With tights. April 20, 2009

Back at school today. Luckily there weren’t any kids. I’m not sure where my passion to liberate young minds has gone but I feel only impending dread. My eyes sting like they’re made of wasps and I haven’t done anywhere near the planning I should have. This profession is about being agile, being a performer, [...]

Fartotum January 17, 2008

Reading Bukowski’s Factotum and trying to read from the standpoint of pity but it’s tremendously, tremendously difficult. Urgh.

Pub Prophets? November 28, 2006

I was having a drink with a friend on the weekend when a shady-looking man approached me, handing me a business card. He said he couldn’t help but overhear my conversation and that he was recommending a book for me. Scrawled on the back of the card was  ’Conversations With God – Neale Donald Walsch’.
“Don’t worry, it’s not [...]

No trudging of Blood and Water for me November 22, 2006

I’ve got a bit of a thing for Japanese novels at the moment.
I fell upon Banana Yoshimoto’s ‘Lizard’, which was the first Yoshimoto for me and, rather unlike this critic who attacks it as vapid for its romanticism, I think it is a wonderful book that extends fascinatingly way out from its cultural context. It was intimate, transcending conventional Japanese formality [...]