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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
new york new york new york
… so good they named it thrice. I certainly didn’t…. As schedules dictated I arrived in New York on Friday, worked on Saturday and then...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
The Man Who Drank the Universe (again)
Thinking about my upcoming pilgrimage to Brazil, I dug out a master copy of The Man Who Drank the Universe and uploaded it to Vimeo, to...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
tarnation
TARNATION My iPod just did it again. More beautiful New York boys this evening in Jonathan Caouette’s “Tarnation “. Broken, nervy,...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Holy Island: Spring Section
I don’t think I’ve been to Holy Island in that particular slice of Spring before. There seems to be a week just towards the beginning of...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
"peace came upon me and it leaves the weak so sleep silent angel, go to sleep" k.d.lang
Pina Bausch died and I didn’t find out till a week later. Dancer: Julie Anne Stanzak. B?hne von Peter Pabst UA Wuppertal 1982 No creator...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
om aim saraswatiyeh namah om
This was probably the thing I’ve been most proud of in my life. At the end of almost a year’s work on these two pieces for the...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Repeat x 108: “I give myself permission to put myself first”
My therapist gave me this mantra: “I give myself permission to put myself first” – and I’ve been rotating around it for a couple of weeks...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Curtain Call Envy
Curtain Call Envy I was wondering about curtain-call envy. Went with my folks and brother to see “Anything Goes” on Drury Lane last...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
we sing in the darkness we open our eyes (open up)
Coming back from the Isle of Wight, I listened to my iPod and heard in quick succession three tracks that have enormous significance in...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
“See God, Kai”
I’ve got the whole summer booked filming a couple of property shows all along the South Coast of the UK. So spent the last two weeks in...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Went with Gary to the Barbican to see Robert Wilson. Tom Waits. William Burrough's The Black Ri
Went with Gary to the Barbican to see Robert Wilson/Tom Waits/William Burrough’s The Black Rider. So I was a little apprehensive about...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
BRASILIEROS
BRASILIEROS Once I started listening there’s a whole cascade of greats: it’s like discovering a whole parallel history of music in a...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Hadron
Sara and I went to Aldeburgh for the day and saw a great exhibit in an abandoned RAF hangar by Kathrine Sandys and then some interesting...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
for those of you with a meditative and hi-tech turn of mind
I’ve finally managed to record one of the classes I teach in Kensal Rise, should anyone be interested. I’ll be archiving all the four...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
A new note on Ayahuasca
It’s been four years since I drank ayahuasca. When I arrived back in Brazil this November to drink again, I met a handful of people who...
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