tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91521938640673933792024-03-26T10:08:13.064+11:00MOST OF US NEED THE EGGSCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.comBlogger616125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-52090897873642043572024-03-13T23:14:00.002+11:002024-03-13T23:14:11.570+11:00OSCAR WATCH 23/24 - how it went!<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It always seem to take forever to arrive, but comes and goes so quickly!<br /><br />Oscars 23/24 was not too bad.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jimmy Kimmel has grown on me, he is a solid host. Not spectacular, like Billy Crystal, but what you see is what you get and he keeps things moving, and that is sufficient.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">First off the bat, I noticed an acknowledgement of country prior to the ceremony, which I have never noticed before let alone anywhere in the US. So that made me smile, a perfect move.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So the 96th Academy Awards, I cannot wait for year 100, now that is going to be spectacular. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And as a film buff, especially a classic film buff, I love to see old Hollywood and nods to those that came before. Of course, there are not many classic film stars left, but there are moments to be had. And this year had some.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jimmy mentioned it was 48 years since both Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro were nominated for Taxi Driver and here they were nominated again! Of course, he added an awkward joke about age, but what are the Oscars if tropes are not rolled out...sigh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bringing out those that work behind the scenes was a masterful move, very classy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And having Messi the dog from Anatomy of a Fall sitting in the audience was just wonderful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The presentations I loved the most were the acting ones, where they had 5 previous winners talk about each nominee, They did this once before and people said it took too long. My response then and now, is really? If that is your commentary why are you even watching? This is exactly why you watch the Academy Awards. Bizarre.<br /><br />So this year it was wonderful to see a range of superb actors and actresses welcome the newest member into the club. I found it moving and wonderful. But then, this is exactly what I want when I watch this show!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There were other memorable moments in terms of presentation. Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling exchanging barbs over their respective movies and the whole Barbenheimer rivalry. Very funny.<br /><br />Danny De Vito and Arnold Schwarzenegger giving Michael Keaton some grief about how badly Batman treated their villains (Now Keaton wasn't AS's Batman, but that is a-ok), also funny.<br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And Kate McKinnon and American Ferrara talking about Dinosaurs, Jeff Goldblum, and Steven Spielberg, incredibly funny. Jon Cena's naked joke and John Mahoney's Field of Dream monologue were both good.<br /><br />The songs this year were mostly great.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed seeing Barry Corbin (from Killers of the Flower Moon and Northern Exposure) in the song from that movie. The whole performance was powerful.<br /><br />Billie Eilish and Fineas were all class delivering what would be the winning Best Song. I love that song so much, it was just great to see, as was their winning speech. 2 Oscars in 3 years at such a young age. Brilliant.<br /><br />But the moment of the evening, was Ryan Gosling performing I'm Just Ken.<br /><br />OH MY GOODNESS!<br /><br />I didn't think he would even do this, so it was unexpected and even better than what I would have thought had I expected it.<br /><br />Ryan's Kenergy was legendary in the lead up and after the movie, he just got into it and had fun. I love that. And his performance was next level Kenergy. Where is his recording contract, he can bloody sing (and dance). He was a Disney child but still. The presentation was perfection including some Marilyn Monroe (Madonna) AND Busby Berkeley choreography which was equal parts inspired and hilarious! Add in some work with the audience, showing the whole thing was live (they usually are) and some guitar genius from Slash. This goes into my top 10 Oscar moments! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Other moments of note were Paul Giamatti escorting Da'Vine Joy Randolph right up the stairs to the stage when she won, and shedding a visible tear in a cutaway after her speech. What a classy guy!<br /><br />Sean Ono Lennon up on the Oscar stage with the directors of the Best Short, Animated WAR IS OVER! and giving 91 year old Yoko a shout out. Tears of course!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now to the winners, and how I went.<br /><br />Each year there are some categories I am emotionally attached to and I either let my emotions push my choices (usually a mistake) or like this year I ignore my emotions and just choose what I think the Academy will chose, and this year the Academy loved Poor Things as much as I did, which I didn't think they would!<br /><br />So the 4 awards for Poor Things, including Emma Stone for Best Actress were bloody amazing and well deserved and exactly what I hoped would win, but not what I choose to win...sigh. I lost in Sound and Animated Film too.<br /><br />So 6 incorrect BUT 17 correct, which is not bad. I have done much better, but I have also done much worse.<br /><br />I loved all the acting and big speeches, it was a great year for film. <br /><br />And now the fashion:<br /><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Best Dressed</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKNRpTs0kb32ezxHBdI2YFskAqkWC1-Yy7-WarvaLyxEle5LFdteM5xcnwPfUHF-IAQ5TiOv0PgaPNPTvlEjy7JnX48HtLe9N1kvRIfTiBbeaBbJBHb-ndaal-MljsghgAxEfWJhFx_cGMDcxcpcbZcFnFrG6G_iiV1EJQcvqKfyj-_p1Xo-r-s2r8Lj4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKNRpTs0kb32ezxHBdI2YFskAqkWC1-Yy7-WarvaLyxEle5LFdteM5xcnwPfUHF-IAQ5TiOv0PgaPNPTvlEjy7JnX48HtLe9N1kvRIfTiBbeaBbJBHb-ndaal-MljsghgAxEfWJhFx_cGMDcxcpcbZcFnFrG6G_iiV1EJQcvqKfyj-_p1Xo-r-s2r8Lj4" width="160" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There is a lot to take in to do this, but please - amateurs - the Golden Globes has NOTHING to do with it, lol!<br />You need to have a knowledge of how the Academy works, past winners, and who won key awards that are voted for by the same people that vote for The Oscars, eg, the SAGS. But even then it can be a crapshoot.<br /><br />And I so pick my personal favourite in some categories, which is often different to what I think will win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Picture</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a difficult category, as all the films I have seen are absolutely brilliant, and I pretty much loved them all.<br /><br />I loved Poor Things the most, closely followed by The Holdovers, Maestro and Barbie.<br /><br />Next level is American Fiction, Past Lives and Anatomy of a Fall.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Killer of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer I really enjoyed but also thought they were both masterpieces, albeit a little too long. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have not seen Zone of Interest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Oppenheimer</span> </b>will win because it is a remarkable film. Great casting and acting, amazing cinematography, an important subject matter historically, compelling and just all round perfect.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My personal pick is <b>Poor Things, </b>easily my favourite film of the bunch. So I would love that to win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Director</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer</span></b> will and should win this award, simply as it is a great film, a masterpiece, beautifully imagined and shot. And this goes for all his films, so he is overdue.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Adapted Screenplay</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This one is difficult but I think <b><span style="color: red;">American Fiction</span></b> will win. It is a tight script from a beloved book</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I really want <b>Barbie</b> to win. Why this was in Adapted I will never know, a totally bizarre move from The Academy. I think Greta deserves something.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Original Screenplay</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is easy,<span style="color: red;"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">Anatomy of a Fall</span> </b>is a phenomenal script and has won everything. It will and should win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Actor</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Cillian Murphy</b> </span>will win, and understandably so. Without him there is no Oppenheimer, he is Oppenheimer.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, I would be absolutely thrilled if <b>Paul Giamatti</b> won, he is so good in The Holdovers, and everything he has done prior.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Supporting Actor</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am 99% certain <span style="color: red;"><b>Robert Downey Jnr</b> </span>will win for this performance, for his career turn around, for not getting the nod for Chaplin (he should have won!) And I want him to win.<br /><br />However, if something odd happened and Ryan Gosling or Mark Ruffalo won, I would be thrilled for them. Consistently great actors in really amazing and out there roles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Actress</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is such a strong field and it is neck and neck for <b><span style="color: red;">Lily Gladstone</span></b> and Emma Stone. Both very powerful roles but in so very different ways. I think both deserve to win but I think if Lily won it would be a very overdue and very important moment, and for that I think she will win. Her performance was mesmerising and she stole every scene from Leo and De Niro which is quite the feat.<br /><br />Having said that if <b>Emma Stone </b>got up I would be equally as happy. I would love a tie, I want them both to win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Supporting Actress</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is another certainly, <b><span style="color: red;">Da'Vine Randolph</span></b>, one of my faves (she is so funny in High Fidelity and Only Murders). She is the heart of The Holdovers and her dramatic scenes really showcase her amazing acting and she is still very funny.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Animated Feature</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have not seen any of these, but I think <b><span style="color: red;">Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Vers</span>e </b>will win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Cinematography</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cinematography and Best Film almost always go hand in hand, and <b><span style="color: red;">Oppenheimer</span></b>'s cinematography was amazing, part of the genius. Especially the bomb scenes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Costume Design</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is between Barbie and Poor Things, both are worthy and deserving. So it is really difficult and all my sources are divided too. I think <b><span style="color: red;">Barbie</span> </b>will win, and I am happy with that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u><b>Best Documentary Feature</b></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Again, I have not seen any of these, but I believe everyone is putting their money on <b><span style="color: red;">20 days in Mariupol</span></b>, so I will go with that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Documentary Short</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the shorts I go to key reviewers and see which averages out, so in that case, <b><span style="color: red;">The Last Repair Shop</span></b> should win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Film Editing</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Oppenheimer</span></b>, that is all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best International Feature Film</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Zone of Interest</span> </b>is the frontrunner and from what I have heard, sounds good to me. It is the one film I really want to see but have not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Makeup and Hairstyling</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Maestro</span></b> is the front winner and therefore my prediction. But <b>Poor Things</b> would be my preferred choice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Original Score</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is easy, <b><span style="color: red;">Oppenheimer</span></b>, an elegant and perfect score for the film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Original Song</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another easy one, <b><span style="color: red;">What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish</span></b> will win. Because it is a perfect song and it suits the film beautifully but is universal and a great song without the movie although it was written specifically for the film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Look, it would be divine if I'm Just Ken won, because it is so good too. But Fineas and Billie have written an instant classic, it will win.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Production Design</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Barbie</span></b> is the frontrunner an deservedly so. The attention to detail requires multiple viewing, they nailed the Barbie aesthetic in the most incredible ways.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Short, Animated</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">All sources point towards Sean Lennon's, <b><span style="color: red;">WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John and Yoko</span></b>. Cue tears from me if it does.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Short, Live Action</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My money is on <span style="color: red;"><b>The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</b>,</span> a beloved Roald Dahl book and by Wes Anderson, what's not to love!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Sound</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The majority of my sources say<b> <span style="color: red;">Oppenheimer</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span>and I will go with that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Best Visual Effects</u></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This appears to be between The Creator and Godzilla Minus One. I have seen neither but am putting my money on <b><span style="color: red;">Godzilla Minus One</span>.</b> No idea really lol!</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-28158927896367061212024-03-10T12:22:00.004+11:002024-03-10T12:22:32.544+11:00OSCAR WATCH 23/24<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2023/2024 has been phenomenal for Oscar films. I saw all the top contenders for The Academy Awards bar one - Zone of Interest - which is a first for a long time.<br /><br />I know Zone of Interest is at the cinemas right now, but the local cinema showing it has it in their regular cinema and it has the most uncomfortable seats and I just cannot do that to my body! Not even for Oscar.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the end of each Oscar season, I say I think I am done doing this - especially with some of the crazy that has appeared in recent years - and come February every year, I get sucked back in. The caliber of the films this year makes it impossible to ignore.<br /><br />And look, as I have said before, The Oscars are my religion, lol!<br /><br />There has been changes to the academy over the past few years and deservedly so. Which makes it a little more difficult. But more on that in my predictions blog which will be out later today.<br /><br />OK, here are my reviews.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>American Fiction</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved this movie so much, it had a wonderful dry wit to it. Jeffery Wright is Monk, a writer of literary novels, which are critically acclaimed but they do not sell. When his latest title is rejected for not being black enough he is infuriated. So he decides to write the kind of book he hates but everyone seems to want.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">His mother is declining with Alzheimers so he visits her and his sister, Tracee Ellis Ross, who is a doctor. His estranged brother, Sterling K. Brown, turns up to add to the chaos, and Monk falls in love with a neighbour. And there is more, but that would be spoilers, but suffice to say, he has a lot going on.<br /><br />In the meantime, his publisher loves his new book, but is not aware it is Monk. His agent convinces him to make up this crazy persona to help 'promote' the book. This is hilarious. But when he is asked to be a on a panel to judge a literary prize and his joke book turns up on the long list, things get really complicated and hectic.<br /><br />I loved this really well written and tight story. The story moves swiftly with all the moving parts working beautifully. Mostly due to Wright's great performance, and the great supporting cast. Tracee Ellis Ross and Issa Rae as a fellow writer are utterly brilliant as always. As are the remaining cast. I am unsure if this will win any Oscars, but it is well worth watching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Anatomy of a Fall</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anatomy of a Fall really sucked me in. I didn't know much about it going in, other than Sandra Huller's performance was extraordinary, and it was. The movie commences with Sandra (played by Sandra) trying to give an interview about her writing to a young journalist. You can see they live in the French alps, in a lovely house but are very isolated. As the interview progresses very loud and disjointed world music begins to play. Sandra keeps up appearances despite being obviously irritated by the music which is being played by her husband. The interview is cut short and the journalist leaves. At the same time the son, who is legally blind, goes for a walk with his guide dog, Snoop.<br /><br />Aside: Snoop is the most gorgeous good boy and an extraordinary actor, but I cannot say why as that will be a spoiler!!<br /><br />Then tension builds, you know something is going to happen and indeed something has. When Daniel and Snoop return they find his father in the snow surrounded by blood and dead. He calls for his mother who eventually comes out and calls an ambulance etc. This then leads into investigations and Sandra is the key suspect despite her claims he must have fallen from the top floor where he was working. <br /><br />The film is essentially a trial with some flashbacks and you just do not know what to believe, but when Daniel is called upon as a 'witness' things get very intense. He is wonderful, but it is Sandra who just knocks it out the ball-park, what a tremendous performance. She will not win, but it is a mesmerising performance. One that will leave you guessing until the very end...and then some. Though it may win Best Original Screenplay.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Barbie</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What can I say. I never had a Barbie (which I have always said would be my autobiography title) and happily so. When I heard my hero, Greta Gerwig was making a film about Barbie, I was initially disgusted but then curious. When the reviews came out and were very positive, I had to see it. I didn't get to see it until a while after its release. <br /><br />And I bloody loved it.<br /><br />What an intelligent, clever, and hilariously funny take on this doll. I loved the feminist and intellectual take on Barbie having an existential crisis. The production design was extraordinarily clever and fun. The casting was next level. Margot Robbie was Barbie, and Ryan Gosling was a scene stealer as Ken. His Kenergy during the promos after the film was next level dedication and a reason why we love him so much. And he was having so much fun. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">America Ferrara also shone in the most wonderful way. Her feminist speech made me turn to Andrew (who also loved the film) after and say Oscar Nom. All the Barbies and Kens were great, especially Kate McKinnon's Weird Barbie. And Michael Cera was born to play Allan. <br /><br />I loved the little small jokes, that were literary and film related, that not everyone would get. I know we were in a moderately full cinema (with quite a lot of children, WTAF!?!) and Andrew and I were often the only ones laughing. I loved the unexpected (spoilers!) actors that popped up. The writing of this film is absolutely superb.<br /><br />And I couldn't love the resurgence of one of my all-time favourite songs more. Closer to Fine by the Indigo Girls is such a feminist anthem and was set perfectly into the film. What I Was Made For by Billie Eilish is perfection and a sure thing to win Oscar for Best Song. It is so perfect for the film and stands along also.<br /><br />As for other wins, possibly costume and Production. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Holdovers</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What a joy the latest Alexander Payne film is. Firstly, I have loved Paul Giamatti since Private Parts, he is one of the greatest character actors and satirists. Set in the 70s at a boarding school/college. Giamatti is an odd character, a tough history teacher with malice for the privileged students he has to teach. Older, never married, cantankerous, the students do not care for him, and quite possibly a lot of his colleagues. He is chosen to stay over the Christmas period with students unable to go home. The only other adult is his friend, Mary the cook (played beautifully by Da'Vine Joy Randolph - who I have loved in High Fidelty the TV series, and Only Murders in the Building). Mary is grieving her son, who was recently killed in Vietnam. <br /><br />The acting is phenomenal, and like all Payne films, it is a dark comedy with a lot of melancholy. There are a lot of 'unknowns' playing the students, and they are great. The film becomes a two-hander when Paul and a student head out of the school on some errands, and layers upon layers are unravelled. How has Giamatti never won an Oscar, this would surely be his year, but oh boy he has some competition. Da'Vine's beautifully nuanced comedy/dramatic turn will surely nab one. This is such a beautiful film AND a truly lovely Christmas film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Killers of the Flower Moon</b></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">The movie is confronting AND it is 3.5 hours (I do think it could have been shaved/edited down a bit) however it was worth it.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Based on a book about the investigations into multiple murders in the Osage County community in the 1920s, Scorsese had originally planned to shoot the film directly from the book. But then he spent time with The Osage, and met some descendants of the players and he knew he had to flip the screenplay to come from the 'characters' pov, not the investigation.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">YES, this film (and others like it) should have been written, directed etc by First Nations peoples. Absolutely, but would that have really happened in this racist world, probably not...sadly.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">I learnt so much from watching this film, so much I didn't know or have any idea about, and I found it incredibly moving and absolutely heartbreaking. We both did.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">My hope is that this will 'allow' American First Nations to tell and film their own stories, because I want to learn and see more.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Lily Gladstone who played Mollie (A real life person) in the film is just perfection. She gives a formidable and mesmerising performance. And remember she is acting mostly with Leo and DeNiro and she leaves them for dead. There is something hypnotic about her, her beautiful face, the cadence of her voice, I really hope she wins the Academy Award. I also keep thinking about Marlon Brando, and what he might have thought about all of this.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Other than Lily, I do not think this film has much of a chance of winning any Oscars, but the fact it exists is enough for me, and the hope it will pave the way for more indigenous stories</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1859" _msttexthash="455520">Maestro</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bradley Cooper's film about Leonard Bernstein is a masterpiece. I could tell it would be from what I read and saw prior and as a huge Bernstein fan, I had high expectations. What I loved the most about this film, is he didn't attempt to throw everything Bernstein in it, he picked a theme - his relationship with his wife - and stuck to it. Of course music is featured, heard, seen, and it is tremendous. Bradley himself spent the best part of a decade preparing for this, and it shows. He embodies Lenny perfectly, at first you do still know it is Cooper, but as the movie progresses you forget and that is something else!<br /><br />Carey Mulligan is superb as his wife, the wonderful Felicia Montealegre. She lights up every scene she is in, and gets some great heavy duty scenes to show her skills as well. The supporting cast as also wonderful, especially Sarah Silverman, Maya Hawke, and Matt Bomer.<br /><br />The film is beautifully shot, every shot feels like a retro postcard, the use of black and white really solidifies the story. The set design specifically of their homes is impeccable. And then there is the music, handpicked by Cooper to showcase Bernstein's genius. It is sublime and dreamy, much like Bernstein himself. I cannot rave enough about this movie, I guess it is niche, but it is remarkably beautiful and most definitely a masterpiece. Sadly I think it will come home empty handed.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Oppenheimer</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It took me a while to get to this, but boy it was worth the wait. We know the basic story, but this is so insightful and full of detail. It is obviously a terrible part of our history, but the complexity behind the story is heart breaking. Christopher Nolan is a genius film-maker, this goes without saying. The cinematography is always outstanding, and this is no exception. He uses black and white on and off throughout the film and it is a great thing. The film looks so very elegant, and so were the performances.<br /><br />Cillian Murphy is everything as the conflicted Oppenheimer. Robert Downey Jnr, is impeccably restrained as Lewis Strauss, a man on the downward spiral. Emily Blunt is mesmering as Oppenheimer's wife. The cast is full of amazing character actors, as someone recently said, when Remi Malik only gets one line, you know this is a great film.<br /><br />I could see a lot of cross-over from Asteroid City, which amused me, but this film is not a comedy. I remember only too well the fear of nuclear war. I guess this film is not for everyone, but it is an important film. I should win Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy. Robert Downey Jnr is probably one of the biggest shoe-ins in Oscar history. and it should also take home a handful of technical awards. Oh and the Soundtrack.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Past Lives</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was such a lovely heartfelt little film. Na Young and Hae Sung are living in Seoul in 2000, they are 12 and good friends, Hae Sung is a little bit in love with Na Young. Her family are creatives and about to emigrate to Toronto. Her mother wants to leave her with a great final memory, and organises a 'date' for the children. Hae Sung is bereft.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2012, Na Young is now Nora Moon and living in New York, and Hae Sung is out of military college and decides to track Na Young down to no avail. Nora finds out this via facebook and contacts him under her new guise. They fall easily back into their friendship. More changes happen over the years (spoilers) and in 2024 and Hae Sung decides to visit Nora.<br /><br />This rocks her very safe world. And I will leave it there.<br /><br />Past Lives is such a lovely understated film with so much heart. I really loved this. Beautifully acted, lovely to watch, genuine chemistry. Stayed with me for days.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Poor Things</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I cannot begin to express my love for this film! What a remarkably original take on the Frankenstein's monster trope. Emma Stone is simply astonishing in it. Her supporting cast, especially Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, are also amazing.<br /><br />This tale is about the rebirth of a woman in the most pure way, and Emma Stone was utterly fearless in embodying her character, Bella. Everything about her character is unlike anything I have seen on film. It is a very funny film in many ways, slapstick, bawdy, genuinely funny, and dark humour.<br /><br />The sets were so divine, I declared early on, I wanted to live there. The mad animal creations, the horse carriage, and other similar things, blew my mind. I love films with whole worlds created in them, and this was one. <br /><br />But I guess this film is not for everyone, this is usually the case for films by Yorgos Lanthimos. I imagine it would be quite confronting for some for many reasons. The medical/surgery aspects, sexuality, language, and so on. But the film wouldn't be as wonderful without those aspects.<br /><br />This is a dramatic film that makes you laugh...a lot. I am unsure how it will go at The Oscars. I feel it should win production, hair and make-up, costume, script. And Emma Stone should win Best Actress but I think Lily Gladstone will tip her at the post, it will be close. This is easily my favourite film of all the contenders.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>May December</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I went into this thinking it was a Lesbian long story between Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. I have no idea why, I just did. Disappointing. It was a take on the Mary Kay Letourneau story, the teacher who got pregnant to her under aged student and they are still together. They mix things up and have the boy be the friend of her own child who works in the pet store her husband owns. Julianne Moore is great as the obviously mentally ill, Gracie. Natalie Portman is chilling as an actress who is about to play Gracie in an indie film and is shadowing her to get into character. <br /><br />This film was very well written and acted, leaving you feel very unsettled watching it. It is only up for a screenplay. It will not win anything.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rustin</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rustin is a biopic about the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. He was working with Martin Luther King Jnr and really pushing him forward. Rustin is quite an important figure in this part of history but has been mostly pushed under the carpet as he was gay. This story rights that wrong as he was instrumental in organising the March on Washington in 1963. This is where MLKJ gave his very famous, I had a Dream, speech.<br /><br />This film is good and an important historical record and produced as part of the Obama's production company. But it is Colman Domingo's performance as Rustin that makes this movie really stand out and worth watching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nyad</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was unsure about this film going in, a 2 hour biopic about a woman trying to swim from Cuba to Florida. But Annette Benning and more specifically Jodie Foster hooked me in. Firstly, the film absolutely flies by, it never feels like 2 hours. Secondly, it really is interesting and rather frightening. Definitely makes you NOT want to swim in the ocean. Benning is absolutely amazing in the role of Diana Nyad, a champion swimmer who comes out of retirement at 60 to do the swim that she never nailed. Her friend, Bonnie, is a retired sports coach. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jodie Foster plays Bonnie, and herein is what really drew me in. I have always found Jodie a magnetic and charismatic presence on screen and in her first big film in a long time she is absolutely brilliant. You never catch her acting, she embodies Bonnie, and I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I really enjoyed this film, but truly it is worth it for the drama in the waters and for Jodie Foster.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Color Purple</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was dubious about this remake as a musical but it really worked. The soundtrack is fantastic, mostly spiritual music and they were great songs. The musical numbers were very uplifting and well choreographed. The acting was powerful, Fantasia Barrino as Celie, Danielle Brooks as Sofia, and Taraji P. Henson as Shrug were amazing. There is not much else to say, but it was enjoyable despite the subject matter. I haven't seen the original in a long time so I cannot really compare.</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-14791485255753272862024-03-08T21:13:00.002+11:002024-03-08T21:13:18.081+11:002023 REVIEWS - Cathy's faves<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2023 - what can I say you were magnificent and also rather shite.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have never worked as hard as I did in 2023. This left a lot less time for me personally. In most ways it was worth it, but at times I was very much in need of a weekend doing absolutely nothing and I scheduled such weekends when I could.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I regularly commenced my side hustle, teaching Library at TAFE. I had taught one subject early 2022, but in 2023 all my study and over 30 years of working in Libraries came to fruition. I picked up a regular gig teaching Diploma students on Wednesday nights for Newcastle TAFE and was 'headhunted' by Western digital to teach Cert IV on Tuesday nights. Both were online and so my huge learning curve begun.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">To commence a new career, albeit a side career and a topic I know well - Libraries, in your 50s is a really big deal. I didn't really think about it then, but reflecting on this now I can see how huge this was. The teaching side of things came fairly easily, I knew my subject well, and I enjoyed it and my lovely students. I was not perfect and made mistakes, but nothing too horrendous and I was continually learning and getting better as I went. This came from the wonderful support of my students and my amazing colleagues. I still have a long way to go, but I am pleased with my first proper year. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Teaching is hard - this is the truth, and I kind of knew that, but doing it you really get the enormity of the job. So hats off to all the teachers out there, especially my lovely Andrew, you are amazing. But it such a rewarding vocation, I look forward to what 2024 brings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also saw through an enormous project at work. I came up with the idea of having a Comic Con in The Hunter after attending the Sydney one around the same time we were looking at inclusive programming in the library. This seemed the ultra-inclusive event. Under the guise of Pop Bam, I led an amazing group/team of people over many months. It got huge quick, we do not have exact attendance figures, but 800-1000 would be a generous guess.<br /><br />Our hard work paid off by offering the community a wonderful day out and the chance to cosplay and enjoy themselves, along with exhibitors and wonderful people who work and volunteer in the pop culture and cosplay worlds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My regular gig at Belmont Library continued along, working with a wonderful team and great community that continue to make me smile.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I know people work much harder than I do, juggling families and study and so forth, so I feel lucky and privileged to have the time to work on all of the above. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My health gets better and better. The long-term stress that is post-cancer never really leaves you. I am getting a better handle on my menopause. The more I read, the more I realise it has probably been hanging around much longer than I realised and that some of my minor health 'issues' are probably related to this. As a breast cancer survivor, no HRT for me. But I am seeing a fab oncologist gyno who is helping me deal with it all. So despite the menopause and my osteo arthritis, which both can have their moments, overall I feel like I am doing better.<br /><br />Andrew and i still continue to do weekends between here and Sydney and whilst this is still a temporary thing it works for us.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We both love the escape into each other's world, and we enjoyed a great holiday in Melbourne in October. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our year also had a good many great concerts, big and small.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We enjoyed some whale watching, and visiting the beautiful puppies our lovely friends were fostering.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We participated in Wuthering Heights Day and Newcastle Writers Festival and farewelled a fave venue, The Cambridge</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Here are my lists for the year.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Film</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Everything Everywhere All At Once</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Asteroid City</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Maestro</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Barbie</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Elvis</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Aftersun</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Unbearable weight of massive talent</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Blueback</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Wonka</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Triangle of Sadness</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorable mentions to some older movies we rewatched:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bowfinger</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Broadcast News</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pee Wees Big Adventure</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Kid</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Television</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. The Bear</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Succession Final Season</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Barry Final Season</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Funny Woman</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. The Sandman</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. The Mandarlorian</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. The Newsreader</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. The Larkins</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. The Cleaner</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Wednesday</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorable Mentions:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Call the Midwife S12</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">only murders in teh building S2</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mother and Son</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hard Quiz</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cunk on Earth</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jury Duty</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Docos</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. The Sparks Brother</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Judy Blume Forever</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Arnold</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Kusama Infinity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. The Last Movie Stars</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Shatner in Space</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Keeping the Score</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Marilyn Reframed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Rainn WIlson and the Geography of Bliss</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Love to Love You, Donna Summer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorable Mentions:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The ABC of with David Wenham</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dream of Destiny - Richard Linklater</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Val</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Defending my life - Albert Brooks</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>MUSIC</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Fossfora - Bjork</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Special - Lizzo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Palomino - First Aid Kit</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Australian Carnage - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. The best of Sparks</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>GIGS </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Paul McCartney</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Devo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. The White Album show</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. The Cruel Sea</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Weird Al</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Henry Rollins</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Tim Rogers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Jane's Addiction</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. ROCKWIZ</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorable Mentions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">David Sedaris, John Cleese, Ita, Judy Nunn</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Podcasts</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Wiser than Me - Julia Louis Dreyfus</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. McCartney: a life in lyrics</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Joanna and the Maestro</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. All There is with Anderson Cooper</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. The Newsreader </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Smartless</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Imperfects</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Helen Garner 80 - Annabel Crabb - single episode</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Pamela Adlon on Alan Alda's Clear and Vivid with Alan Alda - single episode</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Annie Lennox -on Julia Gillard's A Podcast of Owns Own - single episode</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorable mentions:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">WTF - always brilliant</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bang On</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">BOOKS</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Bodies of light by Jennifer Down</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Did I Ever Tell You This by Sam Neil</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. A Heart that works by Rob Delany</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Limberlost by Robbie Arnott</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. No Bull by Vika and Linda Bull</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Everything and Nothing by Heather Mitchell</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Honorable Mentions:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Aphrodite's Breath by Susan Johnson</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-81856622408916883752024-03-08T20:25:00.005+11:002024-03-08T20:28:58.838+11:00JANUARY/FEBRUARY REVIEWS<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've been Reading</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Berserker by Adrian Edmondson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a wonderful memoir from Adrian Edmondson. It mostly delves into his childhood, family, and schooling. His father was a teacher and their family moved around a lot. He didn't have a great relationship with his father and was sent to boarding school quite young, which was not ideal. Reading this section of his book you can see where this lovely, gentle man became known for his very physical and mad comedy. This part of his life looms large through the whole book, and it is rough going at times but speckled with his lovely humour<br /><br />Once out of that system and in college he meets Rik Mayall and the rest is history. His description of meeting his friend and their early days honing their humour has so much love and admiration. So much so that decades later when they fall out, it is very upsetting to read. You can feel his pain, but also understand the circumstances. But no spoilers.<br /><br />Adrian delves into his comedy and reluctantly includes The Young Ones. He spends a lot of time explaining that it was such a very small section of his life, it seems he feels equally pleased and burdened by the show. He goes into depth and yet also glosses over some of his career. But it is all so very fascinating. There isn't much about his life with Jennifer and their children, but that is to be expected.<br /><br />This is one of the best autobiographies I have read in a long time. It was totally different to what I expected, but as I read it, it was exactly as it should be. Adrian is an excellent writer, and very honest and real. If you are a fan you will love it, it you are not, I think it will still draw you right in.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ai weiwei: making sense</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presented as a coffee table style book with load of amazing photos of weiwei's work, it also contained many essays and a few Q and A's with the artist himself. It included a lot of his works, especially the layouts of his collections with backgound on the installations, and his other work. I thought it would be a nice entry into his art, which is always very political (even if you do not realise this at first), but always absolutely beautiful. I loved immersing myself in his unique world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Pilgrimage: the great pilgrimage routes of Britain and Europe by Derry Brabbs</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a beautiful coffee table book following some of the great pilgrimage routes. I am not at all religious and my osteo arthritis prevents me from long walks, but I am somehow drawn to pilgrimages. I have read a lot of books about them and watched many shows and TVs. There is something very peaceful and meditative about a pilgrimage which I find very attractive. The book told many stories but also had the most beautiful photography from the routes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Retro Sydney by Nathan Mete</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another coffee table book, showing photos of Sydney through the decades. It was a lot of fun looking at favourite places from the city and seeing how much they have changed...or not. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Golden Maze: a biography of Prague by Richard Fidler</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I listened to this on talking book, with Richard "I drove him in my car once" Fidler reading it. It is basically a history of Prague interlaced with Richard's own travels in the great city. I have always had a bit of a love affair with Prague (one day I will get there) and whilst I know bits and pieces of its history, once I got into this I realised I knew nothing. It is a wild ride, but oh boy, really really depressing stuff. So much hurt and bad, it took a lot to process. But it was great to know, presented and written beautifully. Must have taken some time to research and write. I think this is a book for those interested in Prague, and history.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A Feather on the Breath of God - Sigrid Nunez</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have fallen in love with Sigrid Nunez after a friend recommended a title a few years back. I am finally working my way through her titles from the beginning. This is a semi-autobiographical novel. It follows a young girl with immigrant parents, living in New York. Her parents are elusive, and she escapes into her dreamworld and into the world of ballet. The book is divided into sections, about her mother, her father, ballet, her relationships. It is beautifully written and incredibly engaging. Sigrid is definitely a new favourite author.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Love: a curious history in 50 objects by Edward Brooke-Hitching</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a beautiful book with short essays about love and the objects being written about. They include stories/books about love, love stories, paintings (eg The Kiss Frida Kahlo), The Kama Sutra, Items of love, The Taj Mahal, the Unicorn Tapestries and so forth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Consent Laid Bare - Chanel Contos</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Consent Laid Bare is an important book and should be read by everyone. I actually listened to it in the car, and it was read by Chanel herself. It was a deep and difficult read/listen, but very much worth it. It is about why consent is so very important and talks in great detail about abuse and rape. The depth, details, and statistics are absolutely gut wrenching. But if we walk by this we will never resolve this issue. I also think it is a must read for parents of teenagers. Tread carefully but tread towards.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bill Bryson' African Diary: a short trip for a worthy cause - Bill Bryson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was so excited to see a new Bill Bryson, but it is barely 70 pages. It is about a trip to Africa for charity he made. It is a very quick and witty read, and I am hoping a larger tome more to his usual stylings will come out later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mixtape: stories and essays about the 1980s - Simon Castles</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. Every time I see something like this I sigh as this is the kind of book I would like to write. Then I read it and see it is nothing like I would actually write, so my idea is safe lol. It is a mix of autobiographical essays about all things 80s, film, music, television etc. It was funny and interesting, but not great.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Poetry Unbound: 50 poems to open your world by Padraig O'Tuama</b><br />Loved this book about poetry. O'Tauma has selected 50 poems and written a little essay about them with each selection. Mostly modern poetry and it was glorious, I really enjoyed this. <br /><br /><b>What I've Been Watching</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Boy Swallows Universe</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh my goodness, I don't know where to start. I was very apprehensive about one of my all-time favourite books being made into a series. I need not have been. This was so bloody good I was often in tears watching this. Trent Dalton was very hands on with the filming and you can tell. He also appears in the series, he was the voice on the red phone - which he says was very emotional and meta, given he was talking to the young actor playing himself - and as a hospital patient walking by towards the end of the final episode.<br /><br />It is pretty true to the book, although there are some changes and the series is much lighter in tone than the book. But it didn't matter. The attention to detail of the set, Brisbane in the 80s, was so stunning, and so much to take in, I didn't know where to look. The soundtrack, was also superb. They nailed the feel of the book. Things and people were exactly as I imagined them!<br /><br />And then there were the actors. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Felix Cameron as Eli Bell was everything. An actor wise beyond his years, much like the character he is playing. Every scene he was in, you were drawn to him. It is a remarkable performance. I do feel sorry for the guy who steps in as older Eli, he was good but he was no Felix. Lee Hailey as Gus was also superb. He pulls off the initially mute character beautifully. Bryan Brown, Simon Baker, Travis Fimmel, and Phoebe Tonkin were also perfectly casted. Simon Baker was also everything as the gorgeous Dad, and by gorgeous I mean a gorgeous heart, not looks, lol. I have never seen casting so perfected. <br /><br />The final episode goes off the rail a little (this is an expansion from the book) but I can forgive that slight miss-step. This was one of the best Australian series I have seen in a long time. Its worldwide popularity showcases how stunning it is. This is truly must-see television, you don't have to have read the book to enjoy this. There is so much I want to say, but I really do not want to spoil things. This is as close to perfection as you will see.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Larkins S2</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I do love this remake of the Darling Buds of May starring Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan as Pa and Ma. S2 is a lesson in class, with the upper class snoots setting Pa up for a terrible fall. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The humour and love is still there though. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">A new and young Reverand is in town causing issues for the Vicar (played beautifully by Peter Davison - Doctor Who and All Creatures Great and Small). Primrose falls in love and Marigold returns from her honeymoon. That house The Larkins live in still makes me weak at the knees and the food, oh the food!!! Perfect comfort watching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Doctor Who Christmas Special</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This introduces us properly to the new Doctor and his companion, Ruby. It was a cute little Christmas special with a lovely nod to Tolkien. Gollumishly gnomes snatching babies in a pirate ship. Lovely storytelling, simplistic and easy to follow, courtesy of Russell T Davies. Ncuti Gatwa, as expected, was wonderful. Bright and happy, and marching to the beat of his own drum, he took the reins in the most confidant of ways. Watching him, made you feel like he had been doing it for years. This is great. Cannot wait for the series proper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Call the Midwife Christmas Special</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A large snowstorm causes problems for our Midwives, doctors, and friends. I love this show, I love the characters, it is just one of those feel-good, comfort shows. About to enter its 13th season, they never seem to run out of stories, and I guess babies are born every day!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Lovers</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a fun British comedy about 2 people who meet under extraordinary circumstances and fall in love. They are from different worlds, and have a lot of hidden baggage that unfolds as the series progresses. What will happen, will they ruin the romance or will they make it. I quite enjoyed this one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nolly</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A powerhouse performance from Helena Bonham-Carter as Noele Gordon, a real actress from the British soap, Crossroads who was unceremoniously sacked after years of service. The 3-part series follows the story and the public who were very upset about their favourite character being sacked. Helena is amazing - as always - as the eccentric Nolly, the supporting cast were great. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Strife</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Urgh, if you know me, you know I loathe Mama Fucking Mia, and this is a show based on that and it is as awful as you would expect. I only watched it as I love Asher Keddie, and she was ok, but I felt like I had seen her do this before. Her character is an awful awful person, and her 'business' model is disgusting. This interested me as that is exactly how I feel about the real-life counterpart and her business model, so I was surprised at how 'honest' it seemed. So yeah, I hate watched this, and I am not proud of myself. You have been warned.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oppenheimer</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It took me a while to get to this, but boy it was worth the wait. We know the basic story, but this is so insightful and full of detail. It is obviously a terrible part of our history, but the complexity behind the story is heart breaking. Christopher Nolan is a genius film-maker, this goes without saying. The cinematography is always outstanding, and this is no exception. He uses black and white on and off throughout the film and it is a great thing. The film looks so very elegant, and so were the performances.<br /><br />Cillian Murphy is everything as the conflicted Oppenheimer. Robert Downey Jnr, is impeccably restrained as Lewis Strauss, a man on the downward spiral. Emily Blunt is mesmering as Oppenheimer's wife. The cast is full of amazing character actors, as someone recently said, when Remi Malik only gets one line, you know this is a great film.<br /><br />I could see a lot of crossover from Asteroid City, which amused me, but this film is not a comedy. I remember only too well the fear of nuclear war. I guess this film is not for everyone, but it is an important film, and I predict many Oscars in its future. At the very least for Robert Downey Jnr...but I will leave all that for my Oscar blogs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Holdovers</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What a joy the latest Alexander Payne film is. Firstly, I have loved Paul Giamatti since Private Parts, he is one of the greatest character actors and satirists. Set in the 70s at a boarding school/college. Giamatti is an odd character, a tough history teacher with malice for the privileged students he has to teach. Older, never married, cantankerous, the students do not care for him, and quite possibly a lot of his colleagues. He is chosen to stay over the Christmas period with students unable to go home. The only other adult is his friend, Mary the cook (played beautifully by Da'Vine Joy Randolph - who I have loved in High Fidelty the TV series, and Only Murders in the Building). Mary is grieving her son, who was recently killed in Vietnam. <br /><br />The acting is phenomenal, and like all Payne films, it is a dark comedy with a lot of melancholy. There are a lot of 'unknowns' playing the students, and they are great. The film becomes a two-hander when Paul and a student head out of the school on some errands, and layers upon layers are unravelled. How has Giamatti never won an Oscar, this would surely be his year, but oh boy he has some competition. Da'Vine's beautifully nuanced comedy/dramatic turn will surely nab one. This is such a beautiful film AND a truly lovely Christmas film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Anatomy of a Fall</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anatomy of a Fall really sucked me in. I didn't know much about it going in, other than Sandra Huller's performance was extraordinary, and it was. The movie commences with Sandra (played by Sandra) trying to give an interview about her writing to a young journalist. You can see they live in the French alps, in a lovely house but are very isolated. As the interview progresses very loud and disjointed world music begins to play. Sandra keeps up appearances despite being obviously irritated by the music which is being played by her husband. The interview is cut short and the journalist leaves. At the same time the son, who is legally blind, goes for a walk with his guide dog, Snoop.<br /><br />Aside: Snoop is the most gorgeous good boy and an extraordinary actor, but I cannot say why as that will be a spoiler!!<br /><br />Then tension builds, you know something is going to happen and indeed something has. When Daniel and Snoop return they find his father in the snow surrounded by blood and dead. He calls for his mother who eventually comes out and calls an ambulance etc. This then leads into investigations and Sandra is the key suspect despite her claims he must have fallen from the top floor where he was working. <br /><br />The film is essentially a trial with some flash backs and you just do not know what to believe, but when Daniel is called upon as a 'witness' things get very intense. He is wonderful, but it is Sandra who just knocks it out the ball park, what a tremendous performance. She will not win, but it is a mesmerising performance. One that will leave you guessing until the very end.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>American Fiction</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved this movie so much, it had a great dry wit to it. Jeffery Wright is Monk, a writer of literary novels, which are critically acclaimed but they do not sell. When his latest title is rejected for not being black enough he is infuriated. So he decides to write the kind of book he hates but everyone seems to want.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">His mother is declining with Alzheimers so he visits her and his sister, Tracee Ellis Ross who is a doctor. His estranged brother, Sterling K. Brown, turns up to add to the chaos, and Monk falls in love with a neighbour. And there is more, but that would be spoilers, but he has a lot going on.<br /><br />In the meantime his publisher loves his new book, but is not aware it is Monk. His agent convinces him to make up this crazy persona to help 'promote' the book. This is hilarious. But when he is asked to be a on a panel to judge a literary prize and his joke book turns up on the long list, things get really hectic.<br /><br />I loved this really well written and tight story. The story moves swiftly with all the moving parts working beautifully. Mostly due to Wright's great performance, and the great supporting cast. Tracee Ellis Ross and Issa Rae as a fellow writer are utterly brilliant as always. As are the remaining cast. I am unsure if this will win any Oscars, but it is well worth watching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Past Lives</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was such a lovely heartfelt little film. Na Young and Hae Sung are living in Seoul in 2000, they are 12 and good friends, Hae Sung is a little bit in love with Na Young. Her family are creatives and about to emigrate to Toronto. Her mother wants to leave her with a great final memory, and organises a 'date' for the children. Hae Sung is bereft.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2012, Na Young is now Nora Moon and living in New York, and Hae Sung is out of military college and decides to track Na Young down to no avail. Nora finds out this via facebook and contacts him under her new guise. They fall easily back into their friendship. More changes happen over the years (spoilers) and in 2024 and Hae Sung decides to visit Nora.<br /><br />This rocks her very safe world. And I will leave it there.<br /><br />Past Lives is such a lovely understated film with so much heart. I really loved this. Beautifully acted, lovely to watch, genuine chemistry. Stayed with me for days.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rustin</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rustin is a biopic about the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. He was working with Martin Luther King Jnr and really pushing him forward. Rustin is quite an important figure in this part of history but has been mostly pushed under the carpet as he was gay. This story rights that wrong as he was instrumental in organising the March on Washington in 1963. This is where MLKJ gave his very famous, I had a Dream, speech.<br /><br />This film is good and an important historical record and produced as part of the Obama's production company. But it is Colman Domingo's performance as Rustin that makes this movie really stand out and worth watching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Nyad</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was unsure about this film going in, a 2 hour biopic about a woman trying to swim from Cuba to Florida. But Annette Benning and more specifically Jodie Foster hooked me in. Firstly, the film absolutely flies by, it never feels like 2 hours. Secondly, it really is interesting and rather frightening. Definitely makes you NOT want to swim in the ocean. Benning is absolutely amazing in the role of Diana Nyad, a champion swimmer who comes out of retirement at 60 to do the swim that she never nailed. Her friend, Bonnie, is a retired sports coach. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jodie Foster plays Bonnie, and herein is what really drew me in. I have always found Jodie a magnetic and charismatic presence on screen and in her first big film in a long time she is absolutely brilliant. You never catch her acting, she embodies Bonnie, and I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I really enjoyed this film, but truly it is worth it for the drama in the waters and for Jodie Foster.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Living</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a very lowkey but utterly beautiful film. Set in the 50s, adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro from the Japanese film by Kurosawa Ikiru which was in turn loosely based on Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Bill Nighy plays Mr Williams, a council bureaucrat, who finds out he has a terminal illness. He has lived most of his life quietly, and not pushing the boundaries in any way, most especially his work.<br /><br />After initial despair, he takes stock of his life and decides to make his mark and live his life before the illness takes hold. He updates his wardrobe, works with enthusiasm, including ensuring a special project is seen through. He also meets an ex-colleague working at a restaurant, and spends time with her, despite being significantly younger than him. It is not a romance as such, more her positivity fuels this new life he is living. The film is about making a difference in this world, if only in a small way. Nighy was up for Best Actor last year for this performance, deservingly so, he is always great. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mrs Harris Goes to Paris</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a sweet little movie, Mrs Harris is played by Lesley Manville. Set in the 50s, Mrs Harris is a cleaner and widowed and loves Dior Couture and after a series of windfalls, decides to head to Paris to buy a Dior gown. This is a simple but very sweet fish out of water. Isabelle Huppert plays a snooty director, as only she can. Look, this was not great, but the fashion and Paris were sublime. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Falling for Figaro</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Millie leaves the US for Scotland to follow her dream of being an Opera Singer. She enlists in the help of a formidable, former opera singer, played by Joanna Lumley. There is romance, opera, beautiful countryside. Again, this is not a great film, but a sweet little feel-good one. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Marlow</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like most Noir this was style over substance. Diane Kruger looked good as the femme fatale but I feel she was misused. Jessica Lange did better as her mother. Liam Neeson felt miscast as Marlow, he looked good, but didn't pull off the down on his luck detective thing. The story was haphazard, but the set design was phenomenal and the supporting cast was really great. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Renfield</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a lot of fun, Nicholas Hoult Is Renfield, Dracula's (Nicolas Cage) familiar with special strength after eating bugs. But he has had enough and tries to escape but gets caught up in some real-life drama. It is pure fun and hilarious. Awkwafina also stars, so you know you will get loads of laughs. I bloody love her. Cage is at his craziest best as Dracula also. Loads of fun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ghostbusters: afterlife</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I didn't mind this at all, it focuses on the kids Ghostbusting, after a long set up. I feel like Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd were very much under-utilised, especially Coon who is such an extraordinary actress. The back story was clever, and seeing the original cast added some gravitas. I did enjoy this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dungeons and Dragons: honour among thieves</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was style over substance, but a lot of fun. I enjoyed this action adventure. Chris Pine was good, but Hugh Grant stole every scene. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Between Two Worlds</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Juliette Binoche is an author researching a book on poverty. She moves out of Paris under a guise and made up story and gets work as a cleaner with a bunch of feisty but down and out women. She throws herself into her work and becomes friendly with the women, making notes. But then things turn, and she is exposed. This was a good film, Binoche is always great.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>My Old School</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a very bizarre documentary about a man, Brandon Lee, who enrols in a British school, despite being 30, and no one picks up on it. Seriously! He tells a whole load of lies and people buy it. Until he is found out. They say truth is stranger than fiction, and this is a great example. You could never make this up. The film itself, like the man, is a strange hybrid with archival footage, cartoons, and characterisation, and interviews with key players. Brandon agreed to be interviewed but not appear on film, so Alan Cumming plays him. This is something to be seen to be believed. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Gimme Danger</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a great documentary by Jim Jarmusch about Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Loads of footage and interviews and music. This kicks arse and is funny, I loved it!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Mission</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another Marc Fennell show about art theft, or is it!? This is the fascinating story of an art heist from a monastery in WA. The story takes him around the world in his quest to find the truth. It uncovers a whole lot more than the art that was stolen. Every time I thought I had worked out what was going on, some other bizarre twist was thrown in. This was truly compelling.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed this meditative series with the always brilliant Julia Zemiro. The premise is simple, Julia takes us on long walks/hikes around Australia. Picking key places with great history, we learn a lot about our indigenous history and tragedies, and meet some lovely characters, and enjoy the stunning scenery. My favourites were Melbourne, Tasmania and the North Coast.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bill Bailey's Wild West Australia</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Comedian Bill Bailey explores WA and has a great time, Interesting, loads of nature, and very funny as you would expect.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Greatest Night in Pop</b></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Oh my goodness!!</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">14 year old Cathy was absolutely losing her shit within me.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have always loved a spectacle, and my world was absolutely blown when this came out. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I bloody loved watching that clip and seeing all my faves and then some in one room.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">So this blew my mind.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">For music fans, this is a MUST SEE.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">I learned so much I didn't know.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">I had no idea Bob Geldof was there for the whole thing, guiding them.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">I had no idea it was filmed DIRECTLY after the American Music Awards.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">The awards Lionel Richie had just hosted and won heaps of awards.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">He led the project with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson - I knew that.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Doco delves into how it all came together - a logistical nightmare.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">The writing of the song - equal parts genius, crazy and hilarity. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">And, of course, the filming...and therein lies the gold.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">I won't spoilt much more.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">However, the Waylon Jennings and Sheila E stories will blow your mind.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">AND the Dylan arc actually had me in tears.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">A few more thoughts.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Michael Jackon...genius and generous.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">I know he is kinda cancelled these days, but we both think how things ended up for him is a huge tragedy.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Because he is at the height of his brilliance (IMO) here, before things got too whacky. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">And it is something to behold.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Lionel Richie - not a fan, but he really kept things together at the busiest moment of his life. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Excellent leadership.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">There are a lot of amazing stuff with Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Also Harry Belafonte and Smokey Robinson.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">To me, those who came out looking most brilliant - Cyndi Lauper and Huey Lewis - they were absolutely phenomenal - just watch!</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">The group also sing another song, we wish had been properly made, would have been a great b-side - again, just watch.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">Also quite beautiful watching some of our most wonderful musicians who have passed performing at their prime!</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">This was such pure joy, I cannot recommend it enough.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: black;">The Grammys 2024</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">This year The Grammys were superb. I always love the performances, but the past few years have been a bit meh. This year took it up a few notches.
I surprised myself by really enjoying Miley Cyrus and Oliva Rodrigo. Both songs are great. Billie Eillish was perfection. The memorial, specifically Stevie and Annie was remarkable and moving. Billy Joel and Joni Mitchell brough old school back with lovely performances. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: verdana;">But it was Tracy Chapman who brought the house down with a great duet of Fast Car with Luke Coombes. There is nothing that hasn't already been said, except it was perfection and her smile could light the world forever.</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Listening To</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Joanna and the Maestro</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been loving this great new to me podcast. Joanna Lumley is the Joanna and the Maestro is her husband, Stephen Barlow, who really is a Maestro. Stephen is a conductor and composer and an incredible font of knowledge on classical music. Joanna herself knows quite a lot. The podcast takes a small part of classical music and discusses it in a way that is really accessible for everyone. They talk about styles of music, composers, favourite pieces, and occasionally interview people who love or are involved in classical music. Each episode is usually around 30 mins which I love and they have smaller hybrid episodes where they answer questions that people write in. This is an utter delight. I have loved and studied classical music on and off my entire life so I am i heaven listening to this. Joanna and Stephen are just lovely to listen to. I want to meet them so much!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dick and Angel's Chat...eau podcast</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Devastated the wonderful Escape to the Chateau has finished up, do not worry, Dick and Angel now have their own podcast and like everything they do, it is wonderful. They retell stories we know and keep us abreast of what is happening in their lives since the show ended. Their charisma comes across like old friends. Love this podcast.</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-4096865952065390482024-01-18T21:50:00.001+11:002024-01-18T21:50:20.265+11:00SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMEBER/DECEMBER DIARY<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">September was huge, so much to do, and so much fun!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I finally celebrated Mary's 50th, with a feast at the local Tapas.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZ9M9t6IuNBLyrsZFW6t-xWGr1DABm8r3dlp1Y3LxwwmIMmJVDr1tbyTPInNg-gInQ-8B-pWt34GoGn1MaqvQxbyMTcDpehIPV6fWDQ9t8nnsTgjHstGN43xD9mBwOWP0TBbt0c9S1a3Zh0l7EMlNoGwGNG0gRZZio2bd7hsyHb__A6cCQ_Egz1Reiok/s4032/20230901_191651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZ9M9t6IuNBLyrsZFW6t-xWGr1DABm8r3dlp1Y3LxwwmIMmJVDr1tbyTPInNg-gInQ-8B-pWt34GoGn1MaqvQxbyMTcDpehIPV6fWDQ9t8nnsTgjHstGN43xD9mBwOWP0TBbt0c9S1a3Zh0l7EMlNoGwGNG0gRZZio2bd7hsyHb__A6cCQ_Egz1Reiok/s320/20230901_191651.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We saw Ita Buttrose and Mikey Robbins give talks at our history festival for work.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZuTZknu1P6f7o96dCbF3Mm-Ae52jG0CMZ6CflNymD6Wypf_vEWFBkPppmFoE0E5TMx3I0oCxZ70xdCbh9nPfgmp-2FGitu28aTEGwqsp0BFd3_cAgzlbrpUAP4fpL94Uo_-mmqn6svP97-DCsux8pYm1xkMyZf9A2_h7u2uouwiW0LD3xNj_rhdPBj2A/s2127/20230909_141533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2127" data-original-width="1949" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZuTZknu1P6f7o96dCbF3Mm-Ae52jG0CMZ6CflNymD6Wypf_vEWFBkPppmFoE0E5TMx3I0oCxZ70xdCbh9nPfgmp-2FGitu28aTEGwqsp0BFd3_cAgzlbrpUAP4fpL94Uo_-mmqn6svP97-DCsux8pYm1xkMyZf9A2_h7u2uouwiW0LD3xNj_rhdPBj2A/s320/20230909_141533.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fnGS1D8yIrlMnDBNb1Ul7ayE5dINu40lLjiqgK9ay0rb44y36xY-m_lHNAM2D2JFxBoiESlyPwXHOY1X_Cf2ylu2teznZbyzfWGuo7DQBlO2Dm-8-DTve-6cgANCOgKHtVmOFmuc86QP7m5MGyuICHWsYSQagyU8Egxh3Y1lYPQB4oSxSb-pUPsqQCA/s2528/20230909_163715.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2528" data-original-width="2019" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fnGS1D8yIrlMnDBNb1Ul7ayE5dINu40lLjiqgK9ay0rb44y36xY-m_lHNAM2D2JFxBoiESlyPwXHOY1X_Cf2ylu2teznZbyzfWGuo7DQBlO2Dm-8-DTve-6cgANCOgKHtVmOFmuc86QP7m5MGyuICHWsYSQagyU8Egxh3Y1lYPQB4oSxSb-pUPsqQCA/s320/20230909_163715.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>We also had a huge weekend at The Civic.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We saw The White Album show on the Friday night. Tim Rogers, Josh Pyke, Chris Cheney, and Phil Jamison. They played the entire White Album by The Beatles and some extra songs. I had seen the same show a few years back and it was as good, if not better.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRRyi1TnuylUabZfOcoG-FhiWdQvA-x3qDvH2ws_Yj50tRwFEEARjRn4kyswoBNTRn5gRbUajsbaUOeLQ6jIf2Or_wr1IRDkUnKWvjSDuMtmuaX0HMzArG8zb5GQh6YDkzZ7tUn6LmeeR8G_LO7defT32f6_UCzhZBmr2FQIANKTJjUVqd9VUfPw08Ug/s4032/20230915_190727(0).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRRyi1TnuylUabZfOcoG-FhiWdQvA-x3qDvH2ws_Yj50tRwFEEARjRn4kyswoBNTRn5gRbUajsbaUOeLQ6jIf2Or_wr1IRDkUnKWvjSDuMtmuaX0HMzArG8zb5GQh6YDkzZ7tUn6LmeeR8G_LO7defT32f6_UCzhZBmr2FQIANKTJjUVqd9VUfPw08Ug/s320/20230915_190727(0).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyI_7BP7Vjg21L25O2K41Ym4exjKS241igkZry4gXiNgMBTX_mT-5TdL75Fd76eY9UFZSxmOAod06Z-Ar3LDTR1zgR1e-Qk_fB4g4letFxMVWPZZ6siAbhZH_3phIZXaiMnw7F_nFZ4iqr8A_UNY2MSjbQ2aS89Izol2lcX989CEmYEfw593dL161Dyuw/s4032/20230915_190944.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Nick is the drummer of Pink Floyd. I love Pink Floyd and this is probably as close as I will get to seeing 'them' live. The band, headed by Gary Kemp (from Spandau Ballet and he was amazing), played all the early stuff and it was phenomenal.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTlHqeTBKsHeMIW0NKlgiLd0N6Qq3Hj8plHEMhbDGcCE0xXlof5GMLah0JnSVbMs-beE4MgBo59KWi4w7iJ_K26x8DPuNoMWrMRNuaKVV5_vDpyYg5_YqVqhnoLqLpEez4hFkE168sTPji_9nH2YZnlgqj4HehsHAmV_Gi6KVhyphenhyphenIE60pJJI8LqfA7qgs/s4032/20230921_201210.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTlHqeTBKsHeMIW0NKlgiLd0N6Qq3Hj8plHEMhbDGcCE0xXlof5GMLah0JnSVbMs-beE4MgBo59KWi4w7iJ_K26x8DPuNoMWrMRNuaKVV5_vDpyYg5_YqVqhnoLqLpEez4hFkE168sTPji_9nH2YZnlgqj4HehsHAmV_Gi6KVhyphenhyphenIE60pJJI8LqfA7qgs/s320/20230921_201210.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOkYu-yfvXbSxh4Cg8tR7i6EFQqRspBRKXJxfrj48O3oqU9MH4lj30wVVBFp7d4gFgyC5__0QS5bDueZ6RMQ9tE8MLrxqJMxm56wXGFH0ZKjvb6hpHFE2qrL8OcX-op6eiVBTDAVa8MH7PMi8i6PazLR4vcfEyIDM99ah0tHttE263GK6f62nF2CoWoA/s4032/20230921_201912.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-15371739578570876962024-01-18T21:48:00.000+11:002024-01-18T21:48:26.029+11:00THE CRUEL SEA<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back in the early 90s, The Cruel Sea were the bomb!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tex Perkins swaggered in and they won ARIAS and hearts of indie rockers.<br /><br />I first saw them at The Big Day Out in 1994, it was a hot day and I was with my bf at the time, he headed to see something else and I went up into the back of the grandstand for shade. They were wonderful, and Tex oozed from all the way back on the stage and the nickname and word Texy was invented.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I also saw them at The Cambridge, on a date I cannot remember.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So after all these years, 30 in fact, yeah 30, we headed back to the Enmore on a hot sticky night for The Honeymoon is Over 30th Anniversary Tour.<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUHXxP3mXproJaflx1v_pUuIzqCaPh-T2K8juFX5hCicgeLQl83paobvTNNuW2dZHZaVKP8S3bRdRwHXXrU927hN8VB4BZRH6OcBA29febou0_H5X5YUrDGmPEF2ATRgewElMheFh8VoKoY5OyUqYtnJ1P-XiInk159T4RYzpURAmG0dx7pYXjPg3GdM/s2000/received_329864169819254.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUHXxP3mXproJaflx1v_pUuIzqCaPh-T2K8juFX5hCicgeLQl83paobvTNNuW2dZHZaVKP8S3bRdRwHXXrU927hN8VB4BZRH6OcBA29febou0_H5X5YUrDGmPEF2ATRgewElMheFh8VoKoY5OyUqYtnJ1P-XiInk159T4RYzpURAmG0dx7pYXjPg3GdM/s320/received_329864169819254.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The support was The Wraylettes, an all-girl band. Dressed in shimmery dresses and go go boots, they played mostly covers of 60s instrumental music and had the audience in the palm of their hands. If you ever get the chance to see the, you must. Incredibly cool and excellent musicians.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFjrAeMOZC_idb_Z_OqZ0pUbdJ26efzNsAJXZSDyx4TzG_r-_Z2l0FMKDHmYsBLHy531YIBJOax2LPsn3miSEhGnruvcR5K37n0SOdeKqgbtNrcsazpPy8axMHpO9lt_jy27tzQaoL0OC0jWYfZNwgME3IcyksakhoHtitgGO-jJHnyOwAUkbWZbor_Y/s4032/20231215_200056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFjrAeMOZC_idb_Z_OqZ0pUbdJ26efzNsAJXZSDyx4TzG_r-_Z2l0FMKDHmYsBLHy531YIBJOax2LPsn3miSEhGnruvcR5K37n0SOdeKqgbtNrcsazpPy8axMHpO9lt_jy27tzQaoL0OC0jWYfZNwgME3IcyksakhoHtitgGO-jJHnyOwAUkbWZbor_Y/s320/20231215_200056.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Cruel Sea came on to great acclaim and excitement and off they went. They sounded so very sharp and brilliant. They are a remarkable band. Such a sharp yet laid back guitar sound.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10wh44ZdYqO3k-_bwu-2P0riDL-DdFgcK3A6dicLvVih7XFvHefpqhJ8L-U_wWKJHM3KK6MMSP03Pl89fSknU2GdTHoOuq69U9gznJh9PJToRaUEpwAv9igyOvhRIzMjVYoy_RHBcv45k76YqHpK3-IQil4DMd1QPHWgS8yApq1IHO3Y2IQ7Zz8scBDA/s4032/20231215_210610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10wh44ZdYqO3k-_bwu-2P0riDL-DdFgcK3A6dicLvVih7XFvHefpqhJ8L-U_wWKJHM3KK6MMSP03Pl89fSknU2GdTHoOuq69U9gznJh9PJToRaUEpwAv9igyOvhRIzMjVYoy_RHBcv45k76YqHpK3-IQil4DMd1QPHWgS8yApq1IHO3Y2IQ7Zz8scBDA/s320/20231215_210610.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYvGXHxbJxM5SL0WioXUGiVMcRFaO-FtQmBSQSfjE_2xacsbl_twg8_0iIBw5Xuj2nB8SjvieziuL2qplzWX89up1C-ezj_2jmiNECFUw1ltSDvWoGjkK_ptEuLal01RnEAWo4XZAfBlreQpTzuGYpMYHD_rvz1GQeIgLbGq412r5f2-Wlf4ICAyXKWV0/s4032/20231215_211710.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYvGXHxbJxM5SL0WioXUGiVMcRFaO-FtQmBSQSfjE_2xacsbl_twg8_0iIBw5Xuj2nB8SjvieziuL2qplzWX89up1C-ezj_2jmiNECFUw1ltSDvWoGjkK_ptEuLal01RnEAWo4XZAfBlreQpTzuGYpMYHD_rvz1GQeIgLbGq412r5f2-Wlf4ICAyXKWV0/s320/20231215_211710.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2TpkGiYyR2VyxlKOZrDlJeeeVASVJVTjsS9l1VYlSonjEy4WFLuh2qOU7_Qbihdt99__9A_7gSRFLVLdg2om56X4ygm_u3WMqvOWPQ1li-YQe0uhYwUNZGw4_uTOo89suAflE-Od2Dw9XUquyJLFfYqJmJZIh_bmtgRMIicJST7mrPfMjvnRd-1EGfY/s4032/20231215_211715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2TpkGiYyR2VyxlKOZrDlJeeeVASVJVTjsS9l1VYlSonjEy4WFLuh2qOU7_Qbihdt99__9A_7gSRFLVLdg2om56X4ygm_u3WMqvOWPQ1li-YQe0uhYwUNZGw4_uTOo89suAflE-Od2Dw9XUquyJLFfYqJmJZIh_bmtgRMIicJST7mrPfMjvnRd-1EGfY/s320/20231215_211715.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tex looked and sounded better than I think I have ever heard. He was at his Texiest.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85iku6MRzIsaxwq8MmLcMCTsX5htmK1m5pzC5Tk8dNA1T144XB7FzUZsh9w3DmG_wS4PzzVOpb4SC6_xd3U_lxhqvx2wzXEz5JYf_c0V9PNV3YWfK-QEh9IRusnJRFR25mrOxhODFDdXJ4kc59iTUhSmgNkumtM1VsCuh6onKKLj7NcSIDtq-_QlsXFs/s4032/20231215_215835.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85iku6MRzIsaxwq8MmLcMCTsX5htmK1m5pzC5Tk8dNA1T144XB7FzUZsh9w3DmG_wS4PzzVOpb4SC6_xd3U_lxhqvx2wzXEz5JYf_c0V9PNV3YWfK-QEh9IRusnJRFR25mrOxhODFDdXJ4kc59iTUhSmgNkumtM1VsCuh6onKKLj7NcSIDtq-_QlsXFs/s320/20231215_215835.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFXfpSsJUysh1p1Pj_Fy2CeJVOAPM-UfFec7Yy9qjSe_vEOhAsYsG4kv29XQZ3ygcZ8tk-RQrgbZdfYOC67r35xSXTiFfNVihD4lH_2rhiQnFVH2il7kFTMaKoALeT5GSFZUDg59stmrOAOvMFv4RZUPDk2iABzoOybYoIC_fxKBdm_hzERIIZMcp2kc/s4032/20231215_215837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2934" data-original-width="2114" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ4VxMdjpAUGQoOeBc2WL9Pf5eCLgEXnv5jhilv-i8beVsy3Fm1WdiVJBw7yiU7dZDaRGzHs7faI0VyLoDAMl2fXRhpZj1Ar20EkvcthhDnGdYky6uRBwBumDx14vptRxehl3M6XgjVjM0kejdxBupNP4wqMAHbCHySDTqmetzaEzNSO-bjqrsbCgalo/s320/20231215_224303.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The played everything you wanted and more, songs you had forgotten existed. This is why I never look at previous setlists prior to a gig, you want to be surprised. We had a blast. It was a really good gig.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Highlights for me were Black Stick, and It's Alright, and Delivery Man.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We went home singing and smiling...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0Y-I6v7dICEvpKBywJyaaQqKd6pn9zMcQPlEIyEapM1f6qOhEu14-5vEk3Z9Aio9iofGUdBhtlmn92Gdc0bmPd2FO9wm1j1nIkxMn2tY8SxhA8-KxjFCXbZYkDLA8TOuT-I1cTFjB6BSbLg1qu6OgVOCWrPViE9OeAt0w5llqn9XgOB_PoFoEoKC6sY/s1561/20231215_224409.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="1561" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic0Y-I6v7dICEvpKBywJyaaQqKd6pn9zMcQPlEIyEapM1f6qOhEu14-5vEk3Z9Aio9iofGUdBhtlmn92Gdc0bmPd2FO9wm1j1nIkxMn2tY8SxhA8-KxjFCXbZYkDLA8TOuT-I1cTFjB6BSbLg1qu6OgVOCWrPViE9OeAt0w5llqn9XgOB_PoFoEoKC6sY/s320/20231215_224409.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Here is the Setlist:<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Shadder</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. It's Alright</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Anybody But You</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Delivery Man</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Don't Sell It</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Too Fast For Me</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Better Get A Lawyer</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. The Drift</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Navigate</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Woman with Soul</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">11. Cocaine</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">12. Black Stick</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">13. The Honeymoon is Over</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">14. This is Not the Way Home</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">15. 4</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">16. Down below</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">17. Margarita</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">18. Blame it on the Moon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">19. Stuff 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-60675632384697919372024-01-17T20:16:00.004+11:002024-01-17T20:55:35.688+11:00NOVEMBER/DECEMBER REVIEWS<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1851" _msttexthash="382733">What I've Been Reading</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554">All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554">I loved this wonderful book about behind the scenes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. I have always loved art and art galleries and museums, but my experience at The Met, as it is called, was one of the most amazing of my life. I had never seen so much beauty in one day, I was incredibly moved by so much within that magnificent building that I kept bursting into tears.<br /><br />So this book was just perfection. Patrick worked at The New Yorker, and lived a busy New York Life, but when his older brother got cancer, he dropped it all to help care for him. After his death he wanted space and simplicity, time to think, so he applied for a job as a 'guard' at The Met. The book describes his time there, the tasks he did as part of the job, the people he met, and the art. Oh the art, this book just immerses you in the art and his love of all that beauty. If you love beauty and art, this is the book for you. I will re-read this often.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A Book of Days by Patti Smith</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been reading this book all year. It is based on Patti's Instagram account. It has a photo and some words about the photo (often black and white and taken on her Polaroid Camera) for each day of the year. There are photos of her family, from her travels, her favourite things, her cat, photos of authors she loves, important people to her. It was lovely to start each day with her vision and thoughts. It is a book I will return to often, it is hard to describe the beauty from Patti's point of view, but she has a unique vision and soul. It is stunning, this book is like a piece of Patti's heart and soul. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554"><b>The White Album by Joan Didion</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I return to Joan often, especially this title. Her writing is so spare and yet sublime. The White Album is a selection of her journalistic pieces from the late 60s and 70s. Mostly based in California, she writes about architecture, politics, pop culture and everything in between. I particularly love her piece on The Doors, fascinating insight without any fan girling, she is effortlessly cool. She also wrote about the Sharon Tate murders, and you can feel the tension in the air as she writes. I also love her takedown of the then new Getty Museum. Sharp and witty, without ever being mean, utterly brilliant stuff.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554"><b>Ballet Confidential by David McAllister</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554">I loved David's first book, Soar, which was his autobiography about his life in Ballet. This is more a general behind the scenes at the Ballet and it's also great. He commences with a potted history of Ballet, including key figures throughout the history. He goes through the various positions one can hold in the ballet including the important non-dancing roles, the music, the key ballets, injuries, costumes, romance between players and on and on. This is a great book for those interested in Ballet, but want to know the basics.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554">The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Angela's debut novel, Night Blue, which was told from the perspective of the painting Blue Poles. And she really nailed it, clever, historical, and funny. This is her follow up, and her 'twist' this time is it is told from the perspective of Cezanne's wife as she watches over an author in 2020 writing about her. Again, it is clever, and historical, but she doesn't pull it off as well as the other. It is still a great read, and set at the beginning of the pandemic, and in Australia and France. It tells part of her story and of the author. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1852" _msttexthash="970554">The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1853" _msttexthash="109172115" style="font-family: verdana;">I listened to this on talking book and really enjoyed it. I am not really into murder mysteries but this was good. I also enjoy Sulari's other books. This was a book within a book kind of book. About an author writing a murder mystery and youg et to hear/read the whole book within the reality. It worked really well. Meanwhile in the real world, the author has been conversing with someone via email and something feels off. Both storylines will have you on the edge of your seat. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1854" _msttexthash="4373096">Boldly Go: reflections on a life of awe and wonder by William Shatner with Joshua Brandon</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1855" _msttexthash="28322268" style="font-family: verdana;">Some stories of meaning from Shatner's life. He writes about his family, animals, charity work, helping others, Star Trek, and going to space. He has lived a large life with a lot of amazing things happening to him. This was an easy fun read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1856" _msttexthash="1993966">Seafaring: canoeing ancient songlines by Victor Briggs</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1857" _msttexthash="232413155" style="font-family: verdana;">I listened to this amazing book on talking book. Read by the author, the inimitable Briggs. I didn't realise he had written it when I decided to listen to it, so was surprised when I heard his voice. It is about First Nations peoples and their connection to country, specifically water. Based on a story told to his uncle it also explore the thought that they sailed the trade winds to Hawaii. He tells wonderful stories about his people and how they traversed the sea, the canoes their built, how they used the stars, sun and moon to navigate. Listening to this history of our indigenous people and their culture was so very important and also so very calming. I highly recommend a read or a listen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1858" _msttexthash="423059">What I've Been Watching</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1859" _msttexthash="455520">Maestro</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bradley Cooper's film about Leonard Bernstein is a masterpiece. I could tell it would be from what I read and saw prior and as a huge Bernstein fan, I had high expectations. What I loved the most about this film, is he didn't attempt to throw everything Bernstein in it, he picked a theme - his relationship with his wife - and stuck to it. Of course music is featured, heard, seen, and it is tremendous. Bradley himself spent the best part of a decade preparing for this, and it shows. He embodies Lenny perfectly, at first you do still know it is Cooper, but as the movie progresses you forget and that is something else!<br /><br />Carey Mulligan is superb as his wife, the wonderful Felicia Montealegre. She lights up every scene she is in, and gets some great heavy duty scenes to show her skills as well. The supporting cast as also wonderful, especially Sarah Silverman, Maya Hawke, and Matt Bomer.<br /><br />The film is beautifully shot, every shot feels like a retro postcard, the use of black and white really solidifies the story. The set design specifically of their homes is impeccable. And then there is the music, handpicked by Cooper to showcase Bernstein's genius. It is sublime and dreamy, much like Bernstein himself. I cannot rave enough about this movie, I guess it is niche, but it is remarkably beautiful and most definitely a masterpiece.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1859" _msttexthash="455520">Asteroid City</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1859" _msttexthash="455520">The latest Wes Anderson film is his most stylised. It is a 'documentary' about the creation of a play called Asteroid City including the play itself. Asteroid City is set in the 1950s and is about a Youth Convention about Astronomy. A group of families turn up in this fictional desert city where nuclear testing is happening in the background. There is a range of characters, children, teens, adults played by an amazing array of actors. When an alien appears and steals a key piece of a Meteorite, everyone is quarantined until authorities can figure out what to do.<br /><br />There are a lot of characters in this film with a lot happening, but it is easy to follow. It is dry and funny, as Anderson's films always are. The sets are magnificent, with highly stylised watered down colours when you are watching the play. The more famous actors anchor the film but it is the younger lesser known ones that carry it. Utter Perfection!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1859" _msttexthash="455520"><b>Pee-Wee's Big Adventure</b></span></span></p><p><span _msthash="1850" _msttexthash="83621863" style="font-family: verdana;">I cannot believe I have never seen this film until recently. I love Pee-Wee and Tim Burton. And this was glorious, it dragged a little at times, but was mostly wonderful and you can see the origin of Burton's work in this. Pee-Wee is a sheer delight. It is basically a road movie with Pee-Wee in search of his stolen bike. he culmination at the Warner Brothers studio is fabulous. Also very funny, it goes without saying!</span></p><p _msthash="5277" _msttexthash="216749"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1860" _msttexthash="106808">The Chase </b></span></p><p _msthash="5277" _msttexthash="216749"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Chase is a blown out melodramatic film - in the best possible way - by Arthur Penn and written by the great Lillian Hellman. When two men break out of jail, a small town is on edge as one - Robert Redford - is from there. WIll he return, what will happen. The sheriff (Marlon Brando) is ready for anything, but the townsfolk form a vigilante group. There are subplots of love, affairs, alcohol. Also starring Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, James Fox, and Robert Duvall. They are all great and you are hanging on to their every move. But it is in Brando who steals every scene, he is simply mesmerising. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1861" _msttexthash="249561">Armageddon Time</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I enjoyed this coming of age story. Based on writer/director James Gray's own life, it is about a young precocious boy living with his Jewish family in NY in the 1980s. HIs parents (Anna Hathaway and Jeremy Strong) have high expectations and he feels squashed, but his grandfather (a beautiful role for Anthony Hopkins) is his constant. He also befriends an African-American boy at his new school, and they have a great creative friendship, but in this time of racial prejudice that proves problematic. This is one of those lovely quiet films where it appears nothing is happening, when in fact, everything is happening.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wonka</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We had the pleasure of seeing this in the cinema, a rarity these days. I love the original and of course the books, but did not care for the remake. This is a prequal, and it works as such. But I felt the story needed more. It was definitely more style over substance, and that isn't such a bad thing with a film like this. The acting is superb, especially Timothee Chalamet (as expected) who is magnificent. Hugh Grant was the perfect comedic foil as an Oompa Loompa, and his appearance was clever and great, I wanted more. The supporting cast were great, but again, needed more . The visuals were bright and amazing, especially the food...it made me so hungry. Definitely one for the family.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Brad's Status</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A film from Mike White (White Lotus) about Brad (Ben Stiller) who runs a Not-For-Profit company, and is about to take his son to look at Colleges. He thinks back to his friends from College, most of whom are incredibly rich from high profile jobs. He feels he has wasted his life because he is not rich. He runs into some of them along the way, and realises they are not what he thought they were. You can see the catalyst of White Lotus in this film. It is not great, but interesting.</span></p><p><b _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;">Babylon</b></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;">I really wanted to love this, but it was a bit of a mess. It follows a range of movie players from the 20s to the 50s. Their lives are messy, there are affairs, debauched parties, elephants, cocaine, overdoses and so on. It features way too many montages (I find most montages sloppy storytelling), but the acting is fine. It pretty much needed a solid edit, I have no idea what I feel about this film, I didn't hate it but I sure didn't love it.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Serendipity</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;">This turned up on tele serendipitously before Christmas and it was a great re-watch. A rom-com with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale as Jon and Sara. The pair meet over a pair of gloves in Bloomingdales at Christmas and spend a fun evening doing stuff in NY, they fall in love but their lives are already sorted. Sara believes in destiny and after a range of crazy scenarios, they split with the thought if they were meant to be together one of the scenarios would come true. Fate would have to intervene, and 5 years later it does...or does it. This is such a sweet film without being too sugary, I think Cusack in the male role makes it work. New York looks beautiful, and the supporting cast are great. Always a joy, holds up well.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bowfinger</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;">This is one of my all-time favourite comedies, and I hadn't seen it in a while. It holds up and then some. The premise is crazy but easy enough to follow. Bowfinger - Steve Martin - is a film-maker on the edge of bankruptcy, but a mate has written this crazy sci-fi film about Aliens called Chubby Rain. He calls on his usual people to make the film and wants a big name to star in it. He tries to get a big name producer - Robert Downey Jnr in a small role - who is interested if he gets Kit Ramsey - Eddie Murphy. </span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;">Kit has 'issues' and is quite paranoid about a number of things including aliens! When Kit doesn't come to the party with Bowfinger, Bowfinger has a great idea. They film Kit without his knowledge and juts insert him into the film. He tells the other actors that Kit is very method and doesn't like to mingle with the cast. Hilarity ensues, this never fails to make me laugh out loud. When they cast a look-a-like for close ups, it gets even funnier. Eddie plays the lookalike too.<br /><br />This is funny, Martin at his crazy best, Eddie on fire playing 2 very different but hilarious characters showcasing how brilliant he is. The supporting cast are great, including Heather Graham playing a country hick, wannabe actress called Daisy. <br /><br />If you want a good laugh, go and find Bowfinger.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Short Cuts</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was another re-watch, a classic Robert Altman from the mid 90s. Based on some Raymond Carver short stories, it is a Pistache of short stories, interwoven slightly. Set in LA, a lot is going on, a phenomenal cast, great acting, clever direction. But at 3 hours, it didn't feel as great as it did when I original watched it. I still enjoyed it, but it needed an edit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1882" _msttexthash="446459">Clifford the big red dog</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1883" _msttexthash="17433286" style="font-family: verdana;">Look this was just fun, an escape if you will. I always loved this book and I love Jack Whitehall, so I thought why not. Some great cameos from John Cleese, Tony Hale, and Rosie Perez. And dogs!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1884" _msttexthash="199563">The Chaperone</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1886" _msttexthash="94640" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span _msthash="1885" _msttexthash="135051904" style="font-family: verdana;">This was based on a true story about Louise Brooks on the verge of being a star. She is headed for NY and needs a Chaperone, and Norma (Elizabeth McGovern) puts her hand up for the job. We later find out Norma's life was in a right mess, hence her keenness to escape. Louise is played beautifully by Haley Lu Richardson (you may know her as Portia, Tanya's assistant in White Lotus 2). This is a great 20s period piece, and shows Louise's wild side but also focuses on the fictional Norma and her breaking away from her life. I enjoyed this one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Kid</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The classic short with a very young Jackie Coogan as an orphan who ends up with Chaplin's The Tramp by mistake. Chaplin raises the kid as his own. They don't have much but they have love. Meanwhile the mother who left her child changes her mind and tries to find him. Some years later their paths cross but she has no idea. A doctor works it out and gets the kid back to his mother much to The Tramp's upset. This was shot in 1921 and it just wonderful, holds up beautifully, and includes a fabulous dream sequence. Chaplin is such a genius.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Chaplin doco</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a good short doco about the life of Charlies Chaplin and his films. Very basic but a good introduction to anyone who doesn't know much about the genius.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">Bright lights</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">This was a rewatch of the documentary that came out about Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds just after they died.<b> </b>It is a lovely doco about love, and family. And Hollywood and it's craziness. Still hurts to see Carrie and know she is no longer with us. Totally worth watching.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">David Lynch: the art life</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a doco mostly about David's creativity, not so much his films, although they are certainly included. It is as wild as you would imagine, there is some background but there are so many holes, but I am sure that is exactly as David wanted it. Surreal, but good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">The Lost City of Melbourne</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">This was a fascinating doco about Melbourne architecture over the years including a whole lot of amazing old buildings that were bulldozed over the years. So many amazing buildings were retained, but so many more were lost, totally heartbreaking to watch. Beautifully shot.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">This is Kate</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">This was a very basic doco about the great Katharine Hepburn. It was certainly a cookie-cutter doco, but featured some interesting people who knew her. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but it was good to watch.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1880" _msttexthash="1576133">On Broadway </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a potted history of Broadway and theatre in NY, starting at the beginning and following through the lost years of the 70s through to more recent theatre. It talks to a lot of players, from the classical to modern periods. It was very uplifting, fun, and great - much like theatre itself. Well worth checking out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ren and Stimpy </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh boy, this was quite depressing. The main players were not the nicest of people, and there is a lot of negativity surrounding the show. The first half is great, joyous and crazy, much like the show, but as things move on and delve deeper, the darkness appears. This was a great doco, but it will leave you with a foul taste, so be warned.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Last Year of Television 2023 </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mitch McTaggert takes us through the year in television in his own satirical way. If you love television, you will know McTaggert's The Back Side of Television, where he brutally exposes television for what it is. He is hilarious and dry and this one of yearly piece is always amazing. His research is meticulous, and spot on. Brilliant viewing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Sparks Brothers </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a rewatch, and I loved it even more the second time round. When I saw it the first time I wasn't sure what I was in for, but the second time, I knew and it was even better. Following the brothers who make up the band Sparks. It starts at the beginning until now and interviews loads of people about their love for the band. The brothers are interviewed throughout, they are very dry and funny. ANd just the loveliest men. I am still smarting I could not see them live, maybe next time. They are pure genius and do not care who follows them, they are purely interested in making music for themselves. And the music is great!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1867" _msttexthash="465270">Secret Impressionists</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1868" _msttexthash="65276055" style="font-family: verdana;">This was an interesting documentary about Impressionist art being pulled together for an exhibition in Rome. What makes it interesting is that they are from private collectors, key impressionist works that are usually not on display for the public. We get the meet some of the collectors and see the art and watch how the exhibition is curated. Just wonderful!</span></p><p><b _msthash="1869" _msttexthash="1491256" style="font-family: verdana;">Kusama Infinity: the life and art of Yayoi Kusama</b></p><p><span _msthash="1870" _msttexthash="498891302" style="font-family: verdana;">I have always been a fan of Kusama, but didn't know much about her. What a story, what a life. Growing up in Japan during WWII helped shape her, she worked as a young labourer in factories. Her family were also incredibly tough on her, very dysfunctional, and didn't appreciate her creativity. She also faced a lot of sexism and racism within the art world. She suffered from mental illness, and placed herself into a 'home' later in life. <br /><br />And yet, her art continues to shine. Working mostly in sculpture and installations and featuring a lot of dots, her art was way ahead of her time. You could even say she was at the forefront of this style way back in the 50s and early 60s. Men were always stealing her ideas and getting ahead, when she was finally included in a large exhibition of new wave artists, her art was displayed to her wishes and she pulled out of the exhibition, which gave her a difficult moniker. <br /><br />The documentary follows her life and her art and its ups and downs. I really loved knowing more about his amazing woman. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1871" _msttexthash="243568">I am Heath Ledger</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1872" _msttexthash="98952919" style="font-family: verdana;">This was a solid but not great doco about Heath. There was a lot of his story missing, especially his early Australian movies. Also his drug use and issues whilst mentioned, were glossed over. His family, close friends and some actors were involved and I guess they wanted a nice legacy for him and I get that. Michelle Williams was not involved and to me that was telling. It was lovely to see his story, as such, and it showed was a gaping hole his loss was.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1873" _msttexthash="312338">Defending My Life with Albert Brooks </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1873" _msttexthash="312338">This was a really excellent doco about Albert Brooks, the great comic and actor. It was detailed and he really came to the party with getting the doco out. I loved finding out more about him, and seeing the early stand up clips from Letterman etc. He was phenomenal. This is really worth looking out for.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1874" _msttexthash="94458">Subject </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="1874" _msttexthash="94458">This was a fascinating doco about people who had been the subjects of documentaries and how it changed their life - for better or for worse. It interviews participants of these docos: Capturing the Friedmans, The Square, The Wolfpack, Hoop Dreams and The Staircase. It investigates the impact of being in the film about them or people they know and the positives and negatives. It looks at who benefits from such a film, those making it, those 'directing' it, those being in it. Quite remarkable, it looks at the good, the bad and the ugly of documentary film making. It also looks at many other docos. I am a huge fan of documentaries, it is probably my favourite genre. But this one left me a little unsettled, I guess I never thought about some of the issues raised in this one. Payment, how people are shown/perceived, the trauma of being in the film later in life. Not all documentaries treat their subject poorly, but it would appear a lot do. This was quite an eye opening and fascinating film.</span></span></p><p><b _msthash="1878" _msttexthash="927901" style="font-family: verdana;">Richard Linklater: dream of destiny</b></p><p><span _msthash="1878" _msttexthash="927901" style="font-family: verdana;">Utterly brilliant film about Richard Linklater and his films. Loads of players who have worked with him interviewed, loads of behind the scenes footage. I am such a fan of his varied works, this was a great insight. BUt some areas were washed over, so I wanted more. But nonetheless, it was a great doco.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Michael Palin into Iraq</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was Palin's latest travel adventure and while our favourite python gives us plenty of laughs, he also makes us a little worried. In his 80s, and mourning the death of his wife, he chooses to visit Iraq, oh boy! The place is stunning, the people are beautiful, the loss is huge. He is confronted by some rough scenarios but also so much beauty. He looks old and fragile, so at times it was tough watching, but I think that is what he wanted it to be. Keeping it real. Not for everyone, but boy it was good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1863" _msttexthash="713323">Old People's Home for Teenagers</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1864" _msttexthash="111786987" style="font-family: verdana;">This show is everything, based on a remarkable experiment of pairing up teenagers and elderly people in a retirement home. They spend some weeks do activities and jobs together and we watch them all shine and come out of their shells. The teens range from fairly confident to incredibly shy, as do the elderly. The changes you see in personalities is so very lovely and heart warming, it is a beautiful show to watch. If you haven't watched it, give it a go, it is the best of humanity. <br _istranslated="1" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1865" _msttexthash="470652">The Whiteley Art Scandal</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1866" _msttexthash="52039468" style="font-family: verdana;">This was a 2-part series about some "Whiteley' paintings that went to auction that seemed to be fakes. Much has been written and reported about it, and this follows the court case with a back story of what is known. It is quite a compelling story and case, and features key people in the art world and of Brett's world, like Wendy.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1866" _msttexthash="52039468" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Doctor Who</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1866" _msttexthash="52039468" style="font-family: verdana;">Tenant's second ride in the blue box, what a gift to the fans. Russell T Davies back writing and he is in flying form. Each episode is essentially a stand alone, and yet it flows, with Donna back at The Doctor's best friend and companion. The first episode was a lot of set up but also a great story about a very bad alien. Miriam Margolyes as The Meep was inspired casting, she was utterly brilliant. But what struck me about this episode was its heart. It dealing with the character Rose was so bloody stunning, I was beside myself. It was also intensely clever, and layered and structured. The following episodes were also great. It was wonderful to see Tennant running around again, albeit looking a little older, but seeming even more wiser. These three episodes were such a gift, compelling, scary, funny, joyous.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1866" _msttexthash="52039468" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Andor<br /></b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1866" _msttexthash="52039468" style="font-family: verdana;">Another Star Wars spin off, Andor (Diego Luna) is helping out as a rebel spy and gets himself into hot water. This is a slow burn, but once things get moving, you are in for the ride. Great cast, and set design, this was fun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Fleabag S2</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I re-watched this gem recently and it was Andrew's first viewing (we did the same with S1 a few months ago). I love this show, both seasons, and I believe the first season was the set up, and the second was the pay off. SO fabulously written and acted out. Andrew Scott at the Hot Priest is perfection, the perfect leading man, the perfect foil to Fleabag. It led to so many hilarious and also heartbreaking exchanges. Every character, every word, every side look, not a second wasted. If you have never seen Fleabag...where on earth have you been??? Just go now!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>This Is Us S4</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have not watched this for ages, so am catching up on this long gone series. It is one of those shows that just kills me emotionally. About a family with triplets, and you delve into multiple levels a timelines of the family. It is easy to follow and there is a lot of drama. The cast is huge and varied and interesting and wonderful. Milo Ventimiglia is everything as the Dad, he is absolutely magnificent. There is too much to describe about this show. It is probably not for everyone, I always need a box of tissues at hand, but don't let that put you off. It is a stunning slice of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Bear S1/2</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everyone has been raving about The Bear and once you start to watch it, you can see why. Set in a small sandwich shop in Chicago, Carmen returns from cheffing in a Michelin star restaurant to take over the shop afgter his older brother commits suicide. The crew working there are sloppy but like a family, he slowly makes changes and it is painful and funny and everything, much like life. You get to know each character and watch them develop over the course of the season. We binged both seasons back to back, it is an easy watch and you get hooked into the characters and Carmen's desire to turn the shop into a restaurant. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whilst this is about the food industry, and boy it will make you hungry, this is a character driven show. Every character is amazing, with a mix of known and new actors. I have always loved Oliver Platt, so to see him pop up as their 'uncle' and investor was superb. Ayo Edebiri as Sydney, the talented Sous chef is a star in the making, a great actress and you follow her every move with hope and excitement. Ebon Moss-Bachrach is a super star, watching his evolution throughout both seasons is a gift. One of my faves is Matty Matheson as Neil Fak, the handyman, who is actually a chef and restauranteur in real life and acts as an advisor to the show. He is bloody hilarious.<br /><br />I could go on, I will not, just go and watch this, you will thank me for it!</span></p><p><b _msthash="1888" _msttexthash="548639" style="font-family: verdana;">What I've Been Listening to</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1889" _msttexthash="1529203">Broken Record with Rick Rubin - Mark Mothersbaugh</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1890" _msttexthash="61809475" style="font-family: verdana;">I was thrilled to listen to this episode, being such a great fan of Devo. Mark is so astute and clever, so everything he has to say is always fascinating and interesting. He talks about being wooed by Branson and the Sex Pistols which is a great story, a must listen for fans. But he talks about much more. Loved this, works beautifully alongside the Devo doco.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1891" _msttexthash="472225">Smartless - Taiki Watiti </b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1892" _msttexthash="23545782" style="font-family: verdana;">This was a great episode, but Taiki is such a chill and fun dude, how can it not be great. They talk about his work, his endless hand in so many pots, his acting, his family, his wife and much much more. It was a sheer delight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1893" _msttexthash="742586">WTF with Marc Maron - Taiki Watiti</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If I thought the Smartless podcast was fun and interesting, the WTF one took it up a few levels. Taiki and Marc really bonded and Taiki revealed a lot of personal stuff that you can now match to his screenplays. Marc's interviews are almost always the gold standard, you will always see another side to people you think you know.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b _msthash="1895" _msttexthash="865228">Unspooled - Ferris Bueller's Day Off</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1896" _msttexthash="2864472" style="font-family: verdana;">This was a great episode where they discussed this modern classic. Amy and Paul delve into Ferris and his day off, loads of behind the scenes info, and a very detailed review of the movie.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1898" _msttexthash="449189" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>McCartney : a life in lyrics Podcast</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1896" _msttexthash="2864472" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul McCartney sits down with Paul Muldoon who helped him write the 2 tome Life in Lyrics books and they pick a song - usually not a big one - to unpick and dissect. Great stories behind the lyrics, and an interesting listen for anyone interested.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Joanna and the Maestro Podcast</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is my new favourite podcast. Joanna Lumley and her husband, composer and conductor, Stephen Barlow<span> chatting about classical music. Each episode is roughly 30 mins, and they chat beautifully about a classical music topic. Sometimes they chat with another guest. They chat about opera, specific composers, musical instruments and so forth. It is the perfect podcast if you want to know more about classical music or if you love classical music. Stephen has a lovely hypnotic voice similar to Joanna, and I just want to move in with them when I listen. After a few weeks they have started inserting shorter 10 min episodes where they answer questions from avid listeners. They are lovely and funny and so very intelligent. This I cannot recommend highly enough</span> </span></p><p><span _msthash="1897" _msttexthash="33696" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>DEVO</b></span></p><p><span _msthash="1897" _msttexthash="33696" style="font-family: verdana;">I was listening to all things Devo in the lead up to seeing them live. Their music really holds up, their ideas and the whole de-evolution thing even more so. They were a band ahead of their time.</span></p><p><span _msthash="1897" _msttexthash="33696" style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Australian Carnage by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a live recording of part of the concert we saw late last year. It sounds great, as it did on the night, and has a nice selection of songs from the evening, including the rarely played and my personal favourite, Breathless.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Red and Blue Albums - The Beatles</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">These are the 3 disc revised best of albums that have been recently re-released. Always a great listen, the expanded albums sound great, have some excellent tracks added. I prefer the Blue period, but the Red is still very good too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Best of R.E.M.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A double album mix of hits, this is a fun listen. R.E.M.'s pop is perfect and very much missed. Not all my faves, but still a great listen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Best of The Sparks</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a triple album, and barely tips the surface of their output. It is just wonderful and a very welcome birthday gift from my love. I have been playing it constantly and it makes me smile.</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-86207765215430484692023-12-15T11:54:00.001+11:002023-12-15T11:54:17.051+11:00WE ARE DEVO<p _msthash="49427" _msttexthash="7007"><span _msthash="52659" _msttexthash="24775868" style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="68803" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="46230964"><span _msthash="75262" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="25626276">My first exposure to Devo was on Countdown. It was Whip It, I was drawn to the filmclip. Of course, the context went over my little 9 year old head. I had no idea about their cynicism and humour, let alone their de-evolution theory. </span></span></span></p><p _msthash="49427" _msttexthash="7007"><span _msthash="52659" _msttexthash="24775868" style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="68803" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="46230964"><span _msthash="75262" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="4807361">But let's face it, I have always been drawn to the unusual and different, from a very young age.</span></span></span></p><p _msthash="49427" _msttexthash="7007"><span _msthash="52659" _msttexthash="24775868" style="font-family: verdana;"><span _msthash="68803" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="46230964"><span _msthash="75262" _mstmutation="1" _msttexthash="3594786">I liked the song and knew one thing, I wanted one of their red flower pot hats!!! </span></span><br /></span></p><p _msthash="49427" _msttexthash="7007"><span _msthash="52659" _msttexthash="1078012" style="font-family: verdana;">Well, it took me over 40 years and I got one!</span></p><p _msthash="49427" _msttexthash="7007"><span _msthash="52659" _msttexthash="2408133" style="font-family: verdana;">Of course, I know they are called energy domes now, but I digress. </span></p><p _msthash="49427" _msttexthash="7007"><span _msthash="88175" _msttexthash="49387819" style="font-family: verdana;">I continued to enjoy their music over the years, and I never really thought I would get to see them live. They had toured previously and I am unsure why I didn't go, probably no one who wanted to go with me as often was the case. When I heard they were here for a festival I hoped for a side tour. And they did, and it was to be at the newish ICC Theatre at Darling Harbour. </span></p><p><span _msthash="49286" _msttexthash="7775690" style="font-family: verdana;">My love, Andrew, is also a huge Devo fan, so I got us tickets. I couldn't believe how easily too, 5th row and reasonably priced.</span></p><p><span _msthash="49286" _msttexthash="47994258" style="font-family: verdana;">We were excited, and made our way to Darling Harbour on the evening of the concert. They didn't open the theatre until an hour prior, which was quite stressful. Devo has great merch, no less the Energy Domes. We spent 45 minutes in line and got nowhere near purchasing and had to abandon the mission to get our seats which was rather infuriating.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMzIv5z4ZK6aKT-q9aVIZdLSNtHScMtiJwO25oBxxZOkjgXPmlZsuJEF_BdVlOanAEjXO0o09IZFLkOcxF9VAm_RFsicb6YOGOtMZYfVHlbPUycwlwwl7kXAne6L00RNVrFgpOMOqHNeJdh1Gzg3iedR-h4bxRISyTa7Uj9EnDqaQyeokIIeAzabaBvwI/s4032/20231126_173654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMzIv5z4ZK6aKT-q9aVIZdLSNtHScMtiJwO25oBxxZOkjgXPmlZsuJEF_BdVlOanAEjXO0o09IZFLkOcxF9VAm_RFsicb6YOGOtMZYfVHlbPUycwlwwl7kXAne6L00RNVrFgpOMOqHNeJdh1Gzg3iedR-h4bxRISyTa7Uj9EnDqaQyeokIIeAzabaBvwI/s320/20231126_173654.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span _msthash="49286" _msttexthash="47994258" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span _msthash="49286" _msttexthash="6258135" style="font-family: verdana;">The theatre is amazing, small and really super comfy seats. Our seats were excellent! We were very excited.</span><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;"> Murray Wiggle sat directly in front of us, to much fanfare and hot potatoing around. Poor bugger, he seemed bothered and not happy with his seats, after 2 songs he and his wife left. Very odd. </span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWLGK4_YdaxkhWTmyHtzzs7H7N-wt-_zUGmF0QeKunroY0tQfxoXCdiGf2b4I32QrgqDw1x97uSuqxzAG_6LwLYD065clJabj9pJoqXQb-8DhwvEymE07L_-1rKFGMNjGHqWL1lg3dGmm0NUiI-8Y9uJWblCYXbePFg9wWoeLA06t47Y5iXb37hva8yw/s4032/20231126_194751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWLGK4_YdaxkhWTmyHtzzs7H7N-wt-_zUGmF0QeKunroY0tQfxoXCdiGf2b4I32QrgqDw1x97uSuqxzAG_6LwLYD065clJabj9pJoqXQb-8DhwvEymE07L_-1rKFGMNjGHqWL1lg3dGmm0NUiI-8Y9uJWblCYXbePFg9wWoeLA06t47Y5iXb37hva8yw/s320/20231126_194751.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;">But Devo!</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;">The gig started with some cool clips from way back and they arrived on stage to HUGE fanfair. This was an electric gig, Devo fans are the best!!!</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_edZo7j2VAPWC3kMdEfuu39cI7AvDJdgKxZcU00RM95AFgYHKd6cAhRI_5mjFbu6nIJfuKtQEBRPtSoCZ_ox5sBatD2z1nv4WWULkMV_uZoABO4Kwi9kXDhq_sbG6OrlH3EQKAprS0CkDER28xY3Dmzx26r9QynnaUe1Q9PSo3yfWVHfZgwqJYSmolqg/s4032/20231126_201524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_edZo7j2VAPWC3kMdEfuu39cI7AvDJdgKxZcU00RM95AFgYHKd6cAhRI_5mjFbu6nIJfuKtQEBRPtSoCZ_ox5sBatD2z1nv4WWULkMV_uZoABO4Kwi9kXDhq_sbG6OrlH3EQKAprS0CkDER28xY3Dmzx26r9QynnaUe1Q9PSo3yfWVHfZgwqJYSmolqg/s320/20231126_201524.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioINa1SZHl2R48GzdRSXOTM5vNkEJ9o6P3v3R5HElATi1aPVM4vHJavDBEK6KwR0JSuvXIjQhP-yBqB1RUwIrQwMaSRuMTVyd_2Mf394dM-lj07sJypYc8woDbpkpPF7p9aX1gseQspjqSWK_D6yEE8EO7AzKmEu3j1Xag4p8EcOZ2R72iNtDCItBi0i8/s4032/20231126_202244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioINa1SZHl2R48GzdRSXOTM5vNkEJ9o6P3v3R5HElATi1aPVM4vHJavDBEK6KwR0JSuvXIjQhP-yBqB1RUwIrQwMaSRuMTVyd_2Mf394dM-lj07sJypYc8woDbpkpPF7p9aX1gseQspjqSWK_D6yEE8EO7AzKmEu3j1Xag4p8EcOZ2R72iNtDCItBi0i8/s320/20231126_202244.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9j0B5fe1FFycXjg7PQUQlVmn0rmvIzDkgVf378wsw9KAOLtpRrC1j9bLJP3HLD_cHxA1bdqALyOajUjKSToXzaWLQ6NkK_Ur2gd4_b34hpe_fj2aVf2cP9rMaFMKOehNjRGLKIPRsxK1k7fXQmRhcMYwEYoLamEbKqHtLZBLWh-rA4tKtp4uOsz1PRO4/s4032/20231126_202446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9j0B5fe1FFycXjg7PQUQlVmn0rmvIzDkgVf378wsw9KAOLtpRrC1j9bLJP3HLD_cHxA1bdqALyOajUjKSToXzaWLQ6NkK_Ur2gd4_b34hpe_fj2aVf2cP9rMaFMKOehNjRGLKIPRsxK1k7fXQmRhcMYwEYoLamEbKqHtLZBLWh-rA4tKtp4uOsz1PRO4/s320/20231126_202446.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1Daav2tUHTZZYdmoYyOXfDar1mAKShYjG3nEWAdAWI2ge7abCzNitqk65ZqWELH_8zQWnjLr1I4rcEYKh-Ef5NkKFqcdY6ONTFIglMurge3dkhu9fQo24aKhYK0DN7jQAoLSo_9SmWJ8KO951rMsIQ4ZSTc4FxB_WHdPBbyEmt4jU-BWRYrGcuAKe7w/s4032/20231126_202533.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1Daav2tUHTZZYdmoYyOXfDar1mAKShYjG3nEWAdAWI2ge7abCzNitqk65ZqWELH_8zQWnjLr1I4rcEYKh-Ef5NkKFqcdY6ONTFIglMurge3dkhu9fQo24aKhYK0DN7jQAoLSo_9SmWJ8KO951rMsIQ4ZSTc4FxB_WHdPBbyEmt4jU-BWRYrGcuAKe7w/s320/20231126_202533.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;">They came out in grey suits and got straight into it! <br /></span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span _msthash="120459" _msttexthash="17924517" style="font-family: verdana;">The original members are in their 70s now and the energy they had on stage, well I am unsure I could keep up.</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They sounded great! I guess that type of electronic punk/pop does not age, but still. The replication of songs were spot on.</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The choreography emulated the film clips, and the costume changes iconic. They also had great visuals on the backdrop, from clips and part of their de-evolution manifesto.</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS6brcvFOhXGrTWueHtWqS3zIrbDXTC4C7s_mf3GhAYj_85F2NGLx0DtfUUZF7jG5LS21E9B3uHqpHsQ2X8kL_lKZbdveO8qJd15JZchs7eWrQR86f9vAS9E6e9Xf8pXf3iyR1Oxv7cI4eWoWy0BYTAdVmffYY_PDx5Sffax6gJVDDal5qnYxPKaTZc0U/s4032/20231126_204523.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS6brcvFOhXGrTWueHtWqS3zIrbDXTC4C7s_mf3GhAYj_85F2NGLx0DtfUUZF7jG5LS21E9B3uHqpHsQ2X8kL_lKZbdveO8qJd15JZchs7eWrQR86f9vAS9E6e9Xf8pXf3iyR1Oxv7cI4eWoWy0BYTAdVmffYY_PDx5Sffax6gJVDDal5qnYxPKaTZc0U/s320/20231126_204523.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERXxktDsCWikAI2mEX8UVWuxVqIijB6SUIdWHIK9q1LdmH2w644oNmdwWEIhjSapI28hmzNIMd3XF849v0mJNk1hoLPU6M36j0oJxToW_aikUQ4aEYuFSzMm1VDMMUP4zk7EYPBzXa4rdeIJZIOlPcdnV5kPQnnxbbaDv1x3k4xqWorJ42vHjVU8DysY/s4032/20231126_205045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERXxktDsCWikAI2mEX8UVWuxVqIijB6SUIdWHIK9q1LdmH2w644oNmdwWEIhjSapI28hmzNIMd3XF849v0mJNk1hoLPU6M36j0oJxToW_aikUQ4aEYuFSzMm1VDMMUP4zk7EYPBzXa4rdeIJZIOlPcdnV5kPQnnxbbaDv1x3k4xqWorJ42vHjVU8DysY/s320/20231126_205045.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSi4m3b1oFW9W78RN1hRIz7AypvSeavaxys653coN_pWcAWzEow4oyIoEoFWHoACyEffhVCw72JUGn-QtrTPFagHqFbWGHOvudjachZhJN2vlvPNPhQPJUkXpjb9dwy4_ySzHsKv6zxEV0zd65RUW6yqE7ETENEmxIo3yy6r1cxWDYCJr7PEYrqETuYU/s4032/20231126_205048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSi4m3b1oFW9W78RN1hRIz7AypvSeavaxys653coN_pWcAWzEow4oyIoEoFWHoACyEffhVCw72JUGn-QtrTPFagHqFbWGHOvudjachZhJN2vlvPNPhQPJUkXpjb9dwy4_ySzHsKv6zxEV0zd65RUW6yqE7ETENEmxIo3yy6r1cxWDYCJr7PEYrqETuYU/s320/20231126_205048.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkJXBV0pQ_BaUklbXd-MzK9dYDvH1agpt96gpiT3aXjLjryoYPIP7QFU2bkx7RdTb0jrZciPNLRqAwe7waNrMwT7dSdXj_c6OyIS7wji0zhRbI1tNJBhDr3BIe0nPq8CqnDID5BVv2g8hO-gu1T8sxeOhmPMgBho6UHV9Y2wpnFBwHP7srxDyqwNoh5w/s4032/20231126_211816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkJXBV0pQ_BaUklbXd-MzK9dYDvH1agpt96gpiT3aXjLjryoYPIP7QFU2bkx7RdTb0jrZciPNLRqAwe7waNrMwT7dSdXj_c6OyIS7wji0zhRbI1tNJBhDr3BIe0nPq8CqnDID5BVv2g8hO-gu1T8sxeOhmPMgBho6UHV9Y2wpnFBwHP7srxDyqwNoh5w/s320/20231126_211816.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />It was a visual and auditory feast. The sound was loud, they kicked arse!<br /><br />I was absolutely delighted, we danced a lot. Andrew isn't much of a dancer, but you know a gig is good when he is up dancing before me!<br /><br />The wildness of the crowd added to the atmosphere.</span><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Highlights for me were Satisfaction and Girl U Want.<br /><br />When they came out in those energy domes, the crowd went absolutely wild.<br /></span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Y9XlHQ1IOh5JhZ3L769McZZ8l3UOeMPo60M1SG5FyJyoZJ32-tjwuZshAVfxJe5ByDittaagt1OHGZcXMyh-FgysdU-4MvJD_u09h9ufseownn1f4Lj53OthkzM8gv0kj_kUiKxhwv69RVcPgAFBzLnekpe_HuM5Q5Jlee7u73mdmHhbVNvxUTY51uU/s4032/20231126_202903.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Y9XlHQ1IOh5JhZ3L769McZZ8l3UOeMPo60M1SG5FyJyoZJ32-tjwuZshAVfxJe5ByDittaagt1OHGZcXMyh-FgysdU-4MvJD_u09h9ufseownn1f4Lj53OthkzM8gv0kj_kUiKxhwv69RVcPgAFBzLnekpe_HuM5Q5Jlee7u73mdmHhbVNvxUTY51uU/s320/20231126_202903.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDK1qrnUaYvvHfeMXk8tCHLqr20EmnkizPmGVNqssALqjxn_ue92nEgMREo6-uLaKksCPL6FJsFs8Z48sttZl1eifq8kOamZoZzU7qsGXGKD9cwE8ueg9uQQXyus_W9OkYTbAaUUZ67MhDEBggu90cr3Um6GJ0mabfOwvnUSfBvvGjdtXpuE4pZk3jbb8/s4032/20231126_203203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDK1qrnUaYvvHfeMXk8tCHLqr20EmnkizPmGVNqssALqjxn_ue92nEgMREo6-uLaKksCPL6FJsFs8Z48sttZl1eifq8kOamZoZzU7qsGXGKD9cwE8ueg9uQQXyus_W9OkYTbAaUUZ67MhDEBggu90cr3Um6GJ0mabfOwvnUSfBvvGjdtXpuE4pZk3jbb8/s320/20231126_203203.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMgPiVSrZqHDbH-0e0JkvLkQCgMhv0Ajaw5kxO3bpIKR_ob3HYLwpYWYkbHwn1skucA2q0askKXaoD7tIbRQIcMYXnoRNIEQzM3cNAKX_yjuSW-Sv70KFoabCQmh1pRyG48T0QC0-Cy2yxDJ2Aw6lwxb1Q7mChV0Css0DaO7pIc2Mc5zM9bbU5BzuKp8/s4032/20231126_203538.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMgPiVSrZqHDbH-0e0JkvLkQCgMhv0Ajaw5kxO3bpIKR_ob3HYLwpYWYkbHwn1skucA2q0askKXaoD7tIbRQIcMYXnoRNIEQzM3cNAKX_yjuSW-Sv70KFoabCQmh1pRyG48T0QC0-Cy2yxDJ2Aw6lwxb1Q7mChV0Css0DaO7pIc2Mc5zM9bbU5BzuKp8/s320/20231126_203538.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qWUXLoEfvt45CsOoDCO56aAHOGnVVpHJsEBrEiKJRrpRISoKiEUidMeHptZXSaBL3SFeBTCVR4DDRmjRQxwbmGSRcFe6dLYAM0V2BjUvZBr79Wbannb8CVaw5-_yov23xX7ueGGjUX_IsHyhbYpGX_Vb3JK64_oE9V_Z4B7AxgmY4wARK8aMNykkMQ0/s4032/20231126_203542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qWUXLoEfvt45CsOoDCO56aAHOGnVVpHJsEBrEiKJRrpRISoKiEUidMeHptZXSaBL3SFeBTCVR4DDRmjRQxwbmGSRcFe6dLYAM0V2BjUvZBr79Wbannb8CVaw5-_yov23xX7ueGGjUX_IsHyhbYpGX_Vb3JK64_oE9V_Z4B7AxgmY4wARK8aMNykkMQ0/s320/20231126_203542.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The show lasted for 90 minutes with very brief gaps, while videos played, for them to change costumes. They were generous with the audience, Mark pulled off pieces of their hazmet suits and through them into the audience, also little bouncy balls, Andrew got one, and some energy domes!</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisg_iXOCPauoKCZdv52qca6Oc7wezrT_vNtsNzuhYN1aHvl1sLcTFDVihn89LHoOzNSrEs045RShp9MIiDWf9H8Y3jHne3ij-Tv2nwGM0Y283zz7ig9AboSKn0NkfOU9K83PlxwvDHFQ2ogcgXQgzaXYqLoqkzJbi0ZymtRc4EFU-SZmh5W615oiOrf8Y/s4032/20231126_204540.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisg_iXOCPauoKCZdv52qca6Oc7wezrT_vNtsNzuhYN1aHvl1sLcTFDVihn89LHoOzNSrEs045RShp9MIiDWf9H8Y3jHne3ij-Tv2nwGM0Y283zz7ig9AboSKn0NkfOU9K83PlxwvDHFQ2ogcgXQgzaXYqLoqkzJbi0ZymtRc4EFU-SZmh5W615oiOrf8Y/s320/20231126_204540.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOfEU2K0hSVFxV6MpLl0U83wtyIzWtNyffNScRRdvn6Y8n-Or5xuYusMYdd4IWeOmgqDfYmkVEAZ53oV33nV-5xbAsUVnAGaQaoMY23fcWVxcYSiHBUvyiBCEJUwKwZ3QIU-i9a1lR_hOms0x7pqO0tKI6EqH3KtiOAB_K0YsEV_KjnK9hDvV79JFsrrU/s4032/20231126_204552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOfEU2K0hSVFxV6MpLl0U83wtyIzWtNyffNScRRdvn6Y8n-Or5xuYusMYdd4IWeOmgqDfYmkVEAZ53oV33nV-5xbAsUVnAGaQaoMY23fcWVxcYSiHBUvyiBCEJUwKwZ3QIU-i9a1lR_hOms0x7pqO0tKI6EqH3KtiOAB_K0YsEV_KjnK9hDvV79JFsrrU/s320/20231126_204552.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4HXguL3-RTSuDluSPozDu_fOOgL7vpUqMtOv_04la0L249OCaVj4hYSmkQvsJ9mKxjU2CKYQYDjuDnvwMcMw1TJvwvcUbC6TTBmLKewyMK7t1b4FDKNXHe0fdqJjW4FTO-qXQ1Yqe7lErMIOc8LYWHKxasSnsrd0sAz23gdI3QPd_wvj5VFjPeBCn30/s4032/20231126_205254.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4HXguL3-RTSuDluSPozDu_fOOgL7vpUqMtOv_04la0L249OCaVj4hYSmkQvsJ9mKxjU2CKYQYDjuDnvwMcMw1TJvwvcUbC6TTBmLKewyMK7t1b4FDKNXHe0fdqJjW4FTO-qXQ1Yqe7lErMIOc8LYWHKxasSnsrd0sAz23gdI3QPd_wvj5VFjPeBCn30/s320/20231126_205254.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Founder, and lead singer, Mark Mothersbaugh was on fire and like the rest of the band, was having the most joyous time and every single person there felt similarly.<br /></span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbRmmCEdvDOOagF3GnAskyDfXGrwiUjWVQbXsTdg5B5qM0pHKREcD6h7RlYRQWC72QCrY82KW2Am506DdXket8D675LLtpkfwpmkHvQ7OqhZmey6HD4Xs4fTT4P9w0uXyrZhCPljX5BRZS8Ka25BqT5EckJ4iauZDPDdmlWoUZZcMqg_ihjnoNGXEwoU/s4032/20231126_205943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIbRmmCEdvDOOagF3GnAskyDfXGrwiUjWVQbXsTdg5B5qM0pHKREcD6h7RlYRQWC72QCrY82KW2Am506DdXket8D675LLtpkfwpmkHvQ7OqhZmey6HD4Xs4fTT4P9w0uXyrZhCPljX5BRZS8Ka25BqT5EckJ4iauZDPDdmlWoUZZcMqg_ihjnoNGXEwoU/s320/20231126_205943.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97IgYYJRl_SAjL_LC0wtcYoNjd4K4vSAUG98KXHw0gwHGCk2NSjZmsdsZZKOn5BOvjzLuvj-uQ2K-Y6pOHv3DAc-pusLtPg1ksWQF7HNWNeRmQvpZrp43RAnH5g1zRHDB2V9zxpGgdnxedpoe2dnH-gCG6FczmJGPpcK40SWK2oBt5A8onCH3xSr94Tg/s4032/20231126_211744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97IgYYJRl_SAjL_LC0wtcYoNjd4K4vSAUG98KXHw0gwHGCk2NSjZmsdsZZKOn5BOvjzLuvj-uQ2K-Y6pOHv3DAc-pusLtPg1ksWQF7HNWNeRmQvpZrp43RAnH5g1zRHDB2V9zxpGgdnxedpoe2dnH-gCG6FczmJGPpcK40SWK2oBt5A8onCH3xSr94Tg/s320/20231126_211744.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>The concert ended with Beautiful World and an appearance by the iconic, Booji Boy, as played by Mark. It was the perfect way to end!</span><p></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After the concert, we hightailed it back to merch, and got our hats!<br /></span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"><span style="font-family: verdana;">WE ARE DEVO!!!!!</span></p><p _msthash="118844" _msttexthash="42381248"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5VdaIeyIO1DF7HS88CBROIACryFO1-o41gGcXjWxQkelVJfxtv2okH2PHvVQXimvkrp1S0gSKJvnsKNdbO7v5zGTRm5EZpCSktb_JnbomHpOnIYQRVIJvju93QTZZbkh3tmKFmLMC0V5pUfd5bc6S8-jqwUQnkY98JYAdFl5OcnWizjZ5x5lg3J-kpU/s3648/20231126_214946.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5VdaIeyIO1DF7HS88CBROIACryFO1-o41gGcXjWxQkelVJfxtv2okH2PHvVQXimvkrp1S0gSKJvnsKNdbO7v5zGTRm5EZpCSktb_JnbomHpOnIYQRVIJvju93QTZZbkh3tmKFmLMC0V5pUfd5bc6S8-jqwUQnkY98JYAdFl5OcnWizjZ5x5lg3J-kpU/s320/20231126_214946.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u _msthash="49290" _msttexthash="98228">Setlist</u></b></span></p><p><span _msthash="49291" _msttexthash="380432" style="font-family: verdana;">1. Don't Shoot (I'm A Man)</span></p><p><span _msthash="49292" _msttexthash="163553" style="font-family: verdana;">2. Peek-A-Boo!</span></p><p><span _msthash="49293" _msttexthash="188461" style="font-family: verdana;">3. Going Under</span></p><p><span _msthash="49294" _msttexthash="177216" style="font-family: verdana;">4. That's Good</span></p><p><span _msthash="49295" _msttexthash="162344" style="font-family: verdana;">5. Girl U Want</span></p><p><span _msthash="49296" _msttexthash="99333" style="font-family: verdana;">6. Whip It</span></p><p><span _msthash="49297" _msttexthash="214058" style="font-family: verdana;">7. Planet Earth</span></p><p><span _msthash="49298" _msttexthash="671905" style="font-family: verdana;">8. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction</span></p><p><span _msthash="49299" _msttexthash="291707" style="font-family: verdana;">9. Secret Agent Man</span></p><p><span _msthash="49300" _msttexthash="465543" style="font-family: verdana;">10. Uncontrollable Urge</span></p><p><span _msthash="49301" _msttexthash="186342" style="font-family: verdana;">11. Mongoloid</span></p><p><span _msthash="49302" _msttexthash="181454" style="font-family: verdana;">12. Jocko Homo</span></p><p><span _msthash="49303" _msttexthash="368485" style="font-family: verdana;">13 Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA</span></p><p><span _msthash="49304" _msttexthash="263484" style="font-family: verdana;">14. Gates of Steel</span></p><p><span _msthash="49305" _msttexthash="349531" style="font-family: verdana;">15. Freedom of Choice</span></p><p><span _msthash="49306" _msttexthash="700180" style="font-family: verdana;">16. Gut Feeling (SLap Your Mammy)</span></p><p><span _msthash="49307" _msttexthash="329680" style="font-family: verdana;">17. Beautiful World</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-14785998328706554602023-12-14T13:22:00.001+11:002023-12-14T16:47:49.839+11:00MAY/JUNE/JULY/AUGUST DIARY<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's been quite the year, and I am behind in my blogs</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is a brief look at the key things middle third of the year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We celebrated Andrew's birthday in May in the city and with family. This included seeing Guardians of the Galaxy III, which was fun.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJuo6QQXv0t0yKGP8W9xnmsH7Tubgnaqc5GeFR_3racqbJKlQSYiT9cvRf_1NCb5Hk6YkiZ6HRcePjFoT9vpt4svidKvLZ8afDOvdXf1tmE2w47-4tMCRCSYy4kBLAfJ6hqSPBZVkD177r1Fx2s8Vt7A4tdOs4w_qJd576WanVS1VbFU2njQWPNFv6Oig/s2702/20230519_173051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2702" data-original-width="2417" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJuo6QQXv0t0yKGP8W9xnmsH7Tubgnaqc5GeFR_3racqbJKlQSYiT9cvRf_1NCb5Hk6YkiZ6HRcePjFoT9vpt4svidKvLZ8afDOvdXf1tmE2w47-4tMCRCSYy4kBLAfJ6hqSPBZVkD177r1Fx2s8Vt7A4tdOs4w_qJd576WanVS1VbFU2njQWPNFv6Oig/s320/20230519_173051.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVY0Ns8kAVrmBwmTFI1rlmRx5fO9Dyf9c38hyphenhyphenxv_NH8_FQGYRmp_7QIofDS3gVRHZfHH5h3dUwszWIUtCGn37Rus8Rr1v6NoPgzH7DJ7xE6o_G_5abIyG-Zhxwjc0Bi510jMejj86M-NA3Mib7tCpHIScZ47E_BA5AfbMKQ-EAT5t8eWcMNF4CdWsPFVs/s2752/20230520_101735.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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WE saw The Porkers and it was great. <a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/06/cambridge-finale.html" target="_blank">You can read more about it here.</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIHXlp7G5t3k_5O-bfFBlUcE0hPRQXnl3vc9jSMUMWaiVSU6WZWtlHPwUW250c7XP6bA3ObCyTBwhJjqnrITc9kz_njq-9YJlJ9ROoWy7bbJ1oi0lVPcPP8P5uZUBy3P_qriBdQJMP2GbH7pDxuu_aBLXImVDqpjr40TpjGPtPUYvrbZe8hIBJIzeVaY/s4032/20230603_193842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIHXlp7G5t3k_5O-bfFBlUcE0hPRQXnl3vc9jSMUMWaiVSU6WZWtlHPwUW250c7XP6bA3ObCyTBwhJjqnrITc9kz_njq-9YJlJ9ROoWy7bbJ1oi0lVPcPP8P5uZUBy3P_qriBdQJMP2GbH7pDxuu_aBLXImVDqpjr40TpjGPtPUYvrbZe8hIBJIzeVaY/s320/20230603_193842.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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What a man!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzLmUQR2nzUMJJGglUZS-fX8CJR33b2hl5uDDVfgYoGJ2YUPERRMZ6ApSh5gywgY7Jj8lPcUeiJO2xIlROOtdW4xS6kNqyBbL_qOMhc4czMFKfQm8B_6GBKHTp39t1QUq8AX8NOYGDk0zurXQUJ3XSnaWTT3mIWSlZupw4AQqOJn0wJ9B_LYAcHza533Y/s4032/20230630_200600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzLmUQR2nzUMJJGglUZS-fX8CJR33b2hl5uDDVfgYoGJ2YUPERRMZ6ApSh5gywgY7Jj8lPcUeiJO2xIlROOtdW4xS6kNqyBbL_qOMhc4czMFKfQm8B_6GBKHTp39t1QUq8AX8NOYGDk0zurXQUJ3XSnaWTT3mIWSlZupw4AQqOJn0wJ9B_LYAcHza533Y/s320/20230630_200600.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUK5vwZaMFpx7H3QZ_jsdfOqimf8sXAuUmgfyC6XtyJZDQqGvRxNivnD-9klhwTq9w1XsxD25oQ4FCse17NTUM2074yu5hRZmpmgM529u0qKtT89IR-DzC6pfwL3PIUYSa5YBbPGXhFm0KfZF9L_b6kc_z8zEwZ4ENbPfQzD_ZPAy7nZ-9DQgwZC6xG4/s4032/20230630_212724.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhUK5vwZaMFpx7H3QZ_jsdfOqimf8sXAuUmgfyC6XtyJZDQqGvRxNivnD-9klhwTq9w1XsxD25oQ4FCse17NTUM2074yu5hRZmpmgM529u0qKtT89IR-DzC6pfwL3PIUYSa5YBbPGXhFm0KfZF9L_b6kc_z8zEwZ4ENbPfQzD_ZPAy7nZ-9DQgwZC6xG4/s320/20230630_212724.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">July was insanely busy with Wuthering Heights day and POP BAM.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ThCHTiJMYxl03eoKulFWExGgyANzHJZmsuC9eRNyf60g3G6qK1f9OSFV6OEuNk4rXOEz4DCQJcJXAguCaLRleeQ5Hy3nWs_9RGdTYwVlapurdSAXqVlD8howNdHusTEFM8ZcQ9Wt5qfj7Pl4yMxej-F9f__bDbcylCb01XtjhaDgpbw4kEcJ_Q0Uc38/s4032/20230715_114917.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ThCHTiJMYxl03eoKulFWExGgyANzHJZmsuC9eRNyf60g3G6qK1f9OSFV6OEuNk4rXOEz4DCQJcJXAguCaLRleeQ5Hy3nWs_9RGdTYwVlapurdSAXqVlD8howNdHusTEFM8ZcQ9Wt5qfj7Pl4yMxej-F9f__bDbcylCb01XtjhaDgpbw4kEcJ_Q0Uc38/s320/20230715_114917.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3C_NeAdM-2Bi1MExmOTIxHK7Qrp74dynNiuDM6UcHG9HS6_dCZ4ONj75Hayhiqkr74aTQP7HbHTD2VRUXDoM5JQgPKP0wU4SKBdxgTO69qDuZxWdK8KAPbivnsOqWtsdmPQjZDbRyHw9iVJE89psm8VpWtvRHJ2IK8wWLnGT4ERsSpuhR7JVPiLbH9A/s4032/20230715_123705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3C_NeAdM-2Bi1MExmOTIxHK7Qrp74dynNiuDM6UcHG9HS6_dCZ4ONj75Hayhiqkr74aTQP7HbHTD2VRUXDoM5JQgPKP0wU4SKBdxgTO69qDuZxWdK8KAPbivnsOqWtsdmPQjZDbRyHw9iVJE89psm8VpWtvRHJ2IK8wWLnGT4ERsSpuhR7JVPiLbH9A/s320/20230715_123705.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskq7anPAc5VX1YFyV7YKYk2jEfu9AZmI8pgnxzw5-HhhYQdMLLWQG2U3F3AL6-oY4L9vPL7igqQJwDilR8jr4hoGu-ZkNacDGsgMepqSS3kTTcZOzo5L3HQpgK_tbTKi2Y0mhpqFQ3InN2QeavbPSAPg4fdWoPFbyiJAzLQBqEsG3LnV4M-1ZWd_gw4Y/s4032/20230715_123807.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskq7anPAc5VX1YFyV7YKYk2jEfu9AZmI8pgnxzw5-HhhYQdMLLWQG2U3F3AL6-oY4L9vPL7igqQJwDilR8jr4hoGu-ZkNacDGsgMepqSS3kTTcZOzo5L3HQpgK_tbTKi2Y0mhpqFQ3InN2QeavbPSAPg4fdWoPFbyiJAzLQBqEsG3LnV4M-1ZWd_gw4Y/s320/20230715_123807.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>POP BAM was a festival I led with a remarkable team for work. 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Way back in 1993, which was a great concert but the second time in 2017 was phenomenal.<br /><br />He was now 6 years older, was it worth going again, when last time was perfection and the best concert I had ever attended?<br /><br />I had to think fast, and of course, my lovely Andrew had never seen McCartney and he is as big a Beatles fan as me, so the answer was yes. But Newcastle was not going to happen logistically. My sisters also wanted to go and so within a week we had seats for the four of us at the Sydney concert. <br /><br />It wasn't long before the day was upon us, my sister Karen drove us there and Andrew met us prior. We had a good trip down, excited and happy. And after an early dinner we made our way to the entrance of the Sydney Cricket Ground, where we would enter through to get to the new stadium next door as we were seated on the ground. There was a bit of a wait and some superb people watching and we finally made our way inside. We had very good seats close to the stage, towards the back of that section. It had been sprinkling, but there was a lovely lady in attendance with a towel who had been looking after her/our section beautifully. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi16_h7vN1m78VmqydfGfpB5SGJGm0JTt89grJaGyROPhlTFUPLDsyvV2dYfyoENBtffvykSPlPjMBhfLc4b05B0ArSu-02WY6A2L10oSKRCdVkGeMtlNBCZ0WWdtZpDZvD1xg10zYyLKn37LisokvVzZkM9cToOACbkTCpPzTYUae1FrqIRoyfUHzdbZk/s4032/20231027_182341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi16_h7vN1m78VmqydfGfpB5SGJGm0JTt89grJaGyROPhlTFUPLDsyvV2dYfyoENBtffvykSPlPjMBhfLc4b05B0ArSu-02WY6A2L10oSKRCdVkGeMtlNBCZ0WWdtZpDZvD1xg10zYyLKn37LisokvVzZkM9cToOACbkTCpPzTYUae1FrqIRoyfUHzdbZk/s320/20231027_182341.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />We took our seats and a wave of emotion came over me. To be here again, for the single most important person (in my opinion) musically in the entire world and such a favourite was all too much, also to share it with my sisters and my love was an added bonus. We were all excited.<br /><br />We were worried about the weather, rain on and off all day and dark clouds looming. We were lucky, one downpour about 30 minutes before he came on, enough for us to need to put on our rain ponchos, and a few moments of light drizzle through the concert. It was also a full moon, so lovely to be able to look up into the night sky and see the heavens above. It added to the atmosphere of the evening.<br /><br /><br /><br />A great film of McCartney and Beatles stills and moving images back to music played prior, including the 'new' Beatles song, Now and Then. Anticipation was high, smiles were wide.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYyRppoWLSQD2LncEqxIuEyBxaNEqudiEURv0ddsuZi-XsYJHq-62vO1LflI5t5G1A49lqalilMy4olgPePkyiP1a315Dhw8pWcsBPRmb6Q65qI7nZGLmLrdXOg5j3XjPN8oMA9d3NB556KY73J9lKi3R-Uo6TB_kZCBkxeFzyZ6GbuL32MwaE7oB8CE/s4032/20231027_201229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYyRppoWLSQD2LncEqxIuEyBxaNEqudiEURv0ddsuZi-XsYJHq-62vO1LflI5t5G1A49lqalilMy4olgPePkyiP1a315Dhw8pWcsBPRmb6Q65qI7nZGLmLrdXOg5j3XjPN8oMA9d3NB556KY73J9lKi3R-Uo6TB_kZCBkxeFzyZ6GbuL32MwaE7oB8CE/s320/20231027_201229.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And then he arrived on stage to much fanfare, and got straight into Can't Buy Me Love. He sounded amazing and I knew it was going to be a great night. The crowd went wild, everyone was on their feet. We couldn't really see the stage which had me a little bummed, but as the night went on, and people settled, we could, and it was great with excellent views.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM8SGmR18sG8quCiguZ_4r2wpLRed1hw_VAlv2VQA5ncoQ-R1K7aZ94EFdca8DfsG-G87caVI3-z7-i5xHCl_S4gZmpgxDVhrVjRvyTxPySZBDKj_FNhJ4j17uNrjw8USMoJPQTJtWlIjIjzDEFMmGjqaXKEfgxudvqLVGN4Yh_gU10A9w9NoptmQljG0/s4032/20231027_200139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM8SGmR18sG8quCiguZ_4r2wpLRed1hw_VAlv2VQA5ncoQ-R1K7aZ94EFdca8DfsG-G87caVI3-z7-i5xHCl_S4gZmpgxDVhrVjRvyTxPySZBDKj_FNhJ4j17uNrjw8USMoJPQTJtWlIjIjzDEFMmGjqaXKEfgxudvqLVGN4Yh_gU10A9w9NoptmQljG0/s320/20231027_200139.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbP-nKsnx2iQqd8yvOxz4iaQSzX9L7RNb6hNM1wIUfXFO-FPS2K7xHLCDUvx8_4pDCfVJ0qilYUzDh9WeLMtg4y3yE_iEWiPJSDstg73gTv4uUUHQrcphhMGCe_x0ukm5h6a4kulzEDwo1nrqise3AKx19DL-2p-NKvbgVEuVXMXK8YPDqhsvD8-r6bI/s4032/20231027_200140.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbP-nKsnx2iQqd8yvOxz4iaQSzX9L7RNb6hNM1wIUfXFO-FPS2K7xHLCDUvx8_4pDCfVJ0qilYUzDh9WeLMtg4y3yE_iEWiPJSDstg73gTv4uUUHQrcphhMGCe_x0ukm5h6a4kulzEDwo1nrqise3AKx19DL-2p-NKvbgVEuVXMXK8YPDqhsvD8-r6bI/s320/20231027_200140.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The vibe was intense and glorious and everything. We sang to every song. Singing and dancing with my sisters (as we did as kids) and my love, who usually doesn't dance, was such joy, I have no real words to describe it. This kind of joy needs to be bottled. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He played 39 songs over 3 hours straight - see setlist below - and sounded amazing! His voice has changed over the years, but still holds up great for his age, which is 81 by the way! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">81!!!!!!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He talked and joked with the crowd and the band, and it just seemed impossible that this man, this hero, the originator of music as we know it, was there, almost in reach. I thought I would be emotional throughout, and I was, but not many tears, which is quite unlike me. I was so very in the moment and so very much enjoying myself, crying just didn't happen...until much later. The next day and those after just thinking about the evening brought me to my knees, and I am writing this with wet eyes. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqcV6uTEwZa9jSmYgP1szqLIhDk4EqmzVzzym_2TxeeS3tbMGho0JQhjGdoFh6UzSCSYrSy3lgz0vWG9szEKyuel5uMYnp_PbehVTcwNMH5SxmhtaAZJKy_1K6YLHT00Qe5aofkm8F2HgvqgScdBPBkbhGQr9cqF1kIIAlq9SynlW0cxyOjxTow5POX0/s4032/20231027_204708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirqcV6uTEwZa9jSmYgP1szqLIhDk4EqmzVzzym_2TxeeS3tbMGho0JQhjGdoFh6UzSCSYrSy3lgz0vWG9szEKyuel5uMYnp_PbehVTcwNMH5SxmhtaAZJKy_1K6YLHT00Qe5aofkm8F2HgvqgScdBPBkbhGQr9cqF1kIIAlq9SynlW0cxyOjxTow5POX0/s320/20231027_204708.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUt8swlZcQcnNdDk3DrEVAtuuewBrMRPd7EptqgZzIqEjtfhhBabMEmyXF0_cyZ4xufL7Bgy3wqt-WFMLmk29BiNVmMZYq9Cs1uFFyJOubSGiFnxLfofaeQlLpOgEVs7gaK49oBGUUfVKFvSZ0Yq8byyYbjzjuuqZPvcjg48xThxQr4j4I6vWPMvyxEao/s4032/20231027_204747.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUt8swlZcQcnNdDk3DrEVAtuuewBrMRPd7EptqgZzIqEjtfhhBabMEmyXF0_cyZ4xufL7Bgy3wqt-WFMLmk29BiNVmMZYq9Cs1uFFyJOubSGiFnxLfofaeQlLpOgEVs7gaK49oBGUUfVKFvSZ0Yq8byyYbjzjuuqZPvcjg48xThxQr4j4I6vWPMvyxEao/s320/20231027_204747.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyb2b7PJeoxBTKhzr551HqPDbQ6QMvRLEP6v5fa1QyG0SQ5GaBszzXy2Y-6PmSnIAT0havIHLLtpYybggfZuHVXETewlc4JT9wqqiDseIeo8oPbY1_8jOpWE6c-AKcpr-M7mfOrLnrcNHYBSzPYFuDArLK74Zp4sSGfwPSjjJ-1YAhtXEQKIw59VSTThw/s4032/20231027_204800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyb2b7PJeoxBTKhzr551HqPDbQ6QMvRLEP6v5fa1QyG0SQ5GaBszzXy2Y-6PmSnIAT0havIHLLtpYybggfZuHVXETewlc4JT9wqqiDseIeo8oPbY1_8jOpWE6c-AKcpr-M7mfOrLnrcNHYBSzPYFuDArLK74Zp4sSGfwPSjjJ-1YAhtXEQKIw59VSTThw/s320/20231027_204800.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHDlY6sL_lvd_HYGWJdsxChUsQMOoi6Gg_OMSi3DfkouKNKvX8Ris6rr6-h-s2r85_dv88VKfvf8-HOl0ei3SbOevhCUwHFVIvqlbhOksqj0gBPfz3QyA1otCBl5MdDqidymhF2o_HfZ-HxIUvgroB9qQHZtNNFc6NNsKmuiZx0nGjFzLwoF8KwPUB8RQ/s4032/20231027_204911.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHDlY6sL_lvd_HYGWJdsxChUsQMOoi6Gg_OMSi3DfkouKNKvX8Ris6rr6-h-s2r85_dv88VKfvf8-HOl0ei3SbOevhCUwHFVIvqlbhOksqj0gBPfz3QyA1otCBl5MdDqidymhF2o_HfZ-HxIUvgroB9qQHZtNNFc6NNsKmuiZx0nGjFzLwoF8KwPUB8RQ/s320/20231027_204911.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />I am utterly aware of the privilege of seeing what is easily the greatest concert of my life.<br /><br />His band, who he has been playing with for decades, were brilliant as always. Great riffs, harmonies and they look liked they were loving every minute of it. Imagine being in Paul McCartney's band...</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCl8298S7twJfOgO0L-K5iqbreuX1bdYWRDUJKdU5RW-_jVRk5i72ABTpJN1Vvo4X9scu9DWEdfCMmGvTWiKptuy3CXGaZ-wZCsW-lI4qyScqBUXUlDajSdnzsKGbPI6xJM5bfyUVKFdn_r2328pZlzkQSX9FKbRwVxbt-vjQsAi46LRWeZ559P_kkY8/s4032/20231027_214606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCl8298S7twJfOgO0L-K5iqbreuX1bdYWRDUJKdU5RW-_jVRk5i72ABTpJN1Vvo4X9scu9DWEdfCMmGvTWiKptuy3CXGaZ-wZCsW-lI4qyScqBUXUlDajSdnzsKGbPI6xJM5bfyUVKFdn_r2328pZlzkQSX9FKbRwVxbt-vjQsAi46LRWeZ559P_kkY8/s320/20231027_214606.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My highlights were as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Go to Get you into my life - I love this song, and love the brass section. This concert he had a brass section, so a lot of brassy songs were included and this was no exception. They were actually placed up the top of the stadium amongst the punters. Imagine being near to that. The song sounded sharp and great!<br /><br />Let Me Roll it - one of my favourite Wings songs. It went off, so did I. Such a great song with that fabulous guitar riff, oh my!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj31H0BR_MnLiH7G_OoehgsWOnMFFLAjtv7dT4cOkEwnj8ZKlJUL990Vjrhmu2s6koVyFUwBXtRVen2kCzUgh7ZFfj8eREYq-0b-O6_3dIdiC5SYgeizg1veMDyg0Gp-P-65RahNVS0KAGFmuaFaFgVB-rrMCdAGFDD-_V1dKf-BENmy6vL38NnSnfgj8E/s4032/20231027_214559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj31H0BR_MnLiH7G_OoehgsWOnMFFLAjtv7dT4cOkEwnj8ZKlJUL990Vjrhmu2s6koVyFUwBXtRVen2kCzUgh7ZFfj8eREYq-0b-O6_3dIdiC5SYgeizg1veMDyg0Gp-P-65RahNVS0KAGFmuaFaFgVB-rrMCdAGFDD-_V1dKf-BENmy6vL38NnSnfgj8E/s320/20231027_214559.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ditto for Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five - bloody love that song, so underrated, real gem!<br /><br />Maybe I'm Amazed - one of his finest love songs, sounded beautiful.<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaaHX8uxpB4mfoQzbhxeGOc2O6-FevpkikROFLCyGZF0glYspBbNJAFabNX-ezHopOiy1jJ3VgkFLt3ZGPXnhs7EmbXpxsirm6tr2g0OLFjMx1CD-pWs8kqlXGn2gIZ1IhC2nIqw_VZWmYgWBPfHkNa6vjqkwB-zLWs2tnrzum20oG5E21_B4Xeh1AAAs/s4032/20231027_205019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaaHX8uxpB4mfoQzbhxeGOc2O6-FevpkikROFLCyGZF0glYspBbNJAFabNX-ezHopOiy1jJ3VgkFLt3ZGPXnhs7EmbXpxsirm6tr2g0OLFjMx1CD-pWs8kqlXGn2gIZ1IhC2nIqw_VZWmYgWBPfHkNa6vjqkwB-zLWs2tnrzum20oG5E21_B4Xeh1AAAs/s320/20231027_205019.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blackbird - just about one of the simplest yet best songs ever written. Absolutely stunning performance. Had me in raptures.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She Came in through the Bathroom Window - always fun, an unexpected song to hear, but that's the point of a big concert!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Something - a stunning tribute to George Harrison, starting with just him on a Uke, one given to him by Georgie. The band slowly comes in and the song builds and lifts. A highly emotional moment, showcasing his and George's genius and beauty.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtCyemTnTNRoUsAB-ZQZx9xlfOPo8CKeTfNdL41DJg_vHbMC_Vmadf3y3n69Z_arYVnjaAfJNfMlSp_uYE4b_N0S1u7Hwb73TmiZqGyFWbV9oNPZ-jUCmkSynZYSQIBts0K5IDhbGNwoc85Z5YdGvw-eWllcwfupp8sjt-AVSccPgdeI4wMUCASjWUEUg/s4032/20231027_214936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtCyemTnTNRoUsAB-ZQZx9xlfOPo8CKeTfNdL41DJg_vHbMC_Vmadf3y3n69Z_arYVnjaAfJNfMlSp_uYE4b_N0S1u7Hwb73TmiZqGyFWbV9oNPZ-jUCmkSynZYSQIBts0K5IDhbGNwoc85Z5YdGvw-eWllcwfupp8sjt-AVSccPgdeI4wMUCASjWUEUg/s320/20231027_214936.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da - had EVERYONE on their feet, dancing and laughing. I love this song so very much, it always brings me joy and you could feel the joy in everyone during this one. Utter brilliance.<br /><br />From there the concert just kept lifting and lifting, it was completely extraordinary.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Band on the Run - perfection!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Get Back and Let it Be - wonderful</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Live and Let die - BOOM!!!! pyrotechnics and sound, ultimate brilliance.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CQBfWb72Jn65ThzgeTvJz7cTFkhAJnM3AejTPK6IqC8t17ECbFEmo2qip_Z53bNMFwwWjwZlRzVuhaoWGacTvFkY_JgLx1mTG0eFqWAxsPyVR_w1yrRg8wSHZ0yMM4l0SWZckh8hjeSq7u6Yq75wS0FcmdrtrwVWhXEZbbAF-jNmCnG7SFtigAsxVkA/s4032/20231027_221406.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CQBfWb72Jn65ThzgeTvJz7cTFkhAJnM3AejTPK6IqC8t17ECbFEmo2qip_Z53bNMFwwWjwZlRzVuhaoWGacTvFkY_JgLx1mTG0eFqWAxsPyVR_w1yrRg8wSHZ0yMM4l0SWZckh8hjeSq7u6Yq75wS0FcmdrtrwVWhXEZbbAF-jNmCnG7SFtigAsxVkA/s320/20231027_221406.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeucBgd5rELOw1p8SzreUnZ1A1262w7aHnKFiS_ot0SI7fbzyVA9kZX-S2_awo84IDGz2mDhBA8I5S1Xeimb-uz0lqZiES6Tp3djmzsqjS4wafGbIlXfenbECdh5aALok0esVIr9gW5WOiB-vis_wG0qdma9YQjw4YO4MhYs2kdEY1_5FeBoXwy0WsTTc/s320/20231027_221552.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hey Jude - my all-time favourite Beatles song, McCartney song, song. Singing along with 1000s of people, my sisters, and my love. Tears indeed.<br /><br />He disappeared for a few minutes and then back for the encore.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've got a feeling - a great underrated gem, made popular by the Get Back doco, now with Lennon spliced in, so Paul is doing a duet with his friend, a real goosebumps moment!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Helter Skelter - it bloody rocked! A surprise and well loved song by all, we all went off!!!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The finale was the Abbey Road trilogy which I adore. Golden Slumbers, The End, Carry That Weight. Oh boy, so very good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make. One of the best and most meaningful lines of lyrics ever written.<br /><br />It was over, but we were happy and been given the best lifeline you could ever get. If everyone got to see a concert like this just once in their life, there would be no war, no sorrow. The joy should be bottled.<br /><br />To be alive at this moment in time, to be able to see such a magnificent performance from someone I love so very deeply. It's something...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmCkbPkB8cj9kcnlN7T2BiN88-g1I7KMAW88Hj7Uab0j3YT_uzuowrR1V0g6tr1q68omYded-idBkIOkfOp556A0-cZugy7U4gx4BWwZQ0E7-pK7CVHkdmIuFbhplmAq8GAa-9zMZkbfDengMZmwekezWCV6rWIIBYl3Wi331-_W-l8dAgxZHGgC-Prw/s4032/20231027_212302.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmCkbPkB8cj9kcnlN7T2BiN88-g1I7KMAW88Hj7Uab0j3YT_uzuowrR1V0g6tr1q68omYded-idBkIOkfOp556A0-cZugy7U4gx4BWwZQ0E7-pK7CVHkdmIuFbhplmAq8GAa-9zMZkbfDengMZmwekezWCV6rWIIBYl3Wi331-_W-l8dAgxZHGgC-Prw/s320/20231027_212302.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>Setlist</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Can't Buy Me Love</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Junior's Farm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Letting Go</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. She's a Woman</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Got To Get You Into My Life</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Come On To me</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Let Me Roll It</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Getting Better</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Let 'Em In</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. My Valentine</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">11. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">12. Maybe I'm Amazed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">13. I've Just Seen A Face</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">14. In Spite of All The Danger</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">15. Love Me Do</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">16. Dance Tonight</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">17. Blackbird</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">18. Here today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">19. New</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">20. Lady Madonna</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">21. Fuh You</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">22. You Never Give Me Your Money</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">23. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">24. Jet</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">25. Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">26. Something</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">27. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">28. Band on The Run</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">29. Get Back</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">30. Let It Be </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">31. Live and Let Die</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">32. Hey Jude</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">encore::::</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">33. I've Got A Feeling</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">34. Birthday</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">35. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">36. Helter Skelter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">37. Golden Slumbers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">38. Carry That Weight</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">39. The End </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-82776100018805605752023-12-03T17:36:00.002+11:002023-12-03T17:36:33.612+11:00SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER REVIEWS<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Reading</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really loved this books of essays on writing by Murakami. I love all his writing, but I particularly love his essays and most especially when he writes about writing. The first half are a series he wrote for a Japanese serial when he was younger, and the rest were specifically written for this book. I see it as a companion piece to <i>What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.</i> There is so much fabulous advice and information within, and great insight into his own process it made me want to quit my job and write...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a fab idea by my main man Nick Hornby. It is a long essay about two of his great loves, Charles Dickens and Prince and their similarities, mostly their genius and prolific output. I loved this hugely, it is fascinating, and funny and very Nick. If you love his writing or Dickens or Prince you are in for a treat, but if, like me you love all three, woah!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was more a potted biography than anything meaningful into why Patti matters, but was still a great read. For fans, it doesn't give you much new stuff, but it pops all her main stuff into one run, which is always nice. I enjoyed the read, but it wasn't terribly enlightening. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I adore Fran, and this was great, but I think I would have benefited more listening to her read it, which we know will never happen. It is a few books in one, you can see her evolution over the years, and she does love a list, which sometimes works and sometimes does not. The later essays were the best, I love her NY stories the best, you can see her languishing in her apartment, calling friends, and smoking. So good!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Behind the Voice by Anthony Callea</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a pretty good book, I cannot say I am a huge fan of his music, but I love his online presence with his hubby, Tim Campbell, they are hilarious. I got a lot of that and more, some deep and serious stuff, a real life well lived. So quite the surprise.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Divine Feline: a chic cat lady's guide to woman's best friend by Belinda Alexandra</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I listened to this book, read by the author, a popular women's author of fiction usually. It was a homage to all thing feline. She told the history of cats, her history with her own cats, and some very strange cat stories in between. I bloody loved this eccentric piece, something for everyone in it, including some amazing rescue stories!</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Paris by Eugene Atget</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">An amazing history of Atget and his beautiful black and white photos of Paris. Atget was a flaneur (my fave type of Frenchie), who wandered all the arrondissements of Paris in the late 1800s and up to the 1920s photographing regular Paris and Parisians. Mostly architecture and streets, a lot now lost to war, or progress. There are a lot of photos within, and they are something to behold.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Shell by Kristina Olsson</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really wanted to love this book. I think historical fiction is not my genre. This was set against the backdrop of the building of the Sydney Opera House, which had me very excited. It reminded me of Pip Williams' books, they offer similarly great historic moments but never really deliver. I guess I am better off reading proper historic accounts. This is more about a family, broken apart by time, and 2 sons who may be headed to Vietnam. There was some Opera House threads, but very minimal and not enough to sustain me. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Matthew Perry book</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Art of Stopping: how to be still when you have to keep going by David Kundtz</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a good read. I have been a fan of being still, stopping, daydreaming, thinking about nothing since I was forced to do it while I was sick some years back. It helped me through that time and helped me heal. It also gave me great clarity and I felt fresh and lovely, when I really was not fresh and lovely. COVID took me back there, which was great and I feel we really lost an opportunity to consolidate this chill into our future. This book reinforced to me that you can stop, even if for 1 minute. And whilst I am so very busy lately, when I do get free time, I really must stop. The book breaks it up into 3 types of stopping, quick 1 minute stops, short stops, and longer stops. It helps creativity, mental health, anxiety and is a good thing to do for your soul.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Watching</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Newsreader</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">S2 really delivered, the characters are even more fleshed out. The attention to detail in the set design and costumes are magnificent. The entire ensemble cast are utterly brilliant. I love Nolene so much, she is perfect and her Salmon jumpsuit was spectacular. They cover a whole range of real news from the 80s including the cringey bicentential celebrations, drugs, indigenous issues, and the terrifying Hoddle Street massacre. This is Australian drama at its finest, and must-see TV.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mother and Son</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had my doubts about this reboot! Even though I love Denise Scott, I was a little annoyed, sacrilege I shouted, sacrilege!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And, it is!<br /><br />It is nowhere near as great or perfect as the original, how can it be? We are talking legendary performances here.<br /><br />But, I really enjoyed it. I just tried to forget about the original and not think about this as a reboot, but a new funny show. And that worked for me. Matt Okine really did seem to channel a little Gary MacDonald, but ultimately everyone were doing their thing, especially Denise Scott. She was phenomenal and made the role her own. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first episode felt a little sloppy, but maybe that was me being judgey. But I persisted, unsure why, and I am glad I did. The supporting cast are good. But it was Jean Kitson in the final episode that really made things pack a punch. I hope she is back for S2. <br /><br />Forget the original (well, don't forget the original, but you know what I mean), just think of it as something new and fun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ahsoka</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of all the Star Wars spin offs, this is probably the best. I really loved this female driven and plot (like actual real storylines) driven series. It has action, kick arse feminism, and some old faves to tug on the heart strings. Rosario Dawson is everything as Ahsoka, strong, clever, funny.<br /><br />The other great character is, Huyang, a cheeky droid who has been around for thousands of years and has seen it all. Played by none other than David Tennant, who has experience in living a long, crazy life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The effects look great, and the scenes where Ahsoka is assisted by a whale pod is remarkable. I am very keen for S2. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">The Sandman</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am a huge Neil Gaiman fan, but have never read his masterpiece, The Sandman. But I know a little about this, and wow, it lives up to expectation. Amazing story, casting, production values. The lead, Tom Sturridge, is mesmerising. And Gwendoline Christie is everything as Lucifer. And it would be remiss of me not to call out Mark Hamill, Stephen Fry, Patton Oswalt, and Sanjeev Bhaskar doing some great voice work for some integral smaller characters. Anyway, it totally has me hooked, cannot wait for more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Larkins S1</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a delightful remake of the Darling Buds of May with the wonderful Joanna Scanlan and hilarious Bradley Walsh as Ma and Pa. The town is the same, and shot so very beautifully, you want to go and live there. This is a nice, without being saccharine, show with good humour and is a great antidote to the horrid world out there. Highly recommend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Utopia, latest season</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I reluctantly watched the most recent season of this satire. Set in a government department, it highlights the ridiculous red tape and nature of such organisations. I say reluctantly as the show gives me PTSD, I have seen all the things they showcase. Yes, it is funny, but when you have been through it personally, not as much. But yet I am drawn to the show, lol!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bay of Fires S1</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was frustrated by this new Australian drama, and yet absolutely drawn to it, in terms of wanting to know what happens next. My frustrations were it was trying to be too many things. Drama, comedy, indie Seachange, thriller, crime, romance and so on. Marta Dusseldorp moves her young family into witness protection after the family financial business is corrupted and assassins are after her. The town she is moved to is a small town in Tasmania and everyone there are very odd. This is a fish out of water tale, and while she tries to settle into the community she realises something is very wrong there, but the alternative is death. <br /><br />No spoilers, as this is spelled out very early to the viewer, the community is full of people like her, but some are in protection for more serious crime than money laundering. The supporting cast is huge and eclectic, amazing actors and characters, some hilarious, some chilling. Kerry Fox is outstanding as the rough Frankie, she is obviously having the time of her life in the role.<br /><br />There was a lot to like about the show, but it was quite frenetic. It is being picked up for another season, so hopefully it will settle a little.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What we do in the shadows S5</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is easily one of the funniest shows on television. By now, we know the main characters so well, and you would think after so many seasons, there would be nothing left to explore. But they keep kicking it out the park. This season sees Guillermo face a whole lot of big changes. The vampires venture out a little more, which leads to hilarious consequences. The three leads continue to amaze with their dark humour and great acting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Player</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved this film when it came out and it made me a huge fan of Robert Altman. I saw it many times back in the day, but had not seen it in a while. The rewatch was totally worth it, as it held up really well. It is the early 90s and the tech and excess of that time seems a little dated, but not in a way to ruin the movie. It shows that snapshot in time. The leads, especially Tim Robbins are great. But it is the cameos that make the film, after all it is a film about film-making in Hollywood. Most star as themselves, some have small parts as part of the plot. my favourites are Whoopi Goldberg and Lyle Lovett as hilarious detectives. It also has one of my often quoted lines (that no one ever understands!), Traffic was a bitch, from the movie within the movie. Soo good. It would be remiss of me not to mention the very long tracking shot at the beginning of the film. If you love film, this is the film for you!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Jury Duty</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everyone was raving about this one and I had my doubts, but it was quite funny. The premise is one non-actor, Ronald, is on a jury, but everyone else are actors, but the non-actor has no idea. They are being 'filmed' for a documentary about Jurys. The jury are all a bit odd or nuts, including James Franco playing himself, well a bastardised version of himself. This all sounds odd, but watching it was thoroughly entertaining. Mostly because Ronald is an every man, a decent, laconic and kind man. Watching his genuine reactions to the ridiculous around him was remarkable, what a find for the show. This wouldn't have worked anywhere near as well without Ronald being the person he is. The final episode is great as he is told what is going on and they go 'behind the scenes' and unravel how they did it, to Ronald and to us. His reactions are worth the trip alone!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland and Beyond</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love Miriam Margolyes and I love Alan Cumming. But together they are formidable, hilarious and lovely. This time they visit Scotland, and LA. They go to favourite places and show each other things they love. This is everything you imagine and more. Plenty of swearing and farting, but a whole lot of heart.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rainn Wilson helped create one of the best comedic characters of all time, Dwight Schrute. Rainn is nothing like Dwight and has been on a lifelong conquest to find happiness and bliss. Despite his enormous success, and lovely life, he can get quite depressed and sad. IN this series, he travels to places where people are either super happy or not so happy, so get insight into their psyche in hope of gaining ideas on how to strengthen his own take on the world. He visits Iceland, Bulgaria, Ghana, and Thailand before returning home to LA. This was wonderful full of joy and happiness, but also some melancholy and deep stories, giving it a lovely balance. Did Rainn find what he was looking for? You need to watch it, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Under the Volcano</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another great doco, this time about the recording studio in Monserrat (an island in the Carribean) built by George Martin in the late 70s. Built quite near a volcano, things were never going to end well. But in it's prime, it featured a lot of great 70s and 80s musicians, creating their music there. This is their story, the story of the crew that worked there, and the island itself. Directed by Gracie Otto (Barry's daughter) this was a great doco, and had a greater soundtrack.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Val</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been wanting to watch this for a while, having heard great things from those that have watched it. I wouldn't call myself a fan, but watching it forgot how many amazing films Val was in. It is about his life, and his subsequent battle with throat cancer. Always taking footage around him from a young age, this is a great doco in terms on content. It is narrated by Val, using his own words, but the voice of his son, who does an exceptional job with difficult material. This will make you sob, but also make your heart sour.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Love to Love You, Donna Summer</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love Donna Summer. I feel love used to be one of my party tricks back in the day. I grew up loving her music as a 70s child, but didn't really know much about her until this documentary. It is really wonderful, with loads of music and behind the scenes of how the music was made. it also delves into her life, some abusive partners, her children, her faith, and her illness. There is a lot to take in and unpack in this one, but it is mostly sheer joy. Those tunes, her voice, her love of the music, is all just great.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Listening To</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Specials</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love ska music, and The Specials are great. I have been listening to some of their stuff on vinyl, chill and cool.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Tubeway Army</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As a big Gary Numan fan, I was thrilled to score their 2 albums on vinyl. Great electronic 70s music.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cut Lunch - Models</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another top vinyl score was the first Models album, a rare 10 inch with their 'demo' tracks on it, 6 more punk than pop songs. It holds up really well, sounds great. What a find!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Newsreader podcast</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">While I watched The Newsreader, I listened to The Newsreader Podcast the next day. Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar gave their insight into the show from working in the industry at the same time and they interviewed key players in front of the camera and behind the scenes in each episode. It was fab!!! if you have seen and loved the show, and not listened to the podcast...go now!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wiser than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus podcast</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I inhaled this new podcast from Julia Louis- Dreyfus. She interviews older women, because you never hear from older women. It is a wonderful listen, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. <br /><br />It commences with Julia riffing on something about her life based from something from the chat we are about to hear. Then she introduces her guest and a lovely chat ensues. She chats to a lovely range of older women including Jane Fonda, Isabel Allende, Fran Lebowitz, Rhea Perman, and Carol Burnett. The Jane Fonda and the Carol Burnett ones I think were the best.<br /><br />The final part of the podcast is Julia ringing her 90 something (and very sassy and with it) Mum to debrief the podcast. Her Mum is hilarious and lovely.<br /><br />I want more!!!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Smartless</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Smartless gets better and better. For those who don't know, and boy you are really missing out, it is Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman, and Wil Arnett, who are all very very good friends. One of them finds someone interesting to interview but the other 2 have no idea, so it is a surprise and then the 4 chat away. Hilarious and insightful, and between the 3 of them, they seemingly know everyone in Hollywood, plus you get well worn and wonderful banter between 3 friends who know each other well.<br /><br />Recent highlights were Paul Simon, who rarely gives interviews and it is a good one and Lars Ulrich, who I find utterly fascinating.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Just Ace: a podcast about the 90s Australian Alternative Music Scene</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just Ace is exactly what it says it is, a good detailed podcast about 90s alternative music in Australia. From the rise of JJJ radio to independent record stores, the rooArt and Half a Cow labels, bands like The Hummingbirds, Clouds, Falling Joys, Died Pretty, Tall Tales and True, Hard-Ons, and Rat Cat, Street Press, RAGE, CDs, and the big day out. This covers a lot of ground and yet barely touches the surface, S2 is coming soon!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A Podcast of One's Own - Julia Guillard with Annie Lennox</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been listening to this great podcast for a few years now, it is not prolific but it is consistently good with interesting women as guests. The latest showcases Annie Lennox, which did surprise me. Both seemed to know each other and were funny and friendly. Annie even sings within. This is something worth checking out!</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-78815000663125883212023-09-18T18:05:00.003+10:002023-09-18T18:05:53.113+10:00JULY/AUGUST REVIEWS<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Reading</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was great and really got me sucked in. Set in the near but distant future AF's are a part of an ever changing world. AF or Artificial Friends are bought for teenagers, to look after them, and befriend them. But is there something more sinister at play. Klara is bought for a single mum and her daughter, Josie. But the daughter is unwell, and her older sister has passed. Why is Josie sick, what is happening and other than being her friend, how can Klara help. Klara is a very intelligent AF and a great mimic. While Klara is devising a plan to 'save' Josie, she is unaware of another plan that involves herself. The story is told from the perspective of Klara, and Ishiguro nails the language and syntax of the AF. This was a compelling, page turner with much to think about.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a beautiful book, a novella really, roughly 100 pages. It commences with a mother and daughter on holiday in Japan, starting with Tokyo. It is such a lovely meditative book. They visit museums and galleries, eat at lovely cafes. You feel like you are tracing their every step in your head. As the story progresses, the daughter begins to look back at her childhood, and consequent life and loves. Her relationship with her sister and her mother. These are little side trips from the main trip, and again you transport yourself through the imagery.<br /><br />Au writes so beautifully, 100 pages was nowhere near enough. The pace is slow, but it is utterly worth it. It slows your brain, calms you soul, and makes you feel so very lovely. It also cemented my urge to visit Tokyo and especially Kyoto. She was the </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">inaugural winner of the novel prize, and has been up for many other awards including the Miles Franklin.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">The Lovers by Yumna Kassab</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Lovers was an interesting read. Everything happens but nothing happens. It about Amir and Jamila who meet and fall in love in a city neither of them are from. The book seems to be set in the middle east, but it never says so nor does it need to. The writing is poetic and full of analogies and myths, based on this forming relationship, that we have been told from the beginning will not last. Early on we are told her shampoo costs more than he earns in a week. Both of them are broken and yet the attraction is there. This is more about love than their love, more a fable with philosophical leanings. I fell under its enchantment, and the beauty of her words. It was short listed for the Miles Franklin awards.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Girl in a pink dress by Kylie Needham</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frances lives in a remote town and gets an invitation to her former lover's art show. This takes her back to the time she was with him. Also an artist, they were not destined to bloom together. Fierce and strong. This is a great story about being a female artist struggling to make herself known when her partner is very famous and quite possibly a lesser artist than her. Kylie is a screenwriter (Offspring, Rush, Secrets and Lies), and is married to Ben Quilty and this is her first novel. I really enjoyed this, and you cannot help but wonder how much she gleamed from Quilty.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really want to love Pip's books, but I just do not. I like them, but I don't love them. Much like her previous book, The Bookbinder of Jericho sells itself as something else, a female character in the book/literature industry, surrounded by men, and wanting more. But what you get is a love story (my least favourite genre, mostly as it is rarely done well) set against WW1, and the impact of war. Which is a very fine story. Just not the story I wanted or was expecting. Loads of people seem to love it, so you know, for me, the usual.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another disappointment, after loving Rodham and a few books of short stories, Curtis was becoming one of my go to authors. After reading this, I think I may had misjudged her. What I do love about her writing is it is (usually) edgy with feministic sensibilities. And Romantic Comedy has some of that, but just not enough. It is about a female writer on a comedy show very similar to Saturday Night Live (ok EXACTLY like SNL) who falls in love with the weekly guest star who happens to be a huge and gorgeous rock star. So it flips the gender, which she does do so well, of the geeky dude going out with the supermodel, eg Paulina Porizkova and Ric Ocasek. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The book is divided into thirds, the first part revolves around a week (or so) at the comedy show the female character writes for. This I found awful and boring, and yet it was the best third. If you have read Live from New York: the complete, uncensored history which came out in the early 2000s, you can see she pretty much gleaned everything from that book, and to be fair she does mention it in her notes in the end. The middle third is the pair falling in love over emails during COVID. I have many issues with this, I have yet to see COVID successfully outlined in fiction, and I hate letters (emails are no different) in books, I find it lazy writing. The last third is will they or won't they. There is a LOT of dialogue in the book too, of which I am not a fan. So it had way too many elements I dislike within for me to ever love it. I didn't hate it, I was just disappointed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>No Bull by Vika and Linda Bull</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love Vika and Linda Bull, I have called them National Treasures for some decades now. This is their story as told by both of them. Sometimes they cover the same ground, but from a different perspective. I also listened to it on talking book, and they both read their own sections. Truly wonderful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It starts with a brief overview of their parents, their lovely Mum from Tonga and their beautiful Dad, an Aussie. Their Tongan heritage is so very important to them and it was lovely to hear, especially about a 3 month stay in Tonga when they were young. They always sang but never thought about it as a career, and Vika was working for a cafe in Melbourne that was owned by a couple who were in Bachelors from Prague (I bloody loved them back in the day), and soon enough Vika, followed by Linda, were singing for them and then formed their own band.<br /><br />They got their break when Pete 'Lucky' Luscombe, drummer for Joe Camilleri, suggested them as back up singers for his band, The Black Sorrows. There is so much behind the scenes of Aussie Rock in this book, I thought my head would explode. I love this kind of stuff. It follows the ups and downs of their career, there was a good decade they were not getting much work. It is a ripper of a read, cannot recommend it enough!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Did I ever tell you this? a memoir by Sam Neill</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is pure joy, with lovely chapters full of interesting and humourous stories. Sam is a great raconteur, and has so many stories to tell. This is not a linear autobiography, but he delves in and out of his life, here and there. And it works!<br /><br />Loads of stories of growing up, family, friends, his vineyard. And many stories of behind the scenes of movie making. The actors and actresses he worked with, the writers, directors, musicians. He tells the truth and calls out - in the most polite way - difficult people he has worked with, which I found most refreshing.<br /><br />The one thread throughout his stories is the cancer that grabbed him late in life. You can see this force was keeping him writing and moving forward. I think a person can see their worth through the friends they have, and by the sounds of this book, Sam's worth is immense, the long list of people he is very friendly with is impressive and fascinating. This is an easy read, a fun read, and you get a little bit of Hollywood gossip!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have had this book for over a decade when I saw it in an airport bookstore. I had been following Ron on Twitter (in its and his Twitter heyday) and thought he was hilarious. The book was worth the wait, lol, it was great. Each chapter starts with a few pages of his Twitter work. It is about his younger years where he was a barely functioning alcoholic. It is dark in subject matter at times, but still very funny. Rob is well known as an actor now, but this is before that time. Many teen and early adult escapades are told with truth and humour. I guess this is niche, but if you love Rob, you will definitely love this. I did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is Rob's second book and wow, it is truly remarkable. It was what got me to finally read his first book, prior to this one. Rob survived his younger years, is sober and getting into acting and writing, specifically the brilliant series, Catastrophe with Sharon Horgan. He met his wife and they had three gorgeous young boys. When Henry, his youngest son was around 12 months, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. His life changed forever, and this is the story. <br /><br />It is the most beautifully written book, upsetting for sure, but also very uplifting and so full of love and life you feel like your heart will explode. And it IS Rob Delaney, so there is actually a lot of humour within. Henry passes at 2 1/2 and it tells pretty much everything. Again, I guess this is not for everyone, but really not reading this, you really are missing out on one of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Everything and Nothing: a memoir by Heather Mitchell</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Heather Mitchell is Australian acting royalty and this is her memoir and it is outstanding. Wonderful stories about her life and childhood and her mother who was quite sick a lot of the time. She has many wonderful stories about her career, the ups and downs, on stage and on the big and little screen. She has stories about behind the scenes and wonderful people she has worked with. And she also details her cancer battles. This is a superb read and full of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Martin Scorsese: a journey by Mary Pat Kelly</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mary Pat Kelly is an uber Martin Scorsese fan from the early days when she asked for reels of his early films to be sent to her monastry to be viewed. IN time she met Marty and they became firm friends with much in common. This is a great book as she has access to all the key players in his life, including his parents who were very involved in his early days. It is one of those interview style books where she lets the actors, behind the scenes, friends, family, and Scorsese talk but she adds in his history and other behind the scenes information she has found out. This makes it a really detailed and personal book, one of the best I have read about him. It only takes you up to Cape Fear, so I hope she is working on a part 2.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I Am Not Fine, Thanks by Wil Anderson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a book of short essays/memoir style stories from Wil's life during the pandemic. Oh no, not another of these, well this is funny and Wil also moved to a small town just near Byron Bay before the pandemic. Byron Bay was the heart (or heartless) of the anti-vaxers so there was much to see and talk about. I enjoyed this book, but had seen a recent stand-up of his on the tele and this book pretty much plays out his stand-up. Either way, it was still a good read and a great laugh!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Because He's Jeff Goldblum: the movies, the memes, and meaning of Hollywood's most enigmatic actor by Travis M. Andrews</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a fun biography about Jeff Goldblum. Rather than being a straight biography, the author has a little fun with the enigma that is Goldblum. They talk about him as a personality, his music, the memes and Internet excitement, after Jurassic Park and now. It doesn't go much into his personal life, more his movies and career. This was a lot of fun and just made me smile. I love Jeff, so thoroughly enjoyed the book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Dear Love edited by Samuel Johnson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is another cute and touching compilation from the Love Your Sister Cancer Charity that is run by Samuel Johnson. They pop these books out every year or so, and this one is about love and written by minor celebrities and real people. Love comes in many forms, so it is not all personal love, some are funny, some are sincere, some are sad. Some are written by each person in a couple and are quite clever or funny. It is a lovely book and raises money for my charity of choice!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Embracing your Limitations: how to accept your inner loser and win at life by Lawrence Mooney</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What a laugh this was, a self-help book about how crap self-help books are. Lawrence, a comedian who I quite like, has a theory that if we just stick with who we are, our limitations, things will go ok, it is when we try to better ourselves that things go to shit. His EYL theory, is hilarious and not always ideal. To be honest I can see where he is coming from, the self-help industry is just that, an industry designed to keep you in their hold, never quite satisfying your urge and always looking for the next big thing to 'help' you with whatever you think is wrong with you...quite possibly nothing! Some things made me think, no way, but others made me laugh. I listened to this on talking book which made it funnier, as he cracked himself up on more than one occasion, obviously forgetting what he had written and amusing himself. I don't think this is for everyone, but I sure got a laugh out of it!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a little book with 3 short stories in it. I enjoy her short stories, they are usually a little political and a little feminist, with interesting takes on subject matter we all know. A short but great read.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">What I've Been Watching</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Funny Woman</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I thoroughly enjoyed this adaptation of Nick Hornby's book. I didn't realise it was an adaptation until I started watching it, thinking I have seen this before but confused knowing I had not seen it. And then his name came up on screen and I was ahhh! It was a good book and made into a great series. Gemma Arterton, brilliantly plays Barbara Parker, a saucy blonde from Blackpoole who wants more from her life. She sees Lucille Ball on the TV and wants to be her. So she heads to London, it is the swinging 60s, and tries to get a break as an actress. She starts doing bit parts and Carry On movies, but gets her big break on a comedy sitcom/series. Things do not go according to plan, and we follow her ups and downs, the people she meets, her family back home, and her new comedy family she works with. Rupert Everett is almost unrecognisable as her agent, Brian, and Arsher Ali is superb as the head writer on the sitcom. It is funny and dramatic, a great story about feminism, and set amongst real life happenings of the time adds a great realistic dimension. And then there is the fashion and the music! I cannot wait for S2!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ted Lasso S3</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed S1, S2 settled a little and there was a melancholy within that actually worked. I know a lot of people didn't like S2 as much as S2 and whilst I enjoyed S1 more, S2 was really good, a few messy episodes, but in all really good. S3 was hit and miss, there were some real clunkers, too many new storylines and a few characters that did not fly. But when they got it right, it shone and took you back to S1. It ended as you would expect, which is lovely but also a little tiring. But overall it was a joyous show that mostly made me smile, and it this crazy post-Covid era I'll take all the joy I can get. What I loved most about the writing, was the clever pop-culture in-jokes, the music, the references. I bloody love that kind of thing. Also Roy Kent, best written character on tele! And Hannah Waddington, stunning - I cannot wait to see what she does next! Surely, something musical!?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cunk on Earth</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why did it take us so long to watch this, I have no idea how to review it except it is hilarious. Cunk played by Diane Morgan, who has been in just about everything, is a deadpan and ill-informed interviewer/presenting, presenting a show on the history of earth. She interviews real life experts on all this scientific and historic with ill-informed questions and thoughts. Some a left mouths open, some try to inform her, and some get the joke and do their best to get through it.<br />All I can say, is if you want a real laugh out loud laugh, go and watch it now!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Arnold</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am a big fan of Big Arnie, I like a lot of his films, but not everything, and I like what a go getter he is and how passionate he is about life and our world. And whilst he is obviously right wing, there is a heart and intellect and decency about him, that you cannot help but love. This 3 part doco was superb, and open and honest, it deals with some of his biggest mistakes but also some of his biggest milestones. HIs tough upbringing, his passion to make it to the top of body building, then film, then politics...and he did. Totally worth a look.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Last Movie Stars</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I didn't think I could love Ethan Hawke anymore than I did and then I watched this 6 part documentary on Paul Newman he directed and I bow down to him. It is a masterpiece. He was approached by one of Paul's daughters to do it, and he wasn't sure he had it in him. She left Paul's archives with him, boxes and boxes of transcriptions of taped interviews he did when he was alive. He had been working on a documentary of sorts but got annoyed with it all, and burnt most of the tapes! Luckily they had been transcribed. Once Hawke started reading he knew he had a uniquq narrative and worked out how to pull it off. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So this is a regular documentary, with clips, and interviews and such from all sorts of sources, and the films themselves of course. And it is Ethan talking to camera and to friends about how he pulled this together. Finally he pulls in a who's who of Hollywood to read the transcripts, which were interwound into the story. George Clooney playing Paul, Laura Linney playing Joanne Woodward and on and on and on. <br /><br />The series is not just about Paul, but also Joanne, and what a phenomenal woman and actress she was and about their long standing (and not perfect) relationship.<br /><br />We both loved this series, realising we had many Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward films to see. There is some amazing archival footage, including loads of home film, and the scripts come to life with the actors taking on the parts. One of the best film documentaries I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>History of the Sitcom</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This US doco series was a lot of fun. Going right back to the 50s and mostly looking at US shows. It grouped them into families, work etc and had a LOT of the players talking about the show they worked on or the effect a particular show had on them. If you love television, you will love this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>100 Years of Warner Bros</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Great 3 part doco on Warner Bros film, going right back to the brothers Warner themselves and the set up of their company. Again a lot of big players are on deck to talk about their own experiences and to talk about classic cinema. I was in my element with the earlier parts of the story, most of which I knew of course, but I cannot get enough classic movie info.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Inside Sydney Airport </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This great new series about the behind the scenes of Sydney Airport is narrated by Brooke Satchwell. It shows the comings and goings of staff and the public in this large private city. I love airport and found it endlessly fascinating. Also quite the thriller, with bombs, explosions, smugglers, guns and so forth being sorted out. You get to know some of the characters working there also, especially George. The superstar boss of the main terminal, George, was my favourite. A very funny guy but super professional. If anything weird or bad happened, he would say it gave him the "hippy hippy shakes"and that cracked me up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Smartless: on the road</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Smartless is one of my favourite podcasts, with friends Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman, and Will Arnett, each bringing a guest the other two are not aware of. Usually someone well known and comedic. It is always a laugh and you get to see another side of these guests. The boys took the show on the road and filmed it, but the episodes are not the actual live podcasts, although you will see snippets of them, it is more the guys larking around, planning behind the scenes and it is very funny and fascinating. Lots of really amazing guest stars including David Letterman, Will Ferrell, and Matt Damon amongst many others. You also get to meet Tracey, Sean's sister, who features regularly on the podcast.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Shatner in Space</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh my, this was amazing, a shortish doco about Shatner's foray into space at the age of 90!!!!! Captain Kirk in space is so bloody amazing, as a Star Trek and Shatner fan I was beside myself when I heard. When you really think about it the enormity of it, your mind is really blown. It covers the initial stage, some training, and Shatner talking about the whole experience himself. There are some great scenes where he tells his daughters and they are understandably upset but also used to their Dad doing his thing. There was a lot of relief when he landed safely. You will see footage inside the rocket while they are in space and footage of earth and space itself. I was very emotional watching this, it was a really excellent doco. And I didn't think I could love the International Treasure that is William Shatner anymore, but I did! A remarkable man!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Judy Blume Forever</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I cannot begin to say how much I loved this documentary. Like everyone, I read as much Judy Blume as I could get my hands on in my tweens (tweens wasn't even a term back then!) and early teens. She really nailed the inner turmoil and thoughts of me and I guess many others at the time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This documentary is about her life and her legacy. Judy is just exactly what you would imagine, open and honest, a friend, lovely and kind. A beautiful smiley face and very accessible. It goes through her career with footage throughout that is just glorious and also interviews with her now looking back on these moments. It interviews big and small names about her impact on them at that seminal age.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The biggest part of the documentary was the feedback, thousands of letters and then emails that were sent to Judy over the years, held in a huge archive. The correspondence held the inner most thoughts and dramas and personal information of thes mostly young girls. Judy took these very seriously and wrote back with very good and kind advice to everyone. She even met some of them. You can see how much this meant to those that took the time to write to her. There were interviews with them about this and it was very emotional stuff.<br /><br />It also looks at Judy's personal life and what she is doing now, the later being most glorious. This was such a great documentary, I think I blubbered (IYKYK) through the whole thing, not because it was sad, it was not, but because it brought back so many memories and really touched my soul.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Being Mary Tyler Moore</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I do love Mary Tyler Moore and this was a great doco about her and her life. It showed what a trail blazer she was but also that Mary Tyler Moore was far from Mary Richards. Mary Richards, the character, was sunny and sassy and always up, Mary Tyler Moore, could be that person, but she had a darker, closed side, especially when it came to interviews. This was what led Robert Redford into casting her as the main character in Ordinary People, and extraordinary performance if you are a fan of Mary Richards, but maybe not so much if you knew Mary Tyler Moore. Her love life was a bit hit and miss until she met her third husband and she was quite unwell with auto immune issues towards the end of her life. This included loads of archive footage and clips and interviews with those who knew her or worked with her or admired her. Also a lot of Mary being honest about herself and her life towards the end of her life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Death on the Nile</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another Agatha Christie biggie from Kenneth Branagh. Highly stylised and full of big stars. When I was in my early teens I hit my Agatha Chrisie stage and devoured her books, loved them. So of course this was a favourite, and I knew the plot, but it didn't matter. Probably style over substance, but it was lovely to watch.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lightyear</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was really disappointed in this. This could have been so great but it is so far away from the Toy Story franchise, it doesn't feel like the right fit.<br /><br />Lightyear is about the 'real life' Buzz Lightyear, a space man, who the Buzz Lightyear toy in Toy Story was based on. I am not entirely sure the timelines on both movies align, but I guess that is not so important?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The character (and presumably man) Buzz was nothing like the Buzz in Toy Story, again, not so important? Some of the other characters were more interesting and easily funnier than Buzz. <br /><br />I struggled with this, it just didn't have that buzz, lol!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Stockholm</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was great, Ethan Hawke stars as a bank robber from a real life heist held in Stockholm in the 60s. The heist/robbery goes wrong and they hold some people hostage. A young married bank teller becomes infatuated with Hawke's character and this is where the term Stockholm Syndrome comes from. No more spoilers, but this is an intense, but also rather amusing film. I really enjoyed this</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Humans</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a great and interesting indie movie, based on a short play, with a wonderful cast. A young couple have moved into an old NY apartment, and their family join them for a Thanksgiving. Richard Jenkins and June Squibb are the parents, the couple are Beanie Feldstein and Steven Yeun are the couple and Amy Schumer the sister. There is tension in the air, with issues and problems being revealed as the night moves on. The apartment is near Ground Zero and the father has some PTSD related to 9/11 and that also adds tension. This was a great drama about families and the secrets they keep from each other.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Blueback</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A lovely film based on a Tim Winton book about a mother and daughter living in WA and very environment conscious. Both are at one with sea. The daughter grows up to be a marine biologist and is called home when her Mum has a stroke. Mia Wasikowska plays the daughter as an adult and Radha Mitchell is the Mum. Also stars Eric Bana. Loads of beautiful WA waterside, and plenty of underwater beauty. This is a great movie for the family. It is called Blueback after the name of a huge Groper fish the daughter befriends as a child.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Empire of Light</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This movie was good, but it could have been great. Sam Mendes directed and starring Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth, set in the early 1980s around an ageing old cinema and the staff that work there. The cinema is stunning and faces the seaside. Coleman has mental health issues and has been reluctantly having an affair with the boss, Firth. When a young African man joins the team, they forge a lovely bond which develops into a little more. This is at the time where there were race riots and when something happens to him, it sets Coleman's character into a spiral. Coleman is magnificent in this, when is she not!? As is Michael Ward, the young man. But the story is a little melodramatic and the supporting cast, including Firth, were left with nothing much to do. No real back stories, including Coleman, so you are unsure of what is behind the story. Visually this is also stunning, but in all not the amazing film it should have been.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Triangle of Sadness</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What a cracker of a film! Set in three parts and totally expected. The film commences in the modelling industry, and we are introduced to a vapid couple. They have issues regarding rank and money, but they are beautiful, lol!<br /><br />They have won a holiday on a luxury yacht due to the female being an 'influencer' and this is the second section. The yacht has many multi-millionaires on it and it becomes an upstairs/downstairs story. The captain is missing, refusing to come out of his cabin, and there is a storm coming. Something is up, and the storm hits and it is the most bizarre and funny and awful thing!<br /><br />The third and last part would be spoilers, but it is the most fascinating movie, nominated for an academy award this year. It is definitely not for everyone, but I quite enjoyed it!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Listening To</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>1980s</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are still making our way through the 80s compilations albums with Sunday breakfast or brunch. Such fun. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>The Specials</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Got some cool ska albums, and particularly loving listening to The Specials.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Prince</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Early Prince, when he was naughty and funky, ok, he was always naughty and funky, but moreso in his early stuff! So very cool, and the soundtrack of my teens!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Imperfects podcast</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Really loving this podcast hosted by 3 bloks about mental health. They get specialists in to talk to and Australian Celebs to talk about their mental health. It is heartfelt and funny, considerate and intelligent, I really love this!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-61356093987793511462023-07-04T21:30:00.004+10:002023-07-04T21:30:46.176+10:00MAY/JUNE REVIEWS<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Reading</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Aphrodite's Breath: a memoir by Susan Johnson<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Susan Johnson is a popular Australian fiction author. This is quite a different book, it is part memoir and part travel book. Susan has always had a great love for Greece after visiting there when she was younger and subsequent visits. After being laid off from her journalist position, she decided to think about moving to Greece to edit her current book and maybe write a memoir-based book about her time there. She also thought she would like to take her 85 year old mother, Barbara with her. Susan was 62.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first part of the book goes through the pain that is packing up your life - well, 2 lives - and move overseas. Whilst this sounds incredibly romantic, it is a lot of red tape and paperwork and language to navigate, especially if you are not fluent in Greek.<br /><br />And once there, things were very different to what Susan would think. Her mother did not take to life on the island well and did not like the house they were renting. They clashed (not unusual) and at times severely and this causes Susan to rethink her whole idea and indeed her relationship with her mother. <br /><br />This is so well written, you can feel the beauty of the island, feel the tensions and the love of the relationship as it grows. Susan is one of our most underrated writers, I always look forward to her books. This is one of her best.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>It's A Shame About Ray by Jonathan Seidler</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed this memoir by Jonathan Seidler about his father Ray. Ray has serious mental health issues and committed suicide. A short period before this happened, Jonathan is diagnosed with a similar mental health condition to his father. Whilst not as severe, the book is about his father and Jonathan's quest to understand him and his own mental health issues. This may sound depressing and there are certainly some triggering moment within, but it is mostly upbeat. Ray was a GP to the stars, so it is peppered with cute stories about his work. Ray was the son of Australian architect, Harry Seidler, so Jonathan also touches on his legacy. A great read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Limberlost by Robbie Arnott</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is one of the best books I have read in a long time (well, listened to). Ned is a teen on his summer holidays. This is a coming of age story set in Tasmania during WWII. Ned's older brothers are at war, his mother died before he was 1, his sister and his father are left running their apple orchard. Things are tough, but all Ned can think about is making some money to buy himself a boat.<br /><br />Limberlost is about families, masculinity, and the decisions we make and the impact they have on our lives, good and bad, no matter how small. It is beautifully written, very descriptive, and just a great story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a delightful but melancholy book about Benny Oh, an unusual young boy. After his father, a jazz musician, was run over by a chicken truck and killed, life changes for Benny and his very meek mother, Annabelle. Benny starts to hear voices in everything - windows, teapots, pens, everything. People start to think benny is unhinged but what if he was just special and magical?<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We follow Benny and Annabelle as they try to move forward in a world they seemingly do not fit when everything is not going their way. Jazz, Libraries, space, a homeless poet, and many other strange characters feature in this very unusual but compelling story. I had no idea what to expect when I started this book, and it is a difficult one to explain without giving too much away. It was a lovely read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bless the daughter: raised by a voice in her head by Warsan Shire</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Warsan is a Somali British poet and has been linked to Beyonce. This is a collection of feminist poetry about her life and women she knows. But she also includes some pop culture, history, and news stories within her poems. Powerful and sassy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Growing up Wiradjuri: stories from the Wiradjuri Nation edited by Dr. Anita Heiss</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a gift to the nation from treasured Elders. Some are stories passed down from generations, some are new. It has been pulled together with love by Anita Heiss and the stories are wonderful. It is not a long read, so should be digestible for everyone, a must read!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Time of my life by Myf Warhurst<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is an easy read, a memoir by Myf Warhust on her life so far. It is a very basic view of her life not going into much personal details after her childhood. It didn't really tell me more than I already knew. It was light and breezy and enjoyable, but I wanted more.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Fairytale: a real and imagined history of Australian sport BY HG Nelson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I listened to this on talking book, read by HG himself, which is really the only way to take in this book. What a hoot, exactly as you can imagine, some of HG's great stories of sport and sporting heroes told as only he can. Called The Fairytale, there is the usual hilarious embellishment we can expect. I laughed the whole way through, it was a sheer delight. I particularly loved his stories about sporting Prime Minister's from Harold Holt's swimming prowess to John Howard's bowling his stories brought a tear to my eye from laughing too much. His tales of Jack Brabham using his hot engine as a BBQ for his lunch as he raced around tracks was also funny. I could go on, but just get yourself a copy, you will not be disappointed.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Over the hill and up the wall by Todd Alexander</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved the first two books by Todd Alexander but was disappointed by this one. His first two books cover his tree change from Sydney to the Hunter Valley, buying a vineyard and turning it into an air bnb, and collecting a lot of animals along the way. It was interesting and funny. Really funny. I was really looking forward to book 3, as I knew they had sold the vineyard for another venture. But the book was mostly about looking after his elderly parents and the changes that can happen at this stage of your life. It was really interesting and really funny, but lacked the farm life stories and you felt it. I presume another book is forthcoming. I guess we wait and see.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Queen Menopause: finding your majesty in the mayhem - Alison Daddo</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a really good but basic place to start if you need to read about menopause. It is more a memoir of Alison's experience, and whilst worthy of a read, there are better books out there. I still found it helpful regardless.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Life what Nat To Do: a hot take on the advice you never asked for by Nat's What I Reckon</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a fun little 'self help' or don't self help book by the fabulous Nat's What I Reckon. If you don't know who he is, google him, and what planet are you living on anyway? Written in his inimitable style, he offers advice that works for him with his mental health (and other) issues. It is frank and funny and really useful. Good for the man in your life, but obviously not for everyone. I love his stuff, I think he is bloody amazing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Resilience Project: Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media by Hugh Van Cuylenburg</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Resilience Project is one of my favourite podcasts, and this is a spoken word book, written and read by its founder. The podcast and book are about mental health and not being so hard on yourself. This delves in to more of that and some of Hugh's personal journey. I found it a really uplifting and really helpful read! And let's face it, we all need help!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Banksy: completed by Carol Diehl</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a good more updated look at Banksy, it skims over the early years and concentrates mostly on the last decade or so. Looking in more detail at Banksy's art rather than who Banksy is etc. A difficult artist to write about as so little is known about him. But I bloody love Banksy, so anything is better than nothing. It was a good read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Colour of Fashion: the story of clothes in 10 colours by Caroline Young</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was an interesting book about colour in fashion over the years. Each chapter focused on a colour and looked at it in history, from way back to modern years. Great photos of amazing pieces of fashion that looked like art. It details the evolution of colour and how pigments change the course of history.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Paris for Beginners by Rachael Coopes</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really wanted to love this, I needed a new Paris book to read as I am so homesick for the city. This was a red hot mess, it jumped around in time in such a way I had no idea what was going on. Rachael is an actress I've never heard of and Toni Peron writing a by-line for the cover should have been warning enough. Just when she gets to an interesting part of Paris she jumps to another part of her life, usually about a lover who did her wrong and we get to hear that instead of great stories about parts of Paris. There is so much amazing to write about Paris, I have no idea how crappy books like this get written. I hate being harsh, but this one really annoyed me. It should have bene marketed as a memoir of her life so far that happens to take place sometimes in Paris.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Watching </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Succession S4</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">What can be said that hasn't been said. These people are truly awful and yet you cannot help but watch and follow them. This final season was exceptional, the writing was exceptional, the acting was a whole other level of exceptional. I am sure everyone has watched it by now, but I still don't want to spoil anything. I said before she started on this show that Sarah Snook has a very underrated actress, but now we all know how good she is. The whole cast is great, but she is really great, as is Kieran Culkin, my eyes go to him every time he is on screen. And he was the character I felt the most sorry for. So this is a crap review, and redundant. Just know I loved this show, and if you haven't watched it, you are really missing out. Go and watch it now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Barry S4</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Barry finished on the same day as Succession, but never really got the same attention as Succession. Nowhere near as many people watched it and that is their loss. It is highly nuanced, but so very worthy of watching. It is dramatic and very funny. Bill Hader - who is always brilliant - plays Barry, an assassin for hire who wants to be an actor. He joins an acting class, led by Henry Winkler - who is utterly magnificent as this nutty acting coach. Barry finds it difficult to leave the assassin business, and when he gets caught up with Chechnyan war lords things take a real turn. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">S3 ended with Barry arrested, so S4 takes a very different turn, for all characters. There are some really out there (in the best possible way) episodes, phenomenal writing and story arcs, and remarkable acting. Anthony Carrigan plays NoHo Hank, a polite and very gay Chechnyan warlord. What a great character, easily one of the best characters on television at the moment.<span> Every scene he is in, he steals it from everyone. Hank is who I will miss the most in this show. The ending was very satisfying and well done, which is hard when there are so many ends to pull together. Beautifully shot, hilarious, sad, emotional, and uplifting. Don't let the violence angle (and it can get violent) put you off Barry, it really is one of the best shows in recent times. If you loved My InBetween you will love Barry.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In Limbo</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed this small Australian series, a dramedy. Featured around Charlie who finds his best mate, Nate, dead, possibly by suicide. So the subject matter is dark, but handled with tension and comedy...dark comedy and sometimes regular comedy. The premise is Nate is still hanging around as a ghost, that only Charlie can see and Nate is a real character, hilarious. Whilst this is obviously a fantasy premise, it really works and never feels like fantasy. Charlie is trying to get to the bottom of why this is happening, whilst he is grieving and helping Nate's family to also grieve and live. Much more happens than this of course, but no spoilers. A great cast of familiar faces and terrific writing to pull the story off. Really worth watching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The White Lotus S1</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I recently rewatched this and enjoyed it the second time, but nowhere near as much as the first watching. I guess I knew what was going to happen. This worked so well the first time seeing it. The tension was heightened and built and built from episode to episode. Murray Bartlett's performance is still utterly brilliant as are the rest of the cast. The reason I was rewatching it was Andrew had not seen it. So it WAS great watching it through his eyes, and yes, he loved it and yes he worked out who was going to die, but only moments before it happened. <br /><br /><b>Reframed: Marilyn Monroe</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was easily the best documentary I have seen on Marilyn. It does not take the sloppy - she was a victim - route, which is so bloody refreshing. It was in 4 parts and totally remarkable. We all know she was a smart lady, and nowhere near as difficult as she was painted. Most of the issues against her were simple misogyny. And whilst it definitely delved into that, this was not what the documentary was about. It interviewed a lot of people who knew her and worked with her, mostly women and younger actresses who have played her in various movies etc. Their recounts are great and add a huge kudos to the documentary. It still made me feel sad that she was treated so badly and her demise could have been prevented. But then, I've always felt that way. It was a great series and really worth watching, I cannot recommend it enough. On SBS online now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Escape to the Chateau S9</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been watching the final series of this favourite show. For the unaware, an eccentric and wonderful English couple buy a run down Chateau in France. He is older, and an engineer, and ex-Army, an amazing Chef and can pretty much fix anything. She is a bit younger, and amazing with interior design. When they but the house their children are a baby and a toddler. They are now in their Tweens and the Chateau looks amazing. Watching them make this place looking so remarkable and watching their event business take off has been an absolute pleasure. It is truly swoon worthy. And they are a delight. I will miss this truly comfort series. It has been a real favourite. They are meant to be doing spin off series, so I guess it is watch this space.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The ABC of with David Wenham</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This series has really grown on me. I enjoyed S1, but David felt a little forced and stiff as an interviewer. But this second season, he has relaxed a bit and come into his own. He has had a great array of guests, delving into the ABC archives and looking back at their lives via these videos. Germaine Greer, HG Nelson, and Jack Thompson were exceptional interviews, but the rest were very very good too. They are only 30 mins, which feels just right, so check them out on view if you missed out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ningaloo Nyinggulu</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This beautiful documentary from one of Australia's best writers and National Treasure, Tim Winton was superb. Set in and around Ningaloo Reef in WA, Tim meets with the indigenous people of the area and scientists who work on and around the reef and together they show us the beauty of the area. And more importantly, the huge amount of animals -land and marine that inhabit the area. Quite an embarrassment of riches the reef and surrounding areas have, so amazing, so stunning. Watching these lovely, laid-back people do their work, looking after this beautiful environment brought me to my knees. Watching a boat full of ordinary hard-working people release Turtles back into the water after caring for them brought me to tears. If you missed this 3-part series, I am sure it is still on iview!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>George Michael: portrait of an artist</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A lovely documentary about George the man, by the people who knew him. Looking at his incredible talent, somewhat underrated while he was alive, and his beautiful soul, this is a great movie. It covered everything and more. As you get closer and closer to his untimely death, I found myself getting very emotional. I always loved him and thought him especially talented. In fact, I have been listening to Listen Without Prejudice a lot recently, it is a stunning album. If you don't know much about George, you must watch this. If you love him and know it all like me, you will still want to watch this and you will love it too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Pretenders: live an Enmore Theatre </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was filmed back in 2010 when The Pretenders played a double bill with Blondie. Both concerts were filmed. I have yet to watch Blondie. Chrissie, who has been trending this weekend due to their spectacular set at Glastonbury, at the age of 71. It is a great concert, sounds and looks amazing and the set list brilliant. She is phenomenal and comes across like she is still having a ball playing all those great songs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Documentary Now</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had seen S1 and S2 of this years ago, it is a mock up of classic documentaries. They are all great, but if you have seen the actual documentary it really makes the experience amazing. I knew there was a third season in recent years but there was also a fourth. So all 4 seasons have been playing back to back on ABC2. And I have watched them all, they are brilliant. A range of actors act in them and they can be very funny and also very dramatic. There are some great music ones and a wonderful one about competition Ten Pin Bowling starring Michael C Hall (Dexter). And the 2-parter that is obviously taking from a lot of documentaries by Werner Herzog was hilarious. I almost didn't recognise Cate Blanchett as a dowdy (and dodgy) UK hairdresser, that was great. This is a nuanced watch for sure, but oh so worth it!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Portlandia - entire 8 seasons</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Along with Documentary Now, Portlandia has been replayed, all 8 seasons back to back on ABC2. Portlandia is a sketch comedy show starring Fred Armisen (who I love) and Carrie Brownstein (from Sleater Kinney) set in a fictionalised version of Portland, Oregan. They play a lot of characters and are hilarious, and so many big names star in bit pieces. Or actors who have gone on to be big stars. When this was originally aired, they started to mess around with the timing of episodes so it was nice to see some of the later episodes that I missed the first time around.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Put a Bird on it!</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-86812483476415934802023-06-25T15:31:00.003+10:002023-06-25T20:01:44.633+10:00CAMBRIDGE FINALE<span style="font-family: verdana;">The Cambridge was one of the first live venues I went to when I started going out. I honestly cannot remember what or even when it was, but it would have been the late 80s and I have been going there regularly ever since.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had many venues I frequented in my late teens and my 20s, The Palais, Tatts, The East Room, The Stag, The Family, and Newcastle Workers Club. But I really loved The Cambridge, it felt cool, it - back then - easily had the best bands playing. I felt at home there. The Palais came a close second.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was never interested in going out for the sake of it, it was always about music. Music, preferably shared with good friends. I was never a big drinker. When I started going out after school, I tried various drinks, egged on by so-called 'friends' and quite frankly, made a dick of myself. So I soon realised they did not have my best interest at heart, and consuming loads of alcohol was not a cool look. I shed both fairly quickly.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Music was always my great love, and seeing live music was something else. It is difficult to describe the feeling of seeing a favourite band or hearing a great song sung live. It is absolutely my happy place. As an introvert, being in a large room with loads of people is my worst nightmare, but the joy and brilliance of hearing live music is the pay off. I will always push through my anxiety for that feeling. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I remember a block party at The Cambridge for New Year's Eve in the late 80s, the street was blocked off and bands played inside and out. My young mind was blown, getting home after was a nightmare and I had to ring (via a public telephone) my poor parents, get them out of bed to come and collect me.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wish I could remember all the bands I have seen at The Cambridge over the years...there is a lot!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The band I have seen the most ever is The Porkers, a Newcastle based Ska band, and I probably saw most of their gigs at The Cambridge. More on them later.<br /><br />They are closely followed by another Newcastle institution, The Hipslingers. The Hipslingers were a great pop band of the time, fronted by my good friend, Gionni DiGravio. We always had a grand time when we saw them. Especially during the period where they supported themselves as The Elvis'. This band had all of The Hipslingers dressed as various versions of Elvis with some additional backing singers, and they did a solid set of Elvis numbers you could dance to.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The late 80s and 90s was when I was there the most.<br />I saw the following bands (and then some) during this time:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Whitlams</i> - a few times</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Custard</i> - also multiple times</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Falling Joys and The Hummingbirds -</i> together I think</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Clouds</i> - divine</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Ed Kuepper</i> - effortlessly cool</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Cruel Sea</i> - always wonderful</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Sharp </i>- I really loved them, seeing them for the first time, I announced it must have felt like this when people saw The Beatles at The Cavern Club...oh dear, famous last words.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Died Pretty - </i>so very good, so dark</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Church -</i> excellent<br /><i>John Paul Young -</i> so much fun, I was beside myself seeing my childhood hero</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Mental As Anything - </i>the original lineup, great fun</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Stems and </i></span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Lime Spiders - </i><span style="font-family: verdana;">together I think, and I think it was here but it may have been another venue, this memory is super hazy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Tall, Tales and True</i> - I cannot remember much, but I know I had a good time</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Boom Crash Opera</i>- always great</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Noiseworks</i> - always great</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Radiators</i> - only once and they were ok</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Chantoozies</i> - i have no idea why I saw them, but they were actually ok<br /><i>Machine Gun Fellatio</i> - salacious and fabulous</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Rebecca's Empire</i> - bloody brilliant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Caligula - </i>vague memory</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Fauves - </i>Great</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Skunkhour</i> - danced all night<br /><i>Frente - </i>I think, but the memory is hazy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Welcome Mat - </i>Saw them a few times, always great</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Gangajang</i>- our friends The Hipslingers supported them, so I gave my CD to Gionni to get the band to sign it for me, he did well!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the 2000s, I didn't see as much, but again here is some of what I can remember!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Tim Rogers (2013) - </i>notorious gig</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>You Am I </i>- always excellent</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Dan Sultan</i> - we pushed down the front and swooned all night</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We loved those nights, dancing to music from our younger years and hanging out with friends in our late 40s/50s.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Going to a venue for all those years bring many stories that must be told, apologies to those who have heard these stories over the years.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But here are some of the best.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tim Rogers performed in 2013 with his band at the time, The Bamboos. This was the first time I had seen Tim solo, and I was super excited. He came out and sang a song, but something wasn't quite right, as the night progressed it was obvious he was quite unwell. He looked terrible, he didn't sound that great. He would disappear off stage, leaving the girls in The Bamboos (amazing singers) to take over. WHen he returned, he kept stripping clothes off, whinged about a bad kebab the night before, and ended up on the stage singing in the feotal position. It was quite terrifying to watch. He disappeared again, and came out for the end of the concert looking and sounding much better. I am not saying substances were involved, we will never know, but I suspect I am right. The concert seemed a little short on length, but it was entertaining! 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55PrbtjVktgKroyjgwP-wKwHwTcEQkAMY5OOhENuvEpZhSeNfS7wUmZf1peMK9DfR7bqy04LkhpiM3zks2uGL0egTkt0ULlyCbTo3gXAJBMv20aGRq1lg8Y8X3CYK56AFEmdHOlVuVq7g2mHEKmw1X0tbcu8mcRPR4fy_3BFzEJ_7asfIGI6tXETcxzA/s3264/20130308_232011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55PrbtjVktgKroyjgwP-wKwHwTcEQkAMY5OOhENuvEpZhSeNfS7wUmZf1peMK9DfR7bqy04LkhpiM3zks2uGL0egTkt0ULlyCbTo3gXAJBMv20aGRq1lg8Y8X3CYK56AFEmdHOlVuVq7g2mHEKmw1X0tbcu8mcRPR4fy_3BFzEJ_7asfIGI6tXETcxzA/s320/20130308_232011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />We were there for Ed Kuepper, I cannot recall when, mid 90s I guess. I was excited, I worship him, or did at the time. They play a song, and then a second and the intro went on and on and on and on. I was with friends, towards the back right (my favourite spot to be) near the bar. I was like, jeez Ed, we get it, great opening, but get on with it. What I didn't realise, until someone told me, because I couldn't really see. Ed had snapped a string, and he wasn't even on stage, he had taken off to restring and retune his guitar while his band filled in for time. Hilarious!<br /><br />There were quite a few dates to see a band there, I won't name names! But it always led to some fun, when they realised I really just wanted to see the band, lol!<br /><br />One of my favourite stories is from day time and no music was even involved. One year for the Young Writers Festival, Linda and I went to a talk that featured Benjamin Law - he wasn't as big then as he is now, but I was quite the fan. He sauntered into the front bar where the talk was held, he is a very good looking man. And said hello to everyone, he has the most amazing booming voice, which goes against anything he had ever written, lol. And then he sat right next to me and introduced himself with a firm handshake. I couldn't believe it!!!<br /><br />But my most notorious Cambridge story comes courtesy of an old boyfriend. A huge group of us were there to see The Porkers. My bf had consumed a fair bit of alcohol and was stage diving into the audience. Now, this was very normal for a Porkers gig. Pucko, a band member for a while, used to dive into the audience with a Boogie Board. And audience members did regularly. But bear in mind, this bf was 6 foot something, solid, and in Doc Martens boots. <br /><br />I was out in the beer garden (which no longer exists) with friends, when someone burst in to say I had better get into the band room, my bf was in a bad way. He had worn out his welcome with the audience, attempted another stage dive and they had had enough. The crowd parted like the red sea and he dived into a table nose first. There was blood everywhere, he swore he was ok when I said we had better go to a hospital. I drove him home and left him with his mother. I didn't find it funny at the time, but now all I can do is laugh. I hope he can too!<br /><br />And it was that same bf I told, I will be dancing at The Cambridge in my 50s! I'd like to see that he said in a non-believing voice, as only a 20 something can pull off. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I was right, Andrew and I headed to see The Porkers for one of the final gigs at The Cambridge just a few weeks ago at 52. It was their hardcore and punk gig, that started at 3pm and would go for close. It was bittersweet, the venue is distinctive and that night was not different. You enter via Hunter Street these days, as opposed to the Wood Street entry fro, and your shoes still stick to it. When it is busy the place gets a little packed and scary. The bathrooms look like someone has just set a hose to it, the toilet doors do not lock properly, and there are always a group of younger bimbo types hanging out in there absolutely off their rockers and crying about something. We saw all that and more on this final visit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6orHtOVoGJRGMDVxLzn8ChzJDmR2wJysaUZUPXWTjF1wGvX_uLgHR2R2kCdoHogaqIWoRJBD-b5VG30zU14G0UGN6TSzhMU7iWjlg2U3qoMDQFga4nOh7x2i6o1FlsFV3uBOjxPDgcED537n4PP_5wJovs7RCgikXFnLWsLGx_gcEoJk7WXCaUOLpVPQ/s4032/20230603_193842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6orHtOVoGJRGMDVxLzn8ChzJDmR2wJysaUZUPXWTjF1wGvX_uLgHR2R2kCdoHogaqIWoRJBD-b5VG30zU14G0UGN6TSzhMU7iWjlg2U3qoMDQFga4nOh7x2i6o1FlsFV3uBOjxPDgcED537n4PP_5wJovs7RCgikXFnLWsLGx_gcEoJk7WXCaUOLpVPQ/s320/20230603_193842.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJtHQ73WcGTGl4RQhmQNh0pFJTJD9knBMs75MGe-CbrmO2inBW-q-_R-lUunjrXJuY2sP2OTukPkT2W-t6O5VH_TziwlPytY5FeOpVMHewXbNeuwH_dfRsxzpPs5y_9Hx7cgRmN4iNxsoWBvmnKDs0ceF42ZuqiEobcLTBY2oUSNLPRUclC060Fb42mk/s4032/20230603_194040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmJtHQ73WcGTGl4RQhmQNh0pFJTJD9knBMs75MGe-CbrmO2inBW-q-_R-lUunjrXJuY2sP2OTukPkT2W-t6O5VH_TziwlPytY5FeOpVMHewXbNeuwH_dfRsxzpPs5y_9Hx7cgRmN4iNxsoWBvmnKDs0ceF42ZuqiEobcLTBY2oUSNLPRUclC060Fb42mk/s320/20230603_194040.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHluokhuzp2UGAh41GAoE0Ya4bUrRlrFEdIavqZOBpjnZjcB_IQadFKXwfb_EDmKrEJeYf7o2t0rw_pIN7yaW3N_YBkZ2mgrftdx-5wb2dHizHksEPO7t9YDA5RbYsoQk0YofhRvYY_IWPvanu9L-2AZH5iSH1-0_jv6IpoSlvovmqO1HLAV10miock44/s4032/20230603_194359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHluokhuzp2UGAh41GAoE0Ya4bUrRlrFEdIavqZOBpjnZjcB_IQadFKXwfb_EDmKrEJeYf7o2t0rw_pIN7yaW3N_YBkZ2mgrftdx-5wb2dHizHksEPO7t9YDA5RbYsoQk0YofhRvYY_IWPvanu9L-2AZH5iSH1-0_jv6IpoSlvovmqO1HLAV10miock44/s320/20230603_194359.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIfSgumJiBCX8TSC1huf498MxKL4TWmQ-Jz1OVqW0aTSkQYsWCda7q24aO4pAGxsV0hyDDFQWSr7oA58pnDgDrRmrD3Dz2mcMkuHYuyBjQ-6W6QQiZTWx-C_kDVDnk-6VSdP_d1LPLFmDi323rMjDJUZ8OoD_V1mOBR32c7ABXAU6_In9UCTTOOzKaR0/s4032/20230603_194617.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIfSgumJiBCX8TSC1huf498MxKL4TWmQ-Jz1OVqW0aTSkQYsWCda7q24aO4pAGxsV0hyDDFQWSr7oA58pnDgDrRmrD3Dz2mcMkuHYuyBjQ-6W6QQiZTWx-C_kDVDnk-6VSdP_d1LPLFmDi323rMjDJUZ8OoD_V1mOBR32c7ABXAU6_In9UCTTOOzKaR0/s320/20230603_194617.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzq25swiZC4v40km6WXMfwE7PtdbYcxUYkiyQrfrE6EDJrahTFsZwwW4pibkjninuFVwa9HdO6zHm3-lGcMqfVaVvo9FSdtDbKn_bT3iF0ROZZ2802n1AHo_W9q5ceSNrx2z1SK0wHrgMEypoRaVf-FgkObkVIX9ttBiQ9EQ-7dZrDy8MGb8GKBJbASuo/s4608/20230603_194630.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzq25swiZC4v40km6WXMfwE7PtdbYcxUYkiyQrfrE6EDJrahTFsZwwW4pibkjninuFVwa9HdO6zHm3-lGcMqfVaVvo9FSdtDbKn_bT3iF0ROZZ2802n1AHo_W9q5ceSNrx2z1SK0wHrgMEypoRaVf-FgkObkVIX9ttBiQ9EQ-7dZrDy8MGb8GKBJbASuo/s320/20230603_194630.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />We were there for The Porkers, they are still performing (mostly in Sydney) but for their final gig at this venue. Couldn't get a park anywhere near the joint, always an issue in Newcastle. Showed our tickets, got stamped, and headed towards the main gig room. They were coming on at 7.50pm for an hour. The room had emptied with the last band, so we made our way to the front right and waited with anticipation. I recognised some familiar faces from back in the day and some nods were exchanged. When they came on they were a pared back version of themselves (often upwards of 12 on stage) and played more punk and rock than ska and pop, but they were great and we had a fabulous time. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And that is the end of the story, I wish I remembered more. It was my poor memory that got me started blogging in the first instance. My blog is more an online diary to help me remember what I have been up to. Love to hear everyone's stories from The Cambridge, it might help me remember more!</span></div><div><br /></div>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-89356372951572655892023-06-19T21:40:00.002+10:002023-06-19T21:40:39.096+10:00JANUARY/FEBRUARY/MARCH/APRIL DIARY<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am writing this in June, stupefied at how fast this year has gone. As I go through what I have done in these first 4 months, no wonder really!<br /><br />So, the year starts with me still without a car after my stupid car accident back in October at Port Macquarie. Not having a car was quite freeing in a way, but ultimately you lose a lot of freedom, which doesn't make sense, but what about this crazy life makes sense anyway!<br /><br />I got it back finally mid-month, just over 3 months without it. I was initially very nervous about driving again, but it didn't take long to get back into shape. Roundabouts still give me a bit of PTSD though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Work has been insane. In my day-job at Belmont Library, the work still delights and entertains me, however I have taken on a few other bits and pieces to help out, so my dance card is incredibly full. This has been exhausting. During this time I have been helping out with our Collections department, Readers Advisory and Collections (ordering books etc) is my great love and area of expertise, so I enjoy the experience, but it is a lot. I also filled in for my boss for a month or so, and I have been working on my large project, which is a Comic Con type event called Pop Bam: popular culture festival planned for late July. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://library.lakemac.com.au/Events/Lake-Mac-POP-BAM-Popular-Culture-Festival" target="_blank">You can read more about POP BAM here.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And I am back teaching at TAFE, 2 nights a week online. I love this so very much. The actual teaching, and lesson prep comes pretty easily to me, so I don't find it too tiresome. However, the admin can be a killer, and even now I am only getting better at it. I have lovely colleagues who are very helpful and kind. This term I have been teaching copyright, which I thought was going to be pretty dull, but I have found it absolutely fascinating and get to teach it again next term with my other class!<br /><br />First term was full on - juggling both jobs - and I had moments of oh boy, I have taken on too much (and I had), but by second term, some of the smaller things had fallen away and things were much more manageable, plus the more you do something the easier it becomes. It just means being super organised and only taking on what is important, I am super great at the first, and getting better at the second. And I wouldn't change a thing!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My health has been - touch wood - good, but my menopause has been a big pain in the arse. Menopause (and peri-menopause) is getting more traction these days. As always, it is up to GEN X to push the boundaries, but you do not hear much about this incredibly important rite of passage, until it hits you and even then, not much is said. This needs to be changed, and many of us are talking about our experiences. I felt like my experience has been mild until I started reading up about it more recently. And whilst it is nowhere near as bad as it could be, I realised I had been going through much worse than I had been thinking or saying. Not to whine or need sympathy, it is a fact and you need to be realistic about it! It can be tough, hot sweats (I get them really bad), mood swings, foggy brain, dry skin, and much much more. It is all there, so be nice to your late 40s to 50s ladies, you never know what they are going through!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have also been having regular osteo and massage visits and this seems to be keeping my osteo arthritis under control...as such...I am always in chronic pain, but for the most part it is very manageable...except for severe weather changes...then it is a huge pain.<br /><br />And I have made it 5 years clear of cancer, so that is something worth writing about.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andrew and I continue to go back forth between Sydney and Newcastle most weekends, which is a lot of fun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We have done a few cool things over these months.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our friends fostered a heavily pregnant hound in between Christmas and NY, and 12 puppies later they were in a whole lot of beauty...and work. 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He is in pretty good shape, mentally and mostly physically for 90. It was a joyous celebration</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/04/newcastle-writers-festival-2023.html" target="_blank">There was the remarkable Newcastle Writer's Festival</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/06/rockwiz-live.html" target="_blank">AND RocKwiz at The Civic Theatre.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of weeks off at Easter.<br /><br /><a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-world-is-vampire.html">And The World is a Vampire Tour.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The usual reviews:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/04/januaryfebruary-reviews.html" target="_blank">Jan/Feb here.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/06/marchapril-reviews.html" target="_blank">And Mar/Apr here.</a><br /><br />Life is most definitely for the living!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And here are some pics...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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But sometimes you just have to let go and attend.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And so we did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was another support band and a LOT of Wrestling, Billy Corgan has his own wrestling troupe. It started mid afternoon, but no one needs to sit at that venue for longer than they need to.<br /><br />So we cruised in and arrived as Amyl started, perfect timing.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They are an Australian female led punk band, and I bloody loved them. They sounded great, she was amazing and had everyone entranced. I heard later it was not as good as they usually are - in smaller venues, so I really look forward to that opportunity in the future.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSqFMlIqg3IE4RFu9F6t9Oea4vvrR0OiDFujXu22QcThy6Sf0U2P5tH88T0m6ltFuRt5XC2JKVVKVMubzLYMA_RiMhI42CDmjgDi7KbstkNUbNU2EMUkRqbe8ho70Rtu3d6O8NqXTp6XktrNpHNYfH4FThqlFUNeZKzKmetSv7YIXwhAiZfU1WuvJvL0/s4032/20230429_173807.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSqFMlIqg3IE4RFu9F6t9Oea4vvrR0OiDFujXu22QcThy6Sf0U2P5tH88T0m6ltFuRt5XC2JKVVKVMubzLYMA_RiMhI42CDmjgDi7KbstkNUbNU2EMUkRqbe8ho70Rtu3d6O8NqXTp6XktrNpHNYfH4FThqlFUNeZKzKmetSv7YIXwhAiZfU1WuvJvL0/s320/20230429_173807.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKbvf7Y4AXYLpZ7VL43ZMAlIh3uoYdtVJUyLqK_xgUkxehXVCLM0cPif18DVJqiZCDSn-dniNA2dYuXOFhQGFFmSlf7x4Pm18eeCj9ELQWqqTJw_uujV9TPcQOgnoWwnokZEZEx3Ur4geuA6ETNXAEdrHc971vHZvaNP0eya_s0k6VhCEgdGwQ0WgYMw/s4032/20230429_173812.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKbvf7Y4AXYLpZ7VL43ZMAlIh3uoYdtVJUyLqK_xgUkxehXVCLM0cPif18DVJqiZCDSn-dniNA2dYuXOFhQGFFmSlf7x4Pm18eeCj9ELQWqqTJw_uujV9TPcQOgnoWwnokZEZEx3Ur4geuA6ETNXAEdrHc971vHZvaNP0eya_s0k6VhCEgdGwQ0WgYMw/s320/20230429_173812.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhF3U6ZibkAqypyU7vxB0eEba5EQHVywmTE8HN_r-VSFEB3DTazhtMUNIyMc_Hn2697IZQg3cYPw3dGFMlcOBdql444asDoBWrfAzR1WKX9g8i5Jt7iOqaeIgIOIb3ld0sTREIblZLHmujSbATTDAgvUTm0A0kQjDXcIbBg8ngCPq4H0XaoC_SGFwPs4/s4032/20230429_173815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhF3U6ZibkAqypyU7vxB0eEba5EQHVywmTE8HN_r-VSFEB3DTazhtMUNIyMc_Hn2697IZQg3cYPw3dGFMlcOBdql444asDoBWrfAzR1WKX9g8i5Jt7iOqaeIgIOIb3ld0sTREIblZLHmujSbATTDAgvUTm0A0kQjDXcIbBg8ngCPq4H0XaoC_SGFwPs4/s320/20230429_173815.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPzpnn-rD2bTQGUvT-0P-P-b9rsHQlkvoqqwu4FEFGQKyewGH2H0YL1rC4wfmRbDlnM5_Nd6ACxOqtH5T6XNf6E1T6FhWK2q5-QnGkzWDele989tSaSOTkTm_2taKL5hdM9_NX2MKViS9qszX9D8zuXftC1NiqYoGubS_-x5WHkga0ePa2ywhsWBpzjg/s4032/20230429_174444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPzpnn-rD2bTQGUvT-0P-P-b9rsHQlkvoqqwu4FEFGQKyewGH2H0YL1rC4wfmRbDlnM5_Nd6ACxOqtH5T6XNf6E1T6FhWK2q5-QnGkzWDele989tSaSOTkTm_2taKL5hdM9_NX2MKViS9qszX9D8zuXftC1NiqYoGubS_-x5WHkga0ePa2ywhsWBpzjg/s320/20230429_174444.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">After that we suffered a little wrestling, it was a bit of fun.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Poor Andrew was not feeling the love for the venue, so he had to go for a little wander. I had warned him it was shit, we had pretty good seats to the right of the stage, angled in. But when I say good seats, I mean we could see the stage fairly well. These are unaccommodating plastic bucket seats on bleachers that wobble. And the seats are close, and the place was packed. Awful doesn't even begin to explain how it feels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">By the time Perry slid on stage with Jane's Addiction we were too caught up in the music to be too bothered by the seating. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjfrjr8ARxQQed5JmXB_RPTfI6rl8FYFYifJH7jey42zNqB-u9pRWb7x7Ll9zSIVVN2DcWPHSUHHYrACdFy540I9Y07oSn3wkcK0gDLKyyPiIi5OIatqjLPNeJ2HmOcdX85eSEMadBo3g_uLA1ajzAW2uYCd_zdDLJC7awHltTiDwqfxpi0YpQpjWO6c/s4032/20230429_190929.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjfrjr8ARxQQed5JmXB_RPTfI6rl8FYFYifJH7jey42zNqB-u9pRWb7x7Ll9zSIVVN2DcWPHSUHHYrACdFy540I9Y07oSn3wkcK0gDLKyyPiIi5OIatqjLPNeJ2HmOcdX85eSEMadBo3g_uLA1ajzAW2uYCd_zdDLJC7awHltTiDwqfxpi0YpQpjWO6c/s320/20230429_190929.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbO3t7JIkmtYUNG1K0v-__THlTcJrfwEikSSKR5UFg3skAGR55U_4K_Z70mKAfC158NSE3031w9LbGrDh7u2MO_BiXOVWhIilfV1aE4DG232pJAEZvzdj6FxqlvkwlRg8YC7kW52xPp_z3mXYOYZVhMfoQ-DaNw0lusosV_Cvcth2zeUQmYmCtypUyYA/s4032/20230429_200031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbO3t7JIkmtYUNG1K0v-__THlTcJrfwEikSSKR5UFg3skAGR55U_4K_Z70mKAfC158NSE3031w9LbGrDh7u2MO_BiXOVWhIilfV1aE4DG232pJAEZvzdj6FxqlvkwlRg8YC7kW52xPp_z3mXYOYZVhMfoQ-DaNw0lusosV_Cvcth2zeUQmYmCtypUyYA/s320/20230429_200031.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jane's Addiction kicked arse! I hoped they would. I know Perry can be 'difficult' but he sounded great, looked happy and chatted occasionally in a lovely playful way. They played everything you wanted to hear and more, and just rocked the joint, what more can I say, but this fan was very happy.<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrshTqqNfN-OatWsqqXFeNIQxHuRbilfXlbL-2garajgw_5UomCGtYuJ8oWVmwW8DykdQd4nfdwfJiVG3-AiO1XIPnI9CZ0IgCSNLm7LW3SikYzrwrq-X-tson1a8D_wgTKAVErbbX_zZWjKlYKEhH5UXbgVCSJ1DPJdUlSlTTxMTEn9Prfq6HKVlqQI/s4032/20230429_190939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrshTqqNfN-OatWsqqXFeNIQxHuRbilfXlbL-2garajgw_5UomCGtYuJ8oWVmwW8DykdQd4nfdwfJiVG3-AiO1XIPnI9CZ0IgCSNLm7LW3SikYzrwrq-X-tson1a8D_wgTKAVErbbX_zZWjKlYKEhH5UXbgVCSJ1DPJdUlSlTTxMTEn9Prfq6HKVlqQI/s320/20230429_190939.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvaiI9UGqqXNb0nNF_wgghbnjljv8vJammKt7pTAXErNMfvOLwzgd5DFaHjUULyTJvZOexWZHtheN5mcJt3GyDDsj37nkq9jsmv0uUdvB1s19I_S8x1tE5mAEgsNVux4R-vzr4wXli3gC6bb62TbHY8HbxiwjqbDPnIawN7hy4MnZMwn925PBKrQL06M/s4032/20230429_193454.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvaiI9UGqqXNb0nNF_wgghbnjljv8vJammKt7pTAXErNMfvOLwzgd5DFaHjUULyTJvZOexWZHtheN5mcJt3GyDDsj37nkq9jsmv0uUdvB1s19I_S8x1tE5mAEgsNVux4R-vzr4wXli3gC6bb62TbHY8HbxiwjqbDPnIawN7hy4MnZMwn925PBKrQL06M/s320/20230429_193454.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99lj0pROgL2DjaDrpRlfmRyY8vPgRNYHdXprgrSkOb8lYgf9rN0k6FxkZw5s55VgbNvY2oBm92788vjyGXySr_U3ufR_3z-eREkMmxprY7Kak1ChAEbB2RFrJkdDgrTBPx9vyXu8CveX-l_omgCX9uaEiTen32ERjmigCCjjy92qMKCRIW8aIrwqPt4g/s4032/20230429_200043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99lj0pROgL2DjaDrpRlfmRyY8vPgRNYHdXprgrSkOb8lYgf9rN0k6FxkZw5s55VgbNvY2oBm92788vjyGXySr_U3ufR_3z-eREkMmxprY7Kak1ChAEbB2RFrJkdDgrTBPx9vyXu8CveX-l_omgCX9uaEiTen32ERjmigCCjjy92qMKCRIW8aIrwqPt4g/s320/20230429_200043.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now I could have gone home there, but Smashing Pumpkins were still to come on. I knew a spattering of songs and whilst not the biggest fan thought I should enjoy the set. I was not prepared for how many songs I knew and how much I loved it. Billy Corgan, also known for being 'difficult' was also great. He sounded amazing, as did the band. Really uplifting too. They rocked and they played some great pop. They also delighted the audience with covers of Once in a Lifetime (total punk version, fantastic!) and a really pretty version of Under the Milky Way but in the style of SP.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6gEMqHAmHXcguoOw2TX001SWv0W5CsR53-yfmh2KLWzoHfHiu7Tec9IGYfQGV3ak0TxH2rM6XFgiCA6p7VWE5TTjI4GvkG6t00gAJXOdA2vEl3Icgoi2KsBe6n7LKq1YbeI91M6WzU4V3z-ZxMdDSzWbQStt-dlwb47x50gFY9-3Fw-TMhY2PPjvAC4/s4032/20230429_204843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6gEMqHAmHXcguoOw2TX001SWv0W5CsR53-yfmh2KLWzoHfHiu7Tec9IGYfQGV3ak0TxH2rM6XFgiCA6p7VWE5TTjI4GvkG6t00gAJXOdA2vEl3Icgoi2KsBe6n7LKq1YbeI91M6WzU4V3z-ZxMdDSzWbQStt-dlwb47x50gFY9-3Fw-TMhY2PPjvAC4/s320/20230429_204843.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rr9lKn2NySX0BbKphw92iIgKW30pCu4DexZ9Ehs8liOxrhZsQW2qDYwNuNLfpKT4vukoG9fhl_1uJZvK-S70ReXi8i-Ouu8f1SKdZl3zcYc_7r9UgJ8FzSdBwGRBxudCq2brEjqtulHV4Url32eaq-tZll4qy_qJBkjbHCXezw8-PO67NLgV9OvIxJU/s320/20230429_221819.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />We unfurled ourselves from the awful chairs, and wandered back to the car happy and full of joy and great music.<br /><br />Live gigs are the best aren't they!!!???</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIuiG5A3ttZzKk0rA53D1CXo8MPVV1lvvxq4wv7N4XtyrDJlHSamRQB5mYz--wK1j1q5zsydbfCcJXtwb61DAAIDPnmmmUSbBMXcJVVqGU_gSIZ36RYSY9bp_i2BFpmZRGaLVSD6Lk0dj1saDr8NP8Lc0cJg9KDidk1Eud4AUWa3dY_qjwN0kk3ZtmZTs/s4032/20230429_221612.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIuiG5A3ttZzKk0rA53D1CXo8MPVV1lvvxq4wv7N4XtyrDJlHSamRQB5mYz--wK1j1q5zsydbfCcJXtwb61DAAIDPnmmmUSbBMXcJVVqGU_gSIZ36RYSY9bp_i2BFpmZRGaLVSD6Lk0dj1saDr8NP8Lc0cJg9KDidk1Eud4AUWa3dY_qjwN0kk3ZtmZTs/s320/20230429_221612.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-15709442304320641112023-06-18T17:55:00.000+10:002023-06-18T17:55:07.280+10:00THE CHURCH<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last night a group of us took a punt and went and saw The Church at The Civic Theatre.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I say took a punt as they have not played for a while and it would appear Steve is the only remaining member, there is a drummer he has had since the mid 90s, but none of the original line up. This sort of thing always leave me concerned.<br /><br />And Steve can be cantankerous.<br /><br />I saw them once back in the day and they were great and I have seen Steve solo a few times.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This concert was billed as The Hypnogogue World Tour. The Hypnogogue being a new album, I was curious.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">After another amazing meal at Menya Makoto, we headed to the theatre. We immediately could see it had not sold out and there were a LOT of empty seats in front of us. The tickets were a bit exy for a Aussie band. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We commented on the many empty seats and waited for them to start.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Out they came to thunderous applause and they played an unfamiliar but ok sounding song. But something felt wrong, they sounded flat and a little off. Halfway through the song you could see a roadie trying to get Steve's attention. I had initially thought the small audience and many gaps put them off, but it was a tech issue. So much so they had to go off stage for a small amount of time while it was fixed. Not a great start understandably<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was not a long break, of course the bogans in the audience had to go out and get more booze. I really will never understand the human race. The amount of people heading in and out to the bar was very distracting and rude and may have influenced the evening for the band.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They came back on after a few minutes and restarted the concert.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They sounded much better. But this first half lacked something, even with the tech fixed. I appreciate and enjoy the laid-back guitar focused pop/rock that is The Church, but I am no way a huge fan. I don't know every song, but I do know a lot. They played a mix of hits and popular songs mixed in with songs from the new album. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This first half was mostly the atmospheric guitar songs, and that was fine, but as an older audience, it kinda made you (me) sleepy.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHzkV-7t1uXqdS65EtDY2FQcppNVlaqAnOaUafA_2Q9ykG7O6eBTbuTmbPtMsWXVRVD1fiLjHJfdMYRgn_2Ifm0j10nQ4t0_VSlrC7EV8_Yg9hZF3cEcTE9u7TXfjVMUjT7oHjz_XOWp0MhZmlBUieRll8xoGglC2mBqv9m0KXyOier8BXsOQAW7P/s2918/20230617_200601.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1966" data-original-width="2918" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHzkV-7t1uXqdS65EtDY2FQcppNVlaqAnOaUafA_2Q9ykG7O6eBTbuTmbPtMsWXVRVD1fiLjHJfdMYRgn_2Ifm0j10nQ4t0_VSlrC7EV8_Yg9hZF3cEcTE9u7TXfjVMUjT7oHjz_XOWp0MhZmlBUieRll8xoGglC2mBqv9m0KXyOier8BXsOQAW7P/s320/20230617_200601.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUk17hFHEl8ihvgsSRiN8y1x-dGLeQBba0bS7OYLa2MJADyV6q-UxT2Y0S9t8zdRjXws5yrz3Nu7DypZ68rFHkyGXntviqT4mmZq7va12FPr3zAk5cQyXuersGiaRJ2orAvdk_x8gVlGw68ArAhY_KJoDcSCCzWjIBgMLw7nV_j-E_TsDjC3zuLiWb/s2933/20230617_224204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1731" data-original-width="2933" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUk17hFHEl8ihvgsSRiN8y1x-dGLeQBba0bS7OYLa2MJADyV6q-UxT2Y0S9t8zdRjXws5yrz3Nu7DypZ68rFHkyGXntviqT4mmZq7va12FPr3zAk5cQyXuersGiaRJ2orAvdk_x8gVlGw68ArAhY_KJoDcSCCzWjIBgMLw7nV_j-E_TsDjC3zuLiWb/s320/20230617_224204.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p>The main problem was the new album - it was actually quite good, but it was a concept album and high concept at that. It was obviously made to play as a whole, as concept albums are meant to. And this is how they should have started the concert. </p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The concept was a dystopian future - highly original (I jest!) - about a thing called The Hypnogogue that can pull songs out of people's heads and a musician goes in search of it. This is a very very basic explanation, Steve had many many more highly detailed explanations. I am still unsure if he was being amusing or serious. The thing reeked of just out of high school, early University wankery. But the songs were quite good, despite the long winded explanations before each one. Having said that, it was lovely to hear Steve being affable and chatty, as opposed to his usual cantankerous self.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJ_RTicp4CmMoR40y5epdZWQj7TyiG30G4HgQrRP-cJgaIrSQvmynxDp7k5ggdjfysJ5osPxi37IbXkcskF6yQw4q8ug-aLh_vMi9EShdVt0Qei2kFxOTi8_xyGUmF-s_L-a2O668cifXq_vk4Eyl5NTqQQdw9Bk1hXElI__q5_Vu101sZK1Fz3ZA/s4032/20230617_224246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJ_RTicp4CmMoR40y5epdZWQj7TyiG30G4HgQrRP-cJgaIrSQvmynxDp7k5ggdjfysJ5osPxi37IbXkcskF6yQw4q8ug-aLh_vMi9EShdVt0Qei2kFxOTi8_xyGUmF-s_L-a2O668cifXq_vk4Eyl5NTqQQdw9Bk1hXElI__q5_Vu101sZK1Fz3ZA/s320/20230617_224246.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7M9TS-CmT1b0Am3exrqM5DWse5r09C3piWQad3rE6dcNB9cKgT6OEEaHZQl745thsYvhnMC3gIrXbjys8aRvSqh8h5BzJPxJXbjg_-feepWVuKPAEZZYttlX4wLO4ymm2TG4ayic2CqHuznL0bwRDC0rG3DupJ2gqsOq3bF9xPmi5GTLqwKDRpnC/s4032/20230617_224244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7M9TS-CmT1b0Am3exrqM5DWse5r09C3piWQad3rE6dcNB9cKgT6OEEaHZQl745thsYvhnMC3gIrXbjys8aRvSqh8h5BzJPxJXbjg_-feepWVuKPAEZZYttlX4wLO4ymm2TG4ayic2CqHuznL0bwRDC0rG3DupJ2gqsOq3bF9xPmi5GTLqwKDRpnC/s320/20230617_224244.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">About 80 mins in they took an interval, which is odd for a rock concert. As my friend said, if Springsteen and The Stones can play for 3 hours + straight, surely they can do a tight 90-120 mins gig. </span><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><br style="font-family: verdana;" /><span style="font-family: verdana;">A lot of people left during the interval, which is a shame as the second half was much better. Still nowhere near great, but better. They played a lot of the more uplifting and rockier/pop songs in this half. They sounded a little more together in this half. </span><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNajLiJhtTQjmH05FruMKbXQ9Jc5a2iLMrQdUIXPXBJdqLhtmV-4SJbzQsCAh6U_OO7kqyic1dp8AK31su8RgKLvvS0e-1-hxhkoftbXC1U3EoNZ-gKK277Lb2dXfjejzYhfdQwKxo3fMuUEjC7TsrQ3EXn6MZ4nx_BUgSznqOqcaLV6_ndC0vE5h/s4032/20230617_224349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNajLiJhtTQjmH05FruMKbXQ9Jc5a2iLMrQdUIXPXBJdqLhtmV-4SJbzQsCAh6U_OO7kqyic1dp8AK31su8RgKLvvS0e-1-hxhkoftbXC1U3EoNZ-gKK277Lb2dXfjejzYhfdQwKxo3fMuUEjC7TsrQ3EXn6MZ4nx_BUgSznqOqcaLV6_ndC0vE5h/s320/20230617_224349.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8JyBie-0Cv3UjZXiDj4hSwkNjnm3SOe5tsUA39kVocFB8gGTBMHFzQgNLaCo1KX8Po47yIu6uxdGeiXpVsmSZaECvuoXN876AX9qO8UzarbOCdwG7S9pXGutRMg1vHf3lZA1bKgxyDicOlkaSEnBlTuTq3yaNMpCKbo23ie7JHiNF304fNUM8SZk/s4032/20230617_224436.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8JyBie-0Cv3UjZXiDj4hSwkNjnm3SOe5tsUA39kVocFB8gGTBMHFzQgNLaCo1KX8Po47yIu6uxdGeiXpVsmSZaECvuoXN876AX9qO8UzarbOCdwG7S9pXGutRMg1vHf3lZA1bKgxyDicOlkaSEnBlTuTq3yaNMpCKbo23ie7JHiNF304fNUM8SZk/s320/20230617_224436.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've seen a lot of concerts and lucky to only have a handful of bad ones to report back about. And I am picky, when I pay big bucks for something I want value for money. This was not bad, it just wasn't great.<br /><br />I think the venue was not suitable, something smaller, more intimate - Lizottes or even the good ole Cambridge (where I think I saw them way back when) would have been a better choice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They most definitely should have played the concept album in full and in order for the first half, I would have enjoyed that rather than the disjointed mix of songs that were pulled together. It was like they had an amateur who had never written a set list or made a mixed tape pull it together.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They didn't need an interval, but if they played the concept album first, took a small break and then came back to play the hits in the second half, well, that would have been perfect.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please don't think I hated this concert, I really didn't, I enjoyed it but it left me feeling a little cold to be honest. I cannot rave it was brilliant or the best thing I have seen because it simply was not. I have seen them before and they were better. Thing is this is a new and youngish band, you cannot replicate the original sound and for some very odd reason (especially for a band known for guitar music) they had 2 drummers that added nothing special to the music. One drummer is sufficient, but whatever. That was the least of their worries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They played Under the Milky Way mid way through the second half. They probably should have saved that to go out on, but I get not making a big deal of their biggest song. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">It did sound great, better than anything else played, but then it is a great song, better than anything else he ever wrote. I loved seeing all the bogans in the audience finally awakening and getting up to dance - to that one song, and then sitting down again as he played a slower, less dancey song. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My personal favourite, Almost with you, was also played in this half and it sounded good. The jangly guitars not quite as good as they used to be but close.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKs_z8Vdzn-TDGjKTi8mD0uktJmx5nDVsby1AEkZeY6MvCIBd_dOg8HdG4C_PhsakJltxo4WugsDfZNB4Phcp3tN0QGWVQeZOIjwTsaXI33HBRU8c2Qrmi-JC_WBa3zlf86Z0KHT_HucpEmVBWpo7LU3F_SerzOxj_Wog7yw9DP0_i3s5So-4ObQ9r/s4032/20230617_225940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKs_z8Vdzn-TDGjKTi8mD0uktJmx5nDVsby1AEkZeY6MvCIBd_dOg8HdG4C_PhsakJltxo4WugsDfZNB4Phcp3tN0QGWVQeZOIjwTsaXI33HBRU8c2Qrmi-JC_WBa3zlf86Z0KHT_HucpEmVBWpo7LU3F_SerzOxj_Wog7yw9DP0_i3s5So-4ObQ9r/s320/20230617_225940.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3UtIN-E08KY8hwiOujySwmN8Ck1LAnIsA9hVh71b6l7_eQNUhvZb7fH9nd_gzcJqhjZYb_fOu7jyePBOb5O7-H5LUKL6q8Ay_bM0ztogkUUuXO_3OAWbjcj3p-sTY5PRtBxjUghYyWhlIycbLdMKhUITgfDAN145WU9lBJ_l6xiFjzJqf4TxPB0x/s4032/20230617_225948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3UtIN-E08KY8hwiOujySwmN8Ck1LAnIsA9hVh71b6l7_eQNUhvZb7fH9nd_gzcJqhjZYb_fOu7jyePBOb5O7-H5LUKL6q8Ay_bM0ztogkUUuXO_3OAWbjcj3p-sTY5PRtBxjUghYyWhlIycbLdMKhUITgfDAN145WU9lBJ_l6xiFjzJqf4TxPB0x/s320/20230617_225948.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It finished just before 11 and we were done, but the audience wanted more (really!?!) and they came back on and played Reptile - which Andrew loves and sounded great and You Played, an ok song that they stretched out for way too long. They had worn out their welcome with me, I was done, we left before they finished the song - as many others did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We all debriefed as we walked back to our car, we didn't hate it but didn't love it. Something was missing or off. We all agreed the venue just didn't work for them and the many empty seats in the audience was probably off putting. I explained my theory of playing the new album in it's entirely and everyone agreed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Maybe we are getting too old and cynical, maybe you can never revisit old faves, I am certain - from observations - that many people enjoyed the evening far more than we did. Although that could have been the alcohol they consumed, lol. But we do see a lot of gigs and listen to a lot of music. They WERE good, just not as good as they could have been.</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-79170511065824691392023-06-17T10:38:00.002+10:002023-06-17T10:38:37.357+10:00ROCKWIZ LIVE<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">RocKwiz is up there in the vault as one of my all-time favourite shows.<br /><br />It is a perfect set-up, originally filmed in The Gershwin Room at The Epsy Hotel in St Kilda, Melbourne. The Espy is a grand old hotel, and mecca for lovers of music, specifically rock. You can almost feel the sticky of the floor, the ringing of your ears when you watch the show. You swoon over the red velvet, the atmosphere is palpable and very much your usual pub experience.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4 regular people/punters from the pub are chosen to sit on panels of 3 on the main stage to answer all sorts of questions about music. It is next level pub trivia!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is a wonderful backing band, initially the 3 piece of Mark Ferry on Bass, Peter 'Lucky" Luscombe on Drums, and the genius James Black on keyboards and guitars, often together! They were phenomenal in terms of replicating the sound of well-known and beloved songs and new music too. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The 2 big keys to the show's success are Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis. Julia is your hostess with the mostess. She keeps everything running smoothly, with grace and much humour. Always dressed in black and white with sometimes a touch of red, Julia fits in visually as a rock n roll chick. She is effortlessly cool, hilarious, quick witted, and utterly charming. Brian is a force of nature, he moderates the show, keeps time, does the warm-up, and helps with the selection of the audience.<br /><br />The show starts with Who Can It Be Now, where Julia asks questions about a performer that is waiting backstage to sing a song. This is always a mix of prominent and well-known Australian singers and musicians, up and coming singers and musicians, and often visiting singers and musicians from overseas. This is always fun and exciting. Once they have sung their song, they join one panel, and the next Who Can It Be Now is up. So each panel has a real life musician sitting with them, answering questions. This is always fabulous, seeing the reactions of everyday punters when Martha Wainwright or Tex Perkins joins their panel!<br /><br />The rounds of questions come next including the Million Dollar Riff, where the band plays a classic riff, that you need to guess. This is my area of expertise! Bloody love that round.<br /><br />Throughout the show, Dugald, the roadie, comes out in his white singlet and grin, and shows us how each panel of contestants are going with pieces of cardboard and scores.<br /><br />At the end of the show a winning panel is announced, there is no prize, just the glory of winning. The two singers join forces with the band and sing a duet. This is often the highlight with some amazing pairings and songs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdUrZ0Hnmk&t=6s" target="_blank">Here is a link to one of my favourite duets of all time from the show</a>, Deborah Conway and Tex Perkins slaying the Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris version of Love Hurts. It smoldered so much, I got a text message from my Mum (My parents were huge fans of the show) asking how long they were married, lol!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The show was instantly a classic and a favourite, especially for those answering at home. Back in the hey day of twitter, a group of locals would watch RocKwiz and tweet, we became friendly online and ended up all meeting for a local 80s gig - despite never meeting before - and had a great night, most of them are still close friends to this day.<br /><br />This show means so much to me.<br /><br />It finished up some years back, sadly, but has had a reprieve this year, in a slightly shorter format. It is pretty good, not quite the same, but better than no RocKwiz!<br /><br />And over the past decade or so it has toured. The touring show is pretty much the same at the television show except you often get more than 2 singers or musicians AND you get to see how they find the 4 panelists for the main show.<br /><br />This show was a superb one, I have seen the live show a couple of times before, Andrew had not. We'd had a big week and were both really exhausted. And it was in the middle of the Newcastle Writers Festival weekend. However, once we got to The Civic Theatre the vibe was so warm and uplifting we felt immediately great.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-iVTwE-RU3vFZFmJeEQHklAKPx584w-rGPcVzRqy0dJe2qPAt5XmafxJUNELwN82E5IrA_KNsbIQ9WD-hDjjD4mFYJ5BKVAow2HXYvvdxB7DdQ7fvfEQO48EDM9feYu6-Q3K2BbtfHpceatigWFdah8SoLCsIAdipkOJDMx2tP-LN9cLYDsID-B7T/s4032/20230401_192200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-iVTwE-RU3vFZFmJeEQHklAKPx584w-rGPcVzRqy0dJe2qPAt5XmafxJUNELwN82E5IrA_KNsbIQ9WD-hDjjD4mFYJ5BKVAow2HXYvvdxB7DdQ7fvfEQO48EDM9feYu6-Q3K2BbtfHpceatigWFdah8SoLCsIAdipkOJDMx2tP-LN9cLYDsID-B7T/s320/20230401_192200.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Brian was outside in the foyer, bouncing about and getting everyone excited. We took our seats and he came into the theatre and was telling stories music and his childhood and so on. He had a soundtrack playing and then it happened.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAR6JJI8JTA3YUbdO4MbW8lv3DqblcHLmYE4hB7ZCfCzy4hE9iLTIkRm7COzPl35rDo4KKbjsxK18Q-5xM_umMczxuMBhB3es_Nl7PjwRk69IN5GfCYSlmjyXY5lLvLu3uzJiEB4Rm_SNH4jrXyx2g_ZRUCIABmURFX-5Gc-GKav5WlbHu71YmA0S4/s4032/20230401_192033(0).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAR6JJI8JTA3YUbdO4MbW8lv3DqblcHLmYE4hB7ZCfCzy4hE9iLTIkRm7COzPl35rDo4KKbjsxK18Q-5xM_umMczxuMBhB3es_Nl7PjwRk69IN5GfCYSlmjyXY5lLvLu3uzJiEB4Rm_SNH4jrXyx2g_ZRUCIABmURFX-5Gc-GKav5WlbHu71YmA0S4/s320/20230401_192033(0).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZ3xpDrZcp-k_iBI6kw3rwCMID3CAQ_qEZGt1McNkxZhpg-DhVYmy1uwydYfkd0vi_d7JFj0L1jnOg7ZnUsIWoXRyHVyj9JOXXM53D1-YdrhW5w8gpFNTWk1UxiZwaB6XHtBbN1dnaA185oyE6ApYsziZyyCOAL0rdFJ6zFLp1lbXBzZkZjvrBLOc/s4032/20230401_192450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZ3xpDrZcp-k_iBI6kw3rwCMID3CAQ_qEZGt1McNkxZhpg-DhVYmy1uwydYfkd0vi_d7JFj0L1jnOg7ZnUsIWoXRyHVyj9JOXXM53D1-YdrhW5w8gpFNTWk1UxiZwaB6XHtBbN1dnaA185oyE6ApYsziZyyCOAL0rdFJ6zFLp1lbXBzZkZjvrBLOc/s320/20230401_192450.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">He told a story about a childhood favourite song and played it.<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The song was Snoopy Vs the Red Baron by The Royal Guardsman!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was a childhood favourite of mine, we played it A LOT!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was on a compilation called Goofy Greats, that Dad had brought us, with loads of cool bubblegum and groovy pop from the 60s and 70s.<br /><br />I cannot begin to tell you the joy this song brought to me, hearing it again for the first time in many decades. It was a song I had forgotten even existed. But it took me right back to dancing around the lounge room with my sister when we were little. We loved that song. I remembered every word and nuance of the song, it was a glorious moment.<br /><br />When I got home later that night I found Goofy Greats and the original 45, both part of Dad's vinyl collection he gifted to me some years back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E" target="_blank">I also found the original video</a>, which I had never seen, and it is great. The song itself is very catchy of course, but quite subversive if you listen to it, it is about WW2.<br /><br />So after that, we couldn't not have a great night!<br /><br />There were special cards placed around the theatre under seats, which gave a lot of people a chance on stage to answer questions and possibly be chosen as the final group of 4 for the main part. This was loads of fun and Brian did a superb job of running through this.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBp3BeyIbKAuN4lWm2uDISFO5x47MUh9lZWl7eE6pteS67m5Utzfuxi7BzdsYnCE41hGNsgqMgRwF4zxJtbjMnMrk5R4YVKcDl1Nw836YHjHdtqdI6DhwDID1Zv_TvUV29B3CmMEcKdG-krx9izZyMtopXk2i-N4XwtI5HhMVnJ6Qigzn5zDfdexS/s4032/20230401_204205.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBp3BeyIbKAuN4lWm2uDISFO5x47MUh9lZWl7eE6pteS67m5Utzfuxi7BzdsYnCE41hGNsgqMgRwF4zxJtbjMnMrk5R4YVKcDl1Nw836YHjHdtqdI6DhwDID1Zv_TvUV29B3CmMEcKdG-krx9izZyMtopXk2i-N4XwtI5HhMVnJ6Qigzn5zDfdexS/s320/20230401_204205.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRO3cf3XWtgPh7IXXNlvfma3gpCQ4xb82yQfE74QYZXIVoH_2hBj-ymeYoER-sy6W2DC4Y6TMga3ocnkPRMb13VAgz2afblQ-YV-WZufmwzmdO4R3mKptZan6iYWIgLSdQ4pZQ6OUYs8ElRT04t1ufLuisoyed37s29Ez-TbrFAJmNMS2zVpYJf585/s4032/20230401_204228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRO3cf3XWtgPh7IXXNlvfma3gpCQ4xb82yQfE74QYZXIVoH_2hBj-ymeYoER-sy6W2DC4Y6TMga3ocnkPRMb13VAgz2afblQ-YV-WZufmwzmdO4R3mKptZan6iYWIgLSdQ4pZQ6OUYs8ElRT04t1ufLuisoyed37s29Ez-TbrFAJmNMS2zVpYJf585/s320/20230401_204228.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwe3cqwof3_2P_KPT7BBkXTpYXIdSRtLMZxS4Lmaj-wzQglSx9VoyDSNyQH_jRo3wkaOQM2VBhJiFlUJ-9OOjKoCJGYgeE6BXsuD8D7h5u6vQLGx8BVofC1b8Z-D6X4Qbj7jcF8-zqMe_cyvHJDcr9b7ehDL0xgk3ZNq5mOvOszrzG6GQvAuLnRI00/s4032/20230401_204237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwe3cqwof3_2P_KPT7BBkXTpYXIdSRtLMZxS4Lmaj-wzQglSx9VoyDSNyQH_jRo3wkaOQM2VBhJiFlUJ-9OOjKoCJGYgeE6BXsuD8D7h5u6vQLGx8BVofC1b8Z-D6X4Qbj7jcF8-zqMe_cyvHJDcr9b7ehDL0xgk3ZNq5mOvOszrzG6GQvAuLnRI00/s320/20230401_204237.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEXIGhfKsNyTK0GseAZUhtkwxir2nP9igKzjG_O9522pnBT5_prbPOS-33KXYeoPW8BEtWtKk3Q9y7gi-ntilq9alj3Ejm1UU3-eSFkh7F3TUPZUxww0JaYmUmEe3UF70emEv-K3-wJZ8jbE6s4r39waPCCQ2yAt5Dhp_7VipHX_YOLgwlkatnRMj/s4032/20230401_204240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEXIGhfKsNyTK0GseAZUhtkwxir2nP9igKzjG_O9522pnBT5_prbPOS-33KXYeoPW8BEtWtKk3Q9y7gi-ntilq9alj3Ejm1UU3-eSFkh7F3TUPZUxww0JaYmUmEe3UF70emEv-K3-wJZ8jbE6s4r39waPCCQ2yAt5Dhp_7VipHX_YOLgwlkatnRMj/s320/20230401_204240.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Once the contestants were chosen, Julia appeared. She is so very charismatic and just one of the best people. I am sure we would be great friends, if we got to know each other, lol! So much in common.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllMJSehQAD-_r46dK3PpxfJB81WYZTLVuOD72XqKc_sMBnvxBf6P9XlvqPg8y1qu64zDQ6DDoWGEF3F15OCDbLnyMHxJn2YRCw4wTl1C-wP9vuq1-JBmP68WiBwQQKogojYBSl0bwh04wPhePBW9RUFovAyrPnEv-yUQKQrnK7UmiXPIEfBGzCIPn/s4032/20230401_204356.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgllMJSehQAD-_r46dK3PpxfJB81WYZTLVuOD72XqKc_sMBnvxBf6P9XlvqPg8y1qu64zDQ6DDoWGEF3F15OCDbLnyMHxJn2YRCw4wTl1C-wP9vuq1-JBmP68WiBwQQKogojYBSl0bwh04wPhePBW9RUFovAyrPnEv-yUQKQrnK7UmiXPIEfBGzCIPn/s320/20230401_204356.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDx2cwXqhKQOz5johtR95cAeUji3-OkLGA-EmosASkkaMsZFRtvp_nc6aZaA_vVDPhmjnfm750EqXAobDjXzxXbbdXu6axyzQaD0BdgBJaQow-i0N1yQC3YZjBgDM8jMOkIGuJzq-uSyUmf8jtMYJq-1njhcTSm_148TRRio40KKwsN2scD4Qwr3TH/s4032/20230401_204359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The contestants were to do this and we needed to answer internally and silently lol.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZlPqSFl-GkNKU891EONruCq2gU914omycXM55D5obP4ZtXpx5XJ9_ZpwAn7w5nLUFcSnxiD3p--shsLSdk1X6WWh1icmVKZ3shN0pL2XhgglrUGNdeoEW4JGZn9kDNPF0JviiQ4heK84QlnAmjRkUpiUeO4XoCevJyX0Mx0Ge46YevACl6uFFI_y/s4032/20230401_204525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZlPqSFl-GkNKU891EONruCq2gU914omycXM55D5obP4ZtXpx5XJ9_ZpwAn7w5nLUFcSnxiD3p--shsLSdk1X6WWh1icmVKZ3shN0pL2XhgglrUGNdeoEW4JGZn9kDNPF0JviiQ4heK84QlnAmjRkUpiUeO4XoCevJyX0Mx0Ge46YevACl6uFFI_y/s320/20230401_204525.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQMQUWUZqMJCNwTTGwsgGRg_i377bRs0PIvPFZgO0HKKZqiQjiSMnpdMZ4NNQjgD5vZSdW1RLB5JPGDI5I7kV2v4zfnu9qwpO9Dh6Bz0F8TRXoybhs0s_rLHbaSywYzAQJzCxw3Asmja28IS-A1QAoqoFbxJc7bdMtFXqw_hGBqPCrhcFqOwrV8gu/s4032/20230401_215350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQMQUWUZqMJCNwTTGwsgGRg_i377bRs0PIvPFZgO0HKKZqiQjiSMnpdMZ4NNQjgD5vZSdW1RLB5JPGDI5I7kV2v4zfnu9qwpO9Dh6Bz0F8TRXoybhs0s_rLHbaSywYzAQJzCxw3Asmja28IS-A1QAoqoFbxJc7bdMtFXqw_hGBqPCrhcFqOwrV8gu/s320/20230401_215350.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />The night was full of music and comedy and laughter and joy. If you have never been to a live RocKwiz, I cannot recommend it enough.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisE2EYyneA_HswiR7jVStspfFX2_KXkNmjKw_k4nelEEWke7JZYnDJAD87_7YnAnjTO-RouQ5p9wZN6poFcOvIwtegY5vIz9IaiK4BFQCUk-hn1AWY7dd5Wf1Il6Ygt77hseAJQSn7lsZ-uLLMARHbwxqrjM-52Xb2eX4LxEl4sWf9WNUp5gIc40Ga/s4032/20230401_215920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisE2EYyneA_HswiR7jVStspfFX2_KXkNmjKw_k4nelEEWke7JZYnDJAD87_7YnAnjTO-RouQ5p9wZN6poFcOvIwtegY5vIz9IaiK4BFQCUk-hn1AWY7dd5Wf1Il6Ygt77hseAJQSn7lsZ-uLLMARHbwxqrjM-52Xb2eX4LxEl4sWf9WNUp5gIc40Ga/s320/20230401_215920.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxaO2xdE4LRsyThwVqk0tVwdJrmMe-IRHL_4SHrn4YQM4zJTUbwrCMw8mSrklrZTVDukeDchx-oNass2Xc-zxuE8J-DrFOncV_PjmWFT-Epw9HlqY1cAB_X5BhADx1nTHzdGfVyNud2lIvxZqfhhHdzVbtGCgS9hlIRafW9kXh8jiAu509O3Ed6am/s4032/20230401_215921.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxaO2xdE4LRsyThwVqk0tVwdJrmMe-IRHL_4SHrn4YQM4zJTUbwrCMw8mSrklrZTVDukeDchx-oNass2Xc-zxuE8J-DrFOncV_PjmWFT-Epw9HlqY1cAB_X5BhADx1nTHzdGfVyNud2lIvxZqfhhHdzVbtGCgS9hlIRafW9kXh8jiAu509O3Ed6am/s320/20230401_215921.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />I went home singing Snoopy Vs the Red Baron and it kept me smiling for weeks after.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some nights are 11 out of 10!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">(<i>see what I did there!!)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyMa9W3sGrrhuc7EER3_Os58odC4sXfK3zm4pKcEx0WMfBv2lNAfGQ4TwtEuc2ZJux_9Hm9tdHLviUzehGcUqQ2YdT3tiBIm6Gis12FDGwZQxZWpfInZriqEH03yJFAEK2YrbDwQmVouRJOR7RzV3yqHL5yCCQ7sCpzBlYUh18fgZn8X6upefRRy8/s4032/20230401_232130.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyMa9W3sGrrhuc7EER3_Os58odC4sXfK3zm4pKcEx0WMfBv2lNAfGQ4TwtEuc2ZJux_9Hm9tdHLviUzehGcUqQ2YdT3tiBIm6Gis12FDGwZQxZWpfInZriqEH03yJFAEK2YrbDwQmVouRJOR7RzV3yqHL5yCCQ7sCpzBlYUh18fgZn8X6upefRRy8/s320/20230401_232130.jpg" width="240" /></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-56154041546765469262023-06-12T13:43:00.002+10:002023-06-14T16:11:31.913+10:00MARCH/APRIL REVIEWS<p> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Reading</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The storyteller: tales of life and music by Dave Grohl</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed this memoir by Dave Grohl. He is a born storyteller. I loved hearing his stories from his youth and Nirvana and Foo Fighters. He has had the good luck of meeting many of his heroes and those stories are great. I did feel he held back though, there were gaps or areas where he either didn't mention something of glossed over it. He went into more detail about Kurt than he has in the past but then I felt like there was so much more to tell. Maybe there will be another one later on. It is still a great book; an easy, fun read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sahara - Michael Palin</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I listened to Michael Palin read his Sahara book, I have heard this before and of course watched the show it is based on many years ago. The audiobook came through at work and I just felt like listening to the comfort of an old friend, which is what Palin's voice feels like to me. The story is about his trip to and across the Sahara. There is a lot about the terrain, wild and crazy, and the people he met along the way. Palin taps so beautifully into humanity and some of the scenes he describes took me back to the show itself so I could see in my mind's eye what he saw. Pure escapism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Geraldine Brooks on Tim Winton (writers series)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a short little essay like book about Tim Winton, written by the writer Geraldine Brooks. It is part of a series on Australian writers. She writes about the trajectory of Winton's career and of the man himself. I found it patchy, but then it is a small book so not meant to be everything about the man and his works. IT focused very heavily on religion, of which Winton is but - in my experience - it doesn't figure as heavily in his works as she would have you believe. There is not much written about Winton, so I will take what I can get, but this was a little disappointing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Twelve summers: being a life-long fan of Australian cricket is harder than it looks by Adam Zwar</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really loved this book. In my younger years I was a cricket tragic for sure. This was when cricket was interesting, and not the homogenised BS that it is today. It was the days of Lillee and Marsh, The Chappells, Viv Richards, Desmond Haynes, Javed Miandad and many more. Zwar is the creator of Wilfred (and played Wildfred's owner amongst other ABC and SBS shows, and has a lovely dry wit. He also was a cricket tragic and this is the story of twelve cricketing summers that intersected with events of his own life. It is a cracker of a read, heaps of amazing cricketing statistics and stories, along with a few from his own life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lisa - Lisa Curry</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lisa is the memoir of the outstanding Lisa Curry. It is the story of a life lived to the absolute full. Covering her elite athletic career swimming, her personal life, her subsequent athletic pursuits, her media empire, and everything in between. It is a very personal story, and full of detail and information you probably didn't know. I cannot recommend this highly enough.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I found this a difficult listen, I listened to it on talking book with Hannah narrating. I love Hannah, always have, but have been concerned for her mental health during this recent rise. Listening to her story, warts and all, made me even more concerned about her. This is not to say it is a bad book, it is wonderfully raw and open and honest, but please be aware that it holds a lot of triggering elements within. It was a rough read/listen at times, but it is also incredibly funny.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What I've Been Watching</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>War of the Worlds S3</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, this once great show has crawled up its own butt and jumped the shark. They just took the concept too far and it got too confusing. I love the initial concept and the original cast, but jumping around in time as this series does means a lot of change. Which is fine if it is executed well, S2 introduced some odd changes, and this continued into this series sadly. I hung on to the end, cause I really wanted a turn around, but sadly this did not happen!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Call the Midwife S12<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I still love this great series, it is a comfort show for sure. But always tackles medical issues historically and with grace. The characters are like old friends, and this season we see lovely Trixie finally marry the man of her dreams, but of course things do not go according to plan. Sister Monica Joan has more health issues, and spoilers (but this is important) she lives to see another day. Thank goodness, she is my favourite and I will be utterly bereft if they kill her off!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Only Murders in the Building S2</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">S2 took a little bit to get back into but soon picked up the pace and hilarity of S1. By now the chemistry between the 3 main characters, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and the gorgeous Selena Gomez is cemented and utterly brilliant. The twists keep coming this time and everytime you think you know what is going to come, it goes the other way. No spoilers, but this show is clever and witty, a real romp and worth watching. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The cleaner S1</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was great, a UK comedy about a crime scene cleaner, played by the brilliant Greg Davies. Each episode has him heading to a clean and getting involved with those left behind in very odd and often hilarious ways. Guest stars such as Helena Bonham Carter and David Mitchell help raise the comedic bits also. Really recommend this one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mandalorian S3</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I bloody love this show! I love Diego, I love Grogu, and I love love love Amy Sedaris' mechanic. Actually, I love all the characters. It is a great show, and this season took the guest stars up a notch and then some. No spoilers from me, but this IS the perfect show.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Book of Boba Fett</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apparently, If you love The Mandalorian, you need to watch this. So I did, and I loved it too! Follows Boba Fett from Star Wars, and introduces a whole range of fascinating characters, good and bad!</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">The Lost City</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Look, this is a poor (sort of) remake of Romancing the Stone, but it was ok. Sandra Bullock is a romance writer, who is over the whole thing, and is kidnapped. Her cover model tries to save her. It is very funny in parts, Bullock, and Tatum are great and a cameo by Brad Pitt even funnier. Daniel Radcliffe is the greedy billionaire behind all the drama, and he is nasty!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bullet Train</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Brad Pitt is an assassin on one last mission. He lands on the bullet train in Japan and realises he is not the only one on a mission, and chaos ensues. Funny and great action!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Downton Abbey movie</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think this was ok, nothing new, nothing great, but always a comfort watch. A bit of humour, a bit of drama, great fashion, and stunning set design. They family gets caught up in 'talking pictures', chaos ensues. Part of me thinks they should probably stop, but then part of thinks, if so many people get comfort out of this (and they seem to), why not keep going. I'll still check in...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hearts Beat Loud</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wanted to love this, Nick Offerman is a single dad with a musically talented daughter. He wants to start a band with her, she wants to study academically. This should have been so much better, the story seemed forced, the humour was empty, the music was even that great. Oh well...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a lot of fun, Pedro Pascal and Nicolas Cage. Nic Cage plays himself and all he wants is a break at a small resort. Pedro Pascal's character runs the resort and is a super fan of Cage, but also may be attached to a mafia like organisation. The CIA ask Cage to penetrate the organisation and bring it down. So Cage has to act in 'real life' like his on screen action persona and save everyone. Absolutely hilarious. If it wasn't cast with Cage and Pascal in on the silliness, and had they not had the chemistry they had, it may not have worked; and whilst not the most amazing film, it was pretty good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Broadcast News</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I rewatched this classic, and it totally holds up (except for the fashion). Albert Brooks was as funny and great as you remember, William Hurt as suave and a bit of an arsehole as you remember and Holly Hunter was bloody everything in this behind the scenes of a TV network movie. I had forgotten about the clumsy ending, I wish they would detach that part, but otherwise still one of the great dramedys!</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Eternal Sunshine of the Endless Mind</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is one of my all-time favourite movies. It is out there, but essentially one of the most beautifully melancholy films, it just brings me to my knees. I rewatch it regularly but had not for a while. It always holds up. I think it is one of Jim Carrey's best performances and Kate Winslet is everything in it. It is a difficult film to describe (and follow) due to a magnificently crazy script by Charlie Kaufman. It does jump around in time, Kate's hair colour will anchor you, if that helps!?! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jim and Kate play lovers who break up terribly. Jim's character comes across this company who can erase your love memories and he goes all in. Once into the process, he realises he does not want to lose those beautiful memories, despite how it ends. And this is where things get crazy, but stunning and amazing. This film is so incredibly romantic and beautiful. all the performances are remarkable. It is a great film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>From Paris to Rome with Bettany Higgins</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Following the sassy historian, Bettany through some of my favourite places in Italy and France was a great treat. She is great at retelling history and explaining it all, you just want to be her friend. This was just sublime.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Great Music Cities</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a great documentary series on great music cities, New York, LA, London, Manchester, Detroit, Nashville, Melbourne etc. It is really well done, detailed and features a LOT of great musicians from these places talking about their music and why that particular city shaped it. I was in music heaven, it is a really great series</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hard Quiz</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We love this show, we love Tom Gleeson. It is your basic quiz show with a twist, but even then the twist (Tom's hard-arse character) is pretty endearing and not that much of a twist. I love the quirky people who bring their quirky subjects to the quiz. Loads of fun, and a good test on the brain.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>OSCARS</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">See the links for <a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/03/oscar-films-reviews-2023.html" target="_blank">movies</a>, <a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/03/oscar-watch-2023-next-day.html" target="_blank">the show</a>, and <a href="https://reviews-vyv.blogspot.com/2023/03/oscar-watch-2023.html" target="_blank">everything else.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was a great 2 part documentary, produced by Brooke herself. It delves into her life as a child star/model, and a popular culture icon. Absolutely fascinating to see her dissect her life via the media (that dissected her at the time). It includes her relationship with her mother, ex husband, Andrew Agassi, ex beaus like Michael Jackson, John Travolta, and JFK Jnr. Her acting career, her modelling, her study. It also delves into the darker sides of her life. Totally worth a watch.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Bono and The Edge: a sort of homecoming with Dave Letterman</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I loved this documentary, it is such a treat. I must say U2 had really jumped the shark in the past 10-20 years. Once the biggest and best band in the world, and my absolute heroes, they became a cardboard cut-out of themselves. SO the break was needed, and jumping back in via this doco was perfect. The doco follows Bono and The Edge back home in Ireland re-recording some of their best tunes, all stripped back with some musician friends. Letterman joins them to interview them about the music, the process, the doco, and their friends. The film feels like a huge hug, and renewed my love of U2.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Keeping the Score</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed this documentary about Simone Young, the conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It follows the trajectory of her career, and the controversy of being a female conductor! Quelle horreur! She is amazing, and trail blazer. This is accompanied by the most lovely classical soundtrack...of course!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>50 Years of Mr Men and Little Miss</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Matt Lucas hosted this great little doco on these hilarious children's books. It was a lot of fun and he got dressed up as a few characters which was great watching and comedy.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">What I Have Been Listening To</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Art Life and the other thing</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a great 6-part podcast about Brett Whiteley. Each episode is named for and based around 6 of his more interesting painting, eg Alchemy, Heroin Clock, Balcony 2 etc. Contemporaries and those that knew him, Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley, are interviewed and discuss his work and how it holds up today. They discuss landscapes, portraits, addiction, women, his significance today, and his legacy. A lovely and different approach to his work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I'm Breathless: music from and inspired by Dick Tracy by Madonna</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sometimes you need saucy, retro Madonna, and I had this fabulous soundtrack on repeat for some time</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Suzanne Vega and Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just a lovely 1/2 from Suzanne. I haven't listened to these albums in a long time, and they both hold up very well. Laid back and chill musically but packing a punch lyrically.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Celebrity Skin - Hole</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Simply a great rocking album. I love this album a lot and it always feels fresh when I play it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Reservoir Dogs</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is one of my favourite film soundtracks, with a mix of great songs, and the radio DJ pieces cut within. I recently got a copy on vinyl, so have been spinning it at Club Cathy.</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-88594044829302016712023-06-05T20:28:00.000+10:002023-06-05T20:28:00.462+10:00TIM ROGERS AND THE TWIN SET<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tim Rogers is one of my favourite Australians. His music and lyrics are simply spectacular, but in the most underrated way. I listen to his songs, especially his solo stuff, and I just go weak at the knees. He is a born storyteller. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I do love his band, You Am I, but I have a real special place for his solo work. And most especially, <i>What Rhymes with Cars and Girls</i>, his debut solo album. Released in 1999, I was right in the middle of an awful break-up, and this was my soundtrack. I don't mind saying, I think this album saved my life. It was an album full of truth and heartbreak itself, and it went straight to the core of my being. I love this album so very much and it is easily in my Top 5 all-time favourite albums.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is a little bit pop, a little bit rock, and quite heavily country influenced. It is melancholy and sad and also very uplifting. The vibe is Timmy has opened up his heart and soul and just laid it all bare for you. So much so, he only toured the album briefly and rarely plays these songs in solo gigs. He says the time was not a good one for him and to play the songs was too upsetting. <br /><br />I was lucky enough to hear him play a couple of the more uplifting songs when he did an intimate gig at The Edwards some years back. The joy they brought, I cannot begin to say.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, during lockdown he decided to revisit that album and rewrite those songs, 20 something years later. The album, <i>Tines of Stars Unfurled, </i>takes the subject matter of the original songs and updates them, what are those characters or places up to now. It has the same vibe.<br /><br />And he regrouped <i>The Twin Set</i>, his backing band to make it and them tour both albums. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the gig we saw a Lizotte's, and it was magnificent.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5-v6i1-QfMxw4SpubQwEjcCwlC7dvunjiDUcIa00BjusQ71BaMmaepXdZ1aFLqG8i8SUBcxuMalzVhmTe3jaiOTvbyZpSBKTjbsrfxWJeElmeeQxZ8gVEZQP9AP7J4n1I-_Ly0_xwfSdKww-FkHBdnUTf1ooQDTui4rhMDj_ex4hX8nrh71M0UzcU/s4032/20230318_205509.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5-v6i1-QfMxw4SpubQwEjcCwlC7dvunjiDUcIa00BjusQ71BaMmaepXdZ1aFLqG8i8SUBcxuMalzVhmTe3jaiOTvbyZpSBKTjbsrfxWJeElmeeQxZ8gVEZQP9AP7J4n1I-_Ly0_xwfSdKww-FkHBdnUTf1ooQDTui4rhMDj_ex4hX8nrh71M0UzcU/s320/20230318_205509.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmoLia3ca1H8enyxtpmlyZ4Me4YxZlgpP32Vku5Z3_yFfG6n0TDuDi3hMhoGIou35ic4kjINAInqTxLToiKyZRP1FMsg6n-wMcA1IVzq5dygcOiOB94n3dfir4AcUaXp5I_sJ1xKVbAKy76jOQJv9xGd-PPwZjH7TgziH6XQAvcEihgt-RfGCqKzp/s4032/20230318_205841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmoLia3ca1H8enyxtpmlyZ4Me4YxZlgpP32Vku5Z3_yFfG6n0TDuDi3hMhoGIou35ic4kjINAInqTxLToiKyZRP1FMsg6n-wMcA1IVzq5dygcOiOB94n3dfir4AcUaXp5I_sJ1xKVbAKy76jOQJv9xGd-PPwZjH7TgziH6XQAvcEihgt-RfGCqKzp/s320/20230318_205841.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VH35CPna1SVEnfoa2Sl0KHp5Zgydhnw2eD4IsYOviWnAUNWkutDZnGkEA7aEaxyFixJYONNUEzh7-tH--qDHWpi8O7sjZNCmcMNvfF1N1_mxNh5CkwFS0WDhG_qlCAKMyIsDjUk6a1n10tnsFxRo6Cdht9xpxmRauxUEBkhP-AwrzfIjXLW-rHt7/s4032/20230318_205938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VH35CPna1SVEnfoa2Sl0KHp5Zgydhnw2eD4IsYOviWnAUNWkutDZnGkEA7aEaxyFixJYONNUEzh7-tH--qDHWpi8O7sjZNCmcMNvfF1N1_mxNh5CkwFS0WDhG_qlCAKMyIsDjUk6a1n10tnsFxRo6Cdht9xpxmRauxUEBkhP-AwrzfIjXLW-rHt7/s320/20230318_205938.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />It is easily the best I have seen him perform too, the band were magnificent and he obviously loves working with them and whilst playing tight they appeared relaxed and at ease with each other, which really makes a difference, a lot of laughs were to be had.<br /><br />Tim told stories about the band and the songs in between songs and was a sheer delight. Jen Anderson, from Weddings, Parties, Anything, was the yin to his yang. They had a close musicality that shone through, she added the cherry on top to an already remarkable set. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnamrKP7FEUcvCsFqL7CotFi6vSQCsPptTXGXTprJrIddiSMeFqoehbTGWMbE6KhwLMockvADncEEvqOMrKGzOk_PsKtkEnekCaG1Zss9R-Use3PjtY9rJOlSPfdab8V5DsOZlB3sqxi-v7XLMHq03bUk1-EXHoUpcuqXzp7JNRft0a-aSytjctIx2/s4032/20230318_213649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnamrKP7FEUcvCsFqL7CotFi6vSQCsPptTXGXTprJrIddiSMeFqoehbTGWMbE6KhwLMockvADncEEvqOMrKGzOk_PsKtkEnekCaG1Zss9R-Use3PjtY9rJOlSPfdab8V5DsOZlB3sqxi-v7XLMHq03bUk1-EXHoUpcuqXzp7JNRft0a-aSytjctIx2/s320/20230318_213649.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxj1t-gOTjWRQJsT1UlMvrKIhgSIzsixeYAR3kGjqAU-Eiioibo-2wQCCU164V-3fz0XwwnYmxrOC1fO4X7AsHjMODzFb0XZeoaYOE4R8_apTPzQZoe9RxZBZ6pdFgKqPmU4EJiqbdYcuieELTcCIsuRar3wUHQ3LYz1tjWfTYaDLAC_KDJjYO7yA/s4032/20230318_214858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxj1t-gOTjWRQJsT1UlMvrKIhgSIzsixeYAR3kGjqAU-Eiioibo-2wQCCU164V-3fz0XwwnYmxrOC1fO4X7AsHjMODzFb0XZeoaYOE4R8_apTPzQZoe9RxZBZ6pdFgKqPmU4EJiqbdYcuieELTcCIsuRar3wUHQ3LYz1tjWfTYaDLAC_KDJjYO7yA/s320/20230318_214858.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZv4gkINvrbhVwQ0Ov9WX3mDRXmspUGPk4KxvJ9Cyn02KiU5Dxe-JmDI80m9LgUuDXLZyEXJywUH86iv0E0-LxTRoLBRdVfUFay6wSrfIOhdZvNH5psv7QNat5dOK6kYmFWKDbIX55kF0IcKagZVjAO8Rluq_Pr44e7rhgan4f0pQcg3sMPvwUXpn/s4032/20230318_222759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZv4gkINvrbhVwQ0Ov9WX3mDRXmspUGPk4KxvJ9Cyn02KiU5Dxe-JmDI80m9LgUuDXLZyEXJywUH86iv0E0-LxTRoLBRdVfUFay6wSrfIOhdZvNH5psv7QNat5dOK6kYmFWKDbIX55kF0IcKagZVjAO8Rluq_Pr44e7rhgan4f0pQcg3sMPvwUXpn/s320/20230318_222759.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />They opened to the Fawlty Towers tune and Tim praised Brian and his team at Lizotte's. The new songs, which were not as familiar as the old ones, felt familiar. He explained the updated versions. The old tunes were divine and the band looked happy returning to them after all these years.</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAVPmwegcFAn4-MmXY2GcXsiXWCIMvEqwxIyRUCJck4O_4FyTiYTa2PwEKJ9yZsSPSLBzG3uDSK5ZBmGd-RPDxj4peXdbDPPCyAMaZdGbP1pcKKXftenoG-IArMsB9a9QJ6NSfklPOUFkNowwdiQgFDL_wesvfJyY0ZY-cmxCFU_C3tC-AVZzlt-b/s4032/20230318_214444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAVPmwegcFAn4-MmXY2GcXsiXWCIMvEqwxIyRUCJck4O_4FyTiYTa2PwEKJ9yZsSPSLBzG3uDSK5ZBmGd-RPDxj4peXdbDPPCyAMaZdGbP1pcKKXftenoG-IArMsB9a9QJ6NSfklPOUFkNowwdiQgFDL_wesvfJyY0ZY-cmxCFU_C3tC-AVZzlt-b/s320/20230318_214444.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEefBj8t_qu2ssXmgjEyfVSl2MbSXGT3WNSGqHZNvqQIEgpOpSlRlo4tZ4f9AHNE4EBnXf2uqmfZLtqmzc-jooNfxtU6w3Sz2vg6X4bW1sV-zb0Xr8CIS4iAZ9-EoJ0_4XbL-j7XZLps7Cbd0fzgIdJsO6gTuYDyj_bQillgKGovjrpvTRI4Djwuhw/s4032/20230318_220809.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEefBj8t_qu2ssXmgjEyfVSl2MbSXGT3WNSGqHZNvqQIEgpOpSlRlo4tZ4f9AHNE4EBnXf2uqmfZLtqmzc-jooNfxtU6w3Sz2vg6X4bW1sV-zb0Xr8CIS4iAZ9-EoJ0_4XbL-j7XZLps7Cbd0fzgIdJsO6gTuYDyj_bQillgKGovjrpvTRI4Djwuhw/s320/20230318_220809.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuwvMEV1ly39ySIlMy3UMXOuXVt3K_kghpF-crTTyFj69edl9iKluv7nP4YOiHYt33IZBi45PuHOopCXqiyUo1m4M6J50w2nGjt2g--ABVFw0_kHtieyJwkPHv6xhEvONhNfdIK2P3fWw0QReWDS5HuTcnl1oOcDD_hoEbClr5dQWpYdo5NMRaHFud/s4032/20230318_220827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuwvMEV1ly39ySIlMy3UMXOuXVt3K_kghpF-crTTyFj69edl9iKluv7nP4YOiHYt33IZBi45PuHOopCXqiyUo1m4M6J50w2nGjt2g--ABVFw0_kHtieyJwkPHv6xhEvONhNfdIK2P3fWw0QReWDS5HuTcnl1oOcDD_hoEbClr5dQWpYdo5NMRaHFud/s320/20230318_220827.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqyf4El4PU4MD20b6rje00RbccLPfSAHhkY0ZGAKwJ8typn4mLm4uVpHavtHmSLm2pIEIpAn5s4grmsWn0mwedpkhkAaF0D8DzsaNHqchvlUayYicbQPah7ptPKQDCFMPhhgqKjSEvQkdiIl8cyVXg1hqjW8vcfWTd2opqTWSlqMBUe0BCz9TUKjs/s4032/20230318_223022(0).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqyf4El4PU4MD20b6rje00RbccLPfSAHhkY0ZGAKwJ8typn4mLm4uVpHavtHmSLm2pIEIpAn5s4grmsWn0mwedpkhkAaF0D8DzsaNHqchvlUayYicbQPah7ptPKQDCFMPhhgqKjSEvQkdiIl8cyVXg1hqjW8vcfWTd2opqTWSlqMBUe0BCz9TUKjs/s320/20230318_223022(0).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was the kind of night you didn't want to end. There were a couple of well chosen covers towards the end, unexpected but fun.<br /><br />We walked out on air.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>The setlist was as follows:</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bushell and a Peck<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Been So Good, Been So Far</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A Quiet Anniversary</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">22</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arse Kickin' Lady From the North West</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Left My Heart in a Country Church Hall</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Happy Anniversary</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I Live Near a Train Station</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Up-A-Ways</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Get High, Support the Band</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hi, We're the Support Band</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">You Just Don't Do it for Me Friend</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Drink They Drained as I Drove Away</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">You've Been So Good To Me So Far</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Songs They Played as I Drove Away</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eight Days a Week - Beatles cover</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Don't Cry No Tears - Neil Young Cover</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-9773219905938960092023-05-13T21:39:00.001+10:002023-05-13T21:39:28.509+10:00DAVID SEDARIS<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I saw David Sedaris for the third time back in February. <br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He is one of my favourite authors and one of the very few authors who always make me laugh. I first saw him at The Opera House, and was back there again this third time, the second time he actually came to Newcastle, which was amazing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For those that do not know Sedaris - really!?! - he is American, from the mid-west and a very large family, gay and the brother of comedian, Amy Sedaris (the mechanic in The Mandalorian). He writes memoir style essays. He has a very unique way of seeing the world. <br /><br />If you want to start reading Sedaris, definitely start with The Santa Land Diaries, based around his time as a elf a Macys when he was much younger.<br /><br />Once he got popular he started backing up his books with these extensive tours. The tours are a mix of him reading from previous books and specifically the book he is touring, along with new material for his next book. You see him on stage with a pencil making notes on the script, what to change. He talks about it in his books. It is always a fabulous evening.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6zlEshApKzR0dKS3JVvNRt5lUE3p0ExZFxYr3vN_UjLofKUDPkLbdGHORuqHAUFbzPS589eRwco-GHQQd4ajjKpxmo_v1UIlCRNTzC3DCYoj66_3NNRQtgGY-2pGL9hwQNcJl7DC-pfvknhvVyiCWJMWWLq_OYwJQcVrjsychQJBADxQxXRjo8fq/s4032/20230209_194549.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6zlEshApKzR0dKS3JVvNRt5lUE3p0ExZFxYr3vN_UjLofKUDPkLbdGHORuqHAUFbzPS589eRwco-GHQQd4ajjKpxmo_v1UIlCRNTzC3DCYoj66_3NNRQtgGY-2pGL9hwQNcJl7DC-pfvknhvVyiCWJMWWLq_OYwJQcVrjsychQJBADxQxXRjo8fq/s320/20230209_194549.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />He also loves and I really mean loves meeting his readers after the talk, and when you meet him, it is not small talk, he wants a conversation and he mines these encounters for his books! He is adorable to chat to. Quirky, funny, kind and with a twinkle in his eye.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">You don't have to have anything to say, he will get things rolling.<br /><br />He often gives little presents, and while you are chatting, he draws pictures with coloured sharpies in the book/s you are getting signed. And he will have key topics he is interested in that he asks.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQo9AWm5aP4ote-awn_DevedhUx3OspN9OezVoXWFDLvgNqZ6LjB4yDX8Is0QQ3e9PXi14fkJQH6l84IDwOyyoXoLPhZfh2HH5Hw8Gknk5Kp-JNzwxa5Qw1kgWKvi6N6nmS_4d2PpKb15hmk8R1NUwDAg6JIoq8GDYDK9EJzTMYH1sg6GIajqWjBP/s4032/20230210_123241.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQo9AWm5aP4ote-awn_DevedhUx3OspN9OezVoXWFDLvgNqZ6LjB4yDX8Is0QQ3e9PXi14fkJQH6l84IDwOyyoXoLPhZfh2HH5Hw8Gknk5Kp-JNzwxa5Qw1kgWKvi6N6nmS_4d2PpKb15hmk8R1NUwDAg6JIoq8GDYDK9EJzTMYH1sg6GIajqWjBP/s320/20230210_123241.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJb18qhCYymrT3Zg9Navm5hWT4r4KWF8R3b3luY0uo7kD3SNpLCwqNupmHGYDaUPm_iQZHT1nVDQicq1MtSma-bpJmjGKaEqYwsVw4TstsFPQ4pmwycsJVnf54ITCsVVs7kdtA_TpOL4WHhkaTtv7rkUJlVqSQCedx_srWy2ywfcjcmOPZoa0MuQN2/s4032/20230210_123215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJb18qhCYymrT3Zg9Navm5hWT4r4KWF8R3b3luY0uo7kD3SNpLCwqNupmHGYDaUPm_iQZHT1nVDQicq1MtSma-bpJmjGKaEqYwsVw4TstsFPQ4pmwycsJVnf54ITCsVVs7kdtA_TpOL4WHhkaTtv7rkUJlVqSQCedx_srWy2ywfcjcmOPZoa0MuQN2/s320/20230210_123215.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7S2mQa9iEWKcqEHdWG14Lhhr0F9z_uTfJX99ZhC-NolUsfIxVglQvTgqEEUZWLmLCqWHdm2mJLUK6Z9JJhyNbWEc8cLhiItjY6yg8-ONSWdWchxyPfSkA5rfAIHrMVytvivKYSx60tu5v5jaP1WzIWo9yssB1kIG7YntHgLz-GtDhxicToyyWkjy7/s4032/20230210_123228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7S2mQa9iEWKcqEHdWG14Lhhr0F9z_uTfJX99ZhC-NolUsfIxVglQvTgqEEUZWLmLCqWHdm2mJLUK6Z9JJhyNbWEc8cLhiItjY6yg8-ONSWdWchxyPfSkA5rfAIHrMVytvivKYSx60tu5v5jaP1WzIWo9yssB1kIG7YntHgLz-GtDhxicToyyWkjy7/s320/20230210_123228.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p>One of his funnier accounts, is he decided to talk about monkeys one night during his signings. He asked a random lady when she last saw a monkey. The lady deadpanned, can you smell it on me? She had been with one earlier that day. You can't make this stuff up he says.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So in true Sedaris crazy, the first 2 times I met him he asked me exactly the same thing. I was with my friends Athena and Linda both times. Athena, like David, is Greek, but Linda is not, but he thought she looked Greek. So he asks me, why are you hanging with these 2 Greek girls? The first time we laughed and continued chatting. The second time I said you asked me that the last time we met, he thought that was hilarious and interesting. Still waiting to see it in print in his book/s, lol. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This time, he was interesting in language and the app everyone seems to be into. Duolingo. I said a spoke a little French but that was it. We also spoke about weird names, Andrew is a high school teacher so he has seen it all, and Sedaris was amused by it all.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3i2ZsJjzkpf4pt4W6fpn7yRhtTQTBZjf3Tztrx8t2y9n05yA7lmr5cY_JWt5ZOb-BUVtWHFzdVkNis9KL4Tf47Dx4KaH3K-JAhelMvyuBr6htWAR3at7G-qJA-b9VYHSVkxeAmpoTPVSdgi8XXQAjbvGhetgZ1dSWa5o96CWD39hVpSkK-FHmEqi/s2084/20230209_222435.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="1665" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3i2ZsJjzkpf4pt4W6fpn7yRhtTQTBZjf3Tztrx8t2y9n05yA7lmr5cY_JWt5ZOb-BUVtWHFzdVkNis9KL4Tf47Dx4KaH3K-JAhelMvyuBr6htWAR3at7G-qJA-b9VYHSVkxeAmpoTPVSdgi8XXQAjbvGhetgZ1dSWa5o96CWD39hVpSkK-FHmEqi/s320/20230209_222435.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andrew didn't really know him prior to the evening, I had sent him some youtube clips and he liked his sense of humour and his honesty. He had a blast and loved the show. I knew he would, I have never met anyone who didn't like David Sedaris.<br /><br />The most recent book had a lot of dark subject matter, his father (who he had a fractured relationship with) dying, COVID, cyclones, Black Lives Matter, Gun control etc. Whilst staying respectful, he managed to makes these subjects funny. He spoke about some of them, about language, weird names in kids, punishment of children now compared to when he was a kid, and much more.<br /><br />He took questions towards the end. I hate these things, it is always some dick who just wants to either suck up or grand stand. They are the worst. So this idiot asks this long winded question basically asking for help to grieve a loved one as he is obviously doing well after losing such a beloved family member. Sedaris, sadonic as ever, was well, I didn't really get along with my father, so I feel much better now he is dead, there was not much grieving at all. I couldn't stop laughing, that showed that idiot! How could he even be there and call himself a fan, if he asked such an idiotic question.<br /><br />Meeting him, as mentioned, was a delight. We both walked back to the tram feeling lighter and happier. Laughter is always a great thing, and Sedaris gave it to us in spades.<br /><br />PS, not many pictures, as he doesn't like photography in the event or the signings, so I just snuck one!</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-66214568136226538422023-05-13T21:10:00.002+10:002023-05-13T21:10:24.056+10:00BEATNIX<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In my early 20s I saw Beatnix a lot. I was getting back into The Beatles, and whilst not the fan I am today, I was loving them and how wonderful to see this great tribute band if I couldn't see the real thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I should also add my Dad was/is a huge Beatles fan. He would order their albums and singles from overseas and saw them in Sydney. We grew up with The Beatles, and listened to their music like other children would listen to nursery rhymes. So they were always there. In my teens, I loved their early music and Lennon was king, then I withdrew for a few years, a mix of over-exposure and my way of teenage rebellion, lol. But I came back, we always find our way back to greatness.<br /><br />I used to be at The Palais Royale most weekends, my lovely friend Jen's boyfriend was the head barman there. He would drive us in early, start work, we would have dinner somewhere and come back to see whatever was on, and then wait for him to close and drive us home. It was a pretty great period in time. We had to pay for tickets to big events, and our drinks, but an OJ would get a nip of vodka in it or a vodka and OJ would get a second nip, lol!<br /><br />Beatnix toured regularly at the time, so we saw them a lot. I loved them so.<br /><br />I had not seen them in decades, occasionally they would pop up at Lizottes, and I thought I should go and see them, but was worried they would not be as good as I remembered them. When I found out Andrew, also a huge Beatles fan (how lucky am i!!??), had never seen them but had wanted to, I knew we had to go and see them. Within weeks of this conversation, they were advertised as coming soon. I got us tickets to a Sunday lunch.<br /><br />Lizottes is always a quality night out, and I had never done lunch but it was just as good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We had a good table and a good meal and out they came.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHb14ZisbvrLapmfs769DI7crZKUGJKoSuJr5Du6zmJ0_amMviDF9E_LhJDeJQhmmf5NDD8ke33CJKI0ED13otDgyJK0G7t9b_D6viy2volMi8rPuyNRoMGlCWU5eK0BlGTs3SXLf7QmbOkGolwzWfyDJXPm5nBlhF_q-u-1m_ubXq-wYnu9qz4IpX/s4032/20230219_125234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHb14ZisbvrLapmfs769DI7crZKUGJKoSuJr5Du6zmJ0_amMviDF9E_LhJDeJQhmmf5NDD8ke33CJKI0ED13otDgyJK0G7t9b_D6viy2volMi8rPuyNRoMGlCWU5eK0BlGTs3SXLf7QmbOkGolwzWfyDJXPm5nBlhF_q-u-1m_ubXq-wYnu9qz4IpX/s320/20230219_125234.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYIZlFJj869K7XzbewqKWRoANSLpy1BWo637FCStzah5iQHNsuWwTxvoYbRU_5JKGfPoAaikynerBJPEZv_tLOjOyeYvmHVdcZQMCf44kgw8_BhxoPfSLVqNeL25VBOnBub66vGllfp4np_VbCQoEIOSPfHKTGByQoK13v536-3YN2No1rJIHnA8Aq/s4032/20230219_135931.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYIZlFJj869K7XzbewqKWRoANSLpy1BWo637FCStzah5iQHNsuWwTxvoYbRU_5JKGfPoAaikynerBJPEZv_tLOjOyeYvmHVdcZQMCf44kgw8_BhxoPfSLVqNeL25VBOnBub66vGllfp4np_VbCQoEIOSPfHKTGByQoK13v536-3YN2No1rJIHnA8Aq/s320/20230219_135931.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">First half in those grey matching suits and mop top wigs. The first number was a little shakey, but once they found their groove everyone was smiling and singing along.<br /><br />It was pure joy!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We had smiles from ear to ear.<br /><br />They were tight. 2 older members have probably been in it from Day one, and the younger ones were doing fine under their watchful eye.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSomrWmIz7oxRVHKMegCsY_NHva-ImqG0EwXxZrkcGWXGku-qx9ET4DVNb4DabHjiCiFUnp_O2ILPTqrZldLzNEsYrCkDyNU-828ODhgoiqRN8vxyP0epAez-B2y2wjCmXTiYZf00vLt7otLIzPJb7STq6Bt0SEILy369TzIe8ThN2M9wHq8v2_bA/s4032/20230219_140331.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirSomrWmIz7oxRVHKMegCsY_NHva-ImqG0EwXxZrkcGWXGku-qx9ET4DVNb4DabHjiCiFUnp_O2ILPTqrZldLzNEsYrCkDyNU-828ODhgoiqRN8vxyP0epAez-B2y2wjCmXTiYZf00vLt7otLIzPJb7STq6Bt0SEILy369TzIe8ThN2M9wHq8v2_bA/s320/20230219_140331.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw86p7xp2adVo5ROef4dALfZcVM1_eVpuQYbYravXC8B7j9kW5hHcxxqJHqPFrcMgo1-ONqUPh9p2d1Ycj7Qc1q85BP7KZRlhE9vYBDNVBl63pms1h61XweJRDoVSEHa9bqK_UlcVUJ6Uq4FPO0MqttwWBTt_c4KIHiDlm-vse_92YtMybwWy05Mv-/s4032/20230219_145036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw86p7xp2adVo5ROef4dALfZcVM1_eVpuQYbYravXC8B7j9kW5hHcxxqJHqPFrcMgo1-ONqUPh9p2d1Ycj7Qc1q85BP7KZRlhE9vYBDNVBl63pms1h61XweJRDoVSEHa9bqK_UlcVUJ6Uq4FPO0MqttwWBTt_c4KIHiDlm-vse_92YtMybwWy05Mv-/s320/20230219_145036.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They played everything and anything from the red period.<br /><br />After a short break they came back out, this time in full Sergeant Pepper's regalia. The blue set was infinitely better, but these are my preferred songs. They kept to the well known and safe songs from this era, which makes perfect sense.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_fokYQoNM4A-15ApW0MEjxTIXu5fMeI6wo17fg7DhCf9sz5oZgVScAwzk9jclNSDimZ5cl09HUTNgF_X-xaWZqh8uUWUTsjGZDqYVJArEhBg0GRkma3DXEWZJ-CSXAfeqG4upfMev7ZWjs-wbSGVDagiFPv6NjxDbFapyT6cwqUYZkaN_OeMmu4M/s4032/20230219_150603.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_fokYQoNM4A-15ApW0MEjxTIXu5fMeI6wo17fg7DhCf9sz5oZgVScAwzk9jclNSDimZ5cl09HUTNgF_X-xaWZqh8uUWUTsjGZDqYVJArEhBg0GRkma3DXEWZJ-CSXAfeqG4upfMev7ZWjs-wbSGVDagiFPv6NjxDbFapyT6cwqUYZkaN_OeMmu4M/s320/20230219_150603.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFJ_GOv2EPkklSGwMCOzgegbiirhQg4wjM5wZBXkooqDLWhmpj8d8KbLlZ29NcM1yCAk0nG-V1HOVnSJk5mNOyOJiKEwR2_0ofa7d27jJ7qUCik9UXiRu4GwTwNIGlKGR82HmVSzxF5TDq7l5Mz5NDgZ2khBVwRO8HB3kHPxce3B4L5KhOV9wWxkRH/s4032/20230219_154950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFJ_GOv2EPkklSGwMCOzgegbiirhQg4wjM5wZBXkooqDLWhmpj8d8KbLlZ29NcM1yCAk0nG-V1HOVnSJk5mNOyOJiKEwR2_0ofa7d27jJ7qUCik9UXiRu4GwTwNIGlKGR82HmVSzxF5TDq7l5Mz5NDgZ2khBVwRO8HB3kHPxce3B4L5KhOV9wWxkRH/s320/20230219_154950.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQmiEzepxR70BUb4IA_LAcpU1zBdAF46fRUzv5DNEfVvW2RZ-JyV5JjvxokApOTlerWKrjy5e-cxVRCkzxVPHsfj8EQKO90JXb9NJIM1VTz4ubCU2oB9Kkx14G57vhpl7zARTUHSIYBXkTX2BW_dn56Wqfyd-0cMSa4z4zLsNkKfPQOYL7KKqQChY/s4032/20230219_155959.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVQmiEzepxR70BUb4IA_LAcpU1zBdAF46fRUzv5DNEfVvW2RZ-JyV5JjvxokApOTlerWKrjy5e-cxVRCkzxVPHsfj8EQKO90JXb9NJIM1VTz4ubCU2oB9Kkx14G57vhpl7zARTUHSIYBXkTX2BW_dn56Wqfyd-0cMSa4z4zLsNkKfPQOYL7KKqQChY/s320/20230219_155959.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was just thrilled that they really were as good as I remembered them, and Andrew was super impressed too. We had a great time, and I totally recommend checking them out if you get the chance.</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-19624420940165042862023-04-15T18:36:00.001+10:002023-04-15T18:36:18.536+10:00WEIRD AL<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have always loved the novelty song, and as soon as I heard Eat It, I was in!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Weird Al Yankovic, even his name was cool. But he turned out to be much much more than a novelty act.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the 80s I had all the Weird Al cassettes, and played them to death, amusing myself with his wit. I loved everything, the covers gone in his own way and the other songs with clever lyrics that made me laugh or smile wryly.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I particularly loved the polka songs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had never seen him live, really no one I knew wanted to go.<br /><br />When I met Andrew, we would tell each other about gigs we had been too. So much overlapped and so much envy, on both sides. Weird Al was at the top of my 'I wish' list.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So when I saw he was finally returning to Australia, I knew we had to go.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was super excited, but kept my expectations low. Andrew had regaled me with tales of huge stage shows, costumes and so forth.<br /><br />But the concert we got was very different to that, and so much better.<br /><br />We really got Weird Al in all his weirdness and nerdiness and I bloody loved it.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATfxck9ikuWWETAn2ptPa6crASVgQf_01lH185C4S-NLmEscp_kS6OWD38Pgxikpn2yrChrihJap8TbzdAeuO-5VRR4Dz11PisbtWvd-Sna3Ip0p5sVV3j3wOk7iKxoD03MZev_tN038jPpAkwxk6KZd04WdthR0JAH8j2gvHEptRU7Ow1AYDR20G/s4032/20230315_191727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATfxck9ikuWWETAn2ptPa6crASVgQf_01lH185C4S-NLmEscp_kS6OWD38Pgxikpn2yrChrihJap8TbzdAeuO-5VRR4Dz11PisbtWvd-Sna3Ip0p5sVV3j3wOk7iKxoD03MZev_tN038jPpAkwxk6KZd04WdthR0JAH8j2gvHEptRU7Ow1AYDR20G/s320/20230315_191727.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />After a support act that was best left unspoken, a roadie popped three stools at the front of the stage.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The band came out, a drummer and keyboard player towards the back left and right, 2 guitarists on the outer stools and then the man himself!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LILrG9OxmoyDRcBUDH7W4fA99pInosCd_GmJvY3TRavoFlodwrReDs_vXa7xV1CxcGl5bXwfnrBK0K4aCAf1HUrdhKY1d5y0JtqdNlRGRbUhXHzArwXwcBbTkjlzv89c9rTeui9yWbFtkVR8juIIMZNELZhXIHP1gDEZIQZ2lfXcwB7Exy0YUO8M/s2236/20230315_204114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2236" data-original-width="1724" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LILrG9OxmoyDRcBUDH7W4fA99pInosCd_GmJvY3TRavoFlodwrReDs_vXa7xV1CxcGl5bXwfnrBK0K4aCAf1HUrdhKY1d5y0JtqdNlRGRbUhXHzArwXwcBbTkjlzv89c9rTeui9yWbFtkVR8juIIMZNELZhXIHP1gDEZIQZ2lfXcwB7Exy0YUO8M/s320/20230315_204114.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGNEjUqqDu75_xCZcEVtpiuKVeE_fnJiagYTOqExgdji9n2n9Q9TmxYztrJMECH9YsCmHfSpGhOzAaAt11d-GWxfE-toe6SaDOzgZ1wS9SMM5Md4IRFkfDaoCs9IrbKoE_UTK76aNi26-IV6s4wh-wqxrGtPJR44pRcvz9LKwP-kkzUzLphEcZnkw/s4032/20230315_204128(0).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGNEjUqqDu75_xCZcEVtpiuKVeE_fnJiagYTOqExgdji9n2n9Q9TmxYztrJMECH9YsCmHfSpGhOzAaAt11d-GWxfE-toe6SaDOzgZ1wS9SMM5Md4IRFkfDaoCs9IrbKoE_UTK76aNi26-IV6s4wh-wqxrGtPJR44pRcvz9LKwP-kkzUzLphEcZnkw/s320/20230315_204128(0).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dressed normally, those long curls left to their own devices. He sat on a stool and started talking. He said he hoped we all got the memo about it being a parred back show with no big hits. I must admit I was a little peeved and thought huh, I got no such memo. But it didn't last long, I just had a feeling we were in for something special. And I was not wrong, nor disappointed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlILipkVEKo_ALQvril3aPdEOsbx5shcjeG1UZ_F9cRnCIlTD-bfC9LsyVErQak-XZqukFP3vLlSp3AP-xaYiBygCkbhpHadWGAB6uHD9We3xlZUz-iCvUYxhQoMyH0k06syckK16HN37k3tiPv2At3-_NGn6SMnZ488tyiidEIEIUdoC3ihHFEbO/s3018/20230315_212105.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3018" data-original-width="2052" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlILipkVEKo_ALQvril3aPdEOsbx5shcjeG1UZ_F9cRnCIlTD-bfC9LsyVErQak-XZqukFP3vLlSp3AP-xaYiBygCkbhpHadWGAB6uHD9We3xlZUz-iCvUYxhQoMyH0k06syckK16HN37k3tiPv2At3-_NGn6SMnZ488tyiidEIEIUdoC3ihHFEbO/s320/20230315_212105.jpg" width="218" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He sang a lot of the album tracks and a lot of early stuff. Stuff I had quite simply forgotten, I knew pretty much 90% of what he sang. And some were really tricky and complex vocally and lyrically. He was on freakin' fire.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4 songs in he sings Bob, which is probably one of my all-time favourites of his. I was in heaven, he delivered. There was </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">accordion playing, and the band was tight, very tight.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAAiavrpkG7mtvVpFtTxtQsvGnS7_8IWS9A6_W-wNDRoXAFHoOtAkBD7CUuMeZrTf56wROF3cNSwaSYYYjqRvl98_5AHeEffrZ3fyUO6DOCW-ryARfdDzJeK2ZlnPJ_17Nf1N-b4S9gFBL20WUJGQKhyOw5b8lOr7yt60dqlIzxBnyRa3h3xLreDS/s4032/20230315_211819.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwAAiavrpkG7mtvVpFtTxtQsvGnS7_8IWS9A6_W-wNDRoXAFHoOtAkBD7CUuMeZrTf56wROF3cNSwaSYYYjqRvl98_5AHeEffrZ3fyUO6DOCW-ryARfdDzJeK2ZlnPJ_17Nf1N-b4S9gFBL20WUJGQKhyOw5b8lOr7yt60dqlIzxBnyRa3h3xLreDS/s320/20230315_211819.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Al, himself, sounded great, and was spot on with some very detailed lyrics.<br /><br />The crowd slurped it all up. It was a very diverse crowd, from oldies to kiddies.<br /><br />The encore of a very click, You can call me Al, was clever and brilliant, and the finale of a string of his big hits and some covers showcased the superb vocals, not only of Al, but the entire band. Their harmonies were so very good and spot on.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj56K2zNprCasHic4zocMbbpMYQneqbPJQEUNQVnIpnHIXrZ2iiOXzgNPzLbqlNaBkLgRN8kqKJJmdpklxjJZeaO_Ptza5dWLUIB8G-Wy9nlE-P--ORIPGJTIi6_m-Z6YxS7i4EyatVchYrHdtzCTDj5EmVxBHlJGq73fKRS_Ghe2Yf59Noy7Tw3CcY/s4032/20230315_212050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj56K2zNprCasHic4zocMbbpMYQneqbPJQEUNQVnIpnHIXrZ2iiOXzgNPzLbqlNaBkLgRN8kqKJJmdpklxjJZeaO_Ptza5dWLUIB8G-Wy9nlE-P--ORIPGJTIi6_m-Z6YxS7i4EyatVchYrHdtzCTDj5EmVxBHlJGq73fKRS_Ghe2Yf59Noy7Tw3CcY/s320/20230315_212050.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />We left the show knowing how very lucky we were, and what a special evening we had witnessed, and to see it together was the cherry on top.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>Setlist</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Lame claim to fame</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Why does this always happen to me?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Close but no cigar</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Bob</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. One more minute</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Drum solo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. I'll sue ya</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. your horrorscope for today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Skipper Dan</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. The night Santa went crazy</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">11. You don't love me anymore</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">12. Drum solo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">13. CNR</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">14. Craiglist</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">15. Good old Days</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">16. Albuquerque</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Encore:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">17. You can call me Al</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">18. Amish Paradise/Smells like Nirvana/White and Nerdy/Word crimes/Yoda</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Enmore Theatre, Wednesday 15 March, 2023</span></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152193864067393379.post-4746341907629600342023-04-14T15:38:00.003+10:002023-04-14T15:38:19.849+10:00NEWCASTLE WRITERS FESTIVAL 2023<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10 years!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I can't believe it, it only seems like yesterday that we headed to the inaugural NWF with the brilliant Miriam Margolyes doing the most wonderful opening for the festival.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She had us crying and in stitches laughing, a better presentation to the world could not be thought of.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was also the year we got to meet Richard Fidler, as we kicked on at a pub after a session he hosted with my friend, Anita. She invited him and his manager to join us for drinks after and we had a great time, a time that led to me driving them both back to their hotel. And thus led to the moniker, Richard 'I drove him in my car once' Fidler. And yes, he is as lovely and kind and funny and sweet as you would hope he was.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Seemingly, in the blink of an eye, we were seated at the 10th Opening night of the NWF. This year the guest was the inimitable Grace Tame. The evening was at the grand dame of the city, The Civic Theatre, and we had great seats.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Friday 31 March, 2023</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In her own words: an evening with Grace Tame</b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">Civic Theatre, Festival Opening Night</b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always there were speeches and people to thank for making this amazing weekend happen. As always Rosemarie Milsom was a goddess, for her simply idea and making it happen, not just once but for an entire decade. She always inspires me to push through my own roadblocks and issues and get stuff done!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6oD98F4NEFUphWBXlFOdTqQ2rwt0WrcqRSaMuJ4M0cM2iXYHi-2jD-lB3Rwx_rHLdGxcoHKb2euZ8qyfrGIzV-P6xGPvRwhGnqfNsb7vHus-YtCpsMSuzq9mChfwaUX6JRb3YbYFq-9Lk3m7S2FUTMQIlMgjv-9TcmrbahB1CXQtb6w63zy7T2Rgk/s4032/20230331_195827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6oD98F4NEFUphWBXlFOdTqQ2rwt0WrcqRSaMuJ4M0cM2iXYHi-2jD-lB3Rwx_rHLdGxcoHKb2euZ8qyfrGIzV-P6xGPvRwhGnqfNsb7vHus-YtCpsMSuzq9mChfwaUX6JRb3YbYFq-9Lk3m7S2FUTMQIlMgjv-9TcmrbahB1CXQtb6w63zy7T2Rgk/s320/20230331_195827.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />She spoke at length about the economy and kudos the festival brings to the city. It is a big deal that I do not think gets enough coverage or support, but luckily she has some great sponsors helping her along. It is my weekend of the year, always!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Whilst all the lead-up speeches were great, especially the one from University Professor, John Fischetti - he described Librarians as the Keepers of Civilisation - we were really eagerly waiting for Grace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She is much smaller and fragile looking than you would imagine, yet has this impressive steely manner. Her stories were peppered with humour, sometimes dark, which was incredibly endearing and helped her, I think, be able to tell some of her less-amusing stories. She had us laughing and sobbing. At times, I was worried, I felt a little voyeuristic listening to her stories being told given she is still quite a fragile person and she was close to tears herself on numerous occasions. Yet, she explained she wouldn't have it any other way, telling her story in her own way was and is incredibly important to her and her survival, and connecting to others is also something she very much loves and needs. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Maddison Connaughton from The Saturday Paper was her interviewer and didn't need to do too much, just keep her moving forward. Some would say she was redunant, but I feel she was incredibly important, as an anchor for Grace and I think others may have pushed and pulled her to tell certain elements in a particular way. Maddison did not, she was respectful and a calming influence. It was a lovely evening.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAqycLy7ptnSSlhavih0LhPYjBqvV4VQA_VyNnKiB1pXdlEUAjtFBP_b-oNGTIi4TMGLJ1syciXuCERooYQm9XJniJlRqRDa7-SD68IQAqPC5g2gkjj7WNOPxtiG_uZZvW1g70083DapSQh6HUhB9Snd4KSQ6X39-YxVcrakFSzSHrskZmTyW8UTq/s4032/20230331_201259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAqycLy7ptnSSlhavih0LhPYjBqvV4VQA_VyNnKiB1pXdlEUAjtFBP_b-oNGTIi4TMGLJ1syciXuCERooYQm9XJniJlRqRDa7-SD68IQAqPC5g2gkjj7WNOPxtiG_uZZvW1g70083DapSQh6HUhB9Snd4KSQ6X39-YxVcrakFSzSHrskZmTyW8UTq/s320/20230331_201259.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYZCDLbehaYfvJlipJAFvEkT0dENRNyNooWs0boFaxxrZTwL8gFXx-Dk8I4iUwwyW93nAyoMhWw7p0GFwv3ESNNp-b3xx4oe08Lgyig-UDIJxcTmV7oqPty2r-Yfu15bN2GW2cqArHEcEWGzRPxtGKQdUXLZkIEdTjo5CvgBQy5I-W3diWTA8ZlTc/s4032/20230331_201255.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYZCDLbehaYfvJlipJAFvEkT0dENRNyNooWs0boFaxxrZTwL8gFXx-Dk8I4iUwwyW93nAyoMhWw7p0GFwv3ESNNp-b3xx4oe08Lgyig-UDIJxcTmV7oqPty2r-Yfu15bN2GW2cqArHEcEWGzRPxtGKQdUXLZkIEdTjo5CvgBQy5I-W3diWTA8ZlTc/s320/20230331_201255.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Saturday 1 April, 2023</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>World Traveller: Richard Fidler in Conversation</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Richard was in conversation with Paul Bevan. Richard is a great raconteur, he can talk about anything. This is exemplified in Conversations, his hit radio interview show on the ABC. He talked about his new book, The Book of Roads and Kingdoms, is about the time when Baghdad was the centre of the Persian and Arabic worlds. It is full of otherworldly tales, tales of conquering cities and expanding empires. He has done his research and I cannot wait to read it. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLd_jhnSUaSUDL3x9JaY1Km5oWTTW2XCRGJSSSwvdYjbhJa3tP4NevSTnUOEvZYSxzcQAvWCFHaIH5rhXisrgeKe_dzm2G2cFRoucNEDKCJRXgLQivCdOXp5Bw0fe6ff6Cgl1zq_Ld6_IxQCMdUN9rBIdIi9CqfwSoXYG6Rnr1jeiHOi9oRFG6q_zQ/s4032/20230401_133444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLd_jhnSUaSUDL3x9JaY1Km5oWTTW2XCRGJSSSwvdYjbhJa3tP4NevSTnUOEvZYSxzcQAvWCFHaIH5rhXisrgeKe_dzm2G2cFRoucNEDKCJRXgLQivCdOXp5Bw0fe6ff6Cgl1zq_Ld6_IxQCMdUN9rBIdIi9CqfwSoXYG6Rnr1jeiHOi9oRFG6q_zQ/s320/20230401_133444.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3UhiM2RDyhJclLh2Z0ng5ZpnlM53YyP1iJTnrNU-0Jaf3ImVu5goG9JgU--UM9uBaSYj__AP7leovYU7juBO8QvmoSEwoTgL7HAvNi06NYRyoqP8zZPpDJN0oG4m9RfL-yW3_Zu_w2wKc8_w_yjlZZf04tLdotwomCaSYC3a6fkCfdj48N6I1o48/s4032/20230401_133513.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3UhiM2RDyhJclLh2Z0ng5ZpnlM53YyP1iJTnrNU-0Jaf3ImVu5goG9JgU--UM9uBaSYj__AP7leovYU7juBO8QvmoSEwoTgL7HAvNi06NYRyoqP8zZPpDJN0oG4m9RfL-yW3_Zu_w2wKc8_w_yjlZZf04tLdotwomCaSYC3a6fkCfdj48N6I1o48/s320/20230401_133513.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjx_h4m-OUz-zLplmvXLWyuFbH9FS2q98lUVLYcz2lf7-94MaSDo_QfozAOeGEQJ9iIZW5D4tX-FNzCbNHYq4SwmwLEo8BKlfRs1npHRj4ybKfLHiH9rrgWVnR6MtouU03VXOdRiyGo1ibM2Oufi2wtw9P74VT96bqPTzlacLOzK1MXYo7nekn-OrO/s4032/20230401_154043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjx_h4m-OUz-zLplmvXLWyuFbH9FS2q98lUVLYcz2lf7-94MaSDo_QfozAOeGEQJ9iIZW5D4tX-FNzCbNHYq4SwmwLEo8BKlfRs1npHRj4ybKfLHiH9rrgWVnR6MtouU03VXOdRiyGo1ibM2Oufi2wtw9P74VT96bqPTzlacLOzK1MXYo7nekn-OrO/s320/20230401_154043.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzCreWXuy52s_yvj3xGxU1-H5FNQYWoMmyuPeIJHSLWvvPMyNW34sH3sGG3BZh9INfodM7DNmPR1-bgMfElku2tIT1UKgtYRHMKy2OS2b2Vdp6dH-5KIQDKpCJTOxZJbLWDSCzmul14eOoKt2TNfZG20d6xcmZ5Xvc9ka8qDvjf9jSDOCGyDJPnRh/s4032/20230401_154047.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzCreWXuy52s_yvj3xGxU1-H5FNQYWoMmyuPeIJHSLWvvPMyNW34sH3sGG3BZh9INfodM7DNmPR1-bgMfElku2tIT1UKgtYRHMKy2OS2b2Vdp6dH-5KIQDKpCJTOxZJbLWDSCzmul14eOoKt2TNfZG20d6xcmZ5Xvc9ka8qDvjf9jSDOCGyDJPnRh/s320/20230401_154047.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Afterwards I took my newly bought copy of the book, and was third in line to get it signed. He was lovely and engaging, and remembered our night, 10 years ago, fondly. It was a perfect exchange.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Sunday 2 April, 2023</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The day started early, with a lovely brunch on Darby, at Wil and Sons. It was a beautiful day in Newcastle, as you can see.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdOnDYfUt8A_zCTTkaRGYMYogphsYYq_nOwG_D3ZsROj9CS_2w3I-ABbBXQr8mqAIuNKUqozbk4tR8dGYSI5bTDro-aAgC5T6KmWKKBJX5-Bdj6PT20jj2i5Q16F3QSj_fqvEcq2ktabIpfl13KUViscvQrr81eaD0_wKkQvgMRmceEF3Vl-x0JFe/s4032/20230402_081829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdOnDYfUt8A_zCTTkaRGYMYogphsYYq_nOwG_D3ZsROj9CS_2w3I-ABbBXQr8mqAIuNKUqozbk4tR8dGYSI5bTDro-aAgC5T6KmWKKBJX5-Bdj6PT20jj2i5Q16F3QSj_fqvEcq2ktabIpfl13KUViscvQrr81eaD0_wKkQvgMRmceEF3Vl-x0JFe/s320/20230402_081829.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPijYbdGUzoDXa6h5R_PRJHIuIWfZjfTrHiDyMqyF-QJVPy-m5NsC8zIq9Geipotx8Vcdk7dxJbYpT4ZjBToMoD2GsotOSR4ULtHDqr5lMrFySRuyOYBQkh3R4cRyT8pP8yVRIdleLyE5E07QybYuSIpGaL7kjO5zAr4Hsf7DLkEr-5Z0Vo1AKCgDd/s4032/20230402_081950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He was in conversation with Scott Bevan. This was fascinating, a Beatles fan, Phillip lectures at the University on creativity. He has based his studies on song writing and the music industry, and has written a book specifically about the creativity of Paul McCartney. His theories on his creativity, which he believes is sparked from many different ways, is the genesis for his genius. He told some great stories to back up these ideas. With so much written on McCartney and The Beatles, this was a fresh and interesting take on the man.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYKXM4iWyRLAnbPpZHwVJc58PkWtpE5DBiKxf-Bfrqlmq2hgy6KUThEWIofknn1CuiQk5ZEk_k1TApf9ArZ8ow5u-utVbogxvQEeAXbBbZoNFT6w0KuFiaClrI3RJBMPgujwXxXGsn0OX3_g0-D9SSR7k3RI1-qSYsgobIc90onz126ImK36qk3oz/s4032/20230402_100444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYKXM4iWyRLAnbPpZHwVJc58PkWtpE5DBiKxf-Bfrqlmq2hgy6KUThEWIofknn1CuiQk5ZEk_k1TApf9ArZ8ow5u-utVbogxvQEeAXbBbZoNFT6w0KuFiaClrI3RJBMPgujwXxXGsn0OX3_g0-D9SSR7k3RI1-qSYsgobIc90onz126ImK36qk3oz/s320/20230402_100444.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Life of Iris</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fiona Kelly McGregor has based her latest historical novel on Iris Webber and was in conversation with Nancy Cushing. Iris was brought up on the wrong side of the tracks in the early 30s in Sydney and soon became ensconced in the underworld and underbelly of Sydney as a gunslinging petty criminal. She was in and out of jail, and also quite possibly a lesbian. Fiona researched the era to fill in the holes of the story with tight information on the era. A fascinating insight into the era and Iris through a fictional background.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34Hl9SlauZGnFWm-q63Fx_f7lroAb9hvUirTOmlLMdT0OIw2d4tRuGXk_yDDuiTtRDl0m6yhJqf4CtGhaBKyGW_SG0X_pD03pFW2wYCenEfZ0_OpAJlFKb_r54C9LpA0A4g3V6LGnj7CNN52Aw8qcpNlDBF07K-qYyO1xsGd9QKu2o1_X-fn04PqH/s4032/20230402_113217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34Hl9SlauZGnFWm-q63Fx_f7lroAb9hvUirTOmlLMdT0OIw2d4tRuGXk_yDDuiTtRDl0m6yhJqf4CtGhaBKyGW_SG0X_pD03pFW2wYCenEfZ0_OpAJlFKb_r54C9LpA0A4g3V6LGnj7CNN52Aw8qcpNlDBF07K-qYyO1xsGd9QKu2o1_X-fn04PqH/s320/20230402_113217.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="font-family: verdana;"><p><b>Women and words: Pip Williams in conversation</b></p></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pip William's Dictionary of Lost Words was a huge deal in Australian publishing. She was in conversation with Ailsa Piper about it and her new book, The Bookbinder of Jericho. Both are based on true events, but she has taken characters and fleshed them and their story out with fiction, writing very easy to access fiction. I enjoyed Dictionary of Lost Words, but felt it fell very short of what it could have been having read The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester. This was the real non-fiction telling of the same story and far more interesting and a much superior read. She does take the female view in both stories which in reality was minimal, but nice to read about. Her research was insightful and the stories she told about the new book had me curious to give it a go.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIKq4rw-R0TMa9-WpO60EzXNGDiiWYRWJvyuBnGl2dE3h5KRXqxBUnACBoujBHZ0ovynTNAX0eYt7aZdaWuu_sevF-wH7thGLdVxEPjZwbxiV0hCy1zT4rmJEBzCwOkW8o-twYlY_1LG2CWvbUMqOkff0kfqmeX9KeGxN1kmeqGNbnE1sSMvKHg0F/s4032/20230402_133124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIKq4rw-R0TMa9-WpO60EzXNGDiiWYRWJvyuBnGl2dE3h5KRXqxBUnACBoujBHZ0ovynTNAX0eYt7aZdaWuu_sevF-wH7thGLdVxEPjZwbxiV0hCy1zT4rmJEBzCwOkW8o-twYlY_1LG2CWvbUMqOkff0kfqmeX9KeGxN1kmeqGNbnE1sSMvKHg0F/s320/20230402_133124.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I didn't get to many sessions this year as you can see. I have had a very intense start to the year juggling a lot of work, teaching 2 nights a week on top of my FT job means I missed trivia evening, which was a bit sad. And I had to work Saturday and had pre-booked RocKwiz Saturday night and was tired. But I picked some quality events and liked the new location of the University building on Hunter Street. Not quite the same feel as City Hall, but easy to find and get around which is great. Nice views of the city too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTO6qgCHKtVS6MXvIkyu6LlPlpUv3oSCU4__WN_MI5BZWBOAZ7Zydpj4GEBlHaOPs1LTNaDa2jsL_npOv5gNOo1DKt3DHRVa06ztdqmdgKGFUU0D2A87EaCIMCGuLa4wS5J9_GsgZ_lLm6Uroucqfly3XhoNh3WpcqgfF1vDbGFvXER9MJDScOWVP6/s4032/20230402_093643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTO6qgCHKtVS6MXvIkyu6LlPlpUv3oSCU4__WN_MI5BZWBOAZ7Zydpj4GEBlHaOPs1LTNaDa2jsL_npOv5gNOo1DKt3DHRVa06ztdqmdgKGFUU0D2A87EaCIMCGuLa4wS5J9_GsgZ_lLm6Uroucqfly3XhoNh3WpcqgfF1vDbGFvXER9MJDScOWVP6/s320/20230402_093643.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YdaG481Yu2jvh6DqPNpD0i4ZTgnOTsFN3Egk11WCpSqU3NzOK6w8ZEIsTfNL0HbRvLW94-WPgYzYL170MCYI9NpVYo5EleywpdiHBcOGJXwNYBy9BYXxtbEU2U8M8aK7g8FuSG0XqQ1XQnhv6EcFl5KgX2znxHlMoO0-qE9AbJcXVnsjzSqfav_s/s4032/20230402_093635.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YdaG481Yu2jvh6DqPNpD0i4ZTgnOTsFN3Egk11WCpSqU3NzOK6w8ZEIsTfNL0HbRvLW94-WPgYzYL170MCYI9NpVYo5EleywpdiHBcOGJXwNYBy9BYXxtbEU2U8M8aK7g8FuSG0XqQ1XQnhv6EcFl5KgX2znxHlMoO0-qE9AbJcXVnsjzSqfav_s/s320/20230402_093635.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></span></div><p></p>Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753080278728009311noreply@blogger.com0