Laura Seabrook's Ramblings

What a mixture of things.

I missed the Memorial service for the Trans Day of Remembrance on Friday by an hour. It was listed as being on between 1-4pm and I got there (after getting lost) just after 2pm and discovered that the service had been 40 minutes long and started promptly at 1pm. :(

Not so with Still Fierce. Got there early for rehearsal and performed my presentation without any hitches. The event was quite good (seven performances all up) and I had the odd feeling I've read poetry there before (during the 2005 Queer Collaborations)! Had a lot of good comments about my Trans Tarot Cards which were on display (as were some of my TDOR related comics). Also met Norrie there and I will be uploading a performance by her that I videoed back at the Same Sex Marriage Demonstration a few months back.

The trip home on Sunday was long and tedious. I was going to pick up my art but I had to go to a bookshop in Newtown. I wanted to, but I missed a connection to get back to Barnsley by the last bus,and had I detoured to do so, it would have meant walking home with luggage for 12 km instead of "only" 6km when I got to the other end. In the result, I did walk 6km from Glendale carrying a suitcase. I was totally overheated and STUFFED when I got home.

Found some dog poo when I got back, but nothing as bad as when I'd got back from QC earlier this year. Nice to be home and sleep in my own bed.

I'm off to see Laurie Anderson performing Homeland Monday night at the Sydney Opera House.

I missed the Cure, who toured Australia earlier this year. I had wanted to see them again (last seen the week before I flew to Phuket back in 2000) but just didn't have the money, and felt ill at the time (I know highlandish saw them twice). Besides, while I thoroughly enjoyed the 2000 concert, I had a seat way back in a very rear row - and without binoculars it was like listening to one of their albums, but with poorer sound.

Anyway, late this week I learnt that she was appearing at the Opera House the coming Monday, and decided to make that my birthday treat. Should be fun. I'll be leaving early (show starts at 7:30pm) and checking out the JULIE RRAP: BODY DOUBLE exhibition at the MCA first, and maybe dinner somewhere in between.