It is impossible to write silence well. Obviously, there are the absence of words, the complete failure to respond to a thing, but that also doesn’t seem to really cover it. The irony of much of life is that some things need to be said, and yet language hasn’t yet mustered an appropriate way to …
Category Archive: Misc.
Mar
14
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Mar
02
Nudity
This will be, to everyone’s relief, a photoless entry. So, in the evenings I work a follow spot. Follow spotting is one of those things where you really have to concentrate on what you’re looking at. There’s just no getting round it – if the command is to track that chipmunk, then that chipmunk gets …
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Feb
27
Epidemiology
I originally thought that epidemiology had something to do with the skin. Epidermis? But no, dermatology, duh… and there’s my knowledge of Latin fully exhausted. It turns out to be the study of how disease is transmitted in large population groups – epidemics, innit! - and therefore not really something I’d talk about much in …
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Feb
19
Frankenstein – Pt 2.
I finally saw this as an actual audience member, from an actual seat in the actual auditorium… http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/62808/productions/frankenstein.html … and it was genuinely stonking. Very, very rare that I find myself finding it hard to breathe in theatre. Very, very, very rare that I feel my own heart racing. Absolutely brilliant. Go see!
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Feb
18
Theatre Uncut
So, about five minutes after I find myself fuming with rage at general government cuts, I also find myself involved in a project which deals very specifically with one section of government cuts – the arts. I’m lighting designer on a series of short plays being performed at the Southwark Playhouse Vaults in mid-March, and …
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Feb
17
Government Cuts
So, as established, I’m not exactly politics woman; I’m not an economist (despite the three years of LSE… history, people, history rocks!) and I’m not a member of a political party. My ideology, if we can call what I have such a thing, is probably leftish liberal. But again, to say that I have an …
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Jan
25
Gave Blood!
For anyone who’s been following this blog at all, you’ll find in previous entries a meditation on just how terrified I am of giving blood. And therefore, as something of a narrative closure to that particular entry, let me take this opportunity to say that right here, right now, I feel insufferably smug. Which is …
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Jan
18
Investment Sentiment
I dearly wish I had a better picture than this to show you: I saw it in a bank, naturally enough, and asked permission to take a photo. It was on public display at the time, so I guess was doing a sort of public information service anyhow – it just tickled some part inside …
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Jan
11
Give Blood?
Blogs are strange places. They’re kept for so many different reasons – as a digital diary, to share thoughts and opinions, to meet new and exciting people and, of course, every now and then, to talk at great and waffly length about books and stuff. I must admit, when I first started keeping a blog, …
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Jan
03
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Good grief, how I have limped through life without seeing this, who can say? But it’s okay. Things are better now. For all those who, like me, didn’t know and wouldn’t have imagined, Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog came on the internet during the writer’s strike in Hollywood a while back, and is… … well, …
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