[This Is Not Here]

• Right then - for a while now I've been trying to get my uni to agree to let me organise a guest lecture series of about 3 lectures next academic year. My Fine Art course claims to be a multi-disciplinary course, but most of the guest lectures are by strictly visual artists. So, my intention is for my uni to put their money where their mouth is and over the reigns to me for a bit, as I organise some lectures/performances etc. by musicians. Particularly lyricists and writers, I feel they may benefit alot of the artists on my course who're a bit tangled up in their own thoughts. For alot of these artists it'd be really helpful for them to hear from someone who's practiced in getting these thoughts onto paper, and within certain parameters (hence the music part). Also, some of these speakers could demonstrate the links between visual/conceptual art practice and music, the similarities in creative processes blah blah. This concept seems to be a bit beyond many students on my course, a fustration for me when I present my own work...
• Anyway, today I got a verbal agreement from the tutor in charge, that the uni would support me organising this (pay them etc.). All I need to do is send him a bloody good proposal of who I want to lecture and why. I want to host 3 lectures, but only 2 seem like really good choices. Number 1 is Scroobius Pip - number 2 is Lydia Lunch - not too attainable agreed, but Lydia is a friend of a friend of the tutor's (I was delighted to learn) so if we speak to the right people and organise around her travels, she's possible, certainly.
• But who else, SYG?