Beastie Boys: A close encounter in 1994 – exactly 30 years ago. Memories that feel simultaneously like yesterday and from another lifetime.
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Jeremy Beadle, the unlikely Grateful Dead festival promoter
Unlikely but true: 1980s UK TV type Jeremy Beadle helped organise and promote the 1972 Bickershaw festival, featuring the Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Donovan and more.
The white-hot space
When you are on a winning streak, there will inevitably come a moment when you are not. Once you’re out of that white-hot space, how do you adapt to life on the other side?
MJCarty snapshots December 2023
Belated cybermen, unexpected badgers and grunge memories! A few personal highlights from December 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt: I’ll never be the same because of you
“I love both the reality and the meaning of Madonna.” A special guest post by Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt on how Madonna has inspired him to live “a deliberate, provocative and vivid life” of reinvention and celebration.
After the sun
How do you feel, after the sun has gone? There is beauty everywhere in the arrival of autumn.
The value of failure
What did you learn from your greatest failure?
Don’t waste your time
Each beautiful soul we lose lives on in our hearts. We owe it to them and to ourselves to keep their memory and their spirit alive, and to live our lives to the full.
MJCarty snapshots May 2023
Cybermen, (coincidental) smileys and spam! A few of my personal highlights from May 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Nothing is real?
John Lennon’s Beatles masterpiece Strawberry Fields Forever tells us “nothing is real”. Kevin Barry’s beautiful Lennon novel Beatlebone suggests nothing is real except the present moment.
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