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Enjoy The Silence
As you'll probably have noticed, I very rarely ever post on LJ anymore. It's a handy place for me to post private or restricted entries, so I do occasionally drop by here to vent or air thoughts I wouldn't want absolutely everyone to know about. I also still read the blogs of everyone on my friends list, whether I comment regularly or not. I ( Read more... ) -
West Heath Yard
OK, I'm cribbing this entry entirely from a forum post I've made elsewhere, but there's no harm whatsoever in spreading the love...
It's a generally forgotten fact that in the late nineties, Edwyn Collins was partly responsible for a late-night comedy on Channel Four called "West Heath Yard". It quite viciously parodied the music industry of the ( Read more... ) -
Chin up, lad
So then, a whole day after my last blog entry on Livejournal I had a bit of an incident. I was trying to walk quickly towards the tube station to get to work, rushed across the road and my right shoe thudded against an uneven patch by the bus lay-by, and I promptly landed on the ground chin-first. I lay there dazed for a few seconds, groaned, ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision 2012
OK, I know it's a whole month away yet, but nonetheless the Bookies are taking bets on Eurovision, and there's nothing wrong with having a bit of fun and analysing the chances of various entries surely?
Despite the short odds, the UK do not have a hope in hell. We've been allocated the first slot in the contest, a position no country has ever won ( Read more... ) -
Oh, hello there
Sorry I've been so quiet over the last couple of months. As always, the deadness of my LJ account represents a lot of activity in my own life rather than a complete absence of anything to talk about. Besides the demands of my dayjob, I've been drafting a ton of new poetry (almost all of which is in "early draft" stage at the moment, so don't go ( Read more... ) -
Further proof that London is turning into LA
There's a guy who begs near my local train station, and seemingly has done for the last few years now. I've always liked him for no other reason than that he doesn't draw attention to himself, he just sits and waits to be given money and is generally a pleasant chap. Today he caught me walking along with a crate of records and said: "You... are ( Read more... ) -
2011
1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Ran a 10K race (in 48 minutes, to my astonishment) and did some DJ'ing. In fact, I DJ'ed more frequently than I did spoken word gigs in 2011, although nothing should necessarily be read into this (I am definitely, unquestionably not a better DJ than I am a writer).
2. Did you keep your new ( Read more... ) -
The Castle
The staff at the Apple Store on Regent Street are great, but their customer service system is like a Kafkaesque nightmare. Let me explain ( Read more... ) -
Not the Sunscreen Song
No matter what I do, my Macbook constantly seems to be on the precipice of having no hard drive space left, so once every few months I have to go through a tedious tidying-up process. Sometimes, though, it means I end up finding long-forgotten mp3s, bits and pieces of writing I might not otherwise have remembered, and other random follies. So it ( Read more... ) -
The olden days of online communication
I've been online at home for the last twelve years now, initially on dial-up, and eventually in 2002 progressing to broadband. I felt dead posh when the little broadband server arrived in my houseshare in North London, I can tell you, though I tripped over the countless wires leading into the thing from various people's bedrooms more often than I' ( Read more... )