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Without you my live would be boring – The Knife, Pan’s People and pushing buttons

I wonder if the Knife aren’t happy with being famous any more. Heartbeats and Silent Shout burst onto a wider scene than they felt they were right for, and now they’re trying to turn off as much of their mainstream … Continue reading

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Not quite unstruck enough.

I kinda wanna post this because I like it. But I wasn’t sure if it was good enough, so I used the end as a seed for the final post on unstruck. But I wanted my thoughts recorded, even though … Continue reading

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Experiment – Unstruck

Just a note that if you miss my words I’ve got a new project going on at  http://unstruck.wordpress.com/ . I’m remaining enigmatic about it for now. But basically we’re running a two week experiment that may continue or change after … Continue reading

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Three Part Harmony – Different Songs Though

So this is a dias de los muertos post, in memory of a fine young lady whose died today last year. Tomorrow I picnic with her (weather permitting), and today and tomorrow I will spend thinking of her and others … Continue reading

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Poignant – G and the Velvet Underground

My friend G has decided to say goodbye to Brighton by staring intently into my wall. A cheery surprise at my door, it quickly emerges that he has drunk a few pints, won some games of pool and taken about … Continue reading

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Some kind of ‘doing it Doggy Style’ joke would be a bit crass here, right?

Dog Love by Boris reproduced under a creative commons license. Right, those of you following me on twitter will have an idea of this already. But I wanna expand my thoughts, and I ain’t been on here in a while, … Continue reading

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Our Dancing Skeletons

Blubbedy blub. So, yesterday there was a charity thing that I DJed at in the Hobgoblin. The whole thing was in memory of the friend of mine who died November last year, raising money for the school on the island … Continue reading

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Journeys don’t end – Learnings and Wanderings

Okay, lots of things to try and agglomerate, and my heads a bit brokes by all this, so there may be confustion. Also, can I briefly recommend Twitter, and particularly me on Twitter. I’m starting to get into this, and … Continue reading

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Wax Stag whack’s dag

(Statement of conflicts of interest: I know Rob Lee, he’s lovely, he is also Wax Stag). So, first off, a caveat (there may be more later), The first time I heard that Rob was playing (about a year and a … Continue reading

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Passing

Not much to say about this right now, but a friend died in her sleep last night. I don’t know the details, but somehow it felt rude not telling you. I’m working out how best to support her family, and … Continue reading

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Eye of the Beholden

Right. So I was talking to a friend the other day about beauty. It comes up a lot. I’ve also talked about it before…and I’m happy to say I’m here today to kinda disagree with a myself of a while … Continue reading

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Mess

Getting drunker than I should’ve (not that drunk) led me to bump into a friend I don’t see enough of. I find out that another friend I don’t see enough of got sectioned at the weekend, and is showing no … Continue reading

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It’ll be all Right

Going on a little holiday today. Jaunt down to Cornwall. Back on Sunday. I’ve done a lot of camping lately, and this is more. I’m worried that it’s adding to my general run down state of my being (part of … Continue reading

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Movement

Little bit of housekeeping. My e-mail address has moved. I don’t publish it here as standard (though you can always contact me using ‘poke the beast’ but those of you who know it already, it’s basically the same, only it’s … Continue reading

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Wish me luck

Okay, so this morning, I dreamt a particularly metaphysical xkcd comic. Basically, the title was steam train. In the main area was a blank rectangle, the size of the average comic strip. Drawn all around it were things like needle … Continue reading

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