Introduction
Through the years I have posted several different blogs - 'the crude decade', 'la decennie brut' etc etc. This is the latest. This blog is home to my vague outpourings. Expect a lack of context. Watching for cognitive decline at this point - although I'm not quite old enough. Writing will be of varying quality and tone. Expect the odd poem, the odd reflection, the odd wack of prose. Some attempts at social commentary. Currently we are experiencing a pandemic. Currently I am mourning the loss of rock and roll, in fact i feel rock and roll officially died when Lemmy Kilmister died. The 20th century and its post-war cultural revolution aka hippy punk youth culture et al is fading fast from society's mind. Gentrification and pandemics and neoliberalism has strangled collaborative arts practise and we are left as wholly isolated nodes - alienated and removed from human context(s). Will we see the death of art in this century? The death of 'alternative' cu