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A bunch of people on my friends list is doing this eight days of happiness and since I a lot of times think that we all tend to forget about the good things in life during the day, I thought I would join in and start spreading my own happy moments as well. Today seemed like a good day to do it.

8 Days of Happyness:

1. Post about something that made you happy today - even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this every day, for eight days, without fail.

I know I'm supposed to tag people but I hate to tag so I'm ommiting that one.

~Mom told me that if I ever wanted to go into business myself, she would co-sign a loan for me.
~ I made an arrangement today at work that had balloons mixed in with the flowers
~ I went to Best Buy to go buy the first season of Castle and ended up with the same check out guy that I got a month ago while buying Dollhouse. I was really tired the last time I saw him and ended up giggling uncontrolably while Tahni mock stabbed me in the back. He was amused that night, and told me that we had just made his day. Tonight when I went there, he recognized me, and asked if I had been sleeping better. I said yes and I apologized for the way I acted last time. He said "Don't worry about, your smile and laugh more than make up for it now." Yeah. He got some points. Geek.

Amazing vid from oli at FDW

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peter Picspammmmmm....
( like a snapshot of the most tragic day )

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( ...where you can see and hear him singing now.... )

Marlborough Light part 12
Pairing: P/C
Rating: R - Sexy time - adult-type shagging situations from the off - you have been warned.  
Bit long, bit of a shag-a-thon, but hope you find worth sticking with for:
Cameo from: Didz!
Set: 2008, Carl has made his first visit to Peter's Wiltshire mansion. Friendship and more is rekindled, many adventures follow...

Previous parts - see my journal - all welcome (apologies for abject failure to link)

( Marlborough Light 12 )

Last night (november 10th), Peter showed up at a pub gig where Anto Dust was playing and played a couple of songs with her, including Can't Stand Me Now and She Loves You. It was very sweet of him to turn up and show support, and all in good humour :)

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Bodies/Oceans, Swells/Crashes
Pairing: Pete/Carl
Previous: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Genre: AU, Drama
Summary: Disenchanted twenty-somethings working in the film industry in sunny L.A.
Betas: The hardest working betas in LaLa Land, eastendbestend and pherber9 !
Rating: Overall, sex and swearing.

10. The Enemy Incarnate, and a Date with... Barry Manilow? What Are You Scared of, Boy?

Through some combination of Googling I can't hope to recreate, I found out that Peter's review of QPR's '95-'96 season from his fanzine was reprinted in a book called - and I wish I was making this up - "Survival of the Fattest 2 (Now THAT'S what I call football!): An alternative review of the '95-'96 season." I, of course, immediately went in search of it on Amazon, where I found a copy for a penny (!). It arrived today, and I am sharing the scan of Peter's section with you. Apologies in advance for the quality. It's a yellowed paperback and it took several tries to make the scans legible. As a bit of background, this was the season QPR were relegated from the Premiership (to which they will be returning next season).

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From Xfm:

Russell Brand has taken a stand in our search for Song Of The Decade. The comedian, broadcaster and squeeze of Katy Perry has nominated ‘Can’t Stand Me Now’ as the best song of the last ten years.

Brand was effusive in his praise of one of The Libertines’ best known songs.

“I like it because of the romance of The Libertines as a group”, he said. “This song is like the zenith and nadir of [Carl and Pete’s] relationship. It’s perhaps their best creative achievement and also a beautiful hymn to the demise of their friendship”.

I love Russell.

You can hear a longer clip of Russell speaking about the song and vote for the Song of the Decade on the website.

Peter also got praise from Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls in an interview:

Who do I like right now? I like Pete Doherty and whatever he chooses to call his band this week. We did festivals together in Spain and places like that. I think Fuck Forever is the most romantic song written in the 21st century so far.

Many of you guys may have seen this pic in the DPT community but I thought I'd put it herefor those who didn't. It is from Adam Green's Blog. He calls it "I had breakfast with Brando. Nothing happened"

Chapter 12
Rating: R (violence, sexual references).
Characters: If it has anything to do with Libertines/Babyshambles/Dirty Pretty Things and Yeti, it's in here eventually. Also contains original characters and large, fire breathing dragons.
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Adventure
Betas: The amazing stephmck and whydylan.

Disclaimer: see first chapter.

Comments and feedback are deeply appreciated. Thank you in advance for continuing to read. The adventure continues, despite my malfunctioning computer…

Previous parts can be located here:
Part 1 Part 2a Part 2b Part 3 Part 4a Part 4b Part 5 Part 6 Part7a Part 7b Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11

Teaser: "’Case you missed it. I killed a man tonight."

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