Daily Dose - Saturday 2nd Week

Happy saturday. Hope you don't have any work.

Emmy the Great is playing at the O2 academy, apparently she's really good.

6.30pm - Emmy The Great - Carling Academy - £7. Acoustic pop-ular music

http://www.myspace.com/emmythegreat

And this sounds bizarre, but good for urungatans (animals which I've always thought particularily hideous) e.g. this "flanged" male : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pongo-Headshot.jpg

7.30pm - Marcus Brigstock @ Orangaid - £18/£15 discounts - New Theatre. A comedy night in aid of Urungatan concerts! Go on - they're really orange and fluffy!

Daily Dose - Friday 2nd Week

Oops, a little late to day. sorry:

6pm - Boys Like Girls, The Metro Station, Every Avenue - Carling Academy - £10. U.S. talk of the town.

8pm - The Outcast Band, Jesse Gamage, Francie Jones, Elena Dana - Jericho Tavern - £5. Folk rock and acoustic

Daily Dose - Thursday 2nd Week

TODAY:

8pm - The Marmadukes - Bullingdon Arms - FREE. French rock and pop.

7.00pm - Magdalen Film Society, Rear Window (1954),
9.00pm - The Conversation (1974) - £3 non-members, Magdalen Auditorium.

7.30 pm - International Cinema Club: The Last Wave (Australia, 1977). Engineering Science Thom Building. Free for members, membership £7.50 per term/£15 per year.

8.00 - 9.30pm - Translation Festival featuring David Constantine, editor of 'Modern Poetry in Translation' magazine, as well as Simon Smith, poet-translator of Catallus. Hosted by OU Poetry Society - Teddy Hall Old Dining Hall, free to members of OU Poetry Society, otherwise £3, entry includes a glass of Sangria

9pm - Sparky's Flying Circus - The Half Moon - FREE. Weekly open music, comedy and song sessions.

8.30pm - Nitkowski, Shield Your Eyes, Hreda - Cellar - £5. Rocking.

CLUB: ECLECTRIC/// Baby love bar (with extra speakers and lighting).

"This edition features 3-hour sets from residents TJ Hertz and Ed Steele. There's no way of describing this that doesn't sound like terrible marketing hyperbole, but long sets are basically great and this is going to be super fun. We'll be recording the proceedings so keep your eyes on the facebook group for live mixes and what have you."
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=45149849764


Remember, If you have any art, writing, music, etc. then send it to curator@commaclub.co.uk and we'll put it up!

Daily Dose: Wednesday 2nd Week

Things today:

A poetry workshop:

8.00pm - Poetry Workshop with Oxford University Poetry Society - The Mitre

A french conversation evening (advertised on facebook as being 8.30am to 11am, in which case you've missed it, sorry, but I presume it's in the evening. Obviously):

8.30pm - French conversation evening - Christchurch bar - FREE

CLUB: ACTION STATIONS. Baby Love Bar

Daily Dose: Tuesday 2nd Week

You don't have to be arty every day of the week:

8pm - Lewis Carroll in Numberland - Professor Robin Wilson, Open University - Maths institute

"Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was an Oxford mathematician. If he had not written the Alice books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass), would he have been remembered as a mathematician? What mathematics did he do? How good was it? In this illustrated talk Professor Wilson will outline Dodgson's career as a mathematician and as a figure in Victorian Oxford."

paper view

Daily Dose: Monday 2nd Week

Two very good films on tonight:

7.30pm - Magdalen Film Society, Babettes's Feast (1987). £3 non-members, Magdalen Auditorium.
9.20pm - Magdalen Film Society, Sideways (2004). £3 non-members, Magdalen Auditorium.

They're classed under "The Senses". Ohhh.

8pm - Oxford Imps - The Wheatsheaf

CLUB: ((((-GLOBAL HOUSE WARMING-))) facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=61180380379

Sounds really good, and topical too.

Daily Dose: Sunday 2nd Week.

Hello.

Hope everyone who came to the workshop yesterday enjoyed it.

1.30 - 3.30pm - Creative writing course for women, £10, call 07985963880 for more information

2pm - Creative student writing group with the Failed Novelists Society - Teddy hall Welfare room

7.30pm - Magdalen Film Society, Mysterious Skin (2004). £3 non-members, Magdalen Auditorium.

8.15pm - St Anne's Film Society, The Pink Panther, Mary Ogilvie Lecture Room, FREE!

9pm - Sunday Roast, The Cellar. £4. Sweets, cake, games and bands.

Daily Dose: Saturday 1st Week

Like birds?

Help the RSBP record the bird species in the University Parks 'til 4pm. Wear a scarf. And covery yourself in seed.

COMMA EVENT:

5pm-7pm - PAPER/SCISSORS/COCKTAILS - Weaving, Origami and Tassel Making at the Corner Club on Turl St. FREE

8pm - Monkeysuit Music: A Genuine Freakshow, Peerless Pirates, Ute - The Jericho Tavern. £5.
Indie folk play music.

Daily Dose: Friday 1st Week

Commarmitinis for EVERYONE!





7.30pm - Magdalen Film Society, Man on Wire (2008), 9.15 The Edukators (2004). £3 non-members, Magdalen Auditorium.

Daily Dose: Thusday 1st Week

TONIGHT: Baby Love/Hate Bar - The COMMA LAUNCH at Never Say Never's Marmite Night.

8.30pm - Roddy Lumsden Poetry Reading - ODH Teddy Hall. £3

on the precipice

If I was to die right now, suddenly, unexpectedly, and I could crystallise that moment, the one right before allowing the inevitable gravitous force to pull me into its centre, these would be my thoughts:

My dog, Shep, licking my fingers for the traces of pepperoni from my snack earlier, the last living thing to sense my presence on this earth. Your warm breath steaming up the windows on my shoulder blades from which I view you pressed up, hugging my sleepy back.

The things that I have yet to accomplish: completing the shopping run in under 40 minutes, starting my own, hugely successful, internet business, spawned from the simplest, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that germ, gaining the respect of the young guy at the video shop (Why have my video choices been unable to live up to his standards?)

Remembering the shafts of light that I stare(d) at when lost for ideas at my desk, which projected particles and participles upon the very air itself, illuminating everything and nothing of my mind’s thoughts.

And all the bad and evil swooping down upon me, oh the things I’ve done! Thinking of my faults and deficits, as a father, husband, lover, writer, dog-owner, consumer, tv-watcher. Incapable of enjoying the informative and important documentary about third world genocide, flicking over to The Ten Most Insane Cop Chases Ever!. And of fulfilling my proper paternal duties to my daughter, which could only be ruined now I’m about to desert her forever? Forgetting to buy any dog food last week for 3 days in a row and watching him suffer. Guilty, guilty infidelity knocking against my conscience, knowing the consequences and refusing to accept responsibility for them. Still unable to truly feel what I ought.

And did I unload the dishwasher like you asked me to?

*Josie Thaddeus-Johns*

Daily Dose: Tuesday 1st Week

This town...is coming like a Ghost Town....

Oxford's a bit dead today.

A Seaweed Exhibition at the Museum of Natural History on Parks Road.

9pm - The High Turner Band - FREE, The Bullingdon Arms.

CLUB: KAPOW! at The Cellar.

FEATURING:

10 SCREAMING 66
http://www.myspace.com/screamingsixtysix

11 DJ COOKS
http://www.myspace.com/deejaycooks

Daily Dose: Monday 1st Week

I think the brilliant House of Books has No Windows is still in Modern Art Oxford for a few more days. Highly recommended.

AN evening bedded in the Gardeners Arms...

7.30pm - Magdalen Film Society: Merci Pour Le Chocolat (2000)
9.20pm - Nikkita (1990). £3 non-members, Magdalen Auditorium

7.30pm - The Imps - The Wheatsheaf - £3.

8pm - Hear The Word - Gardeners Arms - FREE. Poetry and storytelling.

9pm - Reservoir Cats - Bullingdon Arms - £10. Oxford blues band.

9pm - Samantha Twigg Johnson - Gardeners Arms - FREE. This novel artist doesn't sing ... she lets her soulful melodies do that for her.



Art - Faridah Newman

Daily Dose: Sunday 1st Week

Some musical morsels:

7pm. Frank Turner - O2 Academy Oxford - £9. 'Campfire punk rock'.

7pm. 15 Minute Club - The Living Room - FREE. Come and see new up-and-coming bands performing original material.

We're still collating everything for the term ahead. If you're part of a society that would like to be featured, please send an email with your termcard to curator@commaclub.co.uk - we'd also love PICTURES and SHORT STORIES.

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The great colleges of Turl Street have asked us to let you know about their Short Film competition, open to the whole university:

Send submissions to turl-street-shorts@hotmail.com by 31st January.

Heart of Darkness

Jack Orlik

It used to be warm.

Cosima Gretton

The eagerly awaited TERMCARD for HT '09...

HELLO. Hope everyone's had a lovely christmas. We've sorted out a termcard so you can see what's going on this term. If you want a termcard, go along to Never Say Never's Marmite Nite at Baby Love Bar on Thursday of 1st week.

Thursday of 1st week / 22nd Jan.
COMMA launch at Marmite Nite
Baby Love Bar / 9pm - 3am

Saturday of 1st Week / 24th Jan.
WORKSHOP: Weaving, Origami, and Tassel Making
FREE / Corner Club, Turl Street / 5pm - 7pm

Saturday of 3rd week / 7th Feb.
POETRY AND STORY READING: Comma in association with Etcetera.
/ Corner Club, Turl Street / 5pm - 7pm

Saturday of 5th week / 21st Feb.
WORKSHOP: Drawing with Laurence Wolff
£3 / Corner Club, Turl Street / 5pm - 7pm

Tuesday of 6th week / 24th Feb.
TALK: Nick Elliott (Co-founder of the South Bank Show)
£3 / Corner Club, Turl Street / 6pm - 7.30pm

Monday of 7th week / 2nd March.
Deadline for PostcARTe Competition
New College Porters' Lodge / 6pm

Saturday of 7th week / 7th March.
EXHIBITION: PostcARTe competition. Judged by Peter Laverack, international art dealer.
Corner Club, Turl Street / 5pm - 7pm