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Latest Lager Time episode is up - it’s called On Eating That Marshmallow and it’s about delying gratification.
As per the others, it starts with a quote from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, this time it’s Book 8. I’m going to do 4 and then we’re done with this series, mate
You can subscribe to both the podcast and blog on Substack, which is where I host it, or you can hear it as audio on Spotify and Apple.
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The latest episode of Lager Time dropped last Friday, it’s called On the Good Catholics. I talk a little bit about growing up in the faith and my irritation with people who so casually critise it, without knowing much about it.
In this latest edition of the Lager Time blog podcast, I write a piece inspired by Book 5 of #Meditations by #MarcusAurelius
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I’ve just uploaded another episode of Lager Time - this one is called On Music Enjoyment Denial - where I talk about about why I didn’t like Grime, when it first emerged in the early 2000’s.
It’s based on Book 4 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It’s the fifth one (including the intro) in this series I’ve written and I’ve very much enjoyed it.
You can listen below via Substack, or you can Subscribe to my Substack where it’s hosted and where you can also read it as a blog.
As ever, if you like this odd little niche thing that I’m doing over here, please recommend it to a mate, and if you fancy whipping the wallet out, you can make a donation on my Ko-Fi account, Buy-Me-A-Lager – there’s a few copies left of my first book the Suburban, which you can grab on my website alongside a couple of other bits – then of course there’s music on Spotify, Apple, and videos on You Tube and all that caper.
Peas and taters
Paul
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Another week, another Blog / Podcast for Lager Time is up. Continuing with my work, writing peices in response to Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
This week, I get stuck into a quote from BOOK 3 of Medittaions - it’s called on On BullS*it Detection
As ever, I host it all on Substack where you can listen to it as the podcast but also have the text to read, as well as other benfits, like Substack only stuff. It’s also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and bare others.
Hope you enjoy
Keep it Larger than Life
Paul
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The latest Lager Time podcast / blog epiosde is up. It’s called On Moaning, Self-Loathing and Pointing the Finger.
In this one I get stuck into a quote from Book 2 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, I talk about mental-health stuff, managing stress, etc etc. It;s not as misreable as it sounds….
As usual, you can listen on Spotify below, also Apple podcasts and bare other podcast providers, but if you want to be a certified Lager Time Lagerlite, then subscribe on Substack where I host this thing, if you do that, you can read it in blog-form occasioanly I’ll slap some extra stuff on there. There’s no fee or anything but you do have to bang your email address in.
Hope you enjoy it anyway
Paul
Hear me talk about Millwall’s 2-0 loss to QPR and a bit about my work - Millllllllllll
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The first Lager Time episode of 2024 is up; it’s called On The Support of Football Support. In it I talk about my love of Millwall FC and my simultaneous dislike of crystal palace.
It’s the first in a new series I’m writng, in repose to 12 quotes from the 12 books of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations (one peice for each book)
Something a little different to what I’ve done before but I’m enjoying writing it, hope you enjoy reading / listening to it.
Spotifty link below and also the sign-up for the Subtack wher eyou can also read it and have it as en email newsletter, as well as the other podcast. It’s also available on Apple on loads of other streaming platforms.
I feature in this month’s Cene Magazibe, talking about my work
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I hope you are well in the land of lager, or whatever your equivilant tipple-is-that-serves-somewhat-as-metaphor-for-getting-some-things-off-your-chest.
The latest Lager Time episode is up. In it, I talk about my relationship with reading books and introduce will be the next little season on Lager Time. I’ll be writing twevelve repsonse peices, for the twevlve books that make up Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations; I also explain why it is I’m doing this, aside from just giving me something to do.
Hope yous all enjoy
Have a banging Christmas and all that
Peas and taters
Paul
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The last in this current little mini-series of Young Unprofessional is up. In this episode, Reece finally goes on the date with Alice, who he met through the dating section of the Gumtree website. It’s a little later than expected, but I explain why in the introduction.
I’ve enjoyed writing this little mini-series, it felt like the natural evolution of the Satellite Stories series, whilst incorporating my desire to start writing from the perspective of a fully fictional character, from a fictional town (even if lots of it is based on my experiences)
I’m still undecide on the form of it, so what I think I’d like to do next is sit down and look over what I’ve written and work out what’s working and what isn’t etc.
I don’t know how any of these stories are landing with people but when I get into it and start writing, I enjoy it and I feel there is more to come. They are all works in progress, as is the whole podcast, so they’re raw and rough round the edges. I have a feeling that if I can refine my process, I can improve on what I’m doing with it.
I’ve also enjoyed featuring my own music (which is handy as I don’t have to worry about licensing etc) – something which I’ve neglected to mention. It helps break the stories up at bit and can put a contextual frame round it, as well as giving a legit excuse to write more music; again, I have no idea how any of this is landing, but, I do this because I enjoy doing it, anything else positive that comes of it is a bonus.
So what next? I have a few old stories from the Reece stuff I’ve written over the years, which I’d like to put up. I’ve also slowly been compiling a load of quotes from the books I’ve been reading and have an idea to use these as an impetus to write some thoughts, in an attempt at some essays; so at some point, at least one of these will emerge.
As scatty as I can be, in my own dysfunctional way, stuff does get done; and I would like to improve that and in general, improve myself, otherwise, what is the point in all of this? I think it’s a little bit like the Reece character, he is flawed and is somewhat aware of this, and in his own doomed way, is trying to do something about it, he just doesn’t really know how.
I hope you enjoy this latest episode, if you like it, please subscribe and share it, as much as I do this for me, when someone tells me they like it, it kicks me up the arse to do more. On the Substack, there is a link to the Young UnProfessional series which you can click and have them all in one place.
Peas and taters for now
Paul
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Latest Lager Time episode is up, it;s the 5th story in the Young UnProfessional series, this one is called Time Management
Reece gets sent on a Time Management course, he’s not very happy about it, but uses it to inspire him to document his working day, this is the finding of his reasearch
If you like, there’s a link to Subsribe on the substack below and a Spotify link too; if that’s your preferred medium
Have a banging weekend
Paul
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The latest Lager Time epsiode is up. This week features the 4th instalment from the The Young UnProfessional series, Melt Tree. In this little nugget, Reece takes the advice of his mate Stuart Simmons, and tries his hand at online-dating via Gumtree.
Young UnProfessioanl is set in London around 2006 / 2007 and tells the story of Reece, in his voice, who’s not long moved to London, from provincial satellte town: New Town, where he grew up, in search of something? He doesn’t really know.
You can subsribe directly via Substack, where you also get extra content, or you listen on Spotify or Apple
Keep it Larger
Paul
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Another week, another Lager Time episode is out. This week it’s EP 3 of the Young UnProfessional series - Alpine Downdressing
This episode sees Reece goes for a few beers with his fellow New Town ex-patriate Stuart Simmons, but they’r both at very different stages in life
You can listen below on Spotify or Apple, or better still on Substack, where you’ll get extra bits, blogs etc
Nice one
Paul
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This week’s episode of Lager Time was a special one, as it’s the first time I’ve put someone’s else’s work on there. That someone is a very good freind of mine, called Christana Lei, who’ve I known for number of years now and we’ve colloberated before on a few projects.
The story is called Spin. I asked Christana to write an introduction for it; so see below
SPIN
Written by Christana Lei
Voiced by Paul Cree
Intro by Christana Lei
This story is a chapter that never made it into a novel I’m working on.
Inspired by my love for the young people I was lucky enough to spend serious time with, when working in a PRU back in 2010. Inspired too by the lyrics of a song called Sad But True by the legendary Metallica (1991), whose lyrics are used throughout. When I write, I tend to imagine my writing like a film playing out in front of me, and if I had the production budget, Metallica would be the soundtrack to this one.
Maybe you’ll hear themes in the story but that’s not intentional: It was just an exercise in witnessing and acknowledging the violence that happens with no rhyme or reason, no matter how much we want to find reasons for it, in an attempt to impose order on chaos. It seems that the attempts to do this by those of us who are on the edges but not in the violence; an attempt we make to preserve our own sanity and faith in human nature, more often than not just leads to victim-blaming.
I hope Spin pays homage to some of the experiences some of us (hopefully) survive in this messy, sometimes brutal business of being human. And that now Paul has performed it, I can forget about it completely, because it is out of my system. (Which means Paul is now kind of an Exorcist). Enjoy.
Christana Lei
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Earlier this week, I recorded a Not Quite Live Edition of Lager Time. It’s essentially me running through a set poems, stories and some music on the loop-station. Had a few live gigs coming up, so this was good preperation for me
FULL SET LIST
1 - Trap It
2- Times of Respect
3- Whoever Said It Was Easy
4- Fair & Square
5- Chair Wars
6- Not quite A Cheetah
7- Premium Speed Ghost Train
8- Slow and Steady
9 - No Milk For The Foxes
10 - Now, What Do You Want To Say?
11 - Watts & Pommerlers
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The latest Lager Time podcast is out. This week it’s the second instalment in the Young UnProfessioanl series. It’s called The Urban Explorer (but in Sick Trainers)
Reece decides, on a whim, to have a little adverture over in London’s trendy Brick Lane.
Have a blast - you can find Time on Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify etc
As I menton at the start, this is a new series which I’m writing as I go, so I’m slowly finding my feet with it; I’m having fun
Paul
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So I’ve been doing a bit of admin over here at Lager HQ - and I’ve group together all the Satellite Stories series together on my Substack - which you can listen too HERE.
There were all semi-autobiographical stories, based on my experiances growing up in Horley and Crawley and trying to capture all those little class nuances of growing up in an area like that, in the shadow of London.
It started out with a story I wrote a few years back but didn’t really know what to do with and ended up becoming this whole series.
I realy enjoyed doing it and learned a lot along the way, it’s set a template for the way I want to go ahead with my own stuff
There’s 7 episodes in total, some
Enjoy
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This week’s Lager Time episode is the first in a new seires of monologes / stories called Young Unprofessional. It’s about a character called Reece, who’s in his mid twenties and has just moved to London and is trying to his feet. It’s set in the mid 2000’s.
I’ve written a number of things over the years, in the charcacter of Reece, but could never quite settle on one thing. Feeling good about this new series; more to come..
You can subsribe on Substack
See below for more links
Toast In The Machine, out NOW https://paulcree.hearnow.com/
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After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back producing podcasts and blogs for Lager Tine. It’s been a busy few months for me; with work and a course I was undertaking. All is explained and more, if you listen to this episode, better still, subscribe on Substack and you’ll get it direct into your inbox every week, or if you prefer just the audio, you can get it on Spotify, Apple and all them!
This week’s epsiode featured the last in the series (strange timeing, I know) of the Satteltie Stories series which I’d done; all base don my experiances growing up in the Gatwick area. This is about the summer after the middle school I attened closed down.
Have a blast
Paul
Toast In The Machine, out NOW https://paulcree.hearnow.com/
If you fancy giving me a little tip, for the price of a pint, would be much appriciated https://ko-fi.com/paulcree
Follow me on any of these platforms
SPOTIFY FOLLOW - https://open.spotify.com/artist/77Io4...
APPLE FOLLOW - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/pau...
AMAZON MUSIC - https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/player...
BANDCAMP - https://paulcree.bandcamp.com/
