I wasn’t going to do a Monday Music this week, but then I started thinking about Richard Burton and decided that I wanted to put one out after all. So, for this week’s Monday Music, it’s all about WAR. What is it good for? Well, the odd decent piece of soundtrack as it happens. Here are […]
Read more "Monday Music 10 – 2018"A little while ago, I did one of my #whatthehaiku videos about Donna Hayward. It turned into quite a long poem comprising seven different haiku poems. I felt like I wanted to develop it a little bit and turn it into something else. I first thought about doing another sonnet to go with the ones […]
Read more "A Ditty for Donna"One of my favourite games of all time has to be Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It was my introduction to the GTA franchise and, although I was slow to get into it, it soon became just about as addictive a game as I can remember. It was a massive world to explore. So far […]
Read more "Monday Music 9 – 2018"More and more names kept coming to mind as I researched this piece. Putting them in order was a real pain and I had to think about a number of different criteria on which I would rank them. This included the scope of what they did and the reasons behind their actions and sometimes by how […]
Read more "The Top 50 Greatest Villains in Space!"I was thinking back to an old video game this morning: Bioshock 2. Not that old, granted, but it seems like a lifetime ago that I played through it. The first Bioshock game was great but the sequel really pulled out all the stops and made for a really immersive (pardon the pun), creepy experience. […]
Read more "Monday Music 8 – 2018"So, a new trailer has just dropped for Cameron’s Twin Peaks Fan film project, Queen of Hearts, in the last couple of days. Here’s the link: The trailer takes us on a tour of Twin Peaks as we follow our Annie Blackburn through town on her way to… where? Cameron’s been to the Pacific Northwest […]
Read more "Queen of Hearts – New Trailer"Hi everyone, I knocked up another sonnet to stand by my earlier efforts for Laura Palmer and Agent Cooper. This one concerns the story of the dark force present in Twin Peaks: the inhabiting spirit, the evil that men do, the one known as BOB. Here is his story: The Story of BOB Loathsome spirit […]
Read more "The Story of BOB – a sonnet"Hi everyone, Thought I’d take a minute to promote some great work that has been done by a friend of mine, Frank Cronogue. Frank’s been busy producing a series of YouTube shows called “World of Strange” about some of the stranger things that go on in our world. I’ve been severely sleep-deprived in the past couple […]
Read more "Enter the “World of Strange”"Holding a baby as I type so I’ll be keeping this one brief. I chose Francis Monkman’s wonderful theme from The Long Good Friday. Monkman was part of the prog rock band, Curved Air. Also during his career he has worked with The Shadows, Elton John and Brian Eno. His theme has an icy coldness […]
Read more "Monday Music 7 – 2018"Had some time on my hands this afternoon and put together this quick palindrome about the darkness in old woods. Hope you like it. Palindrome for Dark Woods We as complicated creatures perceive, Darkness and vile things, Among trees vast, tall. Black and hungry fire burns, Hot and diseased, Wings spread across, Branches and leaves, […]
Read more "Palindrome for Dark Woods – a poem"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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