I’ve been sitting on this post for some time, unsure whether I should hit that publish button or not. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about writing, it’s that one should not put words together in anger.
I don’t have much of a temper, but I’m a natural born shit stirrer. When I realised our own [...]

Anyone who knows me will have seen this post coming, possibly for years. I would say that what I don’t know about the Beatles isn’t worth knowing, but in fact I already know quite a few things that aren’t worth knowing.
I spent a lot of time as a teenager listening to records. I spent a [...]

Okay, so this is where you live and die by your twelves. I was a music tragic long before being a literature tragic, so this was a hard list to compile, especially when iTunes can now summarily describe your music collection as 16 days and 14 hours in total running time. And that discounts some [...]

Oh man, have I been procrastinating today or what? I’ve not long finished reading High Fidelity and it led me to start compiling an all time top ten.
I couldn’t do it, so it turned into twelves.
The first list was Books. Easy? Sort of. What criteria do you use? The books that are important or the [...]

Among the ridiculous number of simultaneous projects I currently have on the go, a quick thought on collaborations.
I used to play in a band. A duo really, but we wrote a lot of music together, always collaboratively. Sometimes we split the music and lyrics (I rarely wrote lyrics by the way, I’m very much a [...]