impossible songs

These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Isle of Wight in the distance

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"Like Icarus ascending over beautiful sewage farms, I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm" - Mis-heard Joni Mitchell lyrics, no...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

It may well become noisy

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Death of a lifelong Socialist

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It seems that the now completely delusional Mr Brown began his key-note speech by telling Labour members they were "the fighters and be...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

The perfect scone

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A walk across the rooftops c/w the blue Forth (not the Nile). We spent some time yesterday on the roof of Hopetoun House, looking across at ...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Psychic spys from China

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Spent another Friday night in the company of Derren Brown and a bottle of red wine. As per previous weeks I remain unpsychic, uninspired and...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

My plastic Bambi

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Just sitting at home, feeling peaceful, surrounded by furniture and in a perfect abstract ambient mind-set whilst listening to a little soo...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Walking in the clouds

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We need all the help we can get. Nothing like a day spent in and around airports to remind you of the absurdity of life and the pain of mod...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Magnolia

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She comes in colours The good news is that I am no longer angry nor am I a young man. Two kinds of conflicting stat us worth avoiding and on...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Dangerous fixations and unhealthy fascinations

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Dangerous fixations and unhealthy fascinations I heard this phrase last night as a part of a trailer for the show “Medium”, a show I’m high...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Things I like

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This Antoria is made in China as a part of some revised badge engineering stunt so it is really something other than what it seems to be, ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Ditto to Beth

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Fat girls all dance the same way. Watching Beth Ditto on Jools Holland it was difficult not to note that she danced just like one of Viz’s ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

My parents may well have been aliens

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Completely predicable alien image used, one that has no real relation to the text that follows, typical. My parents were aliens but not fr...
Monday, September 14, 2009

On the margins

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Sleeve design, wabi sabi awareness and the art of motorcycle mechanics. The haze of evaporating creativity, the intoxication of experiencing...

Another weird scan...

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Dumbed up and then dumbed down for your reading and viewing pleasure. WHAT IS WABI-SABI? The Japanese view of life embraced a simpl...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Urinal this way

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Up with the lark this morning and over to Fife for Sunday football in the sunny grotto that is Glenrothes. Breakfast was a can of nicely chi...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Find value in the uncomplicated

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Create beauty, value imperfection, live deeply. You will always have problems, and you will always have joyful times, but once wabi sabi bec...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

The secret of happiness

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This so nearly could've been Ali and I It's out there somewhere, possibly hidden in this bizarre website of odd album covers. Thanks...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Burglary and reflection

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To catch a... There is nothing like the demystifying of crime and an encounter with the hard edge of abrasive human nature to cause you to ...
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Monday, September 07, 2009

Motorcycle Diaries

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Finally got round to watching this film, a marvellous experience, filled in a few gaps within my knowledge and romanticised a legend a littl...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Sunday PM

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Typical countryside scene in the Hopetoun Woods area. Often on a Sunday afternoon the mind turns to bigger questions, we reflect, he hope, w...
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