Pure Insanity
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How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Steal Other People’s Titles
It’s here. My ears are coming off. (I might come back and talk music when I’ve glued my ears back on. All I’ve got so far is that your parents will hate them almost as much as your mum loves Fifty Shades.) Oh, and WordPress wants me to tag ‘Crust punk’. Continue reading
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Hughes Verses Plath: Fifty Years On
If I’m being honest, the title of this post sets it up to be far more intellectual and well-informed than it actually is. You’re reading said post, however, so my marketing ploy has worked and now all I need to do is actually discuss Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, fifty years on from Plath’s death.… Continue reading
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Gay Marriage and Ice Cream, or Something.
So, the tomorrow House of Commons is going to have a vote on whether everyone should be able to get married. Or rather, whether people who are not already married should be able to get married (let’s not legalise polygamy. Sherlock Holmes has taught us what happens if you join that slippery slope… or is… Continue reading
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Six Degrees of My Headache
I thought I should let you know that recently I’ve been rereading and discovering the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus novels respectively, and that earlier I had a boogie to Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners, which featured in a film called The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which starred Logan Lerman, who also… Continue reading
‘Come on Eileen’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Heroes of Olympus’, ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie, ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’, Dexys Midnight Runners, Emma Watson, Greek mythology, Indifferent Ignorance, Logan Lerman, Rick Riordan, six motherfuckin’ degrees of seperation
