Category: Travel
2024? A fine year!
it was a fine year, yes it was [in my personal life]
Writing Beer, Drinking Poetry by Gwil James Thomas
a poetry chapbook on drinking, not drinking and travel
video: a sad evening in london making LEGO
why live when you could watch this???
My 2024 Resolution? Revolution!
chasing enough optimism to change the things i can surely change
My 2023? Some good books and trips but mostly a waste of time!
the best part was when i spent a full day as an unpaid boom mic operator
video: a morning in Delhi
in november i spent a morning in delhi
video: Riyadh by Day
in early November i spent ten hours(ish) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
video: Cyprus by Night
i spent a few hours in cyprus en route to the east
video: do expresso beneath at tree
watch me make a expresso in a lay-by – with lovely crema!
video: jane in safari
a conversation/ video piece about a recent safari
Another Birthday Rolls Around in the Dirt
i am older than christ and i understand why he consented to be crucified
video: table.mountain.panorama.with.korg.volca.keys
some brightly coloured clothes and noises up top a famous mountain
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
progressive(ish) proto-modernism from 1880s South Africa
video: korg.volca.keys.near.stellenbosch
more sound machine and mountain views
video: drum.machine.by.a.lake.near.the.top.of.a.mountain
one last go of drum machine from my recent northern trip
video: drum.machine.with.a.panorama.of.derwentwater
the view is nice and so is the dog
Video: drum.machine.in.the.lakes
little play with a drum machine with a view
Video: Santander (a 40 minute improvised monologue)
40 mins of talk and shots of rainy northern spain
The Employees – a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
a terrifying future draws grim parallels to the present
POETRY MONTH: scott manley hadley readings round up
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities while in Venice is like
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
vampires don’t count as supernatural horror because they’re too sexy aha
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Toilets at the Venice Biennale
water, water, everywhere and not a spot to piss
Grievers by adrienne maree brown
great speculative fiction; scott visits quebec city
VIDEO: Toronto Street Art: ‘First Timeline’ by Philip Cote, Kwest & Jarus
short doc inspired by Heinz Emigholz
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
impressive experimental speculative fiction
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE TONIGHT IN DALSTON
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT NOVEMBER 14TH 2018
Bad Boy Poet: Intimate & Al Fresco
reading some poems in the Spanish desert…
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
#TotNTV: Travelling the Balkans
Come explore the Balkans with sound and visuals!!!
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
The Son by Andrej Nikolaidis
More contemporary Balkan writings and my opinions on criminalisation of narcotics
Till Kingdom Come by Andrej Nikolaidis
Some cracking Montenegrin fiction
The Coming by Andrej Nikolaidis
My Balkan adventure continues
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Hip-Scott “En Toure”: The Documentary
Hip-Scott, flailing, live in Marseille.
Tom Jones Camino Karaoke Compilation
In the Summer of 2016, Scott Manley Hadley walked and sang his way across Spain.
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
Living in the city is bad for the soul
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
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From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
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Triumph Of The Now 