this one's about to take a crap

Triggered by the bird roll post on leica diaries, I remembered these pictures I had taken in Camden.

Now that August is gone

Go Savoullis

Mingus on Academia?

"Making the simple complicated*¹ is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple**², that's creativity." ~ Charles Mingus

Recipe for:

*1 Publishing scientific papers

**2 Being a good teacher

Why my desktop is never tidy

"My problem with classifications is that they don’t last; hardly have I finished putting things into an order before that order is obsolete. Like everyone else, I presume, I am sometimes seized by a mania for arranging things. The sheer number of the things needing to be arranged and the near-impossibility of distributing them according to any truly satisfactory criteria means that I never finally manage it, that the arrangements I end up with are temporary and vague, and hardly any more effective that the original anarchy"

- George Perec, How I Classify

Vavas is Waiting for the Mayan Mothership

Tindersticks @ Bush Empire, March 2010

you can get the 'official bootleg' here

Woven Hand @ Block33, Thessaloniki (Nov. 2009)

Σώτη Τριανταφύλλου στο Orient Express

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It works this way as well

"What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new community, forgetting and forgotten by the place that now means so much to me. In short , what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (what is now) my home."
-SZ

What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new relationship, forgetting and forgotten by the woman that has ment so much to me. In short, what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (whom is now) my woman.

Between

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman
- Woody Allen

There is no direct, unmediated relation between the male and female sexual position, because the Other of language stands between them as a third party
- Jacques Lacan

Playing the Building (by David Byrne) @ Roundhouse, 31 August 2009

White rim with Warsaw theme (beamer ~ latex)

Problem:

Notice the white rim appearing on the left. A quick (but not the most elegant) solution to this is to edit the theme file used by Warsaw.

Open the tex\latex\beamer\themes\outer directory and (after backing up), edit:

beamerouterthemeshadow.sty

In the

\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{shadow theme}

block, find the following line:

\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hbox{%

and add an hskip, for me -0.05ex worked:

\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hskip-0.05ex\hbox{%

Well, it's a long, long time

From May to December.

But the days grow short,
When you reach September

And the days dwindle down

To a precious few
September, November..

Πρωινή Ισυμμετρία (Ισφισπούριον)

Philip Glass @ BBC Proms (8/2009)

http://rapidshare.com/files/268039581/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/268043149/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part2.rar


Philip Glass
* Violin Concerto (23 mins)
* Symphony No.7 'A Toltec Symphony' (UK premiere) (36 mins)

* Gidon Kremer violin

* BBC Symphony Chorus
* BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
* Dennis Russell Davies conductor

An Ocean of Volcanos

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Clint Mansell and The Sonus Quartet @ Union Chapel, London (July 2009)

"The live line-up is a nine-piece band featuring the Sonus Quartet from Los Angeles and also piano, guitars ,bass and drums. We will play music from Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler as well as some new material, yet to be released."




From The Fountain:



From Requiem:

Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls

The Townes Van Zandt version:


from For the Sake of the Song

and the Staples (Tindersticks) cover:

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