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The Cracks Are Showing.

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browsethestacks: Vintage Magazine - Space Wars (Dec1978) with Battlestar Galactica This is great. ‘How to Kill a Robot’ and ‘Ray-Gun Blaster Plans’ are suspiciously impressive features, I’d be quite impressed if either of those deliver what they promise to. I also like how rather than featuring any of the “Gorgeous Girls of Galactica” on the cover, they’ve opted instead for a terrifying painting of an alternate universe in which Apollo was played by Jeanette Krankie.
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Vintage Magazine - Space Wars (Dec1978) with Battlestar Galactica

This is great. ‘How to Kill a Robot’ and ‘Ray-Gun Blaster Plans’ are suspiciously impressive features, I’d be quite impressed if either of those deliver what they promise to. I also like how rather than featuring any of the “Gorgeous Girls of Galactica” on the cover, they’ve opted instead for a terrifying painting of an alternate universe in which Apollo was played by Jeanette Krankie.

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I have to finish my dissertation but I really just want to watch The Last Waltz and be sad.

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Confessional.

By rights I shouldn’t stand a chance,

‘Cos I can’t sing and I can’t dance!

I can’t create, I can’t converse,

I’m worst in all the Universe!

I’ve got no style, my haircut’s weird,

I’ve got this shitty, spotty beard,

My feet are strange, my hands are too,

I hate myself and so should you!

My joints all creak, my eyes are sore,

With every cold I’m at death’s door,

I’m always far too tired for fun

In spite of being just twenty-one;

My sexism is thinly veiled,

Yet liberal smugness has prevailed;

I’ve never read a proper book,

I hate fast food but I can’t cook,

On top of which I’m unhygienic,

Girt with tiny little penis,

And, as I have just displayed

My rhymes, too, have seen better days.

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And so, it takes me by surprise

When, in those sympathetic eyes

I sense, in spite of all above

That she has found a way to love;

And suddenly I see reflected

Not the angry, tense, dejected

Scum that was, for I am healing,

Justified by lover’s feeling.

Our eyes adjust, and realign

And now she looks deep into mine,

But what she sees will just upset her;

I reckon that I could do better.

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We all used to like that Michael Barrymore. You know, before he turned into a complete toss-pot and killed somebody. ”
—Mum. It appears that for Mum, the point where Michael Barrymore killed someone was the point when she found him a bit out of order.
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Let us stand by him, when, with rough strength and hurried stroke, he smites an uncouth animation out of the rocks which he has torn from among the moss of the moorland, and heaves into the darkened air the pile of iron buttress and rugged wall, instinct with work of an imagination as wild and wayward as the north sea; creatures of ungainly shape and rigid limb, but full of wolfish life; fierce as the winds that beat, and changeful as the clouds that shade them. ”
—John Ruskin’s beautiful description of a tribal Gothic builder from ‘The Nature of Gothic’ in The Stones of Venice, which William Morris considered to be one of the most important things ever written in the English language. My head’s kind of full of this stuff at the moment… as soon as I hand in this dissertation I might go off into the wilderness and build myself a hut to live in.
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There is no way I'm not going to link an article comparing Steve Jobs to William Morris

This article sums up very nicely both why I have a problem with Apple and all its products, and why I’ve built up an admiration for William Morris that borders on outright hero worship.

(Source: katherinestasaph)

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Captain Scarlet // The Spectrum

The music to Captain Scarlet is probably my favourite thing about it, aside from how calm and handsome everybody generally is.

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Stumbled across ‘Nancy & Lee’ for £3 hidden away at the back of a box of records in the second hand shop in town today. I really can’t believe how consistently lucky I’ve been with that place.

I also bought a painting knife, because I watched my first ever episode of ‘The Joy of Painting’ the other day and it was fucking great. I haven’t tried painting anything for about 5 years and I was never very good at it back in school, but if anyone can teach me then Bob Ross can.

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I think this might be the earliest time of night I’ve ever finished an essay.

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