April 2009
22 posts
Thursday 1st Week
It’s May Day Eve. Get ready for…
Definitely worth the trip down the towpath. Turn left after the Head of the River and keep going straight to the horizon.
2pm/7pm - King Lear - OFS - £10/£7 concession. Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Ever been embarrassed that you haven’t seen or read it? Now’s your chance - Go!
7pm - His Dark Materials (Parts 1&2) - Oxford Playhouse. £25-£45...
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Gritty voiced melodic...
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WORKSHOP and COMPETITION: SUPER8
Comma Club are following the lead of http://www.straight8.net, a brilliant competition in which entrants are given a sealed analogue film, and told to produce an unedited short. What is Super8? You know those bits in movies where the lead is watching old home videos and sobbing into her big pack of Kettle Chips? The ones with beautifully saturated colours and...
Wednesday 1st Week
Get your 5 a day! Musical and theatrical treats galore
1.10pm- Trinity Term Organ Recitals - Queens, Free with retiring collection 6.30pm - The Next Big Thing - The Final: Echo Boomer, InLight, Beck Lanehart, Quadrophobe and Witches in a heated head-to-head. O2 Academy 7pm - King Lear - OFS - £10/£7 concession. Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Ever been embarrassed that you haven’t seen...
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
No one...
Tuesday 1st Week
Science is the new art.
1pm/4pm/9pm - In The Loop, The Phoenix Picture House
7pm - King Lear - OFS - £10/£7 concession. Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Ever been embarrassed that you haven’t seen or read it? Now’s your chance - Go!
9pm - The Rabbit Foot Spasm Band, The Bullingdon Arms. New Orleans pre hurricane.
Museum of the History of Science: Curved Glass
New glass sculptures...
Bat For Lashes - Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
I...
Monday 1st Week
Film, film and more film. How voyeuristic.
Modern Art Oxford: Transmission Interrupted
Fourteen international artists explore what remains unseen, unspoken and unrepresented when freedom of speech is invoked as a universal value. Until 21st June.
Make sure you catch the last couple of days of:
‘Oxdox Documenting the Real World’
International Documentary Film Festival...
A plus D: Decepta-Freak-On (Missy Elliot vs. Le...
“Some girls
Were having a chat.
A pervert
Stared at them.”
– Tim Key
Kate Bush - Sexual Healing
Is this right?
On the precipice
If I was to die right now, suddenly, unexpectedly, and I could crystallise that moment, the one right before allowing the inevitable gravitous force to pull me into its centre, these would be my thoughts:
My dog, Shep, licking my fingers for the traces of pepperoni from my snack earlier, the last living thing to sense my presence on this earth. Your warm breath steaming up the windows on my...