John hates the outside. He once wrote, “I hate the outside, Dad always says let’s go to the park, but I hate the park, especially the trees which are stupid and are just a waste of time, when I go to the park I just sit there bored until its time to go home”. He wrote this because a teacher asked him to write about going to the park. John thought the teacher was wasting his time. He was right. The teacher thought it might help John to write about going to the park. But it didn’t. It didn’t help at all.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023
YUSSEF DAYES
YUSSEF DAYES AT VINILO RECORD STORE, SOUTHAMPTON – 13/09/23
I stop at the Rufus Stone on the way for a wee. It’s here that William II was killed by an arrow that “glanced” off an oak tree. A stone commemorates the spot where the oak tree once stood.
"Glanced"
It’s a quiet place. There’s no one else around. Not a single other person. I’m the only person here. Being a sort of popular legend the incident is most probably fictional, or at least partly so. Life is never as interesting as people want it to be. Or maybe it’s too interesting, so people retreat to a safer world of make believe, stories and legends. But as the sun is setting through some trees, it certainly feels like the kind of place where a king could die.
A king could die here
Golden age
There’s a big queue for signing so I go and have a look at a ruined fourteenth century church that’s just around the corner, and the past the present and the future dwell within me. When I return to the car Dayes is still in the shop so I dash in and ask him to sign my record. “I’m guessing you don’t like the term ‘jazz’,” I say. “It’s not that deep,” he says. “I don’t mind it. I’m just questioning. It’s not that deep.”
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