Inside the head of…Beans On Toast
Illustration by Fabio Vermelho Beans on Toast is a folk musician from Braintree, Essex. He’s a hippy, a punk, a poet, a drunk, a die-hard romantic and an eternal optimist, singing simple songs that tackle big issues in pretty much every place on this...
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Rust Never Sleeps
A short story inspired by the Neil young album of the same name. I always do a rapid rat-a-tat-tat when I knock on Adam’s door. “You’re just like a shaken-up bottle of Pepsi, aren’t you?”, that’s what Adam’s mum said to me one time. She was wearing an...
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Visions of Santa Cruz
Visions of Santa Cruz – Maria Virginia Reina What if your spell works? And I cough enough blood for a red mustang a holy backdrop of California mountains. You wish I was a prophet If I could I would die of prophecy but not before I found you, my promised...
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The Batmobile, Breakfast, and The Ocean
You can buy a book of Jacob Shelton’s very short stories here.
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Patti Smith’s Advice To The Young
Patti Smith’s Advice To The Young by Fábio Vermelho. Check out Fábio’s instagram and store if you like...
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Memories
Leonard Cohen’s memories should all be held in oversized marbles sitting caviar-like in a sacred container surrounded by a lifetime of artifacts, signed promotional photos and adoring press clippings. The centerpieces of a cluttered display case. Full of life, full of...
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Messiah Complex Experience
Let me start by saying I’m not “crazy.” Or at the very least, that no one has the end-all be-all definition of sanity. I have been intermittently clinically mad a couple times in my life. The lines between reality and delusion can be a very slippery place. I...
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Shakespearean Wet Fever Dream
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You can’t cry in space
Richie Rich, The Bran-Man, the original Virgin, I know it’s been a while since I last saw you but I hope you’ll forgive me for skipping the pleasantries and going straight to the heart of the matter. You can’t cry in space. I learned that in Mr Frye’s science...
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Inside the head of…Emily Barker
Emily Barker is best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to the hit PBS Masterpiece drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. Growing up in rural Western Australia, Barker fell in love with American roots music from the soul of Aretha Franklin...
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None More Black: Leonard Cohen’s “The Old Revolution”
The Old Revolution “I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain. Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows, All the brave young men They’re waiting now to see a signal Which some killer will be lighting for pay. Into this furnace I ask...
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Inside the head of…Marlee Grace
Illustration by Fabio Vermelho Marlee Grace is an improvisor and writer residing in Point Reyes, California. She works with improvisation as a method for navigating being alive & making work through movement, quilting, writing, & podcasting. Through her...
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