When All Else Fails – There’s Always The ‘Escape’
Things is looooow when I break out into the “art”. “Vision Thing” – number 1319…
Direction > of > the > Heart – Two Weeks On
I’ll be honest here and say that these days I don’t really listen to too much music at all. I’m lucky if I play maybe two whole songs in a day. That’s just how it’s been for the past….18 months or so? I think the pandemic and lockdown had the completely reverse affect on me…
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Twenty Questions (and Sad Answers)
I’m avoiding uni study today. In the current yo-yo of my state of being, having somehow been “up and confident” earlier in the day yesterday, I took a dive last night. And all the feelings of ineptitude and uselessness come flooding in. I’m still really angry with myself that I squandered yet ANOTHER opportunity to…
Hump Day History – 1989 (SM Off Topic)
Well… (this comes with a bold **OVERSHARE** warning attached) A lot and not much happened in 1989 in equal measure. I was 18 for most of the year and was in two relationships – if we could deem one of them a relationship – and…yeah. Firstly, and most prominently, for me – the sex obsessed…
A Wee Zesty Tale For Uni
Today during uni study, I was asked to write a short piece of creative writing. The only stipulation was that incorporated the line ‘Wait for me at the olive oil’, a line from a verse by Menander. It could be no longer than 150 words. This is what I wrote. The day was very bright…
Happy Birthday To Me, Happy Birthday To Meeee
More to be revealed on this later, but for now… THIS MAN IS A FUCKING ADONIS!!! IMMA GONNA DIE! (I may be some time…)
Is The End Really In Sight?
Today, much like every other day, I should be studying. But today I feel a particular sense of melancholy and foreboding. I *should* feel on a high, because last night Simple Minds actually, FINALLY, debuted on ‘Later…with Jools Holland.’ They were incredible. Vision Thing sounded AMAZING. I actually shouted out when they finished “THAT’S THE…
A Refreshingly Fun (And Sometimes Poignant) Q and A
There is a Q and A with Jim that it’s appeared on The Guardian website today. A good set of questions that takes him away from having to give all the usual stock answers. I love these kinds of things as they actually do provide a different perspective, and as an ardent and dedicated fan…
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Direction Of The Heart – Classic Pop Review
The feeling I am getting from some ratings and reviews of the album is that it’s somewhat…”predictable”. That’s the overriding feeling I get from Wyndham Wallace’s assessment of it – esp. from his on Natural and Human Traffic. As with most f the fans (myself included) – he draws on Solstice Kiss as the true…
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The Latest Round-Up – Minds News
The promotional hob-nobbing that Jim and Charlie (and at times the rest of the band too) have done over the past couple of weeks to plug Direction Of The Heart has been pretty unreal. I don’t recall such a swell of promotional schmoozing like this for Walk Between Worlds. There are firsts on the cards…