Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

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admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:25:12 +0000

…perhaps. I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter these days (for others’ benefit more than my own) but yesterday was A Very Good Twitter Day. My Scottish-born friend recited Robert Burns’ Address to a Haggis. Then there was Radiohead demonstrating the purpose of reading books (via @rageabc). Gush.

wake up, wake up, wake up, it’s the first of the month

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:35:03 +0000

(in case you were wondering about the title…) I made it to fifty-three books. So damn close. I’m too damn lazy to review all of them, so here’s the list. It wasn’t as good a year as 2010 (despite my also failing to reach my goal then too) where I finished fifty-nine books, started fifty-four [...]

hiding

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:47:03 +0000

I’ve lived in Australia for most of my life but the question still gets asked and it still irritates me: What nationality are you? I look the person dead in the eye and say “British.” The next question: Where are you really from? My mind answers: Fuck off, that’s none of your business. My mouth [...]

Protected: ça marche

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:44:45 +0000

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Protected: l’extase

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next up

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:57:11 +0000

There is no way around it: I think next week will be the hardest week of my life ever. I’ve never ever been so frightened in my life, I’ve never wanted someone to hold my hand and tell me it will be okay more than I have since yesterday evening. This sort of fear and [...]

Protected: a strange meeting

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Protected: when sparks fly

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:11:22 +0000

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too close to home

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:11:47 +0000

Today’s Poets.org poem of the day, ouch. It’s some cold comfort when someone else can say the things you feel or experience, even if they don’t necessarily feel or experience them themselves, or you can’t get confirmation of aforementioned. In case you didn’t get the memo, poets sometimes lie in their poems and then sometimes… (found [...]

Protected: how’s it going?

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Protected: fuckfuckfuck don’t panic fuckfuckfuck

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swoon

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:25:16 +0000

I’m rereading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with my good friend Ranjit. It’s time I focussed on other loves. I thought it might be nice to share one of my favourite passages. I’ve read this poem several times over the years (and rarely been none the wiser though now I have a Norton Critical Edition [...]

some large certainties

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:14:23 +0000

“You know, it means more when people like C who is normally so upbeat gets down. It’s people like her that you really want to help.” It was when this sentence was first uttered, I knew that I had lost my now ex-boyfriend. This post isn’t going to be the blame game. This is going to [...]

libretto school, day five

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:06:20 +0000

IT’S OVER. What an exhausting, exhilarating week. On a chronic illness front, I’m really proud I made it through. Sadly, I couldn’t stick around for planned oysters and martinis celebrations as planned because I just needed to go home and die. The first session was all of us listening to each others’ settings of Luke [...]

Protected: the double life

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Protected: once more, but with feeling

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libretto school, day four

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:36:55 +0000

I succumbed. Last night, I took sleepers and ugh the legal drug hangover that ensued this morning. Still, at least I got a solid ten hours’ sleep: even slept through Paul Verhoeven’s irritating announcing on Triple J (drinking game: have a shot every time Paul Verhoeven mentions Paul Verhoeven’s name when Paul Verhoeven is doing [...]

libretto school, day three

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:24:59 +0000

Reached the halfway mark! Still not sleeping much. Thankfully, commuting and our central location means that two exceedingly notable coffee joints are keeping me alive – underneath Flinders Street Station, there’s Cup of Truth (omg, they had a Radiohead song playing from OK Computer when I got there! best Radiohead album ever!) and on Little [...]

libretto school, day two

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:14:41 +0000

Man, insomnia’s really starting to take it out of me. However, with the help of coffee, it’s time to do day two. Sadly, Brett Kelly, our original presenter could not be present for our first session but we had a delightful fill-in: the Danish-born performer and composer Ida Duelund Hansen. She came armed with her [...]

libretto school, day one

admin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:52:22 +0000

It’s National Poetry Week! That means some srs poetry action. For me, this also means getting to attend a workshop aimed at introducing writers to the art of writing a libretto, the text of an opera that is then set to music by a composer. It’s a joint effort run by Chamber Made Opera and [...]