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Books read
None. Not a one. Maybe 100 pages of Justina Robson's Natural Selection which I didn't finish for Book Club in December. An issue of Empire magazine. A bunch of articles on the internet.
Films watched (9-20) (5 at the cinema, 4 DVD, 1 tv, 2 stream)
Byzantium
Coriolanus (Fiennes version)
Zodiac
Death To Smoochy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Philomena (rewatch)
Oldboy
Bridesmaids
Her
12 Years a Slave
Dallas Buyers Club
Coffee and Cigarettes
Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (2-7)
Coriolanus (NFT version at cinema, Hiddlestone)
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Itch (gig, Junction, Cambridge)
Sensing Spaces (architecture exhibition, Royal Academy, London)
Bill Bailey Unplugged (comedy, Leicester Square Theatre, London)
Avenue Q (musical, Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
Of Montreal (gig, Oval Space, London)
Books incoming 1 (reader copy)
In February I got rid of my cough enough to get out to the cinema and catch some of the Oscar nominees (still want to catch The Wolf of Wall Street) and beforehand got shown some fine DVDs some of which I hadn't known of before. I also got out to quite a lot of gigs etc. Taking the last week of Feb as annual leave helped with this :-)
Gigglesome: Bill Bailey, Avenue Q (but why does it have to take such accurate swipes, darn it? I thought I was special!)
Fab: Of Montreal. Amazing show, I saw poor reviews of it elsewhere because this is the stripped down version they're touring Europe with.
Good films: Her was not the painful unreconstructed 50's build-a-girlfriendbot story I had feared; Coffee and Cigarettes is full of awkward conversations; Zodiac was great; Philomena still good on a second viewing; Oldboy was brutal.
I've not seen or read Coriolanus before, it was interesting to watch the recent theatre version (2014, starring Tom Hiddlestone) and a fairly recent film (2011, dir and starring Ralph Fiennes) and compare and contrast to see which themes were strongest. One Coriolanus was early 30s, the other late 40s, which gave a different interpretation of where they might be in their career/readiness for politics/skilled in social ways. The Fiennes version was set in a more contemporary setting, which highlighted how some issues were current. Seeing the same dialogue from two sets of people helped me understand it more, Shakespeare's words were not always that clear in meaning.
None. Not a one. Maybe 100 pages of Justina Robson's Natural Selection which I didn't finish for Book Club in December. An issue of Empire magazine. A bunch of articles on the internet.
Films watched (9-20) (5 at the cinema, 4 DVD, 1 tv, 2 stream)
Byzantium
Coriolanus (Fiennes version)
Zodiac
Death To Smoochy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Philomena (rewatch)
Oldboy
Bridesmaids
Her
12 Years a Slave
Dallas Buyers Club
Coffee and Cigarettes
Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (2-7)
Coriolanus (NFT version at cinema, Hiddlestone)
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Itch (gig, Junction, Cambridge)
Sensing Spaces (architecture exhibition, Royal Academy, London)
Bill Bailey Unplugged (comedy, Leicester Square Theatre, London)
Avenue Q (musical, Mumford Theatre, Cambridge)
Of Montreal (gig, Oval Space, London)
Books incoming 1 (reader copy)
In February I got rid of my cough enough to get out to the cinema and catch some of the Oscar nominees (still want to catch The Wolf of Wall Street) and beforehand got shown some fine DVDs some of which I hadn't known of before. I also got out to quite a lot of gigs etc. Taking the last week of Feb as annual leave helped with this :-)
Gigglesome: Bill Bailey, Avenue Q (but why does it have to take such accurate swipes, darn it? I thought I was special!)
Fab: Of Montreal. Amazing show, I saw poor reviews of it elsewhere because this is the stripped down version they're touring Europe with.
Good films: Her was not the painful unreconstructed 50's build-a-girlfriendbot story I had feared; Coffee and Cigarettes is full of awkward conversations; Zodiac was great; Philomena still good on a second viewing; Oldboy was brutal.
I've not seen or read Coriolanus before, it was interesting to watch the recent theatre version (2014, starring Tom Hiddlestone) and a fairly recent film (2011, dir and starring Ralph Fiennes) and compare and contrast to see which themes were strongest. One Coriolanus was early 30s, the other late 40s, which gave a different interpretation of where they might be in their career/readiness for politics/skilled in social ways. The Fiennes version was set in a more contemporary setting, which highlighted how some issues were current. Seeing the same dialogue from two sets of people helped me understand it more, Shakespeare's words were not always that clear in meaning.
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