Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

FYI - that was a video of my pals band, Dixie Fried.

hey now would you look at that!
Cheers, ST.

Sorry, stilltrucking... last one... promise... what about the Brian Jonestown Massacre? One of the greatest bands of the past 20 years... http://youtu.be/StV9lElcvAY

I was sad to read, just now, that your mum had died. Age is an irrelevance; your mummy died. You're still her wee girl, and she's still your mammy. I'll be lost whenever mine goes...although, chances are, I'll beat her to that finish line. My dad's wife died a few weeks ago (complications from diabe...

Hello

Am I being a moron...? I can't get the youtube button to work... I get [youtube] and the closing "/" equivalent... but no embedded video... am I an idiot?

I guess I'm using those fucking links incorrectly?!!

and, if I may... one of the all time great records, ever!!! is "the psychedelic sounds of..." [youtube] http://youtu.be/QEQBfJwYlLY [/youtube] ...have you heard of a band currently operation out of Texas (they originated the Austin Psych Festival, which has become an international big deal on the ps...

You lucky, git! I'd give anything to re-discover a band of that magnitude again! They do my favourite version of Dylan's Baby Blue. http://youtu.be/jGqEFQ5xmjU (seems the youtube button on here doesn't work?) Good to still see/hear/read you kicking around these pages, ST. I wonder if you remember me...

sorry...not really playing the game here... but I LOVE this line:

grandmothers scalped
in the promised land
by those who were there first

there's something really beautiful about a comment titled "Roky..." that goes back and forth upon the same link!

LOVE 13th Floor Elevators!!

Cheers, Doreen

The challenge I lay at these here boards, is to get me inspired out of a writerly rut, and heartache. :p

This is a really lovely collection of thoughts from and about that ol' cataract on the eye of the Sun. I still think about him from time to time, like a grizzled old granddad I never got to meet. I've known him, as I have many of you, online, for almost 15 years now. Christ!!! Since early litkicks d...

Hi, I liked this. Staring through windows, guessing the stories of passers by...it's what we do.

It reminded me of Philip Larkin's "High Windows:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178053

Hello, Studio 8, or rather, Hello again, Studio 8... A long hiatus has hurled me back. It's a very typical thing in Scotland; a lot of our traditional songs, poems, tales, are about someone leaving here, going far away, and realising on far off, distant shores, that home really is where the heart is...