Girl Anachronism

Archive for January, 2008

• Cinematic complex

  Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

  Watching “High Fidelity” with my brother last week (he’d borrowed the book from me and wanted to see the film), I was struck by one of John Cusak’s lines - “Did I listen to pop music because I was depressed or was I depressed because I listened to pop music?”. Now, while my listening tastes [...]

• La Petit Mort

  Sunday, January 27th, 2008

  I collapse on the couch, all the food cooked that day carefully stored in containers and filling the fridge, pantry and freezer to the brim. He looks over and asks if I’m done, and I nod wearily. It’s been a long day, and neither of us remembered that it was Australia Day till a door [...]

• A study in water droplets

  Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

  Still need to work some things out - flash strength, distance to dish, manual focus and how to get a more interesting picture…perhaps hose onto a piece of fruit or vegetable? Nonetheless, fairly happy with my first attempts, though my desk is now covered with tiny little water droplets, thankfully no electrocution or shorting out [...]

• My pathetic attempt at abstract smoke

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  My first attempt at abstract smoke. I obviously need to practice my manual focus, as well as getting some incense sticks as the candle only gives a momentary puff of smoke when I blow the sucker out.
  Still not sleepy, so off I go to play with the camera and water droplets.

• Now why can’t I live in the UK?

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  Lineup for Coachella has been put up, and man, I am SO green with envy. Fuck.
  Bands I’m totally wanting to see:

  Interpol
  Jarvis Cocker (he makes geek boys hot)
  Faithless
  DJ Shadow
  Rufus Wainwright (swoon!)
  El-P
  Gillian Welch
  the Decemberists
  Kings of Leon
  the Black Keys
  the New Pornographers
  Sparklehorse
  Damien Rice
  Jose Gonzalez

  Am wondering where Portishead is, after prelim reports said they’d be headlining the festival…not that I [...]

• Waiting for the kiss

  Sunday, January 13th, 2008

  “A man had given all other bliss,
  And all his worldly worth for this,
  To waste his whole heart in one kiss
  Upon her perfect lips”
  - “Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere”,
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Double Doggy Days

  Monday, January 7th, 2008

  When the world appears to have gone to shit, everything looks better when you hug a furry pal. Even better if you have two.
  Here we see Mr Woofy cuddled up with his new best friend, Bunny the Maltese x Shi Tzu who we’re dogsitting for a month. When she first arrived, she wouldn’t stop barking, [...]