Reading: Heavy and Light

Posted on | February 7, 2005 |

I found a new place last week, and while it may be a feminist frat house at times, I’ll be flying solo for the time being. It’s very me - kinda grungy but passable. Who knows, with all the space and no more Mr Whippy vans of a weekend I may even be able to do some actual research some time soon! Article deadlines are approaching, books need writing, and students still allegedly require teaching. I had such plans for productivity this summer until I decided to completely renovate my life, then remembered far too late in the game how relentless the humidity gets in this town.

Out in Vegas on the weekend, The Shins won our hearts. Tho it was touch and go there for a while, with the support band being perhaps THE most unattractive, unfunny and unentertaining I’ve seen in recent memory. As Kate On noted, ‘Who likes the Shins? Duh, I just like paying $40 to hang out at The Arena’ (In other exciting news, read all about the Iron On recording sessions as they blog live from here. I hope the address means my preferred album title has won the competition, then again, ‘The R is not silent’ is pretty bloody funny). Maybe my expectations were too high given I had my first ever karaoke experience in China Town on Friday night. I chose The Carpenters’ “Close to You” but got out of my depth with George Michael. Who knew “Freedom” was so complex lyrically? Anyway, I think my fingers are still sticky from that booth. I don’t risk my health for just anyone Callum - good luck in Newcastle mate!

In other news, Glen and I have decided that in honour of Mamdouh Habib’s release we’ll post our jointly authored paper on the ‘refrain of the Right-eous’ (Word, 88kb) because we’re still waiting for news on the publication prospects. We both welcome thoughts on this work - we were very excited by it back in October. For those of you who were there, it’s based on my paper at The Italian Effect conference at Sydney Uni. Thankfully, Devine Miranda didn’t pick up on that one in time.

Finally, are there any philosophers out there? I think I want to begin my Blog Talk paper with a quote from Texas Hold-em - but can anyone tell me where this is from?

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

I’m sure it must be a famous quote from someone I haven’t read (maybe because I’m a woman?), otherwise ol’ Tex really is the genius I suspect he is. He has no shortage of great lines
Just linking to Blog Talk now - my goodness. Here I was thinking it would be held in some crummy ol’ room at UTS. Better pull my socks up for this one.

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