Posted on 2017-07-17 · 3 min read · Writing · Ideas · Blogging · Seventeen
In my last post, I wrote about hills. I tried to use them as a metaphor to explain nagging sense of incompletion when you single out one activity over another. The feeling that there’s always a more exciting hill off in the distance to go climb, instead of the one you’re on.
Posted on 2017-07-15 · 3 min read · Ideas · Blogging · Seventeen
I’m a big fan of books. The way they transport you away to other places and so on. As repositories of knowledge and adventure they can’t be beat. I can think of no better way out of an existential fix than reading.
Posted on 2017-07-01 · 4 min read · Films · Seventeen · Science Fiction
I enjoyed Wonder Woman, which came as a surprise to me given my growing distaste for superhero movies. I can remember seeing the Superman reboot Man of Steel with its phallic rockets and its boring boring fight sequences. But almost everything about Wonder Woman exceeded my expectations. It’s a well-made superhero movie and better still, it gets to the heart of why these kinds of movies matter.
Posted on 2017-06-16 · 2 min read · Writing · Ideas · Seventeen
It can be a struggle to keep writing. I’ve found this happened a lot since I moved the blog. First, there was the business of moving things over. That meant a lot of thought about old posts and which ones I should keep. A lot of the time I thought “how on earth did I have time to write this?!”
Posted on 2017-04-11 · 7 min read · Writing · Blogging · Software · Seventeen
Posted on 2017-03-31 · 9 min read · Album Digest · March · Music · Blanck Mass · The Shins · Rolling Blackouts CF · JFDR · Seventeen
Posted on 2017-02-28 · 5 min read · Album Digest · February · Music · Grails · Elbow · Dreadzone · Seventeen
Posted on 2017-01-31 · 9 min read · Music · Album Digest · January · Mike Oldfield · Bonobo · The xx · Seventeen
Posted on 2016-10-13 · 5 min read · Understated Classics · Aztec Camera · Music · Sixteen · Pop · Rock
The next instalment in my understated classics series is "Stray" by Aztec Camera. Released in 1990, it features two hit singles and the cover is my favourite colour: green.
Posted on 2016-10-10 · 4 min read ·
Heavyweight is a podcast about “heavyweight” issues, in the sense of burdens on the soul, rather than the burning issues of the day. It’s presented by Jonathan Goldstein, who was the host of the WireTap podcast. Each week he helps someone resolve an issue from their past. These include resolving family feuds and understanding mid-life depression.
Posted on 2016-10-08 · 2 min read · Tate Modern · Art · Mira Schendel · Photos · Sixteen
Mira Schendel was a Brazilian artist who was active throughout the middle to late twentieth century. She is considered to be one of South America’s best artists. Known mostly for her abstract paintings, she also experimented with sculptures and installations. Many of her works use text and semiotics to explore and define possible meanings for more abstract works.
Posted on 2016-09-30 · 9 min read · Album Digest · September · Music · Wilco · MIA · Local Natives · Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith · Susan Ciani · Sixteen
This month’s album digest features albums by Wilco, M.I.A., Local Natives, and a collaboration between Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani.