19 October 2005
Bored
Sorry, but I am. I'm working from home today and the system is running soooo sloooow. Very very dull.
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Of course there are pockets of time when I can get things done (like just then), but overall I'm largely waiting for documents to open... documents to save... documents to submit. Heigh ho.
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But one thing that waiting about does for you is it makes you think about stuff. And one of the conclusions I've come to today is that I've listened to far too much pop music over the past month and it's making me feel dismal, depressed and uninspired. So I'm cutting it out - for the moment at any rate. I've been dosing up on Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky for a couple of days now and feeling so so much better for it. My friend Chris says that Stravinsky makes her feel angry - I wonder why. He makes me feel all lighthearted and perky - especially things like Les Noces and Renard which are two of my current favourites.
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Feeling a need to go out and see if I can't track down some more John White and/or Wim Mertens though. We went to see James Thiérrée's latest show on Saturday night which used some of Wim Merten's fabulous music for Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect at the end and it got me all inspired to go out and hunt for new music. So I really should act on that. Just need to find out where the best place to go is...
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That's been one of the hardest things, I've found, about moving to a different country - no longer do I know what shops are best for what things. In Sydney - indeed, anywhere in Australia - if I needed a new overcoat, I would have at least a handful of good chain stores I could start with. Here, not really. And for specialist shops, it's really quite tricky. And often I find that I'm looking for the wrong type of store entirely!
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But I guess that's also one of the delights of travelling - to discover how people do things in different places, even if that's as small a thing as trying to find out where one buys prosciutto...
Maybe I'll stop thinking deep thoughts and instead bake a cake this afternoon...hmm.
