half a sermon | pearls before

Last week I found a bristle growing out of my ear. Standing straight on top of it, where it might taper up and out. If one were a pig. It must have been two inches long. The barber – an unfeasibly sweet young woman – had missed it. Or left it there to make a

no uk’ in ukelele

And so, it was fear. Of the unknown. Rebuke. Siblings. A hesitancy to wander too far outwith the chalked silence, in the end. Of smudging perameters and upsetting tarts. There was a coffee stain on my polling card. It reminded me of home. Even as I stepped in to the booth, I knew it must

93.33% clarity

Engineered by Mike Ross. Produced by Cyril Smith, Mervyn Conn.  Strings arranged by Keith Mansfield. ▼ THE PEDDLERS: ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER from “Three in a Cell” LP [CBS (CBS 63411)] 1968 (UK)

careful with that acke, esbjörn

Recorded at Studio Decibel 1971 by Torbjörn Falk.Macbeth is introduced headlong to the Underworld, by way of The Third Ear Mage.Acid Aromatics, Floyd Fondants and pure Lysergic Drops. ▼ ÄLGARNAS TRÄDGÅRD: TWO HOURS OVER TWO BLUE MOUNTAINS WITH A CUCKOO ON EACH SIDE, OF THE HOURS …THAT IS from “Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat

santa, butcher ii

They leave the tree out on the pavement. One January. Well. They leave it lying there until the weather turns for the better. Bringing flies and aphids. Ants. Those needles go marching. One by one. So one fine day in August I notice they have finally gotten round to lifting it. To be dropped in

genre fiasco | fear of psycho

I am hurtling past rooftops, chimneys in the company of Jesco White, Hasil Adkins – heads lolling, spooling drool – when we hit a fork in the path ahead. A box elder stump with a 7 ½ lb axe embedded straight through its knotted heart. Spitting feathers. Gravy. Entrails. The ghost of last night’s Chicken