About This Is This
This is what?
This is this.
This ain’t something else.
A blog of occasional daily life with patchy outbreaks of funny, scattered values and the chance of philosophy from the east.
In summary, Cliff .
But what does it mean?
The title This Is This comes from my inability to describe what it is that this site was when I started it in 2004. It’s just some of … what it is. It’s a “thing” thing. It’s specifically haphazard and haphazardly specific. It’s a website just like millions of others and the more I try to make it sound unique, the more ordinary it seems. This site is just what it is, hence the title.
The actual line comes from a speech given by Robert De Niro in the Deer Hunter, and you can read about that some more if you want to or listen to the speech.
Vital statistics
Name: Cliff
Defence: 8
Attack: 5
Courage: 7
Stealth: 9
Strengths: Speaks French, plays guitar, can see in dark
Weaknesses: Colourblind, asthma, cheesecake
Armour: Sense of humour, headphones
Special move: The “should have said” after-rant
Five things I should know how to do and can’t
1. Play chess
2. Remember basic details when telling a story
3. Roll my R’s
4. Bake
5. Look interested when I’m not
Five things I shouldn’t know how to do but can
1. Read upside down just as well as the right way up
2. Whistle REALLY fucking loud
3. Swim without using my hands
4. Find North using a watch and the sun
5. Play the mandolin
Five actual useful things I can do well
Funnily enough (or not) I don’t find jokes funny. Mostly they are unfunny, so it’s more like relief when they are. I laugh at the day to day stuff. You know, I say something, then you say something else then I say that thing that sounds funny.
5. Sleep/Not Sleep
I can sleep anywhere and through anything if I want to. I can also sleep for short amounts of time and wake up myself up when I’m needed. I can get ten minutes of decent sleep between train stops and feel good afterwards. I can also not sleep, if I want to. I rarely need more than six hours and can get by on four if I need to.
More about me
There’s an autobiography of sorts, called The Sum Of All Years, my idea being that each year could only contain the number of words for that entry, because I am a word geek.
You can glean the memes with 4 Things and 36 Questions and the Navel Gazer.
I wrote a book up here called All Of Monday’s Reasons.
I play a few instruments and write lots of songs. I also have a podcast.
Contact
If you have internet access you can send an email
Spoil
Or, you know, buy me stuff.
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