December 2010
46 posts
(head over to http://topographies.wordpress.com to read about more of my songs of the year, if you want!)
The Hold Steady - We Can Get Together
Surely the year’s most surprising namecheck has to be in this song, when Craig Finn sings about 90s indiepop heroes Heavenly. But it doesn’t feel like he’s just referencing them for the sake of it – part of their story gets woven into the song, and they...
“But look again at the facts. Britain’s national debt has been higher, as a...”
– The Year in Review: Austerity - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
terrifying.
tracks of the year, #1 « topographies →
i’ve started listing my favourite songs of the year at my blog. click on the link to see the rest of the first post :).
Kanye West - Monster
This song contains possibly some of the most ridiculous lyrics of the year, and not in a good way – who can forget Jay-Z saying “everybody want to know what my achilles heel is / LOOOVE, I don’t get enough of it…”, or Kanye West’s ‘put the pussy in...
CHRISTMAS EVE
sleepssundays:
Maybe if I don’t sleep at all this morning I’ll be able to get to sleep superwell tonight and thus be able to wake up for Christmas at a reasonable time It isn’t the WORST idea I’ve ever had?
hahaha. i should probably do that. i slept from like 6:30am-9am, with fitful sleeping until 11 after that last night. FUCKED. UP.
bye
i think i’m going to stop using tumblr. er, not that anybody cares much - i haven’t used it much for the last year or so anyway. i feel like my use of it just encourages me to be lazy. and tumblr’s so heavily about pretty things… i think i need to stop giving a shit about what’s pretty and what’s not. like, my life is not enriched by me just refreshing a webpage...
“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable...”
– The death of universities | Terry Eagleton | Comment is free | The Guardian
ladypapalade:
ungainlysweaters reblogged your photo:And my stereotypical lesbian fetish for women in…block
haha. you should read tipping the velvet. seriously. YES IT’S ME ON TUMBLR.
CHARLOTTE? How am I not even following you?
and lol, like I don’t already have both the book and DVDs. You underestimate me xD
hahaha. of course you do. ooh, i need to watch the dvd. the book’s well...
“Ours is not the first generation to think that what younger people listen to is...”
– Alexis Petridis. (via slightly)
i love him. this is good.
“The “no guitars” rule is, he says, non-negotiable. “We live in...”
– Where is the protest music for 2010? | Music | The Guardian
“I’ve tried pointing out that the borrowing isn’t getting more...”
– Guest post: What we’re arguing against and what we’re fighting for | UK Uncut
“The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for gender equality in the UK, had sought a...”
– After the Fawcett Society’s legal challenge to the budget | Catherine McKinnell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
GREAT. so this is what happened to that challenge.
when did they get rid of tumblarity?
or whatever it was called. I AM SO OUT OF THE TUMBLR LOOP.
Housman ;___;
attenash:
ungainlysweaters:
made it! not sure how to invite you to join, i think i have to entre yr email address? it’s here, anyway: http://fuckyeahhousman.tumblr.com/
Enter my email where? SO CONFUSED /o\
to invite you to be a member! but i don’t know which email address you use for your tumblr account… email me or something so i know?
also omg it’s so hard to find a...
Housman ;___;
attenash:
IV
It is no gift I tender, A loan is all I can; But do not scorn the lender; Man gets no more from man.
Oh, mortal man may borrow What mortal man can lend; And ‘twill not end to-morrow, Though sure enough ‘twill end.
If death and time are stronger, A love may yet be strong; The world will last for longer, But this will last for long.
made it! not sure how to invite you to...
additional note
sleepssundays:
advertisementsforliving:
dark colors other than black (like navy) look good at any age.
See? Amy knows what’s up.
(And I didn’t mean to imply that girls should only read books to attract boys. Girls should read books. Boys should read books. Everyone should read books then make love only to other people who have read books.)
i can’t even wear nail varnish because...
attenash:
I would read fuckyeahhousman FOREVER....
attenash:
ungainlysweaters:
laura hocking - oh...
laura hocking - oh la, lolita
“pretty...
buy her candy: On Power →
amyandronicus:
There is too much silence in the world about the things that really matter. Why can’t I go out on the street and hear people talking about gender and race? Why can’t we talk to each other about power? Because power exists? Is that why?
What is power if not the condition of…
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A.E. Housman
X X X V I I I did not lose my heart in summer’s even, When roses to the moonrise burst apart: When plumes were under heel and lead was flying, In blood and smoke and flame I lost my heart. I lost it to a soldier and a foeman, A chap that did not kill me, but he tried; That took the sabre straight and took it striking And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died.
“And while Sontag defines camp as an apolitical sensibility, I propose that camp...”
– Jacket 40 - Late 2010 - Lara Glenum: Welcome to the Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics
guys guys
i may start using tumblr again. my boyfriend got a blog and it’s actually good and he has things to say and i feel like i would like to do one of those but i’m really bad at doing those i have tried before you see and i know. so i might post in here and try and get used to writing fings wot people might read. and then set up an actual honest-to-goodness non-tumblr blog so that i can...
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JEREMY HUNT.
FAO JEREMY HUNT:
more people voted labour and lib dem than voted tory in the latest election. so it’s not hard to take any group and say “there are probably more who vote Labour or for the Liberal Democrats than the Conservatives”. duh.
(in response to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/11/jeremy-hunt-bbc-political-bias)
