Artficial Eye, you rape-supporting shits ( Read more... )

Stayed late at Serpentine last night for the screening of 'Darwin's Nightmare', a documentary set in Tanzania about the introduction of Nile Perch into Lake Victoria and the economic/social fallout.

( Darwin's Nightmare )

I'm leaning towards taking the job but need to talk to the last director before I accept. I spent saturday calling everyone I know in Cairo asking for advice. I also want to talk to Ann, director of De Appel. In the mornings I'm full of enthusiasm and ideas, and I've spent the last three nights thrashing about in total panic at the whole idea.

So ( Read more... )

Lots of lovely things coming in the post to me lately. Firstly, HAIRSPRAY!!! from Alison for Christmas, which I might watch tonight.

And soon my copy of La Commune - Paris 1871, which has to be the best film I have ever seen, and is quite hard to get hold of, so I splurged £25 that I don't really have when a single copy came up on Amazon. It's six ( Read more... )

N and I watched Hellboy last night.

I was all prepared to like this in the way I liked the Dark Knight - like, comic book adaptations are not really my thing, but if you take them on a level they're pure entertainment, often visually great, and potentially deeper than they are expected to be. And I'd heard good things about Hellboy, in the 'quality ( Read more... )

I have completely failed to do any work at all this week. It's partly understandable what with the funeral and some very distracting tribulations with N, but it's also due to my ability to piss around online, all day. I have looming deadlines.

On the upside, I got some great news yesterday: I've been invited to a symposium and curator's tour in ( Read more... )

Yesterday I managed to slip back into bad habits of sleeping too much and wandering round, dazed, unaware of what to do with my free time. I don't want to do that again. However I did manage to watch two films. Spoilers!

Metropolis (1927)
Ok, what a bunch of Catholic bullshit. Once we get past the amazing visuals and how brilliant an actress Brigitte ( Read more... )

Right now, just this second, I'm perfect. I have a boiling hot coffee next to me, using the free internet in a more-organic-than-thou-raw-foods-cafe (seriously. EVERYTHING is made of raw stuff. EVERYTHING is made out of something else. 'The raw falafel? Sure, it's made from ground beansprouts and cumin. Tastes just the same, just more raw and ( Read more... )

The Guardian yesterday told me that Gordon Brown actually telephones in response to some of the people who write to No. 10. Apparently he's been doing it since '97. Can you imagine? I would have a fit.

- You what? Piss off, Alan, your Scottish accent is crap.
- Noo, really, I'd like to tell ye what we're doing aboot the issue ye raised in yer letter ( Read more... )

What's the point of having flatmates if they have no cheese to steal? That's what I want to know.

Apart from saving UK womankind's right to choose with Alison yesterday, I also went to babysit my little nephew. I can't believe he's less than a year old. It doesn't make sense to me. He's HUGE. Things Joseph loves: remote controls (eating them). That ( Read more... )