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Entertainment!
Dec. 6th, 2022 05:44 pmAfter a couple of weeks of politics and study (more of the latter is impending) it was very pleasant to spend a lot of the last week engaging in some more light-hearted entertainment, in the form of music and film. For the former, I received a mid-evening message from Glenn K, inviting me to see Ride at The Forum. Whilst likable, I didn't really consider them to be my thing, but one should make use of the advantage of living close to the CBD. As it turned out, it was a great night out and I've said as much in my review on Rocknerd. It also provided a good juxtaposition to the Pop Will Eat Itself concert at The Corner a several weeks prior, both in comparison of the two venues and as a pair of thirtieth-anniversary touring albums; "Nowhere", and "This Is The Day ... This Is The Hour ... This is This!", respectively. I really have been quite lax in my music reviews this year (not to mention my RPG reviews), and with scant weeks left before the end of the year, I will endeavour to do something about that.
One fellow attendee at Ride was Erica H., making it the fourth evening in succession I had been in her company. In the previous three we, being of a certain age, followed our classic gothic predilections and made our way through the Wednesday Netflix series, which was thoroughly charming, and I'm really impressed with how Jenna Ortega describes taking on the role. Last evening another visit witnessed the viewing of "I Am Mother", a rather good Australian science-fiction thriller. Over the weekend, visited Brendan E., who is a regular provider of popular culture knowledge to me. I completely neglected to mention several weeks back he entertained with Everything Everywhere All At Once, a thoroughly good SF mind-bender with lots of comic content, and this weekend we delved in the Korean medieval naval war film prequel "Hansan: Rising Dragon", whilst finishing the "implausible but mostly true" story of the SAS, "Rogue Heroes". Finally, another entertaining event of the weekend was attending Penny A's "garden party", which Liana F., openly hi-jacked as her birthday party as well. Plenty of delicious food, and fascinating conversation, and I seem to have made a couple of new friends as well. For now, however, it's back to having the nose at the grindstone, I still have a psychology degree to finish!
One fellow attendee at Ride was Erica H., making it the fourth evening in succession I had been in her company. In the previous three we, being of a certain age, followed our classic gothic predilections and made our way through the Wednesday Netflix series, which was thoroughly charming, and I'm really impressed with how Jenna Ortega describes taking on the role. Last evening another visit witnessed the viewing of "I Am Mother", a rather good Australian science-fiction thriller. Over the weekend, visited Brendan E., who is a regular provider of popular culture knowledge to me. I completely neglected to mention several weeks back he entertained with Everything Everywhere All At Once, a thoroughly good SF mind-bender with lots of comic content, and this weekend we delved in the Korean medieval naval war film prequel "Hansan: Rising Dragon", whilst finishing the "implausible but mostly true" story of the SAS, "Rogue Heroes". Finally, another entertaining event of the weekend was attending Penny A's "garden party", which Liana F., openly hi-jacked as her birthday party as well. Plenty of delicious food, and fascinating conversation, and I seem to have made a couple of new friends as well. For now, however, it's back to having the nose at the grindstone, I still have a psychology degree to finish!
