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| The Pathetique Sonata and other things | June 14, 2015 | Last night I started watching Quartet after Rockwiz. I remember enjoying it the first time around but this time I found it all a little cliched yet meaning well. I had questions too. For example, where was Judi Dench? Surely she should have been in the Pauline Collins role. I didn’t watch it through until […] |
| Speaking of hair…. | June 13, 2015 | In a busy week I have managed to watch two music films and start watching one music television series. Last Sunday I re-watched Walk the Line. It was on SBS after the best TV music quiz show of all time, Rockwiz. Sidenote: Rockwiz stomps all over Spicks and Specks and always will. Controversial television opinion? […] |
| Have piano seat will travel | June 22, 2014 | Last night I decided to take my own adjustable piano stool to play at our choir concert. At our rehearsal on Thursday evening the seat with the piano in the hall annoyed me no end. It was too low and not adjustable. As a pianist it is rare that you ever perform on the instrument […] |
| We haven’t even told our parents what time we’re coming home…. | June 10, 2014 | As a proud Generation X-er I feel sad today. I saw Drop Dead Fred in Toowoomba in the early 1990s when I was at university. I can remember the excitement of going to the movie theatre far more clearly than I can remember the friends’ names who went with me. For this was a film […] |
| Get some wrinkles please Our Nic | June 8, 2014 | Over the last year I’ve been trying to keep up to date (and do a massive catch up) on my film watching. One problem with living outside a capital city is that we tend not to get independent or more interesting films. Or, they play for a week at unfortunate times and then disappear. The […] |
| Of quiet, brutal comedy and John Cusack | January 10, 2014 | When I first started this blog I used to write about television regularly. Here’s a throwback to the olden days. Something I have had time to do since leaving work is catch up on my film and TV viewing. Or maybe I’ve just felt like I’ve had time to do this as my mind has […] |
| Lullabye | June 17, 2013 | It’s choir concert time this coming weekend and we all know what that means don’t we? Rehearsals in the church on Monday AND Thursday. I would like to thank Queensland’s winter for kicking in just in time to make it freezing in there. Apart from that, this is the time of choir that I like. […] |
| Let’s go fly a kite | March 3, 2012 | A couple of weekends ago I made the trek to Brisbane to see Mary Poppins. Not in person obviously. She’s a fictional character. Rather, this was the musical. Much lauded. Much praised. I had been told by many people that I would “love” it. So I was looking forward to seeing it but I was […] |
| Let’s go fly a kite | A couple of weekends ago I made the trek to Brisbane to see Mary Poppins. Not in person obviously. She’s a fictional character. Rather, this was the musical. Much lauded. Much praised. I had been told by many people that I would “love” it. So I was looking forward to seeing it but I was […] |
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| Thinking about the Muppets | January 24, 2012 | On Sunday I went to see The Muppets. Being a Generation X child who was six years old in 1979 when the first film was released I had high expectations. I had been following the stream of trailers leading up to the film’s official release. I had been sad when I realised it would be […] |