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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 08:55pm on 30/09/2013 under ,
Books read (39-42)
The Derring-Do Club and The Empire of the Dead, David Wake (2013)
The Devil in a Forest, Gene Wolfe (1976)
Saga Vols #1 and #2, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (2012-13, 2013)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (2013)

Films watched (92-122) (25 at the cinema, 4 DVD, 2 stream)
(Cambridge Film Festival post to follow)
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Kill List
The Great Beauty
The Machinist
Twelve Monkeys
(rewatch)
Tron (rewatch)
The Ipcress File
Once Upon a Time In Mexico
(rewatch)
Just Before Losing Everything (short)
Hawking
Blue Jasmine
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Growing Pain
(shorts)
For Those In Peril
Hannah Arendt
Blackbird
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
No Surrender
Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: John Otway The Movie
The Fifth Season
Roland Klick: The Heart is a Hungry Hunter
Deadlock
Upstream Colour
Natan
White Star
Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse
Anguish
Dead Cat
Eyes On The Sky
The Redemption of the Fish
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology


Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (20-25) (cheating a bit as the Otway and Dolby were film/live performances and are on both lists)
Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis (photography, Natural History Museum, London)
Neil Innes, A Second Chance to Get It Right (music, Junction, Cambridge)
Austentatious (improv, Leicester Square Theatre, London)
John Otway: Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure (film/music, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
Thomas Dolby: The Invisible Lighthouse (film/music, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
Creative Cabaret (Union Bar, Cambridge)

Books incoming 4 (1 loan, 2 purchased, 1 proofread, read 20/26)

Good: lots of stuff
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posted by [identity profile] flick.livejournal.com at 08:12pm on 30/09/2013
Oh, did you enjoy Invisible Lighthouse? We did, but came away very much thinking that it wouldn't have got the cinema space it did if it it hadn't been TMDR!
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 08:46pm on 30/09/2013
I did enjoy it, but it's more gentle and home-made than many movies with wide distribution, as perhaps befits an exploration of one's vanishing childhood. I think it holds my interest more because I already know and care who Thomas Dolby is, and can relate to the lighthouse and land slipping into the sea from my summers (and winters!) in Happisburgh. The approach of mixed film and live sound and lights worked well, the extra songs and "Making Of" talk were a treat.

If I were a callow youth I might be inclined to slate it as a "Dad's Home Movie" but I'm not, so I think it was sweet and touching and cool that you can go off in all these new directions with your career.
 
posted by [identity profile] davidwake.livejournal.com at 06:33am on 01/10/2013
It's always nice to make this list ;-)

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