sorry...

... to the one person waiting to hear the cassette tape recording, I've kind of dropped the ball on that one a bit. I've been trying to make a video and its proving a bit more difficult than I'd hoped it would be. I just need to sort out some technical lamery like fire wire cables and using my friend's sound recording equipment.

I will put up what I've done when I can because I said that I would and its bad to leave loose ends like that.

Anyway! Things are slowly but very surely coming together for the new issue. I'm waiting on some pieces from a few folks and some charmingly magniloquent individuals have already entrusted me with some superb short story writing, illustrations and photography.

"I love feedaback vewy much."

And I love you Otomo...

An important adjunct to the overall character of AWKWARD as I see it 

has to do with noise and dissonant dissidence in general. If I choose to 

flatter myself, as I will right now, the first issue left a slightly metallic 

taste in the mouth - a flavour accented by darkness and laced with a 

strangely percolated contemptuousness. There has been a distinct lack 

of this element so far in the life of this blog. It has been, perhaps, a little soft.

So, in order to reconcile this disparity, I will be using the audio-bearing 

capacity of this page to bring you a musical arrangement I have been 

working on, made of other people's work and found-sound samples. 

This will be appearing in the next couple of days. All I will say is hold 

onto your hats. Its a stinger.