The only Christmas tv ad I can stomach this year..

Lovely tune, apparently by some people called Libera. Nice title too.. “How Can I Keep From Singing?”

Happy Saturnalia everybody..

Dreams of Eden..

Adam Phillips, from ‘On Flirtation’.

“Auden once suggested that a literary critic should declare his ‘dream of Eden’ because ‘honesty demands that he describe it to his readers, so that they may be in a position to judge his judgements’. Even though psychoanalysis ironizes dreams of Eden – in psychoanalytic theory paradise is only for the losers – it would be useful for psychoanalysts to say something about these things, about the kind of world they would prefer to live in, and why they think psychoanalysis is a good way of both spending one’s time and contributing to this Eden. It will, after all, matter a good deal to their patients what stories they tend to tell themselves and their colleagues about, say, promiscuity, or socialism, or ambition. And, of course, about psychoanalysis and the significance of its history.”

A couple more..

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.
- Garry Trudeau

Two from the quote widget..

.. that both seemed particularly appropriate in light of our recent activity..

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Social notworking..

As you may have surmised from the panel in the right sidebar, I’ve been trying out a couple of new web thingies, namely Twitter and Friendfeed, because, well, it just seemed like time to fiddle pointlessly with something new. At the moment I have but the one friend, so, if you feel so inclined, feel free to twit or feed to your heart’s content..

Cornershop

Recognise this Street corner, Ms Cheech? For anyone else – It’s a shop, a block away from our studio in Hoxton, which I have frequented on many occasions for the purposes of purchasing..er, cheap booze..

What do you call the shop on the corner? – Boing Boing

GM crap..

Quote of the day..

Be as decent as you can. Don’t believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don’t have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

      – Ambrose Bierce

 

M4

M4, originally uploaded by count lazarus.