To the new First Family in the White House!
Friday 23 January 2009
Monday 19 January 2009
Martin Luther King Day
I had a very weird day today! Obama was out there painting walls blue and I went to Newcastle to see two shows at UNN in their university galleries then to the Baltic to see the Fluxus exhibition and Yoko Ono. So far so good.
Then to Brighton Grove to an Asian grocers where we bought spices, herbs, mango pulp, coconut cream, green chili paste, baby aubergines, lovely bulbous garlic and ginger, okra/ladies fingers?!, lentils for dal etc. After that we had a delicious meal at Komal, where we had not been before, which is just around the corner.
Then off to the BBC where Neil did an interview for an Irish Arts radio program on Elizabeth Alexander the Inaugural poet, in the meanwhile I sat reading the New York Review of Books in the lobby getting distracted by Eastenders on and off.
What made the day weird was going to Tesco at the end of it to do a major shop! I cannot deal with that place, I detest large supermercados...yet we were in there for what seemed like hours getting the basics. Like kitkats...
Anyhow driving back home in the dark the sky was very dark and the stars crystal clear. Just as we got to Otterburn however it started snowing and we drove on virgin roads with what looked like stardust on them. Beautiful!
Cannot wait for tomorrow-let the sun shine!
Then to Brighton Grove to an Asian grocers where we bought spices, herbs, mango pulp, coconut cream, green chili paste, baby aubergines, lovely bulbous garlic and ginger, okra/ladies fingers?!, lentils for dal etc. After that we had a delicious meal at Komal, where we had not been before, which is just around the corner.
Then off to the BBC where Neil did an interview for an Irish Arts radio program on Elizabeth Alexander the Inaugural poet, in the meanwhile I sat reading the New York Review of Books in the lobby getting distracted by Eastenders on and off.
What made the day weird was going to Tesco at the end of it to do a major shop! I cannot deal with that place, I detest large supermercados...yet we were in there for what seemed like hours getting the basics. Like kitkats...
Anyhow driving back home in the dark the sky was very dark and the stars crystal clear. Just as we got to Otterburn however it started snowing and we drove on virgin roads with what looked like stardust on them. Beautiful!
Cannot wait for tomorrow-let the sun shine!
Sunday 18 January 2009
Life is IMMENSE
Pity us
By the sea
On the sands
So briefly
I am beginning a new project with the new year, something I like doing very much. This is to be a DVD of the poet Samuel Menashe who lives in NYC. Bloodaxe Books is publishing a collected this year 2009 and the DVD will accompany the book. I am calling it Life is Immense which is a line from one from his poems. I have hours of video from visits made to his abode in Manhattan last September and from this material I will try my best to create a kind of visit to see him in his surrounding reciting poems from his heart and talking. The time spent with him was like being in the presence. Time out of time, very focussed and he was projecting as if he was talking to the future, beaming himself... Very special. I was awed and very honoured.
I feel his presence here as I work and I thank him for his generosity. It is blessed work this. A way to contribute to a time which needs wisdom and peace and a slowing down in order to listen.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
