weird stuff
stoat | October 18, 2010No, not a man with a stoat through his head. Instead, what appears to be an utterly gratuitious waste of time and money:
Yes, its a 5x. WTF? Presumably, these people really do have so much spare cash that they can create a new hull [update: more likely a converted coxed four; though rumour says that German quints exist] just for a video (though some of the shorts of the bow-bobble nearly going underwater suggest they may have got the shape a touch wrong [update: nope, that is probably them being pushed by the barge]). Thats assuming all this isn't CGI, but I doubt it - some of the shots of…
stoat | February 20, 2010I was dragged screaming from work at the riducously early hour of 7:20 on friday night, by my wife, to listen to this. Being a barbarian, and knowing only that it was by Debussy, I assumed it was a concert. But no, 'tis an opera, although possibly a slightly odd one, since it is largely a transcription of Maeterlinck's play in which people sing lines others would just say. As the opera notes said, and wiki later confirms, this is a "symbolist" play, and we had good fun spotting "symbols", which was most of it. For example at one point there is an odd scene in which Yniold sees the sheep not…