{"id":2046,"date":"2025-04-30T12:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:09:31","slug":"not-only-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2025\/04\/30\/not-only-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Not only this"},"content":{"rendered":"

My love of david Berman continues, as i sift through the riches of his old blog, menthol mountains<\/a> and his reddit history [2026 update: somehow his account pylonshadow has been banned posthumously which is a great shame! as it was full of wit and thoughtfulness.. maybe one of his old enemies he used to troll in\/slatestarcodex got it banned]<\/a>. I feel like i’m following a trail of literary crumbs, among the broken bottles and party hats, long after the party has gone quiet. I keep missing the party. Just this morning watching a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert at Brixton Academy in 2004 – when i was living just down the road. I never went to the Academy, though I liked to go to a little italian cafe ‘San Marino’ just nearby in my lunchbreaks when I worked at Brixton wholefoods. What was my excuse? too poor for tickets i suppose.. too busy getting married. But I am not missing everything any more, simply by making music myself and putting it out there and listening to what’s going on i am finding now i’m sometimes hearing about exciting music before everyone else. It’s strange it took me a long time to get out of my own sort of bedroom and notice things happening around me.<\/p>\n

Well i got out recently and recorded a new song and even went out to Iandra Castle for a cover pic – it’s going to be released in a few weeks it’s called “Fire the Fox”. I’ll post a link here when it’s live but just for now here’s a peek:<\/p>\n

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This references one of the lyrics in the song. Here’s an earlier demo of it<\/a>. \u00a0I’m playing at Smith’s alternative again this coming Monday the 5th May<\/a> alongside Hashemoto who I interviewed for BMA magazine<\/a> years and years ago ! Isn’t that cool!<\/p>\n

Update: it’s now out, you can listen to it here<\/a>: or on my Bandcamp page (‘Muletonic’ in the menu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My love of david Berman continues, as i sift through the riches of his old blog, menthol mountains and his reddit history [2026 update: somehow his account pylonshadow has been banned posthumously which is a great shame! as it was full of wit and thoughtfulness.. maybe one of his old enemies he used to troll … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}