Wes Anderson

For a long time now, I have longed to wake up one day and be Margot Tenenbaum. I hope Fantastic Mr Fox will be good. Don't fail me Wes, The Darjeeling made me peep.

Lucian Freud the early years in Hazlitt's

pity it's over now.. sketches of birds, sea life, faces, experiments in paint. cool, telling works that preempt his famous lumpy thunderous freaky portraits. The artist who most successfully disregarded the major movements in modern art in the 20th century?

Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel in the Royal Opera House

We went to Hansel und Gretel in Covent Garden last night. Our tickets were in the stage right of the circle, and we peered over the orchestra pit. It was amazing watching the orchestra so closely. Opera is so strange how it's really unlike theatre, yet it resembles it. All of the elements of theatre seem only there to accomodate the music. You know? The storyline of this opera was really light hearted and utterly changed from the Grimm fairytale. The parents in this were just randy and stupid, whereas they are meant to abandon the children in the forest for example.

It's strange how the opera house is really only for adults, although this children's story is used here and told in the fluffiest, most lighthearted way. There was a cringeworthy tableau involving christmas trees, teddybears and presents for instance! And to prove this point, a spanish mother and child sat near us, naturally enough the child was restless and made quite a bit of noise. Their neighbour stood up at the interval and scolded them. HA.

Conrad Viedt in The Man Who Laughs. Sexy.

Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality

exciting... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/11/actor-slits-throat

A call for the end of cute cat pictures

These kittens are not cute. I am very much a cat woman, well before my years :( But these kittens are not cute. The one on the left looks terrified, and the one on the right looks like it's just been woken up, is hungry, wants the one on the left to get off it's back, and it needs a piss. Not cute. Does this sound like I'm angry? I'm not. Bye.

Marina Carr

Herrow. I went to see Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow in the Peacock in Dublin during the theatre festival before last. Olwyn Foueré was amazing. I went with me ma. Marina Carr's new work, The Cordelia Dream is on in London as of this week and I really wanna go. The end. I love how this press picture evokes the Pieta.

...because it's exactly what the characters are not

Mission Statement

ok. well we're only on day one.
i think the blog will be mostly about theatre and visual art.
with the odd gag about knobs and stuff. BC.

Fernsehturm Berlin

I can't wait. To go up the TV Tower in Berlin. Thanks Devin

Dayanita Singh, Frith Street Gallery, Indian Highway in the Serpentine

This is the PR shot for the new exhibition Indian Highway in the Serpentine Gallery in London. I went to see this artist's show in the Frith Street gallery this weekend and I found a great little book she made about chairs. Beautifully simple shots of groups of chairs...

Robin Rhode

This was good. In the Hayward Gallery recently. http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/minisite/robin-rhode

At work, I am a piece of meat

we're producing a catalogue - im the Editor (COUGH) and the production manager(aged 40, bit of a lads lad) .

we've got the printing company manager guy in today. and chris brought me in to introduce me.

they both just looked at my tits and legs. then chris said "when bave and i come down to pass on press (three day period spent in the printers away passing on press, checking all the printing is correct) i hope you'll come out and show us a really big time"

yes. a really big time. they both just smirked at each other.

not a good time.

a big time.

yes they'll show you a big time.

now run along, stop distracting the men from their work.

bye boys! scampers off. pulls down skirt slightly.