Monthly Archives: January 2010

>It’s coming

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Victor

>http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9053134&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Feature: Welcome to Mardi Gras 2010 from mardigras on Vimeo.

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>Tosca

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Victor

> Rosario La Spina (Cavaradossi) and Takesha Meshe Kizart (Tosca) during Act 1. I have a special place in my memory and heart for ‘Tosca’. My father introduced me to opera through a recording of Puccini’s work over fifty years ago … Continue reading →

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>An inconvenient truth

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Victor

> Yesterday morning my toilet packed it in. The flush wouldn’t flush. I called in my favourite plumber, Phil who true to form responded quickly and provided excellent eye candy for me whilst he grappled with my antiquated toilet. It appeared … Continue reading →

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>Optimism

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Victor

> At the Sydney Theatre Company, Optimism, very liberally (according to Mk) adapted from Voltaire’s Candide apparently retains little more than the characters from Voltaire’s work. In this staging, which defies my powers of description, the characters fly from country to … Continue reading →

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>Rupert Bunny

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Victor

> Earlier in the week we went to the Art Gallery to see the Rupert Bunny exhibition. Although subtitled Artist in Paris the works on display were not confined to his paintings in France. Bunny certainly produced diverse work. I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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>Australia Day

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Victor

> Festivities on the harbour today celebrating Australia Day.

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>Shooting Through

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Victor

> “Shooting through like a Bondi tram“, a saying familiar to Sydneysiders especially in the first half of the twentieth century deriving from the supposed speed of the trams that ran the line to Bondi Beach. The saying meant to … Continue reading →

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>Nine

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Victor

> It is an embarrassing admission when I see so many movies and love just sitting in a cinema that I have never seen Fellini’s 8½; regarded as an all time classic. Nine is the musical based on the Fellini film. … Continue reading →

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>Away above the chimney tops…

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Victor

>(* “Over The Rainbow”, Harold Arlen and E Y Harburg.) (Click photo to enlarge.) I don’t live at the end of the rainbow but I do live in the building at the left of the Harbour Bridge from which the … Continue reading →

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>Red Lantern

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Victor

> We ate dinner last night at the Red Lantern in Surry Hills sharing entrees of Goi Cuon and Muc Rang Muoi followed by the mains, Con Dom Hap, Ga Chien Don and Cari De. It was my first time at … Continue reading →

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