Linkage, weekending
Dec. 3rd, 2007 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"Every now and then, I like to take a moment to actively disbelieve in Bathala, just because I can."
Adorable "Love Games" live video!
So our concert on Saturday went OK- the free one in the afternoon all fell horribly to bits after we cocked up the a capella entry on one movement of the Poulenc, but the evening one was fine (DUDE, it's exhilarating if you get it right.) The Faure's niiiice. And the Durufle motet was pretty smooth too.
The orchestra and organ did some cool things, my favourite was probably the Unexpected Cancan In A Cathedral! moment (in the overture to Offenbach's Orpheus In The Underworld, since you ask.) It was sort of... nice French music, nice French music... hang on, is that...? it is, it bloody is, here comes the refrain, look at the audience getting it, hee!
Was fairly disappointed in Russell Brand last night (a sentence that I bet many women have uttered, given how bloody much he goes on about shagging, but I mean his stand-up.
Snrk.)
(Sorry, I have to laugh at my jokes, nobody else does.)
There were definitely moments when he really had it together and was kicking, but there was far too much of it where he wasn't really doing much, just rambling- and "just rambling" is one of my favourite sorts of comedy, but this didn't have many, y'know, funny bits. It was awfully meh, which is really not something I was expecting from Mr Notoriety.
One of the bits I didn't like much was idiosyncratic- it was hilarious when he dissected a bad carpet-cleaning ad in a local paper, but when he actually phoned them my sympathies were very much with the cleaning people rung up at half ten on a Sunday night by a twerp going on about having spunk all over his carpets with a thousand people laughing in the background; I've never liked prank phone call comedy. But a lot of the middle had most of the audience going "wha'?" as well. There was about 20 minutes of really, really good stuff amongst an hour of witter... Oh, I don't know, everyone can have an off night now and again, it was just surprising given how sharp he seems in everything I've seen him in.
Also, I dunno, does being self-aware and ironic about how much of a sleaze you are actually make it better that you're groping an audience member?
(The bit where he'd been making very obscene suggestions about the Queen- 'cos he's on at the Royal Variety Show tonight, doncherknow- and spotted someone filming him was good, though. "Don't put that on Youtube! Out of context it'd look Awwwwwful!" {big eyes}. Or when he'd got the mike wire wrapped round the stool so it started following him, and suddenly there was a little drama where it was obsessed with him, and the table was getting jealous...)
"Every now and then, I like to take a moment to actively disbelieve in Bathala, just because I can."
Adorable "Love Games" live video!
So our concert on Saturday went OK- the free one in the afternoon all fell horribly to bits after we cocked up the a capella entry on one movement of the Poulenc, but the evening one was fine (DUDE, it's exhilarating if you get it right.) The Faure's niiiice. And the Durufle motet was pretty smooth too.
The orchestra and organ did some cool things, my favourite was probably the Unexpected Cancan In A Cathedral! moment (in the overture to Offenbach's Orpheus In The Underworld, since you ask.) It was sort of... nice French music, nice French music... hang on, is that...? it is, it bloody is, here comes the refrain, look at the audience getting it, hee!
Was fairly disappointed in Russell Brand last night (a sentence that I bet many women have uttered, given how bloody much he goes on about shagging, but I mean his stand-up.
Snrk.)
(Sorry, I have to laugh at my jokes, nobody else does.)
There were definitely moments when he really had it together and was kicking, but there was far too much of it where he wasn't really doing much, just rambling- and "just rambling" is one of my favourite sorts of comedy, but this didn't have many, y'know, funny bits. It was awfully meh, which is really not something I was expecting from Mr Notoriety.
One of the bits I didn't like much was idiosyncratic- it was hilarious when he dissected a bad carpet-cleaning ad in a local paper, but when he actually phoned them my sympathies were very much with the cleaning people rung up at half ten on a Sunday night by a twerp going on about having spunk all over his carpets with a thousand people laughing in the background; I've never liked prank phone call comedy. But a lot of the middle had most of the audience going "wha'?" as well. There was about 20 minutes of really, really good stuff amongst an hour of witter... Oh, I don't know, everyone can have an off night now and again, it was just surprising given how sharp he seems in everything I've seen him in.
Also, I dunno, does being self-aware and ironic about how much of a sleaze you are actually make it better that you're groping an audience member?
(The bit where he'd been making very obscene suggestions about the Queen- 'cos he's on at the Royal Variety Show tonight, doncherknow- and spotted someone filming him was good, though. "Don't put that on Youtube! Out of context it'd look Awwwwwful!" {big eyes}. Or when he'd got the mike wire wrapped round the stool so it started following him, and suddenly there was a little drama where it was obsessed with him, and the table was getting jealous...)
