Tag Archives: Syd Barrett

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Bill Herbert

I am often nagged by epiphenomena, events sitting at the edge of How Things Should Be, though I don’t usually know what it is they are trying to tell me. Such things are, by definition, peripheral – or at least … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Broughty Ferry, Buster Keaton, Harry Secombe, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Michael Parkinson, One Week, Peter Sellars, Pink Floyd, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Electric House, The Goon Show, Wish You Were Here | Leave a comment

Waukendremes, 2

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Bill Herbert

The opposite of falling asleep while reading must be, exactly, waking up while writing. I’ve had, as most writers have, the experience of waking with a phrase or an entire poem in my head; or of remembering at the point … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Captain Beefheart, Dorveille, Elvis Presley, Jean Cocteau, Richard Gwyn, Syd Barrett, the Aztecs, the Moon-Bison, Waukendreme | Leave a comment

PsychoGeoFerry 3

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Bill Herbert

(This third piece is, I suppose, about the quantum level of the imagination – that space between dream and memory in which the dead do not live, but are, for a strange moment, not-dead. The act of return, of re-viewing, … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Blackness Primary School, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Grove Academy, nanmu, Psychogeography, Syd Barrett, Yangzhou | 1 Comment

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Bill Herbert

(I’ve been vaguely attempting to push on with my next post about Leonora Carrington, which focuses on Mexico City, but in fact have been obsessing about Syd Barrett instead. Somehow, not only are these two subjects related, but Barrett seems … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged A.A. Milne, Billy Mackenzie, Captain Beefheart, Chuang Tzu, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Dickens, Edinburgh, Edward Lear, Eno, G. Gregory Smith, Hogmanay, Humble Pie, Jeff Shirley, Keats, Leonora Carringtom, Lewis Carroll, Malcolm Jones, Mark E. Smith, Mexico City, Pink Floyd, Richard Dadd, Robert Fergusson, Robert Wyatt, Roger Waters, Scrooge, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Daft Days | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Syd Barrett

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Waukendremes, 2

PsychoGeoFerry 3

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

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