A Long Weekend in Italy: Naples, Pompeii and Capri
Mount Vesuvius is big. It creaks over Naples from the southeast, with a threat made obvious by the fame ofContinue Reading
Mount Vesuvius is big. It creaks over Naples from the southeast, with a threat made obvious by the fame ofContinue Reading
Yesterday I took a naked photograph of myself – from behind – to use as the accompanying picture for myContinue Reading
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted is a recent memoir by John O’Donoghue, a man who spent his teens and twentiesContinue Reading
I just reread Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as it’s being discussed in a class I have this week.Continue Reading
Last Saturday I did something utterly unprecedented and attended a professional football match. It feels like it happened ages ago,Continue Reading
A hip-hop review of the year now ending.
I had not been in front of an audience, on a stage, for several years until this week. Then, fromContinue Reading
This is the first book I have ever read by JG Ballard. I haven’t read any of his famous ones,Continue Reading
I’ve decided that from now on I am going to self-identify as a Catholic. A couple of days ago IContinue Reading
Something clicked in my head while I was away this Summer. I don’t know if it was something I ate,Continue Reading
So, I’ve been back in the UK for three weeks. What have I been up to? Where has the streamContinue Reading
Twenty five is not, in itself, a significant birthday. However, it does mean that one has distinctly reached an ageContinue Reading
Despite dandling no one on my lap, my time in Tunis (so far) has been a highspincycle of emotion. ThereContinue Reading
I’m pretty certain, as I write this on the minibus back to Marrakech, that I have sand inside my anus.Continue Reading
Right. I am finally taking my own titular advice to heart and heading off for a little bit of living.Continue Reading
Earlier today I passed a man who looked just like a gnome. Minus the hat. He was hatless. And hairless.Continue Reading
Pursuing bright green polyester with the intention of creating an amateur video effects lab, I got up and out ofContinue Reading
A video of me performing some old songs. I’m considering gigging with my raps soon. Terrifying.
It’s not a book, so I shan’t provide a review as if it were one, but over the last fewContinue Reading
I stumbled, heady on free cheese and Spanish lager, into a temporary toilet cubicle at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, lockedContinue Reading
Last night, on the way home from central London, I saw something that shook me up a little. Not somethingContinue Reading
Please watch my new short film where, a la B. S. Johnson, I openly discuss the way I see theContinue Reading
I have decided, mostly as a way of procrastinating before a) sending off my first novel to agents or b)Continue Reading
This week I have developed, or at the very least noticed, my first wrinkle. It is above and to theContinue Reading
I discovered the music of Janis Joplin in the late Spring of my first year of university. I’d just spentContinue Reading
I try to wake up at seven every morning in order to, before I go to my soul-numbing job, attemptContinue Reading
I’m meant to be meeting someone at eight. In town. Which will take me approximately thirty minutes to get to.Continue Reading
An old man died in the house I currently live in. Although the smell has now dissipated, what remains isContinue Reading
Sorry for being quiet. I’m about a third of the way through Haruki Murakami’s 1,200-or-so page, two volume epic 1Q84,Continue Reading
They play a radio in the office I work in. Which makes me feel like a builder. For the lastContinue Reading
I don’t feel – because I’m not – qualified to term my analysis of this collection of BS Johnson’s shortContinue Reading
It’s water in that glass. Hence the face. I’ve been drinking a lot of Port recently. This happened for threeContinue Reading
Sat, supposedly insulated from the horrors of real life, writing the chorus of a hot new rap song, I noticedContinue Reading
I recently cut my hair. Drastically. Cut fucking loads off. And I look much better for it. (You’re goddamn right,Continue Reading
Sat at my desk at work, barely a minute (or at the very most two or three) goes by withoutContinue Reading
I’m writing this on a coach. I know. How embarrassing. I’m failing to read Kerouac by the insufficient, electric, light,Continue Reading
Sat in the central courtyard, Michelangelo’s Cloister, of the National Museum of Rome, I was filled with an immense andContinue Reading
It’s cold. It’s raining. I feel ill and exhausted. And I have to go to a job in the morning.Continue Reading
The Roman Forum is fantastic. Eerie, elegant, a little bit scary… Despite being full of other tourists and located inContinue Reading
I’m in Rome. And a bit pissed*. Earlier today I was served lunch in a small Tuscan-Umbrian border town (Chiusi)Continue Reading
I don’t believe there is a man alive who hasn’t said, thought, heard, written or read the phrase “I wantContinue Reading
A few days ago, as part of my scathing review of Charles Mingus’ Beneath The Underdog, I mentioned that IContinue Reading
Rather lamely, Florence is probably the non-British city I know best. It’s full of beautiful, wonderful buildings, sculptures and paintings,Continue Reading
I was up a tower in Siena this afternoon and was gifted this beautiful view of the red-tiled roofs ofContinue Reading
I’m spending a short spell off Shit Island*, which is always pleasant. Even leaving it to be in a countryContinue Reading
There’s a pun in that title. Particularly pertinent if you’re aware of my constant struggle to not be utterly tired,Continue Reading
“Dark thoughts”. Everyone gets them. Some more than others. Some much more than others. I am plagued by – notContinue Reading
I saw The Book of Mormon when it was new. Before it was new, perhaps. I saw it in previews. SoContinue Reading
This evening I went to an Art Show. A Contemporary Art Show. Get me. And I didn’t even take any smack.Continue Reading
There’s a story I remember being told as a teenager that has recently come back to me. It was aContinue Reading