thud weekend
Jul. 5th, 2014 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishMeh. Not up for a real post. Have some links and progress, instead.
Velvet Underground star John Cale to showcase new work in London with drones hovering over audience: "The project will see the drones carrying speakers to project the sound, as well as making mechanical noises as they hover over the audience. ... He has rearranged songs from his extensive back catalogue using different tunings to fit the new format."
Turkmenistan hopes 'Door to Hell' will boost tourism: "Our main task is to create an attractive image of Turkmenistan as a tourism destination."
Why people hate art: "[A]ny pseudo-intellectual can translate for a piece of art that says something. It takes an artist or a poet or a real writer to talk about why looking at a given thing is a pleasurable experience. So the artists that dealers selected as fit to get past the critics in order to enter the arena of Contemporary Art, rather predictably, became easier and easier to describe and harder and harder to look at."
101 in 1001 update (the list)
Completed:
4) Take the train somewhere further than Seattle. 2014-05-06, Portland, OR
36) Write, revise, & submit story #4. "We Service All Imported Vehicles," 2014-05-24, for the Wiscon 38 Spontaneous Writing Contest
47) Play or purge all the unplayed boardgames in my collection, except for Italia. (13/13) 2014-06-14, played Inca Empire, last on the list.
In progress:
6) Make a pilgrimage to Powell's Books in Portland. Half credit for visiting the one in the airport.
11) Collect a dozen rejections. (1/12)
31) Submit 100 stories to paying markets. (6/100)
34) Expand, revise, & submit "In the City of Memory." Final revisions on this are my Current Project.
35) Write, revise, & submit "Blood on Her Hands and a Stone at Her Throat." In progress. Not sure if the planned ending will work or not.
82) Determine whether it makes any sense at all to a) buy a place or b) move. Moving is happening at the end of summer. Buying is almost certainly nonsensical, but a final determination on that can wait until we sort out our respective employment situations.
84) Take a sabbatical from work of at least three months. Plots are being laid.
91) Reread Middle-Earth: Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion. (4/5)
Velvet Underground star John Cale to showcase new work in London with drones hovering over audience: "The project will see the drones carrying speakers to project the sound, as well as making mechanical noises as they hover over the audience. ... He has rearranged songs from his extensive back catalogue using different tunings to fit the new format."
Turkmenistan hopes 'Door to Hell' will boost tourism: "Our main task is to create an attractive image of Turkmenistan as a tourism destination."
Why people hate art: "[A]ny pseudo-intellectual can translate for a piece of art that says something. It takes an artist or a poet or a real writer to talk about why looking at a given thing is a pleasurable experience. So the artists that dealers selected as fit to get past the critics in order to enter the arena of Contemporary Art, rather predictably, became easier and easier to describe and harder and harder to look at."
101 in 1001 update (the list)
Completed:
In progress:
6) Make a pilgrimage to Powell's Books in Portland. Half credit for visiting the one in the airport.
11) Collect a dozen rejections. (1/12)
31) Submit 100 stories to paying markets. (6/100)
34) Expand, revise, & submit "In the City of Memory." Final revisions on this are my Current Project.
35) Write, revise, & submit "Blood on Her Hands and a Stone at Her Throat." In progress. Not sure if the planned ending will work or not.
82) Determine whether it makes any sense at all to a) buy a place or b) move. Moving is happening at the end of summer. Buying is almost certainly nonsensical, but a final determination on that can wait until we sort out our respective employment situations.
84) Take a sabbatical from work of at least three months. Plots are being laid.
91) Reread Middle-Earth: Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion. (4/5)