Sue Vincent's Blog: Echoes of Life, page 4

‘Planet Ape’…

A Nineteen-Sixty-Eight film allegory… * The final scene… * Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awake from hibernation after a near-light-speed space trip. Their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet. Taylor’s estimate places them in Orion’s Bellatrix System, … Continue reading →

Naked Earth

Looking at the map of prehistoric sites across the land, where there are just so many to see, I wondered just how long it would take to visit them all. Most of Britain is the same once you get outside the cities… …except the place where I live. There is not a stone circle, dolmen … … Continue reading →

Also seeing beyond the eye…

Ride a White Swan… *   Things really started to slide when John Lydon left the Pistols… The second Pistols album, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, was… well, a swindle actually. Their third, Flogging a Dead Horse, did just that. And still people bought them. Since then the general populace have been dumbed down even … … Continue reading →

Time Bleed…

*** … “Stratford Strange Day!” “I don’t know what you mean?” “Well, the first thing was our conversation before we’d even properly decided we were going to Stratford…” “Which one?” “Statues!” “Oh, that one. It didn’t strike me as particularly … Continue reading →

Seeing beyond the eye too…

The original seven inch single picture cover. *** Death Disco is a song by Public Image Ltd  (abbreviated and stylized as PiL) who are an English ‘post-punk band’ formed by lead vocalist John Lydon, of Sex Pistols infamy, guitarist Keith … Continue reading →

Dear Wen: But ‘n’ Ben…

Dear Wen… Amra Columcille is the thread and rather fittingly it will allow us to bring in some of the Minahane stuff. That makes me very happy. Curious, isn’t it how true genius is never recognised in its time largely, … Continue reading →

Dear Don: But ‘n’ Ben…

Dear Don, The odd thing is that although the starting point for Erin made absolute sense at the time… I can barely grasp how at this point. Not because I can’t see how… but the crystal clarity of the moment is fuzzed. No doubt all will become clear… and maybe that was all we needed … … Continue reading →

Seeing beyond the eye…

Picture – Ian Dunster from the original UK 45 rpm single picture cover. Fair use… * This, to my current sensibilities, now rather garish picture cover launched me into the real world sometime back in the late seventies… * The … Continue reading →

Back to the Future…

*** We went back once more to where it all began. Paying our respects to Dragon Hill, the ancient White Horse and the hillfort known as Uffington Castle, we left the car and the world behind and walked to Wayland’s … Continue reading →

The Moons of Mountain Ana…

* Mountain Ana made the phone to scream. Squeal of a thousand and one pigs! Fingers of pain scratch my brain…  She is upset that Gramps has traded her ring. ‘Soz, Mountain Ana.’ * When Gramps turned up wearing Nancy’s gold ring, Jenny thought it was a hoot. Her hoot-face is for the moment still. … … Continue reading →