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Everett

The lying mate while the dying date.

My Interests

Music:

Godspeed You Black Emperor
Subarachnoid Space
Cul De Sac
Explosions In The Sky
Mogwai
A Silver Mount Zion
Labradford
Stars Of The Lid
Morrissey
The Smiths
The Cure
Bauhaus
Gastr Del Sol
Jim O'Rourke
Can
Radiohead
Miles Davis~Bitches Brew
Neu
Interpol
High Dependency Unit
Sigur Ros
Coltrane

Movies:

Hitchcock
Lynch
Polanski
Kubrick

Television:

Sapphire and Steel
Peep Show
I'm Alan Partridge
League of Gentlemen
The Professionals
Twin Peaks
Buffy
Lost
Phoenix Nights
Larry Sanders

Books:

Conan-Doyle
Waugh
Barthes
Sabatini
Eliot
Shellabarger
Burton (Anatomy of melancholy)
Hardy
Austen
Lovecraft
Leiber
Dante
R. Howard
K.E. Wagner
Donna Tartt (The Secret History)
Gibbon
Euripides
Plath (Ariel, Bell Jar)

Heroes:

Avon, from Blake's 7.

My Blog

How much do these guys get paid?

This article appeared in today's New Zealand Herald: Love gives you cocaine rush, say researchers The effects of love on the brain are similar to those of cocaine, according to a team that has studied...
Posted by Everett on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:51:00 PST

Don't call it a comeback...

  Yesssss! *punches fist in air* Very popular! Did you see that? Very popular. No more 'that's an unusual name!' No more 'Elliot? Oh sorry, Emmet!' Ahh. There will be Everetts everywhere. At you...
Posted by Everett on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:46:00 PST

Splenetic II

Lately I have been getting this ad a whole lot via myspace.... Yes, that's right. Apparently, if I install this screensaver, I will glance at my computer sometime later, and cry out in...
Posted by Everett on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:10:00 PST

Dream II

I stand in a grey, windswept car yard. I know that I'm shopping for a car, yet I have no idea what I want, or why I've come to this particularly unappealing place. Curiously, every car seems defectiv...
Posted by Everett on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:28:00 PST

INLAND EMPIRE

Constriction. Do you ever get this sensation when you're really excited about something? A sort of dull ache in your chest. Eventually you realise it's because you've forgotten to breathe o...
Posted by Everett on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:54:00 PST

Dream I

It is the eighteenth century; France. I crouch at the base of a hill. Wind ruffles my puffy white shirt and ruff. Grasped in one hand is an envelope, containing a love letter for an enigmatic counte...
Posted by Everett on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:22:00 PST

mydeathspace

I discovered www.mydeathspace.com today. It archives the pages of dead myspace members, as well as those who aren't dead but have murdered someone. Of course the site exudes a sort of ghoulish fascin...
Posted by Everett on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:17:00 PST

Hypnotic

Give me a beat boys, to free my soul I wanna drift free to your rock n roll Why, when you're fucked up and cabbing home, is there always some sort of horrible bogan rock hit playing on the ...
Posted by Everett on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:55:00 PST

Splenetic I

There is a phrase in ENGLISH - 'I couldn't care less'. Now, it's evident that the speaker is saying - 'I care so little about some topic, I'm so indifferent, that it would be impossible for me to care...
Posted by Everett on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:41:00 PST

Meat

Finally I've done it - bade farewell those chilled, regular ranks of meat in Grey Lynn Foodtown. The end of consuming chicken and cow.   No overnight decision, this; my unease at eating meat has...
Posted by Everett on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:38:00 PST