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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So this morning I get up and I'm going to Birmingham for a meeting, otherwise called a lunch, but while I'm munching on my morning breakfast cereal I look at The Guardian online and read about Tegan & Sara and there are two reasons why I think I might like them: Neil Young likes them, their latest record is produced by one of the blokes from Death Cab for Cutie, and they are said to sound poppy. OK, three reasons.
Half an hour later I have their new record on the computer and play it while I shower and get ready to go out. Yes, it's poppy and probably not the deepest or most original stuff you'll ever hear, but it's also very listenable when you're looking in the mirror trying to get your hair right.
The lunch was very nice, too. And all day, from the moment I walked out the door, while I was on the train to Birmingham, while I was at lunch, and while I was on the train home, I had the riff from Nick Cave's "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!" going through my head. It's a great riff, I think ....
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