Edinburrowing
Aug. 25th, 2005 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Some of the things I've been to, or plan to go to, this week in Edinburgh.A dramatization of the life of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz.
A clever, preppy American comedian called Demetri Martin (he looks like Marxy).
No fewer than three Ian Hamilton Finlay shows, and Little Sparta, his Pentlands grove.
"The Grey Automobile", a silent Mexican gangster film with fake subtitles, live piano accompaniment and live translation into Japanese, Donald Duck-speak, and barking.
A Korean "Midsummer Night's Dream From The East". Followed the Korean actors down Chambers Street and decided they were the best-dressed people in Edinburgh this year.
The Jerwood Applied Arts Prize show at the Museum of Scotland, and art shows at Collective Gallery, Stills and Embassy Gallery. The People's Story, a socialist museum about Edinburgh. Did you know that in 1789 only 33 people in Edinburgh had the vote?
"The Sun", a Russian film about the last days of the Emperor Hirohito.
New York drag cabaret act Kiki and Herb.
"Ren-Sa", a mysterious piece by Darren Johnston in which the audience is taken in a blank-windowed van to a secret location and shown a video, dance and performance based on Japanese horror cycle "The Ring".
An exhibition of Cartier-Bresson photos. (Snuck in through the exit without paying.)Mike Mills' new film "Thumbsucker".
Edinburgh Zoo.
The Botanical Gardens.
The art school.
The excellent new Scottish Poetry Library.
A very good new Japanese restaurant called Bonsai.
The Forest cafe and TotalKunst, its attached gallery.
Edinburgh Ikea (to meet my dad, who doesn't like driving into town).
your father
Date: 2005-08-26 06:24 pm (UTC)and cheap, industrial swedish food is a do.
ikea make veils in their gay colours for their more downtrodden immigrant workers to wear. yay!
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