Entertainments
Well, over the last couple of nights I've been to different ends of the intellectual spectrum for entertainment.
Thursday night was GI Joe at the Cinema (Jane didn't want to see Inglorious Basterds which was my first choice and District 9 isn't out yet). Reasonably amusing film apart from the fact that the two Scottish characters were being played by people who blatantly can't do a Scottish accent. One was Irish and was mercifully only onscreen for a short time, the other was Christopher Eccleston (ex Doctor Who) who we had to endure murdering the accent for the entire film *sigh*. Then there's the bit where the plane is voice controlled, but since it's built by a Scot, it's done in Celtic... at which point I was thinking "WTF? Do they mean Gaelic?" - then one of the characters turns out to know "celtic" - which is strange, because 90% of the people in Scotland can't even speak Gaelic. *sigh* And when did Gaelic/Celtic acquire a word for "eject"? This is the language where the word for helicopter is... helicopter.
cronvek managed to get tickets for Faust in a competition, so went along to see that with her. Main word for the show has to be "weird". Also kinda freaky. Most amusing is the fact it's supported by "The Ministry of Culture, Cults and National Heritage of Romania". All I can imagine is someone going to the government and saying "Hi, I've just started a new cult. I'm small at the moment, but I have ambitious plans for brainwashing; any chance of a government grant to get my first sacrificial altar?"
Thursday night was GI Joe at the Cinema (Jane didn't want to see Inglorious Basterds which was my first choice and District 9 isn't out yet). Reasonably amusing film apart from the fact that the two Scottish characters were being played by people who blatantly can't do a Scottish accent. One was Irish and was mercifully only onscreen for a short time, the other was Christopher Eccleston (ex Doctor Who) who we had to endure murdering the accent for the entire film *sigh*. Then there's the bit where the plane is voice controlled, but since it's built by a Scot, it's done in Celtic... at which point I was thinking "WTF? Do they mean Gaelic?" - then one of the characters turns out to know "celtic" - which is strange, because 90% of the people in Scotland can't even speak Gaelic. *sigh* And when did Gaelic/Celtic acquire a word for "eject"? This is the language where the word for helicopter is... helicopter.
cronvek managed to get tickets for Faust in a competition, so went along to see that with her. Main word for the show has to be "weird". Also kinda freaky. Most amusing is the fact it's supported by "The Ministry of Culture, Cults and National Heritage of Romania". All I can imagine is someone going to the government and saying "Hi, I've just started a new cult. I'm small at the moment, but I have ambitious plans for brainwashing; any chance of a government grant to get my first sacrificial altar?"