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bugshaw at 10:29am on 01/11/2015
bugshaw at 10:29am on 01/11/2015Books read (14-15)
Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (2014)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua (2015) (graphic novel)
Films watched (180-191) (9 at the cinema, 2 DVD, 1 LoveFilm, 1 tv)
The Martian
Macbeth
Mad Max: Fury Road (rewatch)
The Martian (rewatch)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (rewatch)
Sicario
The Lobster
Crimson Peak
Sicario (rewatch)
Spectre
Escape from New York
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (18-19)
Stealing Sheep (gig, Portland Arms)
Teslathon (Cambridge)
Lots of rewatches - having the local cinema Infinity card makes it easy to go again for social rewatches.
Cinema good: Sicario, very exciting, looked amazing, came home and looked up the cinematographer and found he had 12 Oscar nominations. The Lobster was not what I expected, and not the celebration of the supremacy of couplehood that I feared. Very odd, lots to think about, very cruel but in a casually weird and Pythonesque way. Same director as Dogtooth but the absurd dystopia feel that was restricted to a single house in that film imbues this whole world. I want to know how it got there.
Wanted to like The Martian - but when I read the book I felt a mixture of unputdownable excitement and boredom, and got the same vibe from the movie, not helped by knowing the plot already. The second watching was with SF book/film club. If it had looked as good as Mad Max, or Sicario, or Moon, I could have enjoyed the rewatch, but I didn't
Lots of people liked Macbeth. I've not read it or seen the play before, but I couldn't figure out what was going on, I couldn't untangle the lines, and I couldn't get from context what some of the words were likely to be until the end of the sentence by which time it was a bit late. "My nighs/mine eyes" etc. Obv they were a bit upset about stuff and killing people made it worse and they went a bit peculiar and everyone was mostly polite because king. Banquo's ghost was great, looked like he had been pulled from a shallow grave. I'm sure I missed a lot. It almost made more sense if I pretended it was a foreign movie without subtitles.
Gigs: Stealing Sheep were marvellous and I'm off to see them support Django Django in December. Great to see them play a full set in Cambridge in such a small venue.
Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (2014)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua (2015) (graphic novel)
Films watched (180-191) (9 at the cinema, 2 DVD, 1 LoveFilm, 1 tv)
The Martian
Macbeth
Mad Max: Fury Road (rewatch)
The Martian (rewatch)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (rewatch)
Sicario
The Lobster
Crimson Peak
Sicario (rewatch)
Spectre
Escape from New York
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Gigs, comedy, clubs etc (18-19)
Stealing Sheep (gig, Portland Arms)
Teslathon (Cambridge)
Lots of rewatches - having the local cinema Infinity card makes it easy to go again for social rewatches.
Cinema good: Sicario, very exciting, looked amazing, came home and looked up the cinematographer and found he had 12 Oscar nominations. The Lobster was not what I expected, and not the celebration of the supremacy of couplehood that I feared. Very odd, lots to think about, very cruel but in a casually weird and Pythonesque way. Same director as Dogtooth but the absurd dystopia feel that was restricted to a single house in that film imbues this whole world. I want to know how it got there.
Wanted to like The Martian - but when I read the book I felt a mixture of unputdownable excitement and boredom, and got the same vibe from the movie, not helped by knowing the plot already. The second watching was with SF book/film club. If it had looked as good as Mad Max, or Sicario, or Moon, I could have enjoyed the rewatch, but I didn't
Lots of people liked Macbeth. I've not read it or seen the play before, but I couldn't figure out what was going on, I couldn't untangle the lines, and I couldn't get from context what some of the words were likely to be until the end of the sentence by which time it was a bit late. "My nighs/mine eyes" etc. Obv they were a bit upset about stuff and killing people made it worse and they went a bit peculiar and everyone was mostly polite because king. Banquo's ghost was great, looked like he had been pulled from a shallow grave. I'm sure I missed a lot. It almost made more sense if I pretended it was a foreign movie without subtitles.
Gigs: Stealing Sheep were marvellous and I'm off to see them support Django Django in December. Great to see them play a full set in Cambridge in such a small venue.
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