The year has started slowly - my own fault. I took a few weeks to recalibrate myself and when I came up for air, I was looking down the barrel of a magazine that needed to be put together very quickly indeed… and now it is done (more or less anyway) I need to get my head around the coming year. Not that I do things in ‘years’ but it seems like a good way to look at things from the point of view of a blog.

I was about to write: “I need to get my ass in the get stuff done lane” but that would suggest I’ve done nothing at all and that’s not true. I’ve developed a taste for playing guitar like Colter Wall and it’s not natural to me in any way, so many hours of many weeks have been dedicated to pursuing the Holy Grail of January. Here’s the clip that got my most watering like a leaky hose.

I’m writing, so that’s a good start but the downside of playing a lot of guitar, chiselling away at a book idea and keeping The Mag on track is that aside from Tai Chi and walking Hector, I haven’t been anywhere to talk about anything.

A few new albums have turned up to keep me company though (probably posted on instagram because it’s not much use for anything else) but to help me along, I’m on a big news/TV blackout and instead of letting what hours are available slip away through the remote control, I’ve been cooking meals - the kind of meals that human beings are supposed to eat - which is pretty cool actually.

Meanwhile, being as it’s Saturday and everything, here’s a couple of movies/docs that look like they might be worth tracking down: