Find out about Yves Klein at Artsy www.artsy.net/artist/yves-klein
- a great resource including a biography, pictures, articles and exhibition listings.

Intersection

A new short story of mine has been published by the most excellent Pygmy Giant. You can read it by going here: http://thepygmygiant.com/2011/09/12/intersection/
It's less of a story and more of an intersection between two narratives that haven't been written, with some philosophy thrown in. I hope you like it!


You can read another story I wrote a few years ago that I also got published at the Pygmy Giant: http://thepygmygiant.com/2008/12/05/elder/

Let England Shake

Dorset is a great place to live. We're surrounded by beautiful countryside, inspiring people and soul-enriching music and literature. I've only recently come across PJ Harvey, and now she's won the Mercury Prize I'm starting to pay her proper attention. After listening to Let England Shake, and then quickly downloading White Chalk, I can really feel Dorset in her lyrics and in the quality of her music. 


When I write stories there is something I want to capture, and I think that PJ Harvey has managed to capture something very similar. I hope that someday I will be as eloquent as she. 


Yes, PJ Harvey does Dorset proud, and I get the feeling that Dorset does PJ Harvey proud. 


http://jump-into-the-void.blogspot.com/2008/12/patriot.html

Listening to Let England Shake makes me think that no one who truly feels patriotism would chose to go to war, other than to defend their land. To attack another territory is about as un-patriotic as you can get. We need nothing more than this glorious land. No other territory can match it. 

Current Project Research: collected massive attack shorts #2

I'm working on a new Massive Attack short story based on the Atlas Air song from Heligoland. The story deals with extraordinary rendition, as does the song. In light of today's news I thought I would link to Massive Attack's Atlas Air and give a little mention to this short that I'm working on. It's still in draft form at the moment, but when it's readable I'll talk more about the story and research that's gone into it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14790034

this is an American and therefore slightly sensationalist version of the report:

See http://jump-into-the-void.blogspot.com/2011/05/current-project-research-collected.html for more info on this project.

Sci fi story published on Kasma

A sci fi story of mine has been published by Kasma magazine. You can read it by following this link: http://www.kasmamagazine.com/beached.html

Enjoy!

Narrated Songs II

Another narrated song. I prefer story-based narrative songs. This is more poetic. It's awesome either way. I love Boys Noize, and Jarvis Cocker is some kind of artistic genius.

more narrated songs here

Mary came to stay

Mary visited us. She helped out in my allotment (did most of the work), we fired up the cob oven for the first time, she designed the outdoor kitchen area (awesome drawing skills), and then we went bat detecting in the woods. We saw soprano pips, noctule, serotine (I think), and lots of daubenton's over the river on the way back.

Elderflower champagne I made a few weeks back