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Ache.

Monday, June 28, 2010

When I was 18 – like with my 16th birthday – I decided a festival would be fun. How I came to this conclusion after Guilfest, I’m not too sure; perhaps I am secretly a masochist. The festival a couple of friends and I decided to go to was the Edinburgh Fringe. Here seemed a [...]

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Shot.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Point and shoot, that’s how I like to take pictures. Kevin Spacey wants to be “camera ciao, picture wow”, as he listlessly describes it. Ciao used by anyone other than an Italian, is priggish. Don’t point and shoot, he says. Well screw you Spacey. Look how great Christmas at Covent Garden looks through my stupid and [...]

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Travels.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Maybe it’s just running away, but not from anything you can picture. Not from a person or a place. Perhaps from an emotion, bit it’s even more abstract than that. It’s something indefinable, yet undeniable. Maybe something we fear, or a nothing that we fear. A fear that is pre-existing, something programmed in our primeval [...]

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Confusion.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

So I’m here filling out a form for a new passport. The thing comes with its own instruction manual. There’s notes on the sides, numbers in every corner, bar codes, randomly red-shaded areas – it’s a mine feild. It has a striking resemblance to those books I used to read when I was a child, [...]

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Jack.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Straight above and all around is dead cloud. Tick snow in grey swirls. It must be absolutely miles away because down here is still warm. There’s snow, but it doesn’t know where to go, the heat keeps it aloft and curling into my eyelashes. I walk northbound toward Broadway and the breeze just catches my [...]

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