[originally an email to the morgueatlarge list, sent June 2003]
This is necessarily bitsy. But I’m sending it anyway.
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I didn’t make it to Michael Franti and Spearhead’s gig in Glasgow. It was sold out before I found out. I am considering Ice T in August, however. In consolation I bought the new album, and after one listen I’m not sure how much I like it. Hmm. Live he still goes wild though. So. Interesting.
In 1997 the three people in the world I most wanted to meet were Joss Whedon, Michael Franti and John Ralston Saul. I don’t know who they’d be now, but I still would be up for dinner with those three. At least I’ve hugged Franti.
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Lucy’s sister Miranda came to stay the weekend before last, for, like, virtually no hours. But even so briefly it was nice to have someone else in my living space again, first time in months. If anyone wants to come stay, you’re most welcome. (Although I still don’t know where I’m living when and at the moment there’s not much but hard carpet to sleep on but what the hey.)
The other cool thing was it reminded me how nice a town to show off this is. Edinburgh with the cool skyline and all. wellington, I must admit, is also a nice town to show off, I’ve just never had the opportunity.
So come visit. (Although I’m starting to get booked out for the festival time…)
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I have finished writing the film script I’ve been messing around with (Blair – yes, that one) and my new novel’s edging towards 70,000 words, which is slightly worrying considering the absence of plot. Productivity is still good anyway, rattling along at a fine clip. Other things are on the burner as well. Feels good. All in longhand. Who’d have thought? Harlan Ellison would be proud.
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I’ve been getting my taste of home each weekend on Channel 5 with ‘The Tribe’ and, once, the dire ‘Revelations’. It pleases me more than ever to see a smoking metal barrel outside Central City Plaza in the Hutt as a representation of Earth’s Dark Future. Plus most weeks I see someone I know.
(foreigners – the tribe is a fairly successful youth tv show made by a UK company in my home town, so all the locations look very familiar. see www.tribeworld.com for more. ‘revelations’ is the same without the
successful part. the tribe is occasionally quite good and I have an irrational love for it anyway.)
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What I am reading:
Jose Saramago’s ‘The Cave’
Chris Ware’s ‘Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid in the World’
What is in my bag but hasn’t been read any yet but hey, it makes me look all intellectual and stuff:
Michel Foucault’s ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge’
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I was introduced to ‘Kin’ last Wednesday. ‘Kin’ is a poetry/prose/music open mic night and it’s very laid back and filled with great people and I’m going again. good to be in the hum of creative interaction and be reminded of the power of words and the energy of attention, of how life is made up of moments and everything that means, how that means everything. definitely going back.
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roleplayers in wellington – check out http://central.rpg.net.nz/ and the growing Wellington rpg community. it has a lot of potential.
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still worried about world events. still convinced there’s a way forward.
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peace to you
morgue