2013 — 29 July: Monday
Today's little ramble1 should keep the three of us out of mischief, and the showers, though the risk of the latter is non-zero, I admit. We shall see.
And some people wonder...
... why I hate live music...
Even way back in 1997, at Dorf's Knitting Factory in New York, avant garde musician John Zorn asked the people in the balcony to "Please shut the (expletive) up," which was a bit awkward because those people were U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel, the celebrated playwright and former president of the Czech Republic.
... or too much audience 'feedback'...
These days most newspaper sites are geared towards encouraging interaction with the miniscule fraction of readers who bother to interact back, which is a pity because I'm selfishly uninterested in conducting any kind of meaningful dialogue with humankind in general.
Time for breakfast :-)
That's another 7.1 miles of...
... whatever passes for shoe leather, these days, with side trips back here and to Asda. It's now 16:22, quite warm and sticky out there, and I'm in dire need of my next cuppa before much of anything else.
[Pause]
That's better. So waiting for me on the doorstep were three of these five goodies, for one of which I shall have to drag my Oppo Blu-ray player back online as it's a Zone A. (For some reason, the UK release of "Liberal Arts" got pushed back, and then cancelled a couple of weeks ago, so I ended up buying it from the US six months after its initial release over there. I enjoyed Josh Radnor's previous effort.)
"Side Effects" is the new Soderbergh — I thought his "Contagion" last year was very well done. And while "The Host" may have been an overlong book from the Twiglit lady, it will be fascinating to see what Andrew Niccol makes of it.
Then, moving culturally somewhat downmarket, we find this mini-boxed set of documentaries. One of them apparently aired on Sky Atlantic a week or so ago, but my Sky-subscribing informant missed the beginning. When I went a'looking, the two titles as a set were cheaper than each on its lonesome, so I thought "Why not?"
For "Sky Atlantic" read "Sky Arts" — who knew? My word, "The Host" is quite hard work. I need more than ravishing desert landscapes. [Pause] OK, yes, on balance it works.