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Post by Netsuke on Jun 7, 2020 1:09:08 GMT 2
There seems to be some fete of some sort in town. They sure are making a splash. Could be in relation to the permission to have group activities of up to 300 attendees starting from today. Are you thinking of being one of the 300?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2020 17:27:49 GMT 2
The cinemas of France reopen on June 22. That is of utmost importance to me.
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 8, 2020 21:23:13 GMT 2
Netsie, nope. I didn't join in.
K2, I think they reopened last weekend in Switzerland.
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Post by rikita on Jun 11, 2020 1:20:35 GMT 2
i think here the only ones open are a few outdoor cinemas, some only for cars. so, no movies for a. and me, as any outdoor cinema at this time won't show films at the proper times for her ...
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Post by rikita on Jun 11, 2020 1:23:08 GMT 2
ah, just read that in some regions they are already open, but in berlin they'll only reopen on july 1st ... that's not that long away though ...
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 16, 2020 14:59:27 GMT 2
I watched the BBC and WGBH-Boston co-production Dancing in the Street: A History of Rock and Roll.
In all, ten 1 Hr episodes, that I recorded when it was shown in the UK in 1996.
Roughly speaking it covers, in quite some detail, the emergence of new popular music forms, from older almost entirely black origins in the 50 years following WWII.
It was a truly great documentary production and sadly one that is unlikely to ever be re-released due to rights issues over the copious amount of music included.
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 16, 2020 16:49:08 GMT 2
Sounds fab, slow!
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Post by tzarine on Jul 4, 2020 5:40:10 GMT 2
i watched rocio molina on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUk4Pqs_rccause i had tix for her march performance i keep the ticket up to remind me of that era when people went to live performances
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Post by tzarine on Jul 21, 2020 19:11:47 GMT 2
i keep forgetting that the national theatre is streaming plays
reading invisible cities by italo calvino about the stories the young marco polo tells kublai khan
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Post by tzarine on Aug 3, 2020 21:55:47 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 7, 2020 11:34:09 GMT 2
The United Nations is here. I am sitting on my sofa which is made in Australia (actually in a south/eastern suburb of Marvellous Melbourne), watching a South Korean drama on my South Korean television having dinner off a bamboo tray which is made in England and drinking tea from a handmade teapot and cup from Japan.
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 24, 2020 16:20:43 GMT 2
Browsing the web for the paintings of Pieter Jansz Saenredam. His speciality was church interiors, mostly the whitewashed post-iconoclastic interiors of grand Gothic churches in the Netherlands.
There is something oddly disconcerting about his work, much like that of Giorgio de Chirico's exteriors of three centuries later.
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Post by sophie on Aug 25, 2020 6:52:58 GMT 2
Watched ‘White Crow’ tonight, a biographical film about Rudolf Nureyev. I enjoyed the film despite it being a bit jumpy chronologically. But what I liked best was the fact that much of was in Russian with English subtitles and I understood about 25% of it without looking at the subtitles. My Russian isn’t completely dead!
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 26, 2020 13:40:54 GMT 2
Watched ‘White Crow’ tonight, a biographical film about Rudolf Nureyev. I enjoyed the film despite it being a bit jumpy chronologically. But what I liked best was the fact that much of was in Russian with English subtitles and I understood about 25% of it without looking at the subtitles. My Russian isn’t completely dead! I watched Nureyev and Fontaine in Swan Lake when I was in my teens. It was one of the most memorable events in my life and I've never forgotten those jumps around the stage. Man that bloke could leap about. It was beautiful.
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Post by sophie on Aug 26, 2020 17:42:23 GMT 2
I saw those two dance also. Fabulous.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 15, 2020 21:03:10 GMT 2
nets, sophie lucky i can only watch nureyev-fontaine on youtube
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Post by tzarine on Sept 22, 2020 21:33:45 GMT 2
tarkovsky's ivan's childhood about a boy during ww2 is brilliant but dark
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Post by Netsuke on Sept 27, 2020 5:44:53 GMT 2
Eating chocolate in Switzerland is like Chocolate Heaven on Steroids.
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Post by Voy on Sept 27, 2020 14:46:54 GMT 2
Sprungli !!
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Post by tzarine on Nov 10, 2020 21:15:45 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Nov 11, 2020 20:01:16 GMT 2
from the 80s
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/js8kfb/duran_duran_on_a_street_corner_in_nyc_september/
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 11, 2020 21:45:03 GMT 2
Duran Duran! loved them!
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 11, 2020 22:03:57 GMT 2
I managed to see a one-man show two days before our reconfinement.
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 11, 2020 22:20:12 GMT 2
That brings back memories. I'm Hungry Like a Lion!
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 11, 2020 23:12:25 GMT 2
Any good, K2?
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Post by tzarine on Nov 12, 2020 9:50:35 GMT 2
That brings back memories. I'm Hungry Like a Lion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pNyRlNc6fEthe duran videos were shot in sri lanka a boxer bought me a soda in columbo airport during a layover
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 12, 2020 17:36:48 GMT 2
Lads from Birmingham, took their name from Milo O'Shea's character from a film that gave its name to a Birmingham nightclub run by a bunch of faces that really fancied themselves.
In reverse order, they were the Fewtrell brother's who fancied themselves as the Second City's answer to the Krays; the nightclub was Barbarella's (situated a few streets west of the Bull Ring) and hence Milo's character Durand-Durand.
I remember Barbarella's all too well and the brothers.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 12, 2020 19:30:17 GMT 2
i actually saw them in an nyc hotel lobby as i was walking somewhere of course, barbarella. the fantasy of many many boys during that era
the lads from birmingham are still out there
had cafe bustelo today
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2020 21:33:43 GMT 2
It was fine and also depressing at the same time because it was the first... and last performance until further notice.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 14, 2020 23:54:57 GMT 2
i kept all my tickets to cancelled events to remind me of the before times they've reopened the whitney, but there's imminent lockdown due to the staggering numbers i love rocio molina www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUk4Pqs_rc
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