I went to the Olafur Eliason exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art a few weeks ago. There was a lot there to wonder at, but the piece that fascinated me most of all was The white colour circle. I spent a long time looking at it, went away and then came back again to [...]
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you can never quarantine the past
I experienced time travel on Thursday night. I went to see the Pavement reunion show at the Enmore Theatre and they took me right back to the 1990s. I saw them a few times in the mid-to-late 90s and was at their last-ever (to that point) concert in London in 1999. On Thursday night suddenly [...]
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i’m living history. and time is getting faster.
Dear Cettefemme, So many things… where to start. My friend J came to stay a couple of weekends ago. I was telling her about an article I’d read in the 2nd–15th February edition of The Big Issue, where the author had been taking photos of decaying shop signs in his neighbourhood, prior to the buildings [...]
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Belle and Sebastian
As I was making pancakes in my Sydney kitchen last night I suddenly found myself catapulted back into my London kitchen. Not my most recent London kitchen but one from more than four years ago. The time travel came courtesy of Belle and Sebastian’s album Tigermilk. I went through a period where I played it [...]
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the past is dead, long live the past
“It is the same with our past. It is a waste of effort for us to try to summon it, all the exertions of our intelligence are useless. The past is hidden outside the realm of our intelligence and beyond its reach, in some material object (in the sensation that this material object would give [...]
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every building on the sunset strip 1966
I was in the Art Gallery of New South Wales yesterday. I spent my time mostly in their contemporary rooms and had one of those inspiring gallery experiences, the kind where you feel that the rooms have become a playground. Childlike, I roamed freely, absorbing ideas and experiences and feelings. My favourite things were their [...]
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the blue
Baking hot and shivering. The waves and the boats and the blue. Water against rocks, leaves scrape the ground. If I could I would blink the boats away. Me and the blue. Wanting to surrender myself to the sun. Hiding in the shade. Grandparents with pram. Doggy walks by. Senior citizen. Stately with red bandanna [...]
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2010 in sydney is still only 2009 in london
I kept a diary when I was 15. I had completely forgotten about its existence until I rediscovered it a couple of weeks ago. Of course I immediately began reading it and as I read I went from being an outsider looking at myself back then to suddenly feeling as if I’d just been writing [...]
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October the First Is Too Late
October the First Is Too Late written by Fred Hoyle, published in 1966. I read this book and wrote this review about a month or so ago, immediately after finishing Paul Davies’ About Time. I wasn’t sure about sharing something that is purely a book review in this space (as opposed to a piece of [...]
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a weekend in physics
So I spent the weekend pondering how it’s possible for particles to tell the time. Specifically, subatomic particles called kaons, which seem to know the difference between past and future (I’m still trying to understand this). I also tried to get my head around the fact that time might somehow have evolved out of space [...]
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