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Mar. 7th, 2013
a little beat up this morning
Mar. 7th, 2013 07:49 amI feel a little beat up this morning.
First, Sammy starting crying at around three to be let out. I think I was falling back asleep, but then the phone rang. I got up, thinking it might be Pop. It was Jack and Jill. For good measure, they call two more times after that. One suspects it might have been a little important, but they don't say anything on the answering machine. I was too juiced to fall back asleep after all of this. So, I read for about an hour. But it is still a broken up sleep when I go to bed, with the cats wanting to come in and out and back in and... it just wasn't a good sleep. It would be a night when I have the house to myself.
First, Sammy starting crying at around three to be let out. I think I was falling back asleep, but then the phone rang. I got up, thinking it might be Pop. It was Jack and Jill. For good measure, they call two more times after that. One suspects it might have been a little important, but they don't say anything on the answering machine. I was too juiced to fall back asleep after all of this. So, I read for about an hour. But it is still a broken up sleep when I go to bed, with the cats wanting to come in and out and back in and... it just wasn't a good sleep. It would be a night when I have the house to myself.
Russell Brand
Mar. 7th, 2013 01:17 pmRussell Brands speaks out on the drug problem, advocating that addicts should not be seen as criminals but as people who are sick, who have a disease.
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Without these fellowships I would take drugs. Because even now the condition persists. Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.
If this seems odd to you, it is because you are not an alcoholic or a drug addict. You are likely one of the 90 per cent of people who can drink and use drugs safely. I have friends who can smoke weed, swill gin, even do crack, and then merrily get on with their lives. For me this is not an option. I will relinquish all else to ride that buzz to oblivion. Even if it began as a timid glass of chardonnay on a ponce’s yacht, it would end with me necking the bottle, swimming to shore and sprinting to Bethnal Green in search of a crack house.
-- Russell Brand at The Spectator
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Without these fellowships I would take drugs. Because even now the condition persists. Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.
If this seems odd to you, it is because you are not an alcoholic or a drug addict. You are likely one of the 90 per cent of people who can drink and use drugs safely. I have friends who can smoke weed, swill gin, even do crack, and then merrily get on with their lives. For me this is not an option. I will relinquish all else to ride that buzz to oblivion. Even if it began as a timid glass of chardonnay on a ponce’s yacht, it would end with me necking the bottle, swimming to shore and sprinting to Bethnal Green in search of a crack house.
-- Russell Brand at The Spectator
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"I want the 90s back."
Mar. 7th, 2013 03:14 pmStirring from my nap, I mutter, "I want the 90s back."
I don't know what I would do with them, even if I could have that wish come true. Sure, I could get into my serious 'reading life' faster, almost ten years faster, which would be great, but that's not what I am really regretting in these bitter moods. It's about having friends, having lovers, a life. But I can get those years back over and over again ad infinitum, and I will never see any of those things.
Though, thinking about it more, I wouldn't mind having them back anyway. The reading life is great. I would be more easygoing with mom, more patient of my home-life in general. I was going to say that I would also make sure that Bo had more fun with his diet, but I think mom took care of that on her own initiative, much to my aggravation.
I don't know what I would do with them, even if I could have that wish come true. Sure, I could get into my serious 'reading life' faster, almost ten years faster, which would be great, but that's not what I am really regretting in these bitter moods. It's about having friends, having lovers, a life. But I can get those years back over and over again ad infinitum, and I will never see any of those things.
Though, thinking about it more, I wouldn't mind having them back anyway. The reading life is great. I would be more easygoing with mom, more patient of my home-life in general. I was going to say that I would also make sure that Bo had more fun with his diet, but I think mom took care of that on her own initiative, much to my aggravation.
Back in the Fifties, for me to photograph Marilyn Monroe, it was a catch-as-catch-can situation. I did not have her at my disposal the way some photographers did. So the only time I could get her was either surreptitiously or at a photo opportunity. And in that case, it was important for me to try to get a photograph that doesn’t look the same as the others. So I had to watch carefully and if she did anything unusual with her face or expression, I had to be alert enough to snap it.
-- Phil Stern
