This Shore

Here’s the poem, for those of you who wanted to see it in its original form or were struggling a little with the lyrics
This shore has rhythm. A fractal beat
On surf and sand. A wave. A wave.
The ding ding, the hum,
This hiss and smoke from Manhattan’s mouth is loud
But young. It will pass. [...]

Lentil Dahl

is DELICIOUS, and so easy to do. All you need are about 500g of red lentils, an onion, garlic, ginger, mustard seeds and coriander. Finely chop the garlic and ginger and whack it in a pan, leave that to cook for a bit and fuck this, I’m going to make a video of it.

So I went to a Man Man gig once

and one of the bands supporting them was a group of guys who called themselves Three Trapped Tigers, and they absolutely rocked. I don’t know why it took me so long to get hold of their first EP (like, two years?) but I just have, and it’s pretty fantastic. It’s not often that music makes [...]

New project

Something else that I failed to mention earlier is that I’ve got this new project that I’m working on called Nowhere Near News, my podcast with Tom Bacon where we dissect idiotic women’s weeklies and get progressively more pissed off and suicidal; it’s funny, and hopefully will continue to be so past the third episode. [...]

New music

So I guess if I just write all these things down they’re going to be meaningless strings of names and words, so I’ll try to put together a short review of each one as well (which will have periods, since they’re considered pieces of writing, which is a pleasant side-effect I hadn’t considered, but hey, [...]

New things

So I’m gonna tell you right now how I feel at the moment about blogging and I’m gonna try to get it out pretty quickly because I feel almost embarrassed by it, which is exactly how I feel about blogging, I feel embarrassed by the things I have to tell you, because I want to [...]

A post on my blog

Look, I don’t know what the deal is with this, how many people read it or follow it or whatever, and whenever I do post, people rarely interact in any meaningful way about it, but I’m just really excited at the moment about a few things and it’s seven o’clock in the morning and the [...]