Sleep Management TV Blog

Blues For Andy Kershaw

2008-09-24T13:14:00.000+01:00

"There is a syndrome in the Isle of Man called the Manx crab. The scenario is that there are a number of crabs in a bucket. And one shows the initiative to climb out. What do the others do? They drag it back in to the bucket. People tell me time and time again that I am a victim of the Manx crab syndrome."

Hunter's music business

2008-03-13T20:46:00.000+01:00

“The music industry is a cruel and shallow money-trench. A long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side.”

All that is solid melts into air; all that is holy is profaned

2008-01-15T03:27:00.000+01:00

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

England expects

2007-04-26T12:28:00.000+01:00

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn - mud from a muddy spring,
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay,
Religion Christless, Godless - a book seal'd,
A Senate - Time's worst statute unrepealed,
Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.

The consolations of pornography

2005-05-12T21:39:00.000+01:00

"One of the things that make literature so consoling is that its tragedies are all in the past, and have the completeness and repose that comes of being beyond the reach of our endeavours. It is a most wholesome thing, when one's sorrow grows acute, to view it as having all happened long, long ago: to join, in imagination, the mournful company of dim souls whose lives were sacrificed to the great machine that still grinds on. I see the past, like a sunny landscape, where the world's mourners mourn no longer. On the banks of the river of Time, the sad procession of human generations is marching slowly to the grave; but in the quiet country of the past, the tired wanderers rest, and all their weeping is stilled." Bertrand Russell

Motorway song

2004-05-26T08:00:00.000+01:00

"And in this town of misguided tourists/she never thought she'd fall in love/it was a few days after her birthday/the thrill hostess gave her first kiss/he said her skin smelled just like pebbles/said stupid things he knew she'd like/she said her life was like a motorway/dull, grey and long/until he came along"

The Energy of Slaves

2004-05-24T08:00:00.000+01:00

"If you ever read this
Think of the man writing it
He hated the world on your behalf"

Outro

2004-05-12T16:38:00.000+01:00

"I am a literary scavenger. I haunt the intellectual slaughter pens, and live by the putrid offal that self-respecting authors reject. I glean the stinking materials for my stories from the sewers and cesspools of life. For the dollars they pay, I furnish my readers with those thrills that public decency forbids them to experience first hand. I am a procurer for the purposes of mental prostitution."