This post came about after hearing a transgendered person stating in a television interview that, “I want to be perceived as female.” I’d been thinking about perception and reality for some time and this person made me realise something I’d not previously considered. I’d been contemplating the different ways that different people perceive reality and,…
Unsigned, Peeled, Bequivered – A Small Story Of A Local Band – Part 1.
This is the the story of the last real band I was in. I say ‘real’ band because since then I’ve played here and there with bands who play covers at weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthdays and what have you but I don’t consider those to be real bands. Real bands write their own songs and,…
The Psychogeography Of Everyday Life (In East Yorkshire). Or, How The Homogeneity Of British Towns In The Late 20th Century Created A Crisis In Identity Politics.
This post is about how I think the culture of the world you are born into shapes your adult life and continues to affect the way that you view the world as it inevitably changes around. I say ‘you‘ but I mean ‘me‘, really. The very early 1970s. Middlerabbit is born. A time when the…
Secret Agent (Of Inaction) Man. Or, 1993 – An atypical musical detour.
Agents of action: that’s what psychologists call little kids once they realise that they can have affect their environment. I appreciate that I can and do affect my environment but most of the time any effect I might have on it tends to be unintended because I stymy myself with indecision before I get…
Robinson Muso. Or, What All Musicians Want and How Most Of Them Have No Idea How To Go About Getting It.
“Most people think most pop stars are idiots don’t they? And I agree with them.” Ian Brown, The Stone Roses, 1989. My name is Middlerabbit and, apart from other things, I’m a guitar player. Before I get the bit too comfy between my teeth, I’d like to add one or two things that, as a…
Mormon Your Own Again. Or, Religions and Bums: Part 3.
When I click the ‘publish’ button on this website, it automatically sends a Tweet on, er, Twitter. The last couple of posts here have ‘attracted’ a Jehovah’s Witness or two, apoplectic about my apparent misrepresentation of their joyless religion. That I don’t have my facts straight, how I could have learned the truth had I…
…And No Religion (Part) 2: Jehovah’s Missionaries.
Even though I had family who were part of the Jehovah’s Witness thing, I had no interest in joining them in what I considered to be a sort of half-arsed death cult. Well, death cult might be a bit strong but most of what they seemed to do was related to death. Or being dead,…
