Overdue Update

Apologies for the silence.

I'm on the very final edit of my new novel Pig Iron.

It is out May 2012. Details to follow.

I spent 2011 writing another novel. A first draft is finished. 52,000 words.

I've been trying to write a short play.

Soon I will enter the 1990s when I launch the world's most basic website.

'Watch this space' etc.

I am walking 3-5 miles per day.

I have not watched television for 4 months. Only box-sets.

I am listening to lots of old anarcho punk, early 1990s jungle, Krautrock, Nick Drake.

All the usual stuff.

I find 95% of current guitar bands banal and boring.

Two bands who I did / do like, At The Drive-In and Refused, have reformed.

That's good, even though I generally don't care much for reformations.

At least they're still young / not fat / bald / bitter.

I'm watching lots of films from the BFI Flispide collection. Overlooked British cult classics from the 1960s and 70s.

The music business is a racket.

But then so is the publishing business.

And the film business too, I suspect.

Anything that involves money is a racket.

So long as we know this we'll be OK.

Art outlives money.

My dog doesn't care about money.

Or art.

Only bones.