In the last two days I’ve been to see two cabaret shows in which the focus has been on new arrangements of older pop and folk songs. The one I went to see tonight, “Lemon Tart” was really sensational, while the other, “Bravo” was okay. Bravo is Australia’s answer to “Il Divo”, the “pop-era” group put together by Simon Cowell of “American Idol” fame, with their operatic style interpretations of pop songs, including Toni Braxton’s…
It’s Tuesday evening and I’ve just arrived back from a really terrific afternoon stroll. I finished work early today (after an early start), and not wishing to waste the daylight, donned my track pants and headed off down the street for a walk around the neighbourhood of indetermine length and indetermine direction. Fairly quickly I ended up at the Surry Hills Mall (formerly Redfern Mall, and sometimes known locally as the “Methadone Mall”). Standing in…
It’s Sunday night and I’m half watching a program on ABC television called “Who Wrote The Bible”. After watching thirty or forty episodes of “Frasier” in a row, it’s a welcome break. That said, I do like “Frasier”. In fact, since subscribing to Foxtel, I’ve discovered programs like “Just Shoot Me”, “Will & Grace” and more recently, “Frasier”, are actually quite good. Ignored the first time around, these are now programs which I truly look…
MY MOBILE PHONE Sitting in the pub waiting for a friend on the weekend I started flipping through my mobile phone and noticed the large number of repeated names and interesting names contained therein. I invite you to do the same… ALPHABETICALLY SPEAKING Adam-Zoie COMMON NAMES (at least three times) Damien, Fiona, Ian, James, Jennifer, John, Mark, Michael, Richard, Paul, Stephen (and it’s variations), Sue & Susan, Tom & Tommy MOST COMMON NAME Ian (5…
I had a wonderful afternoon at the Art Gallery of NSW, taking in the paintings in this year’s Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Photography Prizes. The piece which won, by Marcus Wills, The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts) was a truly spectacular work. With shades of Japanese anime (Howl’s Castle) and Escher, the painting could be viewed on many levels. The sheer spectacular size of the work, along with the wonderfully intricate detail, could provide…
It’s Sunday night and I’m a little peckish. Mind you, I’ve certainly eaten well over the last few days, including going out for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights. I suspect tonight might be just a tomato, cucumber and fetta salad, if only to balance out some of the excess of the last few days. Mind you, I did have a very health lunch of felafel pita yesterday at the Bondi Junction shopping centre (my…