Note archive: January, 2025

Just heard the sad news that Marianne Faithful has passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrsv0NVa6k

Yesterday I watched Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue.

Today I’m watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz.

The highlight in both of them is when Joni Mitchell sings Coyote.

Reading Short Stories In Irish by Olly Richards.

Anyone who doesn’t understand the old gods has never looked up at the sky.

— Denise Wilton

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

— C.P. Snow

Reading The Last Song Of Penelope by Claire North.

The new Salter Cane album is available on Spotify now:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3MeUNUs1EKdleklacQMaQB

I can’t wait to play this song live!

https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/track/something-underwater

“There’s something in the water Like the holy face of God It’s out there on the borders And rising inside us”

The new Salter Cane album just dropped on Bandcamp!

https://saltercane.bandcamp.com/album/deep-black-water

If you want to watch me and Remy presenting live, join us here at 7:30pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I

People of Brighton—myself and Remy are giving a talk this evening at AsyncJS; you should come along!

https://asyncjs.com/built-www-in-5-days/

There will be pizza!

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

— James Joyce, The Dead

Withdrawing from a conference I was supposed to be speaking at later this year. The line-up currently shows that out of a total of 73 speakers, a grand total of 8 are women.

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde!