tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83086672012-01-26T20:14:03.724ZRandom reflections on culture, life and the Universe. Warning: will regularly include Scottish actors.Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.comBlogger28561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-14178278198485035372012-01-26T20:13:00.000Z2012-01-26T20:14:03.749Z

Frothy fun!

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We has carpet on our stairs and landing upstairs!

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Love on the dole by Walter Greenwood. Priced to suit the unemployed. 10p secondhand.

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MediumRob asked his question of the week as 'what is your favourite artwork?'One? Just one?!Heck. Not do-able.Firstly, there is the picture above: John William Waterhouse, and one of several versions of Ophelia. I love this particular one as I think it is the only one that captures here is a woman who has gone mad.However, at the opposite of the art spectrum, I could sit in the Rothko room at

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Frock. Oh my, roll on a warmer day as I am LONGING to wear my new dress from this shop...

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Spoilers - spoilers - so if you haven't seen the 'finale' of 'series' two, "The Reichenbach Fall", then look away now.I said NOW.Looking away? Waiting til you have seen the episode?Good.Oh flipperty-gibbets, WHAT a finale!From the opening despair of John Watson visiting his psychiatrist ("I haven't seen you in eighteen months" - oh we know, we KNOW! [1]), and the streaming rain of tears outside

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It's lovely to be reminded of the great books we have when sorting through them.

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This week the UK got to see 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', the latest of - incredibly - many versions of Dicken's unfinished novel.The adaptation by Gwyneth Hughes was utterly suitably melodramatic, but it was also spectacularly entertaining. With a great cast it shone in virtually every respect but Matthew Rhys as John Jasper was stunningly tormented and yet not entirely hateable. A resolute

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Kim Novak has very publicly criticised the score for 'The Artist' for using - with a credit - part of the score for 'Vertigo'. In doing so she makes problematic use of the term 'rape'. Sorry Ms Novak, but I am increasingly of the opinion that the word 'rape' is too specific as a term for a criminal act, often sexually/power motivated, to be any longer in its more general sense.So what SHOULD be

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With each episode 90 minutes long, it is all to easy to forget these are actually feature films. So whilst we may be weeping that there have so far only been two 'series' of 3 episodes each, that's the equivalent of six feature films. We've got one more left here in the UK but despite my understanding the film length it still feels too little. But these are fabulous works. And I will be watching

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We had quite a cultural day yesterday - started off by going to Nottingham Contemporary to catch the Klaus Weber exhibition before it closes today; walking around St. Mary's Church in Hockley; going to the Broadway Cinema to see The Artist; and ending up by watching the first couple of episodes of Borgen, our new Scandi Saturday drama.All in all a very lovely day and I will try and post some

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Back in 2009, Neil and I skipped ahead of the UK release date curve for the Swedish version of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. This involved being in New Zealand - in a cinema I sadly suspect no longer exists thanks to the earthquakes: sniff for the Kaiapoi PictureHouse Cinema.Then they announced there would be the inevitable English Language film remake(s) of Larsson's book(s).*Sigh*Once I

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If Cloud can have something new as his backdrop, so can I. Of course he got there first so he gets the spiffy books background (sniff!) but this will be a nice stop-gap.

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-91957296619371205232012-01-01T18:27:00.003Z2012-01-01T18:36:20.427Z

It's been a reading kind of a weekend - I've devoured my way through Madeleine L'Engle's excellent "A Wrinkle in Time" (every bit as good as I recalled it from childhood), Oliver Pötzsch's very atmospheric "The Hangman's Daughter" (set in the mid 17th century in Germany) and am now reading Cloud's recommended "Temporary Perfections" by Gianrico Carofiglio.All excellent stuff.All this and

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Neil found this left behind shopping list and its ominous PS at the bottom of a shopping trolley.

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Ian McMillan foolishly suggested that Dickens' Great Expectations could not be summed up in an Edward Lear limerick form.McMillan was proven wrong within the day.

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Ah, the festive season.Time for Ghostbusters I feel. Cloud had been hankering after this 'Last Exit to Nowhere' t-shirt for quite some time.

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Well we have parsnips. And the Saturday Guardian newspaper. So even tho I still feel constantly sick at least we're snuggled up safe and warm. Happy xmas everyone!

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Well some milk would be good since the supermarket at 8pm resembled an old  Soviet state shop - wrecked shelves desolate of consumables. I'd  also rather like some parsnips but apparantly they'd vanished by 4pm! Did I miss the memo about food supplies stopping till Easter?  And why were there still bags of Brussels galore on the shelves when the eggs shelves looked like the foxes had raided the

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You know Xmas has officially started when you're sat amongst an applauding and sobbing audience at the end of It's a Wonderful Life. Neil had some grit in his eyes...

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And if that doesn't work for you there is always the old favourite of mine - Santa's Reindeer.

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Yes, Digital Theatre are now allowing on-line viewing or downloading of several British theatre productions from recent times, including Much Ado About Nothing starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.There are a select number of plays available, but that's fine. I may well watch the RSC production from 2009 of As You Like It to see how Katy Stephen's compares to the adorable Maria Gale (when I

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Sound it Out is a fabulous movie ostensibly about a record shop in the North-East town of Stockton-on-Tees. But is SOOOO much more than that.If you get chance to see it then I would definitely recommend you go. There are so many reasons to love this film:It's about musicIt's about vinyl especially, and people's love for the physical objects of music transmissionIt's NOT JUST about music but

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Well this was a gem of a find --- Neil had been to Broadway Market earlier in the year (whilst me and the girls were indulging in Much Ado), and mentioned that to get to it you had to go to Bethnel Green tube station on the Central Line and walk past the Museum of Childhood.Walk past?I don't think so.Turned out this wasn't as he thought just the Tower Hamlets museum of childhood, but rather a

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-66661848833900604632011-12-17T09:47:00.002Z2011-12-17T09:53:45.096Z

Only a short slot on Steve Lamacq's "Good Day / Bad Day" slot on 6Music, but I did my five minutes of fame last night. Not sure if the iPlayer works beyond the UK shores, but I know folks are inventive and I will try and get the sound clip added to YouTube if I can so can share the sound of me talking (you fools!)Rullsenberg - at about 47 minutes in - should be up for the next 7 days

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Delayed? Someone got over-excited? Or just someone at Amazon trying to wind people up?Either way it seems that our Much Ado about Much Ado was a little preemptory. Drat.

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Whee! Despite having to get up at stupid o'clock, it is always lovely to get a day out in London.We arrived about 8.20am and headed off for our usual breakfast at Bar Bruno - yummy!We then headed around the corner to Sister Ray (aka Selectadisc of the South) a favourite haunt if we're not in the vicinity of Rough Trade. We loitered outside the store - we were a good 15-20 mins too early for

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We went to the NPG (National Portrait Gallery) for the Taylor Wessing Photography Prize, but stayed for some extra bits as well.The images are always interesting and many are definitely worth close inspection - the winners for Taylor Wessing 2011 are here - and some really captured my imagination. It's capturing the sitter that is so interesting, though where images come from a series I do wish

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Ahead of me getting around to blogging about my lovely day out in London on Saturday, here's some news to gladden.Much Ado About Nothing, the Wyndham's production that starred David Tennant and Catherine Tate, is being released in DVD in February 2012.Hallelujah!

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-33090852845546027392011-12-02T13:37:00.001Z2011-12-02T13:37:00.105Z

As Normblog hits 400 with his weekly Blogger Profiles (see the back catalogue for recognisable names from the past lives of this blog), it's the turn of the lovely Adèle Geras.I was especially taken by this question and answer:What is your favourite proverb? - Not a real proverb but a quote from knitwear designer Kaffe Fassett: 'If in doubt, add twenty more colours.' This is a variant of my

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Just to say, I've been updating the 'Television of 2011' post.

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Drifting as I am through my music collection at the moment, updating the CDs on my computer and revelling in re-filing the shelves, I'm looking at all the things that seem to be absent. I'm therefore baffled to discover we own Amy's first album "Frank" (a fine work anyway), but why this and not also the magnificent Back to Black?

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A bit early yet I know, and there have been other things I've enjoyed this year on TV, but these are my personal awards for the year. And you'll spot No Downton Abbey. Sorry. Not my cuppa, as much as I love the frocks.Best International programmeForbrydelsen So back in January 2011 The Killing crept into our house and took our hearts. Sarah Lund for heroine of the year? Enjoying Forbrydelsen

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Blimey it can get a bit out of date can't it? have been through and done some shifting of stuff into 'Resting Blogs' and deleting some old no-longer functional links.Hope I have captured them all.

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-591678662647341322011-11-27T12:50:00.007Z2011-11-27T17:55:12.593Z

Last year, Bellowhead lost out on having access to a big space at Derby and had to content themselves with the ridiculously small space of the Darwin Suite at Derby Assembly Rooms.It was VERY full indeed.This year, thankfully, they got the large Assembly Rooms space itself --- and it was STILL rammed to the rafters (plus full on the seated areas too).Seeing Bellowhead is always a joyous event ---

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-84507970670044241562011-11-13T14:42:00.003Z2011-11-13T14:55:22.770Z

I frequently forget (temporarily, sometimes permanently) my passwords for online accounts. Hey: there are a lot to recall.Hence there is also a rullsenberg account on LibraryThing from when I couldn't recall my darn password.Anyway: lately I have been trying to make RullsenbergLisa's LibraryThing more representative of the Rullsenberg and Roberts household of books. (See sidebar). It's proving

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I LOVE these recommendations/rules on what you can carry in a MPH book-bag.

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-64410920959279709822011-11-01T13:29:00.003Z2011-11-01T15:30:32.499Z

Feeling much better - though frankly I couldn't have gone had not felt better than the Friday night - we headed into this production of Dream with high hopes for both much needed laughter and magic.It did not disappoint.The production used the now common Peter Brook's technique of 'doubling' characters between the scenes in Athens and the fairy world. Theseus becomes Oberon; Hippolyta becomes

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-55366325611306551382011-10-31T08:18:00.003Z2011-10-31T09:33:25.728Z

I let the actors down; I let myself down; I let you down.I booked to see Written on the Heart, David Edgar's play about the writing of the King James Bible, back in January 2011 when I did my mammoth booking fest for the year. So I have been looking forward to this production for quite some time.What was not to like? It's about one of the most important English language books ever, about the

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-34065522878937796442011-10-27T08:19:00.001Z2011-10-27T12:39:26.405Z

The Guardian gave it a 4 star review when reviewing this production at Liverpool earlier this month of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.This fast-talking new translation of Brecht's satire is certainly worth seeing, though whether you will keep pace with the dialogue is more debatable (The Observer review intimates this concern).Last night was preview night in Nottingham (it is on until

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We had a fab day out yesterday: we got the bus to Nottingham and then (making a detour via Page 45 --- more Buffy comics! a new volume of The Unwritten!) headed to the train station where I picked up the latest Doctor Who Magazine with its extensive tribute to the glorious and much missed Lis Sladen.We get the train to Matlock, though we're getting off a little earlier at the lovely village of

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The RSC has put up a video of audience reactions - largely visiting students / college pupils - regarding Marat / Sade.The press night is tonight.I wonder how they will react?*Update*Guardian review - reasonably fair I feel... I'd have maybe gone with 3.5 stars.A pretty thorough blog review that is well worth reading from The Real ChrisSparkle.

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Belatedly completed I know - but Blogger kept eating the post (or Firefox turned my text into Alien Form Shakespeare).Anyway I was glad to find that SOMEONE liked the end of Doctor Who season 6 / Fnarg plus 1 / season 32 (Thanks On The Box). And even MediumRob was fine with it having been intermittently disappointed by the 2011 two half series.And guess what? I liked it too.In fact - as I noted

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After Scotland were sadly knocked out early, England shamed everyone with numpty behaviour (wouldn't wanna be Tindall going home to see the in-laws right now), and Wales were harshly beaten by France (by heck, Sarkozy must have been thinking 'I've better things to do than globe-trot to watch odd-shaped balls being chucked about: I've a European economy to save!'), one could have been forgiven for

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-55825869508797014202011-10-16T18:30:00.003Z2011-10-16T18:36:59.077Z

Oh my goodness.... Just close your eyes and listen...

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If you have seen the cover of this book you will probably have been tempted to pick it up.If not: what the hell is wrong with you?Anyway: we picked up Ransom Rigg's debut novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children in San Francisco and I have to say I've been itching to read it since then. Today I finally settled down to it and devoured the whole thing in the afternoon. I'm almost

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Marat/Sade - or to give its full title "The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" - is currently being revived by the RSC at Stratford.This was always going to be a dangerous proposition, for despite Peter Weiss's German play being an intentionally provocative work, the RSC's 1964 production has

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-55885645185135327462011-10-14T17:51:00.001Z2011-10-14T17:51:00.852Z

Oh my life, I really do LOVE BBC3's series The Fades. Not only does it have a high geek quotient (references to Susan Cooper, Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman to just name three of my favourite name-checks), but it is also wonderfully filmed and performed.Great visuals too as hinted at in this rather well put together piece.

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-57856081560018350122011-10-14T08:26:00.001Z2011-10-14T09:56:24.273Z

Once upon a time, there was a blogger who blogged so often that she was able to conjure an annual number of posts that averaged at approximately 2-3 per DAY.Let's look at the stats (they're in the sidebar but they make for salutory reading):2004 - 47 posts. Heck I didn't start till the Autumn...2005 - 762 posts. Phew - seriously addicted. January, March and August were the lowest productive

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Oh yes...All courtesy of the entrepreneurial spirit of New Zealand as one man turns his shed into a weekend nostalgia museum. Enter through the TARDIS.And when the museum is open, his home made dalek stalks the lawn!

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-30422738507897884682011-09-30T08:29:00.005Z2011-09-30T08:39:43.324Z

It's weird given that in the UK the roads and planting are at best done last, if not constituting an entirely accidental afterthought.In New Zealand, landscaping, roads, pathways etc are usually done first: hence why on some estates you get the grand entrance way built to an estate which never actually comes to fruitition.Anyway, some estates DO start to come to life: I hope Pegasus is one, as

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Critical faculty hats off everybody: Rullsenberg tackles the difficult questions of whether Torchwood was worth watching and whether Doctor Who still has IT.Didn't you spot the 'switch off your critical faculties' line?What can I say that hasn't already been written? In an age where the internet - especially Twitter and Facebook - mean that every faultline, every contradiction, every incoherant

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In the run up to our journey to NZ, Christchurch had a real blast of winter. Indeed, the Thursday we flew out of the UK (off to sunny 30 degrees in Los Angeles), Neil's mum was only just getting dug out of the snow drifts at her home.Southern hemisphere you see --- their winter. So we could have been really caught out - stuck and unable to reach the family. As it was, it perfect timing, the sun

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Neil and I could not resist photographing the sign but... no - he didn't.

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We had a blast last time we went to the Getty, but the journey there was a tad traumatic. Working out we could go via Santa Monica, and then through Brentwood up to the Getty was a great treat and much less hassle. And - befitting a sunny summer day - we had a glorious time again.There is something exquisite about the light and colour of the place. Here's a short video of the visit. If you

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Neil and Rullsenberg on the train to London - ready for the big adventure! It has to be admitted that as our tube later in the journey passed by Earl's Court, Neil did teasingly suggest we make another visit to the Doctor Who Experience... We were tempted but...Rullsenberg at Heathrow T5 at ungodly o'clock ahead of our flight. Very relieved that I had surrendered the (nevertheless would have

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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzI'm a bit zoinked from travelling but I'll be back with news and reviews of our travels over the coming days.Wednesday 17 August - travelled to London, overnight at Sheraton Skyline HeathrowThursday 18 August - fly out from Heathrow 09:55Thursday 18 August - arrive in LA and stay at Marriott LAX, visit Santa Monica (lots), Getty, and Armand Hammer gallerySaturday 20 August -

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Very short snippet videos but at least they're up! Thanks to the person who shot these. If you see a woman with red hair dancing near the front - that was me! Here's my pics: And here's my little video!

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Over the course of our weekend at Summer Sundae there was a lot of music in passing, in the background, tasted and moving on. I'll deal with those first on each days list. Hopefully I will add links but if not, hey Google is a pretty good search engine! Just to say, Neil bought a stetson. Yes: Stetsons Are Cool. Friday Passing stuff: Other Lives, Wolf People, By the Rivers, Givers, The

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On Saturday, I wore stripey socks, a short dark blue dress and a red cardigan. See: there I am in all my coloured stripe finery! (above) But as I had been to Jack Wills - oh I know I really shouldn't - and been tempted by another lovely blazer that Neil spotted for me (and it was in the sale), well ---- Oh it does feel a mighty fine jacket! And it seemed like a good time to try on my

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Being honest, that first visit to see the current production of Betrayal - starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Miles and Douglas Henshall - was lost in a haze of giddy delight. (Give a girl a break: I was in row B and was lucky enough to see the cast afterwards at the stage door. It was - to put it mildly - 'a bit of a day' all ways round).Anyway: such a good set of performances deserve a more

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Neil zooms in on Rullsenberg... with stripey scarf.

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It's 60 years since the Festival of Britain and the South Bank has been recreating some flavours of the event - there is an excellent museum of '51 (well worth visiting whether you recall the original event or not), and they have installed some lovely reminders of the period. A beach from Southend-on-Sea (complete with old posters) and the flagpole symbol.Rullsenberg by the flowers at the '

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Rullsenberg and Neil face their first Dalek together!What can I say?!Frank went and I thought... you know what I really DO want to go to the Doctor Who Experience at Olympia in London!So when the lovely Mark (Neil's brother) offered for us all to go whilst the NZ family was in London - well I was VERY excited!Pre-view of the exhibition space in the waiting areaThe interactive bit may not be as

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So, we've had a mega long walk from South Kensington to Covent Garden where we pause to eat. I'm thinking it's about 9.45pm when we pass through St Martin's Lane near the back of Wyndham's Theatre. Consequently, my 'jokey' request to head to see how many fans are already loitering for her stage door exit isn't seriously thinking I can join them for the Tennant and Tate emergence.Actually, the

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It isn't quite as crazy as it sounds: Neil's brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew were on an extended visit to the UK --- they went to LA first, then over to the UK to London, to the West Midlands to visit their old home, to Scotland to visit family, to Budapest and Vienna and then back over to London (which was where we caught up with them).It was just delightful to be able to see them,

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Gah: more than half way through the year gone.We started in February with the cultural schedule like this. NT live! screening of Donmar Warehouse King Lear - review National Theatre production of Hamlet at Nottingham Theatre Royal - reviewADDED - Estonian Piano Orchestra, London - review Meal with work Romeo and Juliet RSC Stratford - review NT live! screening of National Theatre

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Incendies (2010) is based on Wajdi Mouawad's French-Canadian stage play of the same name, also known as Scorched. Cloud went to see this on Saturday 2 July whilst Helen Lisette and I were ensconced in shallow watching of DVDs. Incendies is the absolute antithesis of shallow, and when Cloud emerged he felt he had to get me to go back with him to see it (to share the trauma one might suggest).

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It was a lost weekend in a house in Nottingham...ThursdayMain meal = chinese takeawayWatched:LA Confidentialend of Harry Potter 4FridayMain meal = pizzaWatched:French FilmDoctor Who 'Doomsday'Lawless Heart - Tim's storyBlackpool episode 3Doctor Who full length Confidential episode for Blink - 'Do You Remember the First Time?'Gladiator (extended edition)RSC HamletSaturdayMain meal = poached salmon

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Can I just say: Jasper Fforde - excellent and hilarious writer... and just a little bit hot. And I don't just mean in a 'blimey-it-was-30-degrees-on-Saturday' kinda hot (though it was). The picture doesn't do justice but he a rather ruggedly handsome man (how he is as prolific as he is whilst having a young/growing family is testament as ever to an incredibly understanding wife, and the honed

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Anyone interested in the music industry, in record shops, in independent music, should know by now of Graham Jones' excellent and witty book "Last Shop Standing".So given our passion for music at Chez Rullsenberg and Roberts, we couldn't pass the chance to go and hear the man himself recount some of the best anecdotes from his book in conversation with the great Jim Cooke, formerly of Selectadisc

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Reviews are in for Betrayal at the Comedy theatre London and a few comments are on the bottom of my review/Squee-fest from 4 June 2011.Can I just reiterate though: Quentin Letts is a miserable so-and-so...

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Cloud's remark when we came out of this play possibly suggests a harsher review than will follow. Certainly, although the narrative is ostensibly one based on a follow-up to Macbeth (albeit rooted more in actual medieval Scottish history), you'd have to be pretty dim not to spot the analogies to present-day wars and occupations."Tell the men we'll be in Scotland a little longer than we

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Sentimental? Oh most certainly. But in the best possible way.The Pitmen Painters has been capturing audiences since it was first performed at the Live Theatre in Newcastle back in 2007. As a co-production with the National Theatre in London it then transferred there, before later moving to Broadway, and now The Pitmen Painters is back out on tour around the UK. I would definitely urge anyone

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Well let's just see how it goes eh?

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Come on: you didn't ACTUALLY think Helen and I could wait until we got home Sunday afternoon to watch the Mid-Season Finale for Doctor Who?!Inevitably, everyone, SPOILER-TASTICSPOILERSAHOYStill here? Good.Needless to say: we loved it. Helen felt vindicated after she had worked out what was going on with River Song during the week (and I had refused to let her even speculate to me - amazingly I

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From the ridiculous to the sublime.... from Much Ado with its alternating frothy comedy and dark heart, to an altogether darker tale but one with painfully acute humour riven through its narrative. Betrayal at the Comedy theatre - until 20 August 2011.Harold Pinter's 'Betrayal' is a searing portrayal of an affair. I came to the play not having read it or seen it previously but somewhat aware of

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-59064186417552787322011-06-05T15:48:00.007Z2011-06-05T17:58:24.243Z

Much Ado - visit number 2: doubt it will even prove to be the penultimate visit (if I can possible manage it...)After the chaos of getting the collective hormonal hordes to the Much Ado matinee performance on Saturday 21 May, it was now 'take 2': me and HLW down for the weekend and meeting up with grandmother of the lovely girl we got to the stage door all the way back in October 2008.

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At last, at last. Postponed from 14 December 2010 due to Stuart Murdoch having a cold, the Leicester crowd had literally waited nearly 6 months for this http://www.belleandsebastian.com/ gig to happen. We really really wanted it to happen. Nottingham's The Soundcarriers struck a fine note of Stereolab-inspired 1969 California Psych-Pop...but bless 'em, on a hot Friday evening nearly EVERYONE was

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-89577890610727048522011-05-27T17:39:00.003Z2011-05-27T17:50:34.191Z

Leonora Carrington, whose death was announced today, has long been a heroine and a favourite artist of mine: the works of hers I saw at West Dean courtesy of The Edward James Foundation were a delight to see, and there is something wonderfully magical about her style.In the past I've written and researched a little about Carrington - my alter life as a scholar of Surrealism, especially English

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-41668966117956932202011-05-26T07:30:00.008Z2011-05-26T08:35:53.472Z

Kostas Smoriginas as EscamilloRight: first off, we enjoyed this. That may not seem radical but the accepted and touted view on this production seems to be a hearty thumbs down. Those who have bothered to review it have struggled to give it two stars and comments on the Nottingham version even complained about who was in the cast.So how come we seem more charitable?Well, Cloud hadn't been to an

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-66717859486447740122011-05-22T18:07:00.001Z2011-05-22T18:07:00.142Z

I didn't go to the stage door yesterday after the matinee performance: I could have, should have, and I honestly don't know why I didn't.Seems I'm pretty good when I need to make things happen for other people, but less good for myself.Have spent goodly energy wasted on kicking self. Meh.Sole downer on a beyond brilliant day. The sun shone and all was well with the world.

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Yum....

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Ever since Neil has known me - over 20 years now and approaching 21 years - I've been in love with the idea of the St Pancras Grand Hotel. A glorious neo-gothic achievement of High Victorian architecture, the hotel had long been closed when we first started going to London together but it already held a place of fascination for me. The announcement and funding of the refurbishment of St Pancras

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It's been coming a LONG while and was the cause of my giddiness both at the time of booking and over the past week. Yes: finally, the collective got to see Much Ado About Nothing starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant.Whoever they are.A wider review of the day will come later: certainly it was a day with much brilliance and beauty surrounding the central event.The Play/ProductionThere is much

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-18068401694161430142011-05-19T08:53:00.003Z2011-05-19T11:09:13.735Z

The League of Youth is an early work by Ibsen, and is currently being staged by Nottingham Playhouse. I'd certainly recommend this production and it was nice to come home after the play to catch up on the Guardian review for it.It was a shame that the audience for this wasn't larger: given the canny use the production makes of extras scattered in the auditorium who join in and are enthused by

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-75628755770118123862011-05-16T20:35:00.001Z2011-05-16T20:36:56.398Z

Radio 3 had a great lunchtime concert on Saturday which we listened to travelling to StratfordAlisa Weilerstein - celloGolijov: OmaramorJ.S. Bach: Suite No. 1 BWV1007Kodaly: Cello Sonata Op. 8Just brilliant and certainly worth catching if you can.

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After a twisty alien-filled, timey-wimey, stetson-wearing, River Song shooting, death-orientated opening pair of episodes (complete with Canton's shout-out to RTD era sexuality), last week's Pirate adveneture seemed to please pretty much no-one.......apart from me (who sat rapt during the whole thing, even though I now acknowledge the Black Spot was as slight a feather boa).ANYWAY: this week was

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From first you walk into the auditorium of the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford for Ruper Goold's new production of "The Merchant of Venice", you will know you have entered a space ready to present a reinterpretation of the text's setting that is likely to divide critical responses. I'll try and avoid taking all the fun out of the 'shocks' the production presents, but inevitably there

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*TRYING NOT TO GET TOO EXCITED*Much Ado about.... something or other.

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I suspect I was probably still in a loop of listening endlessly to Mumford and Sons:I am such a sucker for crescendo...

Lisa Rullsenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020425273742237299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308667.post-4412786073185700352011-05-12T13:14:00.002Z2011-05-15T11:10:41.513Z

Bizarrely a song that always sticks in my head from my youth is Seasons in the Sun, though with the chorus amended to:We had joy, we had funwe had carrots up our bumsbut the carrots were raw and they made our bottoms soreNo, I don't know what we were on about either...Alternatively, an Abba song would probably sum up my childhood quite well: myself and my next door neighbour friend would dress up

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Got it ---- after a long hard think, I've worked what's guilty. A track that only ever reminds me of the fact that I am NOT the pop culture prof that Neil thinks I should be, that inevitably indicates I am doing something silly and fun instead of working, and that highlights the number of hours I have spent not being more productive.But OH such fun....

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Mostly because World Turned Upside Down is a song I can hardly ever hear without wanting to thrash a guitar chord in fury to accompany this song.Neatly, we saw the song's writer (Leon Rosselson) at the Leveller's Day festival a few years ago and I had tears streaming down my face by the end.

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Well, I can't play piano but I can pick out the tune for 'Ode to Joy (Beethoven's 9th) quite well, and I can strum relatively simple chords on a guitar, so Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" would probably be it....

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Mitch Benn, when he is on form, is pretty much guaranteed to make me collapse into giggles. It's unfortunate that so many of his tracks get lost in the regularity of The Now Show, where there have been some absolute crackers.For example, and this is one I vividly remember from its broadcast 13 April 2007: as Benn acerbically noted"...I find myself in an uncomfortable situation this week. You

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Neil has only just stopped laughing at my inner 10 year old being released when I watch Doctor Who.Fear, excitement, giggles and anguish. I think he should have photographed me.Next week... Neil Gaiman's episode. I stuck my fingers in my ears and covered my eyes during the 'Next Time' trailer.SPOILERS TO AVOID!!!

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I won't be there so you play what you like folksThough I quite fancy the soaring glory of the theme for Claudia Cardinale's character (Jill's Theme) in Once Upon a Time in the West.

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Tom Ewing perfectly summarises The Fall in The Guardian 'Film and Music' section today.The band is forever a scary man mumbling nonsense over a savage clatter: next to that, the precise nature of said clatter is irrelevant.Or, as John Peel put it: "always different but always the same".

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Blimey, the facial hair that is the Liberal Democrat party must be feeling pretty hard done by: they're effectively taking all the cuts aimed at the gormless fizzog that is the smug Tory party. There are scarcely any hairs left unscathed amongst the LibDems. Punished only partly covers what has happened.Increasingly, the Tories must feel it's almost a good thing they didn't win an outright

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