A strange trick (try it) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . happy sad
Hooray! June 28th 2003 - I've finally reached level 2 with roughly 220 XP.
BOOKMARKS
---/ MUSIC
Edgard Varèse - an electronic hero
Bomb20 - badass, funny, scary at the same time
DJ Scud - hard noise with quality samples *node needs work*
Funki Porcini - nice weird electronic stuff
Two Lone Swordsmen - not great when they're thump-thumpy, but belting when they sound like...
Boards of Canada - excellent, excellent crafted electronic music with loads of hidden secrets
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Frank Zappa quote on Edgard Varèse
Audioscrobbler - A great thing for stats whores, but still a work in progress
GOOD WORDS \---
One of those words you can imagine Stephen Fry saying - Circumfluent
Circumforanean
Enfect
Finical
Rubefaction
Like a mobocracy, but sounds more like choking - Ochlocracy
My favourite kind of 'tator - cunctator
Acervuline
I must remember to use this - lurry
...and this - gipsire
The opposite of what the Hulk is - purpurogenous
weregild
A suitably complex word - Anthropophuism
I can't praise this word highly enough - Panegyrize
---/ WEIRD WEIRD WEBSTER
Pyritology - !! Prize-winning Webster
Undergore - I guess it stands to reason
Retromingent - ahem
paperweight - silly Webster, s/under/on top of/
Tephramancy - dark.
BOOKS I'VE READ \---
I left this 150p-in for 2 years! 2nd half makes the book - Was*
Laugh-out-loud funny - Catch-22*
Excellent - Captain Corelli's Mandolin*
Good, gritty stuff, but a few annoyances - Homeboy*
OK. An airport book - The Tesseract*
Good if you're English, male, 20+ - Little Green Man
Had this given me or I wouldn't've bothered - Red Dragon*
Utter bobbins. Can I reread it for noding purposes? Dunno - nine mil
Mostly good stories; a few shite ones - The Acid House*
Evelyn Waugh's 1938 satire. A gap in nodespace - Scoop
Bursts of genius and a fair few lol moments. Short! - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas*
Informative at times. Ruined by childish, /.-poster style and some REALLY DUMB arguments - Stupid White Men*
Easy-reading, but better than expected - About A Boy*
My first Roddy Doyle novel. Excellent. Empathetic - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha*
Interesting, poetic style with virtually no dialogue - If nobody speaks of remarkable things
Initially heavy but worth the effort - The Little Friend
Poor. Pointless experiments with form. Crap characters. - The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done
*s for nodes that cover the book
---/ BOOKS I WANT
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* - seen the film, but I doubt it'll ruin it
Paperweight - the Stephen Fry book
Mr. Nice - Howard Marks's book
The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories - Howard Marks's other book
*s for nodes that cover the book
PROCESSING
These bookmarks are here to remind me to vote on them.. mostly upvotes, so don't panic if you see yours in there :)