Morgalogue

I reckon I’m one of relatively few people who has heard (or at least noticed) Brian Eno’s ambient, avante garde experiment ‘Music for Airports’, in an airport. The airport in question was Bangkok airport, at the end of my first ‘big trip’ to Asia, 9 years ago. As I pushed my way through the vaulted, 70’s styled, cathedral-like spaces swarming with global business commuters and Hong Kong jet-set, a wide-eyed 21 year-old, disorientated and still drunk from the night before, I became aware of some faint, galactic orchestral sounds ebbing and flowing into the cavernous halls like a rogue transmission from another dimension. Everyone around me seemed so oblivious to it that for a while I began to worry the noises were coming from inside my head. I was close to stopping someone and saying “Excuse me, Can you hear that ?” but a bit frightened of them saying no. (more…)

Re: Biblioblography

I know most of you, quite understandably, don’t like posting your opinions on the internet for all the world to see. Just send me an e-mail. I’m more curious than ever to know what you’re reading.

I’ve fallen a bit behind lately. It’s now June and Nepal was in April !! The computers in Myanmar were just too slow and expensive to bother with posting but now that I’m back in Thailand briefly (going to visit Marten in Krabi tomorrow) I’ll hopefully catch up - I’m determined to see this through to the end. I don’t yet know when the end will be. Possibly a little earlier than August. The next stop is China but try as I might, I can’t seem to shift an overwhelming desire to visit the small, rainy country of Scotland. I think I’m getting a bit travelled out - missing things like work, cooking, even having a room to tidy … not to mention guitars, you lot and The Pub. Anyway … if you could see the beautiful island I’m moaning from, you’d have less sympathy. On to the point : (more…)