Gershwin and Zatoichi
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Original Date posted: Mon, 18 October 2004 03:49:59
Post: It's time to update this site with another journal entry. I don't really feel like doing any work at the moment, I'm very tried, and this seems to be a valid substitute. All I've got to do is an assignment; write up four lectures and some questions. Instead I'll waste my time writing this for all the people on the interweb that read other people's journals.
This week I have done a few things of interest. On Thursday night (after my LONG university day – leave for uni at 8:15a.m. and get home at 10:30p.m.) I saw "Zatoichi" at the Warwick Student Cinema. I went through a phase of watching all the Asian movies I could, horror, samurai, anime, drama, ping pong, etc... . In doing so I watched a few great movies and a whole lot of crap. This crap had put me off foreign cinema for a few months, the last movie I recall watching being Azumi. Anyway, Zatoichi has firmly reinstalled my confidence in Asian cinema. It's a refreshing blend of drama, samurai and comedy with a rip-roaringly fantastic blow out soundtrack ( - "The Sun") by Keiichi Suzuki was nothing short of breath taking. I now officially support all of Beat Takeshi's (Takeshi Kitano) work and have reminded my self to watch "Dolls".
Then on Friday I slept through my lectures and woke at 1p.m. At 3, I and Samantha left for Birmingham, via Leamington station. We were going to see the Birmingham symphony orchestra perform a tribute to George Gershwin, the famous song writer from the thirties. Despite a few mishaps, i.e. getting the wrong train due to Leamington spa's awful teleservice and walking for a mile in the wrong direction because someone (not me-hint) misread a map, we got there in good time. There we enjoyed some free jazz beforehand, a nice drink of lilt and an upper circle seat looking forward and down at the orchestra. From there we watched in awe as we were pleasured with the aural delights of "Rhapsody in Blue", "Summertime" and other classics. I plan to return soon to watch the Charlie Chaplin movie, "City Lights" with a live accompaniment.
Post: It's time to update this site with another journal entry. I don't really feel like doing any work at the moment, I'm very tried, and this seems to be a valid substitute. All I've got to do is an assignment; write up four lectures and some questions. Instead I'll waste my time writing this for all the people on the interweb that read other people's journals.
This week I have done a few things of interest. On Thursday night (after my LONG university day – leave for uni at 8:15a.m. and get home at 10:30p.m.) I saw "Zatoichi" at the Warwick Student Cinema. I went through a phase of watching all the Asian movies I could, horror, samurai, anime, drama, ping pong, etc... . In doing so I watched a few great movies and a whole lot of crap. This crap had put me off foreign cinema for a few months, the last movie I recall watching being Azumi. Anyway, Zatoichi has firmly reinstalled my confidence in Asian cinema. It's a refreshing blend of drama, samurai and comedy with a rip-roaringly fantastic blow out soundtrack ( - "The Sun") by Keiichi Suzuki was nothing short of breath taking. I now officially support all of Beat Takeshi's (Takeshi Kitano) work and have reminded my self to watch "Dolls".
Then on Friday I slept through my lectures and woke at 1p.m. At 3, I and Samantha left for Birmingham, via Leamington station. We were going to see the Birmingham symphony orchestra perform a tribute to George Gershwin, the famous song writer from the thirties. Despite a few mishaps, i.e. getting the wrong train due to Leamington spa's awful teleservice and walking for a mile in the wrong direction because someone (not me-hint) misread a map, we got there in good time. There we enjoyed some free jazz beforehand, a nice drink of lilt and an upper circle seat looking forward and down at the orchestra. From there we watched in awe as we were pleasured with the aural delights of "Rhapsody in Blue", "Summertime" and other classics. I plan to return soon to watch the Charlie Chaplin movie, "City Lights" with a live accompaniment.
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