Retreat

Neil Gaiman’s personal notes, prior to his masterpiece...

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:19:02 -0400

Neil Gaiman’s personal notes, prior to his masterpiece that is The Sandman.

Yeehaw, indeed.

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:19:36 -0400

Yeehaw, indeed.

Someday? “Someday my dream will come?” One night you...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:14:11 -0400

Someday?

“Someday my dream will come?”

One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It’s all turned around on you.

It never will.

Suddenly you are old. Didn’t happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway.

You’ll push it into memory and then zone out in your barcalounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life.

Don’t you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl, you can’t even call that girl.

What the fuck are you still doing, driving a cab?

“…it takes a whole lot of whisky to make these...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:23:43 -0500

“…it takes a whole lot of whisky to make these nightmares go away.”

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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:48:21 -0500

Style. So much of it.

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:45:27 -0500

Style.

So much of it.

“Well, if you think of it this way… About 40% of...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:09:00 -0500

“Well, if you think of it this way… About 40% of what you’ve heard about me, or Iggy, or Ozzy, or anything like that is probably true.

Everything you’ve ever heard about Keith Moon is true.

And you’ve only heard the tenth of it.”

Alice Cooper on Keith Moon

Karen Allen, demonstrating “how to fail to look...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:19:00 -0400

Karen Allen, demonstrating “how to fail to look threatening while trying to be lethal with a knife and end up being cute”.

Wow that’s really exciting! What would you be doing for them? Fighting the bad guys, kissing...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:47:00 -0400

Wow that’s really exciting! What would you be doing for them?

Fighting the bad guys, kissing the damsel in distress, and saving the world, from one disaster at a time.

You know,

The usual stuff.

What I’m good at.

I am rubbish at anything else.

I’d be interested to know if what disasters you’ve saved the world from…

Myself.

On a regular basis.

Daily, actually.

…and I could make a harsh comment about whether the damsels were distressed before or after you kissed them.

But I won’t cos that’s really harsh.

And your ego clearly needs a boost currently.

Haha my kiss does not come with a guaranteed cure to distress, I’m afraid. It’s all in the contract.

So my ass is covered.

Tut. That small print…

The awesomeness that is Black Books.

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:48:04 -0400

The awesomeness that is Black Books.

Ella.

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:10:23 -0400

Ella.

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Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:07:09 -0400

An awesome guy called Keith Richards meets another awesome guy called Mick Jagger

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:07:03 -0400

6 Spielman Rd
Dartford
Kent

Dear Pat,

So sorry not to have written before (I plead insane) in bluebottle voice. Exit right amid deafening applause.

I do hope you’re very well.

We have survived yet another glorious English Winter. I wonder which day Summer falls on this year?

Oh but my dear I have been soooo busy since Christmas beside working at school. You know I was keen on Chuck Berry and I thought I was the only fan for miles but one mornin’ on Dartford Stn. (that’s so I don’t have to write a long word like station) I was holding one of Chuck’s records when a guy I knew at primary school 7-11 yrs y’know came up to me. He’s got every record Chuck Berry ever made and all his mates have too, they are all rhythm and blues fans, real R&B I mean (not this Dinah Shore, Brook Benton crap) Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Chuck, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker all the Chicago bluesmen real lowdown stuff, marvelous. Bo Diddley he’s another great.

Anyways the guy on the station, he is called Mick Jagger and all the chicks and the boys meet every Saturday morning in the ‘Carousel’ some juke-joint well one morning in Jan I was walking past and decided to look him up. Everybody’s all over me I get invited to about 10 parties. Beside that Mick is the greatest R&B singer this side of the Atlantic and I don’t mean maybe. I play guitar (electric) Chuck style we got us a bass player and drummer and rhythm-guitar and we practice 2 or 3 nights a week. SWINGIN’.

Of course they’re all rolling in money and in massive detached houses, crazy, one’s even got a butler. I went round there with Mick (in the car of course Mick’s not mine of course) OH BOY ENGLISH IS IMPOSSIBLE.

“Can I get you anything, sir?”
“Vodka and lime, please”
“Certainly, sir”

I really felt like a lord, nearly asked for my coronet when I left.

Everything here is just fine.

I just can’t lay off Chuck Berry though, I recently got an LP of his straight from Chess Records Chicago cost me less than an English record.

Of course we’ve still got the old Lags here y’know Cliff Richard, Adam Faith and 2 new shockers Shane Fenton and Jora Leyton SUCH CRAP YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD. Except for that greaseball Sinatra ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Still I don’t get bored anymore. This Saturday I am going to an all night party.

“I looked at my watch
It was four-o-five
Man I didn’t know
If I was dead or alive”
Quote Chuck Berry
Reeling and a Rocking

12 galls of Beer Barrel of Cyder, 3 bottle Whiskey Wine. Her ma and pa gone away for the weekend I’ll twist myself till I drop (I’m glad to say).

The Saturday after Mick and I are taking 2 girls over to our favourite Rhythm & Blues club over in Ealing, Middlesex.

They got a guy on electric harmonica Cyril Davies fabulous always half drunk unshaven plays like a mad man, marvelous.

Well then I can’t think of anything else to bore you with, so I’ll sign off goodnight viewers

BIG GRIN

Luff
Keith xxxxx
Who else would write such bloody crap

(Source: Keith Richards’ autobiography, Life; Image: Keith Richards & Mick Jagger in 1963, via.)

“You are all stardust.” - Lawrence M. Krauss

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:37:21 -0500

“You are all stardust.” - Lawrence M. Krauss

- I’m not marrying you. + Oh, you’re marrying me.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:58:43 -0500

- I’m not marrying you.

+ Oh, you’re marrying me.

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:01:41 -0500

As a tribute to his day ( Thor’s day - Thursday ), I...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:33:15 -0500

As a tribute to his day ( Thor’s day - Thursday ), I present you the biggest asshole Æsir has ever seen.

That’s how I know he can be beaten. Because he’s a...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:01:43 -0500

That’s how I know he can be beaten. Because he’s a fanatic.

A fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.

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Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:33:55 -0500

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