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The Fading Illusions of a Former World
“these last five months has allowed some of those illusions to fall apart when juxtaposed against the big new question: but is it worth risking Covid for?”
Getting a Tattoo in the Time of Covid
“So why the tattoo? Why go to a place in close quarters with other people (albeit masked and visored) and let them cut you open, giving yourself an open wound and adding the possibility of other infection to the list of pre-existing risks in your life and risk Covid in the process? Honestly, the answer is a fuck it sense of fatalism brought about by the disregard to my, and all other teacher and students’, health and safety shown by the government.“
Ten Years Dead
“Big things and little things - an absence, but an eternal presence also. Present by his lack of presence. A hole in reality, all too noticeable.“
STAY ALERT
“just as I was about to record With Burning Anger, I found the demo I’d made and forgotten of Stay Alert. Once I remembered how to play it, got it in a key I could actually sing (the original key blew my voice out so bad my throat hurt for two weeks!), and finished off the lyrics, I was ready. This week I recorded them both and decided to release them today on Bandcamp“
Good News in Dark Times
“suddenly with a lot of new free time on my hands and trying to turn the lemons of coronavirus into lemonade, I decided to step up the thinking about it seriously and start writing in the academic style now to see if I still could. “
Rethinking Kindness
“Kindness in punk didn’t mean smiles and flowers. It wasn’t instagram-vapid and hashtag-ready, it was rough around the edges and sullen. It swore, it was prickly, but its heart was big and definitely in the right place. The song might yell “fuck you” and the fighting in the mosh pit might seem aggressive, but if you needed someone to help you out when the world had turned its back, there was no better place.”
Idea for a Twilight Zone Episode…
“Don’t you see? It’s all wrong! Can’t you hear it? It even says The Simpsons at the start - why would this be the theme for the six o’clock news?”
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
“I didn’t realise how much I was missing baseball as a part of my Spring and Summer ritual until it came back this weekend.”
I Was Lost But Now I Am Found
“There are few positive things we can say about Covid 19, but if there is any silver lining to this ever-blackening cloud it is that the world being forced to stop for a few months gave everyone who was able to take advantage of it the opportunity to reflect.”
Mr Chi Pig RIP - This Is The End
“The songs and memories are still there, but it’s sad to think the guy who gave me them all isn’t. RIP Mr Chi Pig. Never met you. Never saw you play live. Yet I’m forever changed by what you did.“
Why The Capital N, DaN?
“Since the publication of Authentic Democracy many people have asked me why the book spells my name with a capitalised N in my first name so it reads "DaN" instead of "Dan"?“
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