Vongole
Enjoy…
500g small clams (palourdes, or carpet shell are ideal)
350g spaghetti (dried)
30g butter
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3 fat cloves of garlic, finely chopped
½ medium-hot red chilli, finely chopped
100ml dry white wine
Small bunch of flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
Listening to…
Listening to…
SALT
A disclaimer:
I’m not a political rapper in the strictest sense of the word. You won’t find me tackling world issues or attempting to offer solutions to intractable problems in the form of a song. I do listen to some overtly political music and find some of it brilliant, some of it terrible and some of it very average. Like most other music then.
First and foremost this track is an expression of my feelings regarding the current situation in this country and what I hope is a good listenable song. A lot of nuance is lost when trying to frame ideas in the context of making something listenable. I’m well aware of the previous government’s record on things like social housing and letting the private sector worm its way into almost every part of the infrastructure of this country but I do think the current government need special scrutiny. Letting competition and the market become the be all and end all when it comes to services provided or what schemes deserve public money in the first place is an ideological position rather than the pragmatic position the Coalition would like us to believe it is.
I’m not an activist, I’m broadly left of centre but do find the left/right spectrum a limiting way of looking at politics, I am angry with the way things are, I’m not sure a Labour government would make much of a difference but I do believe in voting and will vote Labour due to the lack of alternatives. I certainly don’t think we’ve found some kind of end game with the combination of representative democracy and free market capitalism. If history has taught us anything it is that civilisations and social orders change and die. Human nature doesn’t change but the fabric in which we live out our lives does. I hope most of us are still here to see what happens next.
Listening to…
Caracas, Venezuela, Margarita island, Canaima
