Mentalechoes

Hmmm… what to write tonight? The thoughts went through my head in a big jumbled mess, not much in the way of cohesion or anything remotely interesting. I struggled to come up with a plot or storyline that wasn’t related to my breakup in some form or another. After all I mused, a writer has [...]

As I’ve come to realise in my breakup life (both past and present), it’s the OHHH part of ‘letting go’ that can be the hardest thing to emotionally deal with. By OH, I mean things like…
OH my god, is it really over….OH I still love you…OH I miss you so much…OH fuck this hurts…OH who [...]

My horoscope for today said - A moment of introspection leads you to a stunning insight. It’s the start of something new in your life. Once you get used to the idea of change, you’ll find that all the elements start falling into place.
It’s almost too good to be true. This is exactly what I [...]

Things had been flat all week for me. Hardly surprising given the circumstances, so when my venezualan soul brother Balduino called me up on thursday asking if I was free to meet him today for a few hours, I very vocally told him that I was, and said lets make an afternoon of it. And [...]

There’s a tune that I listen to these days, that is one of the most beautiful peices of music that I have heard in a long long time, called Kissing Air, by Future Funk Squad. No matter what kind of mood I am; be it happy, sad, fucked off, whatever, it always brings me around [...]

The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance of the third rate. Eric Anderson
Every so often I go through these periods where I want to become a millionaire. I’ve got a head for crazy money making schemes, [...]

I’ve just finished watching a teevee show on the life and works of Hunter S. Thompson, one of the great contemporary writers of his time. I’ve always been fascinated by Hunter S ever since dirty Pete loaned me a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when we were living in share house called [...]

So my London jaunt finally finished when I touched down at Schiphol Airport on a windy and rainy Sunday night a couple of days ago. It was strange day for me, because I was returning from the surreal experience of an extended weeks reality break liberally sprinkled with booze and party favours, back to an [...]

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.Jane Austin
I’d decided that I had become decidely morose in the time before my birthday, seeing only the grey empty sky of winter descending upon the landscape around me, filling me with a listless feeling that was becoming very demotivating. Strangely enough - or not - everyone around [...]