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I was reading how we all have a basic need to have our emotions regulated. Ideally, by our mothers. But if that was a problem – then by...

Been reading more Alan Watts. No one I’ve read or listened to has more succintly and pithily summed up the core ideas of Buddhist Dharma...

I’m still a bit dizzy from the events in London town these last few days but one thing jumped out of the disorientating static of...

A week or so ago I was phoned up by my composer friend, Jeremy Thurlow. Back in 2007 we collaborated on a choral-electronic-video-text...

The events of the last few months have brought me back to Twitter. I suppose it’s a despair in the shocking state of a lot of newspaper...

I’ve loved J H Prynne’s poetry ever since Easter Term 1989. I know that date because it’s penned into the front cover of my now slightly...

I start to sniff out for signs of Spring earlier and earlier every year. Convinced that deep underground the bulbs and seeds are spinning...

Will said that the reason the orchestra didn’t come out front to the bar after the concert tonight was because they were drinking the...

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the...

God, I loved this movie. Gondry’s a visual genius (re. White Stripes videos and that one with Kylie Minogue, or the one for Let Forever...

Went to the Whitechapel for the first time since it’s be refitted. (Lovely tactile door handles.) Alex had encouraged me to go and see...

Went to see Milk with Dominic this evening and was all fired up and sad by the end. It’s wonderful. Penn is wonderful and Van Sant mixes...

Preparing for the Radio Breakfast show this weekend, I’ve locked myself in my office, resisting the blandishments of Christmas shopping...