I'll be your parallelogram yeah, I'll be your rhomboid...
2012-05-13 ~ 10:05 p.m.
More art history. I'm in the midst of my landscape painting module. I'm stretching things to the limit by writing on fairy painting, albeit fairy painting with landscape and animals in it, possibly including fairies mugging an owl, and a snail brutally skewering a little elf-type thing with its antler/spike/antenna thing. I think my broad conclusion is that British fairy painting collapsed under the weight of its contradictions, which works pretty well as a conclusion to absolutely everything. This is my list of things I came across while researching my essay that seemed more exciting than what I was meant to be researching
NOTICE OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION AT PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA. Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany; Mar 1826; 18, British Periodicals pg. 286
ANATOMY OF DRUNKENNESS. Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine; Apr 1828; 23, 137; British Periodicals pg. 481 Review of Robert Macnish, 1828
SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. The Literary gazette : A weekly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts; Feb 28, 1829; 632; British Periodicals pg. 148 Describes a cherokee newspaper
Curious Exhumation of a Corpse. The Weekly entertainer and west of England miscellany; Apr 4, 1814 Perfectly preserved, possibly with rum.
Successful Method of raising Onions, read before the Horticultural Society. The Weekly entertainer and west of England miscellany; Nov 14, 1814; 54
Last Thursday night was the historic last-ever quiz night at our most regular venue. They're closing so they can stripping out all their ridiculous old nautical themed decor, unwind the ropes from around the pillars, wipe off the message that's been on the blackboard by the door for the past 10 years, and maybe it'll give the quiz master the chance to find some music that isn't Move Like Jagger by Maroon 5. Although he was doing the prog rock in the music section of the quiz last night. It's supposed to be re-opening in a few weeks with a wider range of beers and doubtless higher prices. They put the beer up by 1p per pint just to get things started. But the bar has been through a variety of managers, a fire (which we missed), a power cut (which we were there for), and several billion attempts to guess the identity of Black Eyed songs, and all serving mediocre beer at mediocre prices with variable service and mediocre to bad music. Farewell!
The latest Lovefilm effort was French comedy Micmacs, which combines many different types of silliness, some very enjoyable, some very trying, and some very French. I just watched Michelle Williams film Wendy and Lucy, which is ridiculously depressing, one of those films where you're just waiting the whole time for everybody to be murdered/raped/kidnapped and sent off to medical research laboratories/dog fighting.
A couple of weeks ago I went to the new sculpture show at the Modern Art Gallery. A sometimes strange definition of sculpture, but some excellent work. Yay for Rodin, who as an artist who made more prototypes and maquettes than monumental works is ideally suited for a provincial exhibition. Some wacky videos from British pop/conceptual artist Bruce McLean. And various materials on Allan Kaprow, the conceptual/performance/whatever artist and inventor of the "Happening". I always thought he was some kind of nutty hippy, but the conceptions were as elegant and rigorous as anything John Cale was doing, things like building fake airfields and giant ice-castles in the streets. I'm not sure if this is art that looks more refined and elegant in the past but would seem grubby and messed-up and stupid if it was happening now.
I would have thought that more things had happened to me, but upon closer examination it seems that is not the case.
I'll be your parallelogram yeah, I'll be your rhomboid... - 2012-05-13
It tells a different story and I just can't believe that story - 2012-04-19
And the only heart that I'm breaking is mine - 2012-03-23
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something - 2012-03-11
Bigger than the Beatles (not vertically) - 2012-03-03
mail note tunes cabbages sprouts
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