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Jan. 3rd, 2006 09:34 pmA day in town doing various odds and ends. A quick check-in with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
samarcand, then to the Tyneside Cinema for the preview of Match Point, all full of hope, because I tend to like Woody Allen even when the reviews are bad, and this time round I'd been hearing expressions like "a return to form": Catherine Bennet, for example, in The Guardian, said it was "Like no Woody Allen I have ever seen, ie gripping."
( Did we really see the same movie? )
After the movie we went, as is traditional, to the pub for fish and chips, and then I shopped, buying two very cheap calendars - one with Arts & Crafts images for the kitchen, one with puffins (yay! puffins) to hang by my desk - and some bath smellies from Boots. Coffee over my book (mevennen, if you're with me at this point, I'm reading and very much enjoying The Poison Master), and then to the library for the Graphic Novels Reading Group. This was a little shapeless - as much my fault as anyone's, since I had skimmed the book under discussion (the Flight anthology from Image), but not recently - but good to make contact again, and I hope to be better prepared next time.
durham_rambler picked me up at the station, fed me pizza and wine, told me about his day and, after I had launched on about the third explanation of what was wrong with the movie, said "You'd better put it in your LJ." So I have.
samarcand, then to the Tyneside Cinema for the preview of Match Point, all full of hope, because I tend to like Woody Allen even when the reviews are bad, and this time round I'd been hearing expressions like "a return to form": Catherine Bennet, for example, in The Guardian, said it was "Like no Woody Allen I have ever seen, ie gripping."( Did we really see the same movie? )
After the movie we went, as is traditional, to the pub for fish and chips, and then I shopped, buying two very cheap calendars - one with Arts & Crafts images for the kitchen, one with puffins (yay! puffins) to hang by my desk - and some bath smellies from Boots. Coffee over my book (
mevennen, if you're with me at this point, I'm reading and very much enjoying The Poison Master), and then to the library for the Graphic Novels Reading Group. This was a little shapeless - as much my fault as anyone's, since I had skimmed the book under discussion (the Flight anthology from Image), but not recently - but good to make contact again, and I hope to be better prepared next time.durham_rambler picked me up at the station, fed me pizza and wine, told me about his day and, after I had launched on about the third explanation of what was wrong with the movie, said "You'd better put it in your LJ." So I have.
