things i've seen and done over the last 3 years

so this list is arts and culture specific. As its 3 years worth - hopefully the ones i'll remember will be events that will have made an impact on me (either that or my memorys getting worse than i thought) Just to clarify, i'm using arts and culture in the broadest sense....and these are the highlights, not the entirety - i haven't spent the last 3 years just lazing on the sofa you know

• pet shop boys at hammersmith - ever since west end girls - they put the drama into pop
• goldfrapp at hammersmith - Alison Goldfrapp, the woman is a legend: a coat made of feathers, a harlequin outfit that looked like a cup cake, her own wind machine
  
• madrid - amazing galleries, especially the Reina Sofia where i couldn't believe i could find all of the art i love under 1 roof: rauschenberg, guernica, calder, miro, Tàpies and Jean Tinguely's kinetic machines just in time for a fiesta: dancing at night in the streets with a brass band
• doing printmaking again - morley college - the smell of the ink
  
• henry moore - tate britain - wonderful to see but can't beat the open air as the man intended at sculpture park and kew
• turner prize - the one prize which everone loves to hate
  
• priscilla queen of the desert - when it first opened, loved the film, loved the musical
• truck festival, oxford: bellowhead a band you can't help but jig to
• milan - fashion, duomos and apperitivo time
• london school of samba - they're not kidding when they say its the most difficult latin dance
  
• Pet Shop Boys and choreographer Javier De Frutos - sadlers wells - the most incredible thing - need I say more?

things i'm looking forward to so far: miro at the tate, free summer festivals on the south bank or anywhere come to that matter, matthew bournes nutcracker

so where have I been for the last 3 years?

ok, see my first post? thats a prime example of how not to blog! but i am assured that 23 things gives me an opportunity to get this out of my system. so time to come clean - i set up this blog at a training session and was really keen to carry on and use it for my work. But as you can see, i haven't really had a chance to do this - for a number of reasons which i now feel the need to justify
1) i've been studying part time and working full time for the past couple of years
2) i also started printmaking again and have taken up pilates (but no, not at the same time)
3) i discovered a number of tv box sets
4) i've re-tiled my kitchen floor and my bathroom
so yes i'll agree that the re-tiling excuse is a bit feeble, what you really want to know is in terms of art and culture what have i been up to, after all that is supposed to be the recurrent theme.....so in the spirit of being inactive for a few years, i'll use the opportunity for another post