AnonyMonster
I am in total adoration of these illustrations but can’t seem to find the artist. Anyone??
PNTS
Been really into the idea of what my mama would call “odd-looking” pants these days. I could sleep in them and just throw a jacket and shoes on when heading out. Come to think of it, they look a little like pajama pants ~!*IDEA*!~ Hmmm, time to make a trip to the neighbourhood ah-soh store, i need me some comfz.
Foster the People (Live in Singapore)
I must say straight off the bat that I’m terrified of crowds. Terrified.
I’ve done public speaking for audiences of up to 3000 before from the stage, but put me IN the crowd and I’m the little soda can getting kicked around the streets. Needless to say, I wasn’t particularly excited about being caught in the 3,500 crowd on Saturday at Fort Canning despite the thrill of seeing Foster The People live. What made this gig different from all the others I’ve been to was the energy the audience was emitting. There was a lot of complaining about the heat but once people resigned themselves to the fact that Singapore wasn’t going to lower it’s temperature anytime within that night, they started having fun and dancing along to the music played by the 2 highly energetic and vivacious DJs.
—WeiShi Lun on 5minutemusic
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Time Warp
FYP, IVP, MMF, KCC, FTP
This month has brought nothing but sleepless nights, neverending workload, coffee-dependency, walking home in dress shoes stuffed with sport-sock encased feet and a whole lotta screaming at my laptop. But my graduation goggles are on, and all this has yet to break my spirit so I’m gonna keep pressin’ on.
Fifty things I’ve learned about the literary life by Robert McCrum
1. Less is more. Or, “the only art is to omit” (Robert Louis Stevenson).
2. The Man Booker, our premier literary prize, is not “posh bingo” (Julian Barnes), it’s a national sporting trophy.
3. Whatever works, works.
4. There are seven basic stories in world literature.
5. Writers who get divorced usually sack their agents.
6. Christopher Marlowe did not write Shakespeare. Nor did Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford. Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. It’s a no-brainer. Just read the First Folio.
7. Poets are either the lions or the termites of the literary jungle.
8. Put a body on page one.
9. Literature is theft.
10. Everyone is writing a book. A few will publish it; but most of them will not be satisfied.
11. This is a golden age of reading.
12. Amazon is not “evil” (J Daunt).
13. The “overnight success” is usually anything but.
14. Apart from Dickens, far too many cinematic adaptations of novels will disappoint.
15. You don’t have to read every book you buy, and you certainly don’t have to finish the book you’ve started.
16. When blurb writers describe an author “writing at the peak of their powers”, run a mile. When they say the novel is “allegorical”, head for the hills. Books that “will change your life” are as fabled as the hippogriff.
17. Narrative (aka storytelling) is in our DNA. It’s called gossip.
18. Keep a diary. It might keep you.
19. In writers, vanity is the cardinal sin.
20. Literary fiction is like sci-fi. It’s a genre.
21. Writers need love as much as money. They don’t need offices because they can write anywhere.
22. A great novel can cost as much as a pencil and a pad of paper – or a whole life.
23. Two writers, alone in a room, will talk about royalties not art.
24. The Orange prize should be called the Kate Mosse prize.
25. The Third Reich has done more for British bookselling than the national curriculum.
26. Hysterical accusations of plagiarism are the last refuge of the literary scoundrel.
27. Words and money go together like bacon and eggs. Words written for nothing are usually what you’d expect: flavourless.
28. PG Wodehouse was not a Nazi, but an artist who got it terribly wrong.
29. American novels usually sell badly in the UK.
30. Most prose writers should be discouraged from reading their work in public. See Somerset Maugham’s “Mr Harrington’s Washing”.
31. Moby-Dick sold fewer than 10,000 copies in Melville’s lifetime.
32. A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time.
33. The majority of bestsellers are ghosted.
34. Lists are the curse of the age.
35. Radio 4 sells books. Book reviews don’t, but they used to.
36. There is no substitute for Harold Pinter.
37. Many published writers are rather less fun than generals, or even bishops.
38. Ebooks are not the end of the world.
39. Small publishers are small for a very good reason.
40. Great booksellers are a bit mad.
41. There are probably just 100 novels you really must read.
42. No one is obliged to like Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities.
43. Book parties are for single people, and the only free lunch is at home.
44. Crime and comedy: everyone reads them, but they are rarely taken seriously.
45. Writing can’t be taught; better reading can.
46. Everything is fiction.
47. Any new book longer than 500 pages is a stupefying act of self-importance.
48. A proof copy that arrives with a novelty item is usually a dud.
49. Some of the best contemporary writers are working in American television.
50. There are just three rules for writing a good novel. Unfortunately, no one can remember them.
Finally: anything goes.
Lorem Ipsum
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
“Lorem Ipsum” translation by H. Rackham (1914)
Animal Dementia by Ro and l’Homme Pendu.
An ongoing paste-up series by street artists Ro and l’Homme Pendu. Entitled Animae Dementia (roughly “soul madness” or “animal madness”) the project features the duo installing these giant paste-ups of crazy mythical beings who seem to turn on their unwitting creators. So far works have appeared in Berlin and near Notre Dame in Paris.
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