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It’s not really ‘done’ to talk about your work as a Samaritan but that has the unfortunate side-effect of scaring off potential...

Finally, I saw something at the theatre that I really liked. Something that was actually theatre rather than just a nicey-nicey radioplay...

Second richly cultural day in a row. After a middlingly interesting Gestalt workshop on ‘the moving body’, I went with Will to see some...

Living as I did within the giant building site that has passed as Berlin for the last 10 years, I suppose I was a first hand witness of...

Back from a 2 week trip to Toronto and Miami. While I was away a young guy living on my street was stabbed to death walking home one...

Alex brought round “Now, Voyager” and forced me to watch it. I’ve never been mad on black and white movies. I watch them out of a sense...

I haven’t written here about a concert for ages. But I haven’t been to a concert like the one this evening for ages. Ever, in fact. I...

I know I’m starting to seem rather obsessive. But I promise this will be the last posting in a while about Karlheinz Stockhausen. But I...

FOREIGN FLUID EXCHANGE (Mainly Sweat) Been away on two epic filming shifts – one in Antwerp, Amsterdam and the Hague, the other in...

Kid Galahad After wondering in from the Artic cold sweeping down Upper Street, Treena and I wandered into the seemingly brand-new...

“If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it...

It’s been a bruising few days for us Britons. When I woke up on Friday morning, having driven a 300 mile round trip during filming to...

My trip to Brazil was comically short. Only four and a half days before I got in a cab and rode back to Salvador airport, changed my...

After a dithery early evening of abortive dates, I got in the car and drove down South to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern to meet up with Gary....

All this study in psychotherapy is humdinging fantastic. I don’t remember being so completely absorbed in anything since I discovered...