The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Vol. III)

The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Vol. III)
Maugham was a witty fellow. This collection of short stories features the British agent Ashenden – who it is said inspired Ian Fleming’s Bond. { particularly in Ian Fleming’s accounts of James Bond’s dealings with M}
In any case, they revolve around the First World War – [...]

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Events and Gigs

Steve Salfield: Jazz

Saturday 19th August 2006: Jazz in a summer garden
3-6 pm. Vicarage gardens, Baslow.
Steve with friends Sarah (vocals) Chris (piano) Bennett and Geoff Pearson on double bass will be making things swing at a unique afternoon of Jazz and Song in the lovely Vicarage Gardens, Baslow.
All proceeds will go to Village AiD, a Bakewell [...]

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Notepad: I’ve been reading..

The Holy Blood – Holy Grail – Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (1982)

Written as a follow up to a BBC documentary, this is the book where the authors presented an ‘audacious’ and groundbreaking hypothesis : theories which of course have achieved notoriety in the shape of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. [...]

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Bill Viola@ Haunch of Venison: Love/Death The Tristan Project

Love/Death: The Tristan Project

Now showing for free – at two venues: Haunch of Venison Yard and St. Olaf’s College – Tooley St. ( or what used to be the College) [ Adjacent to Tower Bridge Rd, London, SE1 2JR - nearest tube is London Bridge]
The Love/Death: Tristan Project is a twelve piece collaborative project [...]

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The Tel Aviv Protests in favour of Peace

via Daniels Counter – ( Not in the news! Tel Aviv: Anti War protest)

This was interesting – Daniel highlights the anti-war protests in Israel on Sunday 16th July – which the mainstream media hardly covered. Also on the 21st of July in Haifa.
“This featured in the Israeli papers Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot, but not [...]

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Photomontage at the Getty

Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage 1920 – 1938 is currently exhibiting at the Getty Center. An illustration of the power of images and imagery. Heartfield worked in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the World Wars, using his medium to represent the chaos – social and political instability of the time.
The exhibition is running till [...]

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Beautiful Bodies

beautiful bodies – laura shaine cunningham
painfully honest and reflexive. i don't often read too many books that deal honestly with certain aspects of 'female friendship' – the group dynamics, peer pressure, the bully of the group that no-one actually likes but are too kind and diplomatic to do anything about. it reveals the frustration that [...]

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Green Tea

Green Tea and Other Tales by Sheridan LeFanu
Irish writer born in 1814 well known for his ghost stories and supernaturalist fiction. M.R. James was a great fan of his work. He published his vampire story Carmilla in 1872 – predating Bram Stoker's Dracula – ( it is theorized that Stoker was possibly influenced by Carmilla).
the [...]

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Persian Pictures

Persian Pictures by Gertrude Bell (1892) London: Ernest Benn Ltd.
her first published work : a poetic travelogue full of sensuous imagery. after finishing at Oxford, Gertrude Bell went out to Tehran in May 1892 where her uncle had a posting.
"Here in the dust and the sunshine is an epitome of the living East, and standing [...]

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Welcome

ah. another outlet. welcome to random thoughts and writings and please prepare to be surprised.

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