Anyone who tells you differently

amandapalmer: my new song, this time with lyrics.thanks to...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:10:28 +0100

my new song, this time with lyrics.
thanks to Andrew Geha for recording it and sharing with us.
quickie audio cleanup via sean francis (@indeciSEAN).
more about it HERE on my blog.

THE THING ABOUT THINGS.

i’ve loaned a lot of things to a lot of friends
like dresses and records and books
and some of the time i never see them again
and in a weird way i think that it works

because the thing about things is they start turning evil
when you start to forget what they’re for
and so if you’re not sure what you did with my bathing suit
i’ll just try to love you a little bit more

i had a ring it belonged to my grandfather
he was a mason
and gay
and he was distant and bitter for all of my childhood
and we never had much to say

he wasn’t the type to give tokens of affection
and so i stole ring when he died
and twenty years later when i lost it at a bar
i thought
that’s fine
I DIDN’T WANT HIM IN MY LIFE

the thing about things is that they can start meaning things
nobody actually said
and if he couldn’t make the ring mean something for me
i had to make up what it meant

i can carry everything i need in one collapsing suitcase
i can carry everyone i love in one phone application
built to optimize the facetime with the ties i’m bent on making
actually i want to be alone
to mourn the loss
of what this cost
i collected you but now you are all lost

i think it’s a poem and i think it keeps going
i’ve borrowed and lost lots of things
3 nights ago in the bar where i lost it a bartender gave me the ring

and i lie in bed
with my phone in my hand
thinking
what can i fix with an app

and i call my grandfather
and he doesn’t answer
and i have to make peace with that fact

because the thing about things
is that they can start looking
like kindnesses nobody said
and if you’re not allowed to love people alive
then you learn how to love people dead

because the thing about things is that they can start looking
like kindnesses nobody said
and if you’re not allowed

to love people alive

then you learn how to love people dead

duamuteffe: sydneyflapper: “A friend of mine found this old...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:15:02 +0000

duamuteffe:

sydneyflapper:

“A friend of mine found this old photograph in a shoe box in his Grandmother’s attic. On the back was written… Aunty Mary and her “friend” Ruth, 1910. I wonder if those quotation marks imply what I think they do, by the look on their faces, I would say they do” - source: http://goo.gl/LgD6n

neil-gaiman: amandapalmer: truth from Philip Glass. from...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:10:18 +0100

neil-gaiman:

amandapalmer:

truth from Philip Glass.
from interview with him & beck in today’s NYtimes magazine.

(also in the mag…great pieces on Romney, Lois Lowry & Ina Drew/chase/JPmorgan disaster)

Wisdom.

urbangreens: moneyissues: Trailer Park I get...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:56:11 +0100

urbangreens:

moneyissues:

Trailer Park

I get it!

via ninaprettyballerina

neil-gaiman: The Milkman in the blitz…

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:51:52 +0100

neil-gaiman:

The Milkman in the blitz…

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 02:57:43 +0100

neil-gaiman: In the Universe where black cats rule, this was...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:55:57 +0100

neil-gaiman:

In the Universe where black cats rule, this was Take Your Human To Work Day.

wanderlusttour: Arthur’s SeatEdinburgh, Scotland

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:25:26 +0100

wanderlusttour:

Arthur’s Seat
Edinburgh, Scotland

Regina Regina (The Party)

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:06:37 +0100

Regina Regina (The Party)

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Tue, 22 May 2012 11:02:17 +0100

"My very latest book was sitting there, and it’s been sitting there for five years as a sort of..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:59:23 +0100

“My very latest book was sitting there, and it’s been sitting there for five years as a sort of indigestible gelatinous ball, it’s collected no end of stuff to the point where I was really bewildered by it, and I needed the thing that would bring them all together, the thread that went through the whole narrative, and it so happened that I was in America, in Minneapolis, and we had one of those rather curious conversations, you know, the British side versus the American side, and then there was suddenly a point where we all agreed, and we looked at one another in bewilderment, and then, again, this friend that writes horror stories, and for this reason I’ve dedicated the book to him, suddenly said, “Oh yes, this is what it is.” What we were actually talking about was the primordial forest, and one of the queer things which we’d all been talking about was how when you get to England, and you go into just the tiniest piece of left-over woodland where-ever, with main roads on either side, the last little nub of Sherwood Forest, somehow you get lost, even if it’s only about half the width of this across, and Neil said “Yes, because it’s being the primordial forest when you get into it.” and this was just what I needed, it was the one uniting fact.”

- A 1992 Interview with Diana Wynne Jones…

I love that she describes me as a horror writer.

(via neil-gaiman)

I love the primordial forests of England, Scotland, Wales.

No. David Tennant as Aziraphale, Benedict Cumberbatch as...

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:50:41 +0100

No. David Tennant as Aziraphale, Benedict Cumberbatch as Crowley. Or, you know, possibly the other way around. That would be interesting.

THE OTHER WAY AROUND, YES. Ooh, Benedict Cumberbatch would be such an adorable bumbling, gay antique-bookstore owner. And David Tennant could totally rock a comical bad-boy act.

…although if they chose to make it at all dramatic, I’m not sure I could take David Tennant seriously as a fallen angel - at least not in comparison with how potentially scary Benedict Cumberbatch could be.

Really, the point is - Jude Law? Why? Why, if you could have Benedict Cumberbatch?

neil-gaiman:

From the photo, I couldn’t tell which of them was meant to be which, though. Probably someone should make Good Omens twice, so they could each play each role. That would work.

petrichorandsmoke:

A lot of people have been throwing around posters for their dream casting of Good Omens, and there’s a few (Hiddles/Cumby!) that I really like, but when my flatmate and I were reading GO, we mentally both cast David Tennant and Jude Law as Crowley and Aziraphale, respectively. With that in mind, here is my submission for dream casting.

‘Cause she’s just so cute about tumblr, okay?

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:50:43 +0100

‘Cause she’s just so cute about tumblr, okay?

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Tue, 08 May 2012 20:16:47 +0100

By all appearances the most common tumblr gif of all time

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:14:56 +0100

editorrealtalk:

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Sun, 06 May 2012 21:30:15 +0100

All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen...

Sun, 06 May 2012 19:15:11 +0100

All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS (by Bitmeizer)

Bookloo.

Tue, 01 May 2012 08:45:30 +0100

Bookloo.

bookshelfporn: Poésie / Poetry by François...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:33:26 +0100

bookshelfporn:

Poésie / Poetry by François Porcheron

(via blogut)

prustens: 20 quotes to live by: Doctor Who Edition - #1 Go...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:29:29 +0100

prustens:

20 quotes to live by: Doctor Who Edition - #1

Go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

First Doctor, The Dalek Invasion of Earth