The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear

ee cummings

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

POEMS

the charge of the light brigade
by lord alfred tennyson


Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

Air Balloons

My pitch idea...

What makes things fly?
What is air?
What makes things burst?

The only interesting one to me is the first.

Levoisier and the hot air balloon
Bristol and the balloon festival
Pink piggy want to come and film it with me?
Secrets and things that never made the news

The woman who went round the world in record time.

Loneliness hits hard those who write but forget to.
Started reading War of the World today and bought a confederecy of dunces.
Watching Michael Mason's series about The Story of Science...

'How history made science and science made history'

Henig Berg the alchemist convinced his urine would make gold.

an experiment

i ate sushi, proper sushi, for the first time last night.

i watched the simpsons. i saw the clod ensemble in the pit of the old vic.
i saw a drag artist reveal her shoulders and squint with richard gere's eyes and speak with a new york drawl. in a darkened room she put her face in the square of light that the spot had cast on the floor and told us of every major injury she'd incurred - breaking both heels, smashing a fist, getting poked in the eye with a stick.

i am not coming home early this evening.

my pictures

i drew em today.

Recent sources

Brilliant.



Recent things I Have Seen:

- The insides of people's houses on the Montpelier Art trail

- Daddy Long Bones at the Attic supporting an all girl band from Oz who were dull & performed like Sims and made me feel like I was at a Sims rock concert. the camera angles of my eyes were also video simulation reminisces. daddy long bones i like a lot though! www.myspace.com/daddylongbones or something.

- DOGTOOTH at the cinema. good, dark, bold, imaginative! perfectly paced, poised and greek.

- a film about people who'd been struck by lightning.



Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Jim Henson's passing away. I am a big fan of the Muppet's, in particular the Great Muppet Caper..

- I went to London and saw:

a photography exhibition by Richard Billingham



he wasn't exhibiting this photo but i've had it on my wall before and just realised it's his. the photos he does now are less enclosed - lowrylandscapes, but also different types of encloseds, like zoo animals.

i hate the zoo by the way and i will not go.
-
an exhibition at the Tate Modern about Theo van Doesberg --- which I really liked. dada is an affirmation and negation. it is the bird with four legs, the ladder with no rungs, the square with no corners... to say that dada is of destruction misunderstands life, of which dada is the essence.

i particularly liked the video installation of the 'la ballet mechanique' by fernand leger made in 1924. total anarchy and early early days of the vj set.



i get excited by the dada thing.

- saw Bath. a beautiful city, green and caramelcoloured.

- Coco Rosie in concert! at the Trinity, which is an old church.



- Cocorosie cover of Turn Me On

they are beautiful, sexy and i wish more girls would sing about girls in this way.

- Tonight I am going to be seeing: Peggy Shaw and the Clod Ensemble: MUST
the clod ensemble
as part of Bristol MayFest....

I am also really enjoying Nicola Bernedetti, Mahler's Spiegel Im Spiegel and other classical musics...

Life affirming stuff ey.