The last time I visited my granny in Scotland, I was sitting at the piano, leafing through a battered old hymn book and trying out the odd tune, when the book flapped open at the very back. The two sides were covered in small, neat handwriting; hymn titles, with their page numbers for ease of [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Human traces
Posted in Thinking, tagged grandpa, human traces, memories on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Trailer of the Week: Twilight
Posted in Watching, tagged robert pattinson, stephanie meyer, trailer of the week, twilight on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Could there be a Dracula Global PR company somewhere, and if so, are its staff working overtime? Because there’s a slew of vampire-driven entertainment coming out, and the common theme is that vampires aren’t all bad. Evidently some of them are still nasty old blood-suckers, but then there are the ones who are apparently just [...]
Marling it up
Posted in Listening, tagged Laura Marling on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steer: there’s a nice Guardian interview here with one of my favourite songstresses, the Mercury-nominated Laura Marling. * Listen on myspace to her current, beatific single Night Terror. * More on Alas I Cannot Swim * and an old review of Laura Marling in concert at the Union Chapel
Trailer of the Week: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Posted in Watching, tagged bfi tennessee williams, elizabeth taylor, paul newman cat on a hot tin roof, trailer of the week on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a worrisome dearth of fun trailers around. So, in honour of the late, great Paul Newman, I thought we could all sip on a shot of good strong melodrama. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is showing in London from November 8 – 29 as part of the British Film Institute’s Tennessee Williams season. [...]
Eighty per cent
Posted in Thinking, tagged 80 per cent CO2, ed miliband 80 per cent, greenpeace, UK CO2 emissions on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow. So last week the committee responsible for advising Parliament on climate change told the government in no uncertain terms that Britain needed to slash its carbon emissions by at least 80 per cent by 2050. In 2000, policymakers came up with a target of 60 per cent, and have resisted calls to increase it [...]
In cinemas from tomorrow: Burn After Reading
Posted in Going Out, tagged burn after reading on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trailer of the Week back in June; hitting your local this week. Good news.
Trailer of the Week: Rachel Getting Married
Posted in Watching, tagged anne hathaway, jenny lumet, jonathan demme, rachel getting married, trailer of the week on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a soft spot for Anne Hathaway ever since her good-natured, witty performance in the cheeky fairytale Ella Enchanted. She also provided strong support in Brokeback Mountain. But apart from that, her career thus far has been a bit, well, lite – characterised by the sort of low-calorie fluff that gives momentary sweetness but [...]
