Radio Time

Claire Hamilton is very nice and The show on BBC Radio has helped publicise Liverpool Arts in the Capital of culture year no end. I should have thought a little more, when I offered to paint a free commission for someone before christmas! Late nights I fear. But I think radio talk is not as easy as it sounds, I also accidently said I had run a half marathon in 1 minute 40 secs?

Bird Exhibition

Thanks to all who came to birds in Calderstones park. Please take a look at all the interesting bird writtings at my site www.joelbird.com
A nice flask of coffee, radio 3 and chats with the dog walkers, this is a nice little gallery with a friendly breeze.

birdy beardy

Scotland is absolutely beautiful. I canoed with some friends through loch long, holy loch, around the kyles of bute and through loch fynne navigating a few rivers along the way. Mackeral was top of the menu, steamed on the beach. Remoteness is not only elsewhere, these wild places are but a petrol tank away. All the best places in the world make men want to grow beards.

That's a lot of bracelets.

pictures taken by my friend Emily Bleasdale.

Rubber Soul

Everybody should change a tyre in a wet suit once in their life.

con tent

Camping = Instant Happiness

Learn to Waltz

Ibiza will be a retirement home. What are we going to do? mosh the power zimmer. I'm going to practice. The lady with the butterfly belt and a bald patch, she shone like Blackpool tower Ballroom.

HAL=IBM-1

I'd like to give Leonardo my eyes for a second. I'd put a calender and a helicopter in them. I actually wrote to my local cinema in 2001, suggesting it would be a good idea. Had to wait. 3 in the morning. Houston, NY I think. The cinema was full. They said it would finish Kubrik at the time. It's nice to hear laughter 40 years after "I think you should sit down and take a stress pill." I'd give him my ears instead.

Angel Delight

I sometimes like posh deserts. I still like Angel Delight though! Go see the art, It's not the same as in a book you know? I think hearing is the last sense to go, there is no sound in a vacuum, just remember not to imitate.

The Philly Gum tree.

People love it. Because its in their hearts, it in their atoms. Some people smash bus stops up and make the universe die a little quicker. But start them off and they'll stick it back together again with gum.

Have frame will travel

Blur the edges. Retire at death and take your work with you.

Frozen Wheels

TV and Frozen Meals are very strange, not the strange. I bought a vespa from Madrid and tried to drive it back to england. I got stuck in the small moutains of Burgos and my scooter froze! I fixed it and manged to get to Bilbao. I got the ferry to Portsmouth and then I broke down again and slept in a bush. I finally got it back to London with a Euro haemorage, I parked it for one day and somebody stole it. I never seen it again and my insurance didn't cover it?! I had to tell somebody about this. What's the point. There is no point. I think that's the point.

Parasites and Pigeons

I, like alot of 'Scousers' leave Liverpool alot and then talk about how good it is?! How did Liverpool people get everywhere. It reminds me of nature. Parasites and pigeons. The social skill, evolution's occupation. I once flew to New York and walked out of the airport and a guy walked up to me and said 'Eh mate, d'you wanna buy a coat'.

Bird Place

There are those that like To shoo them and there are those who like to shoot them, but the clever ones amongst us soon become aware that birds are one of those things, brought into existence by the laws that be to help us out with our condition. So we just watch and listen and soon our thoughts concern themselves with what is outside our minds, and this is a better place.
This is a Jackdaw accident, (similar to the murder of crows.)