writings
Here is a page for the scraps of non-script writing I sometimes do. Who even know?
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The North Belconnen Knife Fighting Pits
A series of four publications written by the Human Cannonball Academy (aka Hadley) and blind (aka my self) and published by the popular knife-fighting arena based in the northern suburbs of Canberra. All four issues are available as PDFs for free download.
short stories about Jan
stories written for a dude who died in July 2008 and was one of the more importanter people in my arts-making life.
End Fact. Try Fiction. mix.
This is an extensive mix from August 2008, with sampled pieces ranging from Charles Dickens, Richard Dawkins and Ezra Pound to myself and comrades such as Hadley, Jordan Prosser, Sam Burns-Warr and Josh Inman. Dig -
Sickness in the Dark
A mix of original and sampled works, originally created for the Best of the Slams Poetry Evening at the Front Cafe in Nov 2007. These texts are dear to my heart - starting with the Grand High Witch’s opening lines in Roald Dahl’s The Witches, it moves through The Hobbit (Bilbo and Gollum’s battle of wits under the Misty Mountains) and a number of original fragments before finishing with Beat Poet Lew Welch’s I Saw Myself, written just prior to his nervous breakdown in 1956.
Tigerbeat6 Fan Fiction
Indeed, every grand musician needs fan-fic. Hillary Duff has it, Jeff Goldblum has it, and it would be wrong of me not to write fan-fiction for all the artists under the Aegis of Kid 606’s Tigerbeat6 Record Label.
My Name is Dee Race (by Josh Inman and myself)
This is the autobiography of Dee Race - folk singer, dog breeder and communist spy. Josh and I each wrote half of the pages, without any consultation or comparison to ensure narrative continuity. Nevertheless, the life of our beloved gay-spy-bishop is a rich and exciting one, which you must read right now.
Dog and the Dirty Ocean
Hadley proposed that we each write half of a 20-page potboiler adventure thriller following the life and times of one-eyed knife-fighting transvestite Dog. We flipped coins to see who would write which pages, and set to work with no knowledge of what the other was writing. This is mine: pages 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19 and 20.
DINOSAUR CONCEPT ALBUM
lyrics for my proposed concept album about the mighty race of cold-blooded amphibians that ruled the Earth for more than 850 weeks!
The Road Ahead
extracts from a gruesomely epic collaboration between Nickamc and myself, following the travels of a young deviant named Ul through a range of lands and adventures. This is only selected extracts, because unless I’m very much mistaken, no-one is likely to need the full 49 chapters of this in a hurry any time soon. Enjoy -
short poem pieces from 1999-20001, and from 2002-03. they are, at least, short.
hardcore egyptian grunge
a sample of stream of consciousness babble from Jan-Feb 20008 in New York.
you have to make a girl feel desirable
the result of a plane flight and a charming reality TV show entitled MILLIONAIRE MATCHMAKER. Oh will millionaire go-getters Jeff and Julien never find true love?
Mappalujos (with Nickamc and Alethiometer)
Taking a cue from Jeff Noon and Steve Beard’s collaborative writing process Mappalujo, here are a couple of the narrative-smashed stories I created with comrades Nickamc and Alethiometer, first scraped together in 2003.
Players - Mountain (with Alethiometer)
The Suburbs and the PEAK (with Nickamc)
The Proxies (with Alethiometer)
When we got to the ice-cream shop my lady was tired and I ordered her a mango icecream. While we ate we looked out at the clouds rising in terraced palaces over the water and the orange sunset and I thought it was very good to look at.
My mix cd for tunes to play while hitting animals. Featuring artists such as Gomez, Four Tet, Jaga Jazzist, The Clash, Kid 606 and Tom Waits - this is what you want on your stereo next time you go driving at night!
A collection of short sketches from a jazz-city created by myself and Degg Gordon. These are tiny scraps, they are little glimpses into a city where the buildings climb over each other at night and the kings and queens go mad on the rooftops, but it is also a lovely place where they play fine jazz of all descriptions, and I recommend you visit.
I suppose at the time… poems from 2003
A collection of short poems I found from 2003. I like tigers and supermarkets and breaking computers and - I actually really like these, I don’t know why.
I saw someone wearing a coat made of eyes
Artist and collaborator Jay Christian observed something curious - from that sentence has grown a number of short pieces, including a collaboration with sound artist Grahame Thompson.
Influence of Jeff Noon on my writing
A few words to acknowledge the effect that British writer Jeff Noon has had on my work. Also! a page of sources listing some of the key texts, films and musics that have combilated to form my work.
Pyramids (by Hadley, remixed by Ali et me)
From 2004 - a short piece by the redoubtable Hadley, taken to with scissors and some vindictiveness by Alison McGregor and myself.
More inspired by Hadley, this time by his poem Rosy Glowing, Bloody Cross. This is a stream, and it is not the sort of stream I would post on a site, but then this is the internet and maybe I’m getting used to the personal reveal of posting what is definitely well below my best stuff.