January 2010
27 posts
“Time is fluid here.”
– Neil Gaiman
The Field
Imagine a field, under a blue summer sky. It’s the kind of field that features in movies, where love-struck teens chew on cornshucks and lie in the grass, and pretend for a minute they understand how long forever is. It’s the kind of field that lets you comprehend eternity, stretching towards distant mountains, maybe sidling up to a highway where infrequent cars hurtle by. The field is punctured...
Stallone's Cobra
It’s not a movie I can credit with much, really. The soundtrack is terrible, the acting weak, the fashion atrocious.
But I’ll say this.
Stallone’s Cobretti manages the complete destruction of his nemesis in this film. Didn’t just shoot him, stab him with a steam pipe a la Schwarzenegger’s Commando, or drop him off a building like Hans Gruber in Die Hard. Stallone...
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
– Old proverb
“I don’t know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe...”
– Clint Eastwood (Interview here.) (via quote-book)
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant...”
– Dr. Hunter S. Thomspon, Proud Highway; Saga of a Desperate SOuthern Gentleman, submitted by: bazmark (via quotewhore)
December 2009
21 posts
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via suzywire) (via gatekeeper)
It's 2:07am
and if I’m honest, it’s going to be a shitty year. it’s going to be the year my mum dies. It’s going to be the year of tough decisions. It’s going to be a year where new people come and go, and hearts break, and maybe I’ll make more money and maybe I won’t, and maybe I’ll love my job and maybe I won’t and eventually I’ll be staring new...