29 Mar 2012

22 Mar 2012

Spin magazine (on the telephone, babay)




SPIN has had a makeover (a re-fit, a re-jiggle as Roots Manuva once said).
Along with Mojo, one of the only good music mags left. Check it out.

12 Mar 2012

and done... (pt2)



I keep forgetting -
always aim for the transition on the way down.


4 Mar 2012

RIP Ralph McQuarrie

Star Wars - and I mean ALL of Star Wars, would never have been what it was or what it is today if not for three people; Ben Burtt, John Williams and Ralph McQuarrie. Forget George Lucas, I'm not even joking. Try watching any scenes without either the score or sound FX and nothing works - there's no soul to any of it. But preceding any of that is the look of the SW universe and that - all of that - came from the mind and massive talent that was Ralph McQuarrie.

You look at any of the paintings from the Original Film and the sets they ended up making, the characters are pretty much 90% what he created. It's the entire base for what most guys my age wanted to dress like when they were kids. Kids in the 50's watched westerns and copied that, McQuarrie essentially created the new cowboys for sci-fi fans everywhere.





1 Mar 2012

Written from...

Written from within the relative safety of an ongoing superiority complex.


The reasons my eyes look so dark
To you
Are in no particular order, as follows;

Daylight
Darkness
Buses
Trains
Babies
Mothers
Absentee fathers
Absentee friends
Alcoholic tendencies
No dancing
No running
Banks
Bosses
Their bosses
Their bosses
And so on
Impatience
Insecurity
Damaged synapses
Rerouted thought patterns
Roadblocks thrown up by dead men
The dentist
The doctor
Typewriters
Computer keyboards
Basho
Buk
Childish
Rollins
Stipe
Wilson
And the rest
Cocaine
MDMA
Marijuana
Other people’s cigarettes
Other people’s roll-ups
Caffeine
Fear
Disillusionment
Abandonment
Overcompensation
Joy
Love
Principles
Adrenaline
Painting
Sculpture
Horror
Melted clocks and movie theatres
Intelligence
And understanding of the souls of men
And women

I could go on
But I have somewhere to be

And so do
You.