so the top 3 albums i heard this year were 3 life Fantastic – Man Man – http://manmanbandband.com/ ‘Catchy songs with an off kilter edge musically’ 2 Ask Me This – Alcoholic Faith Mission – http://alcoholicfaithmission.com/ ‘gorgous music, with a fragility and power to it’ 1 Circuital – My Morning Jacket [...]
So here I am once more. In the space of trying to gain some perspective on 2011, The happenings, the non happenings The gains, the losses The good things, the bad stuff The love I have shown, the species where love was absent. And as I go through this space of reflection I listen to [...]
Advent is a period of waiting for me.
I don’t know where or when this waiting will end. (dec24th is a good guess)
I spent most of today waiting
Waiting for buses to arrive
Waiting in rooms
Waiting for children to sleep
As I waited snow fell.
The known world was made new.
My book was talking about the difference between utopia then and utopia now.
How society had changed.
Where is the place of waiting.
I drove home in a large queue of slow moving traffic, as the snow forced us to patiently travel together, at a pace, slowly.
And now
I wait.
Happy Birthday by the Innocence Mission When you wake up sun will shine. We will not go under any cloud. Let balloons go up in town, ring out every bell. Happy birthday, beautiful, all the birds of this day sing a song, sing a song. Dream of trains carrying you through the state parks with [...]
On Sunday morning i was listening to Alain de Botton. He was talking about our conversation skills and why actually some enforced stuffiness/preparation can actually help us engage and make for a better conversation that a turn up and hope for the best conversation. (Click the box below to hear it.) Alain de Botton on [...]
Today we saw two older gentlemen, sit down in rooms next to each other, and answer questions form groups of men and women. Both run huge operations, each employing about 50000 people. They both sat in dark jackets. Only one had a hat though. The difference? Sir Paul Stephenson had resigned, Rupert Murdoch hadn’t. One [...]
On Monday morning I woke around 4.20am it was cold and i got up to check my daughter was warm enough. I returned to bed as noted through my hazy sleep that the ladies on radio4/ the world service, were very fivelive-y. throwing to interviews, everything was pacy and punchy. I didn’t get the reason. [...]
Laconic Hegemony vol. 4 is available for you to download. Laconic Hegemony is a mixtape which i irregularly make up and give away to my friends. Volume 4 is a selection of songs which i think will be prefect for those summer drives, all mixed up in a neat selection. It lasts for about an [...]
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Hot Local news, “Cycle lanes boost safer traffic.”
Filed in politics, small news, wonderinHot local news. “Cycle lanes boost safer traffic. Cycle lanes are to be installed between Lanark and Hyndford Bridge. New signs, road markings and coloured surfacing will highlight the route to both cyclists and drivers. The work is the first phase of a project that will create a new route between Lanark and Biggar which [...]
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