December 29, 2014
I’m never sure what exactly is meant by ‘creativity’. The word brings to mind an off-hand, highly-strung activity: the artist thrashing out a masterpiece in one sitting before settling back into their neuroses. While they start with inspiration, most creative pursuits involve a process of continual craft and re-evaluation. In this respect, they resemble a lot of seemingly very […]
December 23, 2014
I’d like to offer something different for your reading pleasure: a sci-fi short set in a bleak colonial future. Merry Christmas! Technicalities I joined the mechanised division in 2505 after graduating with a 412.3/1 kill average. My first co-pilot was a greyhair named Johnson. She’d been planetside for too long. She mumbled to herself and her kill […]
December 14, 2014
I attended a mindfulness meditation retreat a couple of weeks ago. As I lay on my back forming an intention not to prod the meditator below me with my foot again, some writing on the rafters caught my eye: A work of art can only be comprehended by looking at it and no description is a substitute for this. […]
December 12, 2014
Here’s a new track, ‘Dopamine Dream’. It’s essentially a five minute guitar solo. I learnt to play guitar during the Britpop years when such monstrous grandstanding was forbidden. A shame really, as the guitar is one of the most expressive instruments there is. Anyway, there’s something to be said for monstrous grandstanding when you’re the […]
December 11, 2014
i. When Shigeru was twelve, he found a cave no one else had explored. The other boys avoided that part of the wood. Their base bordered the hillside near a soldier’s grave now used as a bookmark for civic grief but Shigeru went on deeper forays into the forest. He staged one man plays under […]