**That is revolution, as in the wheel of an abandoned bike blowing around and around in the wind, not revolution, as in the Arab Spring or “You say you want a revolution/well you know/we all want to change the world”**
It is 6:54am on New Year’s Day, 2012. I saw in the new year alone, I don’t drink, I even went to bed early, but alas, sleep once again evaded me. I watched the sun rise over Willans Hill for the first time in this new year through my study window, interrupting the stream of ‘shredding’ videos I’d been entertaining myself with (the drunk Taylor Swift one was quite funny too). Read more »



Way back in 1996 I had my first experience of the ‘build up’, the intolerable heat and humidity Australia’s ‘top end’ experiences before the wet season. My time in Darwin amounted to just two September weeks, but they were two weeks that convinced me that I was a cold climate man, and that was before I put on the pounds.
Last Friday (it is Tuesday today, I think?) the new Wilco album, The Whole Love (I still think I like the working title more – Get Well Soon Everyone), made it’s debut in Australia. It was followed on Saturday in New Zealand then on Monday in much of Europe, and has in the last few hours gone on sale in the US 12:01am Tuesday I guess). 


