[the hustle and bustle of the fair city]

Things are incredibly busy at the Electric_Dreams HQ at the moment...Currently in the sweet startphase of putting up a brand spankin’ new photoblog for my un-focused “photography” noodlings(-streetart,portraits,collages and beyond-),...Plus:...Editing a fanzine,...Academic duties,...Start-of-year socialising,...New year’s resolutions of revisiting my teenage passion for martial arts,...Fixing a leaky sink,...Trying to bike-ride in the snow,...Dechiphering languages,...Stitching together t-shirts from strange discarded garments,...Trying to rival my best mate in loud burping,...Visiting a travelling funfair (with a quirky,rusty old ferris-wheel on the edge of collapsing,and a microscopic roundabout,bandstand and sweet-smelling thaifood stalls!),...Mashing different-flavoured ice-cream blobs around the plate to make curious patterns,...Observing busy passer-bys in the cold winter air,...Buying coffe and burger meals to beggars,...Climbing on top of big metal construction scaffoldings and watch the city from above,...Babysitting brilliant but wicked and snotty little creatures,...Reading up on hermeneutics,...Exchanging emails with japanese about imaginary inventions of submarine diving-suit hybrids and giant mecha squids,... Installing a filter to poo away the evil spammers,...Discovering the joys of quiet evenings in with too much herb(al tea) and your cats,...Feeling the bass,...Enjoying the music,...Contemplating the joys of life(-but not without getting sentimental-),...Thinking about how there’s too much things to do in this world but too little time,...Discarding pessimism,...Embracing it again,...Walking on big rosy loveclouds, ...Sleeping too late,...Buying a Mecca(tm) alarm clock,...Awaking every morning to the cheery/chirpy sound of morning prayer from said alarm clock,...Getting a new haircut,...Observing others’ haircuts,...Getting a lovely wooly hat,...Cursing the laziness that prevented you from learning how to knit a hat,...Pubbing and late-night fooling about,...Watching stupid b-movies for no particular reason,...Giggling a lot(-all in the wrong places-),...A little bit of this and a little bit more of that, ...Filthy love,...Pure passion,...Appreciating the value of friendship,...Finding cheap plastic pearls in rainbow colours and putting them on a string,...Wondering where your knickers went to,...Deep dark guinness pints,...Getting snow inside your boots and feel the wet melting snowstream tickle your skin,...Getting a very bad cough,...Swearing a lot,...Always forgetting to buy notebooks and never remembering before it’s too late,...Wondering whether there exists small house-dwelling goblins whose sole purpose is to nick all your pens and never replace them,...Worrying about the amount of money that adds up from buying new pens endlessly,...Blocking out manic brainactivity to focus on the more important things in life,...Finding people who solve crosswords funny,...Forgetting lectures,...Pondering,...Resenting the telly,...Mocking the stupid lying fuckwit politicians,...Getting slightly depressed again,...Getting comforted by big strong arms,...Chucking small stones on metal railings to hear the little clunking sounds,...Walking under bridges while small children scream and sing silly verses,...Wondering what “noise” is all about,...Finding rubbish and scraps of paper tossed around the dirty streets at random,...Exploring internet radio,...Absorbing music on shit-cheap tinny headphones,...Walking,teasing,tossing and turning,...Wanting to see,and wanting to feel,...(and wanting to be open and learning,)...Feeling puzzles of "people" upsetting and soothing depending on mood level,...Wanting to hear sounds that the bats and dogs can but which we cannot,...Amusing yourself with picturing bat-siblings asleep up-side down in a tree,...Seeing through the frost-clad buswindow and making small circles and shapes,...Coughing,...Noodling,...Laughing,...Cursing,....Seeing the world in streams of colour,...Dreaming my life in sounds and echoes...



CHUNKS OF SOUND AND OTHER BITS WHICH MAY TICKLE YOUR FANCY:
*NEW Black Dog video,directed by none other than the great Matt Ingram (a.k.a.WoeBot)!!!
*Deep Listening links (Pauline Oliveros)
*Good mailorder biz for retro/psychedelic sorcery sounds
*The Elvis un-original
*Music and Futurism
*AvantArt
*UBUWEB
*Good french radio station,rather silly flash site

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