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Monthly Archives: April 2026
David Sylvian: Forbidden Colours
One Listen. Been meaning to cover this song for a while, just got to it now. Didn’t quite do it justice. Started getting a bit more into the zone toward the end, but it wasn’t soon enough. Ah well. David … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged anguish, david sylvian, drift, floating, forbidden colours, forming, open, quietened, relation, roll, rumble, soothing, wrought
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One Thousand Word Challenge 296: Wrist Destruction Preparation
In a few minutes I will be engaging in wrist destruction over three hours. I’m not looking forward to it, but it’s a perk of the job or something. I don’t know. It will not be fun. It will not … Continue reading
One Thousand Word Challenge 295: Change, Again
Sitting here, doing a writing in Duoly Rob for the last time for this blog. Probably not the last time I sit here. I hope it’s not. A cold and quiet morning and it’s all nice and pleasant and all … Continue reading
Oceansize: Everyone Into Position Draft
I can’t say much about this draft, but it was originally written out for something and that something didn’t materialise, in part because for the first attempt I realised I didn’t have enough time to put forward something that actually … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Music
Tagged album, band, brood, everyone into position, fragility, monolithic, Oceansize, pummeling
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Horsehead: Burn
One listen. Here at the end I want to be writing more about Australian music. Can’t explain why and I want to be clear that there’s quite a few bits of writing to come that aren’t about Australian music. Just … Continue reading
One Thousand Word Challenge 294: Recompress
Need to do a bit of a decompress after that bit of writing that just came before this one just before this one. A bit of a decompress to recompress and then impress upon the insistence of my belligerence. Really … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged bright, small, moor, breeze, big, decompress, wonderment, elsewhere, recompress, kid, tickling
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One Thousand Word Challenge 293: Another Day Like Any Other
They woke up, stepped outside of their cave in the rock, walked down through the greenery and to a creek to gather water. They would then walk back, boil it, use it to clean and save some for themselves to … Continue reading
One Thousand Word Challenge 292: Morning
Been sitting here for over an hour. Starting the writing now. That’s an improvement, I guess. I’m sitting here with a dog. I’m sitting alone, and awake, and I’m sitting in silence. well, that’s a little lie. I’m sitting here … Continue reading
Grace Jone: Slave to the Rhythm Draft
I’d been meaning to write about Slave to the Rhythm for a while, but I had difficulty in working out how to go about doing so. I just churned this out now whilst listening to the album. It’s a base form … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Music
Tagged album, expressions, extension, grace jones, presence, reflections, slave to the rhythm, song, variance
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Mercury, Part 10
This is the last part of this draft I wrote for NaNoWriMo. Partway through sharing, I didn’t want to keep going as it’s really, really bad writing… as though that has ever stopped me before. But I kept going because I … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction
Tagged charges, cosmic, mercury, pond, retrograde, running, scream, technology, watching, woo
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Stupidity Hole 