...an impression on him that he barely found time to make excuses to his friend and his parents |
well, sometimes you have a fairly mediocre day and then something nice happens.
the lovely people at losing today http://www.myspace.com/thesundayexperience
http://www.losingtoday.com/index.php
...
Posted by the winter journey on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:57:00 PST |
...Degrael lit upon a slim volume entitled "The Winter Journey"... |
tony wilson once said "food food food" to me in a hotel corridor; meaningless babble-that's my anecdote. never meant shit to me; part of that awful manchester over-rating of whatever happens to be pla...
Posted by the winter journey on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:27:00 PST |
...whose author, Hugo Vernier, was unknown to him but whose opening pages made so strong... |
can't let that last blog stand without explaining a little more. went to see starless & bible black play at the roadhouse this week, a venue with very mixed memories...but the audience were very a...
Posted by the winter journey on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:34:00 PST |
...inattentively through beside the fire, before going to make up a fourth at bridge |
this is a really obvious thing to say, but i'm very sad. george melly, bergman, antonioni and now mr.lee hazlewood passing away in the space of a week or so. every day i seem to be the texting grim re...
Posted by the winter journey on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:17:00 PST |
promised oneself one will read, but that one will generally only have time to leaf... |
in the middle of moving house, an excuse for digging up proustian madeleines in various states of decomposition (posters for gigs with old bands, press releases for old demos...) and attempting t...
Posted by the winter journey on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:38:00 PST |
...while exploring his hosts' shelves in search of one of those books one has always.... |
haven't been paying enough attention here later. The real world has taken over somewhat, which in a way is just as well. Amongst other things, suzy has been mastering her solo album (sounding very goo...
Posted by the winter journey on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:21:00 PST |
of one of his colleagues, Denis Borade. The day before his departure.... |
Here we go again.
The Winter Journey (or rather, Le Voyage d'Hiver) is the name of a short story by Georges Perec, a writer that I love. He wrote it in 1980...
In 1939, a man called Vincent Degra...
Posted by the winter journey on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:47:00 PST |
at the place outside Le Havre belonging to the parents... |
hello voyager,
feels as though haven't been around in manchester that much of late to play or write or whatnot, but ought to type something here anyhow.
Prepare for random, unrehearsed babble.....and ...
Posted by the winter journey on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:51:00 PST |
...a young literature teacher, Vincent Degrael, was invited to spend a few days... |
so, the winter journey:
it started with another lost record i made, 'strand', which was me making curious noises with a guitar (i was reading 'The Wire' magazine too much at the time). In the middle o...
Posted by the winter journey on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:30:00 PST |
In the last week of August 1939, as the talk of war invaded Paris... |
Hello, stranger.
Today's a Big Frank day. (Mark Shirokuma thought I was talking about Big Fun, the S/A/W pop act, when I said Big Frank. I don't know why we call him that, we just alway...
Posted by the winter journey on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:32:00 PST |
