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Dex,Wrong time, wrong space, wrong tune. April 05 ALL GOOD THINGSI love the features of Windows Live Spaces but this place has become dead as the proverbial. I guess I'll keep it in existence but I don't really intend to keep updating it that regularly. If you are after that kind of level of updating then go to my MySpace site.
If you are just bored and want something to do, follow this link! 
March 29 WARPEDA lot of existence can seem cyclical. What goes around, comes around. Moods go up, then they go down. People say nice things, then they say bad. Ce la vie. It's the natural order of things. But then.........is mankind still natural? I read a while back a book by De Bono 'Teach Yourself How to Think.' De Bono's basic premise was that the mind has a tendency to veer towards the familiar so, when it comes to doing anything, the brain prefers to fall into ruts. Effectively, we do what we did yesterday because it's what we know how to do and it is easier to do it again than it is to do anything new. Rocket science not! Animals have patterns. People have patterns. However, the human animal can break cycles and patterns of behaviour and that breakage comes from the mind itself. Realisation is a powerful tool.
March 22 VILLAIN!Your results: You are Magneto
March 14 THERMOPYLAECurrent mood:  contemplative
Strange stuff. Anyone who knows me, or passes through this blog, knows that I do write the odd bit of poetry. Most of my stuff is published on an internet site called poemhunter.com. For the past few months one of my pieces has been consistently receiving a significantly higher number of hits than any single work of mine. This has confused me as I don't even consider the piece, Strategos, to be one of my better works. However, the penny has recently dropped. Just the other day I happened to be in a hotel and unusually (I say unusually as I don't own one at home) was watching TV. Johnathan Ross was reviewing a new film called 300 which tells the tale of the Battle of Thermopylae, undoubtedly the most famous battle in classical history. And it was Thermopylae that was the subject of my poem Strategos. Talk about collateral interest! lol! Anyway, I shall be going to see 300 when it hits the cinemas. It looks good. And although based on historical events, the movie itself takes its inspiration for the means of portrayal directly from no less a personage than Frank Miller. Neat.
March 11 BANDAGEThanks to Eve's 'Dunc' for providing a head's up on Angel Spit . This is a pared back industrial outfit with more than a smidgen of punk influence. However, they are also a band that give an impression of having invested as much time, effort and creative ability into their marketing and image rather than musical substance. The T-shirt designs, for example, are sublime and really simplistically iconographic - and therefore hardhitting with it.
I wish I could say the same for my favourite steampunk band Abney Park . They have the tunes and the talent, and their own look, but they just are not as in your face. But maybe that's not a bad thing. Laid back tunes for laid back people. There is a lot to be said for vintage. Certainly the fashions are, personally, more appealling rather than the more chaffing materials of the fetish side of the alternative community. The only real difficulty is in getting hold of Abney Park albums in the UK. If you want to try some other steam punk you can do an awful lot worse than Vernian Process.
March 03 PIRATE QUOTESWhy join the navy when you can be a pirate? It is when they count their booty that pirates become mere thieves. Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Today I am 38. Hoist the Black Flag!
March 02 SLEEPAaarrgh! I am awake! I;m not supposed to be up for another hour at least! And I've already been awake an hour! I know that traditionally we, as human beings, are supposed to average eight hours sleep a night. For years now, though, I appear to usually be operating on six hours a night. It's pretty much become my usual pattern only extended if I've had a pint or several the evening before. Usually I'm not too bothered by that as I stay awake a bit later and then arise, refreshed for work at a usual hour. However, recently I've been a bit bored in the evenings and I've been hitting the hay earlier. That results in me rising earlier! So I find myself in the dark at 5am wondering how to kill some time before the day even starts. NO! Keep that suggestion to yourself!
March 01 'WARE THE IDESStating the obvious, it is the first of March! And it is all kind of fun! I finished work early and I've taken off the whole weekend as a long weekend in order to celebrate (or commiserate) another birthday. And the fun starts here! I've ate, drunk and been merry all day and plan to maintain that pattern right through until Monday! If that ain't a good plan I have no idea what is! Right now I'm chilling with a good movie.........can't beat it.
February 26 I WENT TO SEE A MAN ABOUT A DOGWell, actually I didn't. Between work and moving flat I've been pretty damned busy recently. So busy in fact, that work whisked me away from the cosmopolitan wonders of the glorious capital, London, to temporarily plonk me in the provincial cities of Newcastle and Leeds in no short order. Was I impressed?
Hey, I love Leeds. A great city where I lived and worked for a while, just at the tail end of it's great Goth heyday. Now it's even more thriving and bustling. Not totally sure I want to live there though. Work also got me to the heart of Geordieland - Newcastle upon Tyne. It's the first time I've actually spent any time in the city. I'd passed through a few years back doing some research work that had taken me along Hadrian's Wall and into deepest darkest rural Northumbria. This time I stayed in the city, catching the tail end of the Chinese New Year festivities. I even managed a quick tour taking in the Gateshead Millennium Bridge (which is absolutely fantastic and makes the London Millenium Bridge look quite crap really) and the old castle (albeit technically the 'new' castle which lends it's name to the city - the Normans built a few 'new castles' across Britain and Ireland. You even get some on the continental mainland - Neuchatel for example). Anyway I digress. It's been years since I've had a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale. Being in a watering hole I spied a bottle and, being wise to the cultural subtleties, I order it and a half pint glass even using the correct nomenclature (Newcastle Brown Ale being affectionately called a 'bottle of dog' for reasons I must google at a later date). I'm in the process of pouring from bottle to glass when one of the people I was meeting says 'I can tell you not from around here. Only tourists drink that stuff!' Talk about crestfallen. I thought it would be like drinking Murphys in Cork but, alas, no. Modern marketing has a lot to answer for. Current mood: February 16 SECOND WINDCurrent mood: contemplative
Lo and behold. Another day, another dollar and back on line! Just moved flat and have finally got sorted to get back onto the World Wide Web. My first blog post for a while. A lot has happened and it's very much a new start. Change combines sadness and joy. It is. perhaps, the natural order of things. What a world! What a world! Three cheers for the wonder of the universe! Huzzah!
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