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just looked about my person as if i needed something tangible to complete this post, think it might have been the instinct that i need tea to write. seems like a cute idea to collate some links and internet things that i have been utilising more and more recently. trying to broaden my 'internet horizons'. just because there are lots of nice things going on around here (here being online) and yeah let's just all support each other okay? : )

sylvia plath documentary on youtube
seems funny that i used to be real obsessed with sylvia plath/the bell jar/all manner of depressed women in literature. but this is nice. also well. i mean it's not nice but it's sort of nice that she was in london and i am in london. (she committed suicide in a house in chelsea, where yeats lived i think)

did everybody else know about podcasts before this week? i feel like i spent a lot of time talking about podcasts in my degree but i never really listened to them very much before now. i did a 'cry for help' tweet about needing podcasts and resident twitter champ david claridad suggested the av club's podmass which is basically a roundup of a lot of different types of poddies. it's really good. from there i got onto the 'stuff you missed in history class' podcasts and one on nerdist featuring tim and eric. who are pretty kewl dudes.  also i listened to this one from wtf with marc maron with nick offerman and megan mullally (idk how you spell that).

as for music poddies i have been digging this mix on coke machine glow which has real kewl trax by clams casino & other people of that nature

herbonestructure by natalie chin just a really lovely blog that stacey & i have been reading lately
autumn almost by sarah reid as above : )

also ohh this is a really cool thing, nowness, which is daily interviews/documentaries with/about design type people. the first one i watched was about this hairdresser who makes artwork with hair and it was a really beautiful video as well as being a pretty interesting thing.

other things that have happened recently include me making hedgehog and having to explain it to absolutely everybody in the world because slices don't exist in england, starting to crochet for money, losing my owl ring (hopefully under my bed), not having cigarettes for over a fortnight, only having one pair of non winter socks, consistent tiredness, volunteering for future cinema's bugsy malone and somehow managing to be outgoing and have a lot of fun doing so (?) 

also i'm thinking about starting my craft blog again and am having serious thoughts about going into baking at some point or another, especially with the revelation that such a thing as this clandestine cake club exists... i keep having visions of me walking into a bakery with a box of macarons and them giving me a job just on the spot. sigh. did everyone know i work in a call centre? hmm. anyway. i am also trying to work on not hunching my shoulders as much which occupies the rest of my life.

comprehensive list of sites I visit

it seems like a nice idea to collate a bunch of links that I frequent a lot. not everybody reads blogs on actual blog sites any more, thus may not see our sweet as links list on the left of your screen. to this end, here is a list of internet things that are pretty cool/decent/awesome


thought catalog
I am not joking when I say I have made everybody in my life read this blog (not joking, perhaps lying slightly). there are a lot of very relevant thought catalog posts about a lot of different things. it is funny and sad and true. usually posts about 8 articles on average per day. often abbreviated to TC by teagueface and myself. read.

laughing squid
this site is a collection of interesting videos or pictures, usually just over 10 per day. I have noticed that TC sometimes uses their posts (a phrase which here delicately infers 'copies') as inspiration.

internet poetry
as Stacey mentioned in a post last week, Steve Roggenbuck is doing some really cool things with poetry. internet poetry is a new initiative that looks at how things on the innernette can be poetic. in a broad sense, this site challenges the classic idea of what poetry is. I find this pretty exciting.


ponch on twitter
this is a delight. earlier this week I wasn't online for an extended amount of time and I felt a bit lonely. I realised that this was probably because there were no tweets from ponch popping up in tweetdeck every 2 seconds. it's hard to actually read them all, but their consistency is, as I tweeted (1/3/2011) "12+ hours off the innernette, nothing happens. kinda missed @ponchopeligroso's incessant tweets though. like having a friend or something." sometimes they are rancid tweets, other times they are uplifting and inspirational.

HTMLGIANT
I have been trying harder to read this blog because I feel like it will make me seem 'well informed' about interesting literature-related things. also I'm trying to force myself to absorb information. this blog is erudite. sometimes long posts about literary folk I've never heard of, other times pertinent things about e-books or simple questions like 'how much of your personal library have you read more than once' which is a question that has concerned me for a while. does it make me less legitimate if I keep buying books and not reading them? what's wrong with me???


I also read a few blogs written by kiwi (NZ) folk. I will simply make a list of these below
Eamonn's Fashion/Craft blog
The colour of my love for you
e for ernest 
How to understand everything and not hate yourself  
willow ships 
a graveyard smash


australian blogs that are pretty awesome 
being blanche (for dating, love & relationship advice/general hilarity)
with love & swallow (if you want to know what living in Melbourne is like, this is a pretty good resource) 
choux de bruxelles (interesting opinion pieces/insightful rants)
virgule (voiceworks blog. if UR A WRITER & WNT 2 B ON DIS BLAWG PLZ COMMENT, we need you)


other sites I go to frequently
artshub australia 
netbank
btjunkie
twitter
google analytics

on that note, I wondering, if you read this blog and you live in Perth, maybe you could say hello. I don't know/haven't bribed anybody from there and we get loads of blog hits (more than from Melbourne) from there. so holla.


finally, here are 3 'funny' videos
jake and amir - triathlon 'I legit want/need dis watch'
david mcgahan's world - cats  'cat cat cat cat cat cat cat'
tim & eric - cat film festival 'this is a film festival about cats, our passion'

four in fours

four things from me:
this week I have started riding my bicycle to work, feel strangely proud of myself
this afternoon I will play scrabble (irl)
Stacey's macbook charger has died and I had to send her another one
when I ride I say very rude words to myself

four things from elsewhere:
steve roggenbuck writes about buddhism and veganism
a poem by matthew savoca
song about bicycles by be your own pet
video of josh groban singing kanye west tweets

four events coming up:
inaugural 'jam' session with my friend zoe (sat)
visit from my little sister (nxt wk)
Beach House gig (end o Jan)
CALH (nxt month)

four places to submit writing:
voiceworks (print, deadline jan 16)
going down swinging (print + online + cd, deadline feb 28)
new wave vomit (online, always open for submissions, as far as I can tell)
oh comely magazine (print, open to pitches/submissions)