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'Tease The Season
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
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Which was the 3 hour long Burlesque show in Nelson. Which I can't rate highly enough, because nowhere else in the world would you see something like this. The support of the audience, the utterly off-the wall acts, the enthusiasm for every act - regardless of gender, persuasion, age or body style. And, like the last theatre production I saw here, completely off-the-wall, over-the-top batshit crazy, and an audience ranging in age from 20 to 80 and everyone enjoying themselves like it's the most normal thing in the world. Easily 30 or more performers from as far away as Calgary and Seattle, all for a $20.00 ticket. It doesn't get better than this - you might get a more finished play or performance, but never would you get the absurd and outrageous acts - that generally were the hits of the show - the same process that "finishes" theatre too often finishes it in the other sense, takes off the edge and makes it bland and homogeneous. Not here, not by a long shot. 5 Stars.
This place is Paradise.
A Stormy Xmas Hamper
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Stormy
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He dropped by the restaurant, the standard barter-for-coffee, brought me a little Xmas hamper of sorts:
A festively arranged take-out container filled with a half-eaten piece of cheesecake, a nibbled on piece of smoked gouda, an xmas bulb, 2 headless rubber gingerbread men, a piece of Xmas red felt, and a cigarette in a pack of matches. A perfectly made up Stormy Xmas Hamper...
...I ate every last bit. Things here are pretty lean...
Sir Walter Scott - Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Books
- Hits: 1630
Which reads well, and points you off in a thousand other directions - excellent sources and references. Scott could write - although a little out of fashion, and his take on the paranormal is done with all the credulity the age of reason could afford - more reason and compassion 200 years ago than you'll find now by a long shot now anywhere in the world. I liked, but it's an idiosyncratic little read, the pinch of salt that should be taken with Aleister Crowley and Montague Summers.
The Tribe (review)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 1290
Finally I saw it, had been saving it forever, you've seen the trailer, entirely without talking. And it works. It would work better if you could understand sign language, sure, it would hone the impact, would be more precise, but watch it, the cinematography is amazing, the language - without - language done perfectly, an understated masterpiece
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