darn it
Looks like I won’t be swaying to the sound of Keane next month. Bummer.
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Russia comes to the Hollywood Bowl
Courtesy of a German conductor. This weekend has been Tchaikovsky-tastic at the Hollywood Bowl: two nights of the Russe with fireworks. The evening started rousingly with T’s Cossack dance: your steroetypical populist folksy tune made classical. It set the scene for a evening of entertaining cheesiness. Now, don’t get me wrong. I lurve Tchaikovsky, and […]
Hammer for Free
Not so much one that bangs nails into walls, but one called the Armand Hammer Museum in LA. (Not the Arm and Hammer, as misunderstood by a friend. In-joke for those who live in the States.) The museum has had a summer of free-ness. Free rock, free exhibitions, and now, free jazz. We had a […]
A review
Furry lobster attacks tree Originally uploaded by framboise. Of events in the rather dullllife of D and P. Backtracking from the weekend just past. Sunday, 2nd of July, was spent in a leisurely fashion, starting with a large cappucino and pain au chocolat (for D) and almond croissant (for P) at Amandine Patisserie on Wilshire […]
Commencement
Of their graduate lives… It’s graduation weekend at UCLA. And what a difference it is from the more sedate ceremonies at Edinburgh. A vast class of over 2000 students “walked” yesterday in UCLA’s basketball stadium to lots of cheers and wolf-whistles. It was a little more like a basketball game than what I’ve been through. […]
You must be kidding
One of those weird papers that pop up in my PubCrawler searches: Effect of explosive noise on gastrointestinal transit and plasma levels of polypeptide hormones. Translation: Rats can get so scared they shit themselves. P.S. I’m not dead; just depressed.
Conservation, Texas-style
I’ve always thought of Texas as a truly alien land, possibly biased from an early age from watching those odd “dream” episodes of Dallas. But this takes the biscuit. Something I’ve learned since arriving here is that the American male is always right. This seems to be a country built on the alpha male (not […]
swamped
busy busy at work… no lunch for the wicked all this week, nor much of a dinner, so no food posts or photos. 😦 It’s the lunar new year tomorrow, and although I was kinda excited about celebrating it in a city with a large Chinese population when I first arrived, it looks like I’ll […]
CDs, tapes, LPs, MP3s; they all have a place in my life
Have today’s teens even touched an LP? Proof my family is weird #567: My dad threw out all his records when cassette tapes became popular, instantly regreting it years later when the quality started deteriorating. And when CDs first appeared, he immediately jumped on the digital bandwagon, and re-purchased his favourite Gramaphone records. This meant […]
Fathers 4 Justice soon to be classified as a "terror organisation" in the US
From BBC news: Extreme elements bring down Fathers 4 Justice. Thought it was funny, yet so telling of US networks’ propensity to overdramatise events, that the alleged plot to kidnap Leo Blair made it to headline news last night. (Despite being a minor story on BBC news, and that the alleged plot was nothing more […]
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