18 Feb 2010

It's a blue, bright blue, Saturday.














I went to Scotland for a few days. It was beautiful. Sometimes the sea and the sky were the same color and you couldn't tell which was which, like the vanishing point.





5 comments:

  1. Oh, brave new world...

    I've read hundreds of blogs and profiles since I started adding my two penn'orth last month. Yours is one of the best.

    The bit of Hamlet I can recite is 'Tis now the very witching time of night etc.' I used to work in a theatre and knew several RSC actors. Katy Stephens was quite a close friend. I believe she made a bit of a splash a couple of years ago. I've lost touch with her now.

    So, I'm going to follow your blog, if you don't mind. Make it good!

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  2. By the way, I meant to add...

    I do hope you manage to go through life without ever getting a proper job. There's enough wealth in this culture to keep the brighter thinkers thinking brightly, and not forcing them onto a treadmill. Unless, that is, you manage to find a job you love doing, and that allows you to do it as you see fit. There aren't many of those.

    Oddly enough, it's communist Russia that fascinates me. I think it's something to do with the richness of conflict, tension and paradox within a human community that is torn between the past and the present. Have you seen the film Citizen X?

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  3. It's the 20th February. NOW it's Saturday. The sky is blue in dear old Derbyshire. Much of the rest of the view is still white.

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  4. Hello :)
    It's really very lovely to get feedback on my blog - mainly because I never really think anyone is reading it! It's particularly nice that you singled mine out - although I'm not overly sure why. I'm interested in how you came across me, by the way?
    Thankyou for your support over not getting a proper job - I find quite a lot of people feel the same way :)
    I've never seen Citizen X, is it good? I get to study communist Russia next year for my A2 Level history - I'm very much looking forward to it.
    I really hope I don't dissapoint!

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  5. Citizen X is a modern classic, in my opinion. It's ostensibly a murder mystery, based on an actual serial killer - and it pulls no punches. But it's also about the political constraints in small town, communist Russia. Of all the films I like set in pre-glasnost Russia (The Russia House, Gorky Park, the Harry Palmer films,) I think this is the best. It also stars Stephen Rea, one of my favourite actors.

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