Archive For July 1st, 2010

The Silent Treatment

By | July 1, 2010

Jeff woke reluctantly, irritated by a number of sensations that had disturbed him from sleep. The first was the hard dry fastness of his throat. This was followed quickly by the repetitive escalating banging in his lower back. The third was the sound o…

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Celebrity Presenters (stop the world, I want to get off!)

By | July 1, 2010

Witless, vapid and contributing nothing save a supersized ego to the sum of human knowledge. Ok, that may be a subjective opinion, but am I the only one who has grown to detest celebrity led Television documentaries to the point where I will actually refuse to watch them? There is a trend these days towards [...]

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Scuba – Triangulation (2010)

By | July 1, 2010

Angular and edgy, this music is inescapably urban. Dubstep is the unromanticised sound of the inner cities. Apparently drawing on the complete history of electronic music, Scuba produces a harder, cleaner sound than say, Burial. Fractured, kaleidoscopic and twitchy, this is the sound of the internet after everyone has gone to sleep

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Writing a book on freelancing

By | July 1, 2010

I’m writing a book!!! I’m very excited about this. Ever since I wrote ‘Monkeys’ – my powerfully insightful poem about the nature of monkeys – at the age of 7, I’ve fantasised about writing a book. Now, at the age of 32, I have my first opportunity to write a book, and it’s really exciting. [...]

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