Dear Blogger,
I know I've been neglecting you lately. I have been distracted with all things life shaped and now here is a list of things to come/things that have been inspiring me.
First thing to mention is: for all you literary lovers out there the next Bad Language event coming up. It will be on Wednesday 26th January starting at 7.30pm in The Castle Hotel in the Northern Quarter, Manchester. The event will be jam packed with open mic performances, Bad Language performances and the special special guest David Gaffney. If you want to come along sign up on facebook or just come along, the event is free so more money for booze!
From the start of the new year I've been taking inspiration from photography; trying my hand at my own amateur photos and looking at professional photos. I got a digital camera from my boyfriend for christmas that can take decent photos of scenery - so if you want to check out my weak attempt at photography look here. Alternatively, if you want to check out decent photography - I've been following these guys on twitter for a while and they've put some pretty amazing stuff up.
Something interesting that I've been looking at a lot more recently is my friend's fashion blog - Bow Dream Nation. I'm not that interested in fashion but I like looking at the pretty pictures and she usually has cute accessories.
A project which I'm excited about this year is something every day. It's a website originally run by performance poet Max Wallis in which he attempted to write a piece of poetry everyday. For the duration of 2011 the website is being guest hosted by various writers/poet/small press for a period of time each. Bad Language will be hosting it for May 2011 so we'd better get writing! I'm working on a birthday themed one to upload on my birthday.
My favourite comic of 2010 (meaning what I read in 2010 not what was release in 2010!) is Y The Last Man written by Brian K Vaughan. The premise is that all the men are suddenly wiped from the world in mysterious circumstances; all except one man. The man that's left, Yorick, is a bit of a bum with no true direction in life, and a trained escape artist. He spends the whole series searching for his girlfriend who he was about to propose to when the disaster happened. I like how this novel plays with stereotypes and the battle of the sexes, it gets you thinking about how well woman would be able to survive without men and what changes would happen. For example the writer explores the idea that once all the men are dead there is no electricity and all manual labour trades fall apart.
My current book, which is a mammoth book I started for 2011, is Homicide by David Simon. It is described as a true crime classic; detailing the journey of a journalist who spent a year on the street with the homicide police in Balitmore. If anyone has seen the TV show The Wire, it is based on this book. I'm loving getting my teeth sunk into this book because the writing style is literary and although the events are distressing it's not written to manipulate.
So that's my update for today. I need to finish writing a piece for the Bad Language event on Wednesday. I can't decide on what the maximum length of a performance piece should be.
I know I've been neglecting you lately. I have been distracted with all things life shaped and now here is a list of things to come/things that have been inspiring me.
First thing to mention is: for all you literary lovers out there the next Bad Language event coming up. It will be on Wednesday 26th January starting at 7.30pm in The Castle Hotel in the Northern Quarter, Manchester. The event will be jam packed with open mic performances, Bad Language performances and the special special guest David Gaffney. If you want to come along sign up on facebook or just come along, the event is free so more money for booze!
From the start of the new year I've been taking inspiration from photography; trying my hand at my own amateur photos and looking at professional photos. I got a digital camera from my boyfriend for christmas that can take decent photos of scenery - so if you want to check out my weak attempt at photography look here. Alternatively, if you want to check out decent photography - I've been following these guys on twitter for a while and they've put some pretty amazing stuff up.
Something interesting that I've been looking at a lot more recently is my friend's fashion blog - Bow Dream Nation. I'm not that interested in fashion but I like looking at the pretty pictures and she usually has cute accessories.
A project which I'm excited about this year is something every day. It's a website originally run by performance poet Max Wallis in which he attempted to write a piece of poetry everyday. For the duration of 2011 the website is being guest hosted by various writers/poet/small press for a period of time each. Bad Language will be hosting it for May 2011 so we'd better get writing! I'm working on a birthday themed one to upload on my birthday.
My favourite comic of 2010 (meaning what I read in 2010 not what was release in 2010!) is Y The Last Man written by Brian K Vaughan. The premise is that all the men are suddenly wiped from the world in mysterious circumstances; all except one man. The man that's left, Yorick, is a bit of a bum with no true direction in life, and a trained escape artist. He spends the whole series searching for his girlfriend who he was about to propose to when the disaster happened. I like how this novel plays with stereotypes and the battle of the sexes, it gets you thinking about how well woman would be able to survive without men and what changes would happen. For example the writer explores the idea that once all the men are dead there is no electricity and all manual labour trades fall apart.
My current book, which is a mammoth book I started for 2011, is Homicide by David Simon. It is described as a true crime classic; detailing the journey of a journalist who spent a year on the street with the homicide police in Balitmore. If anyone has seen the TV show The Wire, it is based on this book. I'm loving getting my teeth sunk into this book because the writing style is literary and although the events are distressing it's not written to manipulate.
So that's my update for today. I need to finish writing a piece for the Bad Language event on Wednesday. I can't decide on what the maximum length of a performance piece should be.
