A tide of traffic moving along the shorelines of tall buildings, a tide of words released from the floodgates of consciousness, flowing in a musical crescendo, the phonetic beat of sing song language. Tides of music rushing to the shores of your ears, whispering like receding waves on a long beach near sunset. Boats pulled [...]

He’s wearing his hard hat, sideways across a beach with excavator arms up in the air. CTV eyes left and right. Hovering on the sand, heading for a pool of salty water, somewhere in the rocks, the world is inverted looking up at you from underneath, a mirror. The sound of the waves cracking on [...]

Magic mushrooms , LSD, marijuana, ecstasy, all doing the same thing. Putting us into a different state, a place where we might bend the corners of reality and just peer under its covers. Carlos Castanada tripping on Mescalin, distilled from the cactus plant, psychosylibin, was that the thing that moved him to see dead relatives [...]

“Come, let’s make a nest” said one Indian Myna to the other. “Oh where shalt we do so”, the female tweeted back. “What about that fist sized hole on the verandah at Number 49″. “Oh yes sweet birdy dear”….. and so they’ve been doing something in there for the last couple of months ferrying twigs [...]

70’s TV shows, detectives in Chevrolets bashing around corners chasing crooks. Starsky and Hutch, the red and white charger, wheels spinning up to a steel blue haze. The smell of burning rubber on the streets, choking, hanging round like washing on a still day. The Sweeny theme, lying on the couch pretending I was asleep [...]

Itchy scratchy aaaaargh!, Pustules, with scabby hats, dots and pinpricks of sunspot activity all over me–aaargh. Lying steady trying not to rupture, get me a tongue suppressor something to bite down hard on.  Worse than a night of pea soup humidity, fingers and pointing bones of witchcraft all over me. Blankets are shredded and thrown [...]

Curly tongues rising off a lake at dawn, fingers  held to lips in silent statue.  A kettle rattling to the boil, wafers of it rising up to merge with the range hood. Pots on the boil, droplets condensing on the see through lid, a furrow of steam shooting straight out though a small hole. An [...]

We’re all in it together aren’t we? This great swimming pool of life, plying the lanes, up and down in monotonous daily routines, exercising our rights to breathe. Life waits for  no-one- you’ve just got to dive right in – even if you can’t swim – you soon find out. At the deep end you [...]

Down at Hyundai central the ’service centre’ is a gleaming fluro white facia, a veneer that hides a labyrinth of  spanners and hammers and jugs of oil and crinkled blue uniforms with dark greasy stains. Reception  is ‘professional’, courteous, positive, behind the scenes who knows? Is each  vehicle bay as neat and orderly as the [...]

It was so normal that I could no longer hear the static in my mind, the end of a vinyl record stuck in a groove, skipping back to the start of the large swirl stamped into the poly carbonate. Just like this thing was stamped into my brain by an elephant wearing jack boots while [...]