Lemming Liberation Front Progress Report

e_s_w @ 2004-07-27T12:47:00

2004-07-27T11:48:24Z

King's College has chosen not to be competent.

I can't get the results on the weekends because they're closed then, and I can't get the results on weekdays because I can't get into London on weekdays.

In other news, Thousand Sword Mountain is downright silly.

Sane!

2004-06-28T23:21:59Z

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Moderate
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	Low
Avoidant:	Low
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Low
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! --

Double Post

2004-06-26T00:31:59Z

a) Well done Kat!

b) Tai asked me about this a while ago; it's the track list of the soundtrack to the movie of the life of the greatest man who ever lived.

Disc I:

0. Sober - Metamorphic
1. Older - They Might Be Giants
2. Bullet in the Head - Rage Against The Machine
3. How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead
4. Counting - Korn
5. Calm Like a Bomb - Rage Against The Machine
6. The Way Out Is Through - Nine Inch Nails
7. Change (In The House of Flies) - Deftones
8. Disposable Heroes - Metallica
9. Unadikom - Marcel Khalifa
10. Ashes in the Fall - Rage Against The Machine
11. Fade to Black - Metallica
12. Lonely - Tool, Deftones, Glassjaw
13. Painkiller - Judas Priest

Disc II

14. Hunting Bears - Radiohead
15. No Leaf Clover - Metallica
16. Megalomania - Muse
17. Slave Girl - Goo Goo Dolls
18. This Is Metal - Zimmer's Hole
19. The Outlaw Torn - Metallica
20. Sober - Tool
21. Exit Music For A Film - Radiohead

We haven't had one for a while...

2004-06-24T22:32:07Z

So it appears that I'm a really suck band.

I took the What Mythological Creature Are you? test by
peacefulchaos !

e_s_w @ 2004-06-14T21:57:00

2004-06-14T20:59:41Z

So I've got to the point where I no longer feel sad any more. About anything. I wake every morning as the zen master, taking pleasure in simple things, in making others happy and examining the beauty of a moment. I'm no less angry than normal, but there seems to be nothing in my life that causes me distress. (Including, interestingly enough, things which would usually distress me. Of course, this doesn't worry me in the least.)

It's times like this that I really enjoy being me.

[Insert Title Here]

2004-06-06T23:33:38Z

So it comes to be that arctic_fox has prevailed upon me to run Unknown Armies during the final part of this year. I've already had some interest expressed; this is a formal notice.

Book Meme

2004-06-03T21:40:34Z

*bold those you've read
*italicise started-but-never-finished
*underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet
*add three of your own
*post to your livejournal
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 1
23. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
77. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand 2
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan 2
55. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous (excerpts)
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
351. Othello, William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
368. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
369. Dreamhouse, Alison Habens
370. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
371. Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
372. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
373. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
374. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
375. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
376. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper
377. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
378. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
379. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
380. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin.
381. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb.
382. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
383. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
384. Sabriel, Garth Nix
385. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
386. The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Harris
387. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
388. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
389. The House with a Clock in its Walls, John Bellairs
390. The Wings of a Falcon, Cynthia Voigt
391. Gain, by Richard Powers
392. White NOise, by Don DeLillo
393. Koko, by Peter Straub
394. Giles Goat-Boy, by John Barth
395. Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean
396. Was, by Geoff Ryman
397. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
398. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
399. The Awakening, Edith Wharton
400. A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
401. Matilda, Roald Dahl
402. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
403. Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
404. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
405. The Iliad, Homer

Book Meme (Long)

2004-06-03T21:39:16Z

Thursday

2004-06-03T20:41:38Z

Just realised that most of you don't even know of the existence of this. So, in an effort to save some souls:

http://www.spatch.net/cattown/

In other news, Why are you great? Because I am me.
What's something great about whoever you stole this off? Alex has an amusing accent; Laura is happyhappy and Robbie is the man.
What's something great about whoever is physically closest to you? They are not here.
What can make you stand out from a crowd? The aura of palpable evil?
What are some of your happy songs? I don't do happy music. That being said, Wherever I May Roam is nice.
What would be the first law you'd pass if you became dictator of your country to make it a happier place? The waistlines of trousers would have to be above the wearer's hips, on pain of gibbing.
Tell me something you feel positively passionate about and why? Looooooooong rambly conversations about random weird shit while the alcohol is wearing off.
Tell me something random but cool about you? I have had only one haircut in England, ever.
What's 1 great thing about 1 random person you love without saying who it is? If I say it, it'll give it away.
What's something cool you bought or got given this year? Tarot de Marseilles.
Why do think think it's all worth it in the end? To think otherwise is treasonous, citizen. What is your security clearance?

Arthur Miller and Vegetarianism

2004-05-30T21:25:57Z

My favourite play of all time is The Glass Menagerie. It has a bittersweet ending, and you all know my feelings on those; but moreover, it has a touching and beautiful metaphor in it which I've always liked, being the soppy bastard I am.

There's this girl in The Glass Menagerie. Fragile, socially naive almost to the point of autism, incredibly shy. A cliche, yes, but the reason things become cliches is because they describe archetypical situations. Her one passion is collecting little glass statues of animals. (Hence the play's title.) She has loads and loads and loads of them, but her favourite, as she reminds us at several points, is a crystal unicorn.

One of the two plotlines of the play is the story of how she gradually emerges into the world and, aided by quite a nice bloke, becomes a more rounded and able person. However, at the end, as she goes out with him, the crystal unicorn is dropped, its horn breaks off and it just becomes a horse. Arthur Miller's metaphor is pretty straightforward: horses are realistic and can survive; unicorns are fantastic (in the sense of belonging to fantasy, not in the sense of 'amazing') and cannot. The girl shrugs it off, having abandoned her old escapist fixation on the glass menagerie for more worldly, sensible things.

Miller's genius, in this play, is that he doesn't represent this as a happy ending. This is a sad ending, to him. What was once a beautiful and unique unicorn becomes just another horse. (The other plotline is far more cathartic, loud and climactic, and gives the play its strength; but Miller wrote afterwards that to him it was the less important one.)

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In other news: Baz, or anyone else, I need to know of a decent restaurant which does decent vegetarian food for studentish budgets. Preferably in the Waterloo area, but anywhere is good.

e_s_w @ 2004-05-23T16:17:00

2004-05-23T15:30:36Z

Here's a secret: I like people. I like people in the abstract and in the general; I like learning about people and what makes them tick. I like watching people, and overhearing conversations. I would have studied psychology or sociology if they weren't such mickey-mouse subjects.

That's the general case. In the specific, I often find examples of people that make me believe that maybe, just maybe, Genghis Khan had the right idea there. Let me give you a f'rinstance.

F'rinstance, last night, the Malcolmist and I were going back to the HoD on the bus, when this pair of loud Americans got on and started being loud, as loud Americans are often wont to do. (They were almost certainly drunk as well.) I managed to work out the following from their conversation. Much of this is quoted as directly as I can remember it.

DISCLAIMER: They are American, and so are not representative of either humanity or the male gender.

1. All the women they work with are either psycho or fat.

2. Tracy, one of the women they work with, has cute boobs but 'an ass twice the size of mine'.

3. Erin, another of their coworkers, is psycho. He knows she's psycho because she refused his advances.

4. A third colleague, whose name passes me by, 'would be hot if she lost fifty pounds off her ass.'

5. They've rearranged one of the schedules so that some of the less attractive coworkers would be in a different shift from them.

6. "I don't need to wash these jeans. Once she's down far enough to smell them, she's committed."

7. "Once she took off her top, I looked at those massive boobs and they just put me off. Well, I did it anyway, I was committed then, but I didn't call her back."

I'm late on the meme-bus

2004-05-21T12:48:42Z

e_s_w

Ernst

Not German

How dull.

Last Exam For The Year And...

2004-05-20T17:43:07Z

...he gave us the sodding lepton tables! And the semi-empirical mass formula!

Ahem.

Please excuse me, I finished my last exam for the year with flying colours, about six hours ago and am thus fnarking drunk.

I am particularly pleased because the thing I was shitting lobsters about was memorising all the irritating lepton and boron properties and the semi-empirical mass formula.

Which, as it turned out, was all given to us on the exam paper. Or possibly 'were all given to us'. My grammar is not now the best in the world.

I am happy. And drunk. And it's not even dark yet. Today is the best day EVAR.

In other news, corduroy pillows are making headlines.

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In other news, I have figured out why some people have accused me of speaking with an American accent. It's because I pronounce my r's alveolarly like a Yankishman, rather than dental-alveolarly like a Pom. (That is to say, Owlbeard the Black and I got drunk and talked about linguistics earlier today.)

Blog In Note Form

2004-05-19T16:09:15Z

Exam went well, but it was an easy one anyway.

Am preparing for tomorrow's; allowed myself a small internet break.

Conqueror rules totally and completely.

Hatched an emu egg in our toastie machine.

Have composed a playlist which is exactly 3600 seconds long, to help me time myself.

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One of the above is a lie.

e_s_w @ 2004-05-17T19:13:00

2004-05-17T18:20:32Z

I was going to post something deep and meaningful about how I feel right now, but then I realised that you lot would take the piss (and rightly so, there is a place for feelings and that place is bottled up deep inside), so instead I shall just report that today's Maths exam was A-level standard.

In other news, corduroy pillows are making headlines.

e_s_w @ 2004-05-13T22:41:00

2004-05-13T21:44:43Z

I'd like to thank Jasmine for my success on my Mechanics & Relativity paper yesterday. Jasmine, you helped me focus and clear my mind in the same way that Ariel Sharon did during my A-levels. Well done.

Why did you people desert me last year? Huh?

Also, I appear to have become such a lightweight that a single pint during dinner, after a month of sobriety,has gone to my head. N(o^7)!

Am I Evil? (Yes I Am)

2004-05-12T19:17:55Z

Suck it down, sinners! Seventh level! Booya!

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Very Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Moderate

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

In answer to Iain's question...

2004-05-12T10:32:16Z

I have exams on the 18th, 19th and 20th. After that, I'm free.

Memitude

2004-05-11T20:36:04Z

Which Princess Bride Character are You?
this quiz was made by mysti

Two Links

2004-05-07T20:38:00Z

For Tom:

http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/

For everyone else:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3685925.stm

Tonight was a good night.

2004-04-30T01:05:41Z

So, we went and saw Kill Bill 2. Initially, I came out of the cinema thinking it rocked, but under the pressure of hours, my memory is slowly saying unkind things about it.

The bit about the Old Master was good, though. As was the bit with the child watching the evil movie of DOOOM!

Afterwards, I bought a bus ticket and made £1.42 profit.

Two Interviews

2004-04-27T23:55:35Z

Scene 1: The Guildhall., on Gresham Street. A COMPANY OF MUSKETEERS is marching down the street, watched bemusedly by a FAT AMERICAN TOURIST.

American: Is this, like, one of these weird British customs?

Random Passerby: Naah, it's just a bunch of blokes having a giggle.

American: A what?

Scene 2: The corridor of King's College, London. YOURS TRULY and THE DREAD PIRATE OWLBEARD THE BLACK are walking down the corridor.

Yours Truly: ...which was, in retrospect, not the cleverest thing we could have done.

Owlbeard: I think you're forgetting that...

Enter a GAGGLE OF ART-STUDENT TYPES, walking down past us

Owlbeard: STABBITY STABBITY STABBITY STABBITY STABBITY STABBITY STABBITY

ART-STUDENT TYPES shy away.

Owlbeard: ...we didn't really have the lab equipment for it, so we couldn't have done a lot better.

Yours Truly: Whence the stabbity?

Owlbeard: Could you have walked past them without it?

Memitude

2004-04-23T21:58:29Z

Abortion?: Yes.
Death Penalty?: Negative, Consumer.
Prostitution?: Legal and regulated.
Alcohol?: Pint of ESB if you please.
Marijuana?: Tried it, does nothing for me.
Other drugs?: Caveat of the jungle. If you take it and die, it's your own fault.
Gay marriage?: Sounds like a good idea to me.
Illegal immigrants?: If they're willing to go through that for sub-minimum wage, they're people we need in the country.
Smoking?: JS Mill is right: you should have the perfect right to fuck up your own body.
Drunk driving?: No.
Cloning?: Not my field of study; I don't believe I know enough to pass judgement.
Racism?: Why is it that the 'inferior races' have to be suppressed? If they were truly inferior, they wouldn't need to be kicked down.
Premarital sex?: If we separate sex and marriage, then marriage will be taken more seriously, and thus fewer will split up early.
Religion?: If they respect my kink, I'll respect theirs.
The war in Iraq?: All war is immoral.
Bush?: Is okay, but shaved is better.
Downloading music?: You're downloading cooooooooooommmunismmmmm!
The legal drinking age?: The only practical way to enforce it. A sliding scale, as Bazzalisk suggested, would be impossible in a country of 58 million people.
Porn?: Most of it is just awful. Some is good.
Suicide?: See under 'marijuana'.

e_s_w @ 2004-04-23T17:19:00

2004-04-23T16:23:10Z

How days should be:

1) Wake up.

2) Wash hair.

3) Put on The Black Album and jump up and down and thrash and headbang and stuff, so that your hair dries.

4) Sit outside on the lawn, in the beautiful sun, and do Maths.

In other news, I am currently making out a few stories for my Galliard to tell (others' input appreciated), and am compiling a canonical list of unconventional love songs with the aim of burning a CD. Again, if you can think of any, please tell.

Solidarity, my brothers!

2004-04-10T03:05:15Z

And in the interests of belonging to yet another ribbon campaign, here we go.

I will not stand for this


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