week 19.09

creating the next thing that comes along

food: homemade spaghetti
drink: yirgacheffe coffee
video: claus et soler (la blogotheque)
sleep: 43 hours
floods: the forecast is for rain
film: milking the rhino (simpson)
film: star trek (abrams)
reading: stuff - the secret lives of everyday things (ryan & durning)

quote: you gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. you are able to say to yourself, 'i have lived through this horror. i can take the next thing that comes along.' you must do the thing you think you cannot do. (eleanor roosevelt)

week 09.09

...more poets, more painters and more trustworthy accountants

food: marmite on toast
drink: pg tea
video: concert à emporter - sidi touré (touré)
video: mykonos (fleet foxes)
video: untitled (the ex)
sleep: 35 hours
floods: flash floods all over the city!!!
film: sherman's march (ross mcelwee)
reading: rogues, rebels and rubber stamps (simpson)

quote: two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. the wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. it is the same with us and God. every separation is a link. (simone weil)

week 27.08

farrah fawcett v. ELO: the perfect way to alter a million dollar beginning

food: carpaccio of smoked salmon & scallops with horse radish
drink: chimay blue
video: skinny love (bon iver/blogotheque)
sleep: 32 hours
fires: fire? fires?
film: scarlet street (lang)
website: office ops
reads: armageddon in retrospect (vonnegut)

quote: promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (christopher robin)

week 21.08

god save the queen… just another way to say spring cleaning

food: rhubarb pie
drink: lapin kulta
video: le piticlip no. 3 (le blogotheque)
sleep: 51 hours
fires: ...i was on the red boat
film: breaking the waves (von trier)
website: myp2p
reads: four million (o. henry)

quote: true terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. (kurt vonnegut)

week 10.08

songs for those days when we are somewhere else

food: mousse au chocolat
drink: orangina
video: tightrope (yeasayer/blogotheque)
sleep: 64 hours
fires: none... not even in the kitchen
film: winter soldier (winterfilm)
website: cinéma du réel
reading: no reading this week... only watching

quote: these are the time that try men's souls. the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. (thomas paine)

week 07.08

the war, my heart & me… another year older, but no wiser

food: rosemary olive loaf... with butter
drink: a pint of water & half a lemon
video: hey ya (boss hoss)
sleep: 42 hours
fires: a big one for amy
floods: none
film: the diving bell and the butterfly (schnabel)
website: le blogotheque
reading: love is a mix tape (sheffield)

quote: what a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. (simone weil)