| Friends only. |
[Dec. 21st, 2012|07:19 pm] |
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While there's a few things here, most of this journal is friends only, although I'll be happy to add you if you ask :) |
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| New Coen bros film |
[Nov. 1st, 2008|03:07 pm] |
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| | sonic youth again | ] |
Went to see Burn After Reading last night with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lovelygaybear and herm dad who is over from Germany. Totally recommended - I think I might model myself on John Malcovich's character in later life, wandering round in dressing gown, shouting at people who are wankers to him and drinking single malt all day on my yacht.
Also Brad Pitt's character as an alpha gay gym instructor was priceless.
Recommended! |
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| that brand thing |
[Oct. 29th, 2008|12:01 pm] |
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To reiterate beattiedee, WHY THE HELL is the PRIME MINISTER involved in russell brand and jonathon ross sending rude voicemails? Has noone noticed that The Sun has tits on page 3 EVERY DAY? |
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| KDE 4.1 ambivilance |
[Oct. 20th, 2008|08:35 pm] |
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I see Kubuntu Intrepid has KDE 4.1 as default. Has anyone used it recently? I tried the 4.0 beta, and a Suse 11 boot disk the other day and it seemed pretty buggy. Anyone got any good experiences? Right now it looks like I'll stay hardy... |
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| Wow. |
[Oct. 17th, 2008|02:38 pm] |
I am now a moderator of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) poignant_graphs, by far the most important community on livejournal.
Win. |
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| Embroidary |
[Oct. 17th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
Finally got some decent embroidery software for my machine, and made this!
Glee! |
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| aPAtT |
[Oct. 15th, 2008|02:03 pm] |
Are an awesome band and I was overjoyed to see they made a video!
<3
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| Ugh |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|01:38 am] |
| [ | music |
| | appleseed cast (i know...) | ] |
Just been to watch insanely depressing movie, Import/Export, probably the most depressing movie I've seen since 4 months, 3 weeks, two days, without a doubt the most depressing movie this year.
Possibly the worst moment was when the (poor, white trash, fucked up) male protaganist and his step dad venture into a place even more fucked up.
Anyway makes you feel even more grateful for your privilege, made me rethink what I think about whiteness somewhat and the insanely fucked up place the world is not that far from home. I wouldn't exactly recommend it, but maybe good if you've not seen any non-high-concept european films this year, films about life are so much more... gritty. |
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| Wild goose chase |
[Sep. 10th, 2008|04:27 pm] |
So, yesterday I literally sent someone on a WILD GOOSE CHASE. There was a (Canada) goose, looking really poorly and limping near the roundabout near my office. So, rang the RSPCA 3 times (he was in the same spot all day after finding some nice grass) and they didn't so anything, so rang random animal rights people I know. got a call back 3 hours later (9pm) by someone with a torch searching for the poor thing, Aww! When we finally realized he was on an actual, real WILD GOOSE CHASE.
In other news I spent a month's disposable income on a sewing and embroidery machine. It's freaking awesome. You can make patterns on your computer, copy them over via USB and it embroiders it for you, totally automatically, it's got a touchscreen and all kinds of shit. If anyone gets a present from me from now on it'll have your name embroidered on it. If anyone has any requests for shirts for anything (even one offs - chickenskin?), can do lettering and simple designs really easily, and would be nice to make a few pounds back! Max area is 10cm square. I get the damn thing in October :)
Also this handy website is good for seeing if the LHC has destroyed the earth yet |
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| Bee keeping |
[Sep. 7th, 2008|08:50 pm] |
I think I'm going to become an apiarist (bee keeper). I've been thinking about this for ages. Due to my health I'm limited how much gardening I can do, and I keep reading about CCD (colony collapse disorder). Basically it seems like bees might go extinct... although lots of bee hobbyists can really help here and CCD tends to affect hives in the same area so more small colonies are good. Will prob lose vegan points though, heh.
So, going to meet a Manchester Bee Keeper's association person a week today, then will join and they run courses in March. Then need to get in touch with my local allotment and see if I can keep them there (sure they will for pollination alone!).
Wiii. I'm covered in bees! |
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| Pat Regan RIP |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|10:35 pm] |
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My friend and ex-colleague (in a manner of speaking) Pat Regan was stabbed to death yesterday at her house. I think Mark at Oblong has put it best:
Pat was a friend and an inspiration to us all. She made connections with different members of the community in a way that other people couldn’t. We had a great deal of respect for the work she did. She was passionate about spreading the message that violent crime doesn’t just affect individuals but destroys families and communities. Pat spoke from the heart and with a truth, in a language that people understand. She tried to expose the causes and impact of attitudes that can lead to violent crime and also the ones make it harder to deal with it when it does occur. She worked tirelessly without pay to spread her message. We hope that her work will continue and that other families will not have to suffer such grief and tragedy.
RIP Pat. |
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| Isn't it funny |
[May. 21st, 2008|10:47 am] |
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How the "pro-life" movement seems to also want to stop lesbians having IVF in the absence of a father figure, never mind how many single mothers there are. Why don't they just call themselves the "Christian" movement and be done with it? |
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| Machinima |
[May. 16th, 2008|03:32 pm] |
I'm getting semi-obsessed with Machinima, or movies made using 3D engines like computer games. It seems a really fun, emerging art form, obviously placing limits on what can be done but I find people can be very creative with it. Obviously there is some complete dross as well!
I wonder what the possibilities are with this. Is it going to be fundamentally limited by the range of animation in any given game, or will people's creativity take over?
Here's some examples of what I mean:
Maybe I should do a docu about sexism and homophobia in the computer games world... hehehehehe. |
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| Labels in a state of flux |
[May. 15th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
One of my current obsessions is finding the cultural implications of the word "Queer", what it means to different people and to what extent it's a Western concept. Obviously, many people still associate it with aging queens, so that's one level. On a more subtle one though, queer as a word and concept really only exists in English - I think as I've mentioned before I spoke to a Jewish queer activist that said that although most of her friends had Arabic as their primary language, they spoke about their gender in English most of the time. Also, my German friend informs me that equally there is no real language for it in German - just the English words.
Last week I went to a talk by B. Ruby Rich and Richard Dyer on "New Queer Cinema", and got the chance to ask them this. Ruby's answer was really interesting to me. Her view was that labels themselves are in a state of flux, due to recent sensitivity due to post-colonial studies, post modernism, race privilege and so on. Historically any movement seems to rebrand itself all the time.
It still doesn't make me feel any easier about using problematic terms, but at least it won't be around forever...
Are there any terms you use you have trouble with? Things you say in a certain way because you can't think of a better way to do it, or because the language just doesn't exist? |
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| The Queer Website Project is seeking more site contributors! |
[May. 11th, 2008|07:52 pm] |
x-posted furiously.
What we're trying to do
The Queer Web Project aims to make a friendly, welcoming community, enabling communication and information sharing across a global community of queers, building bridges between disparate queer communities. We aim to tie together a number of unsatisfactory, unrelated web technologies the queer community currently uses in the absence of something specifically for us. We aim to raise awareness and provide good information as to what queer means for different people to individuals, media, organisations and governments.
We aim to create a safe, non-commercial online space, by queers for queers. We will create a bespoke site using the latest web technology; combining (amongst other things) social networking, multimedia hosting, email and blog hosting as well as facilities for small groups to set up their own web presence painlessly and easily.
( Read more about what we need... ) |
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| Websites. |
[May. 1st, 2008|02:44 pm] |
Spot the difference.
Think the same company did them both? Even down to the "in spanish" link in the top right... :p |
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