Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Good on Radio New Zealand! This all sounds excellent. But retirement is long overdue for the tedious Matinee Idle.
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Interesting that the metrosideros used to be a favoured street tree in San Francisco but it is now regarded as a pest as it is so disruptive of underground utilities.
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From the sacred to the profane: an image of Lisbon from yesterday. The eye is kind of drawn to the object in the centre of the frame.
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Just another Modest Proposal?
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Excellent!
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Hard News: Friday Music: So much music I…, in reply to Sacha,
So I believe. There is something infantile about it.
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Hard News: Friday Music: So much music I…, in reply to Sacha,
I agree. We are now in Lisbon and I intend to go in search of fado.
Lilith; Just as an aside, being born and educated in Taranaki, something really annoys the hell out me with pervasive use of "the 'Naki"
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Busytown: Tell You What: A Nonfiction Giveaway!, in reply to philipmatthews,
Thanks, Matthew. I don't have my film diary with me (currently in London), but let me recall ... not in any order. A good year for film
Leviathan
Housebound
Two Days, One Night
Winter Sleep
Locke
Boyhood
Under the Skin
Finding Vivian Maier
What We Do In The Shadows
The Lego Movie
Lunch Box
Still Life
Snowpiercer
20,000 Hours on Earth
Life Itself
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler -
Can we have films of the year too ? I went to 92 films this year (at the cinema) and there some right crackers amongst them,
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Thank you, Russell, for the cheerful message. We need moments like this, to counter a feeling that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket. There have been two other such instances this week : reading this morning of a detente between Cuba and the US, brokered by the Pope (as I declared to Josephine this morning, 'It doesn't come easily to me but I am warming to this particular Pope ') ; and being in hall with 900 British media students two days ago, who responded to call from youngGuardian columnist/author Owen Jones,,to stop demonising the poor and challenge the powerful. He was magnificent,
