On waiting in an NHS cancer clinic In early October, I found myself sitting in the MacMillan and the University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust Cancer Center, not far from the toff looking streets around Warren St Tube. I was in a granite and glass reception lounge, draped with[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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“Who has a why to live can bear most any how” Neitzsche Freedom House In July, I stopped over in Pittsburgh, caught up with some of my dear friends there, and made a remarkable discovery. In the late 1960s, a bunch of Pittsburgh doctors and civil rights activists set up[…]
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Sleepless in Los Angeles Downtown, in the City of Angels, on the night of 14 July, I didn’t sleep that well. Again. I was only four blocks from Skid Row, but that didn’t bother me. After all, I was in a gated community, in a condo owned by Bob N,[…]
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Los Angeles, 4th July weekend I’m staying in a condo in the City of Angels, in downtown LA. In the heart of Little Tokyo/Arts District. Organised last minute via an international home exchange site. In a condo owned by private detective Bob N. After 30 years in the LAPD, Bob[…]
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On Sunday afternoon, May 19, I caught the overground back to East Dulwich after spending the night in Islington with Sarah, watching the Eurovision song contest on TV with her gay friends, all of us curled up in groaning, snickering balls on the couch. Already hungover, I took a short[…]
Read More »Hope everyone had a wonderful valentines’ day, especially everyone who participated in the One Billion Rising happenings, actions to put an end to violence against women around the globe. Here is a beautiful clip Amnesty International put together for their Rising celebration in Melbourne. I wrote and recorded the music,[…]
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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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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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