Comments on: A Specific Guilt

By: henri

henri — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:52:07 +0000

I have to rise to the defense of the mobile showerhead. Without it, I could never clean my shower as quickly and thoroughly as I do.

Vive la nozzle du douche!

By: homing

homing — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:34:26 +0000

Thank you again for bringing us Leipziger the wonderful evening last Tuesday. It shall remain and linger, and how we expect you to revisit sometime. Oh, and once again an invitation to Taiwan as well. best regards.

By: willnyc

willnyc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:39:39 +0000

Most choreography by M.Morris includes a large man in high heels and a big wig – wouldn’t fit in my NYC bathroom. Damn. Also, will probably never stop chuckling at “S. Esa-Pekka Merkersdóttir.”

By: sfmike

sfmike — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:38:07 +0000

There’s an odd 2002 art film from Scotland called “Morvern Callar” where Samantha Morton’s boyfriend commits suicide on Christmas, she wakes up hungover and discovers him, chops his body up and buries him, and then takes the money he’s left her for an extended holiday in timeshare land in southern Spain with a female friend. That’s when the movie starts to be genuinely disturbing.

By: Judd

Judd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:36:06 +0000

I will bet you like twenty dollars that some composer who reads your blog sets that advertisement within the next year. Twenty American dollars. You will get an e-mail asking you for it. It’s probably happened already, pay up.

By: charles sullivan

charles sullivan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:38:58 +0000

the sub-plot is just as engaging as the main. the ‘ball cancer’ took me a back too. that actress has the right stuff.

By: CharlotteHiggins

CharlotteHiggins — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:35:23 +0000

The correct formulation for what you get when you apply pressure to (usually smoked) aubergine (or eggplant as you will have it) is caviar, satisfyingly.\n\nThe Nozzle of Despair reminds me of The Bench of Desolation – isn’t that a short story by James?\n\n– Charlotte Higgins, chief arts writer, the Guardian

By: MaPeel

MaPeel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:47 +0000

Learn something new every day: Nico is an Law & Order fan! It is such a shame you are not in NY. We at the Paley Center are having a Law & Order reunion event on Monday with Dick Wolf, and S. Epatha Merkerson will be there. I’ll be tweeting the public event http://twitter.com/paleycenter on 11/16 at 6:30 p.m. ET

By: charles sullivan

charles sullivan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:09 +0000

i was a bit off center with ‘ball cancer’ myself. that sub-plot is as potent as the main as it’s on-going. she’s a riveting actress.

By: Martijn Duiven

Martijn Duiven — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:54:34 +0000

It was nice chatting with you after the show last night! Next time you play in Eindhoven I’ll stay for another drink. \n\nHow was Wonders? I wish I knew how in the world you pull that off live.

By: AHB

AHB — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:45:09 +0000

Between the comedy mustache & the ball cancer & droopy nozzle of despair discussion, I found this post to be both necessary & containing deep Freudian implications that I am only now starting to explore.\n\nxo,\nAHB

By: Christian Ulf-Hansen

Christian Ulf-Hansen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:04:42 +0000

Nico, the Nozzle of Depair is also a recurring (comedic, yet tragic) theme for me, when travelling with my acts or on business. Being roughly six foot tall, as Samuel Becker describes above, means that just getting your head under the (usually dribble like) shower, is a feat of complicated contortionist pain that would be good training for Cirque De Soleil. I personally think that it is all a Grand scheme developed by very short engineers and designers who flunked useful employment and reluctantly ended up in shower design and secretly have a league table of “the worst designed shower fittings” which they gleefully give awards for at their annual Shower Designers of The Year awards in (probably) Cleveland, Ohio; and they are working in conjunction with shampoo manufacturers, Chiropractors and other companies in the subterfuge of making sure your shower is painful, messy and the least possible pleasant experience imaginable.\nForget Global Warming, lets do something important and free the world of this bondage and campaign for a worldwide “good shower” standard, with a Live Aid style gig, called “SHOWER AID”, with huge Telethons with donation phone lines to train good shower designers, civil unrest and boycotting of hotel chains..etc…\nOr, as we all probably will, we can just hope that the next hotel we go to, the shower will be better than the last one.. Hey ho. Christian

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:36:09 +0000

this makes me so happy

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:17:09 +0000

If you weren’t the sort of person who’s given to breaking down actions into all their parts I don’t see how you could write the music you do.

Here’s the Ian Frazier piece:

http://bit.ly/4wQU01

By: Alberto

Alberto — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:51:42 +0000

Saw you the other night in Seville. It was absolutely amazing. It was the first time I listened to Bedroom Community music and it was perfect.
Thanks for that beautiful show, bye.