III
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."

Stephen Crane

Back from a loud and dirty tryst with Peej tonight and I feel used and full of joy ( Read more... )

My personal thanks…
To all of the writing, reffing and reading team (past and present), long-suffering brothers and sisters
To Helen for the masks, the pictures and for Orlando
To Gemma and all the other last minutes
To Cicatris for swimming all the way from Glasgow alone
To the players who, despite our best efforts, always make us look good

( Personal )

They are Welsh rappers from Newport. Their latest single is called "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do". This impresses me, but most of all on one of their tracks they sing "Evil Alchemist From Newport" to the tune of Sting's "Englishman in New York". Do it now, sing it like I did. Marvellous ( Read more... )

At lunchtime a busker was playing The Girl From Ipanema unaccompanied on a saxophone - he looked like a boy at Passchendaele, short of time and armed with a bolt-action rifle that dryclicks on every third shot. I drifted through his sprinkle of honked and falling notes, not a one of them coming close to touching me. My mood is like a zeppelin today ( Read more... )

I forget that adding comments to posts sliding rapidly down the Friends hit parade consigns them to oblivion.

jfs - yes please, bring along and make me happy. Ta.

It was good to see various types this weekend for the NWO meeting - as ever, it's always too long between times ( Read more... )

A work comrade loaned me the album Concubine Rice by Lone Pigeon - rather facetiously I believe that any man required to leave The Beta Band in order to enter a mental institution is worth listening to. As if to worryingly firm up my wonky and wrongy worldyview it is a delight and (like watching a tiger charging you from a bamboo thicket) I have ( Read more... )

Attending Southwark Cathedral to hear the Philharmonia Chorus proclaim Liszt and Dvorak and I meet forbinproject and westernind unexpectedly. It was a genuine surprise and a real pleasure to see them again after so long - typical me to not recall that she choirs with others (not as strange as it sounds, some choir alone… but then they are dreadful ( Read more... )

It is with a great sense of relief (like thinking that you have pissed yourself in public, only to happily discover that in fact you have been slashed across the femoral by some mad surgeon with a past) that the writing for NWO is over and done well. Congratulations to pax draconis, caddyman, lupercal, maleghast, pete, philoko, probablyscotty, dan ( Read more... )