January 2011
1 post
a live fish in very much dead water
In 2011 I find myself in the unenviable position of having invested 15 years of my life in a business that is dying, if not already dead. As a musician I spend months of my life touring the UK, Ireland and Europe. Yes, I have seen many places and met many people but ultimately I invest at least 50 hours a week to a job that does not pay me. Not one dime. Occasionally oi will receive a royalty...
August 2008
1 post
Gorgeous. Times they are a changing by whisper in...
May 2008
2 posts
Dirt, dirty London
They seem to have elected Boris ‘Bozza’ Johnson as London mayor. Strange. No, no that can’t be right. Hang on, let me just check the news…….oh. Yes, they did. Well, that’s that then, it’s all over. Idiocy has set in and rotted the will of the free speaking. ‘We don’t care, we just want change.’ At least Zimbabweans have some sense eh?
Pretty little pictures →
I went to school with this girl and I for one think her work is just gorgeous.
April 2008
2 posts
How can you smile?
I sit here watching live pictures of celebrities and sports icons carrying the Olympic flame through the streets of London. These ‘beloved’ people are surrounded by Policemen in flourescent jackets and combat gear, protected by the ‘authorities’; trying to protect the flame and it’s bearer from protestors who are attempting to draw attention not to themselves, but to...
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
1 post
January 2008
7 posts
The laughing heart by Charles Bukowski. Read by...
Holes. Big ones →
Song - Sam Cooke Artist - Jetplane Landing...
days and nights
there have been days and there have been nights and somedays that is all there has been. there have also been days where i have noticed the smaller things; the love, the laughter, the joy and the hope, but they are few in number and the bad days flood the calendars, the diaries and the schedules.
November 2007
2 posts
Ugh
Have you ever sat and watched this ‘music television’ nonsense? It truly is a great waste of resources; self - obsessed idiot after idiot parading themselves and their wares in frront of you, begging you to buy whatever note-mess they’ve concocted with and iPod, a toaster, sunglasses and goatees. And most of these videos cost a minimum of $25,000 a pop! For what? Surely they...
Those clever bastards
Yes, I am a nerd to all effects and purposes and therefore became embroiled in the online treasure hunt that is ‘Cloverfield’. While being knowingly sucked into what I fully knew to be a big marketing campaign, I couldn’t help but stand back and applaud the near genius of the viral idea. Yes, it’s just marketing but it’s all so very clever, isn’t it? Makes you...
October 2007
2 posts
Yes, I know..
Moan, moan “Oh, I’ve got a blog and I’m going to change the world! Yeah! One pixel at a time!” Yes, there is not so much a fine line as a bloody huge, thick line between having a blog and drawing attention to an issue and actually doing something about it. There seems to be a collective train of thought whereby people think that talking about an issue makes a difference. I...
August 2007
16 posts
Bloody buggers
There’s this gig, right, big outdoor thing yeah, goin on just down the road from me. All shite bands, every last one of em is some bandwagon-jumping pack of heartless scenesters. Tickets were $40 each. As if the shite lineup wasn’t enough to put you off. I opted out; said “Bollocks to that”. Yet here I am, street filled with drunk, rhythmless, tone deaf idiots; just...
Let's take a look
Let’s take a look at what you could have won!! Oh, you had it all going for you in one way or another. Knowing all the right people, all the right moves and you were just the right age to get away with it all. But time crept up behind you. And it was quicker than you gave it credit for. Suddenly, school was out and you had to work for a living. But you didn’t mind because you figured...
Once done, forever shall it exist
A note on the passing of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. On July 10 2007 Theresa Duncan (filmmaker, writer, blogger) took her own life using a concoction of pills and alcohol. Bourbon to be precise. Her body was discovered by her boyfriend of some 13 years, artist Jeremy Blake. One week later, Blake took the train to Rockaway Beach, discarded his clothes and walked into the sea, to return...
a much admired man
he was in my television, this much admired man, words poured from him as though he couldn’t control them, he thought them so beautiful, so urgent, that he freed them, turned them loose. i had seen him speak candidly before, about suicide, as it happens and he constantly seems to unravel and wind himself apart, as though desperate to reveal some secret, some other-worldly truth until at...
men i never met
men that i never met taught me all the things i had longed to know. all the truths in this life which, throughout my adolescence i had questioned, sitting there on a page, on a screen, in a song, answered. the men i never met, they told me “there is no secret”, “there is no god, do not waste your time praying”, “it does not get any easier”. and i can never...
Buk off
I work in a bookshop, ok? Nerdy? Yes. Infinite knowledge? No. So, when you work in a bookshop and you buy a book in your own shop, you get judged. I now feel the eyes questioning me when I buy poetry, like I have to justify it. Well, I don’t. It is what it is…….words. That’s all. They also assume, when you buy any Charles Bukowski stuff, that you harbor secret dreams of...
Would someone turn the lights back on...please. →
I’m not entirely sure what this film is, other than short and sweet. Nice music too. Have a look, if you’re bored
Go here + watch this....now - Zeitgeist →
A documentary exploring and explaining myths and truth which have become accepted as universal truth. Enlightening, terrifying; do yourself a favour. Instead of sitting down to 2 hours of bullshit being sprayed into your eyes and ears by your TV, sit down, watch this and take heed.
Planetsaver Hero of the Day: Turns down... →
This man don’t take no shit……I can’t think of too many people who would refuse this.
The night I told the truth
Those words I uttered at you in between gasps and cries, are still attached; hands gesture, reaching out, pushing the words into the depths of your memories. Even if they stay unequalled, never shall they be forgotten. And every time you swat at them like flies, you dust the very breath from my lungs.
July 2007
38 posts
hehe...............pirates
Gotta love ‘em! via www.photocasket.com
Terrorist attacks in disguise?
Seems certain governments are more fashionable and/or idiotic than we suspect. In reference to the “explosion” in Manhattan the other day, a spokesperson said that the incident was nothing to worry about, apparently it was caused by an exploding transformer. An exploding Transformer???!! Like Optimus Prime???!!! Jesus….I thought all the fearmongering was bad enough but this? I...
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best...”
"Peter! Ray! Egon!!!!"
So, last night I had a dream in which I was shopping, on a Saturday afternoon, in my local Virgin Megastore when, out of the corner of my eye, I could have sworn I saw the Ghostbusters! Being the nostalgic over-excitable child I am, I walked over and began a conversation. Unfortunately I can’t remember a word of it but what I do remember is annoyance at how downright rude Peter Venkman (Bill...
Regarding the Giant Squid
The near mythical giant squid; predator of the deep, the creature we all remember from pictures in childhood books as being bigger than a warship. The problem being that it is really, on average, a measly 20 ft in length and not terribly vicious either. Fine. I can handle that information. I mean, I already know about Santa Claus and the Loch Ness Monster so it isn’t really such a great...
Froghat Studios
Do things like this -
That bloody wizard
Am I the only person who thinks of Harry Potter as a load of overrated garble-shite? Don’t tell George Lucas that though, because I do have a small soft spot for Star Wars….. Ahem.
um...
“Honey?” “Yes sweetheart?” “Where’s Tommy?” “Oh, don’t worry pet, he’s in that elephant’s arsehole over there” Jesus…. via www.samanathon.com
PIKAPIKA: in kitijoji
Light Graffiti part 2. →
Yes, it’s becoming somewhat like an obsession now but ENJOY!
O'Reilly = Jerk?
Okay, so I don’t live in the US. Therefore I have very little access to the various media happenings that go on, apart from the internet and Mr. Jon Stewart. Fine. I recently saw Stewart being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly somewhere online and, having never encountered this ‘Bill’ before, came to the almost immediate decision that I do not like this guy one bit. Not just...
The End of Mr. Y
A story of philosophy, mystery books, time travel, bibliophiles, magic and Victorian gentlemen. Isn’t that a pretty cover?
Art? Yes, wonderful. →
Ah, wonderful art. Sometimes it’s hardly art at all. Sometimes it’s just some idiot at a computer screen, typing his thoughts…oh. Oliver Jeffers is no such idiot, he is a wonderful artist from Belfast and does some very nice things. Such as www.lookatbook.com