Meanderings Noir
Wooden table, leather chair, scrambled eggs, tomato relish, cappuccino – two sweeteners, one white sugar – bovine, disinterested staff. The smell of burned bread and linseed oil. Fidgety. Hungover. “Well, […]
Wooden table, leather chair, scrambled eggs, tomato relish, cappuccino – two sweeteners, one white sugar – bovine, disinterested staff. The smell of burned bread and linseed oil. Fidgety. Hungover. “Well, […]
Let’s get straight to the point, because it’s hot and I’m in a shit mood and I’ve just eaten a bacon and avocado ciabatta the size and density of a […]
Her mouth rested briefly on the lip of the porcelain cup as she curled the corner of the newspaper on the table in front of her. Sculpted eyebrows curved […]
KLM flight 597 is the code name they gave to my 12 hours of hell in an uncomfortable seat with no leg room. Seat 38J is my lottery number for […]
The waitress was starting to get a little less friendly with each visit to my table. The idea of bottomless coffee in an airport restaurant was looking like a bad […]
Nothing between us but smoke and mirrors. “That’s a fucking ridiculous coat you’re wearing, you know that, right?” “I don’t know, I thought it was pretty cool?” “You’re mistaken. You […]
A new Ozzy Osbourne-fronted Black Sabbath album doesn’t need a cumbersome preamble. It’s Black Sabbath. With Ozzy Osbourne. And it’s as heavy as a concrete elephant shit. To put this […]
Aropax is bloody terrible stuff. Muscle spasms, convulsions, strobing flashes of multicoloured light inside your brain, days off from work spent writhing in dust and spit and turbulence. An “adjustment […]
Yeezy season approaching, fuck whatever y’all been hearing, spits Kanye. Five minutes into Yeezus, it’s hard to argue with the man. With an opening trio something like hip hop through an […]
You may know uncle Trent Reznor as the man behind the beard behind the award-winning soundtracks to both The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but before […]