12°C, sunny int. + S wind.
Live spaces have still prohibited the word “Chicken” in blog entry titles.
And to pass, when her fair is full and fish and the oil unto Zechariah
Come, fifty loops in my god called to alive:The Shorts are out! The Gap is Good! Take advantage!RREF has been on a steady rise for a week with HUGE volume. Now the
shorts created a gap providing a second chance to get in on RREF.Don’t be the one that missed out be the one who rakes it in next
week. Grab RREF first thing Thursday morning.Alternative: Who will act as gatekeeper to the gatekeepers?
Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
From the Robert Frost poem ‘Mending Wall’
Who knows where such words doth cometh. Senders now enlisted in the great book of Junk-senders, forever to be deleted with callous automation, unseen by human eye from this day forth.
The (un)shaggy dog story: The Friary School’s caretaker found a stray dog on the school grounds, so Hannah volunteered to sort it out. She called me as soon as I got home to take the dog to the local Vet. That dog was male and somewhere between a Lurcher and Weinerana, a beautiful looking dog with a calm disposition. He seemed quite unflustered as I put him in the car – more fascinated by the scent of Poodle than worried that I was taking him away.
Anyway, it turned out that the dog had got ID chips embedded and was registered at that very Vet’s surgery, his name was "Storm".
The moral of the story is to make sure I get my two hounds chipped. The Owner was on his way as I drove home.
In-class demo: these can go terribly wrong, but the picture below was done with a very small group and that makes concentration easier. It seemed to have a good effect on the kid’s work too, she was trying to complete a painting that had been worked on for months and not really going anywhere. Materials: acrylics (white, flesh, burnt sienna & burnt umber) onto cheapo brown sugar paper. Not bad for 10 minutes while I was talking to someone.
Michael Finnessy: Mars + Venus; the CD was delivered to me unsure that it would be like the stuff played by BBC r3. Having only played it once, I can’t say a lot, superficially it sounds like some of the Edgar Varese stuff bought a few years ago, and popularised by Frank Zappa. I don’t really have a method to explain it, but there is a vibrant space in the sound, the clusters of piano and other "classical " instruments, it mixes frantic energy and calmness closely vying for the stage. I need more of this kind of thing. Thanks to Here & Now!
The whole place seems to be shaking, we’re told from roadworks where a roundabout is becoming a set of traffic lights. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to find they’ve hit an old mine-shaft and the whole area is one 400ft deep hole tomorrow morning.
Some rooms are shake than others, it depends on how close to the roadworks you are, and some rooms just pick up the vibes and resonate more. The Art rooms have always sort of… wobbled, even to passing lorries. Other rooms just rumble with not wobbles felt underfoot. You have ot wonder what effect it will have on that old building.
Still, it’s the oddest thing, a bit like being in Japan.
Secondly: the blogosphere is a place of shifting sands. Writers move, lose interest and move on, but stil there are 52 million writers putting up a post each day. Of those leaving, more than half of my "Art ring" so there was no point keeping the ring at all. Ping! it be gone. Life is calmer on msn(live) spaces compared to a year ago, comments are left less often and fewer new sites of interest are appearing. Perhaps it is time to look into moving activities to another place like Blogger or similar.
Update: today the next issue of 3D World magazine was delivered. It has "Christmas 2006" printed on the cover next to the barcode. that means the date on the cover has an offset relation to the time it is printed. Note: last month I received the November issue.
That set me thinking about yesterday’s inane ramble about the seasons. Imagine a seasons set by the vegetable kingdom. We could have a season that runs from September until Early November and call it "Autumn" (radical eh?). That would mean recognising a season fully 6 weeks before its official start date. Winter officially starts on the 21st December and such dates are determined by astronomical features. I am now going to cease such a topic as it is a pile of b’locks.
Maybe I will append with a review of "Borat" instead.
Though there were lots of funny bits, it did have some rather dark and disturbing themes: from red-neck racists, fraternities and dreadful envangelical christians. The Khazaks were rather upset (I gather) at fun made of their country, but the real joke is on America in this film. The main characters are parodies, performing very bizarre scenes, the Americans performing very biarre scenes aren’t actors, they are doing it for real. They are indeed the profoundly unsettling ones.
Don’t take your mother-in-law to see this film!
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