Category Archives: monologue

Merlin is a prophet for our times.

What I can’t afford to do — and I deeply hope you guys also won’t even attempt to do — is to live in a world of unlimited access (in- or outbound) that requires you to pretend anyone who happens… Continue reading

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self-portrait

hard as it might be to believe there was a time when i was quite innocent. now, here in my thirties, i’m feeling mighty jaded and a little deflated. driving to la rochelle earlier this year we passed a phenomenon… Continue reading

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Eskimoes hunting wolves

Back in my halcyon post-art college days, some friends and I put these cool little gigs together. As well as an immense pool of local deejaying talent **cough cough** to draw on, there seemed to be this never ending supply… Continue reading

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Transformers and the Death of the American Empire

Visual FX aside, Transformers is by no means a good film, but anything so relentlessly (and in this case, clumsily) attuned to the mainstream is bound to have some interesting things to say about the culture it’s been engineered to… Continue reading

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scents and sensibility

sometimes, when i think about posting and i’ve not got a track i’m desperate for you all to hear i like to indulge myself and imagine i’ve got a column in a broadsheet – that i’m so witty and erudite… Continue reading

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While Rome Burns

One day, perhaps living in the post-oil society predicted by prophets such as Matt Simmons or James Kunstler, we will look back at events like this weekend’s woeful LiveEarth concerts as a fitting epitaphs for a culture that was tragically… Continue reading

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the heart is deceitful above all things

i’ve got this horrendously addictive personality. once innocent activities, food stuffs or hobbies often rendered subject to my frequent compulsions, becoming a displacement activity for whatever it is i’m avoiding this week until i’ve done them to death and can’t… Continue reading

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Be Not Fearful

(image taken from hmsneptune.com) I spent a day last week attending my great Uncle’s Martin’s funeral. At the wake I got chatting to his best mate ‘Tom’, they’d been friends for over seventy years; meeting in primary school age ten,… Continue reading

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through wire rimmed spectacles

image courtesy of butukgirl via flickr right now i’m tired. i’ve done a day in the office, a stint at the gym, managed some ad-hoc dinner and i got to get me this blog post done or y’all’ll have nothing… Continue reading

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Au Revior, Titi

We’d all heard the rumours, but seeing henry’s departure confirmed late on friday night was certainly no way to start a weekend. Such was the depth of connection between him and the club, it was almost too much to take… Continue reading

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