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Croeso – Welcome

NOTE: THIS SITE IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REPAIRED AND REDESIGNED SO IT MAY BE A BIT WONKY

What’s it all about then?

No one’s got a clue really, but we try to do our best.

This website exists to display a bit of one person’s attempts to do their best. When I say ‘best’ I’m not sure if that’s true in the sense that everything here is perfectly crafted, because it’s not. Some of it is roughly hewn or not hewn at all, simply pointed at, but then again, maybe that’s the best I can do.

I dunno.

I reckon that less than 1 in 100 visitors to this website are actual human beings so if you’re one of them and not a bot, and have managed to read this far down the page, I hope you can find something of interest here.

Just scroll and click and search. Turn over some metaphorical stones – there’s quite a lot to uncover even if I do say so myself.

blah blah – you know the score – here’s a poem from 1999 about knowing the score

ninetyfivefive
 
 you know the score
 in a movie
 or a tv show
 the flaws
 small flaws
 idiosyncratic flaws
 twelve flaws
 or just one
 we’re allowed to be flawed
 it’s ok as long as in the end
 we’re fucking good at our job
 in my real life i’m an artex ceiling of cracks and fissures
 with some small redemption

 it’s kind of arse-backwards ain’t it?

The Importance of being Earnest – in your art

From “The Words in Me”

The Importance of being Earnest – in your art

They say that art is sweat and tears
You have to work at it for years
You have to burn the midnight oil
You have to suffer pain and toil

You get distracted by the world
By every precious boy and girl
They just don't realise it's hard
To keep it up when times are bad

When you're tired, feeling low
And all you want's for them to go
You have to force yourself to work
You have to try until it hurts

The fleeting second of the scene
On the page or on the screen
Is all the readers ever see
It's a fucking joke, believe you me

 

Black Holes and Sub-Atomic Particles

I read some news
about a huge black hole
that eats a whole star every day.
It is 12 billion light years away.
and its quasar is
7 light years in diameter.

Today I learned that there are
100,000,000,000,000,000,000
atoms in a grain of sand.

then there are parallel universes
and sub-atomic particles  . . . .

I live somewhere in between all that
and I’m fretting about whether
to have a cup of tea
or a glass of water.

Black Hole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68346725

Everything Changes

This is a song based on a poem I wrote some time ago and recorded a couple of years ago, with Dafydd Wyn Roberts. We recorded 2 versions. This is the version with spoken word.

We called ourselves Mwgwd, which is Welsh for Mask. (It was recorded during the height of the pandemic, when Masks were a thing)
More here: https://mwgwd.bandcamp.com/