Lots of poems with wordplay in them in this 40th edition of the music and poetry podcast show. I spent half the day recording it and the other half packing to get away for a few weeks. The music is great. I found Bombero’s song Andinfinity sitting doing nothing on ccmixter, and then I enlisted [...]
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Aahhhh, that’s the life. This is me looking pale in Sardinia last year, and that will be me in Cornwall next week. The 1500 word synopsis is going well but not exactly flying off the screen. I just don’t have the motivation. After staring at the sky, I saw a Simon Cowell headline in The [...]
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I spent all morning getting the house ready for propective buyers and estate agents, and headed to the gym at 10am. Since then, I’ve been trying to improve the recording of Looking Back. The way of recording the acoustic through the mike and the Toneport just didn’t work, so I recorded a new guitar track [...]
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I just emailed a friend about a visit I made a week ago with Caroline, just before the VT killing, to Stourhead, a beautiful National Trust park near here. We saw a really strange incident. We were trekking round the grounds, and we reached the remote King Alfred’s Tower where there’s a Victorian folly, a [...]
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That’s me looking intellectual before shorter hair and serious glasses playing a travel guitar on holiday somewhere, it looks like a Landmark Trust house. Today, I recorded Friction Fiction 39. I realised FF40 will coincide with going away, so I’ll have to get it recorded earlier next week. I decided not to read out my [...]
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“His work was so nightmarish that, after he recited his poetry, just seven out of 70 students attended the next lecture.” – The Sun 19/4/2007 I rue the day I went to hear Sueng Cho the nightmare poet. His work was so nightmarish No nightmare could compare. His subject matter Was not to my taste, [...]
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I just found out that the poet Nikki Giovanni taught Cho in 2005, and was so alarmed by his behaviour that she asked guards at the US campus to watch over her when he was in class. According to The Sun, “She said his writing contained images of murder and rape. His work was so [...]
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In today’s online version of The Sun, Rupert Murdoch’s piss poor and biased, right-wing rag, I spotted a crucial bit of misreporting of the storyline of the play Richard McBeef by Cho Seung-Hui, the VT Killer. In Crazed Killer Sent Shocking Vid by Emily Smith, US Editor, she says, “One play told of a 13-year-old [...]
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I just read the plays supposedly written by the VT killer, Cho Seung-Hui. They’re not great works obviously, but I was surprised by them. It seems Cho was getting a kick out of writing, which is really sad because writing is fun. I’ve taught creative writing. I have an MA in Creative Writing. I’ve been [...]
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I just recorded another songwriting podcast, The Riff, with the latest ccMixter.org remix of my song Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Slumberlords. Also, I updated the lyrics and recording of I’m Not Strong Enough. The fourth podcast also has the seedlings of a new song.
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