I saw them at the supermarket. A clear crinkly cellophane packet, the contents on display for all to see. To me it looked as if there were a hundred sleeping possums, all curled up their faces scrunched into a ball. Hundreds of them, all packed into the bed of that bag that hung on the [...]

Tuesday 21 April I could take a trailer, leave it all behind I’m loving’ it I’m lovin it Let free wind in the window Blowin’ us around I’m lovin’ it Lovin’ it No-thing gonna stop me Wai-ting for the end of the day I’ll sing for my supper all the way Oh yeah OLD FASHIONED [...]

Just this morning evidence of its presence, a yellow stain on the edge of the untainted white fingers of the can opener, a yellow stain, like nicotine – should I be quizzing it? Asking if it’s started smoking? Last night the kitchen was full of curried air, It wasn’t an active ingredient I added, but [...]

Varnished nails in showroom polished red need to be retouched re-coloured. Solution: nail polish remover. Death in a bottle for the hardened layer of acetate. A clear and present danger. She twists the top of the bottle. The polished nail hears it as a death rattle, the shaking of a cobra’s tail. The top separates [...]

You think you’ve played it smart, you’ve spun around on the towel, you’ve run down to the water – those grains of hot biting sand nipping at you heels. You’ve let the water clothe you with coolness before returning to your spot of carpeted real estate on the beach towel. It’s all good. At home [...]

THe big question is can I complete two albums – or at least get the backbones of two done in 3 months or so? There will be two on the go simultaneoulsy… Backlog: all the old songs that I haven’t yet recorded and Forelog: The ones I’m working on now and will create in the [...]

When you push that button on the front of your stereo, or ignite that Television with the remote control. When you start your car, or pick up your phone. It all begins right here with the circuit board. It’s a submarine running on silent just beneath the plastic surface of your favorite consumer product, no [...]

As the lights came up it took the corner position just to the left of the drums, the trumpet player counted them in and a slow swinging river of music started to burst from the banks of the stage. A purple light reflected in mauve coolness from the polished wood and a series of Cool [...]

It’s a commitment to actually go to a travel agent, a ticket with yourself that you really are going. You’ve seen that place in the shopping center, smelt it’s offerings several times as you’ve glanced past, almost being sucked into a brochure, always holding your head away but now you’re ready. You walk in and [...]

April 15 a colleague overheard saying “that’s the problem with teenage drinking, a bunch of young girls were flaunting it on a train attracting the attention of drunken uni students zooming in on them f’ in this f’ in that the girls were apparently an ‘insult to the profession’” April 12- Sunday walk Drooping rose [...]