabling them to make personal choices about their neural structures & procedures. I can see this as being [...]
October 27, 2009
feigned
Julian Richards passes FeynTube along. I’d welcome others. BukowskiTube would be nice. Also something that replaced comments with Audrey Hepburn’s dialogue from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (Coincidentally, I always think I’m going to see Feynman playing the bongos in the party scene of that film. He would fit right in.)
October 26, 2009
short & sad
Somebody landed here today after Googling “describe yourself in a single phrase”. Mine would be: five feet six inches tall.
Reading Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics. Good stuff, but I think a better source of epigrams for the new novel would be Adam Thorpe’s Hodd, which has this: “…a shrieking was heard under the grass [...]
October 22, 2009
a time in spain
Underground parking structure, Urbanisation Sur, Valencia.
Architectural detail, Urbanisation Sur.
Objects, Urbanisation Sur.
Welcome to Vegas, Don Jilton 24 horas a su servicio.
Hulk, Pego
Other discarded objects, Pego.
Discarded Renault 4, Benirrama.
October 15, 2009
this month’s shoe porn
Innov8 Flyroc 310–
It’s all I can do not to steam them very lightly & eat them for lunch.
October 14, 2009
babylon was dust
I can deal with any amount of this, especially when Thomas Metzinger is involved. It reminds me of the absolute best of Charles Williams. The magus Zoroaster, my dead child,/Met his own image/Walking in the garden. You bet.
October 12, 2009
fragile
11am St Pancras/Sheffield. The man sleeping across the aisle from me has taken off his black leather shoes & put his feet on the seat opposite. The Telegraph has fallen off the table at his side. Bedford station wakes him up & he opens his briefcase and begins to eat from a packet of crisps [...]
October 9, 2009
mr toad he bad
A week or two ago, BBC 24 Hour non-News had a Saturday entertainment segment on drag racing. Oh god, the thrill that went through me. I know it’s the wrong time for this. I know all this is over. I do know that. But before I die I want to sit in one of those [...]
