25 September, 2017
'It doesn't make any difference' pounding in my head
Categories The Arts
It was a Wednesday morning, and I was thinking about my girlfriend. All of a sudden the sentence “it doesn’t make any difference”, being sung like machine gun fire by johnny Rotten, just popped into my head.
So I hit the 80 poems mark
Categories The Arts
Just had a look at how many poems I have got on this site, IanLive.com: Over 80 pieces.
I have started to add categories as a means to find and sort. The trouble is, like with any kind of natural system, the more stuff and structure you have, the more energy you need to manage it. I hope to reduce this energy by using a lot of automatic wizardry stuff in the background but the groundwork has to be laid first.
Classifying and publishing old materials
Categories The Arts
Whilst revamping my website, I was going through my old poems from my “youth” ;-) years and checking them out. I was at the time under pressure to get the collection of poems finished and took some short cuts.
Commentary to Just Don't Know How
Categories The Arts
The piece “Just Don’t Know How” is about the the feelings a father can have for his sons, in my case two great grown up sons.
Over the last seven years I have only been seeing them on and off. Last year I had the wish to see them both and spend a bit of time with them and the wish came true.
Old poems now added
Categories The Arts
In the 70’s I wrote a collection of poems which I self published under the name “Miscellany”. I have now added them to this website. They can be found under the tag “Miscellany 1975”.
Commentary to Bar Spirit
Categories The Arts
Being new in Berlin, and not knowing where to go, I saw this advertisement for some artist doing some work, so I ran along.
Of course, in Berlin, one should always go later to such events, but I thought something might be going on right at the beginning, so I happened to be the first one there.
Questioning what is love
Categories The Arts
I’ve written a piece called “What Is Love”.
The idea came about whilst I was trying to answer that very question: What is love.
I wondered how animals would portray what love is through their attributes.
A cold room
Categories The Arts
For a short time I had the pleasure of living in a room in HomeBase.
The room was designated as a living and working space for artists. It was late summer but already the room was so cold that you could only work in it if you were packed up in thermals.
Commentary to Intellect
Categories The Arts
Every now and again I come into contact with somebody whose “operative view and processing” of the world is very different to my own.
This contrast causes me to review my own processing and often something rubs off or remains with me.