Almost midnight

Found this funny portfolio site with a little bit of everything - the invisible project is a lovely illustrated poem.

Am
wound
way
too
tight.

Am wound way too tight at work, without any need to be. Way too tired. The easy peas-y workies seems to be a lost dream. Been at the movies a lot.
The nutshell roundup:

• Mongol - excellent. Build up slow, but worth it for the towering steppes, and the beautiful children.
• Bank Job - great dialogue with a nice sideline in 1970s titties.
• Wanted - bad, bad, bad. exploding rats and very shiny special effects
• Batman - so very good. surprisingly good. the flip side..
  

the games have started

, originally uploaded by Kombriesombrae.

Trivia from Jack Marx, unlikely to be true but always funny..

During the time of the ancient Games, just moments before the start of a race, officials would plant hot peppers into sprinters’ rectums, ensuring a more explosive contest. This is why, today, short-distance sprinters are still seen to raise their behinds at the words: “Get set...”

Photo is from a flickr street photo group - somehow this reminds me of an Francis Bacon painting, with it's emphasis on the head, tilted towards curiosity. And i love masks in photos, especially accidental ones.

"Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film." ~Steven Wright

Bout to go to bangkok for a holiday, and hopefully wander through Laos and Cambodia before ending up at Hanoi with 2 of my beastie friends. Beasties are sorta those special friends that also manage to lead one astray more often than not. As DrP gloomily predicts my alcohol intake is about to treble, a prediction that might be actually erring on the side of caution considering I've managed to get it down to one night a week (okay, maybe 2, but it's a gentle 2).

I've also managed to give up smoking for 4 months and it seems quite perverse to go to SE Asia where you can cheaply remove whole afternoons in a blur of alcohol and nicotine. It's a holiday though, and i so need, a good long walk. Having all those overstressed danger signals where you start to think that you might be actually important at work (as opposed to valuable) and the whirly brain of what-do-i do? with said life.

Project 1 for trip is to start on a series of 100 photos of strangers - one per day at the least! It's a flickr group, and i think it will make a great set - complete with their name and their story.

Totally Uncomfortable

Found a great blog from Courthouse confessions
He photographs people as they are coming out of court, and asks them what they did, and then transcribes them on the blog. Here's my pick of a quote:

"Now I've moved on and I've found myself a new apartment so I'm not with her anymore। I found myself a new girl so now I'm good, I'm happy now man. You know. Jail is not a good thing to be man. It is totally uncomfortable. This is my first time and .."

pulp

green, originally uploaded by deepwarren.

After a few dates, though, and before the relationship had really progressed enough to merit the name, she dumped me. She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. 'You should go for younger women,' she advised me . "They can't always tell'.

from my latest bath read
'In the woods
by Tara French