Book du Jour

Do you like books of all creed, colour, religion and sexual orientation? Or do you just tell people you do? Despite my avi, I'm an Englishman living in London.

[book-du-jour]

Hashish is a lost Romantic masterpiece; it is a book so rare and sought-after that only two copies can be found anywhere in the world. This illustrated legend, set in Algeria, is presented as a 'pictorial opera' of love, hashish and tragedy in the time of Victorian erotica. The text is accompanied by gorgeous poems and songs. It also contains the first known illustrations and descriptions of true hashish hallucinations, as illustrated by the German artist Gottfried Sieben. All 50 of the original images are reproduced in this volume.

[book-du-jour]

when someone is self-masturbatory. Pretty much I feel like sociopaths (or the ppl on the internet that identify as a sociopath since thankfully i've never met one irl) tend to say stuff like "i'm all about rationality and reason, thus why i have no empathy" or "pain and torture don't bother me, it just bores me." or bragging about how they can manipulate people easily. They all just sound like a bunch of abusers imo.

Thanks for the tidy reply. I guess a lot of people on the internet will say anything to get noticed. And people who say, "I have no empathy" are hiding true feelings. And people who brag about manipulating folk must be ugly to the bone. But these aren't sociopaths - for the true sociopath would never allow themselves to admit such a thing. All told, I couldn't agree more. When did unkind become somehow cool? Don't let the bastards grind you down. It's their demon to battle - not yours. x

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Fairy Tales of Science - being the adventures of three sisters Animalia, Vegetalia, and Mineralia

translated from the French of X B Saintine - c1888

[brazilwonders]

[book-du-jour]

A teacher's inadequacies mean more than a teacher's skills.

Germaine Greer

[breathtakingdestinations]

30 St Mary Axe - London - England (von Maciek Lulko)

[book-du-jour]

New n' old futurescape. Kinda sums-up my beautiful city.

[book-du-jour]

Beautiful film. Beautiful beats. You should probably take the time…

[book-du-jour]

Table Topography

Wood furniture embedded with glass rivers and lakes by Greg Klassen

[andyrourkee]

[eduur]

[book-du-jour]

1972. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, entered the UK album chart at #15 this day (July 1st) 42 years ago, beginning the start of its slow ascent to the Top Five.

It was the first time a Bowie album had entered the chart, and Starman was enjoying a second week in the Top 50 at #41. (Eventually peaking at #10)

Ziggymania had begun in earnest in the UK and with the Top Of The Pops broadcast of Starman the following week, David Bowie’s fate was sealed.

[book-du-jour]

Life on the wild side with David Bowie

Neither coy nor restrained...the former Mrs. David Bowie describes in no uncertain terms the torrid 'open marriage' she shared with the singer known as the Thin White Duke. This is the book to read for details about Bowie in bed with Jagger; for the sexual scoop on Rod Stewart, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, and numerous other performers. With its anecdotes and barbed remarks about music-industry fold of the 1970s, this portrait is never dull.

[book-du-jour]

Angie Bowie visited the London studio I rehearse at recently. Got to talking about Zowie (Duncan Jones and his beautiful film). Anywho, the ex-Mrs Stardust still sounded reeeeeeeeeal bitter at Dave after all these years. She says, don't thank DB for one ounce of Duncan's artistry and well-being...he was a terrible, terrible father. Set me thinking. Imagine seeing yer husband in the morning papers making-out with Lou Reed...again. Still, them's the seventies. Time to grow old gracefully. Go read her biography, "Backstage Passes". It'll blow yer bonce, I promise.

Me

[losetheboyfriend]

David Bowie with then wife, Angie, and son Duncan (aka Zowie) Bowie; captured by Gijsbert Hanekroot (1974)

[lindum]

Dying tree bumblee (Bombus hypnorum) in my garden this morning

These are a relatively new species to the United Kingdom, an organisation called BWARS (Bees, Wasps and Ants recording society) are asking for people to send in sightings here

http://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=content/bombus-hypnorum-mapping-project

[bookwormbabe89]

I bought you books

Pick up line that will have me hook, line, and sinker (via bookwormbabe89)

[lindum]

Altham Terrace at sunset. Taken on midsummer’s day, 

[book-du-jour]

Haven't seen much from this new app but the girl can sure take a nice photie...whatever the weather,

[book-du-jour]

This is the second press of Quasimoto & Madlib's "Talkin Shit" on Stones Throw. Exhibiting the latest shade of Quasimoto's full-body mood ring, it's known as The Grimace Edition. On the flip side of the record there's an X-ray image of Quasimoto's insides. No guts, no glory.