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Carnivale
Another amazing television show, which Bennett and Merrie told me to see: Carnivale. A shame it ran for only two years before cancellation (but no wonder, either, it was so expensive and elaborate). There's a great deal to say about it, of course – a Gnostic battle of good and evil, brilliant characterization and complex…
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Summer day. Reading in the heat of noon I grow sleepy, put my head On my arms and fall asleep. I forget to close the window And the warm air blows in And covers my body with petals. Yuan Mei, 1716-1797, translated by Kenneth Rexroth
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Marking
Marking many, many first-year exams in twentieth-century musics… but, for the first time ever, with the help of two postgraduates, which makes life vastly easier. There are the usual glitches and amusing misstatements… although it's a pretty solid class (only one fail thus far!) and most of the exams are pretty coherent. However, at least…
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Hot / James & time / Dollhouse / Göteborg
It is actually almost hot out: in the low seventies (Fahrenheit – even after living in Centigrade countries for more than twelve years now, I just cannot think in Centigrade, in spite of its logic). In California, of course, it would be merely a normal day out of, say, eight months of the year in…
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Light and air
After an amazingly unproductive weekend – even for me (my excuses: last week was full of meetings, this week has too much student work that needs marking, some of which is good but much of which is distinctly disappointing) – I'm avoiding everything, and everyone, by looking through vast books of architecture. 1000 x European…
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Palermo Shooting
The title of Wim Wenders' 2008 film. Not very successful, widely regarded as pretentious and self-indulgent; and it's true that the script isn't subtle or surprising (who would have thought Death would be so talkative and sententious?). But this isn't a review… for real film people, it may be a failure; but for me it's…
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