Leamington Spa has a brand new live music venue called the Assembly. It’s a beautiful Art Deco building, and I try to go to as many concerts as possible. Recently I bought tickets for ‘Gong’. I had never heard of them before, but I liked their description as “Music for Pothead Pixies”.

Gong were great. The [...]

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I go to the cinema regularly and one of the few adverts I enjoy are the series for Orange Wednesday. They involve famous actors/actresses being interviewed for a film role. The actors are always deadly serious and want high-profile Oscar winning roles.
The Interviewers are only interested in getting the word ‘Orange’ and ‘mobile phones’ into [...]

My position on the Death Penalty is clear; I’m against it.
Although I’m an atheist, I believe all human life is ’sacred’, mainly on the atheistic belief that this life is all we have, so we should preserve it for as long as possible.
Interestingly in the UK ,whenever a poll is conducted on the reintroduction of the [...]

The late Jack Kirby is an artist and writer who  has been associated with some of the best comics in the superhero genre, primarily with Marvel.
He was a loyal, and more importantly prolific, lieutenant to Marvel’s editor Stan Lee. Sometimes his artistic quality slipped when he was simply drawing too many comics, but he was always [...]

Last night I enjoyed the best film I have seen for a long time. The Fantastic Mr Fox is a kids film based on a Roald Dahl book.
I’m too old to have read Roald Dahl, and I have no children, (so I didn’t catch the book second time around). But I did get the film references [...]

I have been shortsighted since the age of 14. I knew I had a problem when I could no longer sit at the back of the class – I couldn’t see the blackboard.
When I was 17 I crashed my scooter twice. My Mother gave me two bits of advice, get some glasses and buy a [...]

John Lennon was always trying to capture the moment of artistic creation. His idea was to go into a studio with a song, rehearse it and record a final version, all within 24 hours.
This appealed to the lazy part of his nature, but it was also a reaction against the laborious studio work that the Beatles [...]

Tempo runs are really simple speed workouts. Just warm-up, run at a challenging steady pace, and cool down. They are also called lactate, anaerobic, or fatigue threshold runs.
When you go above your threshold, lactic acid builds up, breathing becomes laboured, form gets ragged, and muscles tense and tighten as fatigue sets in. RESULT: You’re forced to [...]

As if in answer to my last post about Blogs, I have just sold my first painting to a bloke in Los Angeles.
One slight problem is that I no longer have it! Mandy Allen has it in her Art Gallery. I didn’t realise Internet Marketing could be so powerful, and just assumed that [...]