Another week of holidays
Holidays are good for me, but not so good for the blog.
This last week has been another blissful, work-free time. Highlights include a couple of nice long walks, work Xmas lunch and quite a bit of lounging around and general laziness.
Yesterday coincided with an RDO for P, so he and B and I went into Fed Square to visit the Kubrick exhibition at ACMI. It was fascinating with space devoted to each of the films (and some to films which never eventuated). The man was an amazing collector and, it seems, a meticulous researcher. We spent about an hour and a half, and even then I missed the section on music in the films. It's made me determined to acquire a few more of his films, most particularly Dr Strangelove.
After lunch at a Japanese place in Flinders Lane P and I wandered through town finishing up at Melbourne Central where we saw Terry Gilliam's latest film The Brothers Grimm. It's not nearly as bad as the reviews have said - I thought it was a wonderfully dark, silly story using snippets of many different Grimm stories. Certainly not his best, but by no means as awful as many seem to think.
An early shop this morning as B&P have a lunch engagement. This evening is the Gombert concert which, if you can't attend you can hear on live broadcast on ABC FM at 8pm. If you happen to be in Europe you should be able to hear the broadcast via the European Broadcasting Union sometime tomorrow (December 18) as part of the Euroradio Christmas Music series.
This last week has been another blissful, work-free time. Highlights include a couple of nice long walks, work Xmas lunch and quite a bit of lounging around and general laziness.
Yesterday coincided with an RDO for P, so he and B and I went into Fed Square to visit the Kubrick exhibition at ACMI. It was fascinating with space devoted to each of the films (and some to films which never eventuated). The man was an amazing collector and, it seems, a meticulous researcher. We spent about an hour and a half, and even then I missed the section on music in the films. It's made me determined to acquire a few more of his films, most particularly Dr Strangelove.
After lunch at a Japanese place in Flinders Lane P and I wandered through town finishing up at Melbourne Central where we saw Terry Gilliam's latest film The Brothers Grimm. It's not nearly as bad as the reviews have said - I thought it was a wonderfully dark, silly story using snippets of many different Grimm stories. Certainly not his best, but by no means as awful as many seem to think.
An early shop this morning as B&P have a lunch engagement. This evening is the Gombert concert which, if you can't attend you can hear on live broadcast on ABC FM at 8pm. If you happen to be in Europe you should be able to hear the broadcast via the European Broadcasting Union sometime tomorrow (December 18) as part of the Euroradio Christmas Music series.
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