WAS my Blog (Hey! I’m not really a blog I’m a magazine - but not your usual sort of) Magazine. BLOGZINE. It's stopped being anything now, as of April 9, 2008.
But what is online stays online, and what's here is what happened while it was happening. The Chinese above, in Pinyin, is huānyíng, and it means “Welcome” and it’s meant. The girl (pictured) is my television lawyer, just in case. E&D is (or was) a mix of poetry & reviews and sometimes charmingly gentle rhubarb (sometimes with hot custard); it has a heart of rolled gold & the word ‘acerbic’ (is that related to ‘cynical’?) doesn't come into it. There are music reviews too, of gigs at the local music halls. This bit was on hold for a while because I was in China for two years, but now I'm not, though I'm going back soon. Anyway, everything here is all a kind of mysterious (I’d like to say it’s sensuous but it isn’t) zone of gentle & benign happiness (whatever the hell 'happiness' is), where headaches disappear & people are friends, & your shoes never need cleaning, & I hope you enjoy it.
This is a re-designed site, launched in October 2006. You can view the original website, and all the stuff published there, by clicking here.
Oh, & if you want to find out about my poetry, please go to my Home-From-Home which is a site almost as heavenly as this one.
E&D is no longer accepting submissions of work for publication.
Remember That I Love You by Kimya Dawson
Sample track: Loose Lips [Listen]
Kimya Dawson features heavily on the "Juno" soundtrack, a soundtrack that's as wonderful as the movie. This LP is ok, too. It gets a little trying in places, but it's generally ok.
Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sample track: More News From Nowhere [Listen]
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I just got back to England. 15 hours flying time from Hong Kong to London, via Dubai ~~ to which has to be added the day and the night in Hong Kong seriously determined to be a good boy and not giving in to temptations (honestly, I was good; I'm not always good but this time I was good), the couple of hours pre-flight in Hong Kong airport, the four hour wait to transfer flights in Dubai (an airport with a singular shortage of anywhere to sit but lots of places to spend money), the 30 minute wait on the tarmac at London because there was no parking space, and another 30 minutes in which my brother, bless him, couldn't find his car.
It's going to be another couple of weeks, I think, before I actually get "home", by which I mean back to Nottingham ~~ where I have a new apartment waiting for me. But then I have to move all my stuff in and get organised and, of course, fix up internet service and all that shit.
So life here on E&D is still going to be a little patchy over the next few weeks, and dependent upon my access to a computer and time to do it. Please be patient.
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