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Pretty sure that after Uni I'mma turn into an Indiana Jones-like explorer.

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"After a few drinks I get a little too into how beautiful I am" - Me warning my buddy to limit my drinks

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Making a documentary on the local music scene in Scarborough, North Yorkshire with Matt T. Probyn @dulledmysenses

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Sup Y'all

I'm sick and it sucks. But if people sent me some soup, my ass would feel a whole lot better. I love you all (and thanks in advance for the 'ass-feeling-better' soup)

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Bens book of the week James Weldon Johnson (1891 - 1938) was an incredible African American writer, politician, songwriter, teacher and poet. He was mainly prominent around the Harlem Renaissance era and, for ten years, was the head of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of coloured People. If you don't know who they are, shame on thee. Now google July 28th 1917) This book is an astounding insight into the life of an African American man living and working in the overbearing world of the white man in the early 1900's.

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        Born in Sierra Leone during the civil war, Michaela DePrince grew up in an orphanage with her sister. Her father had been killed by the rebels and her mother starved to death shortly after. DePrince’s time in the orphanage was made even more difficult by her vitiligo, a skin condition that causes light blotches on the skin, which caused her treated poorly and called “the devil’s child.” At just three years old, DePrince found a magazine picture of a beautiful ballet dancer and carried it around with her because she “saw hope in it.” When was adopted by a family in the U.S., DePrince quickly began her ballet training. As a teenager, she was featured in the film “First Position,” a 2011 American documentary. She has now graduated from the American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and will continue her work at the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

      DePrince talked about being a role model to the Associated Press: “Because I’ve been through so much, I know now that I can make it and I can help other kids who have been in really bad situations realize that they can make it too.”

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It’s not about being better than men, its not about hating on porn, sex, sex workers, blowjobs, bdsm. If a woman choices to do anything, then that is a good thing. If she’s a ‘slut’ or a ‘virgin’ who gives a fuck. if she has an ‘abortion’ or is a teen mum. if she shaves or doesnt, wears makeup or...

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Post-Inebriation Blues

Ben Owens first and last record

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Bens Book of the Week 'Thinking In Pictures' by Temple Grandin A fantastically written book about the inner thinkings, teachings, past and life of an autistic woman. Temple Grandin is one of the strongest woman that come to my mind straight away when I think of inspirational woman. As well as changing the cattle industry forever with her brilliant mechanical and architectural designs created for the well being and kindness of cattle, she is a lecturer of animal sciences at Colorado State University and lectures at autism meetings throughout America.

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Me and my Mother drinking a pint and a bowl of blue coloured cocktails.

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I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Charles Bukowski  (via talisman)

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So what's Christmas like not looking as good as I do? #christmasisawesome

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Christmas in Webster, New York

In the town of Webster, N.Y. twelve miles from Rochester, the towns fireman were called to extinguish a fire in the town. This fire was set up to ambush and fire upon these firefighters. Two have been fatally wounded. Volunteers... Bet that this will make congress step the fuck up and pass Obama's new bill. And hopefully it's stricter on gun ownership now. http://nyti.ms/W1URCy My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who fell.