Procastination
Whilst procastinating/researching Christmas presents, I have been noticing the latest offerings from some creative people that I like.
Zadie Smith has written a book of essays. I noted in an interview with her husband that she was supposedly expecting her first child, but no-one else mentions it, and I wonder... miscarriage? Keeping it private? I do like her writing, she is both old world and contemporary, someone who loves literature and different writers writing styles.
Clare Bowditch has released another album. I keep wondering if I like her or not, having bought both of her previous records, I am still not sure. Do I like her, more than I like her music? I definitely like her story, her very Melbourne-niss, commitment to singing around Melbourne and being around musicians and studying music, and forming bands and then events and doing that whilst being a parent. She was part of that community and now helps contribute and lead that community. I liked the story of her moving to Berlin and performing at small cabaret bars whilst she tried to write and record her latest album, there is very much a sense of interaction between the environment she lives in and the mood and mode. She's a family minded musician.
Then I looked up Sarah Blasko, a more introspective soul, and wondered how she manages to be so dark, so moody, so opshop librarian, being from Sydney. (Yes, I know there are people like that in Sydney, but invariably they are really from another city). Would I like her latest album? Maybe.
Books: besides Zadie Smith's essays, there is also "Your mother would be proud", which I kind of want to order and give to my Mum (or my sister), but would first like to read a sample extract from; the latest edition of Meanjin (which includes one author's discussion of writing fiction drawn from real life-she interviews Helen Garner, which I think would be interesting).
Plus I really want the other books by Miriam Toews, who wrote the fabulous Flying Troutmans. Oh, that is funny. The character of Thebes, in some ways reminds me of my middle nephew, the heightened empathetic sociability, intelligence, creativity that comes from a second child trying to bind the single parent family together. His older and younger brother have their unique and lovable traits too, but they are more similar to each other, more bloody minded and assertive of their ways and needs. Gus sacrifices for the family.
Oh, and a big kid thing for me, that I can share with my nephews? The Archies comics, so retro, so funny.
Zadie Smith has written a book of essays. I noted in an interview with her husband that she was supposedly expecting her first child, but no-one else mentions it, and I wonder... miscarriage? Keeping it private? I do like her writing, she is both old world and contemporary, someone who loves literature and different writers writing styles.
Clare Bowditch has released another album. I keep wondering if I like her or not, having bought both of her previous records, I am still not sure. Do I like her, more than I like her music? I definitely like her story, her very Melbourne-niss, commitment to singing around Melbourne and being around musicians and studying music, and forming bands and then events and doing that whilst being a parent. She was part of that community and now helps contribute and lead that community. I liked the story of her moving to Berlin and performing at small cabaret bars whilst she tried to write and record her latest album, there is very much a sense of interaction between the environment she lives in and the mood and mode. She's a family minded musician.
Then I looked up Sarah Blasko, a more introspective soul, and wondered how she manages to be so dark, so moody, so opshop librarian, being from Sydney. (Yes, I know there are people like that in Sydney, but invariably they are really from another city). Would I like her latest album? Maybe.
Books: besides Zadie Smith's essays, there is also "Your mother would be proud", which I kind of want to order and give to my Mum (or my sister), but would first like to read a sample extract from; the latest edition of Meanjin (which includes one author's discussion of writing fiction drawn from real life-she interviews Helen Garner, which I think would be interesting).
Plus I really want the other books by Miriam Toews, who wrote the fabulous Flying Troutmans. Oh, that is funny. The character of Thebes, in some ways reminds me of my middle nephew, the heightened empathetic sociability, intelligence, creativity that comes from a second child trying to bind the single parent family together. His older and younger brother have their unique and lovable traits too, but they are more similar to each other, more bloody minded and assertive of their ways and needs. Gus sacrifices for the family.
Oh, and a big kid thing for me, that I can share with my nephews? The Archies comics, so retro, so funny.
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