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Wasps, Wolves and Walsall
January 06, 2006

There was a bloody wasp in my bedroom this morning! What the hell is that doing there at this time of year? The temperature is forecast to reach a maximum of 4 degrees centigrade today - Admittedly it's warmer than that indoors... but still... where did it come from? It's not as though the window is open.. It's not right!

Found a couple of galleries I'd like to visit next time I'm in the Midlands. The Eagle Works, in Wolverhampton, don't have any exhibitions listed for ths year yet and is mainly a collection of studios.

The New Art Gallery in Walsall houses some intersting works by Modigliani and Jacob Epstein amongst other things. Walsall is also the birthplace of Jerome K. Jerome

Talking of art... This piece in the Independent reports how we are all becoming art collectors these days. It mentions Newcastle's Biscuit Factory, Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery and the Arts Council's Own Art scheme. No mention for Britart though!

I'm trying to find time to read all of Dan Hill's piece on The Future Of Music - particularly like the link to this BBC piece about John Ousby spotting the iPod's similarity to the Regency TR-1. A small transistor radio, released in 1954, which came in several different pastel colours and was marketed with the incredibly contemporary-sounding mantra, "See It! Hear It! Get It!". Importantly, it meant the newly emerging teenagers could take their music out of the parentally-controlled living room too.

Hyperdrive: New Nick Frost [Spaced etc] comedy on BBC2 from 11th Jan. I just want to know why their ship is called the Camden Lock?

Give It Up is a collection of nine paranoid tales by Franz Kafka adapted to stark, black-and-white comics by Peter Kuper. More than just straight adaptations, these clever interpretations of Kafka's tales bring out the dark humor latent in Kafka's work, better known for its despair and somberness.

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