How can you not love Keith Richards? Keith Richards has done enough. He need never do any more. His eminence (his, if you will, satanic majesty) is assured in all departments. Music. “Refreshments.” Life. Strip away all the music and the myth, the assumed-over-the-years sozzled aristo speaking voice, the bourbon-gargling, perma-scarfed persona.* You are left […]
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Is this the real life?
Real life? Just fantasy? Is it high time you took just one day out of life to escape from reality? What, truly, is life’s purpose? Is society nought but a cock-up? It is a truth all but universally acknowledged in blogging circles that around this time of year – as people head off on their […]
Illumine the whole of time
Depending on how you look at it, nothing is inevitable, or everything is. Inevitably, we have a certain amount of time. But how we spend that time, how we illuminate our lives and those of others, is not inevitable. You have a choice. There is only one thing that is guaranteed to happen in the […]
Writing fast, writing slow and the art of living imperfectly
Do you remember a time before the tweet, before the text, even before fingers gave way to thumbs, when writing was all about the flow or the scratch of pen on paper? In this day and age, you can write fast. Or you can write slow. Neither way to write is better than the other. […]
Breaking out into the clear
Gentle reader: When was the last time you lost yourself completely in what you were doing? Before we proceed on this line of enquiry, I must caution you that this post contains cussing words. The language, if you will, of the streets. The purest moment of creativity is the one from which you’re most absent. […]
When the chorus of souls sings to you
What does inspiration mean to you? What inspires you? Can you pinpoint the moment when inspiration strikes, when you can hear the chorus of souls singing to you? Long before Google first engooglated (and – I should stress – before other search engines, which also exist, first engineered any searches there were things called dictionaries. […]
May the Fourth, in a very real sense, be with you
Remember, the Fourth will be with you. Always. Well, for today, at least. Today is May the Fourth 2015. It being #StarWarsDay, there’s every reason to celebrate all things StarWarsulent. What’s your favourite thing about Star Wars? Or if you loathe the Wars – and you’ve every right to do so – then, why? I’ve […]
Mad Men: What is @JanieBryant’s favourite costume from the final episodes?
Mad Men is at an end. It’s delicate. But it’s potent. What will you miss most about the world of Don Draper and co? The elegance and decadence? The exquisitely paced storytelling? The clothes? Mad Men is perhaps the most perfect TV show there has ever been. In every detail. The lives of the characters […]
The single greatest tweet I have ever received
If you are one who tweets, what’s the single greatest tweet you have ever received? What combination of 140 characters or fewer has brought you the most joy and/or had you diving fastest for the “favourite” button? Gentle reader, I think I have just today (Saturday 25 April 2015) had tweeted unto me the single […]
Interrogate every beat
When you write, every word counts. No room for weak links. Why permit any half measures (as I’m sure Breaking Bad fans in particular will appreciate)? In writing – and indeed, in just about anything else you wish to do well – you need to interrogate every beat. /“Interrogate every beat.” I came across these […]
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