March 2013
2 posts
January 2013
2 posts
December 2012
2 posts
My 2012 Jam Odyssey →
A tuneful review of my year.
We’re interested in your view about the fairness... →
The Conservative Party are doing a ‘poll’ on making the benefits system fairer. A more misleading and leading poll I have not seen in a long time. My attempt at answer to this shitty divisive ‘poll’.
I have answered yes to both of your questions but in truth I reject the premise of this survey. Firstly both of these questions are leading. Second it over simplifies the...
November 2012
1 post
Thought Bubble Setlist 2012
alewing:
EXCITING STORY AHEAD!
It was Thought Bubble again, and I was on the decks again - and for the LAST TIME! Because those old decks were fighting me every inch of the way, resetting after I’d cued up tracks, generally acting old and grumpy and convincing me I can do a better job of deejaying with an app on a phone. So next year that’s what I’ll do.
Luckily, nobody noticed the teething...
October 2012
2 posts
“In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against...”
– Thomas L Friedman - Why I am Pro-Life (via jonic)
August 2012
3 posts
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Spitfire
My sister was at the Battle Proms this year. I’ve never really seen a Spitfire flying before but she has captured one here, it sounds beautiful. I can also imagine how terrifying they could be.
Spitfire at the Battle Proms
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Not the Only One
Happy to find out I’m not the only one in town with a curiosity with our cemeteries. Robert Reinhardt has been taking photos of Edinburgh cemeteries for a decade now and has an exhibition, called Sleep, on at the Central Library in Edinburgh.
He’s been getting quite a lot of traction in the press. Locally the Evening News has picked up the story but I found out from an interview on the Today...
WatchTreat your ears right. Listen to this track.
July 2012
4 posts
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Sunday
Final day. Didn’t get up to much but a pal did come around and help me tweek the gears on my bike.
Reviewing the week: it’s been good but in ways I didn’t expect. I am a lot more confident on my bike around Edinburgh (despite quality of the roads) and glad to know there is so much more for me to explore. Learnt a good deal more about the history of Edinburgh, Leith and Scotland. And finally got...
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Saturday
Saturday was mostly hangover and didn’t get much done other than a trip out to the Borders to see friends. Landscape is stunning. Sometimes bleak but always stunning.
June 2012
8 posts
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Friday
The rain has put a dampener on all our plans. Still made it out to the botanic in the morning, really should have left it to the afternoon when the sun came back. Still it was a good walk even in the showers. The place smells wonderful!
Chinese Hillside. A little hillside showing many of the plans available in China. Many of these plans will not survive further south because it is too warm.
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Thursday
Not updating you photos will catch up with you… Today I have mostly spent in front of the computer, I did however make it out to the National Portrait Gallery (still not made it to the Chapel of the Hammermen).
National Portrait Gallery, Queen Street. Been here before but not since they refurbished it. Good news is they’ve have not touched the good bits (the Great Hall) and improved the rest. The...
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Wednesday
Today’s plan was to start by visiting the Chapel of the Hammermen, but unfortunately I didn’t check the opening times.
Greyfriars Kirkyard. I think I have found my second favourite graveyard. I’ve been in before but not checked the memorials up against the Flodden Wall. Like the North Leith Churchyard the memorials stretch back to the 17th century. You can clearly see the change in fashion from...
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Tuesday
Today began with no clear plan, just a vague idea, but solved by just getting on my bike. Ride from Newhaven to Portabello taking in things as I went by.
Newhaven harbour. The smallest of Edinburgh’s harbours nestling in the shelter of the Port of Leith . I think I caught it on the most perfect of days. It was sunny but not oppressive and calm with the smell of sea in the air.
Platinum Point,...
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Monday
First day. Girlfriend delivered to the train station. Cores done. What now? Balls failed to spend Friday/Saturday/Sunday planning. Okay time to combine cycling with long time idea to visit all of Edinburgh’s cemeteries.
Quickly consulting the map I decided to change that to visit some of Edinburgh’s cemeteries.
Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street. Contains a memorial to the Gretna rail disaster,...
Freedom Days
Satirical acts of disobedience against offical state propoganda.
I have much respect for Pussy Riot and the way they stand up to the Russian state; a tought job. In Syria Freedom Days have been standing up to the regime with humour and inventivness. In September they dyed the Barada river (Damascus’only water way) and fountains in the capital red. They have hidden sound systems in...
May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
5 posts
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
March 2012
11 posts
Budget Report
My mum sent me a copy George Osborne’s budget email to the Conservative Party. It’s not that well thought out but I needed to say something then, or never would.
‘Not been listening to the budget coverage that much; to much spin from everyone at the moment. But I did hear a good point on the 50p tax rate, bringing it in might not have been a good idea but now people have got...
On Zen
‘Zen’ is the Japanese equivalent for the Dhyâna, which ‘represents human
effort to reach through meditation zones of thought beyond the range of
verbal expression’.
- page 39, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, by Inazo Nitobe.
‘If myths are one door through which the movements of men’s minds can be traced, their vision of the universe ‘entered into’, metaphors are not, as they are in modern times, a conscious, artificial, baroque embellishment attacked by those French critics of Vico’s time who contrasted such luxuriance unfavourably with the classical plainness and clarity of the writers...
February 2012
3 posts
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A Worf emoticon. Until told otherwise I claim it as mine!
January 2012
7 posts
3 May. A distressing call today from Dr C., the oncologist who looked after my friend Anne during her last illness. He talks about hospital services being deliberately run down and the difficulties of ward care due to shortage of staff but it’s only gradually I realise that what he wants is for me to try and write a play about it. I explain what a slow worker I am and how long the trek from...
one hundred yen lite: So I'm in this band,... →
jonic:
…and on Friday we did a gig and that gig got a review and it’s here on the Internet, no look, there: www.oneandother.com/articles/review-wild-stallions-at-the-duchess/
There’s a video, too, if you want to see me pretending to be a frontman when really I’m just shifting my weight and trying…
