Monday, 27 June 2011

Critics Writing Manifestos

I spent an enjoyable early evening at the residence of one Mr. Gareth Vile discussing, amongst other things, the nature and purposes of art criticism which culminated in the idea of critics writing manifestos on where they feel the present spirit of art is going wrong and what they think it ought to be doing in order to improve and 'get it right'

I now have an idea for an article to develop on the future of Musical Theatre.
I am very crtical of musical theatre in its present state, not because I hate the medium but because I love it. I have a clear picture of what I think contemporary Musical Theatre could be doing and see what musical theatre could and should be doing today (alongside the present forms in which it exists if not instead of them) and know how wonderful it would be to see it doing that so I will enjoy pontificating on the concept and receiving (even being influenced by) the feedback of others on those ideas. Watch this space.

Sunday, 26 June 2011

petty dictator

she's a little dictator that tells everyone what to do and how to do it all the time and that makes everyone around resentful towards her but she blames them and denegrates their character for not observing her ways.

she won't take advice she only gives advice
constantly
any opportunity she gets she gives advice

thing is

if all her idiotic rules and routines made her a happy person I would be the first to volunteer as an apprentice to learn her magical ways of freedom and happiness... but the fact remains that she's the most miserable person I know, so she's the last person whose example I'd follow.

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Chillin like a villain, all good in the hood

So I'm just chillin' at the university mature students' union, typing up notes after notes trying to reduce the massive accumulating pile of papers, half papers, and the like that always seem to rapidly be accumulating around me into some digestible printed-out version that can actually be used towards such ends as writing articles, books, plays, or who knows.

It feels good throwing old bits of paper away, I can reduce 2-5 into a side of printed A4, nice one.