I Feel Love

After a night of gruelling talks following the official end of the United Nations Climate Change conference, the United States caved in and agreed to support a pact to negotiate emissions cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020.

I’m sorry, I’m sure this is all a big meaningless compromise and whatever but when was the last time you read that phrase?

The United States caved in.

The United States caved in.

The United States caved in.

Feels good, doesn’t it?

I don’t usually do “memes” as you know, but I promised to do this one to bribe Elsewhere to join Facebook, so I guess I’d better come through with the goods:

8 things I am passionate about

1. Disco
2. Proust
3. Wagner
4. US foreign policy (I’m against it)
5. Racism (ditto)
6. Coffee (I’m for it)
7. Formalism (ditto)
8. Happiness, and trying to create more of it

8 things I want to do before I die

1. Live overseas for at least a year

2. Write something of lasting value
3. Have sex with an absurdly good looking man (rent boys don’t count)
4. Be seen “about town” with the aforementioned absurdly good looking man and arouse jealousy of friends and acquaintances
5. Find the love of my life (not necessarily the a.g.l.m. although let’s not rule anything out)
6. “Do” Bayreuth
7. Live in a house filled with nice furniture
8. Read all the important 19th century novels I haven’t read

8 things I say often

1. “X is the new Y”

2. “I’ve been rocking X lately”
3. “That’s how I roll”
4. “Bitch please”
5. “I’m in ur x, y-ing ur z”
6. “LOLZ”
7. “Sup?”
8. “You feel me?”

1. “Fuck” (and cognates)

2. “Bloody hell”
3. “Amazing”
4. “Horrid”
5. “I guess so”
6. “I imagine so”
7. “I believe so”
8. “I’m afraid so”

8 books I’ve read recently

1. Trollope, Framley Parsonage

2. Borges, Fictions
3. Houellececq, Les Particules élémentaires
4. Capote, In Cold Blood
5. Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen
6. Roth, The Plot Against America
7. Rankin, Fleshmarket Close
8. Pullman, His Dark Materials (rereading)

8 albums I could listen to over and over (well, I do)

1. Dusty Springfield, Where Am I Going?

2. Joni Mitchell, Blue
3. Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson
4. Giorgio Moroder, From Here to Eternity
5. V/A, Jumpin’ 2 (best disco compilation ever, sadly out of print)
6. Herbert, Bodily Functions
7. Junior Boys, So This Is Goodbye
8. Britney Spears, Blackout

8 things that attract me to my best friends

1. They are smart

2. They aren’t judgemental
3. They are generous
4. They aren’t petty
5. They like me
6. They are interested in some of the same stuff as me
7. They don’t vote for right-wing bastards
8. They challenge me

8 people who should totally (as in ‘totally’ do this meme)…

Well, I’m not sure I read that many blogs by people who do memes, so I’ll have to mention 8 people I know on Facebook. Incidentally Facebook has a little-used blogging-esque feature called “Notes” which would be ideal for doing this meme if you were so inclined:

1. David

2. Sophie
3. Mim
4. Belinda
5. David
6. Annie
7. Felicity
8. Diego