Giving Away My Past to a Good Cause – You As 2012 (or perhaps existence as we know it) draws to a close, that magic time of year is upon us. When there is not enough time to sober up between Xmas drinks so your memory sloshes in and out[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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The Love In amongst the flotilla of emails that greet me every morning, today I found a particularly synchronistic email from Tom Dawkins, social entrepreneur extraordinaire and one of the most inspirational people I know. I had gone to a workshop on Friday about crowdfunding, a subject I knew something[…]
Read More »Black Dog Daze Yesterday, I received an email from a former work colleague, who I had not heard from for sometime, telling me she had recently “formed a plan to take her own life”, but had luckily been rescued by a mental health crisis team. She had stabilised, but[…]
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The Age of Biography Did you know that in Elizabethan England, most people had sex fully clothed because the Renaissance naked body was so grubby and smelly? Or that Shakespeare’s plays contain in total 1300 sexual allusions, and no less than 66 terms for a vagina? Some of my favourite[…]
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The Dust Revival Band Q: What do you get when you cross a top hat, a frockcoat, exposed underwear and bunch of leaves thrown in the air? A: The Dust Revival Band A few weeks ago, I invited my former bandmates from my old folk rock band Dust over to[…]
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The Mudskipper How does someone whose only real talent and justification for being alive is the generation of creative stuff – the puffing out of cotton seeds into the mysterious wind of life, the spinning of fairy floss onto sticks for the emotionally ravenous- wind up working on spreadsheets five,[…]
Read More »When I looked outside my studio doors today, as a late Sunday in the suburbs dripped into evening, this is what I saw. Sunday 19 Feb 2012
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B(if)tek: Big in Hungary? Happy Chinese New Year! On 23 January, the world ascends into the mystical Year of the Dragon. According to a Chinese astrology site I selected after throwing digital yarrow stalks into the air several times: “A dragon is a legendary creature. All legendary stories about Chinese[…]
Read More »I had this fantasy as I dozed off last night: Episode title: Gas bagging Scene: The Emergency Department of All Saints Hospital, New York (fictional setting of Nurse Jackie). The usual crew are hanging around the nurses station. Zoey (mustering courage): Umm. Jackie? How come we’re a major metropolitan hospital[…]
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The Wind in the Suburbs In Thornbury, an inner suburb of Melbourne which is more suburb than inner, there is a little two bedroom flat, and in that flat, there dwell two women and two dogs. Its winter in Australia, a place the rest of the world chuckles at because[…]
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