Cast - Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker
Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker
Barbican Theatre, November 13, 14, 15
review to follow
This is my most favourited picture on Flickr. Sixty-one people, mostly from Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, have clicked the little star since I uploaded it in 2005. It has only around 1300 pageviews.
It is my most favourited picture not because of my photographic skills, or my wonderful eye, ...
August 5th 2007
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Canal Parade, Amsterdam Gay Pride 2007. View the whole set.
June 18th 2007
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Me: 'I'd like to send this package to Greece, please.'
Woman weighs package and looks at pricing table. Then she starts giggling nervously.
Woman: 'I'm not sure if Greece is in Europe or not.'
June 20th 2006
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"Because you're still asking that question".
May 25th 2006
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Sad but true: I'm refreshing my favourite bittorrent page every few minutes, because I want to see David Hasselhoff cry on American Idol. right. now.
As for other bad television... I have succumbed to Big Brother (UK). Oh noes!
My only previous experience with the show was the finale of BB 1 ...
April 29th 2006
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Hadn't been in town for Queensday since... well, since before I moved here. Didn't take long before I remembered why I never bother.
Queensday is when everybody:
1. sells crap in the streets
2. drinks a lot of crap beer
3. eats a lot of crap food
4. wears orange
Orange is probably my least favourite ...
September 14th 2005
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Oh heavenly salvation
our precious city has been spared
the storm is passed
and vanished above us
the storm has ended
and Death steps back into the water
once more
Oh heavenly salvation
Oh heavenly salvation
(iTunes served me this Kurt Weill song just a minute ago. I'd forgotten all about it.)
April 2nd 2005
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Utrechtsestraat, Saturday afternoon. I'm in search of pork belly but the luxury butcher is all out of pig.
'We had to send it back, it wasn't right.'
Poor piggie. Murdered to death and then discarded.
I try my luck at the butcher on the other side of the road. Inside, it's like going ...
March 4th 2005
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Comic Sans walks into a bar and asks for a beer. Says the bartender: "Sorry, we don't serve your type here."
(Heard on my new favourite BBC programme, The Culture Show. Must get that new Francis Bacon book.)