4
May 06
[this week index]
Alexandra
I’ve never had gnocchi like it.
Usually I would rather feast on a smorgasbord of Biggie Smalls’s balls than eat gnocchi yet this was not the sort that sets up camp illegally in the stomach for months, annoying the neighbours by lighting fires, littering and laying cross-eyed claim to the local virgins. No. These little marvels swooned in the mouth like plump Victorian maidens, albeit ones basted with garlic and laid on a bed of lightly addled vegetables.
I don’t get to eat so beautifully often but having been given a gift that allowed several visits to the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill we decided to crown one of them with a pre-theatre feed. It is fortunate that we did as it was far more entertaining (and not only due to sitting near the kitchen and therefore being able to hear the chef ask “where’s the fucking parmesan”) than the ballet which was notable for two reasons:
1. the inconsequentiality of its first and third acts and
2. the buttocks of the male corps de ballet which resembled the Mitchell brothers’s heads bent close in prayer.
But that wasn’t all we saw this week. No, no, no. I’ve had more culture than a veteran candida sufferer, what with imbibing a Mendelsohn exhibition, an opera with the largest revolutionaries on the run ever seen and two comedians returning to their home waters for a charity gig that would leave locals gasping as they remembered how to laugh. In short. The De La Warr; what is it good for? The view, potato pasta and transvestite patrons. Ha.
Reading:
History of Shit – Dominique Laporte, Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anaïs Nin – Elizabeth Podnieks, The Sea – John Banville, The Wolves in the Walls – Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
Watching:
Tosca – English Touring Opera, Coppélia – Moscow Ballet Company, Eddie Izzard and Jo Brand, Green Wing, my cat running off with my remaining mini egg.
Listening to:
The Ring in One Day – Radio 3, Japan, Hole.
Eating:
Gnocchi with Fuxley; potato wedges and mayonnaise with Heidi Heelz; Egg, chips and nut roast with 572 veg with The Black Tulips.
Feeling:
Full.
Mulling Over:
Particle physics. S'easy if you stand on your head and engage the pelvic floor.
earlier posts
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26 April 06 It's
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25 April 06 An
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21 April 06
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20 April 06 Interfrastically
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11 April 06 Escalator
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10 April 06 I
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24 March 06 LOOK
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2 March 06 Pummelled
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2 March 06 Cinnamony
imbecilic Mappy Pong arcadia...
2 March 06 Get
him real drunk, make him dance...
12 February 06 But what is the value of x?...
24 January 06
Drunkenness,
vomiting and 69...
15 January 06 Candlesticks
buffed, underlings nobbed...
10 January 06 Fencing,
pipe-smoking and procrastination...
10 January 06 High-pitched,
mid-volume screaming...
4 January 06 Awkward
midriff, shaven headed and dandy...
20 December 05
All
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16 December 05 Officials,
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9 December 05 Shitdisco,
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8 December 05 Happy
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30 November 05
Stars
and sequins twinkling as you tinkle...
29 November 05 A
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22 November 05 Geoffrey
and Geoffrey's boyfriend...
21 November 05 Vaginatron,
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2 November 05 'What
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26 October 05
Lengthy
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26 October 05 Jesus.
Forced change is a right fucker...
26 October 05 The
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26 October 05 Unfortunate
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12 October 05 "OI'LL
KICK YER COHNT IN", etcetera...
10 October 05 Repopulated
by a bunch of unpalatable goths...
5 October 05 I
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4 October 05 Nostalgic-optimistic-romantic
tragical-comical-...
27 September 05
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schnapps/morse code machine...
19 September 05
Extra-head
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14 September 05
Buggery
in oil, magician's box, foreign gent...
12 September 05
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image capture, DJ Scotch Egg...
1 September 05 'Rhinoceros',
Camber Sands, vain hope...
26 August 05
Valpolicella-quaffing
Satanic Barbie, scones...
22 August 05 Fine
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18 August 05 Bruises
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14 August 05 Bile,
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6 August 05 Moss-moist
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27 July 05 Begging,
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22 July 05 Tris's
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21 July 05 Test-Icicles,
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20 July 05 Buffalo
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12 July 05 Diversions,
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1 July 05 Angela
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29 June 05 Dresden
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28 June 05 Welly
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16 June 05 Posh
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15 June 05 Martin
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8 June 05 Rabies
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