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Death of the Novelist #5
2009-08-09 19:16:00 Yes, he read it all right. He looked at me as if I had a swollen cheek, looked sidelong into the corner, and even tittered in embarrassment. He crumpled the manuscript needlessly and grunted. The questions he asked seemed crazy to me. Saying nothing about the essence of the novel, he asked me who I ... More About: Writing , Death
Death of the Novelist #3
2009-07-03 20:18:00 I doubt my ability to ever capture in words the beauty this does in music. More About: Writing , Death
Death of the Novelist #2
2009-06-15 23:32:00 One day, someone might even ask why I stopped. I’ll reply that I found all the people I wanted to share the world I saw with. More About: Writing , Death
Death of the Novelist #1
2009-06-02 21:59:00 And the award for least effort put into a rejection response goes to… It almost makes me look back through rose-tinted specs at ‘Dear ……………… ;……….’; a form of address which always perplexed me more than a little. I mean, if you’re going to be made to feel utterly ephemeral to the person taking 10 seconds to ... More About: Writing , Death
Passacaglia
2009-05-22 14:22:00 I feel connected. Again I see the number 22, everywhere, much like I once saw combinations of B and 13. Sometimes I still do. I finally took the time to look it up – connotations of Revelation and a conjunction of the mundane and the fantastical. Sounds like me in a nutshell – living in ...
The Lonely Tale of King Furciel
2009-04-06 22:16:00 A cautionary tale for adult persons as to why one should not accept denominationally unstable wishes from strange fairies in forests. Written and scrawled by yours truly and read by John Rayment. More About: King , Tale , Lonely
Work in Progress
2009-04-04 14:01:00 A snapshot of a scribbled-in notebook. More About: Writing , Work , Progress , Work In Progress
Ben Leto on Resonance FM #2
2009-03-28 09:28:00 Click here to listen to last week’s show on Resonance FM with Arthur Fowler’s Allotment.
I?d rather stay in bed
2008-06-06 00:44:00 I can’t begin to describe how utterly arbitrary and purposeless my life feels. Every single act of volition is a lazy exercise in wasting time. But what happens if such exercise stops? What happens if I don’t waste time? The only answer - too much time. I can’t even write this properly. I can’t even ... More About: Stay
Lessons learnt for the son I?ll never have
2008-05-30 00:04:00 1) Don’t do that. 2) Music really does sound better through earphones. 3) The grass is always greener. Be happy with your lot, not unhappy over someone else’s. 4) Wear sunscreen. 5) Don’t bank with Abbey National. Ever. EVER. Unless of course you want to waste money, have high blood pressure and go grey before your time. In ... More About: Lessons
How not to brainstorm a sitcom
2008-05-26 14:04:00 An actual transcript… BEN: You know you said just go for the zeitgeist - y’know, like Amy Winehouse - take something old and make it modern? LITTLE ONE: Yeah. BEN: Like, put a modern spin on it by throwing in a few swear words and talking about being wasted? LITTLE ONE: Uh huh. BEN: So how about ‘The Two Ronnies’, only more modern: ‘The ... More About: Sitcom , Brainstorm
Morpheus reads Tim the Sheep
2008-05-23 12:50:00 It happened again, somehow more as teenage viscera than the teenage innocence of before but no less warm in effect. Only there were three this time. One was a boy - a cheeky, impudent libertine. Another was an ex, tacitly competing with me for the libertine’s attention’s. And one, curiously, was a girl. I know. ... More About: Morpheus , Sheep
This is it, by childhood and home
2008-05-20 21:37:00 fingers tense against the gnarled oak chest, clutching at drawers, scrambling, fumbling inside. i am blind, my vision having died in darkened rooms, blindfolded by dirty sheets and smothered by anything without an edge. paper cuts my skin as i claw within the dark for clues, for something soft and warm, familiar, breaking my knuckles ... More About: Childhood , Home
Nerd Joy
2008-05-19 00:55:00 At last reunited with my faithful Kodak cable, I’ve been able to finally transfer the many photos that have been sitting idle on my camera for the past few months since moving. More About: Nerd
Best Unsigned Artist Find in the Whole of Today Award
2008-04-25 11:40:00 goes to Bark Cat Bark! Have a listen Or a read It’s good. More About: Artist , Today , Find , Award , Unsigned
I heard a cow cough
2008-04-23 11:43:00 a st andrews breakfast - two cups of coffee and two marlboro lights, looking at 9am as it trails warm pools in its cloak across the valley opposite. brecon has never looked so pretty as regina sings, and sings and sings, daffs dancing all around me like teenagers at a concert waving unsteady lighter flames. ... More About: Writing , Cough
Beasts of the Finished
2008-04-22 00:20:00 13 chapters. 125,327 words. Two and a half years. And several grisly deaths, naturally. How better to quietly celebrate actually finishing a novel for the first time, than listening to Together in Electric Dreams, drinking a can of Becks lager and gnawing a slab of chocolate? More About: Writing
How to stay sane in West London
2008-04-03 01:29:00 I’d like you to meet my new cellmate, Mr Chauncey Rapscallion. I found him lying facedown, half drunk behind the radiator. He says he likes it there, that the fluff is comfy and the heat stops him thinking about crows. He’s going to keep me company during the rest of my sentence. Tomorrow night we’re ... More About: London , West , Lego , Stay
Leaving Highgate
2008-04-01 14:00:00 From the journal… Friday 22nd: The first day of summer I watch the leaves wave like abandoned wives beyond the glass as clouds roll majestically away behind them - moving west, always ever further west. I sit unblinking in my almost empty room and watch the world move, change and grow - the clouds cruising away like ... More About: Leaving
The first time you discovered microphone feedback
2008-03-17 22:53:00 read. just read. sit back with your feet up on white sheets and listen to owen. don’t fear the reaper. read, as you turn the pages of a tobacco-yellowed 1960s paperback just to feel them between your fingers. pretend you’re rich. pretend this is all just a novel and you’re holding your breath because you’re ... More About: Microphone , Time , Feedback , First Time
Anniversary
2008-03-04 09:41:00 Stupid things I remember about that love affair: We met at a friend’s house. A huge house. I can’t remember the first thing who said to who, only that he was tired and wanted to go to bed, too polite to say so when I stopped him outside his room to talk to him. I had ... More About: Anniversary
Why do I keep a blog?
2008-03-02 20:41:00 Saturday, 1st March, 1.43 pm - Highgate Wood Deep in the wood. No one could find me here without looking for me. Who would look for me? Called Little One - wanted somewhere to go whilst strangers view my flat and remind me of what I’m doing, of where I’m trying to go, of how I ... More About: Blog , Queen
An earthquake in London?
2008-02-27 02:10:00 1.10am The room just literally shook. Very gently, but very definitely. At first, with my quaint little history of petit mal and red wine, I thought it was just me, but a few other people say they felt something too. Was that an Earthquake in England just now? 1.23am The BBC is now reporting this More About: London
February Dregs
2008-02-19 15:23:00 Miss Havisham: burned to death Potter about. Diddle on work website. Scratch as iTunes peppers the day. Stare at the piles of unpacked books and unsorted clutter and feel like the end of university all over again. Door goes. Ignore it. Hear key at the door. Throw on dressing gown. Politely suggest to buzzarding estate agent ... More About: February
Blind Fate
2008-02-18 01:22:00 Sometimes when we don’t want to hear the answer to a question, it’s easier not to ask it. It doesn’t make the answer any easier to hear of course, regardless of whether you ask. More About: Fate , Blind
Blog for life: You?re Not The Only One
2008-02-10 20:57:00 The pretty Miss Peach has come up with a practical exercise for people who love the sound of their own keyboards. A small group of bloggers are putting together a book of short pieces by, surprisingly, other bloggers all over the world. You’re Not The Only One will be a collection of submissions from blogkeepers ... More About: Life , Blog
So long Camden Market
2008-02-10 04:42:00 The cynic in me can’t help but think that the recent fire will conveniently pave the way for a total redevelopment of the existing market as a whole. More About: Market , Long , Camden
The price of love
2008-02-07 12:09:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/713949 2.stm More About: Love , Price
With a kiss, with a sword
2008-02-07 04:14:00 I saw you from the bus. You mouthed something - could have been anything. It looked like three words, but I pretended it was four, five maybe. Even two. I pretended I couldn’t see through the years of unwashed dirt, clumsy finger marks and breath smeared across the glass. I watched instead the city kick ... More About: Kiss , Sword
Oh My Gods?
More articles from this author:2008-02-04 02:14:00 Now here is one thing I will certainly be watching at the cinema. The original series has also finally be scheduled for release in English on DVD this year. If you still don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, then watch the video below. To a certain generation: if you haven’t watched this since ... More About: Gods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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