28 Oct 2009 12:00 am1
you know the Spanish rhyme about the sky, looking as if it is bricked up? tonight waiting for a train to take me back home from Gatwick i looked up and thought that was precisely what had happened, wondering when a good unbricker would appear.. it looked like the wall across the platform, gray and completely smooth like a plane of plaster reaching up to the end of the sky. But it was only fog. An illusion of pasty flatness… Read More
23 May 2009 12:53 pm1
just a quick last minute note to say i’ll be dj’ing tomorrow at the now be-chandeliered Hangover Lounge (new locale: The Lexington, on Pentonville road), with Alasdair from The Clientele, from 2-3 onwards… hope to see you!!! xolupe
14 May 2009 04:20 am
I just wanted to let you in on some secret heron activity. There is one that lives on a pond just opposite dulwich college, just north of the pond cottages. i’m slightly surprised it chose to live here, that it has remained. surely it’s not as lovely as some of the big marshes a bit farther outside the city, though the suburban pond is such a lovely corner to human eyes, ensconced between the park and the woods, a precious… Read More
19 Jan 2009 03:47 pm7
‘.. and [it] .. seemed to be suspended in the most fragile silence, like the silence of January’s second fortnight, or of February’s first.’ I loved reading this line (by Roberto Bolaño) on the train the other morning. Oh, dear peeps, finally there are some news in the House of Pipas. First of all we have set a release date for our next album! Despite a few hard drives crashing even. Who knows, 2010 could be our 10th anniversary if… Read More
30 Oct 2008 04:28 pm2
wha’? ..election…? huh?? i feel like rip van winkle - somebody just woke me up and whoa, all of a sudden it’s hallowe’en eve, and an election’s happening. i’ve been running lately, that’s my excuse. running with the wolves. running with the great tits. running under a canopy of falling leaves. running with the rooks in south london. of course running to La Casa Azul, what else is new! ok, sometimes running to morton feldman can you adam and eve… Read More
03 May 2008 06:24 am6
...oh yeah, oh yeah, just some time to celebrate.. come on, let’s celebrate. i’m off for a week of wandering and sun. adios ken, hello loris. pidg, we need you back here to run for the next election, please…