Swivel Chair: Beautiful Losers?
At least that’s what Nude Magazine thought, who printed this brief version of my ‘I Was a Swivel Chair’ story: Name: Swivel Chair. Town: Edinburgh, Scotland. Years: 1999-2004 Influences: KLF, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division. Career Highlight: Our third triumphantly drunken gig.. Lowpoint: Our fourth disastrously drunken gig. Line Up: Craig Low (bass, samples) Milo ...
A (Not So) Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Recap
Seeing as I’ve not had a chance to properly research a ‘Gaseous Brainstorm’ post this week, and am off to Aberdeen for a stag weekend tomorrow morning (weather and liver permitting) I thought I’d delve back into the archives. Those of you who’ve been reading a while and have particularly good memories might remember I ...
Gaseous Brainstorm: What’s the Future of Publishing and How Will We Pay for It?
Michael Caine: photographer unknown Print newspapers, it seems, will soon be no more than a minority medium, and so owners of the big news brands are wondering just how they’re going to make money once their main outlet is via the internet – whether it’s accessed via a computer, a mobile device or one ...
The Best of 2009 on Products of a Gaseous Brain
Whew! Quite an eventful year. I’m not going to try and provide an exhaustive summary of world events here, instead I thought it would be a good opportunity to give a brief rundown of my favourite posts of 2009 on this blog, whilst also including those events that were most important to me personally. Whilst ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 4 – Fear and Loathing on the Job-hunting Trail
Read part 1, part 2, part 3 A Novel Idea In my final year of college I also started writing lyrics and other random stuff in a bit of a creative outpouring, due perhaps to the fact that I’d kept my creativity bottled up for so long (or drowned it in a sea of booze ...
The Public Have Voted – The Results Are In!
A massive thank you to everyone who voted in my poll yesterday and today. The replies were very interesting, and I will definitely be taking what you’ve said into account. Having said that, the results were so diverse that it suggests that people don’t come here for only one topic – and I ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts Part 3 – A Good Face for Radio?
In the previous installment I talked about what I got up to while I was at college (in between pub crawls). I had also managed to secure a decent bit of work experience with a radio production company called Unique. The course itself made no provision for this, but I was lucky enough to have ...
A brief history of my creative efforts Part 2
This is part 2 of the exclusive serialisation of my unwritten creative memoirs (it might make a bit more sense if you read part one) FILM OPENINGS After deciding that I didn’t have the excessively extroverted character necessary for a career in the theatre, I decided that being behind the camera might work better. ...
A Brief History of My Creative Efforts – Part 1
So what is all this “Gaseous Brain” nonsense all about? What does it actually mean? Good question, and the lack of a clear answer reflects my own confusion over what it is I’m trying to achieve, both here on this blog and in life in general. To be honest, if I could come up with ...
Hunter S. Thompson – Where Did It All Go Wrongzo?
The documentary Gonzo: The Life & Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson about the is an enjoyable, if uneven take on the life of the much-loved gonzo figurehead and “walking monument to misbehaviour” and is both an inspirational and cautionary tale. Disclaimer: What follows is less a review than the thoughts it provoked about the life ...