Postcard from Madrid
Dec. 17th, 2006 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusA quick postcard from Madrid, where I'm currently breakfasting groggily after a rather riotous Momus / Curly Carl show last night.
Yesterday Hisae and I packed a lot into our free hours. A visit to a covered market, a reverent glimpse of a nativity scene, a walk through the immigrant area Barrio de Embassadores with its wholesale bead and poncho shops, a long look around the excellent Casa Encendida, an arts centre which seems to be Madrid's answer to the Palais de Tokyo, and which was featuring shows about John Cage and recycling (link not intended, I think) then lunch at the very flash Museo Reina Sofia, a tour around a Spanish architecture show in the Botanical Gardens, a trip out to National Radio where I did a one-hour live interview, an interview with The Wire (well, actually, an interview someone is hoping to pitch to The Wire, good luck!) then the show. No wonder I'm a bit groggy this morning.
Oh, the radio interviewer, having read my Friday blog entry, asked whether I'd characterize Spanish culture live on air in a couple of words. I picked "vehement" (based mostly on the taxi in from the airport) and "digital-Islamic" (based on the beautiful poster, influenced by Moorish tile design, for the achitecture show).
Yesterday Hisae and I packed a lot into our free hours. A visit to a covered market, a reverent glimpse of a nativity scene, a walk through the immigrant area Barrio de Embassadores with its wholesale bead and poncho shops, a long look around the excellent Casa Encendida, an arts centre which seems to be Madrid's answer to the Palais de Tokyo, and which was featuring shows about John Cage and recycling (link not intended, I think) then lunch at the very flash Museo Reina Sofia, a tour around a Spanish architecture show in the Botanical Gardens, a trip out to National Radio where I did a one-hour live interview, an interview with The Wire (well, actually, an interview someone is hoping to pitch to The Wire, good luck!) then the show. No wonder I'm a bit groggy this morning.
Oh, the radio interviewer, having read my Friday blog entry, asked whether I'd characterize Spanish culture live on air in a couple of words. I picked "vehement" (based mostly on the taxi in from the airport) and "digital-Islamic" (based on the beautiful poster, influenced by Moorish tile design, for the achitecture show).
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Date: 2006-12-17 10:13 am (UTC)the wig has to go. your girlfriend has a nice head of hair. the wig has to go.
the wig has to go.
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Date: 2006-12-17 10:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 10:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 10:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 10:41 am (UTC)Licensed to, er, drink. And wear pink.
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Date: 2006-12-17 10:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 11:07 am (UTC)XXX from Paris
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Date: 2006-12-17 12:16 pm (UTC)Keep us posted on your Madrid observations, I'm off there for the first time on a shoestring city break in May.
Cheers.
Thomas Scott.
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Date: 2006-12-17 12:20 pm (UTC)enculturing
Date: 2006-12-17 12:21 pm (UTC)PH-London
Haven't done Spain yet. Looks lovely.
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Date: 2006-12-17 12:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 03:09 pm (UTC)Re: enculturing
Date: 2006-12-17 03:46 pm (UTC)Perhaps England- once a powerful empire nation- still is not ideally happy with the concept of geographic integration into continental Europe.
Perhaps Ireland- Britain's longest held former colony and a country with far closer cultural similarities to Britain than most Irish would care to admit- is also conscious of it's post colonial separateness.
Thomas Scott.
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Date: 2006-12-17 06:50 pm (UTC)(Tut-tutting from the tightassed art school goons is always a good sign. Nothing good ever comes from pleasing them.)
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Date: 2006-12-17 07:06 pm (UTC)Greetings from 55416
Date: 2006-12-17 08:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 09:43 pm (UTC)but that's no wig ...
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Date: 2006-12-17 11:06 pm (UTC)Here's CC with a very fulsome fan, DJ Otaku (http://www.fotolog.com/djotaku/?pid=18911135).
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Date: 2006-12-18 12:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-18 02:06 am (UTC)In 1974
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Date: 2006-12-18 05:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-18 05:13 am (UTC)Beautiful Images!
Date: 2006-12-18 06:34 am (UTC)Also a Vote for the Wig
Date: 2006-12-18 06:37 am (UTC)I like that my highest boots touch parts of my legs that usually don't get touched that way. I like that the first time I used my gum pick it touched parts of my body previously untouched. I like the way the fabric of my burka feels on my face, it's a little erotic! Normally that part of the face is not touched by fabric.
So I bet the wig feels good. I have a green wig but have never worn it out.
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Date: 2006-12-18 09:42 am (UTC)On the other hand, the suit is great (even if it doesn't fit properly). Pink tie is great too. You should go and get a properly tailored funky suit and a decent shave, and you'd look so much better. You're too old for the hobo look now.
Beautiful show!
Date: 2006-12-18 09:42 am (UTC)Please, come back soon...
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Date: 2006-12-19 11:33 pm (UTC)