What a great day we’ve had today. In the morning Jamie was invited to go with Kim and Megan to see The Jungle Book 2. She jumped at the chance and Kim collected her about 10. I went out to pick up some shopping we needed.
When I got back I helped Jan out in the garden. Digging up half an old bush at the front of the house. There was rather a lot of it and I struggled to fit it in the car to take it to the tip.
After lunch, Jamie, Kim, Megan and I went to Stockport town centre for the Dancing in the Streets celebration. It was really, really good. I was very impressed with the quality of the dancing and the effort put in by the participants and organisers. There was a huge turnout, and we struggled to get a good view at times. The weather managed to stay nice too, despite the predicted rain. I took quite a few photos before the battery in the camera ran out. I’ll stick them up in the gallery later. We didn’t get to see everything, there was so much going on. But what we did see we really enjoyed. When we got back Jan had got loads done in the garden. All in all a very good day.
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Koyaanisqatsi
I’ve just finished watching Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio. It is still brilliant. It has been quite a few years since I last saw it and it hasn’t lost any of its impact. It is a fantastic meld of imagery and music. There was also a great interview with Reggio and Philip Glass on the DVD that I’d not seen before.
Thanks to Ali for lending me his DVD. I would like my own copy, in fact with my birthday coming soon, I’ve added it to my Amazon wishlist. Hint hint!
Tik-Tok, Escape from Kathmandu and Memory of Whiteness
I forgot to mention, the last time I posted a books catch up, that I had read Tik-Tok by John Sladek. This was a book that reminded me of old style Sci Fi books, from back when I first started buying books. Though it was published in the 1980’s. Sladek writes with a wicked sense of humour, (I also read Roderick many years ago), and his satirical stories are very enjoyable. Recommended.
More recently I finished Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson, of which, the cover claims, the Washington Post said “laugh-out-loud funny”. I thought there were some amusing parts to what amounts to four short-ish stories based around the same characters. But not laugh-out-load, not even chuckle-to-myself. Still, the stories were interesting if not what I was expecting.
I’m now reading Memory of Whiteness also by Kim Stanley Robinson. More on this when I’ve finished it.
May? It’s already May?
Apparently it’s already May! What happened? Where have the first four months of the year gone? I mean, I don’t really keep track of the passage of time much, but I kinda divide the year into before my birthday and after my birthday. Well it’s my birthday this month which means that the first ‘half’ has already gone.
What have I done? What have I achieved? Which of my plans have come to fruition? Did I make any plans?
Treading water is a phrase that comes to mind.
Actually I didn’t make any plans, I never do. I never have done. I often feel that I am supposed to, or even pretend that I have, but a plan you have no belief in or no intention of carrying through doesn’t count, does it?
Actually I make it up as I go along. All of it. Everything. Work, family, everything. Hmmm… That should be work, family, full stop. There is nothing else. And when I say work, I mean computery stuff, which I ‘do’ most of the time, some of which I get paid for, which is good, but not enough, which is another story. And when I say family, I mean Jan and Jamie, and occasionally some of the others, but that’s a lot less than it was, which is yet another story.
I’m rambling now, as I sometimes do, but not usually here. And I’ve got a dozen things to do, and a 90-page document to read for a meeting first thing tomorrow. So I’d better go and read it…
Right… I’m going… Now.
