week 08.08

songs that survived the flood… lkg72’s old mix tape

food: pizza with bufala mozzarella
drink: espresso
video: hologram world (tiny masters of the universe)
sleep: 46 hours
fires: none
floods: have subsided
film: tokyo days (marker)
website: mango languages
reading: the selfish giant (wilde)

quote: ...love is like oxygen -you get too much, you get too high, not enough and you're gonna die. love hurts. love stinks. love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug... but the answer is simple. love is a mix tape. (robert sheffield)

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)

week 06.08

carried away… dances with the original donut hole

food: lox bagel with everything
drink: an ice cold leffe
video: i feel it all (feist)
sleep: 36 hours
fires: none
floods: it's no longer a flood... it's mold
film: persepolis (paronnaud & satrapi)
website: www.limmy.com
reading: the conscript (balzac)

quote: i had no personal ambitions in this affair... my aim was to make money for the bank. you lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in his type of work... you lose track of reality. you let yourself get carried away. (jérôme kerviel, formerly of Société Générale)

week 16.08

if you don’t know that you’re leaving, you can’t say goodbye

food: sushi
drink: a pint of bombadier
video: john he is (the public service administration)
video: keep your eyes ahead (helio sequence)
sleep: 39 hours
fires: there was one fire alarm at 0820 hours
film: the orphanage (bayona)
website: spunk
reading: on the duty of civil disobedience (thoreau)

quote: patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. for if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. so in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. (leonardo da vinci)