May 2011
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Return of the Real - Hal Foster
Not long ago I stood with a friend next to an art work made of four wood beams laid in a long rectangle, with a mirror set behind each corner so as to reflect the others. My friend, a conceptual artist, and I talked about the minimalist basis of such a work: its reception by critics then, its elaboration by artists later, its significance for practitioners today, all of which are concerns of...
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Nettle and Wild Garlic Soup
Ingredients
1 wicker basket full of young nettle tops (wash well) 1 large leek (roughly chopped) 2 medium-sized onions (roughly chopped) 2 very large potatoes (peeled and chopped quite small) 1-2 cloves of garlic (chopped/crushed) vegetable stock to taste (cube/powder, etc) 3 pints water 2.5 pints milk 4 bunches (of approx 50g) wild garlic (Allium ursinum) (finely chopped) a little...
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“In this sweet Elysium [Hollywood], the years are counted for two decades and...”
– Dorothy Spensley (1930)
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea
But you have to choose: to live or to recount. For example, when I was in Hamburg, with that Erna girl whom I didn’t trust and who was afraid of me, I led a peculiar sort of life. But I was inside it, I didn’t think about it. And then one evening, in a little cafe as St Pauli, she left me to go to the lavatory. I was left on my own, there was a gramophone playing Blue Skies. I...
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“The sky was still bright, but the earth was bathed in shadow.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea
The people all allowed themselves to lean back a little, their heads high their eyes gazing into the distance, abandoned to the wind which pushed them along and puffed out their coats. Now and then a dry laugh, quickly stifled; the call of a mother, Jeannot, Jeannot, will you come here. And then silence. A faint aroma of mild tobacco: it’s the shop assistants who are smoking. Salammibo,...
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because its simply the best →
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cups of tea i drank this week
thursday: IIIII
friday: II
saturday: was a cider day
sunday: IIIIIIII
monday: IIII
tuesday: II
wed: IIII
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Time By The Tail: "How I Met My Wife" →
timebythetail:
It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair…
one of the many reasons why english is better than other languages.
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note to self:
cleaning is a pointless, upsetting activity which frequently causes you to get in such a tiz that you end up (acidentally) throwing away important possesions. next time stop and think about the:
- computer mouse
- santa sock
- copy of gormenghast
- bra
- adapter
- rail card
- 50 quid check
the most upsetting part is that by the time you realise the room is an absolute state again.
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Watchforgot how hysterical these are.
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Watchrye rye
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because it is the best shop i have ever been to →
found it whilst mooching around with pants, earlier.
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Bagara Baingan - Aubergine Curry
Ingredients:
- 2 aubergines
- 2 onions
- 4 teaspoons of desicated coconut
- 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon of crushed coriander seeds
- 3 green chillies (birds eye or similar)
- 4 red chillies
- 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seeds
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 small knob of ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon of tamarind paste
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
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Method:
Heat a little oil in a pan then add...
