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palmerama

About Me

MyGen Profile Generatoreyes relatively far apart. apparently signifies scattiness. henjoys stretching, dropping and adding aitches, verbal grotesquerie, cycling, picking up leaves and putting them in books, and hours upon hours of daydreaming.

My Interests

Wordswordswords and the stuff you can do with em. Sunshine. Spectrums of colour. Stories. Parks. Nonsense. Psychadelia. Hair. Dancing. Thinking. Running. Walking. Writing. Bicycles. Bare feet.

I'd like to meet:

a french philosopher who is still alive who i can stalk

Music:

Pia-pia-pianos. in every possible form. 1993-style piano loops. I LOVE debussy. Warp. Brass instruments, bassoons, oboes, flutes, cellos, banging things, doesn't have to be a drum, bleeps, the inhabitants of keyboard street, music that you almost might not want to call music. The SMITHS, Electronic, Joy Division, New Order, My Bloody Valentine...clever boys with guitars from the north. MADCHESTER. Synthesized euphoric bluster. Minimal stuff. Paul Woolford. Alex Smoke. Music that jangles, music that spangles. Both together. Underworld and Orbital. Striped sunlight sound. ACID.

Movies:

mary poppins

Television:

i no longer have one.

Books:

blanchot-derrida-lacan-heidegger-deleuze-badiou-nancysamuel beckett-angela carter-alasdair gray-james joyce. Oh how i love them.the russian futurists! wow! khlebnikov and kruchenykh.

Heroes:

clever nice peeps

My Blog

barbershop quartets, mince pies, excitement, glasgow, boring lists....

currently residing in plf, enjoying bpool tower in the mist (looks even more like it might fall over), eating body weight in chocolate biscuits and mince pies and creme fraiche, ignoring the 5000 wd e...
Posted by palmerama on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:15:00 PST

erm, pointless rambling

WELL......its turns out the london sub club has FAR more indoor sunglasses per square metre than glasgow. there was also lots of PROPER lycra, i.e. a girl sporting a red leotard.Vice magazine.i did se...
Posted by palmerama on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:52:00 PST

bad hair

my hair 'streaking' has resulted in a block of yellowy platinum blonde RIGHT AT THE FRONT OF MY HEAD.i'm sure i will get used to this in time. meanwhile everyone has to pretend they like it....
Posted by palmerama on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:28:00 PST

the bleedin' obvious

apologies in advance but...........I FOOKIN LOVE THIS COURSE WITH A PASSION, IT IS SO SO GOOD (TO BE HONEST NOT ALL OF IT - ONE OF THE MODULES IS PURE SHITE BUT THAT'S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE), IT IS A...
Posted by palmerama on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:20:00 PST

halloween is better in glasgow i think

i wish i was in glasgow this weekend...with a passion. if only for the chance to tie bits of rubbish in my hair. i could probably do that round here and start a trend, actually. maybe i will.what d...
Posted by palmerama on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:29:00 PST

imaginary love

every kind of loveor at least my kind of lovemust be an imaginary love to start withguess that can explain the rain waiting walking gameSchubert bust my brain to start withoh, to look at youin a cabba...
Posted by palmerama on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:46:00 PST

Heidegger

Oh shit, this is exactly like when we were doing our finals and i wrote what was possibly the most pretentious myspace blog i have ever written, about samuel beckett and linguistic nihilism, and my in...
Posted by palmerama on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:56:00 PST

important: discovery of buckfast in new cross

oh dear oh dear oh dear. Why do we do it to ourselves.  Mammoth twelve hour drinking sessions never end in a happy trip home, pyjamas on and early bed.  Many many crisp pints of Magners...
Posted by palmerama on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:27:00 PST

furst night in london was preddy gurd.........

.........and so it was.  It went a little something like this..... a.) first coupla hours.  transported back to the feeling you got in first year at uni - scared and alone in yer little bedr...
Posted by palmerama on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:26:00 PST

INSOMNIA-CA-CA-CA

uurrgghh...the scourge of sane humanity...the Inabillity to Sleep.  My sleeping patterns of late have been thus: You go to bed at a sensible hour after quaffing a sensible amount of wine wit...
Posted by palmerama on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:39:00 PST