A black hole in your personal universe, a void, an abyss that doesn’t seem to end, a long way down, falling, falling, numb and cold. Lost in a winter wilderness of unbelief, sour milk, bad apples all rolled into one. Walking through an earthquake zone, the world shattered , jagged edges of Nine Eleven still [...]

Personal relationships, the tasks we perform, the jobs we do, the responsibilities we take on, the mortar of day to day living. Our commitments keep the whole machine running, imagine half the world decided they’re not going to participate – if some segment of society such as garbage collectors go on strike, then cracks start [...]

IN our little town the high school had the proportions of an aircraft carrier, huge. It was facelessly plying its way through a sea of knowledge with us little plankton being made ready to be fed to the giant whale of society, but can’t say it really got you ready for it. That was more [...]

Some people are just full of it aren’t they? Brown waffle shoots out of their mouth as if it were the arse of a cow, words plip and plop all over the place until a nicely rounded pile of stuff has filled the air. The thing is how long do you stand it? Do they [...]

Every second Friday night, the highlight of our  lives was a band called ‘Deep Freeze’. I’m pretty sure they did bluesy stuff, but, the hit of the night for me was always Bill Hailey’s, rock around the clock. For whatever reason that one got the bones jumpin’ and jivin’, rockin’ and rollin’. I don’t even [...]

Five years old I go down to the sweet shop on the corner- the one that’s now a security store. I walk in and the aroma of boiled lollies, of ‘teeth’ those fake pink gums, of sherbet bombs is pure heaven to this child’s eager taste buds. I wander round making mental selections, putting them [...]

Hands dancing and jumping over black and white slots, translating black and white dots into a sonic fusions, a complexity of timbres that combine to make music: pleasing to the ear. Tap on a key and the piano pushes back experience tells you how much, how far. Metronomic black and white beat of the time [...]

A hard one – is it a friend of anger? Would you need to feel the full blooded pounding hot rage of anger first and then move into contempt later? A tide, a bad apple you’ve bitten into unwittingly, because surely some event has happened where somebody has taken you for a ride. Like someone [...]

Katey had chickens – last time we were there anyway, they were all happily pecking around outside their coop, the coop protected by looping lines of chicken wire – protecting them from foxes or any other wild sort of animal and keeping them in their place.  Inside their castle they stared out through the dull [...]

Folding glass doors reveal flashes of red in a hangar of dimness until the alarm fires off. Then they scurry like ants moving about donning yellow patched jackets and uniforms lit up like lighthouses. The portrait doors begin swinging upwards and red flashing warning lights spin through echoes and reverberations of light. Deisel fumes fill [...]