Archive for September, 2007
A Propos of Nothing
Scene: A grocery store in Southern Ontario
OM: Excuse me, where do you keep the tahini?
Adolescent Stock Boy: The tzatziki?
OM: No, tahini. It’s a sesame street paste.
ASB: Sesame Street?
OM: Yes, sesame street.
ASB: [obviously wondering if Miss Mussel is suffering from some sort of mental defect]
OM: Oh no! Wait. I meant sesame seed.
ASB: Sesame seed…oh, [...]
Sehr Interessant
Alex Ross kindly pointed the way the other day to a very interesting collection of videos made by the Arnold Schoenberg Center. There are 42 in total including a short one of the composer’s camera-shy daughter giving a bit of a tour. Well at least it looks like a tour. Miss Mussel’s German [...]
Sunday Evening at the Theatre: The Interview
The Omniscient Mussel Theatre is proud to present a fabulous one act play provisionally entitled The Interview.
Dramatis personae
Distinguished Professor - a well known expert on Shostakovich and, as it turns out, semiotics.
Somewhat Younger Professor - a quintessentially British academic, stammering, fumbling, hair constantly falling in the eyes, razor sharp wit.
Miss Mussel - PhD candidate, forthright [...]
KW Symphony: Safely On The Road To Recovery
Friday, 14th September 2007
Centre In The Square
KWS: Edwin Outwater, baton
There was a buzz about the place on Friday evening as the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony launched what the marketing department has styled a New Era of Music. The KWS is understandably desperate to erase the past three years from the minds of its patrons and if Friday [...]
On Mountains and Molehills
On Saturday, The Guardian published a story about the 1994 Turner Prize quoting British artist Antony Gormley.
“Any of us could have won,” Antony Gormley says of the artists shortlisted in 1994. “All of us have made important contributions to contemporary art.” He dislikes the “gladiatorial” way in which artists are pitted one against another, and [...]
Getting To Know You
On Miss Mussel’s last trip to London, she had the good fortune to discover a used bookshop in South Ken with a basement full of treasure. After spending an hour or so considering various volumes of poetry and history, the prize find came into view. Letters To Beethoven & Other [...]
Sunday Afternoon In The Stacks
Miss Mussel spent a good part of today in the university library slaving away on a book project. It is the day before classes start and there is an eerie calm about the place. Students are either recovering from a week of Frosh activity or only just arriving, smug in the knowledge that [...]
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