THE DISCIPLINES PLAYING IN LONDON THIS WEEK: 27th 02 ARENA WITH SNOW PATROL; 28TH MONTO WATER RATS THEATREI've been at home this week, mostly it's been about conceptualizing and organizing things for the Disciplines, especially our upcoming week in London. I have made time to see some local flavors, i.e.
Legoparty at Le Baron, and
Housse de Racket at La Fleche D'or; tonight I just got back from seeing
the Sea & Cake at Point Ephemere.
It's always a bad idea for me to write on a saturday night after a show, as I'm pretty tired and not inclined to go into the level of detail that I normally insist on.
Housse de Racket as you might quickly learn are a tennis-themed band playing pop music that has all the wiggly enthusiasm of a box of puppies. They won me over when I saw they had converted the brand name on their keyboard to "Roland *Garros*".
On friday I went to the summer solstice party at Aden's créche (day care). As the weather was iffy, festivities were held indoors this year, so 25 kids plus parents and quite a few siblings made for a packed house. All the kids win prizes, and despite the fact that there were far more prizes than kids, Aden managed to tweak and go into a kind of incredible greed mode, at one point sort of laying on her acquisitions and screaming to scare off any potential thieves. It's believeable when you know that in normal circumstances at the créche, anything interesting in your hands has to be defended vigorously from the other kids' curiosity/acquisitive mimesis at all times. Like any time spent with a three year old, you hit the high highs and the low lows, tears, rage, laughter, et al, in rapidly succeeding waves for several cycles in a short period.
This week I enjoyed watching Rush's "R30" DVDs...thanks Darius! I also watched Sonic Youth's "Corporate Ghost" video collection...that video for Dirty Boots is so cheesy...I thought so at the time, and watching it now...gawd. Very funny bit in "Cinderella's Big Score" with Bill Bartell leading a young boy into...well, it never says exactly but he takes him by the hand and then the view jumps to a pawn shop sign flashing "MONEY". I also watched the Jimi Hendrix "Live at Woodstock" DVD which is pretty amazing, it's a great print and the sound is really good...there is a thing called "Woodstock Jam" that starts out with some truly bizarre solo guitar arpeggios.
I also watched a fan made DVD of the Posies 2005 show in Utrecht...it's really rocking and the sound is really good. We hold it together until a cast of unique and beautiful individuals start dancing on stage...they kind of take over, and we kinda start to fall apart...in a lovely, organic blaze of glory.
I watched Walter Salles' film "
Behind the Sun" which is excellent, the cinematography of Walter Carvalho is dreamy and incredible; one scene which is a running chase thru dead trees is really monumental.
I hope to see you all in London next week at one of the Disciplines' shows. More things are in the works to announce soon. I also just added a show with Liquid Architecture here in Paris for next weekend, unfortunately it's at a very exclusive party for a fashion magazine. Also, I'd like to recommend anyone in Paris (who's read this far) to see my friends
WaFlash play in Paris on June 30 at La Java in the 10eme.
Love
KS
Paris
