I know what you’re thinking: we coordinated our outfits. But before you run away with yourself, no. We’re just psychiatric like that. Would you believe a psychologist once told our mother we had a combined IQ of 298? (Yeah, she didn’t either.) This is what happens when you trade on a total impracticality for twenty-odd
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(above) Assyrian sculpture and Balawat Gates (11th – 8th centuries BC) Whenever we visit the British Museum The Euro spends most of his time in Room 4, which is where all the Egyptian sculpture is, mostly just staring at the Rosetta Stone. My favourite is the Ancient Assyrian (modern northern Iraq) exhibits. Large stone sculptures
“I wish there were a political affiliation called Common Sense, because that’s what I would be. I would run on the ticket. I couldn’t be president because I don’t have perfect teeth. But it’s the Cabinet that matters and you and I could be in the Cabinet.” – Flynn
“I didn’t do ‘Ur’ for money. I did it because it was interesting. I’m fairly prolific. It took three days, and I’ve made about $80,000. You can’t get that for short fiction from Playboy or anybody else. It’s ridiculous.” – Stephen King In 2009 Stephen King released “Ur” – an exclusive novella he published on
(c) Rosie Hardy Have I mentioned how proud I am of Rosie? The fantastic British artist – who I’ve been nearly-neighbours with on both sides of the pond – is responsible for the cover art of Maroon 5’s new album: Hands All Over. Famous for her self portraits, this might turn out to be her
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forgot who we were. —Joan Didion
A field in Cheshire. Next to our old Sunday Pub. I always want to sing “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” whenever I pass it. You wouldn’t know from all the fleurs – but it was bitchin cold that day. This, the explanation for why my face looks like a rubber mask. I hardly recognise myself.
The very worst days of my life were also the very best. Being miserable and exhilarated at the same time. Standing on the of corner of Princess Street, looking up at a sky that tried to be light but couldn’t and thinking “This is you, all by yourself…and every bit of it is wonderful.” Oasis
And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit,
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. – Virginia Woolf I’m reading The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf and enjoying it a good bit but I’ll leave the expounding to clever types like Flynn.
“I trained as an actor in New York, and one discipline I studied was the Stanislavski technique, the basis of which is to live truthfully in the imaginary circumstances. That is what I try to do when I write. I set up an imaginary world, and try to let the characters live truthfully in that
