Tags: film review, travel
Date: 22 October 2007 12:50:29
I was in Wales for the weekend - and was environmentally friendly and went by train instead of plane. Bah. It would be so much easier to be environmentally friendly if the so called greener forms of transport didn't take so bloody long. From leaving his house yesterday to arriving at mine took the best part of 9 hours!
HD was very amused by the fact that as the cultural activity he was thinking of taking me to - the premiere of Philip Glass's setting of Leonard Cohen's "A Book of Longing" at the Barbican in London - was sold out, we ended up going to see "Ratatouille" instead. Newport Cinema is one of a dying breed - popcorn strewn all over the entrance hall which nobody bothers to sweep up kind of thing (for south-east Londoners of a certain vintage, think Catford Cinema) - and once I was in my seat I found my feet were literally sticking to the floor. Lovely.
As for "Ratatouille" - I went expecting to hate it (it was HD's idea to go) but have to admit to laughing out loud a few times, it was very slapsticky and was quite fun. Not one of Pixar's best, but not a disaster either.
Sorry for relative lack of blogging recently. Life isn't that interesting at the moment (well it is for me, but not with things I particularly want or need to write about), and so I thought I'd spare you the "ate wheat-free home-made muesli for breakfast" type entries. Public service blogging.