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My god the fucking despair of the day before a general election and knowing that people will again be voting in the tories. The other night I was at a screening of the film Pride and one of the former members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners introduced it. Since then I find myself thinking about the horror people felt in the ‘80s that ( Read more... ) -
New music
My fave British label is currently Adorno Records who have put on some great gigs at DIY Space for London and put out stuff like Drei Affen and Yuri . Both these bands will be at the very exciting We Built The World And Miss The Stars Fest IV in May. I've missed so many amazing festivals in Germany from just not hearing about them in time, but ( Read more... ) -
Who will rescue the refugees?
Last year I wasn't able to get to Banksy's Dismaland in Weston-Super-Mare, at which one of the participating artists was Jimmy Cauty of the KLF. Cauty has taken his model village exhibition The Aftermath Dislocation Principle on tour to sites around the UK where riots have taken place. A few weeks ago it was in a railway arch gallery near London ( Read more... ) -
I've lost patience with shit vegan design and media
Stuff I've been posting on the VegFest Facebook. Tim Barford's reply was that he thinks their designers are 'excellent'. The team's reply was that they 'disagree' with me ( Read more... ) -
BA connection
The most intense memories I associate with my home area of London are from 15 years ago when my friend Maria Florencia first visited me from Buenos Aires. An hour ago, I dropped her off at the station after her 3rd visit to the UK. It is at this same station that we met in person for the first time on 31 December 1999. We had been pen pals and she ( Read more... ) -
Endings
I see I haven't posted since moving here last April. Being back in my old stamping ground of New Cross has been a blessing. The dogs are happy - they have their own comfy den in the flat and lots of other places to hang out as well as a good sized patio where I've made them a gravel toilet corner. There are plenty of fun green spaces around as well ( Read more... ) -
Marching on
I've moved house 3 times since August. Next month I'm at long last moving into something of a permanent home, at least for a couple of years. It'll be my first mortgage and so my first chance to really put down roots. I don't think of it as a long-term home though - I'm hoping to get something with a proper garden eventually. And so I find I've ( Read more... ) -
Citalopram is my friend
Friday: I have taken the day off work to take the dogs to Hastings. We buy tickets and are on our way when at Orpington we find out all trains to Hastings are cancelled. I've used a day of annual leave for this. It's the second abortive attempt to get to Hastings in 2 weeks ( Read more... ) -
Summer 2013 dogwalking playlist
Here's what I've got on when taking Coco & Rolo through Sydenham Hill Woods ( Read more... ) -
Ding dong
Here's my take on the ding dong discourse about whether it's offensive to associate Thatcher with the word 'witch'.
A couple of years ago, I happened across the divine Ella Fitzgerald's version of 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' from the film The Wizard of Oz. I decided then that when Margaret Thatcher died, I would share the rather splendid song ( Read more... )