Friday, December 21, 2007
Oh dear!
I've not even got to the airport and my flight is already delayed an hour... off to see Dingo for christmas. Looking forward to that.
My disappointment was tempered a few moments ago when a really dull car drove past with what looked like a dull estate-agent driving it, pumping out a 180bpm version of Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control", voiced, I would guess, by Pinky and Perky, those lovable roguish pigs who seem to have found a new career singing for ned/chav/scally dance tracks.
Though as I only ever hear this shit coming out of cars, I'm not really sure that it can be classed as "dance" music.
Wonder what Beth Ditto would make of it?
I've not even got to the airport and my flight is already delayed an hour... off to see Dingo for christmas. Looking forward to that.
My disappointment was tempered a few moments ago when a really dull car drove past with what looked like a dull estate-agent driving it, pumping out a 180bpm version of Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control", voiced, I would guess, by Pinky and Perky, those lovable roguish pigs who seem to have found a new career singing for ned/chav/scally dance tracks.
Though as I only ever hear this shit coming out of cars, I'm not really sure that it can be classed as "dance" music.
Wonder what Beth Ditto would make of it?
# posted by Dauvit
Monday, December 17, 2007
It's not often that I see an artist's work and think that I would sell my soul to own one of his or her pieces. To date, I can honestly say that I have never seen a clock which has stirred me to any response other than one of mild interest, sundials being much more my thing. Thus is it is with some surprise to myself that I recommend looking at the work of Eric Freitas who has made five of the most beautiful pieces of metalwork that I have ever seen, five exquisite clocks.
The only price I have for one of these is $11000 and worth every penny. Just a pity it is out of my price range.
The only price I have for one of these is $11000 and worth every penny. Just a pity it is out of my price range.
# posted by Dauvit
Well, that's the weekend over and the run-up (or run-down) to the holidays has begun. It was a very good weekend. Went over to my sister's house to deliver presents to my nephews. As it was very cold, I put on my Swedish sheepskin greatcoat, which Sean wanted to try on:
Was at the car boot sale in the morning, which was great as I got a heated pickle pot, a wooden sinking hammer and an electric scroll saw:
Which I cleaned up this morning, so it now looks way better. Only a tenner!
Was at the car boot sale in the morning, which was great as I got a heated pickle pot, a wooden sinking hammer and an electric scroll saw:
Which I cleaned up this morning, so it now looks way better. Only a tenner!
# posted by Dauvit
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Not too much to report. I've still got a bit of a cold, so off to bed for me with a copy of The Wire! Thrilling. Doctor tomorrow: this has been going on too long.
Watched John Water's A Dirty Shame earlier. Or should I say tried to watch? I gave up after half an hour. It's bloody awful. An endless stream of teenage dirty jokes in celluloid form. It has none of the sophistication of Pecker or Cecil B Demented, none of the quirky commercial charm of Hairspray or Serial Mom and none of the shock value of Pink Flamingoes or Female Trouble. I'm sure that Waters would argue that it's a satire of middle-American prudishness, but it is merely tiresome. In terms of cinematic disappointments, it's right down there with Aronofsky's The Fountain.
Oh, and Tracey Ullman is a dreadful ham.
Watched John Water's A Dirty Shame earlier. Or should I say tried to watch? I gave up after half an hour. It's bloody awful. An endless stream of teenage dirty jokes in celluloid form. It has none of the sophistication of Pecker or Cecil B Demented, none of the quirky commercial charm of Hairspray or Serial Mom and none of the shock value of Pink Flamingoes or Female Trouble. I'm sure that Waters would argue that it's a satire of middle-American prudishness, but it is merely tiresome. In terms of cinematic disappointments, it's right down there with Aronofsky's The Fountain.
Oh, and Tracey Ullman is a dreadful ham.
# posted by Dauvit
Sunday, December 09, 2007
What a horrible weekend! The weather is awful, cold and wet. Went out with Clive yesterday, but it was too cold and we departed the town early, leaving behind miserable, wet, frenetic christmas shoppers. I had some work to do in the house, so that was OK.
Started taking some photographs of an old piece which I've never photographed successfully, the "Mace" pendant:
Because my stuff has been getting picked up on increasingly by the "Steampunk" community, I thought that it might be fun to make some old-fashioned photographs and as I had been looking at daguerrotypes online on Friday with a view to making some real ones, I knew what they should look like. To Photoshop! I'm quite pleased with the results which look like they could be pictures of my great-grandfather:
There are more on my Flickr pages (see link, left).
Dingo won't like those moustache curls...
And a complete contrast to my lament on Friday about Stockhausen, the gloomy glasgow weather has been lightened considerably by a weekend of strange exotica, including the bizarre Korla Pandit, who I discovered on YouTube by accident. Click the link and then follow all the other ones to other performances by him. He was accused of hypnotising - over the air! - wealthy women into sending him money and his TV show was cancelled! Apparently, he appears briefly in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", but I can't remember him being in it.
Started taking some photographs of an old piece which I've never photographed successfully, the "Mace" pendant:
Because my stuff has been getting picked up on increasingly by the "Steampunk" community, I thought that it might be fun to make some old-fashioned photographs and as I had been looking at daguerrotypes online on Friday with a view to making some real ones, I knew what they should look like. To Photoshop! I'm quite pleased with the results which look like they could be pictures of my great-grandfather:
There are more on my Flickr pages (see link, left).
Dingo won't like those moustache curls...
And a complete contrast to my lament on Friday about Stockhausen, the gloomy glasgow weather has been lightened considerably by a weekend of strange exotica, including the bizarre Korla Pandit, who I discovered on YouTube by accident. Click the link and then follow all the other ones to other performances by him. He was accused of hypnotising - over the air! - wealthy women into sending him money and his TV show was cancelled! Apparently, he appears briefly in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", but I can't remember him being in it.
# posted by Dauvit
Friday, December 07, 2007
RIP, Karleheinz Stockhausen, 1928 - 2007.
The world has lost another one of those rare and wonderful creative lunatics whom I love so dearly. Though I have to confess to finding some of his work a bit incomprehensible and some of it downright dull, works such as Hymnen, Ave, Helikopter-Streichquartett, the Klavierstucken, Gruppen and Stimmung are some of the most innovative and thrilling music to have been written in the last Century and will continue to influence and excite long after I have gone.
The world has lost another one of those rare and wonderful creative lunatics whom I love so dearly. Though I have to confess to finding some of his work a bit incomprehensible and some of it downright dull, works such as Hymnen, Ave, Helikopter-Streichquartett, the Klavierstucken, Gruppen and Stimmung are some of the most innovative and thrilling music to have been written in the last Century and will continue to influence and excite long after I have gone.
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