musings category
If only I could try a little harder
12 February 2010How does one begin to write a book? Grammatically correctly, obviously. I think there’s a story inside of me, or maybe I’m that story. Looking out from this mass of… stuff, I want to try and let you know me, but I’m not sure how. I mean, what me am I talking about? I could [...]
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Untitled
3 January 2010I want to have a tantrum. A really big fucking tantrum of screaming and crying and lashing out and refusal. The simple refrain of a child becomes huge and laden with age: I don’t want to. I emphatically do not want to.
A child that can tantrum like that doesn’t have a sense of duty though [...]
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My favourite non-musical festival experiences
23 June 2009Is the main reason to go to a festival the music? When I went to my first, Glastonbury in 1995, I probably thought so, but I quickly came to realise that a festival – at least for me – is as much, if not more, about all the odd little acts you can see and [...]
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a thought about parenting
22 March 2009Although there are many, one reason that I feel moved to note for my doubt that I will ever be a parent is the concern that I shall never have stories to tell my children and grandchildren.
Indeed, I should be perfectly able – the integrity of my memory permitting – to relate occurences, happenstances, journeys [...]
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Like invokes like?
19 March 2009When I’m in parts of the physical world that have been worked on little by human beings, I feel closer to the world in a metaphysical sense. That is, my detachment from the physical world seems somewhat reduced.
That is, the less subjects there are around, the greater clarity I have, and in these times I [...]
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