Taito stillness

Having a look at J.G. Ballard's stories for the first time in ages. And...well.

Sarugakucho modern

Had to go to the Big City and the blossoms weren't even out.

ANY REAL EGG HAS A SHELL AS THE SHELL AN EGG

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Ten or so years after first hearing the synth line on this, it still somehow takes me by surprise when it squeeees in, severe and loud as living fuck, leaving me defenceless in its unapologetic wake and local pooches confused and vigilant. youtu.be/SST7RD39UeM?...

The mood as I gingerly approach the weekend. youtu.be/FXkBL7ZOfDg?...

HOT STUFF

TORAYA

My living room studio circa 2005. Some of the lowest-selling avant-pop songs of the mid-2000s were crafted here.

'As he knew absolutely nobody there, and could not wander about indefinitely by himself like a minister of death, having recognised me he had discovered for the first time in his life that he had an infinite number of things to say to me, which enabled him to keep some sort of countenance.'

'He held one crumpet in the flat of his left hand while he used his right to feed another into his mouth. He did not take separate bites; he placed it between his teeth and then slowly absorbed it, like a snake with its prey.'

木や花を大切に みんな仲良く

friday night in the royal station hotel will always be my favourite philip larkin poem but a close second would be

デヴィッド・暴威

The Downtown Lights

Just been enjoying the story of Amaterasu performed by puppets on TV.

Along the Rother

意義・ポップ

'Bluebell was the second cat I had undertaken to teach; I found her more amenable than the first, which had been a male. Ping-pong with a cat is a simplified and more individualistic form of the proper game. You play it close to the ground, and you imagine the net.'

'Her eyes were green, the colour of seaweed, and in their depths he found the light that would define him and enclose him in constancy. He thought, She is my own true self, and he wanted to tell her all his troubles.'

I bought most of my favourite 80s LPs for nowt from the many charity shops on the Moor in Sheffield during my golden late 90s when I was working nearby and living on Twixes, machine coffees and fishcake butties. These two belters somehow escaped my clutches - (slowed down evil voice) until now.

would you like a bag of mini

Mrkgnao!

Sur un jerk électronique Se nouent des amours ludiques Be-bop, la vie, c'est n'importe quoi♪ youtu.be/EqeJUGzvnq0?...

The mood as we enter Friday. youtu.be/mC_O7Nem18A?...

Jimbochoices 1: paddy no more

PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE EXHIBITS.

Ich glaube ich bin ein Telefon, romantisches kleines Telefon

'Yet his girth was increasing; there was no mistaking his figure for that of a younger man. He had appeared twice on a television panel discussion, but despite his grasp of events had been judged too old to appeal to the young and had been replaced by a pop singer who had found Jesus.'

Healing visit to Jimbōchō. Here is the entrance to a place I consider holy.

珈琲待夢

３がつ

'What liberty! I strained my ear towards what must have been my voice still, so weak, so far, that it was like the sea, a far calm sea dying - no, none of that, no beach, no shore, the sea is enough, I've had enough of shingle, enough of sand, enough of earth, enough of sea too.'

'Fragments of memory eddy past and are lost in the dark. In the gusts yellowing half-forgotten papers whirl old headlines up and over dingy suburban houses, past leaders and obituaries, the debris of inaction, into the void. Thought illuminated briefly by lightning.'

Lovely late February hues on the Edogawa-Koto border

Jump the

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Here Comes Midweek

'Mrs Marsh had no patience with the attempts, often made by complete strangers, to understand those who, although possibly impaired, even faulty, were making valiant and even successful efforts to run their own lives.'

Sighting: local wall unit

Prevailing mood intensifies

Excited for some live Groop. The last time they were here (and I was there) was 17 years ago this month. Down the Quattro, doing some Chemical Chords. Let's Esemplastic Creeping Eruption! (In The Summertime)

Here Comes Midweek

Snow and shuttered senbei shop

We are having some Weather.

So this is パーマネント