I had to seriously scrape myself out of bed this morning, and even brushing my teeth several times couldn't get out the vile taste of stale beer and chocolate cake. My head still hurts and I'm clamping one hand over one eye as I write. Thanks to everyone who came to the ArtHeat Birthday Party and X-Cape After Party. I had fun.
Now that I'm stuck in front of my computer (getting up seems an unwelcoming prospect) I want to catch up on some events of the last week which I've neglected to post about owing to mental fatigue and general dread. First off Lizza Littlewort's White Elephant at WITW... Well, what can I say, I'm not a fan of painting... I often find it an obscure and outdated language, but this show had an immediacy of message. I understand it caused some of the normal racial controversy, that is the whole 'white people shouldn't moan' thing. It's worth seeing though, even if you don't like whites, or maybe especially. On the same night I dropped by Headlines, the fourth year Michaelis students' fundraising exhibition, in spite of the shockingly ugly poster. I guess student art never changes, and while I can't say I was bored, one imagines that most students aren't giving their best work up for auction. I heard they made quite a packet, though, more than my my year made in it's entirety. Well done fourth years... now just make some good art. Friday had a whole new load of excitement... Andrew Lamprecht's review of Cape '07 was published in the M&G, but noticeably only mentioned one of the curators. ArtThrob was released, with Rat Western's inevitable rebuttal to Michael Smith, in a debate which Nathaniel Stern dubbed "Smith & Western" (like the gun, but hardly as hot). Also, was my first international listing (if I may be so bold), which made me almost as happy as Ed's Diary, which was very funny this month, especially the story about a certain canary and it's relation to a lecturer.

Ok, I won't bore you with more links. I was going to write about the X-Cape Circuit now, but I'll wait till I'm less hungover and not compensating for it by being so goddamn chirpy.