Happy World Goth Day one and all!   And to help you celebrate here's mine and Rho's podcast on all things Goth from a few years back.

  Woke up this morning and was reminded that it's 5 years since fright-fringed f#ckwit Sia released the cinematic aberration that was Music so to celebrate (and warn future generations) I thought I'd reshare the link to my review from the time. Enjoy.  If that's the right word.  

  "Autistic folk don't like change."  My haircut at 15, my haircut in my 50s.  

  "I am the son, and the heir, of a shyness that is criminally vulgar, I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular."       Happy 40th birthday to the most heartbreaking and honest song of my/our teen years ever.   The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now"     And you can read more about (my) Autistic love of certain songs here if you so desire.   You're welcome.

 Still processing the death of David Lynch here, like Bowie he's been a huge presence/influence on my life since I first saw Eraserhead as an impressionable 14 year old film fan and I'll admit it now that all of the sinister subtexts, oppressive sound designs and dark humour was lost on me at the time - I just saw a director speaking exactly the same language that I did and I fell in love with his work (in that way only an obsessive Autistic can) immediately. I could wax lyrically for hours about how influential Lynch was and how his work was truly groundbreaking, throwing in tales of my days at art school when an unknown student (for reasons only they were aware of) spent 6 months leaving photos of Henry Spencer in my locker, how at one of the Peachy Keen Lynch nights Rho and myself hosted a guy turned up who was the spitting image of Killer Bob - we thought he was in fancy dress for the night but it turned out that he was just there for a drink with no idea who Bob was (he di...

 Pour yourself a coffee, cut a slice of cherry pie and relax with 90 minutes of Badalamenti beats, sinister soundbites and toe tapping tunes to celebrate 32 years of Twin Peaks.    

My Covid-caused project of acquiring perfect # lockdownLynchlocks continues and it seems that I've now hit peak Gordon Cole! Next stop.....Henry Spencer!

The transformation is almost complete.... # lockdownLynchlocks

Coming into week 5 of lockdown here (with at least 3 more to come) and whilst the podlings aren't getting too fraught they've been having their wee ups and downs as have some of their friends. Oh yes, and me too. Well this got me to thinking, we've done our best to put routines and schedules in place for them (we actually spent the first week almost as a holiday, talking to them about when they'd be doing schoolwork, when we'd be going out etc as to ease them into it), as I've said before it was way more important to have them settled first and then work on routines and the like for me later because, well I'm an adult. Mostly. Remember when we could go to the park? Anyway over a month in and we all know day to day what's happening/expected - we do shopping trips, work on the garden, do school stuff, chill out a fair bit and the like but still trying to make it loose enough that it doesn't get too stressful (you HAVE to do exactly 4...