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Beak> Inspired fiction, fiddling while the city burns, Miyazaki and Le Guin

A friend (R. Sutherland) mentioned this band he was due to see recently Beak〉and upon quick encounter it was immediately apparent to me that this is a high, high quality sonic outfit. The first track from them I came across was the sleekly brilliant ‘Oh Know’ (below), which also happens to have a fantastically discombobulating […]

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Dream the path – Ursula K. Le Guin

When Ursula Le Guin died in January last year, it felt like we’d lost a true storyteller-dreamer, someone who’d given us worlds and transformative ideas and situations, who’d contextualised and touched upon forms of the unknown through the building of stories only even one of which was the spell-blinding 1976 book ‘The Word for World […]

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Homing of voice – Greta Thunberg (w/Bjork, Le Guin, Russell)

glimpses of the lucid-young in the spun-out disaster world of adultism Occasionally there emerges through the celebrity-scape someone who can display outer edge qualities of inspiration and it feels that way somewhat with Greta Thunberg. Its been difficult not to admire her poise and resolve from everything that I’ve seen and read, a reminder of […]