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February 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Ten Cents Well Spent
We used to listen to these CDs from the library. In the car. Fucking ring-a-ring-a-rosies. The fucking Wiggles. Bloody Peter Combe. All this shit. You have a car stereo. You have a wee kid. We tried audio-books with stories and for a while it was just fine to listen to The Beatles. Something for the […]Archive
December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 21 – Peter Gabriel
It’s been a while since we’ve had a Five Songs For Friday. And today I dug out the first five Peter Gabriel solo albums. I love Peter Gabriel. I love his Genesis stuff – I love almost all of the Genesis stuff, with him, without him and certainly everything he’s done since. I love the soundtracks, […]Archive
May 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: Midnight Motor Racing
This almost-comically overwritten attempt at hanging out with boy racers (and “chick racers”) was commissioned by a magazine about some 15 or 16 years ago…maybe a bit longer. I can’t quite remember. What I do remember is I was in a car with the man known as Blink – then a photographer, and ever since […]Archive
October 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 80 The Lights
I was walking home from work and stopped in Aro St Park to catch up with Lola the cat sitting on her bench. I got a great shot of her waiting for a pat. It was a beautiful Friday afternoon. When I got down to where the motorway meets Willis and Able Smith St and […]Archive
September 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman