what does music sound like?

Ahh yes, I’m still here, closing all the windows as this cold summer marches ever onwards, grey skies and drizzle day after day - radio programs to stay awake to - all is well….
Actually, the future never ever seemed so exciting than right now. That’s a pretty bold statement, but it’s true. There are secrets, and there are secrets and what is this?
Well, it’s 9.52 in the morning, I’m listening to radiohead, drinking London’s finest Piccadilly tea. Hmmm. We’ve had kids and adults staying here for the past month, so mornings now are the only time I ever have time to just listen to music properly. Although, music these days make no sense to me at all - I’m still stuck somewhere in 1997, and now my dear old Karate have split up - sniff sniff - who is left to take their place? I saw Owen (he’s the brother from joan of arc) and they were absolutely terrible and annoying, that now I can’t even hear Joanie anymore. I stare at the singles spinning around in the record shop and wonder who is responsible with feeling these kids dreams with a sick sense of fashion-coolness-above-everything. It’s like a bucket of complete mediocre bands who like to “look cool” and that something cool happened in 1986 (but what preciously, nobody knows.) have been thrown at me. I feel like I’m back at high school where all the kids only listening to techno music, and I just stare at them wondering how. Pah! I’m even ready for the strokes to make a new record….Still, tonight we’re off to see some band, some kid Fran knows is in the band.
Ramble rumble ramble…music isn’t cool when you’re 28 and you realise you’re going to spend the rest of your life in little record shops searching for some lost treasure. But, enough of this - next postcard is coming from Vechta, Germany! See you there! Oh, one last thing - I’m in some new poetry book coming out next year. But it’s somewhat embarrassing so I don’t want to write any more about it. I almost refused being in it, but in the end, fuck it…


>>> coffee stamp cards / last days of summer sales / Richard lanklater films / wells-next-the-sea / hired cars / stealing little things from work / the woods outside / party cameras / 24 hours in the life of a woman / cluedo / grapefruit juice / the screwtape letters / book fairs / ccoking! <<<