{"id":310,"date":"2006-03-23T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-01-10T23:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:40:31","slug":"goodbye-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/goodbye-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having crossed <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/i-go-to-riga.html\">&#8220;walking across a frozen river&#8221;<\/a> off my list of things to do before I die (do <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">not <\/span>try this after you are dead), I realise I still haven&#8217;t fulfilled my lifelong ambition to overturn a parked car and set it on fire.  Therefore, I am off to Paris for a few days, where violent, anarchic dreams may still come true.  Hopefully there will still be a few untorched Citro\u00ebns left by the time I get there.  Postings will resume in a week.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Next week: <\/span>Having namedropped <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/more-about-guston.html\">Morton Feldman<\/a> a few times this week, I plan to go to tomorrow night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnvill.demon.co.uk\/mfconcert.htm\">concert and book launch<\/a> of Feldman&#8217;s interviews and lectures. So you can expect a writeup, plus photos from Riga on Flickr.<br \/>If you can&#8217;t stand to tear yourself away from this site to check a few links over there &#8211;>, here&#8217;s a small selection of recent reviews:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The London Sinfonietta <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">et al<\/span> play Xenakis, parts <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/10\/sorry-that-last-post-turned-out-to-be.html\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/10\/xenakis-continued.html\">two<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/10\/enough-with-xenakis-already.html\">three<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The BBC Symphony Orchestra play <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/01\/carter-gotten-note-sense-of.html\">Elliott Carter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Icebreaker play <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/rare-musical-event-bad-philip-glass.html\">Philip Glass<\/a>, badly.<\/li>\n<li>Eurovision Song Contest wrap for 2005 (<a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/she-bangs-drums-eurovision-review-part.html\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/today-i-had-earplugs-in-and-sound-was.html\">two<\/a>) &#8211; it&#8217;s only two months away&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Looking at people looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/03\/someone-looks-at-something-detail.html\">Rachel Whiteread&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Embankment<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/first-london-pilgrimage-ezra-pound.html\">Ezra Pound&#8217;s old house<\/a> in Kensington<\/li>\n<li>A walk to <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/12\/third-pilgrimage-st-andrew-by-wardrobe.html\">St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A rant about <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/01\/how-to-pick-winners-just-dont-spend-it.html\">the current state of modern fiction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and sorry about the blog&#8217;s front page disappearing for a few hours back there.  I&#8217;m pretty sure that was my fault.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having crossed &#8220;walking across a frozen river&#8221; off my list of things to do before I die (do not try this after you are dead), I realise I still haven&#8217;t fulfilled my lifelong ambition to overturn a parked car and set it on fire. 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