I will return to the 30 day song challenge shortly, but the next topic is ‘a song that makes you happy’ or some such, which is too difficult for me to wrap my head around at the moment, given that I have a head full of nasty cold, which I am currently trying to expel [...]
Just a week or so ago, I was feeling pretty blue about my major writing project, Blood On The Motorway. It is in itself something of a product of a fractured genesis, and if in fact the reworking of my first ever attempt at a novel, and although it has drastically changed over the near [...]
Song 20. Today Is The Day – The Descent. Not an essay for once, I’m busy doing work on Blood On The Motorway. No, really. You will probably have gathered by now that I don’t have to be angry to listen to angry music, It is somewhat of a default position for me, in fact [...]
Song 19: Neurosis – At the End of the Harvest. It used to be that my stock answer to the question of my favourite album was a quick one to answer. VS, by Pearl Jam, next question. This was until quite recently. A regular release schedule of two years for each new Pearl Jam album [...]
So setting up a writing group is hard. I had firstly expected that when I put the clarion call out through Facebook and Twitter that the response would be a floodgate of people, all wanting to be a part of my new literary equivalent of a biker gang. So far I’ve had three people, and [...]
Day 18: Healer, by Torche It is a more complicated thing than it might seem, wishing a band success. Whenever I discover a band for the first time it is either by word of mouth or other recommendation (praise the Lord for the gift of Last.fm) and that link seems so personal, so unique. For [...]
I go through little bursts of enthusiasm every now and again, when for a moment all my dreams of being a writer seem like an achievable dream, rather than some mirage of a distant sunny shore to a man drowning in his own mediocrity. These moments are rare, but can last for months at a [...]
Truth be told I no longer listen to much music radio. I tend to hear about new bands through word of mouth, or Last.fm. All the radio I consume these days tends to be after the fact, through various BBC podcasts, and these have the music stripped cruelly from them, or in the case of [...]
I think I need to break out of this challenge and do a proper blog post soon, it’s starting to do my head in a bit, but then there is the whole thing of leaving it unfinished that fills my little black heart filled with dread. So persist I must for now, fuelled as I am by [...]
Back when I entered my teenage years with the shocking lack of gusto that would later categorise my entire life approach, this would have been a much easier thing to have done. Back when I was first listening to the music of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and hell even Bon Jovi, it felt as though every single lyric [...]
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