Well, that's not good.

The cold has returned with a vengeance, and now feels like an insane head cold. And the worst part? I ended up with Tinnitus. I have a horrid roaring sound in my right ear - like a fridge buzzing - and I wasn't prepared for how depressed that would make me. I've felt very down, for a day or two. I'm bashing the sudafed, to help the Sinus pain - hopefully that will help.

And here's the Sun Kil Moon Tune that helped me through just about everything...

I've blogged about it before, but here it is, in all its glory.
Enjoy
x
08 - Duk Koo Kim by courtneywilliamson

I'm getting divorced.

So there it is. Now you know why i've not realy posted much here (or on Down With Tractors, for that matter) for quite some time. I really haven't felt like interacting with people, involving them, or boring them to death with details of my private life.
There's a line in The Lover Speak's "No More I Love You's" (no, NOT the Lennox version, that was a cover!) where David Freeman talks of a language leaving him, and I can most definitely empathise: it's a slow, lingering death, a gradual erosion of something which once was precious, now reduced to a ghost of what it was.
If there's one thing it's taught me though, it's that I don't want that language to leave me forever. I don't want to forget how to feel. I want to find that language, and start speaking again. Part of this will be me finding my blogging voice again, after this enforced hiatus, so i'll be doing my best to post as much as I can over the coming weeks.
Thanks,
Iain
x

*Sniff*

This is, for today, simply the most beautiful song ever recorded.
Tom Waits "Take Me Home"

Hardcore, you know the score........

I had a DJing gig on Saturday night that was a wonderful excuse to rip a load of Old School Hardcore vinyl onto mp3....and first out of the box and onto the hard drive was this slice of dub'n'break madness from 1992: truly one of the biggest old school tunes EVER:
The Criminal Minds: "Baptised By Dub"

(the sample "Can't beat the system, go with the flow!" is from an old MC Duke tune "I'm Riffin" which also provided most of the breaks for the early 2 Bad Mice tunes....)
But what else have I been up to? Well, trying to emerge from the depression of a long and difficult February. I'm getting there.