Ohmygod! Happy birthday, Alice!!

Would anybody like to come and see The Blow, with me, in the Luminaire, late April?

I was up late writing a letter to Peter Brook: 
The jist being that I can't complete essays about him, because, despite being wonderful, his book says absolutely nothing of substance. And, how do you write about the consistent 'style' of someone who prides himself on spontaneous exploration, and who argues that one cannot create the same production ( Read more... )

Oh, also. My friends Erica, Frazer and Ciaran are putting on a show.

If you live in the UK you should check it out here:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=155441951

and then come and see me there!

i remember what i was going to say:

there's a hole in my life and it's shaped like tara b.zar.

i miss her words!

today is, apparently, (according to some environmental factor or other) the most depressing day of 2007. 
but this morning, in english, we read blake:

little lamb,
here i am...
let me pull
your soft wool
let me kiss
your soft face;
merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.

- and it gave me a silly loopy smile. and, though samey in some respects, still ( Read more... )

... Or do philosophers, like the mythical people on the island, take in each other's washing? Are they the only readers of each other's books? 
For I take it, a man who understands philosophy is inevitably irritated into writing it.

Almost 3 in the morning; I've been attempting to sleep since eleven and now I'm so sick and dizzy with tiredness it's distorting everything, the wooden chair inflates and deflates beneath me. Experiencing insomnia due to mind-flooding, hungriness and generally uninteresting anxieties. Finished a book, started a second, saw two eyes staring at me ( Read more... )

New Year's party at Ciaran and Frazer's tonight and I've got nothing at all to wear. And not in a moaning "well i've got like three dresses and this really nice pair of shoes but apart from that i've got nothing"-type way. I mean, I don't want to wear jeans and a shirt to a party on New Year. 
I'm scheduling a massive room/ wardrobe clearout for ( Read more... )

I feel as if I ought to do one of those yearly overview... things. This year has been stunning.