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Nick Cave on intellectual convenience

“The idea that we live life in a straight line, like a story, seems to me to be increasingly absurd and, more than anything, a kind of intellectual convenience,” he says. “I feel that the events in our lives are like a series of bells being struck and the vibrations spread outwards, affecting everything, our present, and our futures, of course, but our past as well. Everything is changing and vibrating and in flux..."
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  • Thoughts are like fishes///
    Hall in Wagga - *Great work by Eastrern Riverina Arts in organising a loan of Fiona Hall's magnificent Paradisus Terrestris (1989-90)* These are my favourite artworks b...
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    In muddy gutters - In muddy gutters reflecting on passing flows we reach for the sky

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  • RIP DJ Wasabi
    Sad to learn of the passing of Tom 'DJ Wasabi' Jones We worked together on a project to record Narrandera's Big Guitar and it w...
  • naviarhaiku538 – Only the moon remains
    The haiku shared by Naviar Records this week is shortened from a renga with a devastating image of death in a tidal river. I found myself t...
  • Naviarhaiku628 – In the dark beyond
      This poem shared by Naviar Records brought to mind some lyrics that I'd been writing which take inspiration from Alice Walker's Re...
  • Naviarhaiku631 – Spring day
      A bit tangentially related the to haiku shared by Naviar this week, as I wrote a song inspired by this  poem and added a video of my rece...
  • Sonicake Portal with Noise Wipers
    Portal is a useful mixer-style pedal by Sonicake with options to invert, stack or parallel the inputs.  My initial idea to use it like a bus...
  • Workshop with Stephen O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi
    There was a concert and workshop in Cootamundra last weekend featuring a couple of my favourite artists, Alan Lamb and Oren Ambarchi. I...

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