On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
Frank Zappa
Undoubtedly the best phoDOGraphy site on the internet
They’re beautiful but what the heck, are they?
Siphonophorae, Ernst Haeckel tells us. Siphonophorae, apparently, are “colonial, almost exclusively pelagic, freely movable Hydrozoa, composed of medusoid and polypoid zooids that are morphologically and functionally specialised”. Jellyfish to us.You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis (via thechocolatebrigade) (via itsnotalovesong) (via biankawolf) (via justjori)
Multiple musical freak-outs
I ran into my friend Hoss (that’s what I call him), who’s as crazy as I am about the upcoming Mayall concert. Cool guy.
Then ran into Paul and we were on about all sorts of musical freak-outs too — particularly Mayall.
He’s got one of the most beautiful manes of hair I’ve ever seen — long, thick and clean — and a cool face. Got a nice long letter from Colin. He saw Led Zep. Too much, what a scene, man.
It must have been mind-blowing.
Went to Gimme Shelter yest.
Mick Jagger is incredible, so camp and fantastic onstage. Music is everything to me, man.
LIVING IN A LIBRARY
Ever since I learnt about Dewey Decimal Classifications — the first time I went to a school with a LIBRARY! — I have wanted life to be categorisable in a similar way. I say this because I live in constant chaos and can’t keep things separated, whether we’re talking about household items, ideas, people or yolks and albumen. An ideal holiday from this cacophony would be to spend a week, preferably longer, at the Library Hotel in New York, where everything WOULD conform. Had I found this place 20 years ago, when I first visited the US, I would have booked Room 133 or 150 and read everything, and perhaps everything in between too if the guests allowed me in. Then I’d need to extend the stay, but get moved to Room 001 or 002, which would obviously be in the basement considering the subject matter.If I could get into Room 90 or 91 for at least a look, I would get shivers down my spine - they hold the old illuminated manuscripts and hand-painted books of hours that still make me tingle all over. (Other than those two rooms the ground floor would be pretty much admin and peopled by clerks in cardigans). For years I could have booked any room between 390 and 399, while specifically avoiding the 400s and 500s but could be right at home anywhere on the second or ninth floor. For sheer comfort I could hunker down in 745 or 746 and year after year I’d return to 728 to see what’s been added. ~ ~ ~ In 2003 the owners of the Dewey system sued the hotel for using their numbering system, but a deal was reached and the Library Hotel is still operating. From some bumpf about the hotel: A ten floor hotel, with each floor dedicated to a category of reading, and each bedroom to a specific theme. From romance to astrology - choose your reading matter and relax. The Library Hotel in New York City is the first hotel to arrange guestroom floors, room art and reading material in the 10 major categories of the Dewy Decimal System of book classification. Floor choices include Science and Math, Language, Literature, History and Technology - with sub topics further defining individual rooms. Each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges
This stopped me in my tracks! Cloggo, you seen it?!
Hot pants with matching skirt
I’m sitting unclothed, free to live and breathe, the feeling’s so good.
In the last weeks I have become hermit-like again.Getting fat, clothes dirty, old and few.
I really haven’t cared about physical appearance, cos it’s just an illusion and — worse — it can be false.Today I went shopping (ghastly word) and found a new suit and jersey can change it all so much.
Out of all those same old clothes to a very cute hot pants suit, with skirt, and a little brick/purple jersey that I’m going to love for years.So maybe I’ll give physical appearance another go, wash and shower regularly, eat fruit instead of chocolate and beer.When I dress hippie all the time — jeans, T-shirt, shaggy uncombed hair — I find I can’t transform at all for work or anything else involving people.Still hate external beauty and model shit though.
I have got seven new LPs, including two more of Pentangle, which are now the only group I really admire.
Heavy music’s starting to give me the shits, there’s so much crap in it.
You know I can’t really dig talking like this any more.
You’re a bloody stupid blog and I can’t be bloody bothered with you.




