"The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are..." - Marshall McLuhan

I watched ‘Educating Rita’ for the 1st time last night. Thoroughly enjoyed. Michael Caines performance is something else - and I’ll have to check out more of Willy Russels work - but man… that soundtrack sounded like it belonged on a VHS era soft porn soundtrack….

"We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside of us...." - Charles Darwin

My zeitgeist dystopia is quite singular. That doesn't mean I'm wrong...

When I was 16, the Pet Shop Boys were my favourite band that weren't the Sex Pistols or New Order. This old VHS video was part of my hero worship - and I've not seen this in over 20 years... vk.com/video1082925...

The miracle of Christmas… Wetherspoons being 200ft away and having a working coffee machine!!!!!!

Things that jump out at me - ten minutes before Xmas Eve edition…

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" - Einstein

Certain phrases just jump out at me......

I've just heard the future.... and it definitely involves tidal.squid.wtf and spotube...

Scallywags are playing Alphaville‘s ‘Forever Young’ loudly at the back of the 192…

24 years ago…. Jesus…

The over-stuffed Wetherspoons filled with suburbanites doing the Christmas do thing... has pushed me into Prête Au Manger. Empty. Clean. Minimalist design. 99p filter coffee… I’m sold…

At the cinema for the 1st time in a month. There’s been a lot of dreck on… and I won’t even talk about how I turned up 24 hours late for ‘Female Trouble’ last week….

just been rabbit punched by my headphones. that hurt ;(….

I ate and drank too much around my birthday… since, I’ve been fairly virtuous… but it really is the wrong time of year to stop drinking…

I’m nearer at least half my school year being dead of old age and god knows whatever else… than I am the end of high school…

Small towns destroy big souls. The forensics and autopsy can take a lifetime. Take a life. Cities aren’t perfect… but maaaan… consider the alternative….

I miss being able to drink like a mad man without consequence…..

As much as I dislike aspects of it - Wetherspoons are fascinating. All life is here… some of it undiscovered…

Twenty years back I thought I‘d found my people and my place - but man that rotted down to hell mulch pretty damn fast. I spend more time I probably should trying to elucidate exactly what happened…

it’s weird returning to your hometown and working out what is identical from 40 years back… and what’s brand spanking new. Both sides of the binary present as vaguely surprising….

Hey. Mournin’. Just touching base. 💙 you a bit later. Hope you have a great, evil-free day, cats.✨💋

In Stockport. Apparently DRI, Discharge and the Dickies are playing. Not quite the devils armpit I grew up in… but I’d be quite worried about running into the ‘ghosts of Christmas past’…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg5q... This scratches a Mr Bungle sized itch... with additional RIO vibes... via @youtube.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vkm... more god tier 80s Hardcore.... via @youtube.com

The most dangerous thing about AI chat bots is how many men with political power treat them *exactly* and unquestioningly like actual Ancient Greek oracles.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfwG... Best punk album of 2025? Vi as @youtube.com

...where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?..." T.S. Eliot

When I was diagnosed with 'dyspraxic tendencies' (i.e they couldn't do the job properly and diagnose me with actual ADHD)-they gave me a Dictaphone and some specialist software. It was crap and cost the state loads. Seriously... What I have for free on a modern tablet blows it out of the water...

I'm trying to avoid weekday drinking, but the social leads to the quiet reflective point and I can't deny myself that.....

That's not very Taoist...

The very company and billboard in my flat… twats… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

‘…you are a little soul carrying around a corpse…’ - Epicetus

My god..... the header from my Punk Rock column at the "Mr Ridicuous" web zine 25 years back....

"...the limits of my language mean the limits of my world..." - Wittgenstein

youtu.be/juLcP0S7770?... Oh yes.... this scratches a paticular itch!!!!!

It‘s nice that I’m getting back to poetry. I need to perform…. It’s been too long…

no no no.... <<shakes head>>

Don't kill the part of you that's cringe, kill the part of you that cringes

Other point about Aliexpress... band t-shirts are cheaper than they were in Camden in the late nineties... better range, equal quality. Also, my assumptions about Soviet/Russian post punk on a global scale have been bourne out.....

Slightly ropey as it might be.... "Aliexpress" reminds me of the golden days of Amazon, before it became a menace to humanity.... It's sure saved christmas this year!!!!!!

incredible quote lol

Had to make a choice between seeing the Orb/Dreadzobe, or going to a book launch for a tome on Aleister Crowleys mysticism.... Ultimatelty... hanging out with old ravers is a weekend commitment... guess it's time for some quality time with beast 666....

I've been meaning to clean my desk for the last 9 months. Maybe at Christmas, huh???? This sprawl does not speak well of me.....

I don't get why there's AI in and on everything... when no-one bloody asked, and there's no fucking use case. Jesusk, it's like Clippy uber alles out here.....

Other things I learned this week.... Microsofts "One Note" is really bloody powerful. How can the people who released such a laser-tipped knowledge accumalation/synthesis tool... release such abominations as the latter day Windows products?????

Trouble with working all week, then flaking out and burning out on my return... is that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭. Damn.....

I got my Lenonvo Xioaxin 2025 pro shipped in from China. £145.... equivalent model would be £400-ish over here... 12.7inches of unadulterated joy joy. Had to do a little jailbreaking to get google services running, but my god... I'm very very impressed....!!!!!

Football war wounds are a far more serious propostion with badly managed diabetes, when you're nearer 50 than 45.....