MAHLER’S GREAT SHAKE
Mahler’s 9th Symphony; Loren Maazel and the LSO. 21st June 2002 Mahler’s 9th is mysterious. The other symphonies – especially the early...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
the space behind the whatnot
Who would have thought being creative was so much fun? I who prevaricate at the drop of a teaspoon and find myself downstairs making...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
"I am teaching myself perfect freedom…the great first principle is that the clamour of th
My trip to Brazil was comically short. Only four and a half days before I got in a cab and rode back to Salvador airport, changed my...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
REVIEW: Radiohead
Earls Court, November 27th 2003 Not being there at the right time. That’s a potent fear that’s stalked my life for many years. The fear...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
on the beauty of scaffolding and the privacy of buildings
For anyone who’s been following, this summer has been a fallow one for this blog. Not for me – it’s actually been the most fruitful...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Perfect failure. (Malick, Tree of Life)
Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is either brilliant or dreadful. I refuse to decide. For a long time I felt compelled by deep inner...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Written in pink lipstick / 7th July London
Written in pink lipstick on the pale yellow tiles of the Ladies loo at the Cross: THEIR SORDID LOVE OF DEATH IS AS NOTHING NEXT TO OUR...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Nutcracking babies
NUTCRACKING BABIES Just back from Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! at Sadlers Wells. And that exclamation mark just about sums it up. It was...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
wiosna przysz?
I start to sniff out for signs of Spring earlier and earlier every year. Convinced that deep underground the bulbs and seeds are spinning...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Whooping
me jumping and screaming to ‘the big curve’ at david byrne’s RFH concert [source]
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
What pride taught me
Today was Gay Pride. I learned a lot. 1) when faced with complete technical meltdown in the radio studio and an open mike to the airwaves...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
The Birth of the Blog
The Birth of the Blog Gadzooks. The Earth moved and there was Blog. All on a dreary morning in NW10. Who would have thought it. (Should...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
immer mündlicher und königlicher
Went to meet a friend in the Orangery in Kensington Gardens and made an effort to get there early, on my bicycle. It was a damp, cold...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Note on Florence
Having travelled back through Pisa I wonder whether my strange mood was more to do with Florence than a imbalance of deities. Back in...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
“deixa-me encantar/ com tudo teu e revelar/ o que vai acontecer /nesta noite de esplendor̶
It’s been a while since I’ve written in here about ayahuasca. This is partly because the work I’ve been doing there, in Brazil, has been...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Loving Dubbya
I’ve been watching the American election coverage mainly through blogs and Facebook postings of my friends over there and I’m reminded of...
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