Damn, I knew I should have gone to Fabric on Saturday night, even though recently I’ve hated going out to big places like that and I was already coming down with the nasty throat illness I seem to have now got properly. I should have gone to Fabric and heard Ellen Allien playing records. Should have done that, should have braved the scary club and cancelled the other arrangements, and just listened to the music. The lady’s a bit of a genius.

Talking of the other kind of fabric, the kind I buy from Hamid For Fabrics, I read Contemporary magazine the other day and there was a fantastic article by Emily Bick about Julian and Sophie’s school of pattern cutting. If it really is as straightforward as they say it is, then I’ll be wearing all my own creations by Christmas. Mind you, they’ve only tested it out so far on RCA students. Unfair advantage there, I think. If it really is as punk rock and DIY as that, then spatially challenged writer-musicians like me are the perfect guinea pigs.

I’ll start here and see what happens….
http://freespace.virgin.net/sophie.cheung/school/basics/index.htm

Just as long as I don’t end up looking like Chicks on Speed.