19 November 2008
Watched Burn After Reading with my mate, Bert, tonight. I enjoyed it! But they were a bunch of the most awful people one might ever care to watch. A whole nest of self-centred, manipulative and yet strangely watchable people.
Very excited - Bert has tickets for Bill Bailey tomorrow and has asked me to go with him. I will be looking forward to it all day.
Busy busy weeks ahead, I'm out almost every night for two weeks catching up with friends or choir or something. I guess better busy than moping around at home...
Very excited - Bert has tickets for Bill Bailey tomorrow and has asked me to go with him. I will be looking forward to it all day.
Busy busy weeks ahead, I'm out almost every night for two weeks catching up with friends or choir or something. I guess better busy than moping around at home...
My niece, Curly, was six on Sunday. Big sis' family and I, without Larry, went to have a pub lunch at Curly's bequest. (Larry had gone Laser Questing at another birthday bash.) Then back to the new family pile for party preparations and frolics.
Big sis had made a porcupine shaped cake with much love, labour, marzipan and food colouring and it was most excellent in every way. Her hubby commented on its passing resemblance to Marty Feldman - not an easy feat in the arena of cake making.
I think fun was had by all the six or nearly six year old girls - well there was a lot of screaming. Although Curly had a bit of a panic before it started because the Happy Sixth B'day banner wasn't up yet when the guests started arriving. She hid behind the door all stressed like. Entertaining doesn't run in the genes of our family.
I brought the family the largest bottle of chilli oil seen to mankind as a sort of house-warming present which we duly ate with the party sausage rolls.
Big sis had made a porcupine shaped cake with much love, labour, marzipan and food colouring and it was most excellent in every way. Her hubby commented on its passing resemblance to Marty Feldman - not an easy feat in the arena of cake making.
I think fun was had by all the six or nearly six year old girls - well there was a lot of screaming. Although Curly had a bit of a panic before it started because the Happy Sixth B'day banner wasn't up yet when the guests started arriving. She hid behind the door all stressed like. Entertaining doesn't run in the genes of our family.
I brought the family the largest bottle of chilli oil seen to mankind as a sort of house-warming present which we duly ate with the party sausage rolls.
16 November 2008
Went to see Damon Albarn's Journey to the West at the O2 with my uni buddies and S. Haven't been to the Dome since it was the hub of entertainment that was the Millennium Dome.
It was heaving. Who would have thought so many people would schlep all the way to beyond the Isle of Dogs for a bit of light entertainment? I had no idea how much it had been transformed.
Leonard Cohen seemed to be a big hit with great crowds of people packing the restaurants and passageways pre-show. It's surprising there is a Gaucho Grill - all the other restaurants are more pack 'em in get them out quick. We had a disappointing meal at Water Margin, although at least they put a sprig of mint on the curry laksa.
As to the show - well, it was a spectacle. But that was about it. Didn't think much of the music which was neither tuneful nor experimental. The acrobatics were good and I am always impressed by people who can sit on their own heads, but the storytelling was poor, as was the characterisation. It was dull but visually fairly interesting.
The meal offer at the venue is a rip-off at GBP28. And the transport system is manifestly unable to cope with the great crowds of people leaving after the show.
And that's really all there is to say.
It was heaving. Who would have thought so many people would schlep all the way to beyond the Isle of Dogs for a bit of light entertainment? I had no idea how much it had been transformed.
Leonard Cohen seemed to be a big hit with great crowds of people packing the restaurants and passageways pre-show. It's surprising there is a Gaucho Grill - all the other restaurants are more pack 'em in get them out quick. We had a disappointing meal at Water Margin, although at least they put a sprig of mint on the curry laksa.
As to the show - well, it was a spectacle. But that was about it. Didn't think much of the music which was neither tuneful nor experimental. The acrobatics were good and I am always impressed by people who can sit on their own heads, but the storytelling was poor, as was the characterisation. It was dull but visually fairly interesting.
The meal offer at the venue is a rip-off at GBP28. And the transport system is manifestly unable to cope with the great crowds of people leaving after the show.
And that's really all there is to say.
