Caught up with the Edinburghers and one Leither on Saturday night. LOVE them. Tall (as a minority but we’ll give it to the group), thin (completely as a rule), gorgeous and perfectly sociable. Hope I fared well enough to merit a second go-round. Not sure that I made the grade as, unfortuantely per usual when meeting new people, I was a tad shy (YES I CAN BE SHY!!! Yeesh! Lay off!); also shockingly sleepy and called it quits early. No reflection on them.

Saw the Finnegans Wake show (Shem the Sham?). Significantly less comprehensible than I’d expect. Exhuberant, definitely. But I was still disappointed. After 13 years of breaking down the text I rather hoped he’d be able to ellucidate each idea enough that we’d be saved the effort of puzzling through the gibberish. Perhaps it needs a fuller multi-media effort with full cast and animation? I do still believe it can be done. Not easy, but possible. Certainly Adam Harvey deserves and gets a hat tip for both the herculean effort required just to memorize the damn thing and as a performer. Kudos. He thoroughly engages the audience as an assortment of clearly defined fully expressed different people. Superb use of the barely a costume black suit and lighting.

Matriculated today. The horses (us) are out of the gate and the race is on! I’m hoping I can keep up. Tomorrow we get a tour of the facilities, Wednesday we begin class. No rest for the wicked, they say. So why can’t I get any? Hahaha.

One Response to “Meet the Scots, Day 1”

1. Lisa Says:
   August 8th, 2006 at 7:14 am

   Now we know the divine Ms Lesley Rankine is Scottish, but did you know that David Byrne is too??
   Lesley is currently scotside- yes I will be out there soon with my stalker gear.

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