I suppose it comes as no surprise that I love the new Björk album, but wow! What a wonderful little package. The vision of it amazes me: the mash-up of science and myth that makes both magical. I will not rest until I’ve seen one of the shows. Currently she’s playing in Iceland, but I…
Category: London
Talk About the Weather
Everywhere I’ve lived people have always said, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” Even in Houston, which flabbergasted me because nine or ten months of the year it is relentlessly hot and humid with only the regular 3pm brief thunderstorm to break the hellfire monotony. It was slightly more true in Michigan,…
Snapshots of London
I got to play Sarah Angliss’ theremin 🙂 I’ve hung out with the decadent aesthetes and enjoyed the summer in London and met up with friends and caught the Bard of Salford, too.
Review: Terry Gilliam’s The Damnation of Faust
I had a lot of trepidation about the ENO production of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust; not because Gilliam hadn’t done opera before, which seemed to put some people off—after all what better to do with an over-sized imagination than put it to use in the heightened spectacle of opera?—but because of the trailer and…
Running to Catch Up
That’s a misleading title as I plan for this to be a very lazy Sunday. I may wander out to a museum this afternoon and get myself a Sunday roast dinner, but that’s about as far as my ambitions run at present. I often have the thought of how little time I have in London…
Town & Country
I will get to the Fall concert, but anon. Earlier in the day I had a fabulous lunch with Hannah Priest who ran the Werewolf Women Conference last fall and will be part of the Gender and Punishment Medieval Conference in January (which I’ll probably go to since I’ll be near by). We had a…
BitchBuzz: Sarah Angliss/Spacedog
Looking forward to catching some of these performances in London: I find her work absolutely fascinating. Sarah Angliss and “Spacedog” By K.A. Laity Musician, engineer, writer Sarah Angliss has embarked on a round of performances under the aegis of Spacedog. Her unique combination of nerdy science knowledge, inspired music and automata brings together technology, history and the…
The Little Video of Calm
In the midst of the mad swirl of our lives, we all need a little moment of calm. Lacking The Little Book of Calm, I try to conjure up soothing images of relaxing situations. Because I love mudlarking along the Thames, I took this video to remind me of those moments of calm. Of course…
Purposeful
I started out the day purposefully: I got a needed oil change, ran to the store and then came to campus. There things began to bog down a bit, not only because there was a lot of email to get to and a call from the Dean but then there was the printer not working….