I just had another look at the second from last post and realised how terribly Victorian it all sounded. Like some long dead explorer’s diary entry…
‘…a strange and terrible melancholy has settled over all since we finished the last of Oates for our morning repast. I fear this could take some explaining back in the Mother country. Will have to think of something heroic to put in journal… and something new for the pot…’
So, the melancholy has lifted a touch and so on and so forth. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Time to stop whining.
The good news of the week has been the announcement of the new Bond Title, ‘A Quantum Of Silence’ (for those who live under a rock… on Mars… or just have better things to do). Which must have made everybody smile and scratch their collective heads in equal measure (for more ribaldry see here). And there’s a date posted for Portishead 3 (14-04-08).
The sad news of the week, though, has to be the death of the talented Heath Ledger. While Batman 2 has been filmed and, presumably, will be released on schedule, this does lead to the strong possibility that Terry Gilliam’s film The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus is in jeopardy.
Shiny thing of the week has to be Bjork’s Declare Independence Package. The first physical single from her latest LP. The package bears a striking similarity to a Babushka Doll… I’m not sure I’ve managed to get to the heart of it all yet!
For good or ill, UCT now has a full story which is currently (and hastily) being typed up: whether it’s any good is another matter entirely but it does have some characters and a purpose; and a beginning, a middle and an end which are all probably plus points in the general scheme of things….
…and my Gran found an old photo of my Great-Great-Grandfather taken, we think, in the 1890’s. He looked somewhat like Elgar with an enormous moustache. This sort of thing (direct-ish contact with history) always appeals to me. He worked in a pin-mill apparently (i.e. a mill that made steel pins of various sizes from lengths of steel wire).
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"a strange and terrible melancholy has settled over all since we finished the last of Oates for our morning repast. I fear this could take some explaining back in the Mother country."
I was rather enjoying your turn of phrase. It has something of a 'From the Journal of Jonathan Harker, about it...
...that's what I was trying for! I now feel rather happy! Or is that smug...? ;-)
Unfortunately, I couldn't keep the style up for the whole post.:-(
I like your wit, John and in particular your description of the democratic parties. -If party is the right word to use these days. I used to like visiting some political blogs until lately when it seems as though the Edwardians (talk about melancholy) versus the St. Obama Kool Aid kids meet Shillery has become a rather unpleasant dialectic.
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