Saturday, August 20, 2011

THE RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES



To kill some time before the train back to Glasgow i decided to go and see the new Planet of The Apes Film.

It was enjoyably entertaining , with graphics restricted to expressions of facial emotion of the apes.

I saw a lot of old haunts from San Francisco , especially looking down to the Embarcadero through Market Street.

But there should be an enquiry how the US Military with close Air Support and full spectrum Satellite Visual Intelligence coverage could not beat a bunch of monkeys with broken fence posts.But then again , the same mismatch is taking place in Afghanistan , with similar results.

Below is a thoughtful and perceptive review of the film from the Los Angeles Times:

TUESDAYS AT TESCOS



Suffering somewhat from Fasting , i settled down on a bench near the Registrar of Scotland Building.

Reading Mona Lisa by Donald Sassoon i could hear the dulcet tones of Colin Fox trying to ferment revolution , next to him was a stall-installation of the Falun Dafa being glared at by Chinese tourists , with sniggering Japanese looking from afar and Koreans trying to mix it whilst pretending to be preserving the peace.All the while we had a bag-piper stressing everyone out with searing whining ear piercing atonal drones.


Simon Callow is the Maradona of actors , so it came as no surprise he is going to play a 24 year old girl in drag.The play he is starring in is based on a Parisian hit called Le Mardi a Monoprix.

Simon takes up the story in the video below:



Critics have queued up to miss the point , looking at the first glance visuals and not , as a good audience looks for the substance.The play is about acceptance and the pain when it is not offered by one when the other tries everything possible to fuse a severed bond.

On that front the play is a roaring success.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL


Zainab is very pwoud , typical girl she is actually looking forward to the first day at school.





She is pleased with her seating arrangements.




First lesson safely negotiated , but how to reach the plate whilst seated is a tougher conundrum?




Relaxing in the lounge after a hard fist day at school