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.
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!
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?
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!
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.
I like strong, sweet tea and cold, quiet days.
When I am old I plan to be gloriously eccentric. I'm pretty eccentric now, honestly.
I could spend my life on the top deck of a bus if I had the oppertunity. I like the freedom it gives me.
I plan to write for the whole of my existance, I can't see a reason why not. Proper job? No thankyou.
Happiness for me can be found in a canned sticky toffee pudding. There's joy in the simple pleasure of licking the toffee residue off the can.
I can recite the "Frailty, thy name is woman" speech in Hamlet, a play which I love. I find comfort in the fact that, however bad you think your life is, Hamlet's will be worse.
I go and see every Shakespeare play they put on at the RSC, because I like Shakespeare. I like the way he captures people. I think Mariah Gale is an exceptional actress.
I become atatched to fictional characters, and have been known to cry at romantic couples in novels. & I'm not sure I belive in true love in real life. Go Figure.
In short; I'm pretty paradoxical. And I like it. Life's more interesting that way.
Oh, brave new world...
ReplyDeleteI'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!
By the way, I meant to add...
ReplyDeleteI 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?
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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ReplyDeleteIt'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!
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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