1) swell maps: a trip to marineville
2) a walk through organsdale field, 1885
3) carnival of souls
4) yoga on the wii fit
5) some forteana
6) ''...here is a list of incorrect things..''
7) january 18: r. stevie moore, oliver norvell hardy, rudyard kipling
8) f-sharp on a yamaha electric baby grand
9) who goes there?
10) a glass or two of green ginger wine
11) somewhere in deep time: on his deathbed, my great-grandfather confesses that he is a white witch
12) in a dreame: climbing up the eddisbury hill
13) a series of clickkkkks. the blue screen. then nothing.
14) what we left on the floor of our flat at a___ road: a bunch of withered flowers; st b's bamboo mouth harp
15) some dead mice under the floorboards
16) the weather forecast = light rain, 4°c, wind 13mph, 73% humidity (oooh, bryter layter), sore throat and tonsillitis to follow
17) now we can go out for a jolly
18) somewhere in deep time: on her deathbed, my great-great-great grandmother confesses that she is a serial bigamist. she has families in edmonton (middsx), kilkenny (or kilarney: she forgets), calcutta and jo'burg. to my great-great-great grandfathers eternal bemusement, members of these other families turn up at the funeral...
19) a sunnyday fine. driving in st b's austin minor sprayed so midnight blue it’s almost black. wide wheels and silver alloys. dark windows rolled down. don't touch that dial & june 1 1974 blaring from the tinnitus inducing speakers under the dashboard..
2) a walk through organsdale field, 1885
3) carnival of souls
4) yoga on the wii fit
5) some forteana
6) ''...here is a list of incorrect things..''
7) january 18: r. stevie moore, oliver norvell hardy, rudyard kipling
8) f-sharp on a yamaha electric baby grand
9) who goes there?
10) a glass or two of green ginger wine
11) somewhere in deep time: on his deathbed, my great-grandfather confesses that he is a white witch
12) in a dreame: climbing up the eddisbury hill
13) a series of clickkkkks. the blue screen. then nothing.
14) what we left on the floor of our flat at a___ road: a bunch of withered flowers; st b's bamboo mouth harp
15) some dead mice under the floorboards
16) the weather forecast = light rain, 4°c, wind 13mph, 73% humidity (oooh, bryter layter), sore throat and tonsillitis to follow
17) now we can go out for a jolly
18) somewhere in deep time: on her deathbed, my great-great-great grandmother confesses that she is a serial bigamist. she has families in edmonton (middsx), kilkenny (or kilarney: she forgets), calcutta and jo'burg. to my great-great-great grandfathers eternal bemusement, members of these other families turn up at the funeral...
19) a sunnyday fine. driving in st b's austin minor sprayed so midnight blue it’s almost black. wide wheels and silver alloys. dark windows rolled down. don't touch that dial & june 1 1974 blaring from the tinnitus inducing speakers under the dashboard..
20) ...gill heslop, a girl with beautiful red hair, waves from across the street.
21) here is the wow and here is the flutter / himalayan balsam
22) is he dead? (somebody asked)
23) is he your guardian angel? (somebody else)
24) 1985: fireballs over manchester spark 'war of the worlds' panic
25) the best bit of the 'film' - maggie, denno and grimmo and i are sitting in a field talking about gurls
26) and timon is singing “you’re heading east girl but it’s all gone west”
27) beasley street, salford
28) tatlin's tower
29) ''..the secret decree issued by the uk section of the нео sovnarkom included plans to wipe the calendar year of 1976 from the memories of all the inhabitants of ____. the experiment is already well underway...''
30) you know too much
31) patty the opera singer (my cousin once removed)
32) the peterloo massacre
33) the manchester guardian
34) i want to go back....i want to go back....i want to go back to adelaide
35) goosey green. it was always sunny. the old cobblestones glitter after the rain
36) mama cradle me again
37) the drake equation, N = R* x fp x ne x f1 x fi x fc x L
38) lyme park: a spectre haunts the long gallery of the house therein
21) here is the wow and here is the flutter / himalayan balsam
22) is he dead? (somebody asked)
23) is he your guardian angel? (somebody else)
24) 1985: fireballs over manchester spark 'war of the worlds' panic
25) the best bit of the 'film' - maggie, denno and grimmo and i are sitting in a field talking about gurls
26) and timon is singing “you’re heading east girl but it’s all gone west”
27) beasley street, salford
28) tatlin's tower
29) ''..the secret decree issued by the uk section of the нео sovnarkom included plans to wipe the calendar year of 1976 from the memories of all the inhabitants of ____. the experiment is already well underway...''
30) you know too much
31) patty the opera singer (my cousin once removed)
32) the peterloo massacre
33) the manchester guardian
34) i want to go back....i want to go back....i want to go back to adelaide
35) goosey green. it was always sunny. the old cobblestones glitter after the rain
36) mama cradle me again
37) the drake equation, N = R* x fp x ne x f1 x fi x fc x L
38) lyme park: a spectre haunts the long gallery of the house therein
39) the zoological collection at the madchester museum
40) the psykick sea is coming over me
41) when i was a kid #1: i unwrap the orange cellophane from a bottle of lucozade original. it squeaks as i hold it up to my eyes to look at the trees and the sky
42) 279 miles. another restless night in boleskin hse
43) and this is how i remember 2009: august in north walsham
44) when i was a kid #2: saturday afternoon late in the summer. we stand under the front porch to watch a thunderstorm. the lightning darts along the telephone wires. i hold my daddy’s hand.
45) swallowed lots of dem little yellow pills and played all thru tha night at the piccadilly plaza. this is when sweet pea still thought we wuz the next beatles
46) rochdale first time in the studio i’m either very cold or very nervous. my teeth chatter
47) the weather! the leather! the weather! the leather!
48) if i was a witches hat sitting on her head like a paraffin stove
49) we were high...walking down the street listening to bob fripp you burn me up, i’m a cigarette on his silly little cassette player...eeeeeeeeek the handle suddenly starts to melt in my sweaty palms
50) “...open the door!”/(scratch)\“...open the door!’’
51) thermonuclear blast #1: the volans, exo 0748-676
52) words, eh? you can either cut with them or drug with them
53) spent part of the evening watching
54) the bitter thoughts of little jane are locked away and will remain unspoken
55) driving across b.c. two beautiful sunny kids in the back of a car. in the front seat the light is streaming through my love's sweet brown hair
56) over the frosty moors with todmorden katie and the somaboys. we are wearing the most ridiculous hats
57) no one really knows she wants to die / she’ll find her place / she’ll find a head to pound on
58) by the time we got to swansea it was getting dark
59) sitting in the leigh darkness my friend peter anthony greenwood and i: the world turns we don’t get what we want (please please please let me get what i want this time)
60) sixteen is a magick number
61) thermonuclear blast #2: making music that makes me homesick for something i never had and never will have
62) stop to feed the ducks on the pond
63) this is how i remember 1995: one cold november after another
64) music is everybody's possession: only publishers think that people own it
65) when i was a kid #3: that funny feeling i get in my stomach whenever i hear “georgy girl”
66) we are lying on the grass at stamford park listening to nico's “chelsea girls”. it’s summer (yeah i know it’s ALWAYS summer but that’s the way i remember it!). boop and mandy and little sue are feeding cola cube’s to somebody’s dog. nicky bonfire and st b are there. mex and z are there too. nicky's in the middle of a bad trip. his pupils are huuuuge. little sue and the st b peer into them for a moment before sue declares one of the pupils to be “...like a supermassive black hole..” which is a bad move 'cos now nicky thinks something is wrong. freaks. gets up. waves his arms. runs across the park. we chase him around. it's a a keystone cops movie. a sketch from the benny hill show. nicky's much too fast for us. climbs a tree that he somehow just can’t avoid. coils himself around a thick branch like he’s a snake. hisses down at us. spits. slips. falls. lands on his back. he’s winded. can’t move. thinks he’s dead. the fall has jolted him out of his trip. ("you've done something to your brain..."). now he thinks he’s a hobbit and st b’s not helping ‘cos he’s yelling “lie down little baggins” and laughing madly while boop tries to hold nicky's head still and mandy attempts to get the straw from ribena carton into his mouth. his lips are white and he's frothing at the mouth. mandy finally gets the straw in and the froth becomes all purple and psychedelicised
67) in the background nico is still singing “i’ll keep it with mine” and “i’m not saying”
68) nicky doesn’t wake again until we hit penrith
69) take this kiss upon the brow / and in parting from you now / thus much let me avow / you are not wrong who deem / that my days have been a dream / yet if hope has flown away / in a night or in a day / in a vision or in none / is it therefore the less gone? / all that we see or seem / is but a dream within a dream / i stand amid the roar / of a surf-tormented shore / and i hold within my hand / grains of the golden sand / how few! yet how they creep / through my fingers to the deep / while i weep / while i weep! / o god! can i not grasp / them with a tighter clasp? / o god! can i not save / one from the pitiless wave? / is all that we see or seem / but a dream within a dream?
70) shock ending: “...oh god!” he cried, dying on mars
71) nicky gets so drunk that he cries like a baby. insists that mex’s dad kenny must join the band NOW or else he’ll “pack it all in and get a 9 to 5!”
72) learning to meditate / south walsham 1999. i feel myself beginning to vibrate. i panic. get dizzy. have to lean against something. reach out my hand. see sparks falling from the ends of my fingers. my hand goes riiiiiight through the wall
73) now i see aura's
74) summer in flash...darkest skies i have ever seen...walking thru’ the valley after an evening out. i look up. i can feel the weight of the milky way pressing down on me from above
75) pareidolia / is the psychological phenomenon / in which people see shapes or hear sounds / which they consider to be significant when they are not / (and in some cases don’t exist at all) / the most common example of this / is the alleged hearing of phrases when playing records backwards / it is also frequently the cause of so-called miracles / in which religious figures appear / in toast, or clouds, or stains on every day objects
76) “i had a lover / i don't think I'll risk another / these days / these days / and if I seem to be afraid to live the life that i have made in song / it's just that i've been losing so long / la la la la la, la la....”
77) winchester
78) love that involves suffering is not heroic
79) but some people need a lot of drama in their lives to feel totally alive
80) monday 16 june: the day is over by 5:30pm / angiemac dances up the corridor to singspeak patti smith at me / “...i would rather smell the way boys smell oh those schoolboys the way their legs flap under the desk in study hall that odor rising roses and ammonia and the way their dicks droop like lilacs...because you see its the monotony thats got to me every afternoon like the last one every afternoon like a rerun..” / i pack up my things for the last time / hand in the key to my stinking locker (no.82) / won't kiss the bosses arse / sign myself out (already a p.a.u.l.) / say goodbye / meet some workmates in the bar nextdoor for a farewell drink / lori ignores me and won’t look in my direction / sue is drunk and tries to put her tongue down my throat as we kiss goodbye / my friend dominic laughs “fuck good luck! from this point you are on your own” / dotty roger and angiemac just smile / never saw 'em again
81) the milky circle; llwybr llaethog; camí de sant jaume; la voie lactée; bealach na bó finne or slabhbra luigh;
82) widdecombe-in-the-moor
83) february 1708: a previously unknown london astrologer / named isaac bickerstaff published an almanac / in which he predicted the feverdeath of the famous rival astrologer john partridge / according to bickerstaff / partridge would die on march 29 of that year / partridge indignantly denied the prediction / but on march 30 bickerstaff released a pamphlet announcing that he had been correct / partridge was dead / it took a day for the news to spread / but soon everyone had heard of the astrologer's demise / thus on april 1st partridge was woken by a sexton outside his window / who wanted to know if there were any orders for his funeral sermon / later as partridge walked down the street / people stared at him as if they were looking at a ghost / or they stopped to tell him that he looked exactly like someone they knew who was dead / as hard as he tried / partridge couldn't convince people that he wasn't dead / it transpired that bickerstaff was a pseudonym for the satirist jonathan swift / his prognosticatory practical joke upon partridge / worked so well that partridge was forced to stop publishing his almanacs / because he couldn't shake his reputation as the man whose death had been foretold.
84) somewhere on the sylvan avenue. i spend a long lazy summer practising reading listening drinking smoking laughing. at twenty years old i finally learn to write songs. whenever i pass the house now i hear ghostly guitars coming from the back garden
85) dark matter ---> dark energy ---> white holes
86) this is another tale from the greene valley / the white hart / the blue pig
87) thats me off the hook then! (part i): it is possible to accidentally plagiarize something / cryptomnesia is a memory bias in which a person believes / they have conceived of a new idea / when in fact they are simply remembering someone else’s idea / sometimes this even finds its way into literature / “friedrich nietzsche’s book thus spoke zarathustra includes / an almost word for word account of an incident / also included in a book published in about 1835 / half a century before nietzsche wrote / this is neither considered to be purposeful plagiarism nor pure coincidence / nietzsche’s sister confirmed / that he had indeed read the original account when he was 11 years old.”
88) "please don't confront me with my failures...i have not forgotten them!"
89) i took a trip in the golden sphere / the gir the alikmahrati / to see the ruins on the moon / only to find / the moon is made of glass / it is in fact a looking-glass...(“actually the moon is made of cheese. how else do you describe the holes and the yellow colour? how can it be cheese? it makes perfect sense” – albert einstein)
90) when i was a kid #4: when i was seven years old i wanted to be an acrobat an astronaut an archaeologist an astronomer & an actor (so many a’s...)
91) now i am all of the above +
92) ...but (really) i just want to love you
40) the psykick sea is coming over me
41) when i was a kid #1: i unwrap the orange cellophane from a bottle of lucozade original. it squeaks as i hold it up to my eyes to look at the trees and the sky
42) 279 miles. another restless night in boleskin hse
43) and this is how i remember 2009: august in north walsham
44) when i was a kid #2: saturday afternoon late in the summer. we stand under the front porch to watch a thunderstorm. the lightning darts along the telephone wires. i hold my daddy’s hand.
45) swallowed lots of dem little yellow pills and played all thru tha night at the piccadilly plaza. this is when sweet pea still thought we wuz the next beatles
46) rochdale first time in the studio i’m either very cold or very nervous. my teeth chatter
47) the weather! the leather! the weather! the leather!
48) if i was a witches hat sitting on her head like a paraffin stove
49) we were high...walking down the street listening to bob fripp you burn me up, i’m a cigarette on his silly little cassette player...eeeeeeeeek the handle suddenly starts to melt in my sweaty palms
50) “...open the door!”/(scratch)\“...open the door!’’
51) thermonuclear blast #1: the volans, exo 0748-676
52) words, eh? you can either cut with them or drug with them
53) spent part of the evening watching
54) the bitter thoughts of little jane are locked away and will remain unspoken
55) driving across b.c. two beautiful sunny kids in the back of a car. in the front seat the light is streaming through my love's sweet brown hair
56) over the frosty moors with todmorden katie and the somaboys. we are wearing the most ridiculous hats
57) no one really knows she wants to die / she’ll find her place / she’ll find a head to pound on
58) by the time we got to swansea it was getting dark
59) sitting in the leigh darkness my friend peter anthony greenwood and i: the world turns we don’t get what we want (please please please let me get what i want this time)
60) sixteen is a magick number
61) thermonuclear blast #2: making music that makes me homesick for something i never had and never will have
62) stop to feed the ducks on the pond
63) this is how i remember 1995: one cold november after another
64) music is everybody's possession: only publishers think that people own it
65) when i was a kid #3: that funny feeling i get in my stomach whenever i hear “georgy girl”
66) we are lying on the grass at stamford park listening to nico's “chelsea girls”. it’s summer (yeah i know it’s ALWAYS summer but that’s the way i remember it!). boop and mandy and little sue are feeding cola cube’s to somebody’s dog. nicky bonfire and st b are there. mex and z are there too. nicky's in the middle of a bad trip. his pupils are huuuuge. little sue and the st b peer into them for a moment before sue declares one of the pupils to be “...like a supermassive black hole..” which is a bad move 'cos now nicky thinks something is wrong. freaks. gets up. waves his arms. runs across the park. we chase him around. it's a a keystone cops movie. a sketch from the benny hill show. nicky's much too fast for us. climbs a tree that he somehow just can’t avoid. coils himself around a thick branch like he’s a snake. hisses down at us. spits. slips. falls. lands on his back. he’s winded. can’t move. thinks he’s dead. the fall has jolted him out of his trip. ("you've done something to your brain..."). now he thinks he’s a hobbit and st b’s not helping ‘cos he’s yelling “lie down little baggins” and laughing madly while boop tries to hold nicky's head still and mandy attempts to get the straw from ribena carton into his mouth. his lips are white and he's frothing at the mouth. mandy finally gets the straw in and the froth becomes all purple and psychedelicised
67) in the background nico is still singing “i’ll keep it with mine” and “i’m not saying”
68) nicky doesn’t wake again until we hit penrith
69) take this kiss upon the brow / and in parting from you now / thus much let me avow / you are not wrong who deem / that my days have been a dream / yet if hope has flown away / in a night or in a day / in a vision or in none / is it therefore the less gone? / all that we see or seem / is but a dream within a dream / i stand amid the roar / of a surf-tormented shore / and i hold within my hand / grains of the golden sand / how few! yet how they creep / through my fingers to the deep / while i weep / while i weep! / o god! can i not grasp / them with a tighter clasp? / o god! can i not save / one from the pitiless wave? / is all that we see or seem / but a dream within a dream?
70) shock ending: “...oh god!” he cried, dying on mars
71) nicky gets so drunk that he cries like a baby. insists that mex’s dad kenny must join the band NOW or else he’ll “pack it all in and get a 9 to 5!”
72) learning to meditate / south walsham 1999. i feel myself beginning to vibrate. i panic. get dizzy. have to lean against something. reach out my hand. see sparks falling from the ends of my fingers. my hand goes riiiiiight through the wall
73) now i see aura's
74) summer in flash...darkest skies i have ever seen...walking thru’ the valley after an evening out. i look up. i can feel the weight of the milky way pressing down on me from above
75) pareidolia / is the psychological phenomenon / in which people see shapes or hear sounds / which they consider to be significant when they are not / (and in some cases don’t exist at all) / the most common example of this / is the alleged hearing of phrases when playing records backwards / it is also frequently the cause of so-called miracles / in which religious figures appear / in toast, or clouds, or stains on every day objects
76) “i had a lover / i don't think I'll risk another / these days / these days / and if I seem to be afraid to live the life that i have made in song / it's just that i've been losing so long / la la la la la, la la....”
77) winchester
78) love that involves suffering is not heroic
79) but some people need a lot of drama in their lives to feel totally alive
80) monday 16 june: the day is over by 5:30pm / angiemac dances up the corridor to singspeak patti smith at me / “...i would rather smell the way boys smell oh those schoolboys the way their legs flap under the desk in study hall that odor rising roses and ammonia and the way their dicks droop like lilacs...because you see its the monotony thats got to me every afternoon like the last one every afternoon like a rerun..” / i pack up my things for the last time / hand in the key to my stinking locker (no.82) / won't kiss the bosses arse / sign myself out (already a p.a.u.l.) / say goodbye / meet some workmates in the bar nextdoor for a farewell drink / lori ignores me and won’t look in my direction / sue is drunk and tries to put her tongue down my throat as we kiss goodbye / my friend dominic laughs “fuck good luck! from this point you are on your own” / dotty roger and angiemac just smile / never saw 'em again
81) the milky circle; llwybr llaethog; camí de sant jaume; la voie lactée; bealach na bó finne or slabhbra luigh;
82) widdecombe-in-the-moor
83) february 1708: a previously unknown london astrologer / named isaac bickerstaff published an almanac / in which he predicted the feverdeath of the famous rival astrologer john partridge / according to bickerstaff / partridge would die on march 29 of that year / partridge indignantly denied the prediction / but on march 30 bickerstaff released a pamphlet announcing that he had been correct / partridge was dead / it took a day for the news to spread / but soon everyone had heard of the astrologer's demise / thus on april 1st partridge was woken by a sexton outside his window / who wanted to know if there were any orders for his funeral sermon / later as partridge walked down the street / people stared at him as if they were looking at a ghost / or they stopped to tell him that he looked exactly like someone they knew who was dead / as hard as he tried / partridge couldn't convince people that he wasn't dead / it transpired that bickerstaff was a pseudonym for the satirist jonathan swift / his prognosticatory practical joke upon partridge / worked so well that partridge was forced to stop publishing his almanacs / because he couldn't shake his reputation as the man whose death had been foretold.
84) somewhere on the sylvan avenue. i spend a long lazy summer practising reading listening drinking smoking laughing. at twenty years old i finally learn to write songs. whenever i pass the house now i hear ghostly guitars coming from the back garden
85) dark matter ---> dark energy ---> white holes
86) this is another tale from the greene valley / the white hart / the blue pig
87) thats me off the hook then! (part i): it is possible to accidentally plagiarize something / cryptomnesia is a memory bias in which a person believes / they have conceived of a new idea / when in fact they are simply remembering someone else’s idea / sometimes this even finds its way into literature / “friedrich nietzsche’s book thus spoke zarathustra includes / an almost word for word account of an incident / also included in a book published in about 1835 / half a century before nietzsche wrote / this is neither considered to be purposeful plagiarism nor pure coincidence / nietzsche’s sister confirmed / that he had indeed read the original account when he was 11 years old.”
88) "please don't confront me with my failures...i have not forgotten them!"
89) i took a trip in the golden sphere / the gir the alikmahrati / to see the ruins on the moon / only to find / the moon is made of glass / it is in fact a looking-glass...(“actually the moon is made of cheese. how else do you describe the holes and the yellow colour? how can it be cheese? it makes perfect sense” – albert einstein)
90) when i was a kid #4: when i was seven years old i wanted to be an acrobat an astronaut an archaeologist an astronomer & an actor (so many a’s...)
91) now i am all of the above +
92) ...but (really) i just want to love you
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