Hi everyone, This week, I thought I would look back at my childhood and give a couple of examples that I remember from long car journeys growing up. The car looked something like this. A Ford Sierra. Ours was blue. Back in the old days there were two cassettes that were destined to come on anytime […]
Read more "Monday Music 6 – 2018"Right, now I’m into the story a bit more. Having cleared out Eos and got as far as that can go for the time being, I did all the enforced conversation stuff on the Tempest and then decided to immerse myself in the next bit of the story by flying off to Aya, home of […]
Read more "The Andromeda Experience – 5"Hi everyone, OK, this is my last Twin Peaks poem (besides the daily haikus) for a while. I had one more to get out of me but I’m aware that I’ve been filling news feeds with this stuff and I should probably stop for a time before I outstay my welcome. This last form I wanted to […]
Read more "The Battle of the Bob Bubble – a poem"Hi there, My latest attempts at Twin Peaks inspired poetry in different forms. These are cinquains, five-line poems which follow a specific syllable structure: 2-4-6-8-2. I tried to have a bit of fun with these and not make them too serious. Couldn’t help but go that way with one or two, though. Harry, Doomed in loving, […]
Read more "Cinquains for Lucy, Audrey, Candie and others"Just thought I’d experiment a little bit with another poetic form: the palindrome. It’s very hard to get it right and to make sure that the second half makes sense. Quite happy with this for a first attempt, though. Agony is freedom, And lodges fill spirits As darkness pulls light away, Longer no kindness can […]
Read more "The Lodge Palindrome – a poem"This is the last of these posts that I’m going to dedicate to my favourite bands for the time being. I’m going to move back to doing a particular piece of music each week. The last entry I’m going to do isn’t actually a band at all. I’m going back to the USA to talk […]
Read more "Monday Music 5 – 2018"Hi everyone, I woke up at 4am to find out that I’d won something for my writing for the first time EVER. As you can imagine, I’m overjoyed. You can see the details and read my winning entry by following the link below. (Beware, the entry deals with troubling issues that some may find disturbing). […]
Read more "Yay, I’m a prize-winning writer!!!"I was going to save these until Saturday, but then I saw that it was Kyle Maclachlan’s birthday today, so I thought I’d move it up the list a little. Following on from my poem, A Sonnet for Laura Palmer the other day, I decided to keep on going and write another one; this time about […]
Read more "Two Coopers – Two Sonnets"I missed a couple of weeks due to various things, but I’m back with the next in my journey through some of my favourite bands. I came back to Britain last time, and I’m staying there, going north to Scotland to talk about… Big Country Big Country were formed in Dunfermline in 1981 by Stuart Adamson […]
Read more "Monday Music 4 – 2018"Hi everyone, This is my 200th post so I wanted to do something a little out of the ordinary to mark the occasion. Since I started the website I’ve written about lots of different things from my book to my life to Blake’s 7 and other science fiction stuff and about Twin Peaks. Someone’s editing […]
Read more "A Sonnet for Laura Palmer"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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