January 2012
21 posts
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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My Death (a conversation with my 6yr old niece)
Maisie: Owen, what will happen when you die?
Me: Everybody will cry so much that the rivers will overflow and the seas will rise up and flood the Earth and everyone will drown!
Maisie: *Eyes widen with surprise* Really?!
Me: Yes!
Jan 16th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Alcest & Les Discrets on Spotify →
Alcest, Les Discrets and Soror Dolorosa are playing in London next month and I think I’m going to go. The music’s beautiful and I can’t get enough of it.
Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
– Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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2012 Resolutions
Eat more bacon. Write to magazines, photographers, studios… anything. Don’t put it off; it’s always worth a shot! Endeavour to return to a routine where running is an almost daily activity. When feeling fit and well enough; go to crossfit occasionally and see if you can steadily increase the frequency with which you go. Have more sex. Find a new job. The aim is simply to...
Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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Owen's Albums of 2011
I never make end-of-year lists because I don’t consider my opinion of music to be of any consequence. While that remains true I decided to put together a small list of albums I enjoyed in 2011. There are more that aren’t here, including re-recordings of Alcest and Meshuggah albums. This year I really found myself giving new and obscure black metal a go. I also delved deeper into the...
Jan 1st
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December 2011
13 posts
“The point is that faith, even moderate faith, is pernicious because it teaches...”
– Richard Dawkins (via atheistsatlarge)
Dec 29th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Meshuggah (58) Paradise Lost (29) Woods of Ypres (15) Ghost (13) Craft (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Death (27) Meshuggah (16) Sólstafir (12) Kalmah (10) Burzum (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“In 1988, psychologists Shelly Taylor and Jonathon Brown published an article...”
– Very interesting article on “depressive realism”, the concept that people with mental disorders actually hold a more realistic world view than those without. (via secondlifesyndrome) I’ve thought this for a while now. I hold up brutal realism as a virtue and look at positive yet slightly...
Dec 15th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Swallow The Sun (14) Putridity (13) Gorgoroth (13) Grave (9) Kalmah (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Napalm Death (40) Brutal Truth (14) Waldgeflüster (14) Dismember (13) Anaal Nathrakh (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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November 2011
7 posts
Nov 30th
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Nov 25th
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Nov 25th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Entombed (24) Anaal Nathrakh (22) Vallenfyre (20) Woe (11) Xasthur (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Anaal Nathrakh (49) Liturgy (17) Farsot (15) Electric Wizard (11) High On Fire (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 8th
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Nov 5th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Wolves in the Throne Room (13) Enslaved (7) Drudkh (5) Agalloch (5) Nachtmystium (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 1st
October 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Kylesa (31) Mastodon (16) Krallice (13) Wolves in the Throne Room (11) 1349 (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 25th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Placebo (11) Mastodon (9) Sleeping Peonies (8) Orgy (8) Baroness (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 15th
Oct 14th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Mastodon (37) Paradise Lost (24) Eluveitie (14) Tegan and Sara (13) Animals As Leaders (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 3rd
September 2011
6 posts
Sep 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Fire Spoken by the Buffalo (10) Paradise Lost (7) Gorgoroth (7) Eluveitie (5) Dark Tranquillity (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Fire Spoken by the Buffalo (24) The Amenta (15) Demonaz (10) Collapse Under The Empire (8) Baroness (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Blood Red Throne (11) Oskoreien (6) Nekrogoblikon (6) Dark Tranquillity (5) Carcass (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 15th
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