Friday, December 29, 2006
No excuse for this. I needed to be in bed an hour ago, because I wanted to get up reasonably early to catch the early showing of "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer", then go to see my Mom and do various other things, but I got stuck into reading blogs, and now look at the fucking time
Ah... Mellow. Zen....
We went to see the Cole Porter Classics show last night at the Symphony Hall. It was good, but was not at all what I expected. It was almost a classical concert. A full concert orchestra, 10 singers (5 male, 5 female) with very operatic voices, a master of ceremonies explaining (formally) the stories behind the songs we were about to hear and an audience with an average age of 75.
Offputting.
It was still a gig and I enjoyed it tremendously. Cole Porter really was a genius songwriter, wasn't he? "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "Too Darn Hot", "Friendship", "Be A Clown", "Begin The Beguine", "Anything Goes", "Let's Do It", etc. Total class from a different era.
Lorraine said that the people at work feel sorry for me because I have to put up with her dragging me along to such things. She has tried to explain that it is me who is doing the dragging along of her, but don't believe her. Am I not supposed to like old and new music?
We went to the city centre today and did some present replacing and spending of vouchers. Back went one copy of the Beatles "Love" album, which was replaced with the DVD of "Over The Hedge" (because Lorraine told me that it was her second choice of DVD to buy me for Christmas after "Monster House"), Amy Winehouse's CD "Back To Black" and the "Best Of Free" on CD (I had HMV vouchers as well.) Book vouchers were spent on "Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies", because I thought it was about bloody time I learnt how to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint properly, and a pack of "Casino Royale" playing cards, because they looked nice.
Back home we watched "Over The Hedge" (OK, but not as good a kids film as "Ice Age") and ate leftovers. Then we watched "Transporter 2" which is outrageous, but entertaining.
I'm going to bed. I'm late.
I will catch up with everybody tomorrow (and add links and correct spellings and answer emails and do everything else.) I will have no excuse.
Ah... Mellow. Zen....
We went to see the Cole Porter Classics show last night at the Symphony Hall. It was good, but was not at all what I expected. It was almost a classical concert. A full concert orchestra, 10 singers (5 male, 5 female) with very operatic voices, a master of ceremonies explaining (formally) the stories behind the songs we were about to hear and an audience with an average age of 75.
Offputting.
It was still a gig and I enjoyed it tremendously. Cole Porter really was a genius songwriter, wasn't he? "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "Too Darn Hot", "Friendship", "Be A Clown", "Begin The Beguine", "Anything Goes", "Let's Do It", etc. Total class from a different era.
Lorraine said that the people at work feel sorry for me because I have to put up with her dragging me along to such things. She has tried to explain that it is me who is doing the dragging along of her, but don't believe her. Am I not supposed to like old and new music?
We went to the city centre today and did some present replacing and spending of vouchers. Back went one copy of the Beatles "Love" album, which was replaced with the DVD of "Over The Hedge" (because Lorraine told me that it was her second choice of DVD to buy me for Christmas after "Monster House"), Amy Winehouse's CD "Back To Black" and the "Best Of Free" on CD (I had HMV vouchers as well.) Book vouchers were spent on "Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies", because I thought it was about bloody time I learnt how to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint properly, and a pack of "Casino Royale" playing cards, because they looked nice.
Back home we watched "Over The Hedge" (OK, but not as good a kids film as "Ice Age") and ate leftovers. Then we watched "Transporter 2" which is outrageous, but entertaining.
I'm going to bed. I'm late.
I will catch up with everybody tomorrow (and add links and correct spellings and answer emails and do everything else.) I will have no excuse.
# posted by Pynchon @ 11:47 pm 
