March 23, 2006
obscurity?
Here's the flyer for next Sunday.
Interesting the news about Stonesoup's closure - I had been tempted a couple of times to close this blog anyway. I'm not sure if I'll start another one - maybe go back to having a handwritten diary just for me? I suspect the blog might be one cause of my lack of 'real' creative writing over the last few years - or is that just a lame excuse? Anyway, thanks Iona.
It's good to have had a sense of progression from the dark days of 2003 (maybe not coincidentally, one of my creative peaks) through the uneven journalism-dominated mixed bag of 2004, to a really good year in 2005 and seemingly another one this year. This could be a good note to wind up on.
I just finished reading Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, flexing my neglected reading muscles. Nothing like a good tragedy - that character could have been me quite easily. Dying of pneumonia caused by stone dust from his mason work, no friends around, unremembered? Calling someone 'the obscure' is pretty much the opposite of 'the great'.
After that I watched the film version with Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet. They had to streamline it a bit, so of course the book's better, and it ends with him still alive. Also odd to see David Tennant in a small role - the guy who's now taken over from Eccleston as Doctor Who. Doctor Who's my pop-cultural soft spot - great to have it back, and it lent a sense of excitement to 2005 (especially since I was overseas at the time). I'm half surprised they didn't start filming it in NZ - though given my experiences with the film industry in Wellington, that could be a good thing...
Recent music listening: Chopin's piano sonatas, Charlie Parker, Audible 3, Sabot and Combat Wombat.
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