Comments on: Perhaps You Are Made of Glass? Laurie Anderson, Zellerbach

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:37:56 +0000

I HATE intermittent tech problems. Things should work, or they should not. Anything else is a mystery. This is no place for mysteries.

I’m going to choose to blame Android rather than the mobile theme.

By: Dan Sumption

Dan Sumption — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:25:25 +0000

It is using the mobile theme. Weirdly enough, when I started writing this comment, it seemed fine again. I tried a few things that might trigger the strange behaviour – entering multiple lines, moving focus out of the text box & back in again – and after a little while the cursor seemed to shift by about half a character, but nothing like as misplaced as it was yesterday.

[Shrugs] one of those things.

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:47:37 +0000

Really well said Dan. I’d love to be her neighbor, or to hear what her and Julian Schnabel talk about over the back fence. I have a feeling she and Amy (my wife) would get along great.

That’s bizarre about Android and the textarea. Are you seeing the site via the mobile plugin, or the desktop view?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:27:48 +0000

Thanks for the writeup!

By: Dan Sumption

Dan Sumption — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:37:29 +0000

Sounds like you saw pretty much the same performance as she gave in Sheffield earlier this year, and you’ve nailed it, she’s like a good aged cheese. I think what made it so special for me was that there was an intense, albeit stripped-down, theatricality to the piece, which created a reverent environment, but then she wasn’t too proud to step out of that frame and be a funny, eccentric old woman once in a while.

I particularly appreciated her musings on death (“death is a way of bringing more love into the world”). And the jazz dog clips :)

[PS. not sure what sort of strange styling you've got going on in this text field, but it's almost impossible to type into in Android - some sort of weird kerning going on that makes the cursor appear about 5 letters away from where it actually is]