A recent and unexpected run-in with a deadly infection lead to writing this in the days just after being discharged from hospital when everything still felt an absolute mess. The phenomena written about below—‘the flavour’—is a consequence of too much bacteria being in the stomach. No one at the hospital told me to expect it and likewise can be said for the known impact of the virus in question to a person’s state of mind. Combined with the previous week of surgeons looking at me doubtfully . . . The good news is it does eventually go, but for a while felt here to stay. Continue reading
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Split Pin
Poetry on the subject of deceivers.
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Hot Coals & High Mountains
A tale of the worst type of betrayal.
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Dryadic: No Time Like The Present
No Time Like The Present opens with upbeat foot-tapper ‘The Hat’; a story of gigging here, there and everywhere told in a cheeky Ian Drury-esque vein; smiling through not simply the trials of life but more so the death sentence of using Ryanair and then laughing riotously about it all with new best friends for life who’ll only be so for the night of a show. Not only lyrically, the vibe is caught in the music too; a feel of looking out of a car window at a never before seen fields, tired and thinking of the previous night while heading down a new stretch of motorway equally energized about the potentially likewise one to come.
Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief: Welcome to Zen Metal
If bands were alcoholic beverages My Silent Wake’s latest outing Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief would be a fine vintage of red: subtle, yet full bodied with a woody/smoky aftertaste, the grapes having been specifically picked from a glorious vineyard somewhere in the Tuscany region.
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Tequila Sunset
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Zpangled Henz: A Punk As F**k Tour De Force
Zpangled Henz self-titled four-track EP rips an even bigger hole than the massive one left by the cell-phone-recorded-demo of last year.
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Doughnut in the Sky with Contradictions
Poetry without comment beyond thanks to Kenny Kennethh for use of the header image of a solitary doughnut (licensing).
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Social Media Sorbet
Thoughts on the stupidity of trying to use social media for something useful. Header image courtesy Alisha Mishra (licensing). Continue reading
Introspective Suicide In Parts: volume one
Attempting to improve the self is not without its price.
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