Some pictures of Diana and Myself, where we now live and places around us, things that we find interesting, amusing or just plain weird!
Friday 24 September 2010
The Downside To Going Out Yesterday,
was that I had a terrible nights sleep as my toe was painful, so it was up at 3 in the morning for a pain killer, which I hate taking, but there it is, so foot up again to watch DVD's to pass the time, first a sort of believable, until an American town was going to be wiped out, save the world disaster movie Outbreak, a strain of virus becomes a killer in Africa, the township is vaporised and the virus is killed but it later appears in the US, lots 'make you think moments' like what on earth was on the producers mind when the the monkey that started the out break in the US when it was caught from the wild in Africa and it arrived from that continent only naturally occurs in South America?
Diana wanted to up date her face book so I put on an old favorite The Cruel Sea, it was a film of one of the many books that were compulsory reading at school, next our evening meal,
then another from the Hitchcock box, Saboteur, filmed during the war it was one of many made fueling the hysteria about spies in the system, all of the tourists attractions had to be 'made' in the studio, filming land marks at the time was prohibited, I guess the most famous shot was when the villain was being help as he clung from the Statue of Liberty, the hero stopping him from falling by holding on to his sleeve till a rope could be found, but due to buying a cheap suit the stitches began to give way, would the rope arrive in time?
then another Cirque Du Soleil, Varekai, this show was a riot of colour, costume, dress and make up, best of all it was mad, totally mad! I mean that in the nicest way, the performers were absolutely superb, Diana and myself were both spellbound by the skill, daring and craft of the performers, we both said if we had the chance we would like to see the show live,
now this is a strange one, Pan's Labyrinth, I bought it on Blu-Ray a long time ago, just never got around to watching it, I guessed it was a kids sort of thing, boy was I wrong! OK it had mythical creatures with two or three fairies helping the young heroine along, but gory, cruel and torture thrown into the mix, it takes place during the Spanish uprising at the end of the Second World war, at an outpost, it is held by troops fighting the insurgents, it is enough to say that Mercy's face had fled, a well crafted and memorable movie, an adults fairy tale, also if you are tempted to buy it (and I am glad I did), it is in Spanish but with English subtitles, moving on we had one more from Tales Of The Unexpected, then hobble off to bed.
so it was up at 3 in the morning for a pain killer, which I hate taking, but there it is, so foot up again to watch DVD's to pass the time, first a sort of believable, until an American town was going to be wiped out, save the world disaster movie Outbreak, a strain of virus becomes a killer in Africa, the township is vaporised and the virus is killed but it later appears in the US, lots 'make you think moments' like what on earth was on the producers mind when the the monkey that started the out break in the US when it was caught from the wild in Africa and it arrived from that continent only naturally occurs in South America?
Diana wanted to up date her face book so I put on an old favorite The Cruel Sea, it was a film of one of the many books that were compulsory reading at school, next our evening meal,
then another from the Hitchcock box, Saboteur, filmed during the war it was one of many made fueling the hysteria about spies in the system, all of the tourists attractions had to be 'made' in the studio, filming land marks at the time was prohibited, I guess the most famous shot was when the villain was being help as he clung from the Statue of Liberty, the hero stopping him from falling by holding on to his sleeve till a rope could be found, but due to buying a cheap suit the stitches began to give way, would the rope arrive in time?
then another Cirque Du Soleil, Varekai, this show was a riot of colour, costume, dress and make up, best of all it was mad, totally mad! I mean that in the nicest way, the performers were absolutely superb, Diana and myself were both spellbound by the skill, daring and craft of the performers, we both said if we had the chance we would like to see the show live,
now this is a strange one, Pan's Labyrinth, I bought it on Blu-Ray a long time ago, just never got around to watching it, I guessed it was a kids sort of thing, boy was I wrong! OK it had mythical creatures with two or three fairies helping the young heroine along, but gory, cruel and torture thrown into the mix, it takes place during the Spanish uprising at the end of the Second World war, at an outpost, it is held by troops fighting the insurgents, it is enough to say that Mercy's face had fled, a well crafted and memorable movie, an adults fairy tale, also if you are tempted to buy it (and I am glad I did), it is in Spanish but with English subtitles, moving on we had one more from Tales Of The Unexpected, then hobble off to bed.
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