Mentalechoes

The old photograph collection I have from the years of my 30’s has been buried in the back of a cupboard at the back of my flat for a time longer than I can remember. They never came out at all in the last few years, and I’d really forgotten that the albums filled with [...]

Sometimes it’s easy to lose yourself in the repetition of life; the comfortable turn of day-by-day existence for months on end that almost makes you feel like time is standing still. It’s like a cocoon that can give you an embrace of safety that on an unconscious level most of us want. You can almost [...]

Recently – as in about 3 hours ago when I was on my trusty bicycle – I started wondering about whether there is any such thing as real magic in the world, and the power of belief in magic.
Back when I was a wee teenage lad I got hooked on Dungeons and Dragons (and subsequently [...]

When I was twenty years old, I never knew my fathers mind. It seemed all the choices he made in life were wrong, and even I could see that back then, even though I knew I had very little real experience at anything to do with adult life. Twenty years later I can look now [...]

Truly the benefits of having recently ripped my entire cd collection is beginning to show itself like the bare legs of women on the first warm days of spring. I decided that tonight I would do some work overhauling my weblogs (as once again I’ve decided that writing IS important to me, and I really [...]

So I’m back again after a period of absence. I guess you could call it self imposed; I just let myself drop out when stuff to do with work started piling up and drowning me. Funny thing is, I’ve seen this cycle before, and so know where it leads. Not that it makes much [...]

I remember it all; the party, the people, and all the gear on the tables around the flat. No alcohol stupor for me, nor the missing time effect that so many others would face when they woke up on the morning after. It was a hardcore crowd though, make no mistake, not satisified with chit [...]

I've built an office in my flat in what should be the small dining room, but since I am not the kind of person that throws chic dinner parties – my tastes for entertanment have always been much more exotic bohemian – it's always been my internet computer room. A chick friend took me to Ikea a [...]

I didn’t expect it would come so quick, the day when I would be leaving my job for another place. I’ve been there for over two and a half years, it’s the longest amount of time I’ve ever been with any one single employer, and I thought I would stay there for a while longer [...]

I've been here before; sitting at the start of the circle, or is it the end; trying to work out if it was the start of something new, or the end of something old. Is and end a new beginning; or is a beginning an end? Yes it is, no it's not; who the fuck [...]