The Higher Plain of Music
There is something incredible about the audible. I know of no past or present experience that has not been alleviated through my ears being immersed by the instruments and voices of genial musicians, both historic and modern. And the acquisition of musical understanding is as complex as tuning our taste buds and adding new flavours...
The Death of a Parent: Then & Now
Since I started writing my blog, it has been with the key purpose of gaining knowledge through life experiences; expanding my mental (and sometimes physical) capabilities by exploring the unknown and embracing them wholly. Little did I know that my most enlightening challenge would also be the ultimate testament of my character; the death of...
The Miracle of Life: Being a Birth Partner
Please forgive me dear readers. My blog has been lacking in attention of late as I have been rather preoccupied with thoughts of an impending childbirth. Not mine I hasten to add, I am still quite undecided about that life experience (more inclined to sing along to that Doris Day song when even considering the prospect). Rather...
The Sub-Culture of Blogging & why I might write about YOU
It has become a familiar sight now; a group of friends sat at a table, all on mobile devices with eyes focused on their touch screens and not at the physical beings around them. Have you grumbled to yourself about this, expressing a sympathy that ‘times have changed’ and what a pity this digital addiction...
The Rules of Attraction? Make Your Own
I believe one of the main reasons (if not THE reason) for writing a blog is to write about subjects of passion, matters that consume you so entirely that until formed into written word will haunt the mind for eternity, amassing turbulent thought that is a restless cerebral typhoon until such action is taken. This...
Hold Your Tongue & Keep it Calm
For as long as I can remember and at multiple moments in my life, I have always had a long line of people eager to instruct me on ‘what’ to do, how something ‘should’ be done and been dutifully chastised when something has not been up to par with their standards. I think I just...
Ignorance may be Blissful but it is not Bliss
“You never know how it feels until it happens to you” This quote could apply to many scenarios in life, but it is one that claims more gravitas since a recent brush with fate. Before I continue to enlighten you on my ‘call to arms’, I beg to ask, do you know your neighbours? Perhaps...
Being Anti-Social: a movie-going mission at London Film Festival 2012
The BFI London Film Festival is an incredible excitement-inducing highlight in my calendar. This year marks its 56th run and appallingly I’ve only been attending the past four. A pity. Had I discovered it sooner, I may have been privy to many more (yet to be seen) motion treasures that seem to join a personal film-purgatory; a...
Inequality: Our ‘true’ desire?
As I turn over half in slumber on another hazy Hungarian morning, my cousin’s girlfriend is already busily preparing breakfast, cleaning up some other area of the apartment and putting things in the order she prefers. My cousin, laying on their bed as I slip past into the bathroom is revelling in his horizontal position,...
To smoke or not to smoke: why the question?
For precisely half of my life, I have been what is classified on many a health questionnaire, insurance claim or other inane form-fillers as a ‘smoker’. The word evokes many an image, mainly dependent on the perspective taken. My initial and continued first thought is that of a sultry Mia Wallace, gently asking Vincent Vega...