Sunday, July 07, 2013

Random Thoughts

I know I'm tired and hungover because I'm tearing up watching Mamma Mia and I abhor the film and the whole juke box musical thing. But you do have to hand it to Meryl Streep, she has quite a good singing voice.  And what is it with Colin Firth and playing gay roles?  Me and the lovely Lesley watched A Single Man last night before we embarked on an arts marathon (see below). It's an absolutely beautiful film in every sense of the word and I'd do Mr F any day of the week. I'd also do the Spanish guy who looks like James Dean.

Saw "Are We Powerless" at The Albert Hall yesterday afternoon.  V interesting. The panel were excellent and Evan Davis introduced it.  it was also filmed for The Culture Show so you may see me, DD and Marie (congrats on the promotion) on a TV screen near you any day soon. Adam Curtiss's thoughts on economics and how we should try to inject "love" as a concept in the economic lexicon were very thought provoking.  Didn't take to that guy who wrote Chavs though. Too old school socialist for me.  Owen something. I've no doubt Jane will refresh my memory...

Then it was Rob Da Bank at Festival Square. An 80s disco is how it was billed with an A to Z of Manchester. Apparently an A to Z of Manchester doesn't include K for Kylie or J for Jason nor indeed an H for Hazell Dean or an F for Ferrara.  Oh I could go on.....  It was all Manchester/Madchester stuff i.e. of no interest to me at all :-) The crowd seemed to enjoy it though. I spent most of the time sat outside the tent talking to the guru from Pakistan who we'd met the previous night in Festival Square.  The disco started at 2300 and finished around 0200 and its at that point that the evening got really interesting.  We then jumped in a taxi and headed down to the Whitworth Art Gallery where Nikhil Chopra was presenting  Coal on Cotton: "A live performance for 65 continuous hours in the yet-to-be-completed landscape gallery" (it says here).  I was quite moved by it even though by the time we got there the artist was actually just asleep on the floor.  But the work he had completed so far was quite interesting and the whole venue was just really calm and peaceful.  It was rather lucky that the weather was so good though as the roof of the extension as not yet been completed. We had a coffee at the cafe and then headed back into Manchester (walking) as the sun rose.  Truly magical (despite us all being quite drunk :-).... I got to bed at 0500.  I know!

Today has been a recovery day.

Oh and I need to tell you about The Old Woman.  Me and the aforementioned lovely Lesley (should I just refer to her as LL from now on?  Is that a bit Welsh though?) went to The Palace Theatre to see this play.  OMG it was amazing.  In some ways similar to The Life and Times of Marina Abramovitch (see review from 2 years ago)  given that it starred Willem Defoe and was directed by.... no,  I've forgotten, but the same guy that did the other one. But not quite as good because it was only Willem and Mikhail Baryshnikov on the stage the whole time and it didn't have Antony of Antony and the Johnsons (I love him). But fucking fantastic all the same.

Waterloo is just a sublime pop song.

Am excited that Michael Nyman is appearing at the Royal Northern College of Music (that well known paedophile den) and have booked a single ticket coz no-one else will want to see him.

When I started this blog entry I had a head full of random thoughts to share with you but I'm on a second martini (that's right, drinking on my own - so sue me) and so they've all gone now.  

Just seen that Geordie Shore is on MTV (Mamma Mia has finished obvs) so will check it out as I've never seen it before. 

And finally, before I press the "publish" button, I found out today that YOLO stands for You Only Live Once. So now you know too....

That's all my darlings. Looking forward to lots more arts over the coming days.  J x

Geordie Shore. Are they from Newcastle?

I'm sorry I really need to share a Geordie Show quote with you: "And no ones banging on about fanny because there's none here.  Just cock" (the guys have inadvertently walked into a tranny bar) 



1 comment:

fig said...

Had the Geordies walked into Napoleons?


Oh. Just. Typing. The. Word.

Can't wait to see you

fig x