Monday, October 30, 2006

• Currently Listening Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 4 see related

  I'm watching Six Feet Under with my housemate and her boyfriend.  It's weird, it's about undertakers and stuff. 

  So anyway, things on thia side of the Atantic haven't slowed down much.  There's lots to do for school, and then there's this baby grand piano that's chillin' in my living room next to me.  Ever heard of the website www.gumtree.com?  It's great, you can get stuff for free.  We'd been looking for a piano and this lovely guy called Colin (who is the music director at E15) had an ad up for a 5' Klingmann baby grand.  And, well, I went and saw it, rang some lovely Polish piano movers and wham bam thank you ma'am I own a baby grand.  It's being tuned on Thursday morning.  You know, that whole pianos go out of tune when they're moved thing.  And wowee, is that true.

  Anyway, I'm taking classes from a writer called Rebecca Lenkiewicz, whose plays include The Night Season and Shoreditch Madonna and so on -- she works from the National Theatre.  The lectures have been brilliant, and I keep wanting to go to a cafe and drink lots of coffee and write loads but then I have to go to the world's most uninspiring lecture EVER -- performance and critical studies.  The name of the lecturer is Grizzled Ferret, for our purposes.  She's like a character out of the comedy sketch show Little Britain.  It's depressing.  There's only a couple more lectures from her this term anyway.  I dunno, she means well and all, she just has no ability to lecture.

  Wow, this show is written like shit.

  I found a salsa partner as well, totally camp boy called Ollie.  He's lovely.  He's flaming, which makes him an excellent partner for salsa in particular, as he knows what his hips are and how to use them.  I've gotta look up Bar Salsa in Soho and see when we can get a lesson and a dance night in.  I miss dance a lot.  We don't have any movement class this term.

  I have also been appointed head of Admin for our festival project in June.  We have a whole year to plan it and then at the end of the year we put on a performance festival.  It's what I performed Synchronicity in last year.

  I have to go do some work.  Jeez.

  I totally forgot about the time change as well.  Matt called me from the tube and said, I know why all the clocks at yours disagreed with my computer.  I said really, why's that?  I felt very clever.

  Anyway, must go and do something.  Kisses!

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