I haven't submitted any new work here for more than three years. Photography was only ever a minor hobby for me, and I felt I'd gone as far as I wanted to with it. Great photos require a lot of time and dedication, and my time and dedication have increasingly been taken up by other things.

But it's a joy to see that people are still visiting the page and still posting nice comments, as DA continues to grow. Thanks!

Accessible yet deep, intimate yet playful, Animal Collective's "Merriweather Post Pavilion" is a pop miracle. It's an album that doesn't simply rehash its transparent influences (The Beach Boys, The Beatles) but succeeds in renovating their sound for a new century.

Wow, how good is Homogenic? Had the CD for ages. Only listened to it seriously today. I'm awestruck. It's aged well I think. Outside any normal genre, it demands to be judged on its own terms.

I quite liked Vespertine and Volta, but I had no idea how good Bjork could get.

Welcome to 2008.

5 years on this place. On and off. Mainly off.

Happy Christmas. Christmas 2006 that is.

Happy Christmas 2007 if I don't update my journal in the next twelve months. I have been less than reliable of late. I have been a busy bunny.

I think I will be uploading some fiction pieces. This is what I'm best at, but I've never been convinced that dA is the right place. My work doesn't sit very comfortably alongside thinly disguised porn. But I have some things lying around that desperately need an airing before I send them off to various places, and some things that are so old that it can't do any harm to release them on the smelly public.

I have a website:

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This is a kind of blog for all my creative writing, incorporating all kinds and lengths.

Thanks for reading. Happy New Year as well by the way.

Jonathan.