Star buys.

Stripey blue and white shirt- mens section of H&M, £2.99. Duck egg painted vase- British Heart Foundation, £8. Antique-style clock- The Corner Cupboard (Yorkshire), £24.99. Candle holders- British Heart Foundation, £2.99.

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Here's some of my favourites

The Road Movie

Hitting the road can be seen as a literal death wish rather than just a social one- the definitive escape from reality is to hit the road and never return.

For all of those Bret Easton Ellis fans out there.

This version of this song I'm not too keen on but I LOVE the video. Apparently Bret Easton Ellis loves it too.
Miles Fisher- This Must Be The Place

The Death of The American Dream

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.'

When I head back home next weekend I'm starting a long term diet that will get me fit and healthy for when I go on holiday in August. I'm actually really looking forward to it because at home I can go on better runs than here in York (here it's all town as at home I have the beach and the woods). Also my Wii Fit is at home so I'm going to do 40 minutes of that a day. I'll have a lot of spare time so I'll be able to actually prepare my meals instead of my usual take away or beans on toast. I need to improve my diet anyway as I have been pretty ill lately. Anyway here's some inspiring photos that should help me stick to my diet.

'We can't stop here, this is bat country!'

Sorry I haven't posted in a while I've had so much work to do but that will be all over by next week. Today I did a presentation on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...

Robert Downey Jr

"People are afraid to merge."

Less Than Zero (1987, dir Marek Kanievska) is an abomination! If you have read the book by Bret Easton Ellis you will hatethe film. For one thing they got the protagonist, Clay, all wrong- the film made him clean and caring, when in the book he's hooked on cocaine and doesn't really care very much about anything. (One thing that irritated me the most was that he was always snacking on sweets.)
They only focused in on Blair, Clay and Julian. Doing that missed a lot of significant sub-stories out like the land slide, or the mutilated dog, Clay's family and his past, the pornography, the corpse in the alley... Incredibly frustrating. I know people always say the book is better than the film, but the film was just totally different from the book. Oh and they missed out epic and significant quotes like "Is he for sale?" and "People are afraid to merge." and "Disappear Here." The only quote from the book that they did put in (the wrong place and time) was "Julian gives great head. And is dead."


The only character who was wonderful in the film was Julian (played by Robert Downey Jr). I LOVE Robert Downey Jr (he makes an excellent Tony Stark) but he was just perfect for this role. Julian was witty, sad, withdrawn and helpless. It saddened me when I heard that playing this role helped fuel Robert Downey Jr's old drug addiction. I'm pleased that he got out of that.

Frankie & The Heartstrings Live at Leeds

I know I keep talking about them, but really guys you have to check them out. Me and Emily saw them twice at Live at Leeds yesterday. Truly amazing. Here are some photos from the gig(s).
FYI: Unfortunately all the photos from the first venue were smokey so I've just uploaded the one.