Neil Hopcroft

Damn you, venta, everywhere I go now I am constantly thinking to myself “That’d make a really good shot for ‘curve’”. I must have twelve now, perhaps I could do a variant where I enter twelve shots for the same word? Or perhaps one shot that covers as many of the words a possible? (like […]

Apathy – The Cause Thats Not Worth Fighting For, by Simon Hendley, is a booklet about how apathy really rules the world, it investigates the difference between an active choice to do nothing (apathy) and a passive actuality of not doing anything (laziness). I worry that there is a slight fuzzying of the causal relationship […]

AM I LATE? SO MUCH TO DO, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. MIDNIGHT MESS AT LUNA SI SAUR. DISTRACTED BY GIRL IN PVC WORN AS IT SHOULD LOOK. CANT CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING ELSE RIGHT NOW…

It seems last years resolution of sorting out my career has been somewhat more successful than my previous ‘sort my life out’ resolutions – sure, its not completely fixed yet but things are looking a lot better now than they did this time last year. What else do I need to sort out? There is […]

I think using half a bottle of Tabasco sauce to ‘liven up’ tonights meal might have been a mistake.

I don’t care what it sounds like, I want one. (The technology inside the electric guitar has been set since the 1930s: Magnetic pickups convert string vibrations into electrical impulses. Gibson’s new Les Paul, with proprietary Magic technology, does something else altogether, something no other guitar does. An audio converter inside the instrument’s body translates […]

John Updike – “America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.” (from motivationquote)

1. What did you last read? The contrarians guide to leadership – Steven Sample 2. What are you reading now? London Orbital – Iain Sinclair 3. What do you plan to read next? In the shadow of the American dream – David Weinarowicz or Intimacy and solitude – Stephanie Dowrick 4. What would you like […]