14
August 05
[this week index]
Tris
A blur for recent weeks - images of flowers and a coffin, strains of Bowie's 'Prettiest Star,' and a new, final clarity about the album. Paranoia is ever present. Money melts away faster than drummers. This summer is very weird; clouds and silver linings, nothing is simple. A case in point was Thursday - the indignity of watching one's carefully constructed drum tracks collapse in stage vibration, standing fucked and feeding back in barely controlled concentrated rage, attended by the curiosity of breakdancing hecklers and the astonishing compensating rush of Alexandra's performance. Even in my stillness I saw her deliver 'I Don't Want You' locked in a bilious contortionist's arc and 'Criminal Mastermind' (tight and crushingly heavy despite/because of our onstage despair) as a wired stage-stalking dancer; though I failed to notice the breathtaking twist- and swinging round that pesky stage-inhibiting pole to the close of 'We The Lonely Ones' that by every account transfixed the entire venue. And then I walked outside and somebody else was getting a parking ticket.
I heartily recommend a listen to Stevie Wonder's 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered', by the way.
6 August 05 Moss-moist eyes, Roman Holiday and ringing...
27 July 05 Begging,
borrowing and stealing. And gowns...
22 July 05 Tris's
"You're Generally Indie" quiz result...
21 July 05 Test-Icicles,
overeducated rightwing baboon...
20 July 05 Buffalo
66, red shoes and a new frock...
12 July 05 Diversions,
hair conditioner, pots of tea and idiots...
1 July 05 Angela
Carter, exotic fruits and pink person-stripes...
29 June 05 Dresden
Dolls, Tori Amos, enticing flatmate...
28 June 05 Welly
welding, ghost trains, vaginas, bitching...
16 June 05 Posh
biscuits; the courting potential of the library...
15 June 05 Martin
Amis, chicklit and money problems...
8 June 05 Rabies
jabs and the History of Western Philosophy...