A sweet beginning: (more…)
Writings
Phone hacking’s our fault is like bollocks…
Sunday, July 17th, 2011I heard some tosh t’other day about some sort of thing about us being responsible for that phone hacking scandal thing about phone hacking because we’re people and people read newspapers and therefore the only reason newspapers are a right proper bunch of pricks is cos we’re a right proper bunch of pricks for like buying it and stuff. (more…)
Neighbours
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011My neighbours invoke a feeling of uselessness and terror in the gaping hole between food and bone. At around eight o’clock a haunting sound resonates/permeates through my ceiling. Quickly fills up the spaces of this vacant home. The sound of Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Beck. Coldplay even. What’s left of music hangs and filters through every orifice. The leftovers. Dog fart music. (more…)
Courageous, Intriguing: The Women Who Inspire Me
Saturday, July 9th, 2011Something Contemporary
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011I am lucky enough to receive an email now and again from Willie Smith. If you have ever received an email from Willie Smith you will know what I am writing about. Willie Smith’s emails are pure art. (more…)
Glastonbury is Dead
Sunday, June 26th, 2011“I think it could well become more political. We’ve always been a sounding board for lots of unrest. If people are really faced with dire circumstances, that will get them angry and motivated, and that’s the way we’re heading at the moment.”
So said Glastonbury creator Michael Eavis last week of his world-famous music festival. I have never been less convinced. (more…)
Bed
Monday, June 6th, 2011Blurbs are the butlers in the big mansion standing over the dead Lord with the cup of poison in his hand. We all know how they get on the back of the page. We all know how they worm their way onto the front of the page. It’s no secret. A phone call. A letter. An email. (more…)
Why Religion and Faith Still Matter
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Of Gods and Men, a film about Christian monks in Algeria, has made me, through the ideas it presents and represents, rethink my place in the world. Religion bashing has once again become cool, as it’s generally acknowledged that only idiots believe in what they can’t see. Individual responsibility, Sartre screaming in the collective ear; but if the individual is an empty vessel then I believe society is a brothel filled with cheap sensory overload, false promises and superficial relationships. Say I spend time fulfilling daily duties for a paycheque (that paycheque goes towards basic necessities and fancies, no more) and in my free time I Tweet, Facebook/Facestalk, drink, go to the cinema (hardly, too expensive these days, download it), gossip about Apprentice… where does wisdom and understanding come into it? Can the teachings of holy books be replicated by Twitter or the rising careers of pop scientists? (more…)
Packing
Saturday, May 28th, 2011I have been packing books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books, so many books. This is the time when I really hate books. But still I would never have a Kindle or some other device that they are trying to sell me. I will only buy a Nook if that Nook could blow me while I was reading a naughty book. (more…)
Walking
Saturday, May 21st, 2011We all walk. You walk. I walk. Although I am not walking now, but very soon I will walk, I will walk over to the kettle and make myself a cup of tea. Some walk quicker than others, some have a strange walk, some a funny walk, some of us have a serious walk, some march, stride, saunter, glide. Some walks are coquettish and some walks are so supercilious. You could be walking while reading this, you could be wishing you were walking, you could even now walk away. (more…)
