It's Christmas Eve and another year is about to conclude. It was only the domain name renewal payment which brought me back to this site. I have never promoted it and I have enjoyed the anonymity of sharing thoughts with the whole world, yet not sharing them. I now feel I would like to use …
‘A Curious Life’ – The Levellers – Duke of York’s Cinema – Brighton 26/11/14
On Wednesday I enjoyed a rare evening excursion to see the new Leveller's film 'A Curious Life'. It was screened at the Duke of York's Cinema with the band performing a life set after the screening. I arrived in Brighton in 1987 and The Levellers as a band started in 1988. In the early years, …
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The Orb live @ The Haunt Brighton (10/10/13)
The Orb are celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary with a tour and new compilation History of the Future. I remember hearing them on John Peel as a youngster. He didn't play their first single, but when they retitled it A huge evergrowing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld, he was sold. …
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The Dark Stream
I've spent the cold dark months of this winter lost inside Netflix. It's like the web you browse and they browse. You gravitate towards genres, in my case dark detective stories. These have included Cracker, Waking the Dead, Dexter, Wallender (Lassgard), Wallender (Branagh) and Wallender(Henriksson). It's odd in that I had a free choice, nobody …
WDTV LIVE 2013
After a quiet and reflective period, I embraced technology on New Year's Eve (2012). It wasn't rocket science by most people's standards, but for me it was a bit of a tipping point. I'd been interested in internet TV for some time, but did not want to invest in a new TV given that they …
It’s Make Your Mind Up Time
This was the title of an all day event I had the pleasure of attending today as part of the Brighton Science Festival. Brighton loves festivals, whilst the arts festival is the most famous, there are also many other festivals including, music, cinema, literature and science. This was my first experience of attending the …
Baka : A cry from the rainforest
The above titled documentary came unexpectedly crashing into my life last Friday evening. About twenty five years ago I watched Baka: People of the rainforest and almost half a life time ago it made a big impression upon me. It featured people living in the rainforest of South Eastern Cameroon living a simple life, free …
