Author Archives: John B Ledger

“I spend hours looking sideways, to the time when I was fifteen”

I must first of all explain how I was alerted to these lyrics from The Fall’s track Frightened, it’s only fair: via a great Youtube lecture by Mere Pseud who referenced them with a not-too-dissimilar-intent as my intent. But when I heard him echo the lyrics to his lecture audience I thought: that’s my lifeContinue reading ““I spend hours looking sideways, to the time when I was fifteen””

This Is Not a Top Song List: My Life Through Joy Division Tracks

“They keep calling me” Amidst the pretty stark turbulence I experienced as 2015 began I became obsessed with trying to write something about Joy Division’s eternal-presence in my life. But I never got anywhere, convincing myself it needed to be a project of  a sizable, I-know-everything-about-Joy-Division, quality due to the task of writing about oneContinue reading “This Is Not a Top Song List: My Life Through Joy Division Tracks”

Stories From Forgotten Space

I seem to be at a point of bringing quite a few important works to a point of closure. I and have Finally made my blog series,  Stories From Forgotten Space,  into physical book form. Despite a few frustrating errors made by Blurb’s book publishing program, the minor imperfections can’t take away the central positionContinue reading “Stories From Forgotten Space”

London walks: an anti-austerity-weekend flow.

Friday 19 June 2015 “Walking towards Shoreditch, nearly an hour into walking in the city. The self-conscious me is always looking for things to porcupine-myself-up with in a place of such beautiful cyber-people. Sometimes it seems like everyone looks like a more toned, more Photoshopped edit of a pop-culture figure from yesteryear. I pass somebodyContinue reading “London walks: an anti-austerity-weekend flow.”