28 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
You know that sleep is getting hard to get
‘Cause you never know what you’ll forget
And I’ve got to know of all the news
‘Cause one day there’ll be news for me
I never let a headline by
‘Cause every one will catch my eye
And though it’s tough to keep alert
You never know what could hurt me
But it gets [...]
28 April 2006 – 11:09 am +0800
They’re actually physically visiting blogs and attempting to make real-looking comments. To this Quote of the Day a spammer tried to post this comment:
Name: danny | E-mail: danny@rediffmail.com | URI: [redacted] | IP: 69.10.139.61 | Date: 26 April 2006
Very deep thought by Sir Walter Scott. Darkness itself hides everything. Revenge undrew all the curtains. [...]
27 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
Do I have to tell the story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It’s a big enough umbrella
But it’s always me that ends up getting wet
Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
— Police, “Every [...]
27 April 2006 – 5:40 pm +0800
Den Beste has written “Too Many Words on Miyazaki“.
And he’s wrong on at least two movies.
When you have time, rebut.
26 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
I want a new drug
One that won’t make me sick
One that won’t make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick
I want a new drug
One that won’t hurt my head
One that won’t make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red
One that won’t make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me [...]
26 April 2006 – 11:38 am +0800
… I may actually be interested in the new Bond flick / franchise reboot, Casino Royale.
According to this AICN script review, at one point M says:
Christ I miss the Cold War.
I’ll pay to see Judi Dench deliver that line.
25 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
Veronica sits in her favourite chair
She sits very quiet and still
And they call her a name that they never get right
and if they don’t then nobody else will
But she used to have a carefree mind of her own
With a devilish look in her eye
Saying “You can call me anything you like,
but my name is Veronica”
— [...]
25 April 2006 – 10:40 am +0800
Wandering about Shanghai on foot, particularly in the French Concession area, you will notice sooner or later that most of the cooler old buildings have historic markers on them, with legends in Chinese and English. Sometimes they are bare — name of the building, year(s) of construction, design style — but usually with at [...]
24 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good
You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood
It’s alright, it’s alright, sometimes that’s what it takes
You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes
(You’re only human, ooo-ooo)
You better believe there will be times in your life
When you’ll be feeling like a stumbling [...]
24 April 2006 – 10:55 am +0800
I think that a great deal of what I love about Conrad is that he had, to echo Nero Wolfe, an immense intelligence guided by a lifetime of experience. His experience was as a sailor, for twenty years or a little more, before ever putting pen to paper as a writer. His intelligence [...]
21 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
BOWFINGER
We’re finished! It’s over between us!
DAISY
But why?
BOWFINGER
You slept with Jiff.
DAISY
So?
BOWFINGER
You know, I never thought about it that way.
DAISY
So I’ll see you tonight?
BOWFINGER
What time?
— Steve Martin, Bowfinger
21 April 2006 – 9:52 am +0800
My mind is really strange. I don’t know how long I’ve been doing this, but for some time, when in an awakening state, or when falling asleep, or even in a light doze, if I hear spoken Chinese (radio, outside conversation, whatever), my brain processes it as English. It doesn’t translate, I don’t [...]
20 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
“Remarkable man, your missionary uncle. He hates an infidel much less than a heretic, and prefers a heathen many times to an infidel. He condescends graciously to call me a heathen, sometimes, you know.
— Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
20 April 2006 – 2:29 pm +0800
Up till the end of 1941, Shanghai was divided into four distinct sections, administered by three different governments. The area from Yan An Road to roughly a mile south (it varied with the jogs of the streets), and from the Huang Pu River in the east to quite a distance west (I’m unclear on [...]
19 April 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to “I hate to read new books,” and I hollered “Comrade!” to whoever owned it before me.
— Helene Hanff, 8 December 1949 letter to FPD, 84 Charing Cross Rd.