Or, Japanese man performing “Love”, to be more precise. You’ve got to agree, he gives it all he’s got, but isn’t it a slightly odd song to attempt given his obvious difficulty with the ‘L’ and ‘R’ sounds? I’m not exactly sure who he is, other than that he performs sometimes with a band called […]

Spent an evening adding subtitles to a video taken at Kai’s recent school play. Watch closely. I may have got carried away…

Kai still had a little of his otoshi-dama left over from New Year, so he set off today in search of something to spend it on. He found a light-saber in the local toy shop and thought very hard about whether it was what he really wanted.
His chief concern was that, in buying the […]

“India has successfully test-launched a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads across much of Asia and the Middle East.”
Well that’s good of them, isn’t it. I’ll sleep more soundly in my bed tonight.
I’m fully aware that it’s all been said before, but what part of nuclear annihilation do these people not understand? As […]

As part of my on-going battle with clinical depression, I’m taking the advice of a friend of mine (thanks Tim) and trying a period on a macrobiotic diet. Emi’s always been one for that kind of thing, but I’ve always poo-pooed it as hippy nonsense. But, you know what? The Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down” […]

I suppose you might say I reached the high point of my journalistic career last Saturday, when at 3:45am I picked up the telephone and dialled a New York number in order to interview the one and only Yoko Ono. As this is just a regular post, I’m not going to reveal too much - […]

Cut Flowers were in the middle of rehearsing a new album when we decided to stop working together. It’s sad, but it’s common for amateur bands who don’t get paid anything to make music. I wrote most of the songs for the new album, and following a conversation with my good friend Sakura San, I […]