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It’s almost too much. I’ve been back from Brazil for a fortnight. It’s been perhaps less than 4 weeks since I last drank – but it feels...

It’s weird stumbling across a cache of photos. It’s like opening a chamber in the head and letting an army of activity out. A boyfriend...

Belle & Sebastian Simon had free tickets, so we went to the B&S gig at the Astoria. Heard their first album in Berlin, years ago. But to...

Ulysses on British Rail Been wrapped up in a cyclone of work lately. My heart sank fathoms when I got my schedule for this summer. 25...

They’ve been hovering on my dance consciousness for years. ‘Oh yes, those all-male, all-female types with the tricksy names’. (You...

After a bit of technical head-scratching, I think the Mindsprings Podcast page is up and running. Hurrah! You can to subscribe through...

Benjamin Grosvenor is God In many ways the ungraspable fluidity of music – the fact that dwelling too long on one musical moment fatally...

The Cockettes More proof that BBC4 is a wild and wonderful treasure chest. Happened upon the start of this gorgeous hour-and-a-half long...

I was feeling a bit floaty and spaced after my therapy session and didn’t really want to go across town to Battersea but I’m glad I did....

Went with Sara to a concert at Kings Place where amongst others, we heard this amazing piece by Tom Adès, atomising Couperin into sticky...

I can remember the times I’ve not been able to sleep on one open hand. Usually I can sleep anywhere – planes, trains, sitting up, lying...

I don’t usually write about political things on here although as the years pass I find myself moving to a more radical and left-wing view...

So in love with the Island . I landed there one June to do a tai chi course and was so bowled over by serenity and happiness of the Monks...

I’m just back from a filming trip to Mexico and as well as having an unseasonal tan, which I’m parading around town before it fades, I...

©2002 Alistair Appleton. Please feel free to print off and read at home. First you have to ask yourself: “why meditate?” There’s no point...