About me me about

This is my new blog.

I have left everything open in these pieces/blogs: people can disagree (I’d be worried if they didn’t!) but it’s all about possibilities, opening up to different things, to what is out there, to different ways of doing things.

And so, the blog is also for exploring other areas, things, ‘stuff’.

This can, of course, invite you to get your head blown off, because what is out there ain’t always so nice – so we gotta be careful as we go: as they used to say on The Hillstreet Blues, “Be careful out there!”

‘…taking on our almost sacrosanct respect for language use, and displaying its unreliability, its imprecision, its less than worthy credentials for acting as our instrument for understanding, and survival.’  I’m quoting a John Stammers piece I wrote here, and feel a little uneasy quoting myself, but it does seem to catch where I am in this Blog.

So, Name: is not Michael9Murray but just plain old Michael Murray.

Who am I? How old am I? What am I?
That’s for me to know… and then only patchily.

Location: UK (north)

Likes:
Currently Watching: Lars von Trier’s KINGDOM/RIGET 1 and 2
Rilke: The Complete French Poems
Pina Bausch DANCING DREAMS
Wim Wenders PINA

Reading: Louis Paul Boon SUMMER IN TERMUREN
Peter Esterhazy CELESTIAL HARMONY
Gyula Krudy SUNFLOWER

Listening to:
Vivaldi ORCHESTRAL PIECES
Alban Berg LYRIC SUITE
Howlin’ Wolf COLLECTION

Misc: WIRED magazine; New Scientist Magazine; Stand Poetry Magazine; POETRY BOOK SOCIETY (UK);