my insides will look like war

by jebni on April 22, 2003

Another dream: we are all on a tropical island. All of a sudden we get bombed the shit out of. People dead everywhere. Huge craters where buildings, bridges and rainforest once stood. Stomach-turning viscera everywhere. And the oddest thing: some (…)

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king of all gorillaz

by jebni on April 22, 2003

Did I mention my amazement at the visual effects upon rewatching King Kong the other week? The other night, something came to me in a dream: what if there were a band that was totally made up of franchise characters, (…)

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“just a stupid paddy who got picked on a lot”

by jebni on April 21, 2003

Saw Ned Kelly. There was a real lack of social texture and too much of a tendency towards flat sentimentality, but shit, I cried like, three times. It can’t not be stirring stuff, and the parallels between the situation of (…)

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smash it up

by jebni on April 19, 2003

I’m not at Baxter. Good luck to those that are. Last night they made it to the fences. Lovely dinner at Coco’s Incredible Warehouse Adventure, for her birthday. I got her Eco’s Baudolino (kind of a joke — we gave (…)

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i’ve been to the pleiades

by jebni on April 16, 2003

After the most appalling couple of days of surplus value extraction, I’m now convinced that alien abduction is a metaphor for ALIENation under capitalism. What else is the experience of MISSING TIME?? Time to die now.

cosmonaut

by jebni on April 16, 2003

Oh, Ken Macleod has a blog. Hurrah!

hostile takeover

by jebni on April 16, 2003

Joe Macare‘s new comic is online. Reminds me of Jim Mahfood!

the everlasting

by jebni on April 13, 2003

The war isn’t over, and neither did it start the other week. We will shed tears of blood forever. Back on the whiny music, obviously. But am mixing it up with some Kylie. Did you know that the Manics wrote (…)

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the relief of pop

by jebni on April 12, 2003

Okay, after getting a dressing down from Nellie last night, I’ve stopped listening to whiny, mopey music. Right now I’m listening to Britney and Pharrell’s heavy breathing on the Neptunes’ remix of “Boys”. Is that better? And I can’t believe (…)

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why so sad 2

by jebni on April 8, 2003

I see liberals I am just a fashion accessory People send postcards And they all hope I’m feeling well I retreat into self pity It’s so easy When they patronise my misery La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh La (…)

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