There are two maps drawn in pen in my pocketbook. One leads to a store where I need to pick up my tickets for tonight’s concert and the other leads to the Georg Elser Halle, where the gig is being held. My spatial needs satisfied, I head out to find my tickets, some food and [...]
Archive for 2007
On the hunt for beer in Munich
03Mar07I went out in Munich tonight in search of a drink. It turned out to be a little harder than I thought. I had some image of these key German cities as immense clusters of cool little Bierkellers full of people willing to have a good knees-up and a pint, all of the above just [...]
Hotel room blogging
02Mar07I have to make this quick. You see, I’m in a hotel room in Munich writing on my laptop and I seem to have left the charger in Britain. I have four hours of battery life to spread out over four days unless I can, with some small hope, find a shop in this city [...]
Embarrassing typos
27Feb07I was updating a profile last night with a list of authors I’ve been reading recently when something peculiar happened. I went to type “Philip K. Dick” and ended up typing “Philip K. Cock”. I am confused and saddened by this, as you might expect. I mean, was this an unconscious semantic substitution let loose [...]
I flew to Scotland the other day
21Feb07Airports are the most messed-up places I know. I’ve just queued for 20 minutes for the honour of taking half my clothes off, swabbed for explosives and then electronically stripped naked (seriously) by a millimetre-wave scanner monitored two minimum-wage numbnuts still giggling over the best pair of x-rayed tits they’ve seen today. Or mocking my [...]
New Year Polaroids
07Jan07I didn’t take many photographs at New Year’s, but those I did take were on expired polaroid film. Expired polaroid film is much like normal polaroid film. You never have a clue how anything will come out and you have very little say in the settings of your photograph. There is, however, something wonderfully physical [...]
