Flying Burrito Bros was excellent last night. I had build-your-own chicken tacos and managed to make it to taco heaven for a brief while. Raspberry margaritas are still good, and make me a bit silly when I've had an early lunch and no afternoon tea. Go figure.
Maui: One man against the gods
I've seen it before.
Go see it if you can. It's an incredibly spectacular stage show, huge in scale in ways that ballet is not. I mention ballet because it was on at the St James, and generally I'm there to watch ballet. There is a lot of wire work, including people swinging out from the highest boxes over the audience in the stalls.
We were near the front of the Dress Circle, so the people flying about were right
in our eye-lines. Very cool, although once again I wished I knew more Te Reo, as the dialogue and singing is all in Maori. The narration of Ra is in English although as Lee pointed out, it would have been better to be told what had happened *before* it happened, rather than after. But there were moments when there'd be a ripple of laughter through a part of the audience and I'd be like "Damn! Missed a joke!"
I liked it when one of Maui's brothers said she was hung like a taniwha though. Holding a spear between your legs and shouting "Taniwha!" gets that joke across quite effectively. It's a wonderfully fun show with kapa haka, physical comedy, fighting and lots and lots of fabric. Lots of fabric.
I made Lee go with me, and this may have been a mistake. I thought he would like it...and he didn't hate it. He just didn't like it much either. Too much art-wank apparently, although I didn't notice any. Ah well, I've learned my lesson anyway. I did manage to get him to say he appreciated the jellyfish. The jellyfish are cool.
Today I am doing very little. I typed up what I wrote at Te Papa yesterday and I'm past 12,500 words now. Wrote a little fight scene this morning which I am quite happy with, but I'm thinking a lot of what I've written is more of an outline and could use padding out. I'll leave all that til I've finished the first draft though.
It's cold today and windy and a bit rainy. I am going to do some more scrapbooking.
PoF: tiger
CO: doing what I like
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