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imomusA few bits and bobs of news, opportunities and announcements today.
First, tonight sees the premiere of 'Angriffe Auf Anne' ('Attempts on her Life' by Martin Crimp), which I've done the music for. If you're in Berlin, come along! It's at 8pm on November 16th, 18th, 19th, and 20th and then twice or three times between November 22nd and 28th. (Important update! It seems Thursday's performance has been cancelled. The next one is on Friday 19th November.) There are a few more performances in early January too. The address is BAT - Studiotheater der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin, Belforter Str. 15, 10405 Berlin. It's in Prenzlauer Berg, and you can see it on the map here.
I mentioned a while ago that I'm thinking of moving to Kreuzberg. Now, the lease I have on my place on the Karl-Marx-Allee requires a three month notice period, and I'm spending some time in early 2005 in Japan. So I thought I'd announce here that I'm looking for people who might be thinking of moving to Berlin (perhaps you took my advice and want to exit the 'Roman shell' of Bush's America!) and would be interested in taking over my lease, starting some time before the end of the year. It wouldn't be a sublet, but a direct transfer, and you'd become the full leaseholder. You can see photos of the apartment on a page I made a year or so ago when I sublet the place. A couple of details have changed since then: the rent is now 617,85 euros a month (that's $800 US, wow, the dollar really has weakened, last year it was closer to $700!) and my e mail address to use if you're interested is nickmomus@hotmail.com. The apartment is quiet, clean and well-equipped, there are three rooms and it's 64 metres square. It's rented unfurnished, and things like electricity and gas cost extra. I've had a good two years here, but it's time to move to a new district. There's more information about the street, and Friedrichshain, the district it's part of, in my essay Karl Marx Allee.
Okay, you may not want to live in Berlin, but how about touring Hong Kong? Are you in a band that's put out some records, or are you a solo artist who might vaguely have been heard of by indieheads in Hong Kong? If so, Eddie Cheng, the man who organised my recent smooth-as-silk Hong Kong live shows, wants to hear from you. Eddie is a really lovely man, an actor (he was featuring in some commercials being shown on big plasma screens on the subway walls when I was there) and graphic designer (he made some excellent T shirts for my shows with The Pancakes at the Fringe Club) who wants to get more into concert promotion. He met me at the airport, he took me to dinner, he put me up at a friend's place, and I had a terrific week in Hong Kong. If you think you qualify for the same treatment and could pull an audience of a hundred people or more in Hong Kong, write to Eddie at eddiecst@gmail.com.
There's a low-key Momus show here in Berlin soon. It's at 7.30pm on 5th December at the opening of a new clothing store called Belleville on Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse in Mitte, near the Volksbühne.
The November issue of Index Magazine runs my 1000 word piece about the Paris music scene known (at least to me) as Shoboshobo. It's basically an expanded version of the LJ piece I did back in June about the scene, with interviews added after my trip to Paris in July.
Finally, another archived radio recommendation. Acoustic Shadows is a 30 minute programme in which Robert Sandall (presenter of 'Mixing It' on BBC Radio 3) 'experiences audio treats, from echoes of ancient Mayan temples through to Brian Eno's virtual electronic world of ambient echoes, to assess what makes a good acoustic and how to create the perfect reverberation to appeal to our senses and flatter both audience and performers in a public space.' Interesting stuff if you're into sound.
Oh, and to get really meta, I notice that I seem to have exceeded the limits of my Freefind account, which means that you can't find the topics covered in more recent Click Opera entries by searching with the search box on the front of the Momus site any more. To help remedy this I've added a full index of all of this year's Click Opera entries here. But that still only lists the entry titles, not their content. If anyone knows of a way round this problem, tell me. I'll probably just end up paying Freefind to expand the number of searchable megabytes.
First, tonight sees the premiere of 'Angriffe Auf Anne' ('Attempts on her Life' by Martin Crimp), which I've done the music for. If you're in Berlin, come along! It's at 8pm on November 16th, 18th, 19th, and 20th and then twice or three times between November 22nd and 28th. (Important update! It seems Thursday's performance has been cancelled. The next one is on Friday 19th November.) There are a few more performances in early January too. The address is BAT - Studiotheater der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin, Belforter Str. 15, 10405 Berlin. It's in Prenzlauer Berg, and you can see it on the map here.
I mentioned a while ago that I'm thinking of moving to Kreuzberg. Now, the lease I have on my place on the Karl-Marx-Allee requires a three month notice period, and I'm spending some time in early 2005 in Japan. So I thought I'd announce here that I'm looking for people who might be thinking of moving to Berlin (perhaps you took my advice and want to exit the 'Roman shell' of Bush's America!) and would be interested in taking over my lease, starting some time before the end of the year. It wouldn't be a sublet, but a direct transfer, and you'd become the full leaseholder. You can see photos of the apartment on a page I made a year or so ago when I sublet the place. A couple of details have changed since then: the rent is now 617,85 euros a month (that's $800 US, wow, the dollar really has weakened, last year it was closer to $700!) and my e mail address to use if you're interested is nickmomus@hotmail.com. The apartment is quiet, clean and well-equipped, there are three rooms and it's 64 metres square. It's rented unfurnished, and things like electricity and gas cost extra. I've had a good two years here, but it's time to move to a new district. There's more information about the street, and Friedrichshain, the district it's part of, in my essay Karl Marx Allee.
Okay, you may not want to live in Berlin, but how about touring Hong Kong? Are you in a band that's put out some records, or are you a solo artist who might vaguely have been heard of by indieheads in Hong Kong? If so, Eddie Cheng, the man who organised my recent smooth-as-silk Hong Kong live shows, wants to hear from you. Eddie is a really lovely man, an actor (he was featuring in some commercials being shown on big plasma screens on the subway walls when I was there) and graphic designer (he made some excellent T shirts for my shows with The Pancakes at the Fringe Club) who wants to get more into concert promotion. He met me at the airport, he took me to dinner, he put me up at a friend's place, and I had a terrific week in Hong Kong. If you think you qualify for the same treatment and could pull an audience of a hundred people or more in Hong Kong, write to Eddie at eddiecst@gmail.com.
There's a low-key Momus show here in Berlin soon. It's at 7.30pm on 5th December at the opening of a new clothing store called Belleville on Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse in Mitte, near the Volksbühne.
The November issue of Index Magazine runs my 1000 word piece about the Paris music scene known (at least to me) as Shoboshobo. It's basically an expanded version of the LJ piece I did back in June about the scene, with interviews added after my trip to Paris in July.
Finally, another archived radio recommendation. Acoustic Shadows is a 30 minute programme in which Robert Sandall (presenter of 'Mixing It' on BBC Radio 3) 'experiences audio treats, from echoes of ancient Mayan temples through to Brian Eno's virtual electronic world of ambient echoes, to assess what makes a good acoustic and how to create the perfect reverberation to appeal to our senses and flatter both audience and performers in a public space.' Interesting stuff if you're into sound.
Oh, and to get really meta, I notice that I seem to have exceeded the limits of my Freefind account, which means that you can't find the topics covered in more recent Click Opera entries by searching with the search box on the front of the Momus site any more. To help remedy this I've added a full index of all of this year's Click Opera entries here. But that still only lists the entry titles, not their content. If anyone knows of a way round this problem, tell me. I'll probably just end up paying Freefind to expand the number of searchable megabytes.
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(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 11:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 11:56 am (UTC)It's still fun to bounce on (http://www.imomus.com/housejog2.avi), though.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 12:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 12:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 12:50 pm (UTC)Dejay from Pancakes is a good songwriter, a very cute girl, and incredibly astute and intelligent -- she speaks several languages and lives from her music, mostly from advertising licenses. I've played with her live three times now and she's lovely. Stereo Radio Left and Stereo Radio Right are her two latest CDs as The Pancakes. They were released within months of each other in 2003, with the same conceptual sleeve design (each one shows one speaker of a stereo radio). These new songs see Dejay getting more Beatles-y, with slightly more unexpected chord changes and lofi George Martin-like arrangements ('Tricycle Riding'). I'm still not sure if I'm a Pancakes fan, though. Dejay's somewhat out-of-tune voice grates a bit. There's something unbearably winsome about this catchy pop, which always strikes me as rather self-possessed and narcissistic, apparently shambolic but actually somewhat tight, commercial and calculated. But don't listen to me, I'm the kind of monster who never liked Talulah Gosh and would happily strangle Hello Kitty.
My Little Airport: The OK Thing To Do on Sunday Afternoon Is To Toddle in the Zoo (Harbour Records, Hong Kong, 2004)
Actually, My Little Airport -- two Hong Kong girls who like to dress up in school uniforms -- sound like The Pancakes, with the same ingenue lyrics, anglophile sentiments, synthy trumpet solos, drum machines and so on. But I like them better. They're a bit slicker. There's nice EQ on the vocal, which is more in tune. The whole thing sounds less winsomely shambolic.
I also like manufactured cheesepop Hong Kong band Twins. You can hear and see them in my Macao radio (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/47055.html) entry.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:44 pm (UTC)We should do something together maybe.
Those My little Airport girls sound interesting.
I wanted to move to Berlin but now I'm planning to move to Tokyo. Next time I guess !
Antonin
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Date: 2004-11-16 01:45 pm (UTC)Kirk
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 01:55 pm (UTC)(Which anyone with a clean bottom is welcome to use!)
Kirk
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Date: 2004-11-16 03:26 pm (UTC)it's funny. i've been talking about moving to berlin for months now, though this is way too soon. I think I need a plan first and a bit more time. Where would I work?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 03:40 pm (UTC)Jim fae Govan
little maps drawn on my hand
Date: 2004-11-16 04:12 pm (UTC)xoxowendy
Bon soir mademoiselle Paris
Date: 2004-11-16 06:04 pm (UTC)Mám v kapse jeden frank,
jsem nejbohatší z bank
nad Seinou.
Mám víc než krupiér
stíny Sacre Coer
nade mnou.
Láska je úděl tvůj
Pán Bůh tě opatruj,
Bon soir mademoiselle Paris,
Bon soir mademoiselle Paris
Znám boulevard Sant Michel,
tam jsem včera šel
s Marie Claire.
Vím, jak zní z úst krásných žen,
ta slůvka "Car je ťaine
oh, ma chere".
Láska je...
Láska je...
Bon soir mademoiselle Paris
Date: 2004-11-16 06:05 pm (UTC)Mám v kapse jeden frank,
jsem nejbohatší z bank
nad Seinou.
Mám víc než krupiér
stíny Sacre Coer
nade mnou.
Láska je úděl tvůj
Pán Bůh tě opatruj,
Bon soir mademoiselle Paris,
Bon soir mademoiselle Paris
Znám boulevard Sant Michel,
tam jsem včera šel
s Marie Claire.
Vím, jak zní z úst krásných žen,
ta slůvka "Car je ťaine
oh, ma chere".
Láska je...
Láska je...
Thanks for Eddie's info
Date: 2004-11-16 06:59 pm (UTC)Cheers,
-Keith.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-16 11:37 pm (UTC)That avi is really wonderful. The combination of domesticity and playfulness is very appealing. It's as if you're a child who could somehow rent his own flat.
Do you really behave this way daily, or only when the camcorder is on? And do you regularly document your daily activities on video?
It actually reminds me of what Paul Noble says of the life of the artist (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3009629), and I think that this, in a way, is how I see much of the ephemera (ie: your website) surrounding your life.
"What [the artist] is doing is offering mediations or alternatives to a real life."
Thank you for the gift,
Sean T.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-17 02:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-17 04:47 am (UTC)I'm in a band that no one has heard of...maybe it's time for our Hong Kong debut...?
I hope that the debut of your show went well. You're an inspiration to us all, Mr. Momus.
Search Alternatives
Date: 2004-11-17 06:42 am (UTC)Second best is picosearch. Results come with small not-too-intrusive ads, keyed to what search terms were used.
http://www.swish-e.org/
http://www.picosearch.com/
Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 06:51 am (UTC)If
momus and matthew collings had a whos more modern and intellectual pie throwing contest, who would win?.
(this question derives from a big debate I had on parliment lawn a few days ago, and everyone decided melvin bragg would have, believe it or not I cant remember why, but it was funny)
Re: Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 07:00 am (UTC)Re: Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 07:22 am (UTC)Re: Search Alternatives
Date: 2004-11-17 07:47 am (UTC)If you can find a trustworthy, technically-inclined volunteer to install swish-e for you, that would be ideal. Imomus is on a server running Apache on a unix or linux server, so you'd need someone who can install a number of support libraries as well as swish-e, and configure it correctly.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-17 08:35 am (UTC)Thanks for the Paul Noble link. I know Paul a little through his girlfriend Georgina Starr. I really admire his work. Wish I could see that show at the Whitechapel.
Re: Bon soir mademoiselle Paris
Date: 2004-11-17 11:47 am (UTC)I reading "PariS", not "PariSH" (what that?). Ty debile zasranej!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marek (parek)
Re: Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 02:06 pm (UTC)Re: Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 02:11 pm (UTC)Re: Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 03:57 pm (UTC)www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3238,36-387415,0.htmlhe
Re: Something Completely Different
Date: 2004-11-17 03:59 pm (UTC)the berlin show
Date: 2004-11-17 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-19 12:56 pm (UTC)On a technical note, I'm sure you've been asked this before, I have been interested by your ability to post comments to your journal, with pictures and everything, no matter what you seem to be doing or where you seem to be doing it. Being a reformed Luddite I would love to know a. how you manage this posting 'on the move' (I have used my mobile phone and a Dell laptop but it costs a fortune, takes hours to do anything and the connection is never better than mediocre) and b. what your hardware IT set-up is? I see at least one Apple item but the PC doesn't seem to be the same brand. I assume your laptop is a powerbook?
Any advice from someone who seems miles ahead in the game would be much appreciated.