...I watched the Melbourne production of "Love Never Dies" last night and I have to say I was impressed. I still have my reservations (to put it mildly) about the plot as a whole and the need for a sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" in the first place, but the experience was an enjoyable one.

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I've been away for a while. Last weekend but one I suffered a stark reminder of how feckless, treacherous and disloyal some members of the human race could be and since I seem to have lost some of my armour against this sort of nonsense (it is called 'recovery' I believe) it affected me more than it usually would have done.

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Clash of my arse more like

I'm still a bit smug about the critically poor reviews of Paint Never Dries, but I'm sure I'll get over it soon. I watched a video of Ramin Karimloo singing "Till I hear you sing once more" from the show and to be honest his performance was not bad - he has a good voice and certainly put a great deal of passion into it. The music itself was ( Read more... )

I'd like to make some recommendations, apropos of nothing, for some of the best books on magic ever written.  By magic I mean the sneaky arts of deception, sleights and trickery, not the nonsensical pasttimes of pompous pseudo-academics with a penchant for Egyptology and Qabala (and no understanding of either) or trendy consciousness-raising neo- ( Read more... )

 I mentioned in an earlier post here that I was trying to learn another language.  The original book I was using was good, but didn't inspire me a great deal, consisting mainly of sample dialogues and long lists of verb forms and so on.  Workable but hard-workable.   From time to time in the past I'd heard of the Michel Thomas method of language ( Read more... )