February 2008
25 posts
the week that was
This week has been busy - started the week in London, flew to Vienna, Madrid and ended in Berlin for work. I have achieved something significant - I finished Marcel Prousts brilliant collection of novels ‘In Search of Lost Time’. The book comes full circle connecting the 1st novel to the 7th. I just want to start reading it again. Berlin is lovely - walked along the wall ‘east...
“The End”
– Marcel Proust - Time Regained
The Best 50 Albums of 2007 / The Hype Machine →
“A delicious pleasure had invaded me, isolated me, without my having any notion...”
– Marcel Proust: the dueling madeleines, Proust vs Scott Moncrieff vs Lydia Davis
this week
This week i have been to Cannes, France for MIDEM the annual music industry get together and got food poisoning from scallops … no more fish! We got Portishead tickets for April … with a new album out soon this will be a great concert. We also have tickets for Bjork in April a week later. I’ve almost finished reading Prousts ‘the fugitive’ book 5 of 7 … yeah! ...
Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear a meaning
For lack of another interpretation on this site, here is mine… I hope someone points out to me the things I’ve added in and missed out of the meaning, because there may be some :-) Anyway, I think it’s a discussion on the nature of freedom, wrapped up in a kind of ‘creation narrative’. The name Ursala comes directly from the fact that ‘Ursa’ is Latin for...