Final thought of the day
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
- opening sentence of The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon.
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About this blog
It's over.
Ah... Do you want to know a bit more?
This blog was set up to chart my experience singing in Malaysia for two months (see below for the original 'About this blog' blurb) - and is over until the next time I do a stint in Asia, at least. At which point, I'll probably return to this page, slap a big '2' next to the words 'Lost In Transposition', and start blogging every day, all over again. In the meantime, I'll be writing weekly posts about life, the universe and jazz music over at the 'Blog' section of andreamann.com. Which is my main website, and where no pictures of my bottom exist.
My name is Andrea Mann and I'm a jazz singer and a freelance journalist. I live alone in London, England... except for February and March this year, when I'll be living in with approximately 300 other people in a hotel in Penang, Malaysia.
It's a five-star hotel with a pool, a spa and a jazz lounge. I'll be singing six nights a week in this jazz lounge, and the agent says I'll "be treated like a local celebrity". I'm imagining my experience might turn out to be a little like Lost In Translation. Hence the title. And the bottom.
This is going to be my blog about my adventures out there. I apologise in advance for making you click on my bottom to get to the homepage. Past posts
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February 5th, 2008 at 2.09am
how odd, to see a comment from the future, dated tomorrow. And how paradoxical that it should be about depression, which is a feeling of despair about getting through the day, and yet you are already in tomorrow.
February 5th, 2008 at 1.28pm
actually, a note on the timing of these posts: earlier on I was backdating them slightly sometimes if I was writing at, say, 2am - to make them 23:55 or whatever - because I wanted them to fall under the date that they were written at the end of. if you see what I mean. but as I’m writing so many at the end of the night like this, after doing gigs, then I figure it could get silly. so: the timestamp you see when you’re viewing a single post (ie at the end of said post) is correct. which still makes it ‘tomorrow’… but not by that much.
February 6th, 2008 at 2.30am
oh, thanks for clearing that up :O