dailyprompt – John B Ledger

Art/creative projects. But it’s not that simple. I can go for months, even longer lacking purpose and direction because I lack any ideas that have any sense of purpose and meaning. It’s how I define, and have defined myself: against a world in which I’ve never felt equipped for, or any good at, but awareContinue reading

1993. Perranporth, Cornwall

I always reflect on this holiday. I’ve reflected on it through the music of the time; the dreamy-quality to the pop music on Virgin Fm or whatever station it was. I’ve reflected on it through the incomparable movie ‘Jurrasic Park’ that set a new precedent for cinematic hedonia before we would be bogged down inContinue reading “1993. Perranporth, Cornwall”

What’s your favorite cartoon? I’m going to say Earthworm Jim I used to get up on school holidays in the UK in 1996 and watch it religiously. What I remember most fondly is it’s almost Monty Python-esq surrealism. most notably when the theme tune just randomly stopped, and we saw Jim snoring on a hammock,Continue reading

If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time? Figure out how to love

What are your favorite animals? Those late September spiders that go all shaky crazy when you touch their webs. They are the real underdogs

What technology would you be better off without, why? Surely this is a rhetorical question?

What will your life be like in three years? When I was a few months off being 18, 9/11 happened. Since that point (with the exception of a few points in the 2010s where I thought the tide was turning towards a better world), I’ve admittedly worried about the future around me being worse, andContinue reading

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? Love.

What major historical events do you remember? 9/11. I mean, who doesn’t? But, being as I was soon to be 18, a symbolic marker point from transition from childhood to adulthood, 9/11 became that marker point. Everything before seemed secure. If not rose-tinted, then at least buffeted by a secure horizon of endless ok-ness inContinue reading

Describe your most memorable vacation. 1993 was a year that was crucial in forming my sense of futures and pasts. 9 years old, my dad had become a teacher, an historic unprecedented feat in family history. We now had a car and my parents decided that they no longer wanted to go to my grandparents’Continue reading