It was mid-winter in Miami. I was there for a mixture of business and pleasure… the pleasure being primarily a company party that meant I’d be spending the weekend there. On Sunday, the day after the party, I met up with my colleague who was over from France and with whom I had worked for several years in Europe. We went to the beach and...
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I realised only tonight, or captured for the first time, that I have a love for things that are unnecessary. Things such as a little paved path to a door leading from a pavement, enveloped in railings, designed simply for aesthetic beauty. This describes my love of literature and art and why I occasionally fail to see something considered deadly serious in the corporate world...
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The true love in my life has always been, and still is, literature. The creative arts, the freedom to create something of beauty for the sake of expression, this has been the shining light of my life. Pens, pencils, paper, books, journals, libraries, bookstores, stationery shops, words, sentences, paragraphs, stories, thoughts, theories… the joys, the promise, the potential of an escape into the realm of...
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I sat alone in the darkness, sipping tea, and watched the snow fall outside. I’d just arrived home from a night out in Harvard with a small group of scientists – German, Italian, Colombian and English. It was a good night but I didn’t feel well and I was troubled by this. It was the night that the snowmoon regaled the world… a beautiful red...
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Hola all, if you happen to be in Madrid in the coming days, come to our concert at the Costello club in Gran Via.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8RxKzDQodA
https://www.ticketea.com/entradas-dust-soul-presenta-the-handicaps-en-madrid/
My band has recently released a single and here is our video to that single.
They will stop and speak to a guy guarding cars in a car park because he is young and white but they won’t think twice about stopping for the older non-whites who are suffering equally if not worse. They will try to raise funds for the young car guard but what about the rest? They’ll stand up in protest about one murdered lion because it...
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There is nothing that quite screams ‘I am depressed, alone, lost, and need help’ more than a positive thinking post on Facebook. Well, the religious group post comes close but, usually, goes so closely hand in hand with the former that it is almost difficult to differentiate. The lives of so many would be instantly improved if they could just stop worrying whether there is...
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At the age of ten I had never really liked any music of any kind… I simply could not understand it. Everything musical was about love, sunshine, beauty and happiness. My family and I lived in the industrial North of England, the sky was permanently grey, rain fell perpetually and unemployment was at an all-time high. The Conservative government had left most citizens with a...
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Pictures of people at church… pictures of hen dos… pictures of bachelor parties… pictures of babies… but all I hear is people complaining about their partners and their families… people pining for other people. Pray for loyalty and then fuck a stripper. Pray for a stripper and then fuck loyalty. It’s a desperate and hopeless charade. The primary dream of married woman/married man is to...
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