August 22, 2015
Gustave Moreau – Perseus and Andromeda. 1870. Perseus’ Flight Medusa’s murdered head drips blood into the sea. Curls twitch. Her filthy mane, dead but possessed by hate, disgorges poison through my grip. Even the white waves thundering below, Neptune’s loose cavalry, no longer gallop beneath winged shoes. They’re petrified by curdled Gorgon’s blood, gold calderas where […]
August 19, 2015
I’ve cobbled together a playlist for People Are Guitars. I started recording these instrumental tracks in Cornwall, which is where the title ‘Do Nothing Beach’ came from. Except I couldn’t do nothing and started playing around with two new toys: Ableton Live and a Fender Strat. I tried to play some sparkling arpeggios like you hear on early Jimmy Eat World […]
August 16, 2015
As far as I know, none of history’s greatest philosopher-poets had their best insights while holding a soiled cat litter tray. But there I was, in the garden after midnight, seeking truth and a clean gravel-filled receptacle for Mr. Biggington. The valley was cool and quiet. I looked up from the decking to see a […]
August 13, 2015
I’m chuffed to have some poems in Tom’s hip new zine, Blurb. It’s an outlet for writers at the publishing house I used to work at. The theme is ‘summer’ and there are some great turns: a poignant Island Ballad; an alternative beach body guide; a monologue on impermanance from a family of clouds; and Tom’s perfect […]
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