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This isn’t a lyric from a bad breakup song or some weird artsy movie or worse still, a chick flick. I am…dammit…happy. And always astounded by just how I got there. Wait, there was… Death. Deprivation. Depression and….then all the good stuff! Good stuff like…friends, family, ginger beer, cheap smokes, Ben Harper’s new album, the […]
We do the best we can given who we are and what we have been through. That’s as simple as it is. Whether in the family context or at work. No one means to be an asshole, but…life happens. Sometimes we are the asshole and sometimes we are the victims. And so we walk through […]
I talk way, way too much. Anyhoo, here’s the last podcast of 2020. I haven’t managed to post my vlog on my site but it can be found on FB. For some reason my official music page is kinda useless. I should ditch it altogether I reckon. People mail and speak to me more on […]
Dearest Daddy aka The Old Black Man You have been dead for 6 months now. And whenever I think of you my heart blooms and I choke up a bit, but not because I am sad. I sat with a friend a few weeks ago and she said, ‘Can you imagine who we would have […]
This entire album was fantastic. Again, my daughter had something to do with it. If she isn’t listening to her damn soundcliud rappers that is…Mind you, that kid, like her father, has a knack for knowing what artists will hit it big years in advance. Anyhoo, take a listen!
This is what drove me crazy for the last…uhmm…ten years! I was answering the wrong questions all the time! But I reckon this is the way of it. We have a vague idea of what we suspect we might need and so plod along. The answers always come in the form of people, experiences or […]
Godson number two and I watched a number of short animated movies last night. I wont lie, we got a little bit depressed and upset as we watched this. But it has a beautiful ending though…
The ingredients for a happy life, I erroneously thought, were as follows: a great career and a good man. I was obsessed with this idea of Love. Yet, lying in bed and realizing that…hold the phone…I am happy while in possession of neither is the fucking epiphany and joke of the year! 2020 made mw realise that […]
Light your ciggie or whatever pleases you, drink some whiskey or whatever is handy, then sit down and listen to this story. It explains everything. Well, everything that matters as we try to find meaning…
I heard it once being said that it is a crime to waste dream energy. Okay, perhaps I made up that statement and wanted to sound fancy. Probably, yes. But it is a crime to waste it I reckon. Most days my dreams go from normal to super crazy in seconds. So allow.me to share…. I […]