I went out to LA last week to play in Glenn Branca’s most recent work for massed guitars, Symphony 13 “Hallucination City”, which premiered at the World Trade Center in July 2001. Read the rest of this entry »
My quest for decent new music led me to an enjoyable gig at The Luminaire in Kilburn. Read the rest of this entry »
Having been coughing like a moron for the past week, while marvelling at my body’s ability to eject poison and thereby renew itself (so that I can go out and wreck my lungs all over again…), I have found myself in a position where I can recommend one cough syrup over another. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember the classic scuzzy New York gang film “The Warriors”?
I was having a good laugh the other day imagining if it had been called “The Worriers”.
Check out this version of Silent Night by Loren and Jamie Connors. Thanks to Family Vineyard and Thurston Moore at www.ecstaticpeace.com for the link.
My wife, Anastasia, had a baby boy at noon on Monday, 17 October. His name is Alexander. We call him Sasha. Read the rest of this entry »
Click here to see photos from my recent trip to Copenhagen. Photos courtesy of Tom Dyson.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from a piece by Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon, from Artforum 1983 called “I’m Really Scared When I Kill In My Dreams” Read the rest of this entry »
How do you actually start a blog? What is worth writing a post about?
Such are the questions your correspondant entertains as he sets off from base camp at the foot of Mount Blog. Sorry I keep going on about this word “blog”. It is 50% internet jargon and at least 50% nerd. And yet it signifies something fresh and vital in the world of letters/ journalism/ publishing: a world where I too can finally syphon off some of the juice inside my head. Read the rest of this entry »
Stef and I have just worked out how to write posts, erm sorry “blog” on our new, erm “blog”.
watch this space…