Acer Arena, Friday 22nd February.



( lots of videos, some babbling )

I have compressed the files, reducing the size to about an 1/8 of the original. If there's footage you particularly want the better quality original .mov files of, just let me know (but each concert was 1.5 gig in that format, which is why I compressed).

As a devoted reader of Georgette Heyer's romances, I couldn't resist the film about Beau Brummell (fashionista of Regency London who is so often mentioned or even appears in her books) that was on ABC tonight.

( bring me my smelling salts! )

This is not a children's book. I'm going to be very interested in the reviews of this book, because...damn.

( Order of the Phoenix spoilers - big ones, so stay out if you don't want to know )

So, when's Book 6 coming out? *g*

Saw the Australian Opera production of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at the Opera House last night, and it was fantastic. A light, frothy operetta, it doesn't have much memorable music, apart from the Infernal Gallop (aka the Can-Can), and some of the singers weren't as good as others. However, it's a sexy fun romp, and has a brilliant new translation/recreation of the lyrics, written for this production in Australian vernacular. It's bloody hysterical, and the staging and costumes bring it to life brilliantly.

And if you've never seen a can-can done by a group, mostly male, in leather harnesses and frilly little microskirts, you haven't really seen the can-can ;)

It was packed, and there were people standing to watch the performance. I didn't know the Opera House sold standing room only tickets.

Went to a free screening last night of "The Banger Sisters", starring Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush. They are all very good in it (and I'm way jealous of Goldie and Susan's figures *g*), and there's some very funny parts (though I hated one scene - vomiting doesn't need to be seen), but overall, the movie was rather disappointing. It lacked direction and focus, and I suspect there was a lot of stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor. So I wouldn't really recommend seeing it at the cinema, unless you are a huge fan of the actors involved.

In more exciting news (for me, anyway), we ordered our new computer yesterday! So I should have it by early next week!