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Sonnets 25 and 90
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Shakespeare In Love
Watched Shakespeare In Love for the second time (the first being 10 years ago on the telly ( Read more... ) -
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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A Cambridge man walks down the road as if he owns it. An Oxford man walks down a road as if he doesn't care who owns it.
An Open University grad then comes along in her car and knocks them both down with relish.
Or so a female colleagues tells me. (This is, for any film buffs listening in, truly an Ellie Sattler moment.) -
Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt
I'm reading more books than ever, but these days so few of them are fiction that finding a really good specimen is an absolute joy.
Here's the first gem of 2010:
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Gangster, put your records on
A Lurching Review Of Gangster No. 1
Somewhere in the bruised universe of gangster films sits a little blood-spattered gem known as Gangster No. 1. Released by the immaculate Film Four, it stars the habitually underused David Thewlis (Harry Potter fans will know him as Lupin), and a pre-fame Paul Bettany ( Read more... ) -
Asking for directions
Ah, nostalgia for the eighties and classic CCTV!
You can't go far wrong with an ending theme titled "Dare we ask where the road lies?"
I actually find this song quite moving, bizarre sound effects, Communist overtones and all.
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Take that, evil flu
Call me a softie, but when one of the loveliest ladies I know tells me to let nature take its course, who am I to disagree?
Nature, it seems, is taking me through a menu of variety, so in between lashings of work - (O! This is no time to wrangle but consult / How best we may fulfill the oracle.) - I have been feeding my senses with
- Kung Fu Panda ( Read more... )
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Back from character-building
Back from Europe-quest, and I actually feel lighter, more confident, more daring with my work. It was a very good trip; enlightening, disturbing, unexpected. Of course, I was lucky it worked out alright, but I'm willing to take that luck and run with it awhile ( Read more... )
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