30 minute Royal Northern Gardens film finished in december - recently hosted on googlevideo
no post since monday... that's not like me...
dreamt that me & J (from hotel full of cops) were on different sides of a sectarian struggle and were meant to hate each other but ended up laughing at a cushion salesman practising falling into a carefully arranged placement of cushions... echoes of the wind that shakes the barley there that i saw this week at some point... using up the july free cinema tickets...
i don't know when i saw it though, can't have been tuesday because me & felinity were clambering around london rooftops to take this picture, wednesday i was rehearsing, last night i was cycling around half naked and saw... no but i'll tell that story in a moment... maybe it was monday night?
so it was very good (the wind that shakes the barley), if a little forced in it's storytelling right at the end, and this only noticeable because the story floats so naturally through most of the film, a fictional story set against 1920's ireland, the early days of the IRA, the brutality of the english soldiers... the lead actor from breakfast on pluto is excellent in it...
tuesday saw me & felinity climb to the high place above somerset house that i've been wanting to take her to, to take a picture of one of the stars of the star odyssey, she is only the second person to have possession of that particular star, testament to her networking, internet self... the indian restaurant that backs onto the spiral staircase had it's window open and i spoke to one of the waiters, telling him we'd be in there in about 5 minutes... unfortunately this drew a security guard's attention to our descent and we got told off on reaching the ground...
felinity took pictures of our journey up there and a few pictures of the star - although the picture that she posted to the community was one i took... (i so tried not to mention that fact... honestly i did...)
so anyway we went to said indian restuarant and ate, coming back to the fountains @ somerset house to wash our hands, then crossing the river again to where i'd taken some video for my thames path project when i met her, and where i wanted to take some more, a few hours had passed and a metre of so of tidal water level had shifted... we finished the night sipping G & T's in the national theatre bar... very nice... felinity great company as ever...
in fact i remember now, i went into town to take thames path video on monday night and went to see the wind that shakes the barley directly after, the same plan last night, i cycled in without a top on, first time for me in town on a bike semi naked but it was cool...
i arrived at my videoing point only to find a photoshoot going on exactly there, i had to wait around for half an hour, taking odd bits of video and pictures until they left, which meant that i missed fearless @ the pictures and ended up watching the lakehouse which was so, so, so stupid of me... it also meant that i didn't get back in time to meet spski and do the deflea i'd planned for balthazara last night... darned photoshoot...the lakehouse was average to bad, keanu reeves is unbelievably bad and sandra bullock is so-so, the story has a few irritating holes, although the idea is a good one, added to this is that to my left on my row was a group of tourists who just wouldn't shut up... massively irritating, i spoke to them early on which shut them up for a time but after awhile they just carried on and i learned to live with it, being as it wasn't the greatest film... and i thought about this, why should it matter to me when it clearly is a rubbish film... but it DOES matter... it is sooooo rude...
the combined effect of the film and the tourists really wound me up and i cycled over to dinah's stage door for her soothing company as she left work which did me a power of good...
and look at that, no post all week and then you get this huge one...
which reminds me i did my weekly improvisation yesterday and it turned out to be 20 minutes long, googlevideo verifying it now, i don't mind that they've had it ages now being as they dealt with my 30 minute experimental film as well yesterday...
i'll be posting it when it becomes available
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