11.9.11

MY SCRAPBOOKS

Constantly tearing out of magazines.
And tearing. And tearing. And sticking.

10.9.11

THE OPENING CREDITS TO IL DIVO

…the film (2008) not the cosmopolitan quartet of pop/opera crossover singers.
[click here to watch these opening credits]

SYLVIE GUILLEM: TWO

The live performance was witnessed in seat G40 at the London Coliseum in 2008.
A solo which goes on to echo phosphorescence in the dark sea at night.


5.9.11

BERLIN

I found myself in Berlin.
And this song. This song.
This song was there at the start.

4.9.11

PARIS

Paris became a different city with three months at L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.
My schoolboy French was not wasted.
«Je voudrais une baguette au jambon, s'il vous plaît.»

2.9.11

CARAVAGGIO

Caravaggio found a kindred spirit in Gordon Willis, who was the cinematographer on The Godfather Trilogy. (Salome with the head of John the Baptist, c.1609)