The Next Village » Markland Starkie http://thenextvillage.net Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Markland Starkie http://thenextvillage.net/2009/07/06/markland-starkie/ http://thenextvillage.net/2009/07/06/markland-starkie/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:05:23 +0000 TNV http://thenextvillage.net/?p=111 As we grow older we take in and process less and less information from the world around us. Of course. Which, say, is why it seemed to take such a crushingly long time until my next birthday when I was at primary school, yet these days it feels less and less exciting and more and more embarrassing to throw a party each year when the last one has really only just happened. Again. With this in mind, a friend recently told me that while, physically speaking, the average person reaches the mid-point in their life somewhere in their late thirties (terminal illness and accidents notwithstanding), in terms of what we actually perceive during our lifetime one’s mid-way point occurs around twenty. Here are twenty memories from the first half of my life:

Top-loading washer
Kidnap
One cat
Edgehill
Choir
Three cats
Piano scales
Summer biking
Sonic the Hedgehog
Florida
Four cats
Badminton in gardens
Kissing in a tent
Stratford Music Centre
Lunches at Safeways
Spun
Head-spinning whiteys
Videos with Pete
Norwich
Three cats

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Markland Starkie is an occasional musician, mostly under the name Sleeping States. A new Sleeping States album, In The Gardens Of The North, will be released on August 17th 2009. Markland currently lives in Bristol.

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