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18april2007
had a friendslist reshuffle. lots of bands i like are playing the camden crawl this week: the whip, vincent vincent &the villains, the hot puppies, simple kid, pete and the pirates... i dithered and now it's mainly sold out. probably sensible. though i am kinda leaning towards going to Chalk @scala on saturday....
and some certain people have had a shedload of publicity lately and so got the push (just to make way for others, not cos i've gone off them, mind)
MIKA is playing somerset house this summer, with Patrick Wolf, no less. damn. i had said i wouldn't go see either for a while.... so i won't. but it will be amazing. and i still want to go see someone there but it should be someone i haven't seen before...
this is a little tricky isn't it? i dont carry "heroes" around in my head, at least not consciously.. so i'll start with a couple. this list may expand, or may only ever be "today's heroes"
Nick Cave
hang on. maybe this should be under "music". i mean the ol' gothster isn't exactly my main role model. but i was thinking of him today, i came across an old tape.
favorite albums: "Tender Prey" and "Boatmans Call"
slowly goes the night (off the former) is one of my fave pop songs of all time. perfect in every way.
brompton oratory (off the latter) is sublime. i went looking for it, mistakenly, in brompton cemetery one morning. there were squirrels and autumn leaves and victorian gravestones. i found out later where it is but i've never been.
Wolfgang Tillmans
i went to see his big retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern a couple of years ago "if one thing matters everything matters" and it was marvellous. exhibitions are funny things. you pay your money and wander round, sometimes an hour, sometimes two. and they often show you new things, new ways of seeing, new ideas, stories.. and often these things feel important, but usually they are significant only within the context of the show, you take them outside into the world of here and now, your life, and you try and use the ideas, maybe, and find they are not so relevant, or it is just a detail.
well there is no way of knowing at the time, and that is the funny thing. by the time you realise the significance of what you have seen, it is months later, when some shows stay vivid in your mind and others are put away in tissue paper in a drawer in your mind, with the catalogue you find you never open.
well this show, needless to say, was really, particularly, significant for me. not only was the work great but it was the idea that it was everything, a lifetime, in different sizes and themes and nothing else, 6x4 prints stuck straight to the wall, a massive poster size portrait because it should be so, a room of chemical abstracts, big, "fine" art style.. i had been told again and again and saw myself that the only thing to do is to edit, select, edit again, focus, be singular, you cant have everything in it's different way, you must decide..
here was someone saying to me that it's ok - everything matters. i was so glad.