Archive For August, 2010
I have to write vows. Well, I don’t have to, but I want to. But where does a person even start to put into words the things their love has given to them? How will I verbalise the feelings I felt when I found out that I believe again? That all the romance in life [...]
Flyer by D1 DesignsI’m thrilled to announce that after two years since our last live show together, Shelf Life will finally be playing live again in less than 10 days. Back in the old haunt, we’ll be playing Rubber Soul again during my forthcoming trip…
This weekend gone, the Fam and I attended the wedding of my cousin and his glamourous bride. My cousin resides on the side of our family that we don’t see that often, and by that token, are still quite pleasant to be around. It was a lovely day, full of love and genuine joy. I [...]
I was very happy to be part of the countdown to Black History Month at Red Roaster on Thursday. I’m not black, but I’m Swedish so I have a faint, I say faint idea what it’s like to be different. But as I said during my performance: I feel more comforta…
Ever feel like someone is sending you material for the amazing cult novel you always planned to write? You couldn’t make up some elements of my life, you really couldn’t.
I missed out Part Three for no particular reason….The following Saturday and the boys were back. Max spotted them before he got to the pipes but he decided to keep going. He’d found a Stanley knife in his dad’s toolbox and felt its comfort heavy …
I received a rather lovely motivational email from my Fat Club leader on Friday. She wrote to say that she was concerned by my apparent loss of heart in what I was achieving and that my low mood seemed uncharacteristic. It is true that last week was a tough one and that the strain of [...]
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.A nicely produced little video here that gives some idea of the scale of the Internet, at least in terms of social network users last year. Attractive use of colours, fonts and images too, I thought.
Whilst sitting in my mother’s powder room last night, I picked up some loo reading material and was reminded that people are regularly asked for their Desert Island Discs on Radio 4. For any Brit reading this, it is somewhat of an institution and like, The Archers (or TV’s Coronation Street), is as old as time. [...]
A genuine oddity, cello, vocals and well, echo, this is as singular as it gets. Arthur Russell was the visionary genius behind Sleeping Bag records, a label that found favour with the genre hopping iconoclasts of the eighties club scene by fusing disco with the avant garde. This is a very different proposition, having more 
