clarke, minghella. who forgets 2001: space odyssey after watching it? and I remember the intense experience of watching the english patient in the cinema when I was a child, and being thrilled with the movie adaptation of the talented mr. ripley.
hope the aliens find you in space, clarke.
thank you, minghella, for enabling me to discover the joys of movies that don't do all the thinking for me.
What one object/thing would you take if your house were on fire?
I would try and haul my entire bookshelf out the window.Or just throw out armfuls of books.
My cats can save themselves.
My family will be busy saving the one object/thing they could take if the house was on fire.
I would just save my library. My years of book hunting and gifts.
Or risk nightmares of flames feeding on all those pages' sighs, how those words that had always meant so much to me disappear letter by letter, turn away from me turn black, how they droop and curl into nothing.
We played our very first show last Sunday night at ’Ceritaku/Readings’, a gig series run by Bernice Chauly at No Black Tie. Not only were we the only girls onstage, the lineup made our heads bleed: Shaarad Kuttan, Peter Hassan Brown, Reza Zainal, Farish Noor & A. Samad Said. And us. PAK SAMAD OK.
Thank you everyone for showing up and giving overwhelmingly encouraging feedback. It was a lovely crowd, size and response. We are still swooning from being on the same bill as all those intimidating men.
We may not have been political (Shaarad), adorably lucky (Reza Zainal), spontaneously eloquent (Farish Noor) or imbued with the fierce fire of several decades (Pak Samad ok), but it was nice to know that we brought something different to the stage that night.
Thank you Bernice for having us.
Dizzy & The is all systems go, and to prove this we’re headlining a gig in The Arts House, Singapore, on March 10. This means we have to concoct a setlist almost twice as long as last night’s. Come see.
