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In the past few weeks I have been reading widely about the 1960s Counterculture both here and in America. This interest was inspired by two things. Writing an account of My Life in Music, which included my experience of the Counterculture in Leicester, and visiting an exhibition of sculptures by Francis Upritchard at Nottingham…
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In 1964 Herbert Marcuse published a book called One Dimensional Man in which he describes the advanced capitalist countries of the developed world as Totalitarian. This controversial statement was met with both bewilderment and ridicule. The world was at the height of the Cold War and the countries of the West saw themselves as a bulwark of freedom against…
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The news item that interested me most in the past week is about the vandalising of a Mark Rothko canvas in the Tate gallery. The kind of outcry that this caused was quite interesting. An article by Jonathon Jones in The Guardian described it as virtually a sacrilegious act even though it’s not a…
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Decided to go to Sheffield today and give a running commentary of while I am here. Just got off the train and am now in the town centre sitting in a Caffe Nero. You probably realise by now that my life centres around Caffe Neros and Wetherspoons. One sells expensive coffee and the other…
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[youtube=http://youtu.be/pGS6xzaTX6s]This is a one minute film I made. I’ve Got Nothing To Say And I’m Saying It – YouTube.
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Am sorting out the details for my trip. Feeling kind of nervous and excited. Not sure what is going to happen or even if I’m going to get there, but I’m sure I will! Have practiced being a lone visitor in Berlin and it was weird but worthwhile. It’s not just about going somewhere…
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Welcome to my blog. I intend to use this to let you know what I am doing and thinking during my trip to New York from 7th to the 28th of May and other journeys I intend to go on. I will be giving random thoughts, poems and a kind of diary. Hope you…