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Douglas Kahn at the MCA

Douglas Kahn, noted academic and theorist, will be speaking at the Museum of Contemporary Art this Thursday 19th November from 6.30 – 8.00pm.

Bookings are essential, to reserve your place please email the MCA or call the number listed below.

The November Art Monthly Australia ‘Arts of Sound’ edition guest edited by Douglas Kahn, which also includes a DVD of works by Australian artists, will be on sale at a special one-off lecture event price of $8 each or 2 for $15.

Also listen to Douglas Kahn on ‘New Music Up Late’ with Julian Day (prerecorded) this Saturday night (14th) on ABC Radio National 10:30pm to 12:30pm. The show will be available online for four weeks.

I contributed a review of Severed Heads’ Adenoids box set to the current issue of Art Monthly Australia. Tom Ellard has written a response. If I have time I may write something about that here, but I’ll probably just discuss it with him over a beer.

catch up

We have a two week break from classes, so I’m looking forward to catching up on writing, paperwork and sleep (I can’t sleep before 3am, so the morning classes have been killing me).

In social network news, I left Facebook a few months ago cos it was taking up too much time and is, let’s face it, evil. Twitter has had a lot of hype recently, so I’m checking it out again, although I’m still unconvinced.

I keep vacillating between privacy and openness online, deleting or hiding info, then showing it again. Right now I’m back on Flickr, Last.fm and YouTube, and have also created a YT channel for Alias Frequencies.

One thing I’ve noticed about del.icio.us is that making your network private means that the people you’re following can no longer see that you’re following them. I’m sorry if I offended anyone who thought I’d stopped following them!

Lastly, my blog recommendation for today is the hilarious rantings of Tom Ellard. For someone who was always anti-blogging, he’s a great blogger!

OK, break over, back to writing! Schnell schnell!