Come back to the old five and dime

Yes please.

One day i'll fly away.

Sorry about the watermark across the top of these. I think they're super cool regardless. Long exposure photos during take off and landing.

Kind of magical, right?

Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall..

 "Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary." 

 "When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed." 

 "...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else. Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit... And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest of my life without feeling that again? I thought: I want to go to China. It's full of treasures and strangeness and mysteries and joy." 

The first thing i am going to do when i finish my dissertations is read His Dark Materials again. It has been too long.

"I shall call him Squishy."

I've begun to realize that i collect photos on particular themes. One of them is Jellyfish. It's rare that I'll come across a photo of a jellyfish online and not save it. For reasons she will surely understand, they remind me of my mum.

Songs of innocence

A little something to brighten your day.

Macauley Culkin and Elijah Wood

Gary Oldman

Jim Morrison

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Sean Connery

I love these photos. Something about them just makes me unbelievably happy.

We few, we happy few.

Just a quick post because essays have taken over my life and I'm doing absolutely no socializing for the next month or so. Here are some people i would love to go for a night out with. Honestly, just contemplate the coolness of these guys together in a room.

David Bowie, Iggie Pop and Lou Reed.

Ed Norton, David Fincher ad Brad Pitt, whilst shooting Fight Club

Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix. (This might be my favourite celebrity photograph of all time, I have no idea when or where it was taken, but I LOVE it.)

Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack and Johnny Depp. (You'd have to be high to fully appreciate the awesomeness though...)



Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman and Sting. In tuxedos. Laughing at a joke you just told. Let's all just appreciate that for a moment.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous

I just finished my last ever class at university. The last 3 years have gone by so quickly i can hardly believe it.

I just came across this hilarious website called Girls Are Pretty, which has a different short, surreal, vaguely romantic story every day (more or less). Each day is something to celebrate. Today, for instance, is Get Away From The Window Sarah Day!


Get away from the window Sarah. You’re not in love you’re just unemployed and that boy down there on the sidewalk in the rain he’s never going to go back home if you keep giving him a face to moon up at.
Get away from the window Sarah. Girls are human like everybody else. Girls get those dark times, the ones that last two years and eight months, when they’re pretty sure that nothing better’s ever going to happen again. Boys like the one on the sidewalk, they prey on those moments. It’s all they have. They pout like puppies and try to convince you that love is supposed to happen between a pretty girl up in a window and whichever boy is willing to embarrass himself the most for her.
Get away from the window Sarah. You only have sixteen months left of this terrible week. Sink into alcohol or a cult or a job at a non-profit. Just don’t sink into a boy. Not until you find the boy who belongs up in the window, with you on the sidewalk, wondering what in God’s name you’re going to have to do, how cold that rain is going to get, before he finally decides he can’t do better and so condescends to buzz you in.
Just get away from the window Sarah. I promise there’s a boy out there who’s better, better than you.
Happy Get Away From The Window Sarah Day!

All these pictures, and many more i have used over the past few months, and will use for a long time to come, come from an amazing website called This Is Not Porn. It is full of rare and never before seen photos of celebrities. I could waste whole days on there, and i suggest you check it out.

With a little help from my friends

So for a while i seem to have been collecting images of The Beatles. I have no real reason behind it apart from that there are a million great ones out there and they make me smile.

Rather than storing them up, i thought i'd share some of my favourites with you.

What a charming buch of lads they were.

It was all yellow

Feeling very yellow today. Yellow is my favourite colour, it brightens my mood. I wish I weren't so pale so I could wear it every day.

Had a wonderful weekend with my friends Henrik and Mercy, drinking wine, eating far too much sugar and watching series 4 of Friends. It brought me out of the foul mood i was in last week, and hopefully my joy and energy will continue throughout this week as i start rehearsals for Antigone.