1. Derek Walcott’s new collection of poetry, White Egrets. If you thought there was nothing new to say about the drizzle, read this. If you had lost faith in poetry, read Joshua Mehigan, and this.

2. The BBC’s new Sherlock Holmes series. High on local London flavour, gay innuendo, and quick thinking. Forget James Bond.

3. The trinity of late-night entertainment: the elephant of surprise, the margarine of error, and the sauce of entertainment.

4. The fact that someone in Berlin can yell “Hinsetzen, Fotze!” at a young woman who is blocking his view of a television screen at a WorldCup public viewing event and not get reprimanded.

5. Finance Minister Matthöfer’s retaliation when he was attacked by the leader of the 68ers in a talk show.

6. A song about cloning beans, gnus — and you.

7. The following response: “First, you are drunk. Second, this is not a waltz; it is the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman; I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima.” Read here what this was the response to.

8. Bach’s French Suite No. 2 in c minor. The opening Allemande is one of the most erotic pieces of music ever written …

9. … rivalled only by the beginning of Saint-Saens‘s second piano concerto.

10. And finally, watching someone dressed up as Lord Nelson walk across the cricket pitch outside the house. “History is now and England,” as they say.

PS: The book will come out in February. Stay tuned.

• Foto of the elephant of surprise by exfordy.

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super jib kidder 3000 vs. the squids is an unreleased concept album by the electronic music and video artist jib kidder. The rock opera score presents us with jib kidder as he’s captured in his garden palace and pulled down into a dystopic underwater world ruled by evil squids. jib kidder relies on his only weapon against the methamphetamine-pushing squids: a Casio SK-1 keyboard. Turns out that the SK-1 offers jib a special tool as he plans his attack: it has an internal microphone that records short samples of live sound.

jk is captured by the squids and forced to walk the plank. His powers of flight reveal themselves at the end of the plank, making it possible for jk to flee – but he returns to wage battle against his captors.

Is it the sounds squids high on meth make in real life, sampled and turned against them, that allows jib to succeed? Because he does – but loses his hands in the battle. The end of the squid story brings jk back to his garden palace, but the loss of his hands leaves us existentially adrift, weighing the cost of choosing action over passivity, of privileging knowledge over ignorance, and of coping with the heavy weight of survival. jk’s gamble is that even the most heroic choices may leave us with less than what we started with.

performance will take place on august 8, 2010 in the shaefer theater, bryan center, duke’s west campus

for ticket information click HERE
directions can be found HERE
accessibility information HERE
questions? email jes20 at duke dot edu

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