Category Archives: my life as aesthete

Book on my Christmas list

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Michael

Its the nicely titled ‘Riding with Rilke’ by Ted Bishop. Here’s (what I think is) the opening paragraph: It wasn’t a mid-life crisis: it was mid-life money. I had inherited some cash and was desperately afraid I would do something … Continue reading →

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University life

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Michael

Here’s two photographs. One is of a part of Cambridge University (Cambridge is where I live) and the other is of one of the (many) Middlesex University Campuses in North London (I work for Middlesex Uni but not at this … Continue reading →

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The last night of the Proms

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Michael

I looked away, I felt sick. I was watching David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch, with typewriters turning into ghastly monsters dripping foul fluid. After the end late tonight, I turned on the radio to blow away the nightmare images and I … Continue reading →

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Rhythmic Thrust at Man in the Moon

Posted on September 3, 2006 by Michael

Youth from Hills Rd Sixth Form College in Cambridge and probably other places converged on music pub Man in the Moon the other night for a fest of strangely retro bands, among them Rhythmic Thrust which includes my entire personal … Continue reading →

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A groovy Middlesex Prof

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Michael

One so far surviving Middlesex professor is Susan Melrose, dance and arts theorist with a nice website

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