"Croeso i ddyfnderoedd fy isymwybod: Welcome to the depths of my subconscious. Shark Fishing in Wales is one man's odyssey to understand the land of his birth through anecdote, observation and reminiscence! By learning about his country, perhaps he can learn more about himself. A process of individuation which Carl Jung suggests we should all go through. Less assuming one nationhood and more working towards one nationhood before we become Independent." Daf Williams
Cymru/Wales: Bipolar Nation
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Wednesday 30 March 2016
Poem for Port Talbot
Monday 28 March 2016
some of my best friends are automata
Eeee! He's got some good titles this fella, whatever is he going to be talking about today?
Definition of automata: "self-operating machine, or a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions".
What got me to thinking about today's Bank Holiday Blog Post was hearing the discussion as I dozed ont radio about Mental Health, the nature v nurture debate and the amount of funding that goes into research.
"A simmering row over the underlying causes, and best approaches to treatment, of mental illness has broken out into open warfare after a leading academic accused the Medical Research Council of bias. Today’s Science editor Tom Fielden reports and we speak live to Dr Rob Buckle, head of Regenerative Medicine at the Medical Research Council, and Professor Dame Til Wykes, professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at KCL".
Wednesday 23 March 2016
Killjoy
Because Wales, the country after which this blog is named, have not been anywhere competitively since 1958, the brouhaha in the UK media will be of the 'We will fight them on the beaches' nature but we all know what happened on a Tunisian beach last year. Before I am accused of being a Quisling and an appeaser to the Islamic state, I wish to state that I was calling them 'bastards' as I listened to the unfolding stories on yesterdays news but there is a difference as I have said before between fighting a known and an unknown enemy. They have sussed the white west's psychology and they know that indiscriminate bombings, be-headings and the use of social media will ultimately trickle through to panic and paranoia. There are so many of us that it is going to take a thousand years at least to get rid of us all and our filthy capitalistic, fascistic and some would say Christian thinking. Even though they do not respect 'us' perhaps we should think about respecting our own safety. Chris Coleman do ave banned the Wags like (apologies for the vernacular)
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/22/wales-chris-coleman-bans-wags-european-championship
I hope that he will also have the good sense to ban any killjoy bloggers from the game as well.
Thursday 17 March 2016
Cheap Date
Tuesday 15 March 2016
McRetail round the Bend.
Saturday 12 March 2016
Bus to Porthcawl
Principality
Thursday 10 March 2016
Nid dim llai na chwyldroad
'Nid dim llai na chwyldroad'
sydd ei angen yn ein cymdeithas gystadleuol, gyfalafol. Rydym wedi byw trwy un o gyfnodau mwyaf erchyll a treisgar erioed yn hanes dynol rhyw gan ddechrau gyda 9/11. Rydym ni gyd wedi gweld lluniau treisgar a chlywed storiâu mwyaf erchyll ac mae cymdeithas yn disgwyl i ni fynd i'r gwaith fel petai fod ddim byd wedi digwydd. Sut ydy bobol yn meddwl gall hyn i gyd ddim cael effaith ar feddyliau pobol ifanc yn benodol. Maent yn ceisio tyfu fyny mewn byd mwyaf bygythiol ac wedyn rydym yn synnu pam ei bod yn mynd yn drist ac yn isel ac yn meddwl bydd tabledi o'r Doctor yn ei gwneud nhw yn well. Sticking Plaster ar friw agored ydy hwn. Mae rhaid gwella cymdeithas, mae rhaid dangos i bobol ifanc nag nid dysgu, gweithio, cenhedlu, cystadlu ydy pob dim. Yr economi sydd yn ein harwain. Mae pobol yn rhedeg ar ofn ond ofni be ydym ni yn y bôn? Ofni marw? A thyle’r Cynulliad rhedeg sesiynau trafod marwolaeth yn enwedig marwolaeth yr iaith Gymraeg. Sut all neb ddisgwyl i bobol fod yn iawn ei meddwl gydag un o'r pethau mwyaf sylfaenol, mwyaf eneidiol yn ei bywydau dan fygythiad sef yr iaith maent yn cyfathrebu ynddo. Fydd rhaid i'r Cynulliad ddelio gyda gwreiddiau ein problemau ni fel cymdeithas nid y symptomau.
Tuesday 8 March 2016
Pantomime Politics
Yes, that is me prior to having my nasal polyps removed. I can't pinpoint my accent either which is somewhere between Cardiff and Liverpool. The twang is definitely there. So if I don't make it as a Performance Poet, Actor, Pantomime Villain, I could always go into politics, where everybody else seems to end up.
Saturday 5 March 2016
Come Piss in my Pension Pot
Come piss in my pension pot
Friday 4 March 2016
Didn't he do well?
Well, the reading at the Performance Studio at Aberystwyth Arts Centre went well on Wednesday night. I read 3 poems from my new anthology of 101 poems. Started off with 'Bottom of the Ottoman'. Then into the environmentally political 'Porpoise Pink Potel' and then rounding off with 'Elvis Powys'. Two of the poems reference a 70s TV programme and a Rock & Roll Singer who died in 1977 so you might well have a point if you rudely comment "You're living in the past". The only contemporary reference was to the dumping of Vanish off the coast of Cornwall. It was a very enjoyable night, a real variety performance and for an affordable £5.00 an example of good practice so congratulations to the organiser and of course thanks for letting me read. So what to the future for the 'Bardd Talcen Slip', the Bard of the Bus Stops ? I'm getting involved with all sorts of things that won't make me any money. There must be a moral in there somewhere!
Tuesday 1 March 2016
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
The fact is, the poet does not want admiration, he wants to be believed.
— Jean Cocteau Quotes (@CocteauQuotes) September 21, 2020
Death by Taxes
"Individuals and businesses not paying the tax they should deprives the government of the funding it needs to provide vital public serv...
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Bottom of the Ottoman
Bottom of the Ottoman from David Williams on Vimeo.
Crying in your Beer from David Williams on Vimeo.
Hitler navigates the A487 from Aberaeron to Aberystwyth
I shall never wear tweeds from David Williams on Vimeo.