Home and hope.

Thank you all so much for your help! And your comments or emails. I will find somewhere to live. Oh yes.
But right now, a joke;

“I had a chicken tarka last night, it was like a tikka only a little otter”.

Hahahahahhahahahahahahaha.

Billy Connolly goes to Intacto, and meets Barbwire.

On his tour of New Zealand, Billy Connolly is told that the kiwi bird sleeps for twenty hours a day (the rest of the time it spends foraging … for bargains?). On an earlier trip to a zoo Billy observed that Baboons spend a lot of their time masturbating. He therefore came to the following conclusion; if there is such a thing as re-incarnation, the best thing to come back as would be a creature that is half kiwi and half baboon. It would sleep for 20hrs a day and spend the remaining 4 masturbating.
Saw the film ‘Intacto’ the other night. ‘The Cooler’ with W.H.Macy copies the opening scene almost exactly. It’s a film about wrestling with personal feelings of guilt and regret whilst trying to come to terms with tragedy. How do you define luck? Lucky are those with a clean conscience, it would seem. And they are nowhere to be seen. We all find our own forms of therapy. I’m not sure mine would take the form of taking part in a race through a wood, blindfolded and with my hands tied behind my back, though. I liked it. It was cold. Sorta like ‘The Sweet Hereafter’.
‘Barbwire’ on the other hand was quite, quite different. I watched the opening with my nan. When I commented on the lack of material covering Pam Anderson’s breasts my gran said; “That’s to draw attention away from her bum”. Then told me, if my greatgrandma was watching, she’d have said that Anderson’s dress was less a “get up, more a go-to-bed”! Classic.
I showed Beata at work a photo of Aynsley today. She said; “wow, very pretty Canadian girl”. And I said yea. Yea she is. Then I walked home.

Ancient Art to Post Modern.

So I missed the RA show. I will have to peruse the book. Time caught up with me, overtook me and I’ve had too many beautiful, sad thoughts in my head of late to really appreciate it of late. It’s been CRAZY busy at work this week. Christmas parties and dinners aplenty. Will anyone see the Degas, Communicate and Faces in the Crowd shows with me? National Gallery, Barbican and Whitechapel. All bases covered in the new year. Otherwise I’ll so blatantly miss them, as I have everything else since Hopper. Boohoo.
Alain De Botton says that; “A messy house is a sign of a robust inner state – it requires strength and courage of mind. The houses that are tidy, these are the homes of the psychologically brittle.” Here here!

Joke!
Whats the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scotsman?
The Rolling Stones sing; “Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!” whilst the Scotsman sings; “Hey! McCloud! Get off of my ewe!”.