3 Signs

So today I have been clearing out my room. Amongst the many artifacts found was a sprial bound notepad that I used to use in the days of presenting shows on the short-lived Cambridge Cafe Radio.

What really intrigues me about this is the fact that on the right hand side of one of these pages is a list headed '3 signs'.

Item one is: I'm not stressed + 1.5

Fair enough I could have been doing a list of mantras for some self-affirmation technique or something. Though only saying half of it the second time round leads to it reading 'I'm not' which has not connotations in the world of being positive.

Item two: Spagetti.

Which could be on a shopping list, but doesn't go with anything else in this collection. Still food can have feel good about the self qualities. The third item on the list cannot have this vibe though.

Item Three: running into walls.

Now there is no way this fits in the world of self-affirmation and positive belief techniques, unless you study Karate. And I don't, and even then would not have anything to do this as a passtime.

Alan Carrn't

So we have played at the Bishop Stortfords excellent Acoustic Club a couple of times. One of the guys there killed himself a few weeks ago, and I kind of have this poem floating round in my system thats just jumped onto the screen. Its not a polished piece of work, and it may never be finished, but as it stands its Alans funeral tomorrow (well today for those who do this thing by hour as opposed to sleep patterns), so here are the words:
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He couldn't play the drums no more
The hands couldn't do it right
But it was more than his body
That was left paralysed.

The rhythm taken away
More than cells that died
Couldn't stick it out
Hello suicide

He didn't drink.
He didn't smoke.
But thats no protection.
Against a stroke.

Bad things
Bad things
Bad things
can happen to
Good folk.

Thomas Truax magical man!

Just come back from an evening supporting Thomas Truax and Um. I've been really, really blown away by the headline act tonight - Thomas Truax is a fantastic stage show. With an array of homespun archaic instruments but creating beautiful moving works of sonic art at the same time, the man earns my respect.

I haven't felt so inspired to explore new ways of creating music by an act I've seen for a long, long time.

Unfortunately one of these ideas involves a vibrator!

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