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Category: Thoughts

  • So long TIDAL, welcome Qobuz.

    All change on the streaming front again. Why have I left TIDAL after only a few months? I don’t really feel I want to support a company part-owned by billionaire musicians that actively ignore the struggles of the people and groups they publicly, and lucratively, proclaim to support. Google it.

    So I’ve switched to Qobuz. The selection is not quite as comprehensive, though almost everything I want is there. The recommendations are nothing like as good as Spotify, or even TIDAL, and there’s no “Qobuz Connect”, yet. But the app is stable, it doesn’t randomly stop playing (yet), even in the car, and most importantly the sound quality is very, very good, at least as good as TIDAL.

    Interestingly, to me anyway, the Android app bears more similarity to the other French streaming service, Deezer, than to Spotify.

  • Barriers

    Barriers

    When barriers break down with passing time they still leave jagged reminders to catch us. And then new barriers are put up in their place. Are we on the inside or the outside?

    52Frames challenge. Inspired by John Gossage, a photographer I’ve only recently discovered but whose work resonates with me.

  • Leaving

    Leaving

    Taking flight
    leaving.
    The man-made walls
    safe, but restricting.
    Returning to the skies
    to be free and complete.
  • The Ceramic Hare

    The Ceramic Hare

    I feel the need to be more creative, so I’ve decided to have a go at poetry. This is my first attempt, inspired by a ceramic hare made by my partner. 

    Manufactured.
A representation.
Identifiable
but as a caricature
dumped in a place I don't belong.
What am I doing here?
Why?
What do I do?

Do they know what they made?
How it feels to be me?
Am I a practise piece
not quite right?

I think I know
what they wanted to make.
But I don't think
I can be that.
Instead I'll have to be
the best ceramic hare I can.