February 2012
13 posts
Day 3
Favourite blogs.
I don’t head for specific blogs on a day to day basis, although sometimes I get drawn into one and will look at it for a bit, bookmark it, then forget it. I spend most of my time on my tumblr dashboard.
Favourite tumblrs are lifeinfloral, endfmarch, fairisle, frogsandcrowns, autumnfever, teachingliteracy
apartmenttherapy is pretty cool.
“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...”
– Kyoko Escamilla (via philo-sofia)
Day 2
Favourite: movies / band / TV shows / video games.
Cracks, Lost in Translation, The Hours
Band… I like singers mostly: Leonard Cohen, Marissa Nadler, Kate Bush, Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac.
I go through phases. The X files, Californication, House, Lost, I suppose these are the main contenders in recent years. Been catching up with Californication recently. I have some guilty...
30 day challenge thing / Day 1
Some basic facts about you
I’m 22, my name is Marianna, the main loci of my life at present are my university course, an MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths London, my life in London and outside of London at my mum’s home by the sea, my writing and other such creative pursuits, and perhaps due to my tendency to isolate, hibernate, ruminate: myself.
I am an over-thinker, cat-lover,...
I don't think people realize how much words mean...
fairisle:
drinking earl grey and sending out distress signals.
January 2012
15 posts
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via creatingaquietmind)
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via randomitus)
“Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one...”
– The Joy of Quiet - Pico Iyer for The New York Times (via jennilee)
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White (via booksandnerds)
Martha Wainwright on Creative Inspiration
I definitely don’t have rules – I’m pretty disorganised. In fact, I often have to guilt-trip myself into sitting down to write. It is so easy to let your life get filled up with other stuff – cooking, cleaning, going to the bank, looking after your baby. These everyday things do come through in my songwriting, though. Most of my songs are defined by a sense of loneliness, of isolation,...
December 2011
22 posts
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”
– Mark Twain (via alovet)
Reality is not allowed to enter my world today. ...
teachingliteracy:
insertoriginalitywhere
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a...”
– (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
“I can remember at school how we would read together in class an Ode by Keats, a...”
– Stephen Fry - Making History (via emmatleena)
“You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you...”
– John Berryman (via unicornology)