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Consumerism , Negativland and Pepsi
Coca Cola or Pepsi or Coke or Negativland It's 3AM and because it's Saturday I don't really have to get up for a few hours. Yesterday I had to get up for work and I was really tired, but when you don't have to get up , you can be up during the night and do things like write blog posts. I'm sitting here with a bottle of Coke, well Diet Coke (though I have just noticed it only mentions the name Coca-Cola in very small writing on the label.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Beat
My Favourite Album - Future Games By Spirit
I’ve had an idea to maybe review and say why I like certain albums and then to share my observations and this is going to start with my all time favourite album “Future Games” by Spirit. I own it on vinyl and CD and have it on my phone for when I am walking out. 44 years on it still really moves me, with it’s psychedelic non stop programming (there are no breaks between songs, and while that has been done before - Think Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon and a lot before that) it is a truly special album. By the time of its release Spirit was being driven by the ethereal voiced guitarist Randy California with help from his drummer father in law Ed Cassidy (alter ego mad raconteur Jack Bond on Spirit albums).
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Beat
The Film
This is the story. The rain , rain rained sown as they looked for the one they had lost. There was an address but it was a long walk up a dark , dank muddy track , walled on either side with ancient stone green with old mould. They walked together until they came to the building at the end of the path with a single dark weather worn door. The house was two storeys, brick and from what they could see had no windows.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Fiction
On Poetry
In a previous post (here) I listed nineteen poetry forms which I thought would give me some frameworks to write poetry, but when I looked closely a lot are more about the style than the formats. I do prefer a defined format then I feel I can call it poetry. My previous attempts prior to my first sonnet were very free form.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Journal
The Art of Neon Park
I’ve been relistening to the first five Little Feat albums this week. Little Feat were one of the nearest things to a perfect American band that you could hear, probably on a par with The Band. I had been fascinated with their album covers starting at “Sailin’ Shoes”.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Beat
The Best Part Of Vocal Subscriptions
I’m not sure if I can spend a lot of time eulogizing the most impressive and useful part of Vocal Subscriptions. But basically you can subscribe to your favourite authors and there is a list of my first eight additions that you can see in the pictures above . These authors and creators are all worth reading and have been extremely supportive of me far beyond Vocal and the Facebook groups.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Journal
The Book Of Invasions
As a teenager I tended to be outside all the standard musical groupings , although I did grow to appreciate a huge swathe of music as I grew up. Early in the seventies I picked up on “The Tain” by the Irish band Horslips, based on a legend from Irish Mythology.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Beat