This guy’s videos are fantastic. It has everything you want in a Youtube channel: deadpan wit, dry humor, aesthetic cinematography, and entertainment. Go and subscribe (he has less tha… Read More
Found a delightful channel on Youtube. It’s called Grandma’s Recipes and it posts about these charming Japanese grandmothers and the way they cook Osechi–traditional New Ye… Read More
Well, look no further!Ana asked for some tips on good YouTube channels besides the ones she mentions in her blog post here. I was going to write her an e-mail but then I thought that you (ye… Read More
–I agree. We should know what our own biases are.
A well written piece, and as always very well animated, from The School Of Life about bias that presents it not as a bad thing but a… Read More
So You Want To Be A Writer
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and… Read More
We watched this movie yesterday as it’s part of the list I’m going through.
I like the way George Lucas tells the story, the continued action, the silliness of high school dream… Read More
–Magneto, 4th track in album.
We were lucky enough to go see Nick Cave’s documentary ‘One More Time With Feeling’ on the 9th, as the album ‘Skeleton Tree‘… Read More
We’ve watched 5 out of the 8 episodes on Netflix and I think we’re pretty much sold. (Fingers crossed for the last 3 episodes.)
Winona Ryder does a very good job as the mother o… Read More
I’ve mentioned before This Train, the album from David Lynch and Chrysta Bell, and the superb video for the song Bird Of Flames.
Somehow I missed the fact that there were at least tw… Read More
Saturday we went to the movies and because my brother-in-law mentioned it, I suggested we go see The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson is one of those directors that always… Read More
Beautiful song and understated yet touching video from my favourite Massive Attack album, Blue Lines. A classic from my uni years:
I recommend the whole album if you’ve never heard it… Read More
Rick and Morty exists since 2013 and it’s amazing! Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon–the same writing genius that gave us Community–the series follows a young high… Read More
We saw this movie last weekend.
It’s a New Zealand production filmed as a (mock) documentary. It follows the lives of four modern vampires living in Wellington.
All characters have th… Read More
You asked me for forgiveness briefly before you died. You were weak and tired and eaten by the cancer by then but it was probably the last day we saw you lucid and still yourself. You cried… Read More
By The KLF.Chill Out is an album with no songs. It’s a continuous soundtrack of samples, sounds and music that mellows me, calms me down and nudges me gently into peace.
Beautiful, in… Read More
Seven years ago today I took a photo of a lighthouse. I honestly don’t remember much of this day…
Five years ago today, we had drinks with Taras at Harry’s. I miss Harry… Read More
“The meaning of life is just to be alive.
It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something b… Read More
Complicated title, I know… Not exactly last week in pictures: I’m still catching up.
This was the week that I broke down and took only one photo.
Fortunately, and after a very… Read More