Last night's "perigee" * moon wrapped itself in midnight blue and the prematurely, icy chill of the coming winter. But it didn't stop me from taking a stroll, scuffing the gold and red scraps of autumn leaves and stomping through the piles that had blown into the corners of Blaker's Park. There is something quite satisfying about autumn and I confess to it being a favourite time of year for me - I suppose 
because I am autumnal myself, I guess. Still, no point in being maudlin. One thing does concern me though. I haven't written anything creatively this month. Imagine, the whole of October and nothing but academic stuff to credit it with. Maybe I should rectify that by writing a new song - every time I pick up the guitar a new tune comes around but the words just seem to take such an effort that I never get round to developing them - note to self, must do
better. But at one point this week I found myself thinking about Egon Schiele because I received a note from my friend Kate, who used to work at Sothebys and when she was cataloguing a Schiele collection for sale she invited me to view it. Kate was pregnant with Laura at that time, and Laura is now 21 and at Oxford and how the years have flown by. But here is a curious one, if you spellcheck Schiele you are offered Schiller, and that is a coincidence because I was reading his idea that "Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual." And I was thinking about this in light of the tory/lib/dem budget cuts where they seem too stupid to realise, as Schiller also says, that " Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us [wo]men." I swear to god, those tory/lib/dems will suck the life out of us all; so all we are left with is work for working's sake. Of course, Freddy Schiller also said, "Great souls suffer in silence!" Fuck that, he can't be right all the time. I intend to suffer loudly. Besides, I'm with Marilyn Monroe when she said, "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful." I am a town!* The Moon’s remarkable luminosity sprung from its proximity – about 50,000 km closer to Earth than other full Moons of the year. This can happen because the Moon’s orbit is not a circle but an ellipse. Last night, the Moon was on the near side of the ellipse – a place astronomers call “perigee” – making it a big, bright perigee Moon - often called a "wolf moon" - just thought you would like to know.If you hear me howl its because..
