Dee Dee Bridgewater in concert – Sydney Opera House – Saturday 28 May 2011 Wow! I am not an R & B or Jazz aficionado, and was only here because my R & B devoted Fahmi bought tickets to the concert for my gorgeous guy and I so we could Continue Reading
Going Troppo Over Gaga?
Lots of people are, and with a new CD out, the excitement levels only bound to spike still higher. Lady Gaga, who’s music I quite like, has quite the talent for re-invention and creativity, much like the woman who’s career she models herself on, Madonna, and in the lead up Continue Reading
Movie review: Thor
My lord it’s been a mainstream movie fest this week! Usually I avoid a lot of these big tentpole blockbusters, not because I am some sort of twisted movie snob preferring only movies about suffering Romanian peasants during the Depression – although that could be kind of gripping….or not – Continue Reading
Movie review: Scream 4
I am not a fan of slasher flicks generally. It’s not the fear of what might happen next that truly bothers me, although I appreciate that is largely what draws most people to them. No, the reason I avoid them like a, um, serial killer, is that the thought of Continue Reading
Movie review: My Afternoons With Margueritte
I love French movies. Well, now I do. Hated them at high school when the only ones I saw were weird, odd, or badly put together. But modern French movies have struck a chord with me, and from the delights of Amelie, to the darker story of The Hedgehog, I Continue Reading
IMOGEN HEAP in concert at the State Theatre – Thursday 21 April 2011
I was introduced to this supremely talented, gloriously idiosyncratic English’s artists music by the indie movie, Garden State, which starred Scrubs’s Zach Braff and loved her from the word go. Of course on that soundtrack she was working with Guy Sigsworth (with whom she had earlier made music while he Continue Reading
Jane Austen’s Guide to Pornography / Glorious Bastard
This was experimental theatre and then some on a low budget but it worked. While the plays souns outrageously profane, and the playbill featured a leather harness clad muscle hottie, the plays themselves while witty and clever, weren’t nearly as salacious as we’d been led to believe. My friend Peter Continue Reading
Movie review: Morning Glory #StGeorgeOpenAir
This is a fun movie (Open Air Cinema, 17 February 2011). No, it won’t win Oscars, and doesn’t canvas any great social issues – unless you consider fragile egos, and media vacuousness to be crushing issues that are about to doom society as we know it; although watching some of Continue Reading
Les chansons que j’aime (Songs That I Like) : Elaine / Should I Laugh or Cry / by ABBA
Bet you didn’t see that one coming as the first song I chose! When people think of ABBA they invariably think of Dancing Queen, Fernando, Mamma Mia or The Winner Takes It All, and why not? They are all brilliant slices of sparkling pop, daring you not to like them…. Continue Reading
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
I am not a massive fan of hype. Odd you may think since we extrovert creative types generally all the over boiled melodrama we can get our hands on, feast on it for months till the marrow is all sucked dry, and then moe on to the next over wrought Continue Reading