Category Archives: Music

Five-Hundred Word Challenge 730: Describing Songs

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

Chimes. Something soft. Muted. Close, yet seemingly distant. Hidden behind something. Hidden away. Not completely hidden, but still not entirely there. The sounds skirt the edges of hearing; they are there, they are faint but they are distinct. They draw … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 690: Back to the Beginning

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

Slight stabbing motion in the sounds but that’s okay as this is the building to something else. It is building to something bigger, but not so massive that it will topple over. All of this is precise and there is … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 671: Some Words on Some Songs

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

Spindly limbs and a low roar leads to some push and a slight bit of aggression, but of course a gentle voice will carry it all back down and somewhere closer to a world of calm familiarity. Long the sticks … Continue reading →

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One Thousand Word Challenge 43: Attempt to Write About Music

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

Alright, now where was I? Other than home, I mean. I think that today I’m going to try and discuss something about music, but we’ll see how it all goes. Maybe it will end up being about something else. There … Continue reading →

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One Thousand Word Challenge 42: Playlist in my Head

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

I just spent far, far too long whittling down twenty-something hours of music to somewhere fifteen minutes shy of seven hours to create a playlist of calm(ish) music in order to write to this morning. I think it can be … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 637: Writing About an Album

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

This has a strong rising feel this particular song, but ultimately it doesn’t seem to go anywhere. It’s just a nice break, I guess. Maybe it’s meant to mean or represent something, but it doesn’t really go anywhere. Maybe it’s … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 633: Something About Music and Being in the Moment

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Stupidity Hole

Sometimes when you hear something just gliding and rising and falling, you’ve got to let it wash over you. You’ve got to let the beat and the rhythm carry you along and lose yourself to the music, despite how much … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 532: A World and a Beat

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Stupidity Hole

So Mark Hollis died and time passes on by and things are going on beyond for far longer than the clouds that drift on through the endless expanse of sky that seems to hang above us all. It was the … Continue reading →

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A Short Set

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Stupidity Hole

So it finally happened. Someone decided that it was a good idea to let me anywhere near a stage and play my own, ego boosting music. I got there far too early, but I wanted to be punctual, so punctual … Continue reading →

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 473: Here are The Sounds

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Stupidity Hole

Here are the sounds. They come in, marching one by one throughout all of our lives intertwine themselves in a scale falling down whilst hitting a baseline, then lead up to a string of split vocals and onto something else … Continue reading →

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