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Lip-Syn Battle
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This, Saturday night, sold out, a somewhat "bogus" event but everyone from town was there to cheer on their friends, and there were a couple of good acts.
In any event, like it or not you have to show up.
Nomad: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin - Werner Herzog
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Since I've read everything by Bruce Chatwin and greatly admire Werner Herzog this was a natural.
It didn't disappoint.
Into the Inferno - Werner Herzog
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This was one of those rare films I wished I'd seen on the Big Screen. Like an Imax.
Werner Herzog does a tour with Vulcanologists to some of the world's active volcanoes, spectacular footage of people looking into the abyss of fire, and in so doing ends up digging up 100, 000 year old Hominid remains in Ethiopia, to North Korea, where the people believe their race was born from Paektu Mountain near China (and a long digression into the cultural heritage), then returns to Vanuatu where the people worship their volcano as a portal to John Frum - the Melanesian Cargo cult that is trying to bring back the American troops and their cheap chewing gum and trinkets...
Like most of Herzog's work it digresses beautifully, and while it would claim to be an investigation into the volcanoes it's also so much more...
Five Stars.
Titanium/Zinc White
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And, trying again to paint, get started, only for some reason I can't find my tubes of Titanium & Zinc white. Which is like the watercolour pencils, I know I have them, only where, and never where I think they should be (naturally in the tub with all of the other Acrylic Paints).
This is getting ridiculous, but it highlights the state of my flat. I've got to start cleaning...
Meanwhile, been practicing my watercolour techniques, small exercises to get me back into the habit of painting, an hour in the morning, just to get started, get something done, show some improvement...
Which next I have to go grab a few vegetables, make some lunch, and get back to work.
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