the tongue of life shakes and spits from the cave of your face – i drink what i can and take cover as i should
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Poem: Speaking OF Tongues
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Dezron Douglas & Brandee Young: Force Majeure
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Young Force Majeure International Anthem Recording Co. Here’s something really beautiful that has come directly from Covid-19. There have been many lockdown performances and attempts at sharing and connecting from artists – and now we’re starting to receive the ‘traditional’ recordings from those ad-hoc shows. Live to Instagram or Facebook, Zooming […]
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Poem: A Guiding Rhythm Always
the dance of it all is something small, just keep one foot in front of the other, then listen deep inside yourself for a guiding rhythm always
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The Faggets: WE DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SHIT
The Faggets WE DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SHIT The Faggets Edgy, eh? Lol. I remember the excitement of being a teenager and finding songs by Ween albums by Method of Destruction, King Missile and whatever else. The swear words and silliness. The Frogs. Puerility. Gimme! It was stupid and it knew it. But where […]
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Poem: No One Told You
the theme song from ‘Friends’ will always be there for you even if you never wanted it to daft-cunt music written by shitty-fuck people that only ever missed out on one thing in life and unfortunately for us and them that one thing was talent – worse than hearing that song the many times in […]
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Yussef Dayes Trio: Welcome To The Hills
Yussef Dayes Trio Welcome To The Hills Cashmere Thoughts Take a look at that cover – the drum-kit on fire! – it’s either evocation of playing with such heat as to near fear for your life or a symbol of burning it all to the ground, either way it’s about leaving it all on the […]
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Short Story: The Despondency of Taking A Break
Summer holiday writing block is the building block for the year. And from such terrible foundations all one can do is hope to build on it. Brick by brick you chip away at the task. You pile it up and hope it doesn’t come crashing down. If it does – and when it does – […]
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Grand River: Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes
Grand River Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes Editions Mego Ambient, minimalist, new age, techno – these were the things, and in fact the blur of them all – that helped carry me through 2020. I’ve been listening to instrumental music as long as I’ve been listening to music. I’ve been listening to […]
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Poem: Another Couple of Balls and An Extra Set of Fingers
Neal Page is a high-strung marketing executive. Del Griffith is goodhearted but he’s annoying. He sells shower curtain rings. Neal and Del spend three days together trying to make it home to their families for thanksgiving – they live in the same city, but ahead of a chance encounter, a taxi cab muck-up and then […]
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Stubs: # 280 – Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2021
Well, it took most of my life before I made it to Waiheke Island – and then only two years to get back there. Good time on the island for sure. We had a few days in Auckland and kicked it off with a stay in Waiheke – early flight to the big city and […]
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Mike Edison: Sympathy For The Drummer – Why Charlie Watts Matters
Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters Mike Edison Backbeat Most people know that Charlie Watts matters – most people that would read a book about how Charlie Watts matters would already know I reckon…hell, I already wrote my own piece arguing much the same ages ago – but that didn’t stop me lapping […]
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Sleaford Mods: All That Glue
Sleaford Mods All That Glue Rough Trade Granted, I was a little slow to the party with Sleaford Mods. I heard a few tracks and thought they were clever, biting, funny – but I couldn’t commit to the albums. That changed with 2019’s Eton Alive which I instantly thought was brilliant. Something clicked. It arrived […]