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The Frisky published an article about 10 ways to deal with anxiety, which is especially relevant to my life right now! I think they picked up on some really important coping strategies here - I went home this afternoon feeling rather stressed and upset, and just a few minutes playing with my cat made everything a lot better. Do you think it's ethical to spend my PhD funding on cats? If I'm not careful, I'll end up with a clowder of cats though...!
[Photo taken from the Guardian article, link below.]
Kurt Cobain and future of 3D 'resurrected' musicians.I love this picture, it's one of my favourites of Kurt. It's a really interesting article, and poses some interesting questions. I would love to see Kurt Cobain play in the flesh, but I wouldn't want to see a hologram-projection, I think it would just be a hollow sham, and a bit of an insult to the genuine nature of his music. Still, it's an interesting thought though.
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On a similar note, an interview with Shirley Manson of Garbage. It's really fantastic - along with Ani DiFranco, she's one of my absolute favourite iconic women working in music today because they're both so honest, inspiring and talented. Love of Shirley Manson united me and my friend Maria and inspired me to dye my hair red as a teenager. I particularly like this article because she's honest and non-patronising about low self-esteem and SI, which is both relatable and inspring.
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Too true, Gandhi. It's always good to remind yourself of this (particularly in a week of elections and journalistic lack of ethics!)
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Neil Gaiman reblogged an article on his Tumblr about why Photoshop is so prevalent in magazines and advertising. The original author is very good at coherently laying out why Photoshop is intrinsic to the lifestyle these magazines sell, and it's got me thinking about how the concept of making ourselves happy (via being beautiful and perfect and owning all the right things) is also a matter of public interest (i.e. we must make ourselves beautiful and perfect so other people like us). It's a horribly warped way to view the world, and that's why I so admire people like Tavi Gevinson and Julia Bluhm, who are trying to provide an alternative to that worldview for young people.
[Virginia Woolf's bedroom: link below.]
A selection of writers' bedrooms? Bearing in mind I love books and home design, this made me extremely happy. I particularly liked Virginia Woolf's, Alexander Masters', Miranda Seymour's, Michael Morpurgo's, and that beautiful photo of William S Burroughs. That photo seems to capture the man so well, it's tragic and composed and fascinating.
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I was chatting with one of my PhD friends after the seminar I'm running yesterday, and I ended up talking about this hilarious collection of marginalia in medieval manuscripts. 'Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink.' People always think people in the past were so moral and lofty, but they were human, after all! My stepdad thought that studying Classics was going to be very elite and full of philosophical discourse...until I read some Catullus to him. That disabused him of the notion rather quickly!
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Working on my dissertation this week, I've had to do more translation of Apuleius than I've had to do in several years. This meme suddenly became incredibly relevant once again! (I make no apologiesfor the geekiness of this image.)
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