Moseley Folk Festival, September 2nd
First day of the Moseley Folk Festival happened and it was good, surpassing my gently optimistic expectations. Yes it rained. yes we had to retire to a pub for an hour to warm up, but the music and atmosphere was spot on. I will write more later (maybe – you know what I’m like about promising to write more later these days…) but naturally the day was also spent taking photographs.
I’ve become somewhat bored with gig photos of late. Probably because I’ve taken so bloody many of them in the last year and there’s only so much you can do with a folk standing on stage singing into microphones. So while I’m still drawn to the pit like a moth to the flame I’ve been trying some other stuff, and what’s interesting is how I’ve found myself applying things I’ve learned from playing with film and messing around at Flickrmeets watching how others do their art. It might not be apparent in the photos yet but I can feel it in my mind and it’s a nice feeling, being able to stretch without falling.
But it’s late and there’s another 10 hours of the festival tomorrow. I’ve started a set here which will be added to over the week.
In other news Andy and Alex went charity shop scouring today and came back with a load of old videos. You know, on tape. Tonight we watched Total Recall and somewhat shockingly it stood up. I saw Starship Troopers recently and that also impressed way beyond expectations. I suspect a reassessment of the works of Paul Verhoeven might be in order, not to mention the genius of Michael Ironside. (Unlike that James Cameron who really is a pedestrian hack.)
Not a stunning coincidence, but I may go charity shop visiting at some point this week, to offload a load of old videos. On tape.
And also, I was at my sisters yesterday evening, and messing around with their telly, I found that the last episode of V : The Final Battle, was on the Sci-Fi Channel, so I forced the poor sods to sit through most of that, despite the fact that I was annoyingly narrating the whole thing for them before it happened. Oh yeah – Michael Ironside, thats the other coincidence.
Funny that you should find Total Recall worth watching. I think I’ve watched it several times which means it works for me. The final scenes are a bit ridiculous but the so is the entire story! Robocop was great fun when it came out and even the sequel wasn’t too bad (perhaps becuase they did the outside shots in Houston so I could say “I know where that is!” to anyone who would listen).
But Basic Instinct is the best of all and not because of Sharon Stone or Michael Douglas but because of the supporting roles – each and every one a memorable piece of the puzzle.
My head was nearly scythed off by the string of the balloon attached to the Bohemian Jukebox Stage. Twice.
I may be exaggurating ever so slightly. It did touch my neck, though. Twice.